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− | the re-emergence of | + | [[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]]. |
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− | + | 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. | |
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− | + | ''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. | |
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+ | |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> | ||
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