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...[[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...r, and magnified. Another common theme is the basic incompatibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional roman

Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann. ...precisely the passion of the real - the idea that, in order to live fully and authentically, you must engage in self-destruction. On the other hand, ther

...ritical and [[scientific]] way," not in an attitude of nostalgic idolatry, and, furthermore, from the perspective firmly rooted in the democratic [[politi ...the outdated ideological positions. This is the point on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the free

Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema ...those moments the Western critics perceived as remainders of this imperial and sacrificing Japan, were indeed edited by Brecht. What they perceived as Jap

...gave you the opportunity to [[identify]] yourself as the one who might get rich next. Wealth was [[right]] around the corner…maybe. JA: Identification is enough for you to work hard, compete, and so on, but is it enough to succeed?

...oices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is to be and act as a racist is a priori excluded). ...essly evoke Lenin at his worst-say, his [[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:

...on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i.e., which does the tickling. ...ive short-circuit, this necessary REDOUBLING of myself as standing outside AND inside my picture, that bears witness to my "material existence." Materiali

...ression, bringing to the light the [[obscene]] underworld of perverted sex and [[violence]] that lurks beneath the respectable surface of our lives. ...modernism]], the [[transgressive]] [[excess]] loses its shocking [[value]] and is fully integrated into the establishet artistic market.

..., while in Hamlet, the incestuous wish is [[repressed]] and [[displaced]]. And it seems that the very designation of Hamlet as an [[obsessional]] [[neurot ...everywhere, from old Nordic cultures through Ancient Egypt up to [[Iran]] and Polynesia. Furthermore, there are enough evidences to sustain the conclusio

==1. Violence, Irrational and Rational== ...inst one's own - the cars burned and the [[schools]] torched were not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strat

...ist]] [[dictatorship]]: the millions who overthrew the ''ancien régime'', and were then [[forced]] to build monuments to their own revolutionary [[past]] ...US]]. His aperçus [[about]] the relations between the [[UK]], [[France]] and [[Germany]] often [[recall]] the gentle [[irony]] of a novel of manners, gi

...instructive from an [[epistemological]] as from a heuristic point of view, and is worth reviewing. ...n]] fantasies" (p. 247). The references to "structures," "embellishments," and "fantasies" indicate clearly that Freud was becoming increasingly dubious.

...aperçus [[about]] the relations among the [[United Kingdom]], [[France]] and [[Germany]] [[recall]] the gentle irony of a novel of manners, giving a new ...h]] [[economy]]. [[Ash]] observes that today this trinity has undergone a strange [[displacement]]: The French are preoccupied with [[culture]] (How to save

...ity, they none the less flee from it'. <a name="3"></a><a href="#3x">3</a> And it is this properly shameless, often very beginning [[split]] between Eve and Lilith, between the 'ordinary' [[hysterical]] feminine

...hink that they "secretly believe much more than they are willing to admit" and it would be hypocritical for [[them]] to do so?<br><br> ...of spiritual commitment which shouldn't be positivized in a set of beliefs and so on.<br><br>

...eedom]] is something from which this more radical [[dimension]] of freedom and [[democracy]] has been removed - in [[other]] [[words]], the [[belief]] tha ...]] of some fundamental break. Existing attitudes and fears were confirmed, and what the [[media]] were telling us about [[terrorism]] has now really happe

...nton - not to mention, of course, the Israeli regime - all voiced 'dismay' and announced a diplomatic quarantine of Austria until the plague should disapp ...ubversive sting, extinguishing even the faintest memory of anti-capitalism and class struggle.<br><br>

...those moments the Western critics perceived as remainders of this imperial and sacrificing Japan, were indeed edited by Brecht. What they perceived as Jap Than there is the [[capitalist]] Japan and it's different [[stages]]. There is the [[myth]] of non-original Japan, tak

