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Law: From Superego to Love

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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>
(This chapter focuses on the split in law, drawing out its repercussions for thinking about law more generally.)
 For [[Žižek]], ''* [[law]] is '''necessary''' and potentially '''liberatory'''''. : Appearing in mutiple arrangements - the [[symbolic]] [[law]] of [[language]] and [[law|norms]], the [[public]] [[law]] of [[state]]s and [[state|regimes]], the [[transgressive]] "[[obscene|nightly]]" [[law]] of [[superego]], as well as the [[religion|religious]] [[law]] of [[Judaism]] and the [[Pauline]] [[law]] of [[faith]] - [[law]] persists as a constituent element of [[human ]] [[practical ]] [[experience]].
Yet ''[[law]] as such is [[lack|incomplete]]''.
 
==Law's Founding==
===Founding Law===
==''Split Law''==
The persisting How does [[Realviolence]] of ''persist'' in [[violencelaw]] , and what is its relation to '''[[law|split law]].'''?
===Surplus===
As a non-integrated, [[surplus]],
How does this [[Violence]] ''persists'violence''' ''persist'in the [[form]] of [[law]] as an ', and what is its relation to '''split law'[[injunction]]''?.
[[Violence]] gives [[law]] the form of an ''[[injunction]]''.
[[Violence]] persists as [[superego]], that is, as the punishing, powerful, obscene, dead [[father]] killed by the primal horde.
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]].
===Surplus===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>
As a nonintegrated surplus, This [[violencetraumatic]] gives , nonintegrated [[lawcharacter]] the form of an ''injunction'', rendering [[law]] as that which is to be obeyed. [[Law]] is constitutively [[signification|senseless]]: it is obeyed not because it is [[good]], just, or beneficial, but because it is a positive condition of [[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. 318319</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===
===Lack===[[Violence]] persists as [[superego]], that is, as the punishing, powerful, obscene, [[dead]] [[father]] killed by the [[primal]] [[horde]].
==Enjoying Law==
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