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==''Split Law''==
How does the [[Real]] of [[violence]] ''persist'' in [[law]], and what is its relation to '''[[law|split law]]'''?
===Surplus===
As a non-integrated, [[surplus]],
[[Violence]] ''persists'' in the form of [[law]] as an ''[[injunction]]''.
[[Violence]] gives [[law]] the form of an ''[[injunction]]''.
As a nonintegrated [[surplus]], [[violence]] gives [[law]] the form of an ''[[injunction]]'', rendering [[law]] as that which is to be obeyed.
'''[[Superego]] thus involves the [[excess]] of [[law]], the [[violence]] that ''persists'' in [[law]]'s ''[[injunction]]''.'''
The [[superego]] [[injunction|injunction to enjoy]] accompanies a duty to be happy. Important for Zizek is the way that in today's more permissive societies, the superego injunction to enjoy accompanies a duty to be happy. He writes, <blockquote>"The superego is thus the properly obscene reversal of the permissive 'You may!' into the prescriptive 'You must!', the point at which permitted enjoyment turns into ordained enjoyment."<ref>{{TFA}} {{FA}} p. 133</ref> We must have great sex lives, fulfilling jobs, interesting hobbies, fantastic vacations. If we do not, we have somehow failed. We are guilty-inadequate. By attending to the superego supplement of law, Zizek thus enables us to grasp how it is the case that what might appear at law's retreat, as law's securing of a larger realm of personal choice and privacy, comes up against a crippling impasse of unfreedom-the command to enjoy that effectively prevents us from enjoying, entwining us in guilt and uncertainty.
===Lack===
