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...[hysterical]] question concerns the [[subject]]'s [[sexual position]] ("Am I a [[man]] or a [[woman]]?"), the [[obsessional neurotic]] repudiates this q ...ile waiting for [[death]],<ref>{{E}} p. 99</ref> or of considering oneself immortal because one is already [[dead]].<ref>{{S3}} p. 180</ref>

...recollection]] of him, his transfigured portrait ... is dearest to me, and I will be careful to preserve [his [[memory]]] safely hidden from the [[world ...next moment you are so near to me, filling my spirit so powerfully that I am transfigured for myself, and feel that it's good to be here.|Søren Kierkeg

...with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]!"… I definitely prefer such naive immersion to the pseudo-sophisticated intellec ...tasy is an attempt to fill out this lack of the Other, not of the subject, i.e. to (re)constitute the consistency of the big Other. For that reason, fan

...duals willingly persisted in their enslavement to the ruling [[ideology]] (i.e., why they desired their subordination and even found a [[perverse]] [[sa ...s us to clearly [[identify]] [[three]] ways to betray the event of Truth: (I) a simple [[disavowal]], with a corresponding attempt to follow old pattern

I [[want]] to address the problem of [[identification]] by confronting the pr ...contradicts Lacan for whom the unconscious is "the Other's [[discourse]]," i.e. symbolic, not imaginary. Is not the best known single line from Lacan th

...dream]] turned into a [[nightmare]]. The standard reaction of a Slovene (I am one myself) is to say: 'yes, this is how it is in the Balkans, but [[Sloven ...st]] slogan inverts Goebbels's [[statement]]: "When I hear the word 'gun', I reach for culture." Culture, according to that slogan, can serve as an effi

...y a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i.e., which does the tickling. But, again, WHICH is this object? The answer i ...ars witness to my "material existence." Materialism means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but becaus

...s sense, Francis [[Fukuyama]] is [[right]] in <i>Our Posthuman [[Future]]</i>: the [[notion]] of humanity relies on the [[belief]] that we possess an in ...paid to the notion that we develop our [[moral]] being through <i>Bildung</i>, the painful [[struggle]] to educate our natural dispositions. Ultimately,

...y a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i.e., which does the tickling. ...s any substantial positive being, i.e., it is in no way a <i>res cogitans</i>. Here, however, one should be more precise than Karatani who directly iden

...dream]] turned into a [[nightmare]]. The standard reaction of a Slovene (I am one myself) is to say: 'yes, this is how it is in the Balkans, but [[Sloven ...n Europe]]: when Kusturica, talking [[about]] his [[film]] <i>Underground</i>, dismissed the Slovenes as a nation of Austrian grooms, nobody reacted: an

...ors with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no reality!"... I definitely prefer such naive immersion to the pseudo-sophisticated intellec ...d Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: does <i>The Matrix</i> not repeat exactly Plato's dispositif of the cave (ordinary humans as pris

...duals willingly persisted in their enslavement to the ruling [[ideology]] (i.e., why they desired their subordination and even found a [[perverse]] [[sa ...s us to clearly [[identify]] [[three]] ways to betray the event of Truth: (I) a simple [[disavowal]], with a corresponding attempt to follow old pattern

...let me focus on her latest book, <i>The [[Psychic]] [[Life]] of [[Power]]</i>.<ref>[[Judith Butler]], The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, ...contradicts Lacan for whom the unconscious is "the Other's [[discourse]]," i.e. symbolic, not imaginary. Is not the best known single line from Lacan th

...accountable "madness" that is inherent to, and constitutive of, <i>cogito</i> and subjectivity as such. For Kant this is the dimension of "diabolical Ev As Zizek makes clear in <i>The Ticklish Subject</i>, what German idealism accomplishes is a displacement of the usual oppositi

...without any limit stopping me in the capriciousness of the exactions that I might have the taste to satiate." But why couldn't we hold it as a common good? Isn't that, redemption, immortal soul, the status of the Christian? Not so fast, so as not to go too far.

===Section I: Hegel=== ...ther to be discerned in details which escape the first superficial glance, i.e., God is like a painter who withdraws from his finished product, signalin

='Beckett with Lacan' by Slavoj Žižek= ...a Kantian, I know this excuse doesn't count, so I nonetheless decide that "I'll go on," doing the impossible.

='Lacan as a Reader of Hegel' by Slavoj Žižek= ...what I am, but the future anterior as what I will have been, given what I am in the process of becoming."<u>4</u> But the same goes for Hegel―when he

='Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event' by Slavoj Žižek= I don't much like hearing that we have ''gone beyond ''Hegel, the way one hea

="From Desire to Drive: Why Lacan is not Lacanian" by Slavoj Žižek= ...e author of my statements, since I merely repeat the performative patterns I grew into – it is the big Other which effectively speaks through me" (say