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An "[[act]]" is not mere "[[act|behavior]]" -- such as that of all '''[[nature|animals]]''' -- but a uniquely [[act|''human'' act]], "sinc ==Ethics of Psychoanalysis==

...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->

...[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...italist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]").

...an unproblematic given in which there is a single objectively correct way of perceiving, but as something which is itself discursively constructed. ...y discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[being]] reshaped in accordance with [[unc

...of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. ...blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language.

Written as the introduction to a 150th commemorative edition of rately. Much of the [[material]] here is a recapitulation of the [[ideas]] in the

Žižek, S. and von [[Schelling]], F.W.J. (1975) The Abyss of [[Freedom]] - Ages of the [[World]], Michigan: [[University]] of Michigan Press.

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Žižek, S. (ed.) (2002) Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin Continuing with his project to disinter nuggets of political wisdom

This fascinating collection of essays (mainly written by Žižek's co-conspirators in the Slovenian [[school]] of [[Lacan]]) contains two contri-

| Žižek, Slavoj (2006). The Parallax View, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. || [[image:ParallaxVie | Žižek, Slavoj (1989). The Sublime Object of Ideology, London: Verso. || [[image:SublimeObject.jpg|right|thumb]]

...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi

...a system of power relations, is described as a society in which every kind of transactional relation is fundamentally exploitative. (Tong, Rosemarie. [ ...as a secondary labor force is an essential and fundamental characteristic of capitalism." (Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive In

...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).

...euze''' ((January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995), [[French]] [[philosopher]] of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his [[death]], Deleuze wrote many influential works on [[philosophy]], [[literature]], [[film]], and fine art.

...s of all [[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...tibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional romance.

...[novel]] as a [[literary genre]]. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of [[Culture]] following the [[1956 Hungarian Revolution]]. ...Budapest]]) ([[1860]]–[[1917]]). Lukács studied at the universities of Budapest and Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1906.

'''Jacques-[[Alain]] Miller''' - the son-in-law of [[France|French]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] (in 19 ...issolution]] of L'Ecole Française de [[Psychanalyse]], and the foundation of L'École de la [[Cause]] Freudienne.

The [[unconscious]], psychic, aspects of these [[processes]] are exemplary of superegoic structures. ...learly a [[contradiction]] here - if immigrants are [[living]] a [[life]] of luxury on state benefits then they are not [[working]]; if on the [[other]]

The One Measure of True Love is: You Can Insult the Other Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann.

...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

...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

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?

...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

...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

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

...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

...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

Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Geert Lovink.

...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

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

...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

...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

...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

...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.

...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]],

...in its aseptized, benign form, which forecloses the dimension of the Real of the Other's jouissance. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...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]].

...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

...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.

...eological]] procedure is not to be underestimated: Rand fits into the line of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by the ...ringing which enabled her to formulate directly the [[fantasmatic]] kernel of American [[capitalist]] [[ideology]].

...? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at best, an exaggerated extrapolation of certain tendencies discernible in the 19th century? ...is situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -

...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth

...he mysterious and elusive X we are all after in our compulsive consumption of merchandise. ...VER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a gap of "I [[want]] MORE!"

...free trade." Wherefore this pact between Fulani, the far-[[left]] espouser of [[Marxist]]-Leninist politics, and Buchanan, a Reaganite cold warrior and t ...[[working class]]." But what is crucial in this tradition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[idea]] that labor, hard work, is originally an inde

...t we can really grasp the narrative [[logic]] of Dickens's great novels or of Madame Bovary. ...ropriate objective correlative, so that, again, it is only with the advent of cyberspace hypertext that we can effectively grasp what Altman and Kieslows

...involved with the wretched [[James]] Mason), confirmed not only the allure of her mature beauty but also the unique way her appeal remains the same wheth ...plus she was very short-sighted, unable to discern more than the contours of the [[people]] around her without glasses or lenses, so maybe even an ugly

...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.

...a polemic against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ..., is in itself a proof of Socialism’s utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes — the term “Really Existing

...] of Christ, let us start with Gilles [[Deleuze]]'s exemplary [[analysis]] of Chaplin's late [[films]]: ...g]]," that [[sign]] of age, that small difference of triteness, on account of which the funny clown's [[number]] changes into a tedious [[spectacle]]?<re

...[[birth]] to [[Leninism]]. Consider [[Lenin]]'s shock when, in the autumn of 1914, every European [[social]] democratic party except the Serbs' followed ...inism (1996), "the [[vocabulary]] and grammar of the Western [[tradition]] of [[politics]] was abruptly dispensed with."

