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[[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]].
=Review by Today, with the disintegration of [[http://www.lacan.com/zizekchro2.htm Tony Myersstate]] [[socialism]]=Presented as a sequel to The Sublime Object of Ideology, we are witnessing this bookexamines the historical change emblematized by the shift eruption of enjoymnet in the tellingof the Rabinovitch joke from that first book. In particular, it analysesthe re-emergence of militant [[aggressive]] [[nationalism ]] and [[racism in ]]. With the wake lid of[[repression]] lifted, the break-up of the socialist countries of Eastern Europedesires that have emerged are from from democratic. Žižek iden-tifies the cause of To explain this re-emergence in an eruption of enjoyment. Thisbook also contains an extended discussion of the concept of thevanishing mediator[[apparent]] [[paradox]], says Slavoj [[Zizek]], socialist critical [[thought]] must turn to psychoanalysis.
''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. =====Product Details====={{Footer Books Slavoj Žižek}}| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Category:Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[CategoryFor They Know Not What They Do|For They Know Not What They Do:Works by Slavoj ŽižekEnjoyment as a Political Factor]]'''''. [[CategoryLondon]]; New York:WorksVerso. October 7, 2002, 2nd edition, Paperback, 320 pages, [[Language]]: [[CategoryEnglish]], ISBN:Books185984460X. <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], [Categoryhttp:Psychoanalysis//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>|} {{CBBSZ}}
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