hysteric

is no longer a person but at most a rendezvous of persons — which is exactly why he is great as an actor.

“The absurd irritability of his system, which turns all experiences into crises and introduces the "dramatic" into the smallest accidents of life, robs him of all calculability: he is no longer a person, at most a rendezvous of persons and now this one, now that one shoots forward with shameless assurance.”

Sigmund Freud

knowledge

acting

obsessional neurosis

big other

desire

hysteria

lack

symptom

hysteric's discourse

actor

neurotic

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

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