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==Introduction==
<blockquote>"All [[politics]] relies upon, and even manipulates, a certain [[economy]] of enjoyment."<ref>[[Slavoj Žižek]] and [[Glyn Daly]]. ''[[Conversations with Žižek]]''. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 2004. p. 114</ref></blockquote>
Throughout his [[Slavoj Žižek:Books|work]], [[Žižek]] draws out the workings of [[enjoyment]] (what [[Jacques Lacan]] calls ''[[jouissance]]'') in [[racism|racist]] and [[racism|ethnic]] [[ideology|ideological]] [[fantasy|fantasies]], in [[socialism]]'s [[bureaucracy|bureaucratic]] [[excess]]es, and in the [[cynicism]] of the [[narcissism|narcissistic]] [[subject]]s of [[capitalism|late capitalism]].
[[Žižek]] frequently invokves the seemingly nonsensical ceremonies and redundancies that accompany [[political]] institutions.
<blockquote>"Our politics is more and more directly the politics of ''jouissance'', concerned with ways of soliciting, or controlling and regulating, ''jouissance''."<ref>{{Z}} ''[[The Parallax View]]''. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. p. 309</ref></blockquote>
In this chapter [[Dean]] introduces the [[category]] of [[enjoyment]] as the key to [[understanding]] [[Žižek]]'s [[Slavoj Žižek:Politics|political thought]].
[[Dean]] demonstrates the importance of [[enjoyment]] as a category of political [[theory]].
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It contributes to [[thinking]] [[about]] our attachment to and investment in violent, destructive, and authoritarian modes of [[being]].
For political theorists, his [[work]] is indispensable to understanding the deep [[libidinal]] attraction of domination, that is, the [[passion]] of our attachments to [[objects]] constitutive of our subjectivities.
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In considering [[enjoyment]] as a category of political theory, [[Dean]] begins with a general [[discussion]] of the [[concept]] in [[psychoanalysis]].
She then turns specifically to [[Žižek]]'s work, taking up the [[role]] of [[enjoyment]] and [[fantasy]] in his reworking of the theory of [[ideology]].
After attending to the [[place]] of [[enjoyment]] in [[ideology|ideological]] [[interpellation]] and addressing more specifically [[Žižek]]'s use of the concept for understanding [[racism]] and [[racism|ethnic nationalism]], [[Dean]] analyzes some of the specific, [[formal]] features of the concept.
Here she emphasizes [[enjoyment]] as it fixes the place of the [[subject]], [[enjoyment]] and our relation to [[others]], and the [[superego]] support of [[enjoyment]].
Then [[Dean]] argues for [[Žižek]]'s account of the challenges of freedomin in communicative [[capitalism]] as a compelling alternative to current emphases on [[multiplicity]] and pluralization.
[[Žižek]]'s emphasis on [[enjoyment]] enables us to confront the [[excess]]es generated by [[capitalism|global capitalism]] as they fix and attach contemporary [[subject]]s into relations of domination and exploitation.
==''What is Enjoyment?''==
The basic [[psychoanalytic]] account of [[enjoyment]] tells a story of the [[infant]]'s primary connection with its [[mother]].
This story begins by positing an [[ideal]] oneness that was never fully realized, but whose [[loss]] helsps make [[sense]] oof [[human]] [[psychic]] [[life]].
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