...th [[concrete]] sensible features which make it into an appropriate target of [[hatred]] and struggle. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...ommunists, [[lacks]] even the elementary [[sense]] of survival and respect of his own [[people]], America has the [[right]] to preemptive strikes, i.e., ...u are free to agree with, but not free to disagree — the old [[paradox]] of the [[forced]] [[choice]] is reproduced here, the [[freedom]] to make a cho

...even if successful, the attack on Iraq will give a big boost to a new wave of the anti-American [[terrorism]]; (4) Saddam is a murderer and torturer, his ...here of "bringing [[Western democracy]] to Iraq," but just of getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed by

...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by unconscious "passionate attachments," attachment

...tation to ethnic belonging, are more and more often experienced as matters of [[choice]]. Things which once seemed [[self]]-evident - how to feed and edu ...to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will g

...ox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined b ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals

by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], <i>[[Philosophy]] of [[Mind]]</i>, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971, p. 44.</ref>

<b>The Antinomies of Tolerant [[Reason]]</b><BR> ...ent, the location of Islam makes it a fatal obstacle to the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strau

...ral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.

...t politely ignored it and staged the [[belief]] in his fidelity... In one of the [[Marx]] brothers' [[films]], [[Groucho Marx]], when caught in a lie, a ...words of the Institution of law) than in the direct reality of the person of judge - if one limits oneself to what one sees, one simply misses the point

..., positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying non-played "silent" virtual notes or their absence. ...phobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit [[repression]] of homosexuality; it should rather "move the underground," disturb the implici

...clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of [[other]] (Muslim) cultures? ...prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the land of [[Israel]]?)

..., but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's term for a fake master. — How, then, ...pparatuses to ideological beliefs) which sustain the "neutral" functioning of the market [[mechanism]].

...ome circumstances, at least, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure? ...le was not yet "mature" enough to be allowed democracy, and that some kind of enlightened despotism whose aim will be to educate the majority into proper

...or. /.../ deceit and veracity already presuppose the absolute authenticity of the face."<ref>[[Levinas]], Emmanuel, ''[[Totality]] and Infinity'', The [[ ...s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?

...e ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defiance of the laws of ordinary physical reality.<br><br> ...y formal digital universe which generates the false "wealth of experience" of humans caught in the Matrix.)<br><br>

...her]] Asian countries. The CIA has not even acknowledged the [[existence]] of these "black sites" with "[[ghost]] prisoners": to do so could open the U.S ...mo sacer]]</i>, the one who can be killed with impunity since, in the eyes of the law, his [[life]] no longer counts.

...it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of <i>other</i> (Muslim) cultures? ...Jews are collectively not to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is mer

...itself, using us as the source of [[energy]]; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global] ...reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each of us is effectively just a foetus-like organism, immersed in the pre-natal fl

...perverted sex and [[violence]] that lurks beneath the respectable surface of our lives. ...rder to reproduce itself. Perhaps, this is one of the possible definitions of postmodern art as opposed to modernist art: in [[postmodernism]], the [[tra

...s can explain why the United States thinks that the [[aggressive]] pursuit of contradictory goals-promoting [[democracy]], affirming U.S. [[hegemony]], a ...roken when you borrowed it. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms precisely what it endeavors to deny: that you, in fact, di

...I returned you a broken kettle... Now, in June 2003, when, after hundreds of investigators were [[looking]] after the WMD, none were found, the answer t ...the last term in each of the two series [[being]] the same - oil (in each of the two series, this term is given a different ideologico-[[political]] twi

by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...dad’s [[Abu Ghraib]] prison, we got a glimpse of this very [[dimension]] of themselves that Americans do not control.

...re not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...nger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.

...s on the wane. The time has come to look back (as well as into the future, of course) and draw a balance. ...close, this can also give rise to aggressive reaction aimed at getting rid of this disturbing intruder – or, as Peter Sloterdijk put it: “More commun

...t]] [[them]] over the [[past]] couple of years. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...e (thrive as entrepreneurs) and eat it (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern etc). There is no [[need]

...tika]] and other [[Nazi]] [[symbol]]s, a group of [[conservative]] members of the [[Europe]]an Parliament, mostly from ex-[[Communist]] countries, demand ...o need to prove they were [[guilty]], since they were [[guilty]] by virtue of being [[Jews]].

