Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0058825

Zusammenfassung

The following joke from Ernst Lubitsch's film Ninotschka is paradigmatic for this project: "A man goes into a cafe and asks the waiter for a cup of coffee, without cream. The waiter goes away, but returns again within a couple of minutes. 'I'm so sorry sir' he says. 'We don't have any cream. We have milk though. Would you like your coffee without milk instead?'" This project assumes that the insistence of negative and excessive partial objects is constitutive for the aesthetics of film comedy. The psychoanalytical notion of the partial object refers to an organ that resists its integra...