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=====Introduction====[[Žižek]]'s account of [[law]] is built upon the reiteration of the idea that ''[[law]] is [[split]]'' or that ''there is a [[parallax view|parallax]] [[gap]] between the '''[[public]] [[letter]]''' and its '''[[obscene]] [[superego]] [[supplement]]'''''.<ref>{{Z}} ''[[The Parallax View]]''. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. p. 10.</ref>=
* [[Law]] is [[split]]
* There is a [[parallax view|parallax]] [[gap]] between the '''[[public]] [[letter]]''' and its '''[[obscene]] [[superego]] [[supplement]]'''''.<ref>{{Z}} ''[[The Parallax View]]''. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. p. 10.</ref>
====Split Law=='s Founding==
=====Surplus==Founding Crime===
=====Lack==Founding Law===
====Enjoying ''Split Law==''==
=====The Object in Law: From Superego to Objet Petit a==Surplus===
[[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. '''Law''' is constitutively senseless: it is obeyed not because it is [[good]], just, or beneficial, but because it is [[law]]. As [[Zizek]] explains, "The last foundation of the [[Law]]'s [[authority]] lies in its [[process]] of [[enunciation]]."<ref>{{Z}} "How Did [[Marx]] Invent the [[Symptom]]?" in ''[[Mapping Ideology]]''. Ed. [[Slavoj Zizek]]. Verso: [[London]], 1944. p. 318</ref> This [[traumatic]], nonintegrated [[character]] of [[law]] is a positive condition of [[law]].<ref>{{Z}} "How Did Marx Invent [[the Symptom]]?" in ''[[Mapping Ideology]]''. Ed. Slavoj Zizek. Verso: London, 1944. p. 319</ref> This [[trauma]]tic, [[senseless]] [[injunction]] is also the [[psychoanalytic]] [[notion]] of the [[superego]]. [[Superego]] issues unconditional commands, telling us what to do, refusing to take no for an answer, refusing even to consider our specific circumstances, [[needs]] or desires. The [[superego]] command is thus more than a simple [[prohibition]]. It is a [[prohibition]] compliance with which produces [[enjoyment]]. When we obey the [[superego]], when we give up our own [[desire]] and comply or follow [[orders]], a part of us, or, more precisely the [[Other]] within us, [[enjoy]]s. '''[[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, "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=Notes== [[Violence]] persists as [[superego]], that is, as the punishing, powerful, obscene, [[dead]] [[father]] killed by the [[primal]] [[horde]]. ==Enjoying Law== ===Love With Law=== ===The Object in Law: From Superego to Objet Petit a=== ===Attachment to Law: From Enjoyment Through Duty to Enjoyment in Love=== ==Conclusion: Hope in Law== ==Notes==
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