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The [[space]] of pure [[death drive]] without [[desire]], between [[symbolic]] ...is space with an unconditional, insistent [[demand]], like the demand from the [[ghost]] of [[Hamlet]]'s father insisting that he be revenged.

He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the '''Collège Stanislas'''.<ref>An ambitious student, he excelled in [[religi ...[[Lacan]] begins his [[treatment|clincial training]] in [[psychiatry]] at the [[Sainte-Anne hospital]], where he would later teach.

...;"| ''[[Seminar XIII|L'objet de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar XIII|The Object of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...of the subject-supposed-to-[[know]] (the subject of science) who restores the prestige of <i>mé[[connaissance]]</i> by [[thinking]] that he is uniting k

...minar XVI|D'un Autre à l'autre]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar XVI|From an Other to the Other]]</big> ...al]], [[Marx]] and the [[logic]] of the link between l, the unbroken line, the <i>[[trait]] unitaire</i> of <i>L'[[identification]]</i> and <i>a</i> as fo

...several American universities. He became famous for his investigations on the [[concept]]s of [[state of emergency|state of exception]] and ''[[Homo sace ...m]] in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the [[Warburg Institute]], where he wrote ''Stanzas'' (1979).

Capitalism is a system that depends on the exploitation of underclass groups for its survival. (hooks, bell. Feminis ..., Heidi, "The Unhappy [[Marriage]] of [[Marxism]] and [[Feminism]]." from The Second Wave edited by Linda Nicholson, 1997, p. 99.)

...oken and implicit — assumptions, [[ideas]], and frameworks that [[form]] the basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in ==The difficulty in defining deconstruction==

...erals]] are more or less [[satisfied]] with the ''status quo'' and against the radical [[act]].<ref>[[Contingency]] 127-8</ref> Like [[Hegel]]'s "[[Beautiful Soul]]", liberals wring their hands over the current [[state]] of affairs while in fact benefiting under it and passivel

...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...de: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democratic "post-ideological" consensus — or it means

...hat these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfalls. ...einterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears h

The [[Matrix]], or two sides of [[Perversion]] ...udo-sophisticated intellectualist readings which [[project]] into the film the refined [[philosophical]] or [[psychoanalytic]] [[conceptual]] distinctions

Thank you for the kind invitation. ...y politicians to press such buttons. But some things are excluded. What is excluded from this participatory, multi-[[culturalist]], tolerant [[democracy]]?

GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? ..., no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Ja

[[File:Against the Double Blackmail.jpg|thumb]] ...j Žižek]] looks at one of the most desperate situations of our [[time]]: the current refugee crisis overwhelming [[Europe]]. In this short yet stirring

...rights, [[social]] security and the like apply — and the [[others]], the excluded. ...integrated into the developed [[capitalist]] order — and who will remain excluded.

...emselves, to effectuate the [[change]] in the [[global]] [[perception]] of the [[social]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place] ...universality, and, simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3

...imperialism. However, is it possible to imagine a leftist appropriation of the European political legacy? ...m]] proclaimed themselves [[representative]] of the entire society against the party [[nomenklatura]].

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

...edom]]? Here is how [[Lenin]] stated his [[position]] in a polemic against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] ...tacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements."”

...lic]] (say, a person whose choice is to be and act as a racist is a priori excluded). ...us then fearlessly evoke Lenin at his worst-say, his [[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in

==The Parallax View= = ===The Tickling Object===

<b>The Antinomies of Tolerant [[Reason]]</b><BR> ...kes it a fatal obstacle to the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the point made exemplarily by Claude Levi-[[Strauss]]:

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

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

...ove]] of a miserable mortal [[woman]] to Walhall's <i>sproeden Wonnen</i>. The shattered Brunhilde comments on this [[refusal]]:</font></p> ...[[temporal]] [[existence]], of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remar

...if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of <i>other</i> (Muslim) cultures? ...eligious passion is merely repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger.<br><br>

...... but I am more inclined to [[think]]...," "perhaps," "I rather disliked the [[feeling]]"): ...ng in my back—drip-drip and presently trickle-trickle. I rather disliked the feeling.<ref>C.S.Lewis, <i>Surprised by Joy</i>, [[London]]: Fontana Books,

...says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br> ...he more dangerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'th

...advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on The [[case]] against Mueller seems clear.<br><br> ...even a couple of decades ago, the special entrances which enable [[them]] the access to restaurants, theatres, etc., would have been unthinkable.<br><br>

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

...s and less [[about]] [[them]] over the [[past]] couple of years. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...e the global capitalist cake (thrive as entrepreneurs) and eat it (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern

<i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...[[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the millions who overthrew the ''ancien régime'', and were then [[forced]] to build monuments to their ow

...of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the very [[cynicism]] it originally opposed. * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]

...] terrorist attacks, but effectively to rule out any peaceful solution for the foreseeable future? ...habitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US.

