The Odd One In

On Comedy
Alenka Zupancic
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The odd one in : on comedy / Alenka Zupancic.
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Contents
Series Foreword ix
Introduction 2
I The Concrete Universal 11
The Absolute on the Couch 12
The Universal-at-Work 22
Physics of the Innite against Metaphysics
of the Finite 42
II Figures of Comedy 61
The Ego and the It 62
The Ego and the Ego 72
The other and the Other 88
III Conceptualizations 109
Another Turn of the Bergsonian Screw 110
Structural Dynamics and Temporality
of the Comical 128
Repetition 148
(Essential) Appendix: The Phallus 183
Enjoyment ex machina 184
Wozu Phallus in drftiger Zeit? 200
Concluding Remarks 212
Notes 219
Bibliography 227