==Source==Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle. New York: Verso. 2004.{{BBSZ}}
Slavoj Žižek=====Book Description=====[[Image:Iraq.The.Borrowed.Kettle.jpg|300px|right]]In [[order]] to render the strange [[logic]] of [[dreams]], [[Freud]] quoted the old [[joke]] [[about]] the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you unbroken, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms exactly what it endeavors to deny—that I returned a broken kettle to you ...
{{Footer Books Slavoj Žižek}}That same [[inconsistency]], [[Zizek]] argues, characterized the justification of the attack on [[Iraq]], whereby a link between Saddam’s [[regime]] and [[al-Qaeda]] was transformed into the [[threat]] posed by the regime to the region, which was then further transformed into the threat posed to everyone (but the US and [[Britain]] especially) by weapons of mass [[destruction]]. When no significant weapons were found, we were treated to the same bizarre logic: OK, the two labs we found don’t really prove anything, but even if there are no WMD in Iraq, there are [[other]] [[good]] reasons to topple a tyrant like [[Saddam]] . . . Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle analyzes the background that such inconsistent argumentation conceals and, simultaneously, cannot [[Categoryhelp]] but highlight:Slavoj Žižekwhat were the actual [[ideological]] and [[political]] stakes of the attack on Iraq? In classic Zizekian style, it spares [[nothing]] and nobody, neither pathetically impotent pacifism nor hypocritical sympathy with the [[suffering]] of the Iraqi [[people]]. “Zizek leaves no [[social]] or [[natural]] phenomenon untheorized, and is the [[master]]of the counterintuitive observation.” — ''The New Yorker'' “Zizek’s star keeps rising over [[CategoryLjubljana]] for good [[reason]].” — ''Tikkun'' “Zizek will entertain and offend, but never bore.” — ''The Stranger'' =====Product Details====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:Works by left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[CategoryIraq:WorksThe Borrowed Kettle]]'''''. New York: Verso. November 28, 2005, Paperback, 192 pages, [[Language]][[CategoryEnglish]], ISBN:Books1844675408. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [Categoryhttp:Psychoanalysis//www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk]or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675408/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small> |} {{CBBSZ}}
