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The Vanishing Mediator
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The Paradox of Causality
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From The Metastases of Enjoyment (London: Verso, p. 39) The relationship between cause and effect is dialectically reflected here. On the o...
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Not Linear Determinism
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From The Metastases of Enjoyment , p. 31: Herein lies the trauma's vicious cycle: the trauma is the Cause which perturbs the smooth eng...
Determinism and the Cause
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From Žižek's The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality (London: Verso, p. 30): The relationship between the cause and the la...
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Free Will or Determinism? (1)
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The "parallax gap" is the Real, which shows itself in fundamental oppositions or antagonisms. For example: 1. Kant's determi...
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Some Other Group Threatens Our Enjoyment!
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From Sarah Kay’s Žižek: A Critical Introduction ( Cambridge , UK : Polity Press), p. 138: Žižek's theme of the 'theft of enjoymen...
Friday, May 22, 2009
The Spectre of Ideology
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From Žižek's Introduction to Mapping Ideology (London: Verso, 1994), p. 1: I Critique ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Lacan on Desire
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From Dylan Evans' An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 37: Need is a purely biological i...
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