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Thus cynicism belongs "within the pleasure principle," freedom beyond it.
Indeed, it is the psace occupied by fantasy, the sense of it as an inner core, whcih creates the idstance "traversed" by the free subject in its momentary plunge into the real.
==Universality==
The space of political universality is one of ideological struggle.
For a hegemoonic group to establish itself at the expense of others, it needs to colonize this speace in its own interests.
The political universal sis thus usually the exact opposite of what one might tkae it to be: not an abstraction from a set of particualrs, but the manifestation of the express interests of a particualr group.
Even something apparently excluded from the symbolic register can be the support of a universal.
"The dimension of universality is always sustained by fixation on some particular point."<ref>Plague 104</ref>
The universal is not abstracted from existing particulars,.
Žižek dismisses universals adduced in the interests of identity politics, but approves those brought forward in the name of those he recognizes as genuinely economically exploited and politically excluded.
== The Act==
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