..."| ''[[Seminar VII|L'éthique de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar VII|The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...in at all. Both have rejected the [[right]] to live in [[order]] to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - ''entre-deux-morts'' - that is immortality.

The [[dream]] provides disguised [[satisfaction]] for [[wish]]es that are [[rep ...eam]] [[interpretation]] is the "royal road that leads to [[knowledge]] of the [[unconscious]] in [[psychic]] [[life]]."

...[[case]], we continue to exist in the Symbolic even though we have died in the Real. ...er funeral that will secure his eternalization" (The [[Ticklish Subject]]: the [[Absent]] Centre of [[Political]] [[Ontology]]). That is, she endures a Sy

...al]] [[situation]], Kant merely succeeds in separating pleasurability from the [[notion]] of [[good]]. ...a play which clearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to the [[death|dead]].

...ever, the Porto Alegre reunions seem to have lost their impetus. Where did the bright stars of Porto Alegre go? ...pitalist cake (thrive as profitable entrepreneurs) and eat it too (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of social [[responsibility]], ecological concerns, e

On May 1, eight new countries were welcomed into the European Union—but which “Europe” will they find there? In the months before Slovenia’s entry to the [[European Union]], whenever a foreign journalist asked me what new [[dimen

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

...remarks against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of the Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922? ...tacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements.’”

...it, either in the guise of the [[primitive]] [[Other]] or in the guise of the impersonal "one" ("one believes...").</p> ...they're [[being]] preyed upon. They are beating, they are raping them in the streets." In an interview just weeks later, he conceded that some of his m

...if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of other (Muslim) cultures? ...eligious passion is merely repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger.

...says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'" ...he more dangerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'th

...hat these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfalls. ...einterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears h

...commentators naturally hailed this demonstrative reaction as evidence that the anti-fascist consensus of post-war European democracy holds firm. But are t ...ocial democracy purged of its minimal subversive sting, extinguishing even the faintest memory of anti-capitalism and class struggle.<br><br>

...pseudo-sophisticated intellectualist readings which project into the film the refined philosophical or psychoanalytic conceptual distinctions.(1)<br> ...is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br>

Geert Lovink: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country? ...tern [[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions use

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

...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

...habitants of the favelas in [[Brazil]] or the African American ghettoes in the US. ...he Enron managers) have the choices, while [[others]] (the employees) take the risks.

...hat these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfalls. ...einterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears h

Interrogating the [[Master]]: [[Lacan]] and Radical [[Politics]] ...se]] of the Master through an [[ethics]] of [[contingency]], and discusses the contemporary anti-[[globalization]] movement as an example.

he was simply playing [[games]] with the [[Paris]] [[intellectual]] [[community]] to concerning thought (at the latter's 1968 presentation at MIT), received

...rative was itself a part and which must ultimately be explained because of the '[[Jewish]] conspiracy' (TS, 179).<br><br> ...this relationship, is that medium through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signif

<b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...hat 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>

...]] Today", "Against the [[Double]] [[Blackmail]]" and "[[Iraq]] - Where is the [[True]] [[Danger]]?", referred to here. ...h urged a kind of caution or delay. Baudrillard, for his part, wrote in <i>The Spirit of [[Terrorism]]</i>:

...ps, and scorn for upward [[social]] mobility, social status, family pride, the Christian religion, and patriotism" (CC, p. 194). ...border="0">wrote apropos Jacques [[Derrida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:

[[Lacan]], Jacques. Introduction to the Names-of-the-[[Father]] [[Seminar]]. Jeffrey Mehlman. ''October''. Vol. 40. [[Televisio I don't intend to engage in anything in the [[order]] of a theatrical ploy. I

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...ommunist hypothesis]], that led Žižek to co-organize the conference “[[The Idea of Communism]]” at Birkbeck, University of [[London]], in 2009, and

...]. During [[Freud]]'s lifetime, the term acquired new connotations through the expansion of anthropological research, by both Anglo-American and European ...ethnology, the history of the development of the human species—in fact, the principal [[subjects]] of anthropology.

=In the work of Slavoj Žižek= ...ation]], to its inherent [[inconsistency]] and/or excess” (''TS'': 130). The ground suddenly opens up under our feet, and only then do we truly [[experi

...ps, and scorn for upward [[social]] mobility, social status, family pride, the Christian religion, and patriotism" (CC, p. 194). ...uthority]]-wrote apropos Jacques [[Derrida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:

The three main influences on [[Slavoj Zizek]]'s work are [[G.W.F. Hegel]], [[Ka ...type of thought or methodology that he uses. (In Zizek's reading of Hegel, the dialectic is never finally resolved.)

