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“R…detected a queer #sense_of_humor in Lacan…[that was] #deep, #dadaist & #hilarious …‘I was facing an aging #performance_̶artist [Lacan was 68] — whose very #garb had something of #the_cabaret — …slowing-down [&]…at-times speeding-up to culminate in #a_punning_one_̶liner’.”
For all this hilarity, R noted that “curiously,* he was #being_listened_̶to #in_utmost_silence by an audience intent on #not_missing_one_word” *[“curiously” for the young R as opposed to the old L]. #Silent_Hillᵃʳᶦᵗʸ.
The significance of comedy is specified in #Seminar_I, for instance, when he pauses during an explanation of an optical experiment to reflect on how being too serious corrupts critical thought. “The closer we get to psychoanalysis being funny the more it is really psychoanalysis”
