Smut as Original Comic Material
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.68
Theory and Opposition > The Familiar Millionaire
Theoretical move: By reading Freud's joke-theory as a theory of comedy against Bergson's vitalism, McGowan argues that the joke-work—like the dream-work—locates satisfaction in formal transformation rather than latent obscene content, producing laughter as an excess of psychic energy through a short-circuit that reveals identity where difference is expected; yet Freud's own extension to general comedy breaks the logic of economization, inadvertently opening toward a theory that holds lack and excess in tension.
Freud contends that the original material of all comedy is pure obscenity... Smut is a form rather than content.