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Žižek, S. (1991) For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political
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[[Psychoanalysis]] is less merciful than [[Christianity]]. Where God the [[Father]] forgives our [[ignorance]], psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks [[enjoyment]]; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our [[symbolic]] [[universe]] that escape the Father's [[prohibition]].
  
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Today, with the disintegration of [[state]] [[socialism]], we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of [[aggressive]] [[nationalism]] and [[racism]]. With the lid of [[repression]] lifted, the desires that have emerged are from from democratic. To explain this [[apparent]] [[paradox]], says Slavoj [[Zizek]], socialist critical [[thought]] must turn to psychoanalysis.
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Presented as a sequel to The Sublime Object of Ideology, this book
 
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examines the historical change emblematized by the shift in the telling
 
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of the Rabinovitch joke from that first book. In particular, it analyses
 
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the re-emergence of militant nationalism and racism in the wake of
 
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the break-up of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. Žižek iden-
 
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tifies the cause of this re-emergence in an eruption of enjoyment. This
 
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book also contains an extended discussion of the concept of the
 
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vanishing mediator.
 
  
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''For They [[Know]] Not What They Do'' seeks to [[understand]] the status of enjoyment within [[ideological]] [[discourse]], from [[Hegel]] through [[Lacan]] to these [[political]] and ideological deadlocks. The [[author]]'s own enjoyment of “popular culture” makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, [[Marx]] with [[Hitchcock]], Lacan with Frankenstein, high [[theory]] with Hollywood melodrama.
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|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[For They Know Not What They Do|For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor]]'''''. [[London]]; New York: Verso. October 7, 2002, 2nd edition, Paperback, 320 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], ISBN: 185984460X. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/185984460X/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>
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Books by Slavoj Žižek

Book Description
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Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Father's prohibition.

Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that have emerged are from from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox, says Slavoj Zizek, socialist critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis.

For They Know Not What They Do seeks to understand the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse, from Hegel through Lacan to these political and ideological deadlocks. The author's own enjoyment of “popular culture” makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, Lacan with Frankenstein, high theory with Hollywood melodrama.

Product Details
Zizek, Slavoj. For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor. London; New York: Verso. October 7, 2002, 2nd edition, Paperback, 320 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 185984460X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
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