Brassed Off coffee invitation
example · film: Brassed Off ·
retold in 20 talks
A woman invites a man up for coffee; he says he doesn't like coffee; she says she has none, the double withdrawal of coffee produces erotic meaning far more charged than a direct proposition.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 18
“Why don't you come up for a coffee? I don't like coffee. No problem, I don't have any.”
“would you like to come up for a coffee... i would love to, but unfortunately i don't drink coffee... no problem, i don't have any”
“She tells him: 'Do you—would you like to come up for a cup of coffee?' And he answers: 'I would love to, but I don't drink coffee.' And she answers: 'No problem, I don't have any.'”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 4 jobsuses
determinate negation
×9
negation of negation
×4
surplus enjoyment
×4
ideology as implicit meaning
×2
Its cast and sources
populated by
Ernst Lubitsch10Wolf Biermann3Dan Brown4Boris Groys3Alec Baldwin2Emmanuel Levinas5Ernest Renan2Pranav Mistry2
alongside works
Every retelling 18
A woman invites a man up for coffee; he says he doesn't like coffee; she says she has none, the double withdrawal of coffee produces erotic meaning far more charged than a direct proposition., illustrating double negation,the thing deprived of its substance,implication vs. explicit statement
35:25 Down with ideology? Talk with Slavoj Žižek | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur2016-06-19 · 55:47
In the film Brassed Off a worker escorts a manager girl home; she invites him up 'for a coffee', he says he doesn't drink coffee, she answers 'no problem, I don't have any', the most direct erotic invitation with nothing dirty said., illustrating ideology,zero level of ideology (Grundphänomen)
In the film Brassed Off, Ewan McGregor's character is invited up by a woman who asks if he'd like coffee. He says he doesn't drink coffee; she says she doesn't have any. Despite no coffee and no explicit invitation, the exchange is intensely erotic, because the indirect detour is not a mere politeness but the constitutive mechanism of eroticization itself., illustrating surplus-enjoyment,determinate negation,sexualization through language
In the British film Brassed Off a woman invites a man up for coffee; he says he doesn't drink coffee; she replies she has no coffee, through double negation they communicate a direct erotic invitation without stating anything., illustrating negation / negativity,language and eroticism
In Brassed Off, a woman invites Ewan McGregor up for coffee; he says he doesn't like coffee; she says she has none. The double negation, offer a pretext, then remove the pretext, is a perfectly direct sexual invitation without any explicit content, illustrating the logic of objet a., illustrating objet petit a,negation of negation,erotic logic
In the film Brassed Off, a man walks a woman home; she asks if he wants coffee; he says he doesn't drink coffee; she says she hasn't got any. The apparently asexual exchange is more sexual than any direct proposition., illustrating indirectness of sexuality,sexuality's detour,mediation of desire