Tickled think
Aug 12, 2022
3 minutes
By Hephzibah Anderson
An outburst of laughter, Freud maintained, is an eruption from the unconscious. It’s a belief that American psychoanalyst and poet Nuar Alsadir sets about unpacking in Animal Joy, her ruminative interrogation into the might and meaning of this vital mode of human communication. Understanding it better, she suggests, can open us up to a less constrained, more spontaneous experience of the world around us.
Splicing sometimes dense academic theory with provocations drawn from the fraught years of the Trump
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