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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-with-lacan.html
  ...case, the elevation of Here Comes Everybody into Christ who has to die in order to be reborn as the eternal Life-Goddess, from Molly Bloom to Anna Livia Pl ...her days … practically speechless … how she survived! … that time in court … what had she to say for herself … guilty or not guilty … stand up w
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/edward-snowden-chelsea-manning-and-julian-assange-our-new-heroes.html
  ...acing the shameless cynicism of the representatives of the existing global order, who only imagine that they believe in their ideas of democracy, human righ ...rivate" use of reason – "private" is for Kant the communal-institutional order in which we dwell (our state, our nation …), while "public" is the transn
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/from-socrates-onward-the-function-of-philosophy-is-to-corrupt-youth.html
  ...to restore the lost balance and reconcile philosophy with the established order: Aristotle with regard to Plato, Thomas Aquinas with regard to effervescent ...ucceed (study, make a career, earn money… within the existing capitalist order). Permanent transgression thus becomes the standard — recall the deadlock
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/pathological-narcissus.html
  ..."over-adjusted" hysteric that exaggeratedly identifies himself with social order, which causes his suppressed instinctive substance to strike back in the fo ...al implications lack a notion of the symbolic and of the need for symbolic order. Briefly, the difference between "normal" and "pathological" narcissism can
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/radical-evil-as-a-freudian-category.html
  ...– the initiatic rituals of torture and humiliation one has to undergo in order to be accepted into a closed community. Do we not see similar photos in reg Recall Rob Reiner's ''A Few Good Men'', a court-martial drama about two US marines accused of murdering one of their fellow
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/the-superego-and-the-act.html
  ...hocking excesses of part of the system itself. The system feeds on them in order to reproduce itself. Perhaps this is one of the possible definitions of pos ...sive order. You seem to have a choice, but there is no choice, because the order is not only you must visit your grandmother, you must even enjoy it. If you
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/why-lacan-is-not-lacanian.html
  ...d the price the subject has to pay in order to gain access to the symbolic order – all the false poetry of "castration," of some primordial act of sacrifi ...e impossibility which is co-substantial with the very fact of the symbolic order – "jouissance is forbidden to him who speaks as such."
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