ABSTRACT

This book claims that a tragicomic outlook—the kind that echoes in black and gallows humour and the "laughter through tears" of Jewish humour—is the most effective way to manage what Freud called the "harshness" of everyday life.

chapter One|20 pages

Laughing your way through life

chapter Two|30 pages

Love

chapter Three|18 pages

Work

chapter Four|17 pages

Psychoanalysis

chapter Five|23 pages

Suffering

chapter Six|17 pages

Death