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Žižek, S. (1997) The Plague of Fantasies, London and New York: Verso.
This is an extended explanation of the psychoanalytical concept of
fantasy. The 'plague' of the title refers to the deluge of pseudo-concrete
images which Žižek places in an antagonistic relationship to the ever
greater abstractions which determine our lives. As part of this discus-
sion, Žižek advances one of his most considered analyses of cyberspace
which, he avows, threatens to abolish the dimension of Symbolic virtu-
ality. Given that fantasy plays such a key role in Žižek's anatomy of
the human condition, the first chapter here - which is a seven-point
clarification of the concept - is a particularly valuable addition to the
Žižekian corpus, making this one of the books most suited to a first-
time Žižek reader. As an added enticement, this work also contains
Žižek's famous Hegelian analysis of German, French and English toilet
designs.
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