Laughter Announcement 2 - Centre for Medical Humanities
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Laughter Announcement 2 - Centre for Medical Humanities
Die laughing, sidesplitting, cracking up, losing it, laugh your pants off, laugh your head off, laugh your ass off, laugh your socks off, laugh all the way to the bank, have the last laugh, laughter is the best medicine, burst out laughing, in stitches, laugh yourself silly, roaring laughter, for kicks/laughs/giggles, fall over, keel over laughing, he who laughs, lasts. Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, The Philadelphia Lacan Group, Das Unbehagen, Fordham University English Department, The Psychoanalysis Workshop at the New School and the California Psychoanalytic Circle present Psychoanalysis and Laughter an APW Study Weekend April 26 – 28th Fordham, Lincoln Center Campus New York City “Laughter is America’s most important export.” — Walt Disney あごが外(はず)れる 笑いが止まらない 顎が外れる 膝が笑う 腹を抱えて笑う Pipi de riso, a mandibula suelta, reírse de algun en su cara, reírse a carcajadas; echarse a reírreírsele a uno en las barbas, reírse de nada o por nada, partirse or matarse de risa, se te reirán en la cara, morirse de risa, descoserse de la risa, botarse de risa, ride bene chi ride ultimo, ridi che ti passa, Il riso abbonda sulla bocca degli stolti, ridimi questo cazzo What does psychoanalysis have to tell us about laughter? In his Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905), Freud famously illuminated the Witz’s linguistic and economic properties. Linguistically, the Witz “works” like the dream (by condensation and displacement); economically, it bypasses the “inhibiting factor” both in the teller of the joke and in the listener. Jokes are serious business for Freud: like dreams, they allow aggression an acceptable form, establishing a social tie while satisfying repressed wishes. Jokes are serious business for Lacan too. Of necessity, the analysand speaks “à coté du vrai” (beside truth) because speech ignores the real. In the symptom, however, the real manifests itself by not stopping, just like the persistent grin of the Cheshire cat. The fact that the cat disappears shows that truth lies, that the fantasy is not all. The real remains beyond truth’s disappearance. Laughter comes from the Greek “gelos.” We read the word first in Homer when the poet describes the gods’ laughter as “Asbestos gelos,” “fireproof or inextinguishable laughter.” Similarly, Lacanian psychoanalysis, which aims at the real by way of equivocation or the half-said, is one long extended joke. And the analysand’s burst of laughter is a proof that the real is touched. For our study weekend, APW invites papers that consider the pairing of laughter and psychoanalysis. We welcome clinical case presentations that discuss the function of laughter in a particular case or at a moment in the analytic cure, close readings of psychoanalytic texts, discussions of philosophical theorizations of laughter, and considerations of laughter in cinema, literature, sacred texts, myth, advertising, and so on. The Walt Disney quotation above begs the crucial question: is laughter a critique of ideology or its guarantee? Se marrer comme un malade, rire à gorge déployée, avoir la gueule fendue jusqu'aux oreilles de rire, daigner rire, se de dilater la rate de rire, éclater de rire, s'éclater de rire, exploser de rire, partir d'un grand éclat de rire, s’esclaffer, étouffer de rire, suffoquer de rire, être bleu ou noir de rire, être secoué de rire, faire pipi dans ses culottes de rire, se pâmer de rire, se plier en quatre de rire, pouffer de rire, se taper les cuisses de rire, rouler par terre de rire, se tordre de rire, rire à s’en décrocher le mâchoire, avoir un fou rire, il vaux mieux rire qu’en pleurer, rire à gorge déployée, rire dans sa barbe, faire rire le bon Dieu It was gas when she fell on the ice, yer wan is deadly gas, join us for some craic, where’s the craic today? 捧腹大笑 笑口常开 太搞笑了! 笑得肚子都疼了 Registration: $200 before March 31, $250 after Students with ID: $40 Register at www.apwonline.org Special Dinner Event Saturday evening: $125 מת מצחוק מעלף מצחוק מצחיק בטירוף קורע Contact: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Umrijeti od smijeha, crknuti od smijeha, upišati se od smijeha