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Deleuze on the other hand suggests that we would be falling into the trap of humor if we take literally the picture it gives of the superego, for this picture is intended to laugh away and disavow the superego, becoming the preconditions for obtaining the forbidden pleasure. Humor, to Deleuze, is the triumphant ego, the art of deflecting and disavowing the superego, with all its masochistic consequences.
— Nov 09, 2012 01:08AM
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"...Man, even when he is selfish or wicked, lives by principles; woman only obeys her feelings. Never forget this, and never be sure of the woman you love."
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"...In spite of all the advances of civilization, woman has remained as she was the day Nature's hands shaped her. She is like a wild animal, faithful or faithless, kindly or cruel, depending on the impulse that rules her. A profound and serious culture is needed to produce moral character..."
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"...The best of women can momentarily flounder in the mud, just as the worst can unexpectedly rise to great heights of generosity, to the confusion of those who vilify her. Every woman, good or bad, is capable at any moment of the most diabolical thoughts, actions or emotions, as well as the most divine; the purest as well as the most sordid..."
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"...never be sure of the woman you love, for there are more snares in her nature than you can ever imagine. Women are neither as good as their admirers maintain nor as bad as their detractors would have them be; their character is merely a lack of character..."
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"...woman can be neither as purely sensual nor spiritually free as men; their love is always a mixture of the sensual and the intellectual. Women's heart desires to enchain man permanently while she herself is subject to change, with the result that discord, lying and deceitfulness invade her life, usually against her will, and her whole character is affected."
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Sadism negates the mother and inflates the father, masochism disavows the mother and abolished the father.
— Nov 09, 2012 08:11PM
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What appeared to be common "sign" linking the two perversions together turned out on investigation to be in the nature of a mere syndrome which could be further broken down into irreducibly specific symptoms of the one or the other perversion.
— Nov 09, 2012 02:05AM
boredroom
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Sadomasochism is a misbegotten name, a semiological howler.
— Nov 09, 2012 02:02AM
boredroom
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Hence along with the complexity of the superego. To me, it depends on what kind of humor. Certain humor does describe what Freud suggests, I.e. laughing and mocking at others expense to make oneself look superior. Some what like someone I know - Sir Rom.
— Nov 09, 2012 01:04AM
boredroom
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Deleuze opposes Freud that humor is the expression of a strong superego. Humor, to Deleuze, is an ego-gain not "secondary," as Freud suggests but primary or essential. For Freud, humor inevitably brings about a secondary gain for the ego, and spoke of the defiance and invulnerability of the ego and the triumph of narcissism.
— Nov 09, 2012 01:01AM
