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fantasy. The 'plague' of the title refers to the deluge of pseudo-concreteimages which Žižek places in an antagonistic relationship to the evergreater abstractions which determine our lives. As part of this discus-siondiscussion, Žižek advances one of his most considered analyses of cyberspacewhich, he avows, threatens to abolish the dimension of Symbolic virtu-alityvirtuality. Given that fantasy plays such a key role in Žižek's anatomy ofthe human condition, the first chapter here - which is a seven-pointclarification of the concept - is a particularly valuable addition to theŽižekian corpus, making this one of the books most suited to a first-time Žižek reader. As an added enticement, this work also containsŽižek's famous Hegelian analysis of German, French and English toiletdesigns.[[Category:Tony Myers]]