Lack and Excess Intersection
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.54
Lack and Excess > The Jewish Joke
Theoretical move: McGowan argues that the structural condition of Jewish comedy—the intersection of extreme lack (historical exclusion and suffering) with extreme excess (universal dominance of the Jewish God)—is not a cultural peculiarity but the paradigmatic form of comedy as such: every joke is structurally a Jewish joke because comedy always turns on the conjunction of lack and excess.
Judaism highlights the intersection of lack and excess like no other structure in the world.