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Sunday, May 31, 2009

The Paradox of Symbolization

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From The Metastases of Enjoyment (London: Verso), p. 47: When I say 'this is an elephant', however, I thereby confer upon an object...
Saturday, May 30, 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...
Friday, May 29, 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...
Wednesday, May 27, 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...
Friday, May 22, 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...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Spectre of Ideology

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From Žižek's Introduction to Mapping Ideology (London: Verso, 1994), p. 1: I Critique ...
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