Comedy-Signifier Nexus
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.211
Notes > Chapter 5
Theoretical move: This footnote apparatus for Chapter 5 does substantive theoretical work in three areas: (1) critiquing evolutionary reductions of comedy and language to advantage/sense; (2) elaborating the Lacanian thesis that the signifier murders the thing, making desire born from impossibility; and (3) developing the claim that the phallus is the singular Bedeutung of signification itself—not potency but imposture.
Comedy is a way of generating pleasure by infinitely repeating (and varying in all imaginable and non-imaginable ways) the event of the incidence of the signifier.