...ed 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...lessness of a [[life]]-determining [[contingency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose

<i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...anything, this is it. The fate of this revolutionary was surely the fate of the [[people]] as a [[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the mil

...tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]] 21. October 28, 1999. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/

...life by stern [[discipline]] and [[punishment]]. What if the [[true]] aim of the [[present]] Israeli intrusion into Palestinian territory is not to prev ...ns, Afghans), as well as to the Sans Papiers in France and the inhabitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US.

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:[[Death Drive]] -- [[Desire]] -- [[Jouissance]] -- [[Name of the Father]] -- [[Objet petit a]] -- [[Oedipus Complex]] -- [[Pleasure Prin ...[[Jacques Lacan]] -- [[Jacques-Alain Miller]] -- [[Marquis de Sade]] -- [[Slavoj Žižek]]

By Slavoj [[Zizek]] ...ey will [[return]] to the seclusion of their community. Indeed, 90 percent of the children do exactly that.

...d]]. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential [[philosophers]] of the 20th century. [[Category:Slavoj Žižek|Wittgenstein, Ludwig]]

...her and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids [[Dream]] of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film features Harrison Ford, Rutger ...rth. The film primarily focuses on a particularly brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and a semi-retired blade runner, named Ric

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...storical context. Rather, it comes from the conviction that Wagner’s own works undermine his [[explicit]] [[ideological]] [[project]].

...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary. ...at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things.

...legre reunions seem to have lost their impetus. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...ofitable entrepreneurs) and eat it too (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of social [[responsibility]], ecological concerns, etc.). No [[need]] for Port

...and-held camera shots and [[split]]-screens showing the concurrent actions of various characters. ...m like the ongoing action is so pressing, spilling over into the real time of the [[spectator]], that even commercial breaks cannot interupt it.

==''In a Mad World, the Logic of MAD Still Works''== But are nuclear arms in the hands of Iran's rulers really a threat to international peace and security? To answ

...y will [[return]] to the seclusion of their community. Indeed, 90 percent of the children do exactly that. ...them to have a truly free choice, they would have to be properly informed of and educated about all their options. However, the only way to do this wou

[[Pope]] [[John Paul II]]’s reaction to [[Mel Gibson]]’s <i>[[The Passion of the Christ]]</i> is well known. Immediately after [[seeing]] it, he murmur ...an “[[ethics]] without violence,” a sort of permanent (re)negotiation of ethical [[norms]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unex

...ch [[guarantee]] that [[antagonisms]] are fully absorbed into the “rules of the [[game]].”’’’ ...not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’’’

=Is this the end of fantasy?= expression to the unreality of American daily [[life]], exemplified in

=Much more is at stake in this war than the future of Saddam Hussein= ...e of "bringing [[West]]ern [[democracy]] to Iraq," but of just getting rid of the nightmare called [[Saddam]]. To this majority, the caution expressed b

...universalized [[process]] of [[recognition]], like the proverbial painting of God that seems always to stare directly at you from wherever you look at it ...of (what they falsely consider to be) reality—in short, the [[position]] of the [[cinema]] spectators themselves.<br><br>

...arted shooting documentaries [[about]] the strange life in the dark depths of the sea.<br><br> ...oes this not apply also to her [[personality]]? It seems that the [[fear]] of those who are fascinated by Leni is no longer “When will she die?” but

...r that we are not covert [[racist]]s attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of other ([[Muslim]]) [[culture]]s? ...]] are collectively not to be blamed for the [[Crucifixion]]. The problem of such a stance is that it merely [[repress]]es [[aggressive]] [[religious]]

...them]]. Such [[narcissism]] is not a Slovene specialty. There are versions of it all around Eastern Europe: We [[value]] [[democracy]] more because we ha ...tional [[tradition]] are its local guardians who warn about the [[danger]] of foreign influences.

...he gentle irony of a novel of manners, giving a new twist to the old topic of “[[European trinity]].” ...oin the European Monetary Union?); the Germans worry about the sad inertia of their [[economy]].

