Animal Joy A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation - Nuar Alsadir

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An invigorating, continuously surprising book about the serious nature of laughter.Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking laughter?s revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir?s experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy seeks to recover the sensation of being present and embodied. Writing in a poetic, associative style, blending the personal with the theoretical, Alsadir ranges from her experience in clown school, Anna Karenina?s morphine addiction, Freud?s un-Freudian behaviors, marriage brokers and war brokers, to ?Not Jokes,? Abu Ghraib, Frantz?s negrophobia, smut, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, laugh tracks, the problem with adjectives, and how poetry can wake us up. At the center of the book, however, is the author?s relationship