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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] [2] Slavoj [[Zizek]]. Re:constructions, 09/15/2001. ...peasant barely survive on barren hills, will this not be the ultimate case of the impotent acting out?
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...proclaimed ideals, when you [[encounter]] a person who claims he is cured of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you sho ...fer to the inherited ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, comin
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...en on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfa ...tage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears his theory out of its original context, planting it in [[another]] historical [[moment]], and
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Slavoj [[Zizek]]: ...ion]] is, I [[claim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time a
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...ical mystification]]. The mask is not simply hiding the [[real]] [[state]] of things; the ideological [[distortion]] is written into its very [[essence]] ...ror is naked only beneath his clothes, so if there is an unmasking gesture of psychoanalysis, it is closer to Alphonse Allais's well-known [[joke]], quot
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...imilar) a king, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-[[symbolic]] relations; etc.etc. ...decentered other to whom he imputes this belief. All [[concrete]] versions of this "subject supposed to believe" (from small [[children]] for whose sake
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Geert Lovink.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? Is she not also a capricious [[Master]] who wants it ...oman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic o
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Slavoj [[Zizek]], Interviewed by Josefina Ayerza. ...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the act
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
  ...ilm]] which enables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine [[jouissance]]. ...saying that in [[exchange]] for his return she would put up with any trial of her [[faith]]. Soon afterwards, as if in answer to her prayers, Jan effecti
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...cks out from the [[totality]] of [[Hitchcock]]'s oeuvre:<ref>Further proof of Hitchcock's personal commitment: he renounced his director's fee for The Wr ...His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; Hitchcock addresses the viewers d
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...nevertheless how pure desire culminates in the sacrifice of the [[object]] of [[love]]. ...that is not obliged to have recourse to a [[Master signifier]], to a point of order, which is performative.1
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...ints of capitalism. What is effectively at stake in the [[present]] crisis of post-socialist states is the [[struggle]] for one's [[place]]: who will be ...rrent [[ideological]] designation for the capitalist "inside") in the face of oriental barbarism.
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...re we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the [[other]] two dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...les" precisely the effort to establish clearly the contours of a new space of symbolic fictions in which we fully participate in the mode [[disavowal]],
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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  ...in its aseptized, benign form, which forecloses the dimension of the Real of the Other's jouissance. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...ts our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the trademarks of [[true]] modernism. ...[[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[rational]] [[reason]].
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...upposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, as [[Freud]] empha ...ed, it has never succeeded in becoming [[conscious]]. It is a construction of analysis, but it is no less a [[necessity]] on that account.<ref> [[Sigmund
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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