...gave you the opportunity to [[identify]] yourself as the one who might get rich next. Wealth was [[right]] around the corner...maybe. <br><br> JA: <i>Identification is enough for you to work hard, compete, and so on, but is it enough to succeed?</i><br><br>

[[social]] movements of Eastern and Central [[Europe]], is a researcher at the Institute there was a strange [[relationship]] among intellectuals and those in [[power]] in

...k basked in an aura of novelty. His [[work]], simultaneously light-hearted and deep, invoked the [[dream]] of a post-Cold War world in which free [[thinki ...[[Left]] Hand of God?</em>, Zizek has never failed to stimulate thinking. And what more can we ask of an [[intellectual]]? As Zizek himself suggests in t

...g With the [[Negative]]: [[Kant]], [[Hegel]], and Critique of [[Ideology]] and The Ticklish [[Subject]]: The [[Absent]] Centre of Political [[Ontology]]. ...te for the presidency of Slovenia in the first democratic election in 1990 and served as the Republic's ambassador of [[science]] in 1991 following Sloven

FOOL AND KNAVE<br> ...ay on the [[subject]] should under normal circumstances make our ears ring and set our teeth on edge. But that doesn't happen. It's a funny [[thing]], but

SADE, HIS FANTASM AND HIS DOCTRINE<br> </i>FRAGMENTED AND INDESTRUCTIBLE<br>

...i>eutuchia </i>or the<b> <i></i></b><i>dustuchi'a, </i>the happy encounter and the unhappy encounter, that my lecture today will be ordered.</p><p> ...sential correlates of consciousness in its relation to [[representation]], and which is designated as <i>I see mysef seeing mysef. </i> What evidence can

...t of Volga and to the Caucasus oil fields, the Soviet Union would collapse and Germany would have won the war; IF Erich von Manheim's deft manoeuvres were ...tary questions: what the hell were they doing there, in a foreign country? And what about the suffering they themselves inflicted on the Russian populatio

...es for glosses that only the seminar can give. But such is Lacan's manner, and we simply have to live with that fact, settling for what provisional [[sens ...iOn of [[sexual]] [[identification]]. For how are we to [[understand]] the strange

FOOL AND KNAVE<br> ...ay on the [[subject]] should under normal circumstances make our ears ring and set our teeth on edge. But that doesn't happen. It's a funny [[thing]], but

...i>eutuchia </i>or the<b> <i></i></b><i>dustuchi'a, </i>the happy encounter and the unhappy encounter, that my lecture today will be ordered.</p><p> ...sential correlates of consciousness in its relation to [[representation]], and which is designated as <i>I see mysef seeing mysef. </i> What evidence can

...ences and gather the courage to say B - the terror needed to really defend and assert the A.<ref>For a balanced historical description of the Terror, see ...ment in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at the same time virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue

...Stalin as 'Oriental' despots. The great Russian tyrants in the eighteenth and the twentieth century were Westernizers." (Lesley Chamberlain, <i>The Philo ...pointedly, such a search for the intruder who infected the original model and set in motionm its degeneration cannot but reproduce the logic of anti-Semi

...dding a philosophy to other philosophies. Instead, his role is to announce and produce an act without precedent, an act that will in fact destroy philosop In what do this act and this power consist?

...while Hegel transposes epistemological antinomies into ontological sphere and thereby undermines every ontology: "reality itself" is non-all, antinomic. ...n-itself – on the contrary, it fully asserts the gap between appearances and the In-itself, locating the Real INTO THIS GAP ITSELF. In short, the very g

...the loftiest, because it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge.<u>1</u> ...desire from its "impossible" object-cause whose place has to remain empty? And is not what Lacan calls "symbolic castration" this very gap which renders e

='Ugly, Creepy, Disgusting, and Other Modes of Abjection' by Jela Krečič &amp; Slavoj Žižek= ...work of art; in order to be aesthetically enjoyable and, as such, edifying and permissible, ugliness has to remain as a foil of the beautiful. Ugliness fo