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[[Psychoanalysis ]] is less merciful than [[Christianity]]. Where God the [[Father ]] forgives our [[ignorance]], psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks [[enjoyment]]; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our [[symbolic ]] [[universe ]] that escape the Father's [[prohibition]].

Today, with the disintegration of [[state ]] [[socialism]], we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of [[aggressive ]] [[nationalism ]] and [[racism]]. With the lid of [[repression ]] lifted, the desires that have emerged are from from democratic. To explain this [[apparent ]] [[paradox]], says Slavoj [[Zizek]], socialist critical [[thought ]] must turn to psychoanalysis.

''For They [[Know ]] Not What They Do'' seeks to [[understand ]] the status of enjoyment within [[ideological ]] [[discourse]], from [[Hegel ]] through [[Lacan ]] to these [[political ]] and ideological deadlocks. The [[author]]'s own enjoyment of “popular culture” makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, [[Marx ]] with [[Hitchcock]], Lacan with Frankenstein, high [[theory ]] with Hollywood melodrama.

|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[For They Know Not What They Do|For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor]]'''''. [[London]]; New York: Verso. October 7, 2002, 2nd edition, Paperback, 320 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], ISBN: 185984460X. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>