more from this thinker
|
more from this text
Single Idea 12318
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
]
Full Idea
The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself.
Gist of Idea
The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself
Source
Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998])
Book Ref
Badiou,Alain: 'Briefings on Existence', ed/tr. Madarsz,Norman [SUNY 2006], p.27
A Reaction
Too good to pass over, too crazy to file sensibly, too creepy to have been filed under humour, my candidate for the weirdest remark I have ever read in a serious philosopher, but no doubt if you read Lacan etc for long enough it looks deeply wise.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[explaining the nature and sources of what is funny]:
|
7494
|
Laughter is mad; of mirth, what doeth it?
[Anon (Ecc)]
|
|
8767
|
Sorrow is better than laughter
[Anon (Ecc)]
|
|
6211
|
Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly
[Hobbes]
|
|
12171
|
Absurdity is incongruity between correct and false points of view
[Schopenhauer]
|
|
22047
|
Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy
[Kierkegaard]
|
|
14833
|
Comedy is a transition from fear to exuberance
[Nietzsche]
|
|
18303
|
Reject wisdom that lacks laughter
[Nietzsche]
|
|
12318
|
The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself
[Badiou]
|
|
12169
|
Since only men laugh, it seems to be an attribute of reason
[Scruton]
|
|
12170
|
Amusement rests on superiority, or relief, or incongruity
[Scruton]
|
|
12172
|
Objects of amusement do not have to be real
[Scruton]
|
|
12173
|
The central object of amusement is the human
[Scruton]
|
|
6848
|
Humour is practically enacted philosophy
[Critchley]
|
|
6847
|
Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change
[Critchley]
|
|
22701
|
Jokes can sometimes be funny because they are offensive
[Jacobson,D]
|