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Signified Incongruence

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    Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.127

    Signification and Desire > Signified Incongruence

    Theoretical move: The structural gap between signifier and referent (Frege's Sinn/Bedeutung split) generates an irreducible comic dimension inherent in all signification: language simultaneously has too few and too many words, and this double inadequacy is the formal condition of possibility for jokes.

    As a result of the absolute breach between sense and meaning or between the signifier and things, every language has simultaneously not enough and too many words.