Situation Comedy Character and Psychoanalysis

<i>Situation Comedy Character and Psychoanalysis </i>puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's <i>Kath & Kim</i> in order to reveal the essential elements that must exist in a sitcom before even the first joke is written. Original in its approach D.T. Klika uncovers major findings about the sitcom as well as human behavior and relationships that we find 'arresting' and even familial+?. <br/><br/>By offering a new way of reading the sitcom using psychoanalytic theory this book can be used as a basis for engaging in critical discourses as well as textual analysis of programs. Psychoanalytic theory enables a reading of character motivations and relationships in turn elucidating the power struggle that exists between characters in this form of comedy. <i>Situation Comedy Character and Psychoanalysis</i> shines a light on what is at play in the sitcom that makes us laugh and why we love the characters we do only to discover that this form of comedy is more complex than we first thought.