Interrogating the Real by Zizek, Slavoj -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover-Page Half-Title Series Title Contents Acknowledgments Editors’ Introduction

Author’s Preface

The Inhuman Notes

Section One Lacanian Orientations

Notes

2 Lacan – At What Point is he Hegelian?

1 The Hegelian thing 2 Three stages of the symbolic 3 Das Ungeschehenmachen Notes

3 ‘The Most Sublime of Hysterics’: Hegel with Lacan

1 The lack in the other 2 The symbolic act 3 ‘. . . This integral void that is also called the sacred’ 4 Differentiating ‘Absolute Knowledge’ Notes

4 Connections of the Freudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture

Notes

5 Lacan Between Cultural Studies and Cognitivism

1 Cultural Studies versus the ‘Third Culture’ 2 Is freedom nothing but a conceived necessity? Notes

Section Two Philosophy Traversed by Psychoanalysis

6 The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis

1 Le point de capiton 2 Tautology and its forbidden 3 Kant with Sade 4 Kant with McCullough 5 The ‘Totalitarian Object’ 6 The King and his bureaucracy 7 The ‘Mischievous Neutrality’ of bureaucracy 8 Postmodernism I: Antonioni versus Hitchcock 9 Postmodernism II: Joyce versus Kafka Notes

7 A Hair of the Dog that Bit You

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8 Hegel, Lacan, Deleuze: Three Strange Bedfellows

1 The pure surface of the sense event 2 Deleuze’s materialism 3 The problems of ‘Real Genesis’ 4 The enigma of ‘mechanical memory’ 5 Hegel’s logic of the signifier Notes

The Eclipse of Meaning: On Lacan and Deconstruction

I I I I I I IV V VI Notes

10 The Parallax View

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Section Three The Fantasy of Ideology

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12 Beyond Discourse Analysis

1 The subject of antagonism 2 The dimension of social fantasy 3 Toward an ethics of the real Notes

13 Re-visioning ‘Lacanian’ Social Criticism: The Law and Its Obscene Double

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14 Why is Wagner Worth Saving?

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15 The Real of Sexual Difference

1 The ‘Formulae of Sexuation’ 2 Sexual Difference as a Zero-Institution 3 ‘Post-Secular Thought’? No, Thanks! 4 The Other: Imaginary, Symbolic and Real 5 Historicism and the real Notes

Author’s Afterword: Why Hegel is a Lacanian

Part One – Drive Against Nirvana: Lacanian Ethics Part Two – The Cunning of reason: Lacan as a reader of Hegel Part Three – The idea’s constipation: On Hegel and shitting Notes

Glossary Index Copyright