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The Odd One In Short Circuits Slavoj Zˇizˇek,editor The Puppet and the Dwarf:The Perverse Core of Christianity,by Slavoj Zˇizˇek The Shortest Shadow:Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two,by Alenka Zupancˇicˇ Is Oedipus Online? Siting Freud after Freud,by Jerry Aline Flieger Interrogation Machine:Laibach and NSK,by Alexei Monroe The Parallax View,by Slavoj Zˇizˇek A Voice and Nothing More,by Mladen Dolar Subjectivity and Otherness:A Philosophical Reading of Lacan,by Lorenzo Chiesa The Odd One In:On Comedy,by Alenka Zupancˇicˇ The Odd One In On Comedy Alenka Zupancˇicˇ The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying,recording,or infor- mation storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use.For information,please email [email protected] .edu or write to Special Sales Department,The MIT Press,Hayward Street, Cambridge,MA . This book was set in Joanna and Copperplate bc by Graphic Composition,Inc., Athens,Georgia,and was printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zupancˇicˇ,Alenka. The odd one in :on comedy / Alenka Zupancˇicˇ. p. cm.— (Short circuits) Includes bibliographical references. ----(pbk.:alk.paper) . Comic,The. . Comedy. I. Title. . '.—dc To Martin Contents Series Foreword ix Introduction 2 I The Concrete Universal 11 The Absolute onthe Couch 12 The Universal-at-Work 22 Physics ofthe Infinite against Metaphysics ofthe 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 dürftiger Zeit? 200 Concluding Remarks 212 Notes 219 Bibliography 227 Series foreword A short circuit occurs when there is a faulty connection in the net- work—faulty, of course, from the standpoint of the network’s smooth functioning.Is not the shock of short-circuiting,there- fore,one of the best metaphors for a critical reading? Is not one of the most effective critical procedures to cross wires that don’t usu- ally touch:to take a major classic (text,author,notion) and read it in a short-circuiting way,through the lens of a “minor”author, text, or conceptual apparatus (“minor” should be understood here in Deleuze’s sense:not “of lesser quality,”but marginalized, disavowed by the hegemonic ideology,or dealing with a “lower,” less dignified topic)? If the minor reference is well chosen,such a procedure can lead to insights which completely shatter and undermine our common perceptions.This is what Marx,among others,did with philosophy and religion (short-circuiting philo- sophical speculation through the lens of political economy,that is to say,economic speculation);this is what Freud and Nietzsche did with morality (short-circuiting the highest ethical notions through the lens of the unconscious libidinal economy).What such a reading achieves is not a simple “desublimation,”a reduc- tion of the higher intellectual content to its lower economic or li- bidinal cause;the aim of such an approach is,rather,the inherent ix
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