...[[instincts]], advanced in Beyond the [[Pleasure Principle]] (1920g)—and the possibility of re-conceptualizing group psychology is noteworthy. ...ng from Gustave Le Bon and William McDougall to describe the prevalence of the primary [[processes]] in ephemeral groups.

...]. During [[Freud]]'s lifetime, the term acquired new connotations through the expansion of anthropological research, by both Anglo-American and European ...ethnology, the history of the development of the human species—in fact, the principal [[subjects]] of anthropology.

==The psyche== ...o includes [[drives]] or [[instincts]] that [[cause]] [[humans]] to behave the way they do.

The functions of [[language]] ...the [[relationship]] betweeh language and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]].

The [[Signification]] of the [[Phallus]] ...revious essay, so here, the available [[text]] cries for glosses that only the seminar can give. But such is Lacan's manner, and we simply have to live wi

...we have to make up for the Relation that is [[missing]]. [[Eros]] would be the potential of supreme [[Good]], for [[harmony]] uniting men and [[women]], w ...ey do. But which one of us wants to embrace Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms? The [[feeling]] is mutual. Besides, You [[want]] to strangle [[them]], you have

...h [[conflict]], propositions that were once judged to be inconsistent with the general [[theory]] of [[psychoanalysis]] are later reincorporated into it. ...ite of profound contradictions between [[them]] that remained hidden until the [[moment]] one of them began to assert himself.

...gate this frame was José Bleger in an article entitled "Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame" (Bleger, 1967). ...d free-[[floating]] attention or the rule of [[abstinence]] on the part of the [[analyst]] (1913c).

...earliest childhood (from the prehistoric period until [[about]] the end of the [[third]] year) crave reproduction for their own sake, perhaps without furt ...[[action]]). In all cases, shame is a sense of [[anxiety]] about [[being]] excluded, that is, not only fear of a [[withdrawal]] of [[love]], but even withdrawa

...rsity [[knowledge]] endeavoring to integrate, domesticate, and appropriate the [[excess]] that resists and rejects it? ...nalysis would no longer be needed. [[Psychoanalytic theory]] is ultimately the theory of why its clinical [[practice]] is doomed to fail.

...the case of actual neuroses (pp. 275-76) and [[psychoanalysis]] in that of the defense neuroses. ...etween the somatic sexual [[excitation]] and [[object]] representations in the [[unconscious]]. This failure of somatopsychic [[communication]] was caused

...ion, and are either entirely suppressed ([[repressed]]) or are employed in the ego in some other way, forming [[character]]-traits or undergoing [[sublima ...definite epoch in the [[development]] of the [[compulsion]] [[neurosis]]. The genital organization, interrupted in [[childhood]], is now resumed with gre

of what [[Lacan]] calls '''lamella''', of the monstrous 'undead' [[object]]-libido. The undead-indestructible object, [[Life]] deprived of support in the [[symbolic]] [[order]].

[[Psychoanalytic]] [[Theory]] and Criticism: 3. The Post-Lacanians ...ike a [[language]]." Consistent with the poststructuralist reconception of the "subject," this line of thought eventually led to far-reaching changes in p

..., speech genres, and [[text]] structure; sociolinguistics, [[analyses]] of the [[social]] dimensions of language variation; and ethnographies of speech co ...thus in (early) paradigm [[texts]]; more generally, both fields attend to the close workings of language. More specific disciplinary connections are some

...antianism]] and the [[Cartesian]] [[tradition]]. This was a tradition that excluded Hegel from serious consideration. ...to the [[exclusion]] of almost everything else. The central [[moment]] in the emergence of individuality revolves around [[Desire]] in so far as it impli

...erical]] [[paralysis]] designates various forms of [[loss]] of mobility of the upper or lower limbs that are [[present]] in certain [[patients]] without a ...ysis posed for the medical diagnostic [[model]] led [[Freud]] to introduce the first elements of [[psychoanalysis]] in a [[work]] called, "Some Points for

...to Neo the lot of ordinary [[people]] totally caught (“plugged”) in [[the Matrix]], he says: “Everyone who is not unplugged is a potential [[agent] ...Athenian [[democracy]], but the Plato who was the first to clearly assert the field of [[rationality]] freed from inherited beliefs.

...que (Bataille's journal) as a review of the edition from which it had been excluded. ...the [[other]]"; for Lacan the sadist rejects the [[pain]] of [[living]] in the other.

: [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] was [[born]] in [[Paris]], the first [[child]] of prosperous, bourgeois [[parents]], [[Alfred Lacan]] and ...Lacan|Lacan]] was born in [[Paris]] (France) (95 boulevard Beaumarchais), the first child (eldest son) of (prosperous, bourgeois parents) Alfred Lacan (1

...rnasse area where Jacques entered the prestigious [[Catholic]] [[school]], the [[Collège Stanislas]]. ...[[text]] which would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]].

