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“Let me begin with a brief introduction to the [[notion]] of the so-called “big other” as the [[symbolic]] substance of [[being]], as it were [[the symbolic]] [[space]] within which we [[human]] beings dwell. [[People]] usually [[think]] [[about]] symbolic rules regulating [[social]] interaction, but I think it is much more productive to focus on [[another]] aspect of what [[Lacan]] calls the “big other”. The intricate cobweb of unwritten implicit rules. Their never explicitly stated, if you [[state]] [[them]] explicitly you even usually commit some kind of crime or violation. This is what always interest me, how what holds communities together are not [[explicit]] rules but the unwritten rules which are even prohibited to announce publicly.

Imagine a [[session]] of the central committee where someone stands up and starts to criticize [[Stalin]]. Now, everyone [[knows]] this was prohibited. But that’s the catch. Imagine someone else standing up and saying: ‘But listen, are you crazy? Don’t you [[know]] that it’s prohibited to criticize comrade Stalin?’ I [[claim]] the second one would be arrested earlier than the first one. Because although everybody knew that it’s prohibited to criticize Stalin, this [[prohibition]] itself was prohibited. The [[appearance]] had to be unconditionally maintained that it is allowed to criticize Stalin, but simply why criticize him since he’s so [[good]]. My point is that the appearance of a free [[choice]] had to be sustained…”

{{SZA}}