Illness and Irony : : On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture / / ed. by Paul Antze, Michael Lambek.

Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human condition are produced, encountered, acknow...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]
2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
INTRODUCTION Irony and Illness—Recognition and Refusal --
Chapter 1 SCARED SICK OR SILLY? --
Chapter 2 RHEUMATIC IRONY Questions of Agency and Self-deception as Refracted through the Art of Living with Spirits --
Chapter 3 BARBARIC CUSTOM AND COLONIAL SCIENCE Teaching the Female Body in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan --
Chapter 4 THE LACAN WARD Pharmacology and Subjectivity in Buenos Aires --
Chapter 5 ILLNESS AS IRONY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS --
Chapter 6 SENILITY AND IRONY’S AGE --
AFTERWORD --
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --
Index
Summary:Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human condition are produced, encountered, acknowledged – or discounted in favor of more literal readings. They ask what these sites can teach us about questions of human agency and about the broader importance of irony for theory. Encompassing a variety of perspectives, the contributors included in Illness and Irony apply theories of irony to a myriad of cultural contexts, ranging from Freud’s consulting room and the Lacanian clinics of Buenos Aires to fright illness in a Yemeni village and spirit possession on the island of Mayotte. An introductory chapter by Michael Lambek establishes a contextual viewpoint on irony, arising from the writings of Thomas Mann, Alexander Nehamas and others. Vincent Crapanzano concludes the volume by linking the contributions to current debates about irony in rhetoric, linguistics and comparative literature.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781800733633
DOI:10.1515/9781800733633?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Paul Antze, Michael Lambek.