LEADER 04569oam 2200625I 450 001 9910786733903321 005 20230814232129.0 010 $a0-429-91463-6 010 $a0-429-90040-6 010 $a0-429-47563-2 010 $a1-78241-085-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780429475634 035 $a(CKB)2670000000353773 035 $a(EBL)1181180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000971474 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11577840 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000971474 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10939763 035 $a(PQKB)10429670 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181180 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10696687 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL485138 035 $a(OCoLC)842885749 035 $a(OCoLC)1029477205 035 $a(OCoLC)820531018 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB144216 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000353773 100 $a20180706d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow to Laugh Your Way Through Life $eA Psychoanalyst's Advice /$fPaul Marcus 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cTaylor and Francis,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (170 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-367-32489-X 311 $a1-78049-095-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCOVER; CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE Laughing your way through life; CHAPTER TWO Love; CHAPTER THREE Work; CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalysis; CHAPTER FIVE Suffering; CHAPTER SIX Death; CHAPTER SEVEN The art of tragicomic attunement and intervention; REFERENCES; INDEX 330 $a"While living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, 'What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.' Tragicomic attunement-seeing the comic in the tragic and the tragic in the comic-is a perspective on life that, following Freud, is one of the best ways to 'to ward off possible suffering' and better manage the stressors, anxieties, and worries of everyday life. Moreover, tragicomic attunement and intervention has a meaning-giving, affect-integrating, life-affirming, double structure that is especially pertinent to sensible living in our troubled and troubling post-modern world: 'In tragedy', said theologian Harvey Cox, 'we weep and are purged. In comedy we laugh and hope.' In Monty Python's Life of Brian, a bunch of crucified criminals happily sing 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'; In Stephen King's book The Tommyknockers, the central character thinks about a joke he heard once. As a man is about to be executed, the firing squad officer in charge offers the man about to be shot a cigarette. He replies, 'No thanks, I'm trying to quit.' It is precisely this capacity to use one's imaginative resources to create a tragicomic 'form of life', a way of thinking, feeling, and acting in the service of aesthetic, epistemological, and ethical deepening, of affirming Beauty, Truth and, especially, Goodness, that mainly constitutes the art of living the 'good life.' In chapters on love, work, suffering, death, and psychoanalysis, the author shows how the 'nuts and bolts' of tragicomic attunement and intervention can be cultivated and used to help people better manage the harshness, if not outrageousness, of life, as well as more deeply engage its beauty and nobility. Unlike most books on the psychology and philosophy of humour, and following Ludwig Wittgenstein's wonderful advice-'A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes,' this book is replete with jokes, humorous stories, and amusing maxims and quotes making it a lively reading experience that aims to help people fashion the 'good life'-a life of deep and expansive love, creative and productive work, that is aesthetically pleasing and in accordance with reason and ethics. As tragicomic master Mel Brooks noted, 'Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you,' and becoming more attuned to its dynamics and applications in everyday life is the art of living the 'good life'."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aLaughter$xTherapeutic use 615 0$aLaughter$xTherapeutic use. 676 $a130 676 $a152.43 700 $aMarcus$b Paul$01462996 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786733903321 996 $aHow to Laugh Your Way Through Life$93672164 997 $aUNINA LEADER 02972nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910957158203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-52419-7 010 $a0-19-534520-7 010 $a1-4294-0102-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000414844 035 $a(EBL)270874 035 $a(OCoLC)191934018 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000192125 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156845 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192125 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186317 035 $a(PQKB)10215267 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL270874 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142041 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52419 035 $a(OCoLC)1190768673 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB166385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC270874 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000414844 100 $a19931103d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA life in ragtime $ea biography of James Reese Europe /$fReid Badger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (355 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-19-506044-X 320 $aList of Europe's works: p. 231-234. 320 $aDiscography: p. [235]-240. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Prelude; 1. ""Down Home Rag""; 2. ""Washington Post March""; 3. ""On the Gay Luneta""; 4. ""Lorraine Waltzes""; 5. ""The Clef Club March""; 6. ""What It Takes to Make Me Love You-You've Got It""; 7. ""Castle House Rag""; 8. ""The National Negro March""; 9. Watch Your Step; 10. ""The Rat-A-Tat Drummer Boy""; 11. ""The Separate Battalion""; 12. ""Over There""; 13. ""On Patrol in No Man's Land""; 14. Filling France Full of Jazz; 15. ""All of No Man's Land Is Ours""; 16. ""Flee as a Bird""; Coda; Appendix 1 The Musical Compositions of James Reese Europe 327 $aAppendix 2 James Reese Europe DiscographyNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 330 $aJames Reese Europe is one of the important transitional figures in American music. As a composer at the height of ragtime, he had a strong influence on the first generation of jazz musicians who were to follow. 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