Affectation
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.55
Lack and Excess > The Contradiction of Affectation
Theoretical move: Affectation is theorized as the privileged site where lack and excess coincide structurally: the affected subject's excessive self-presentation is always a response to a constitutive lack of recognition, and crucially, the excess does not conceal the lack but amplifies its visibility — which is precisely what makes affectation the paradigmatic source of the comic.
Affectation is the most common form of the intersection of lack and excess... affectation brings together an elevated self-presentation with the absence of any foundation for this self-presentation.