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Marine marching chant: Eskimo pussies

example · film: An Officer and a Gentleman · retold in 3 talks

US military marching chants combine open obscenities with nonsense rhymes (e.g. from An Officer and a Gentleman); Žižek uses them to show that the real identification within a closed community is formed through its transgressive rituals, not its explicit rules.

2009: 1 talk 2015: 1 talk 2016: 1 talk
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As told 3

“I don't know but I've been told that Eskimo pussy is rather cold.”
23:29 We’re Only Human2009-10-20 · 1:20:27
“I don't know but I was told that Eskimo pussies are rather cold”
“I don't know but I was told that Eskimo pussies are rather cold.”
~1:16 Against the Double Blackmail2016-04-20 · 1:27:51

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23:29 We’re Only Human2009-10-20 · 1:20:27
US military marching chants combine open obscenities with nonsense rhymes (e.g. from An Officer and a Gentleman); Žižek uses them to show that the real identification within a closed community is formed through its transgressive rituals, not its explicit rules., illustrating obscene underside,two-level rules
US Marines sing obscene nonsense rhymes while marching ('I don't know but I was told that Eskimo pussies are rather cold'); Žižek uses this to show that military discipline requires an obscene supplement of limericks and sexual nonsense to hold the collective together., illustrating obscene supplement,military homoeroticism,drive
~1:16 Against the Double Blackmail2016-04-20 · 1:27:51
US Marine marching chants, limerick nonsense mixed with sexual obscenity ('I don't know but I was told that Eskimo pussies are rather cold'), illustrate how the most disciplined institution needs a pharmakon of transgressive enjoyment to sustain its order., illustrating pharmakon,supplément,sexual difference and discipline