...inging [[West]]ern [[democracy]] to [[Iraq]],” but of simply getting rid of the [[nightmare]] called Saddam. To this majority, the caution expressed b ...erica then responds like a sullen [[child]] in reaction to the ingratitude of those it selflessly helped.

...ve remarks against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of the Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922? ...reedom” to undermine the workers’ and peasants’ government on behalf of the counterrevolution.<br><br>

...possible to produce different kinds of laughter. First used for episodes of <i>The Jack Benny Show</i> and <i>I [[Love]] Lucy,</i> today its modernized ...ly” pray through it, while my [[mind]] can be occupied with the dirtiest of [[sexual]] [[thoughts]].

...doctrine]] now publicly declared as the [[official]] U.S. “philosophy” of international [[politics]]?<br><br>

...y answered: "Of course not — we're not stupid! But I was told that some of our ancestors actually did believe that." In short, they transferred their ...in it, either in the guise of the [[primitive]] [[Other]] or in the guise of the impersonal "one" ("one believes...").</p>

...last four years were not just a bad [[dream]]. The nightmarish coalition of big [[business]] and [[fundamentalist]] [[populism]] will roll on, as [[Bus ...ed mobilizing [[power]] of American [[Christian fundamentalism]]. Because of its [[self]]-evident imbecility, it is a much more [[paradox]]ical, properl

...i>, brings us the pivotal [[moment]] of the entire saga — the [[change]] of the “good” Anakin Skywalker into the “bad” Darth Vader — it aims ...go of his mother; he can’t let go of his girlfriend. He can’t let go of things. It makes you greedy. And when you’re greedy, you are on the pat

...]], the same [[thing]] is going on today in Kansas - and this is the topic of Thomas Frank's new outstanding book. ...]], it is ''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' by Thomas Frank.

...ould have been a pseudo Deleuzian celebration of the successful [[revolt]] of the [[multitude]]. ...eady in itself generating [[communist]] potentials-the "becoming-communist of capitalism," to put it in Deleuzian [[terms]]...

...the pressure of the desire to indulge in sin. The [[superego]] [[feeling]] of guilt is therefore [[right]]: the more we obey the Law, the more we are [[g [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...of years they are expected to decide: will they return to be full members of the Amish community or leave it forever and become ordinary American citize ...s they will return to the seclusion of their community. No wonder that 90% of Amish children do exactly that.

...adek, one of [[Kafka]]'s key achievements:<ref>[[Franz Kafka]], "The Cares of a [[Family]] Man," The [[Complete]] Stories, New York: Shocken Books, 1986. ...ate, especially as neither of [[them]] provides an intelligent [[meaning]] of the word...

...ess' ideological constellation, depriving the large majority of [[people]] of any meaningful "cognitive mapping."<ref>I rely here on conversations with [ ...cated, [[partial]], "[[castrated]]," immediately gives birth to the notion of a [[full]], achieved, unlimited jouissance whose existence is necessarily p

...professional [[identity]], so that they can only be accepted at the price of a special qualification. ...ocratic tenets, they display a breathtaking talent to unearth hidden traps of domination. When faced with an attack on these tenets, they display a no le

...et [[life]] itself write the story" ended up in a mass of [[material]] out of which the studio experts tried to concoct a short coherent [[narrative]]. H ...o things he would never have done in real life interactions - in the guise of a [[fiction]], the truth [[about]] himself is articulated.<br><br>

...ng to Leon Brunschvicg, therein resides the most elementary ethical lesson of the West against the Eastern spirituality: The preoccupation with our salvation is a remnant of [[self]]-love, a trace of [[natural]] egocentrism from which we must be torn by the religious [[life]

...[[another]] [[human]] [[being]], but even by a machine, as in the [[case]] of the famous Tibetan "prayer wheels": I put a written prayer into a wheel and ...less usually a brief period of uneasiness: the first reaction to it is one of a shock, since it is difficult to accept that the machine out there can "la

...Žižek: 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love]]". ''Journal of Philosophy and Scripture''. Volume 1, Issue 2. Spring 2004. Joshua Delpec ...;&nbsp; Or are the particularities of Christianity somehow, of the essence of this gesture?<br><br>

...everyone and the winner takes all, even if his majority is merely a couple of hundred votes among millions. ...]] to live up to its [[notion]] bears [[witness]] to the inherent weakness of the notion. Why should the same not hold for democracy? Isn't it all too si

