Q: What makes a Lacanian joke funny?McSweeney's has your Lacanian Jokes of the Day.
A: Its signifier by its very nature anticipates meaning, unfolding its dimension before it.
A genie tells a man he can have three wishes.
"First of all," the man enthuses, "I want to be Slavoj Žižek."
"You cretin!" the genie replies. "You already are Slavoj Žižek!"
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