# Phallic imagery in English-language comedy and the theory of image schemas Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-11-03-phallic-imagery-in-english-language-comedy-and-the-theory-of-image-sc The piece uses phallic jokes to argue that mental images are schematic and can match through evoked situations without exact visual correspondence. Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 November 2007 ## Where it lives - [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/03/phallic-imagery-in-english-language-comedy-and-the-theory-of-image-schemas/) ## About this item - Type: Blog post - Published: 3 November 2007 - Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic - Language: English Topics: cognition, humour, metaphor. ## Related - [Elites as maintainers of conservative values](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-01-elites-as-maintainers-of-conservative-values) (Blog post · 1 January 2007) - [Marriage and the impact of scholarship on society](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-01-marriage-and-the-impact-of-scholarship-on-society) (Blog post · 1 January 2007) - [Libraries, freedom and the limits of free-market electoral logistics](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-04-libraries-freedom-and-the-limits-of-free-market-electoral-logistics) (Blog post · 4 January 2007) - [Folk theories of conceptual causality and collective autonomy](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-08-20-folk-theories-of-conceptual-causality) (Blog post · 20 August 2007) - [Metaphor is my co-pilot: How the literal and metaphorical rely on the same type of knowledge](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2010-08-06-metaphor-is-my-co-pilot-how-the-literal-and-metaphorical-rely-on-the-) (Blog post · 6 August 2010) - [The death of a memory: Missing metaphors of remembering and forgetting?](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2011-07-10-the-death-of-a-memory-missing-metaphors-of-remembering-and-forgetting) (Blog post · 10 July 2011) Section: [Writing](https://dominiklukes.net/writing)