...ng - they don't even control themselves!' I was reminded of that when news of the weird goings-on in the [[Abu Ghraib]] prison broke a few weeks ago. * [[Between Two Deaths]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books'. Volume 26. [[Number]] 1.. June 3, 2004. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n

...o, is the exemplary [[case]] of the fate of the detective novel in our era of [[global]] [[capitalism]].<br> ...tings clearly had the status of eccentric exceptions, this status was part of their appeal which relied on the distance towards the paradigmatic location

...need]] for [[individual]] [[morality]] that makes each of us the architect of our own salvation. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

''Beautiful Shadow: A [[Life]] of [[Patricia Highsmith]] by Andrew Wilson · Bloomsbury, 534 pp, £25.00'' ...er home in 'old [[Europe]]'. As Frank Rich put it, she 'made a life's work of her ostracisation from the American mainstream and her own subsequent [[sel

...it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of other (Muslim) cultures? ...Jews are collectively not to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is mer

overheard a young man asking one of the staff: 'I just finished <i>Mrs de Winter</i>. Is it [[true]] illiteracy of the younger generation-how can anyone not [[know]] [[about]] <i>Rebecca</i>

...g the [[fear]] of impending catastrophe, in [[order]] to reap the benefits of the [[universal]] relief when it fails to be realised. * [[Paranoid Reflections]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. VOlume 25. [[Number]] 7. April 3, 2003. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/

[[University]] of Illinois at Chicago, September 29, 2003<br> An Interview with Slavoj [[Zizek]]<br>

...of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterable [[power]]. They will not find [[another]] god who has himself b ...not only through agony, but through [[doubt]]."4 In the standard [[form]] of [[atheism]], God dies for men who stop believing in Him; in Christianity, G

...e radio which announces that Elster was arrested abroad for the [[murder]] of his wife? ...catches what [[Lacan]] called [[gaze]] as [[objet]] [[petit a]], the part of our image which eludes the mirror-like symmetrical [[relationship]]. When w

...ngerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's ...e BBC website in September 2003: "We know he had weapons, we sold him some of them." This is the direction a serious investigation should have taken...

..., but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's term for a fake master. — How, then, ...pparatuses to ideological beliefs) which sustain the "neutral" functioning of the market [[mechanism]].<br><br>

...s, in its very hyper-[[reality]], in a way IRREAL, substanceless, deprived of the [[material]] inertia. ...aseptic life in a secluded area longs for the experience of the real world of material decay.

...erhaps, the [[time]] has come to cast a reflexive glance on the main types of the Stalingrad narratives. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...le, a majority. In this [[sense]], we do not have an actual [[experience]] of freedom today. Our freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choo Question: Has 11 September thrown new light on your diagnosis of what is happening to the [[world]]?

...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

...ed this demonstrative reaction as evidence that the anti-fascist consensus of post-war European democracy holds firm. But are things really so unequivoca ...ed of its minimal subversive sting, extinguishing even the faintest memory of anti-capitalism and class struggle.<br><br>

...free trade." Wherefore this pact between Fulani, the far-[[left]] espouser of [[Marxist]]-Leninist politics, and Buchanan, a Reaganite cold warrior and t ...[[working class]]." But what is crucial in this tradition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[idea]] that labor, hard work, is originally an inde

...ilm]] which enables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine <i>[[jouissance]]</i>.</tt></font><p> ...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 effect

...anize a fake train with [[Nazi]] guards, board it and, of course, insteads of the camp, take the ride to [[freedom]]. Significantly, all [[three]] [[film ...eatrical monologue, while the terrified girl just silently stares in front of her, totally immobilized by mortal [[fear]]: while she attracts him sexuall

...alyze the way the motif of the Thing appears within the diegetic [[space]] of cinematic [[narrative]] - in short, to [[speak]] about [[films]] whose narr ...s at the root of the metaphysical question "Why is there something instead of nothing?"

...tation to ethnic belonging, are more and more often experienced as matters of [[choice]]. Things which once seemed [[self]]-evident - how to feed and edu ...to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will g

...enia, I had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the ideal spectator of the film - namely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my right was so ...he virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br>

...ombing of Yugoslavia is over. It is therefore time to ask what the meaning of this war war. What were its ideological and political consequences?<br> ...violate international law because it is acting as the immediate instrument of God's "higher law." If that's not religious fundamentalism, the concept has

...on]] will be that Milosevic will be proclaimed the [[political]] blunderer of the year. ...decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.

