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<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]].
<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>