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==''Introduction''==
=====Enjoyment=====
''[[Ideology]] relies on an unassimilable kernel of [[enjoyment]]''.<ref>{{Z}} ''[[The Plague of Fantasies]]''. [[London]]: Verso, 1997. p. 50</ref>
This means [[subject]]s are attached to an [[ideology|ideological formation]] not simply because of a set of [[identification|identifiable]] [[cause|reasons]] or [[cause]]s but because of something [[surplus|extra]].
[[Ideology|Ideological formations]] rely on an extra, nonrational nugget that goes beyond what we [[knowledge|know]] to produce our [[sense]] of who we are and what the [[world]] is for us.
Again, the [[idea]] of enjoyment as a [[political]] factor is that some [[contingent]] element of [[reality]] takes on a special, excessive [[role]] and so attaches us to a socio-political [[formation]].
In [[Zizek]]'s [[words]], this element "becomes elevated to the dignity of a [[Thing]]."
==''Introduction''===Ideological Formations===== [[Enjoyment]] is a [[category]] that can [[help]] [[political theory|political theorists]] account for differences among [[ideology|ideological formations]] Zizek differentiates among [[ideological]] [[formations]] in [[terms]] of [[enjoyment]].
A primary task for the political theorist, then, is to grasp how a given formation organizes enjoyment.
=====Totalitarianism=====
=====So What About Lenin?=====
[[Category:Slavoj Žižek:Politics]]
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