...VER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a gap of "I [[want]] MORE!" [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...r Dews' basic criticism of my [[reading]] of [[Schelling]] is that, by way of asserting the ...r affinity between spirit and [[nature]], and thus towards the possibility of

The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] By Slavoj [[Zizek]]

...choanalysis]] (1958-59)1, and then in the [[Écrits]] "[[Kant with Sade]]" of 19632. ...f the "with" is-the [[truth]] of Kant's ethical rigorism is the [[sadism]] of the Law, i.e. the Kantian Law is a [[superego]] [[agency]] that sadisticall

...of [[desire]], its inherent [[impossibility]], is to locate the [[cause]] of its inaccessibility into a despotic [[figure]] which stands for the primord ...he Great Man, which can only assure his Fame, resides the ultimate mystery of [[Power]].

...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. (1)

...ic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms. ...covered that all those moments the Western critics perceived as remainders of this imperial and sacrificing Japan, were indeed edited by Brecht. What the

<i>Slavoj [[Zizek]] </i></b></tt></font></a> <font class="f" color="#000000" face="Co ...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the ac

[[NATO]], the [[Left]] Hand of God<br> By Slavoj [[Zizek]]</font></td></tr><tr>

...? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at best, an exaggerated extrapolation of certain tendencies discernible in the 19th century? ...is situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -

</p><p><i><b>Editors' Note: Slavoj</b> [[Zizek]], a leading [[intellectual]] in the new [[social]] movements of Eastern and Central [[Europe]], is a researcher at the Institute

...cal left-wing as well as the antiliberal [[right]]-wing, was the abolition of the State or its subordination to the community. ...e]], summed up in the [[word]] "Bosnia", confronts us with the [[reality]] of this utopia.

...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

...h The Wrong Man, a [[film]] which clearly sticks out from the [[totality]] of [[Hitchcock]]'s oeuvre:1 ...His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; Hitchcock addresses the viewers d

...ed [[Letter]]' "2 rather exhibits what we could call a primordial response of common [[sense]]: what if a letter does not reach its destination? Isn't it ...chester, Mummy in Bristol, and I in [[London]]: strange that the [[three]] of us should have met!6 In short, if we look at the [[process]] backwards, fro

...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by unconscious "passionate attachments," attachment

...erience gave birth to Leninism. Consider Lenin's shock when, in the autumn of 1914, every European social democratic party except the Serbs' followed the * [[Revolution Must Strike Twice]]. ''London Review of Books''. Volume 24, Number 14. July 25, 2005. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n14

...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

...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.

...exoticising readings of the net - the predominant [[psychic]] [[economy]] of electronic networks is a [[hysterical]] one. ...o correspond with the general trend towards a more or less predominant use of [[conspiracy theories]] to [[interpret]] the modern [[world]]...

...ty]] for not seizing the unique opportunity provided by the disintegration of socialism to invent an authentic alternative to capitalism was pure [[hypoc [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]

...ch [[guarantee]] that [[antagonisms]] are fully absorbed into the “rules of the [[game]].”’’’ ...not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’’’<ref>[[How Much Democracy Is Too Muc

WORKS AUTHORED BY SLAVOJ ZIZEK The [[Sublime]] [[Object]] of [[Ideology]], New York: Verso, 1989.

* [[Slavoj Žižek's Third Way]]. Rex [[Butler]] and [[Scott Stephens]]. Introduction * [[Slavoj Žižek: Live Theory]]. [[Rex Butler]] for [[lacan]].com. <http://www.lacan

* [[Slavoj Žižek's Third Way]]. Rex [[Butler]] and [[Scott Stephens]]. Introduction * [[The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek]]. Eric [[Dean]] Rasmussen. Minnesota Review. Columbia: Spring 2004.,

...is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary ...th Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of an [[ideological]] [[statement]]. He'll tell a [[joke]] or every now and ag

An excitable Slovenian [[philosopher]] examines the [[obscene]] practices of everyday [[life]]<br> ...Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Zizek]], who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British [[Film]] Institute.<br>

