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• Self-Deceptions
  When you are bombarded by claims that in our post-[[ideological]] cynical era nobody believes any mor ...tary imbalance in the [[relationship]] between the Ego and [[jouissance]], by the tension between [[pleasure]] and the foreign [[body]] of jouissance in
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by the [[market]] forces.
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Slavoj [[Zizek]]: ...iduals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politicians to press such buttons. But some things are excluded. What is ex
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -that developed by the Frankfurt [[School]], for example — it is not just a question of [[se ...choanalysis, it is closer to Alphonse Allais's well-known [[joke]], quoted by Lacan: somebody points at a [[woman]] and utters a horrified cry, "Look at
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...short-circuit between the [[formal]]/differential [[structure]] (which is by definition "[[absent]]," i.e. it is never given "as such" in our experienti ...rmost "relations between people" can be [[displaced]] onto (or substituted by) "relations between things"? That is to say, is it not a basic feature of t
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Geert Lovink. ...d as remainders of this imperial and sacrificing Japan, were indeed edited by Brecht. What they perceived as Japanese was Brecht.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...lso a capricious [[Master]] who wants it all, i.e., who, herself not bound by any Law, charges her knight-servant with [[arbitrary]] and outrageous ordea ...r, we are dealing with an agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castration; in both cases, the role of this fantasmatic agency i
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Slavoj [[Zizek]], Interviewed by Josefina Ayerza. JOSEFINA AYERZA: The contemporary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be gi
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
  [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]] [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Die doppelte Erpressung
  [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]] [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]]
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...g Man is Hitchcock at its purest. His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; ...to take into account the strict [[concept]] of "[[sadism]]" as elaborated by [[Lacan]]. In "[[Kant]] with [[Sade]]," Lacan proposed two schemes which tr
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...ment from [[human]] [[desire]]. Kant's [[practical]] [[reason]], sustained by [[moral]] law, brings out desire at its utmost: we [[know]] nevertheless ho ...] fantasy, you get it, but without claws, without teeth, it is all cut off by a veterinarian. For me this is the ultimate of this same [[logic]]. [[Nothi
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  THE [[world]] today is more and more marked by the frontier separating its insiders from its outsiders, between the "devel ...in the bloody disintegration tries to legitimise their place "[[inside]]" by presenting themselves as the last bastion of European civilisation (the cur
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...universe]] of [[hallucinations]], unconstrained by any [[symbolic]] Law or by any [[impossibility]] of some [[Real]]? If not, how are we to detect in cyb ...the interactive immersive [[environment]] in which we actively participate by [[role]]-playing) no longer writes detailed story-line, s/he merely provide
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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  ...ness resides in the regulation of its jouissance, i.e. the "real Other" is by definition "patriarchal", "violent", never the Other of ethereal wisdom and [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...[[writing]] for a naive reader capable of an immediate consumption of his works, but for a reflected reader, who is only able to read with an eye on possib ...the [[social]] influence of her parents…"). Its crucial feature is that, by providing this answer, the [[subject]] pretends to assume the standpoint of
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...] explanatory presupposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, ...ible]] for the malfunction. While this is true, this "truth" is propagated by me to conceal the fact that the accident realized my desire. On the contrar
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...in the 1930s? Why did they let themselves be lured into dull satisfaction by the Sirens of the late-[[capitalist]] "[[society]] of consumption" in the 1 ...element which, though clearly belonging to the situation, is not "counted" by it, properly included in it (e.g., the "nonintegrated" rabble in a societal
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...ne of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by their very excessive [[identification]] with it. ...mself, his [[self]]-confidence and assurance depend on how he is perceived by [[others]], while the prime mover is fully reconciled with himself, relying
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...? Was there ever a [[political]] manifesto that was more clearly falsified by subsequent historical [[reality]]? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at be ...n every quarter of the globe. In [[place]] of the old wants, [[satisfied]] by the productions of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their [[sa
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