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For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Radical Thinkers)

For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Radical Thinkers)

Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Fatherâ€™s prohibition.

Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that have emerged are far from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox, says Slavoj ÂŽiÂžek, socialist critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis.

For They Know Not What They Do seeks to understand the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse, from Hegel through Lacan to these political and ideological deadlocks. The authorâ€™s own enjoyment of â€œpopular cultureâ€ makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, Lacan with Frankenstein, high theory with Hollywood melodrama.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2008-01-17
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884606055332
EANs 0884606055332

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