<h1 class="documentFirstHeading">I am a Fighting [[Atheist]]: Interview with Slavoj [[Zizek]]</h1> ...His [[work]], simultaneously light-hearted and deep, invoked the [[dream]] of a post-Cold War world in which free [[thinking]] would transcend all border

An Interview with Slavoj Zizek of obscurantism, and may not even have believed very much of what he

<b>The constitutive madness of being</b><br><br> ...lf" and the "night of the world" respectively. The point is that, in each of these cases, there is an increasing emphasis on negativity as the fundament

<tt>SLAVOJ ZIZEK: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION</tt></b></font><br><br> ...caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div>

...eology and its Paradoxes: Dimensions of Fantasy and Enjoyment", <i>Journal of Political Ideologies</i>, 4(2), 219-238.<br> Miklitsch, R. (1998), "Going Through the Fantasy": Screening Slavoj Zizek", <i>The South Atlantic Quarterly</i>, 97(2), 475-507.<br>

...narrative was itself a part and which must ultimately be explained because of the '[[Jewish]] conspiracy' (TS, 179).<br><br> ...um through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signifiers]] whose meaning is 'quilte

<b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...e that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, would observe:</font></p>

SLAVOJ ZIZEK'S THIRD WAY.Rex [[Butler]] and [[Scott Stephens]]. [[lacan]] dot com ...me includes the essays "Welcome the Desert of the [[Real]]", "The Prospect of Radical [[Politics]] Today", "Against the [[Double]] [[Blackmail]]" and "[[

...nd that the [[true]] [[enjoyment]] of literature proceeds from the release of tensions in our minds.<ref>{{RPDD}}</ref></blockquote> ...rument]], its [[content]], its [[material]], and even the background noise of its uncertainties" (1977, p. 147/494)?

...reasingly hollow. What [[about]] restoring the dignity of [[atheism]], one of [[Europe]]'s greatest legacies and perhaps our only [[chance]] for peace? ...n applied Dostoyevsky's critique of godless nihilism to 9/11, as the title of his book, ''Dostoyevsky in Manhattan,'' suggests.

...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in ...errida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:

...itique of [[Ideology]] and The Ticklish [[Subject]]: The [[Absent]] Centre of Political [[Ontology]]. ...f independence. Since 1979, he has been on the faculty at the [[University of Ljubljana]].

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...ize the conference “[[The Idea of Communism]]” at Birkbeck, University of [[London]], in 2009, and a second conference in New York City in 2012.

==In the work of Slavoj Žižek== ...[[writing]] with [[regard]] to Hegel’s [[defence]] of a monarchical head of [[state]].

[[Slavoj Žižek]] fully endorses the [[model]] of the [[Cartesian subject]]. ...assertion that 'a [[spectre]] is haunting Western academia…, the spectre of the [[Cartesian]] subject' (TTS: 1). The Cartesian subject, or cogito as it

...genetically modified asexual humanoids in [[order]] to avoid the deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience]] no passions proper, no intense s ...ollective orgies depicted in Les particules - the constitutive [[impasse]] of the sexual [[relationship]] (Jacques [[Lacan]]'s il n'y a pas de [[rapport

'''''The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud''''' is an [[essay]] b ...theme: the relationship between [[speech]] and [[language]] and the place of [[the subject]] in relation to both.

...he huge shift in film theory and criticism that took [[place]] as a result of [[structuralist]]/semiotic debates in the late 1950s and 1960s. ...le on Young Mr. Lincoln (1969). In these essays and elsewhere on the pages of Cahiers, Althusserian [[Marxism]] became the dominant approach to understan

...crits]] has been characterized as elitist by [[Jean-Claude Milner]], but [[Slavoj Žižek]] claims that ...them into clear theses and provide examples and [[logical]] demonstrations of them.[http://www.lacan.com/zizhowto.html]</blockquote>

by [[Slavoj Žižek]] ...d by Badiou, to [[control]] oneself (when Morpheus explains to Neo the lot of ordinary [[people]] totally caught (“plugged”) in [[the Matrix]], he sa

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...žek has attracted enormous international interest through his application of otherwise esoteric scholarship to contemporary mass [[culture]] and [[polit ...substantive and provocative implications Žižek’s work has for a range of academic disciplines.