...lure of the statist-revolutionary model which first entered the scene with the Jacobins. ...l description of the Terror, see David Andress, ''The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution'', London: Little, Brown 2005.</ref>

...enth and the twentieth century were Westernizers." (Lesley Chamberlain, <i>The Philosophy Steamer</i>, London: Atlantic Books 2006, p. 270) ...the core of Marx's theory, the "bad" Stalin who spoils the noble plans of the "good" Lenin, etc.).

...sly acknowledged by the [[subject]], implying prior [[recognition]] within the [[symbolic]] [[register]].

...c [[mechanism]], we get the critique of the imperialist "[[excess]]," with the (silent) notion of mobilizing [[capitalist]] mechanisms within another, mor ...ible [[society]], all one can do is to render it more just, tolerant, etc. The only [[true]] question today is: do we endorse this "naturalization" of cap

...tinction between goal and aim, if not goal, it should be its ultimate aim, the horizon of all its activity.<br><br> ...no Event." One can easily translate this obscure wisdom in Marxist terms: "The general outlines of each revolutionary event can be foretold by social theo

...table [[difference]] between Hegel and the New Age [[notion]] of balancing the opposites.<br><br> ...]." In [[Stalin]]'s <i>On Dialectical and Historical Materialism</i>, when the four features of dialectics are enumerated:

...or the fate of all. <ref> What this means is that, precisely on account of the unbearable [[horror]] of Stalinism, any direct [[moralistic]] portrayal of ...ov, the head of NKVD who organized the [[terror]], was [[responsible]] for the [[death]] of thousands of innocent Communists...<br /><br />

...d by harsh [[discipline]] and education which cannot but be experienced by the [[subject]] as imposed on his/her freedom, as an [[external]] coercion: ...ic of Kant's dotage. This is, in effect, the [[antinomy]] contained within the bourgeois notions of individuality, individual [[responsibility]]... (Pippi

...This is why the biggest war of the XXth century, the [[World]] War II, was the war in which Stalinist [[Communist]] AND [[capitalist]] democracies fought ...neoracists: [[le Pen]]'s entire program can be summed up in "[[France]] to the [[French]]!" (and this allows us to generate further formulas: "[[Germany]]

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

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...f the universal simply to harbour various particulars within itself, as in the standard charting of genus to [[species]].

=‘Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours’ by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-against-the-double-blackmail-theoryleaks.jpg|frame|right|300px]]

=‘The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto’ by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-the-relevance-of-the-communist-manifesto-theoryleaks.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]

In his per­spicu­ous review of the volume [[Books/Slavoj_Zizek/Repeating_Zizek|"Repeat­ing Žižek"], ded­ic ...Bri­tain or France. As such, he per­forms the role of the hys­teric to the master's dis­course of a stoic­ally unfazed Badiou."

='''Cogito'' in the History of Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ating its dependence on an external Other; even more so, he "deconstructs" the attempt to locate a sphere outside philosophy, demonstrating how all anti-p

...us, and this excess cannot be explained away through interpretation since the truth they deliver hinges on that. ...us, and this excess cannot be explained away through interpretation since the truth they deliver hinges on that.

...nd it as a concealed re-affirmation of patriarchy, and by a broad range of the liberal New Left. ...reason, we must start with a summary of Kernberg's basic theses and place the discussion of pathological narcissism (PN) and borderline states into an ap

...on. This is why the biggest war of the XXth century, the World War II, was the war in which Stalinist Communist AND capitalist democracies fought together ...today's neoracists: le Pen's entire program can be summed up in "France to the French!" (and this allows us to generate further formulas: "Germany to Germ

='The Structure of Domination Today: A Lacanian View' by Slavoj Žižek= ...­rectly enacted this 'rewriting-the-past experience' with a woman who, at the end, gratefully embraced him, crying with joy that she was no longer haunte

='The Superego and the Act' by Slavoj Žižek | August 1999 | Lecture Transcript | European Gradua ...ar as it's ''never'' IT, precisely insofar as every consumption opens up the desire for more.

...rmissible, ugliness has to remain as a foil of the beautiful. Ugliness for the sake of itself is a pathological enjoyment of art. ...y serves as the middle, the intermediate moment, between the beautiful and the comical: "A caricature pushes something particular over its proper mea­sur

...his speech act is embedded). However, the subject is fully responsible for the little bit of enjoyment he finds in his aggressive racist outburst. ...meaning;" he has to accept that the traumatic encounters which traced out the itinerary of his life were utterly contingent and indifferent, that they be