Žižek

Philosophy Psychoanalysis

Lacan Hegel


The reactions to my Lenin-book for the most part move between the standard liberal anti-Communism – how do I dare to rehabilitate a mass murderer, etc. – and an apparently more friendly, but, with regard to its consequences, much more dangerous “friendly” reception, which performs a domestification of my theory, its transformation into “provocations” which are not really “meant seriously,” but aim at awakening us from the democratic-dogmatic slumber and thus contribute to the revitalization of democracy… This is how the establishment likes “subversive” theorists to be: turned into harmless gadflies who bite us and thus awaken us to inconsistencies and imperfection of our democratic enterprise – God forbid us to take their project seriously and try to live them.


Slavoj Žižek (1949-) is a Slovenian Philosopher and cultural critic. He holds appointments at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and the European Graduate School (among others). He has published widely on many figures in the history of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and politics/political theory. In addition to this, he is also a widely read film and media critic. The primary orientation of his work can be found at the intersection of German Idealism (especially Hegel), Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Marxism.

After his inter­na­tional career took off, Žižek has been strug­gling very hard to dis­as­so­ci­ate him­self from the field of cul­tural stud­ies, in which his work was ini­tially received and mis­recog­nized, and to reclaim his name as a philo­sopher.

According to Zizek, philosophy can no longer play its traditional roles, giving foundations to science, or constructing general ontology, it should simply fulfil its task of transcendental questioning.


The question of subjectivity is formulated by Zizek primarily with reference to the production of the divided subject of Lacanian theory held in thrall to the object petit a. The fundamental fantasy of the subject precisely specifies that relationship and also, for Zizek, reveals the work of the 'sublime object' of ideology in pulling us back to something that feels deeper and earlier and more authentic to us. But subjectivity is also thematised and problematised in his work through the Marxist motif of 'false consciousness' and genuine 'class consciousness', an opposition that Zizek wants to avoid. Instead, the lure of any true full consciousness is treated as itself an ideological motif. In place of any future moment of full subjectivity that would overcome alienation and perhaps restore any past lost loving relation to others — a hope that one sometimes sees in Frankfurt School Hegelian Marxism — Zizek aims to keep subjectivity open to negativity; Hegel then becomes a theorist who refuses any closure or to repair the things that have been broken. Zizek's Hegel is the one who shows us how we are always already broken, and this is the baseline of Lacanian accounts of the subject and a reminder to Marxists not to hope for too much.


We have to get rid of the metaphor of the Real as the hard core of reality: the way things “really are in themselves,” accessible to us only through multiple lenses of how we symbolize reality, of how we construct it through our fantasies and cognitive biases. In the opposition between reality (“hard facts”) and fantasies (illusions, symbolic constructs), the Real is on the side of illusions and fantasies: The Real, of course, by definition resists full symbolization, but it is at the same time an excess generated by the process of symbolization itself. Without symbolization, there is no Real—there is just the flat stupidity of what is there.


"Slavoj Zizek: Routledge Critical Thinkers" by Tony Myers

Zizek: A Reader's Guide - Kelsey Wood

a self-summary by zizek:
https://nosubject.com/Articles/Slavoj_Zizek/am-i-a-philosopher.html


https://nosubject.com/Guide_to_Slavoj_Zizek

https://iep.utm.edu/zizek/

https://www.lacan.com/zizekchro2.htm


https://culturemachine.net/reviews/zizek-interrogating-the-real-bowman/


of lacan's 3 or 4 periods, zizek bases himself mostly on the third

(lacan's 3 periods: Imaginary/phenomenological, Symbolic/structuralist, Real) [the fourth? Sinthome/knot theory?]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek_bibliography


Lacan and Hegel


fantasy is part of reality itself, both as (causal) Real and imaginary constituted reality

The concept of fantasy subverts the standard opposition between objective and subjective. While fantasy is not objective, it cannot be considered purely subjective either. Rather, it belongs to the category of objectively subjective


fantasy and ideology

from the logic of the signifier to hegelian dialectics

the one splits into the two (badiou, mao): the split between the One and its Place


https://www.reddit.com/r/zizek/wiki/index


Slavoj Žižek Bibliography

https://philpapers.org/browse/slavoj-zizek

https://www.lacan.com/bibliographyzi.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_Žižek_bibliography


Bibliography

Matthew Sharpe - Slavoj Zizek: A Little Piece Of The Real

Links

https://zizekstudies.org/

https://zizek.uk/

https://paradoxoftheday.com/

https://sites.google.com/view/filozizekiano


Selected Articles

Zizek's Lacan Zizek's Hegel Zizek's Kant Zizek's Deleuze Zizek's Badiou

Zizek's Politics Zizek's Ethics Zizek's Aesthetics

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