Žižek, S{{BBSZ}} =====Book Description=====[[Image:For. (1991) For They .Know .Not .What .They .Do: Enjoyment as a Political.jpg|300px|right]] Factor[[Psychoanalysis]] is less merciful than [[Christianity]]. Where God the [[Father]] forgives our [[ignorance]], London and New York: Versopsychoanalysis holds out no such hope.Presented as Ignorance is not a sequel to The Sublime Object of Ideology, this bookexamines the historical change emblematized by the shift sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks [[enjoyment]]; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our [[symbolic]] [[universe]] that escape the tellingFather's [[prohibition]]. Today, with the disintegration of the Rabinovitch joke from that first book. In particular[[state]] [[socialism]], it analyseswe are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of militant [[aggressive]] [[nationalism ]] and [[racism in ]]. With the wake ofthe break-up lid of [[repression]] lifted, the desires that have emerged are from from democratic. To explain this [[apparent]] [[paradox]], says Slavoj [[Zizek]], socialist countries of Eastern Europecritical [[thought]] must turn to psychoanalysis. Žižek iden-tifies ''For They [[Know]] Not What They Do'' seeks to [[understand]] the cause 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 re-emergence an engaging and lucid exposition, in an eruption of enjoymentwhich Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, [[Marx]] with [[Hitchcock]], Lacan with Frankenstein, high [[theory]] with Hollywood melodrama. Thisbook also contains an extended discussion of the concept of thevanishing mediator=====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[CategoryFor They Know Not What They Do|For They Know Not What They Do:WorksEnjoyment as a Political Factor]]'''''. [[CategoryLondon]]; New York:BooksVerso. October 7, 2002, 2nd edition, Paperback, 320 pages, [[Language]]: [[CategoryEnglish]], ISBN:Žižek185984460X. <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], [Categoryhttp:Psychoanalysis//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>|} {{CBBSZ}}
