TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baruch,Clarisse
TI  - Laughter: Half Angel, Half Demon
PY  - 2017///.
							
N1  - 27
N2  - Laughter is an attempted seduction or a lack of mentalisation, but also, as Freud points out, a liberation of energy that had hitherto been bound by defensive processes. But why must this energy be expelled? If laughter is a discharge of pleasure, it can also be an expulsion of destructive energy out of the mind and body. It thus acts as a system of regulation by evacuating one or the other drive energies in excess, providing a bonus of pleasure in both cases. Serving as a joyful marker of an economic reorganisation during the session, its eruption in a group of psychodrama helps certain patients to experience an affect from which they had previously been cut off
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-psychanalyse-2017-1-page-145?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -