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by Zizek,Slavoj

• ISBN13: 9781844670611
• ISBN10: 1844670619
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

The experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of "irrational" violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context of this book, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the basis for a renewal of the Marxist theory of ideology. The author's analysis leads into a study of the figure of woman in modern art and ideology, including studies of The Crying Game and the films of David Lynch, and the links between violence and power/gender relations.

Author Biography

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

Table of Contents

Introduction: From Sarajevo to Hitchcock and Back	1	(4)
Part I Cause	5	(82)
The Deadlock of `Repressive Desublimation'	7	(22)
Critical Theory against Psychoanalytic `Revisionism'	9	(4)
Contradiction as the Index of Theoretical Truth	13	(3)
`Repressive Desublimation'	16	(6)
Habermas: Psychoanalysis as Self-Reflection	22	(4)
`The Object's Preponderance'	26	(3)
Does the Subject Have a Cause?	29	(25)
Lacan: From Hermeneutics to the Cause	29	(5)
Between Substance and Subject	34	(4)
The Syllogism of Christianity	38	(3)
Why Isn't Hegel a Humanist Atheist?	41	(2)
The Enigma of `Mechanical Memory'	43	(4)
Hegel's Logic of the Signifier	47	(7)
Superego by Default	54	(33)
A Law That Enjoys Itself	54	(3)
The Split Subject of Interpellation	57	(5)
Kundera, or, How to Enjoy Bureaucracy	62	(3)
`Do not give up your desire!'	65	(5)
Ego-Evil, Superego-Evil, Id-Evil	70	(3)
The Impotent Gaze and Its Guilt	73	(2)
The War of Fantasies	75	(5)
Traversing the Fantasy	80	(7)
Part II Woman	87	(80)
Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing	89	(24)
The Masochistic Theatre of Courtly Love	89	(5)
The Courtly `Imp of the Perverse'	94	(5)
Exemplifications	99	(3)
From the Courtly Game to the Crying Game	102	(3)
The Crying Game Goes East	105	(8)
David Lynch, or, the Feminine Depression	113	(24)
Lynch as a Pre-Raphaelite	113	(3)
A Voice That Skins the Body	116	(1)
A Crack in the Causal Chain	117	(2)
The Birth of Subjectivity out of the Feminine Depression	119	(3)
The Pure Surface of the Sense-Event	122	(3)
Deleuze as a Dialectical Materialist	125	(4)
The Problems of `Real Genesis'	129	(8)
Otto Weininger, or, `Woman doesn't exist'	137	(30)
`Woman is only and thoroughly sexual	137	(6)
The Feminine `Night of the World'	143	(5)
Beyond the Phallus	148	(5)
The `Formulas of Sexuation'	153	(14)
Appendix Taking Sides: A Self-Interview	167	(51)
Subjective Destitution	167	(6)
Why Popular Culture?	173	(4)
Fantasy and the objet petit a	177	(4)
Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Philosophy	181	(3)
The Decentred Subject	184	(4)
Lacan and Hegel	188	(5)
Lacan, Derrida, Foucault	193	(6)
`Phallocentrism'	199	(4)
Power	203	(2)
From Patriarchy to Cynicism	205	(5)
Bosnia	210	(8)
Index	218