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| And aesthetic method of comedy which gives pleasure and allows us to "shake up" our world and see it differently |
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| The idea that comedy can be unsettling while also resolving; it can be funny yet cruel; it can be pleasurable and painful |
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| Unholy thought; Came about after our shift to horizontal cosmology; When the position of idealist and realist each claim to be the whole truth. |
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| Premature Ontological Commitment |
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| Committing to something without first thinking about it from all the different ways in which it can be thought about. -- FIXITY |
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| Materialists - believe in the world how it is; Marxists - economists; Cynics; Critics; Exact meaning of what exactly they see |
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| Metaphysicians; "Religious Types;" Believers; The ways the human brain can make things different than what we see. |
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| Komos-Oidia; Song of Celebration |
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| The time when Copernicus comes and says we are not the centers of the universe; says we are insignificant and people begin to question; we now have a shift into horizontal cosmology. |
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| Now based on science, fact, empiricism; Einstein says that there may be nothing but randomness and chance. |
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| The way in which we approach comedy. It is a corrective; a realization of incongruity between our coverings and what is covered. |
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| The "shaking up" of what we perceive and what is "real". |
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| Vital Energy; All the abstract imponderables and potentials of life and being, coming to bear on matters of art, expression, intuition, and joy. |
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| Rigidity; that which comedy attempts to overcome, and that which we laugh at. |
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| "Anesthesia of the Heart" |
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| The question of compassionate regard within the comic, even for its ridiculed objects. |
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| "A flexible vice is preferable to a rigid virtue" |
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| The idea of Baudelaire that comedy is funny when it gives us a sense of superiority over people or things. |
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| Baudelaire - foul-smelling; decaying and rotten. The view Baudelaire has of society |
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| Baudelaire - schizophrenic; the idea that that we are both self-celebrating and self-loathing (in terms of bodily issues) |
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| "The wise man never laughs but he trembles" |
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| Baudelaire - Absolute knowledge and power preclude the possibility of the comic; seriousness precludes joy; when we laugh, we are not really laughing, we are trembling because laughing is bad |
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| Baudelaire - Feels that laughing is satanic because Satan was thrown from heaven after he laughed in the face of god. - The element of superiority because it involves the lustful desire for knowledge |
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| Baudelaire - Relates to the Fall..that is...to laugh is to fall from the mind to the body, from power to powerlessness, from ideal human to degraded animal |
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| Baudelaire - Childlike and unrefined comedy that is "clean" and "vegetable like". Requires little thought or activity |
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| Baudelaire - Cynicism, parody, aggression, superiority of man over man. Closer to Satanic superiority. Takes pleasure in being superior over others. |
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| Man's ultimate sense of superiority over nature itself, including his own nature |
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| "Release of built up tension" |
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| The tension that is released through laughter |
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| Most child-like level of the psyche in which only the most basic functions are represented. Things we cant control which cant go away |
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| Where the desire of the Id and the prohibition of the Super Ego meet. |
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| Where all of the forces of culture and common sense are represented. Prohibits things. |
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| a psychoanalytic term for human ability to gain sexual gratification outside socially normative sexual behaviors. |
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| The technique of the deliverance of the joke. The context in which the joke is taken |
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| "Being beset by" "blockage" |
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| Most like dreams. Lift inhibition in relation to sexuality and aggression. Allows us to bring out those repressed desires just as dreams do. Explore taboos and tensions. OBSCENE |
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| The kinds of things that are gentle and child like. Stage before jokes. Basic and sweet. Nothing at stake in these |
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| Opposite of innocent jokes which deal with political things. Attacks people, logic, and certainty. |
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| Consciousness vs Unconsciousness |
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| All of the societal "norms" we experience everyday are in the conscious, and all of our illicit and taboo thoughts must be repressed in the unconsciousness (to be released in dreams). |
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| The work of dreams on repressed desires and wishes. A safe space where dark and nasty things can take shape. |
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| Content in dreams that that we remember |
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| the things we feel underneath the dreams - allows us to interpret more |
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| A kind of incongruity. Bringing together unusual things to form one image - Puns |
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| Means by which repressed things find a way to bypass conscious thought. Ex. if you dream of overeating, something has changed in your conscious life. |
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| Talks about moving away from filters of language, laws, etc to express exact meanings and feelings. Clearly defining the basic meaning of something without worrying about laws and norms. |
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| the core of comic ritual; Agon is sacrifice, feast is komos. It is agon giving way to komos that makes something comic. |
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| The disillusioned, fooled, and prematurely onotologically committed. Conflicts with the eirons to eventually resolve in a moment of anagnorisis |
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| The knowers who see past the veils of society |
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| the realization or revelation of the struggle between agon and komos, between Alazons and Eirons. |
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| The level of the body: Raising of the flesh. |
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| "Deposuit potentes de sede, et exultavit humiles" |
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| Bring down the powerful, raise up the lowly |
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| Degradation of the Sublime |
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| The bringing down of the powerful in Sypher's terms |
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| Ennoblement of the degraded |
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| the bringing up of the lowly in Sypher's terms |
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| Greek religious right where all of the power is bestowed in the penis - stands for power |
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| All of the Greek priests kiss a donkey as a sign of criticism upon themselves |
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| The character of McMurphy. He brings about the carnivalesque features to places and things. |
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Apollonian: Noble Reason, Rationality and Certainty, Nurse Ratched
Dionysian: Passion, Celebrates the orgiastic things in life, McMurphy
The struggle between these two is the agon. |
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| Knowledge of the way things are |
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| Proponent of of the dynamic forces and potentials of life, unencrusted and unencumbered by the ordering forces upon it. |
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