* "[['The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' - Slavoj Zizek interview]]." ''[[Time]] Out''. 6 October 2006. Gareth Evans. <http ...miliar scenes in cinema, it’s a provocative and wide-ranging declaration of the undoubted ability [[film]] has to move, arouse, enlighten and unsettle

...get the critique of the imperialist "[[excess]]," with the (silent) notion of mobilizing [[capitalist]] mechanisms within another, more "progressive," [[ .... The only [[true]] question today is: do we endorse this "naturalization" of capitalism, or does today's [[global]] capitalism contain strong enough [[a

...on]] will be that Milosevic will be proclaimed the [[political]] blunderer of the year. ...decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...involvement and [[participation]] in opening up and disclosing the matter of enquiry in [[order]] to bring them to completion (Dahlstrom 1994).

...nstitute of [[Philosophy]] at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of [[Sciences]] and [[Arts]]. ..., Zupančič is one of the most prominent members of the "Ljubljana school of [[psychoanalysis]]." She is also a renowned [[Nietzsche]] scholar.

...- Žižek, Slavoj; Wood, Kelsey</div><div class="book-info__lead">Žižek, Slavoj; Wood, Kelsey</div> | Slavoj Zizek

...d, [[Wendy Brown]], [[Jean-Luc Nancy]], Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, [[Slavoj Žižek]], William McCuaig | [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Slavoj+%C5%BDi%C5%BEek&column=author Slavoj Žižek]

...d, [[Wendy Brown]], [[Jean-Luc Nancy]], Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, [[Slavoj Žižek]], William McCuaig | [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Slavoj+%C5%BDi%C5%BEek&column=author Slavoj Žižek]

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...which the spectacle and figuration of death haunts the narrative universe of Hitchcock’s films, in particular his subversive masterpiece ''Psycho''.<

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...icit engagement with Christianity and how both his earlier and more recent works are relevant for theological reflection.</div>

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...minars in the 1950s were one of the formative environments of the currency of philosophical ideas that dominated French letters in the 1960s and ’70s, ...has also left its mark on political theory, and particularly the analysis of ideology and institutional reproduction.

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...ignificant contribution to literary studies and the contribution, in turn, of literature to Lacanian psychoanalysis. ...investigate Lacan and literature more broadly, including the applicability of literature to psychoanalysis.

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...way no other philosopher before him could, Slavoj Žižek’s combination of high and low culture will fascinate even those who once believed philosophy

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='Am I a Philosopher?' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-am-i-a-philosopher-theoryleaks.jpg|400|right]]<br />'''Delivered at '

="Antinomies of Pure Sexuation" by Slavoj Žižek= ...antinomies, but only at the epistemological level, no as immanent features of the unreachable Thing-in-itself, while Hegel transposes epistemological ant

='Beckett as the Writer of Abstraction' by Slavoj Žižek= ...e, it contains cracks and inconsistencies which are the points of the rise of subjects.

='''Cogito'' in the History of Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...i-philosophical efforts to determine this Other remain indebted to a frame of philosophical categories.

='Coke as ''objet petit a''' by Slavoj Žižek= ...he mysterious and elusive X we are all after in our compulsive consumption of mercandise.

='In Defense of Hegel's Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...nds Hegel's "madness", the irreducible speculative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel's statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot

='Lacan as a Reader of Hegel' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-less-than-nothing-theoryleaks-625x1024.jpg|400|right]]

="Pathological Narcissus" as a Socially Mandatory Form of Subjectivity by Slavoj Žižek | 1986= ...stand it as a concealed re-affirmation of patriarchy, and by a broad range of the liberal New Left.

='Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:three-philosophers-of-the-event-slavoj-zizek-theoryleaks-1024x770.jpg|400|right]]

='The Seven Veils of Fantasy' by Slavoj Žižek= <div class="entry-content">[[Image:seven-veils-1024x835.jpg|400|right]]Dance Of The Seven Veils is a painting by Otto Pilny

='The Structure of Domination Today: A Lacanian View' by Slavoj Žižek= ...miling at you and telling you ''You're OK! I trust you fully!''… (In one of the Oprah Winfrey shows, Gray di­rectly enacted this 'rewriting-the-past e

='The Superego and the Act' by Slavoj Žižek | August 1999 | Lecture Transcript | European Graduate School= ...ve X we are all after in our compulsive consumption. The unexpected result of this is not that, since Coke doesn't satisfy any concrete need we drink it