A Fundamental Fear

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
Anas Malik
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Nodal Point ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
General Question ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Real Material ◽  
The Relationship

A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism usescritical theory to examine the Islamists’ political projects and their depictions.Scholars are divided between those who believe in a religious ornational essence to the Muslim community (essentialists) and those whoreject this assumption (anti-essentialists). In regards to a Muslim essence,Sayyid identifies two existing scholarly camps: Orientalists assume an ahistorical,acontextual Islamic essence that drives and shapes Muslim societyand activity through most places and ages. Anti-Orientalists, as manifestedin such writers as Hamid El-Zien, assert that there is not one “Islam,” butonly many “Islams.” According to this view, Islam and indeed all religion cannot exist as an analytic category having a self-sustaining, positive, fixing,universal, and autonomous content; rather, religion is only manifestedthrough particular contexts.While acknowledging an intellectual debt to Edward Said, whose critiquesfed the anti-Orientalist camp, Sayyid argues for a middle pathbetween Orientalist and anti-Orientalist understandings. Orientalists claimthat the relationship between Islam and Islamism is direct, whereas anti-Orientalists claim that the relationship is merely opportunistic – Islam iswhat Marxists might call “superstructural” (a surface action over deeper,more real material contests) and is driven by a false consciousness.Picking theoretical fruit from writers who explored signs, ideas, andlanguage, among them Slavoj Zizek, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Lacan,the author asks Zizek’s general question: “What creates and sustains theidentity of a given ideological field beyond all possible variations of its ideologicalcontent?” (p. 44). Analysts typically find themselves unable toanswer this question without reasserting a new Orientalism. Sayyid assertsthat despite the malleability of Islamic symbols and Islamist programs,Islam has retained its specificity, a term by which he means the traces of itsoriginal meaning articulated at the foundation, traces that have beeninvoked repeatedly. Islam is a crucial nodal point, à la Jacques Lacan, retrospectivelygiving meaning to other elements, be they Sufi discussions,debates on fiqh, or other discourses (p. 45) ...

scholarly journals La (in)trascendencia del amor: un análisis de la teleserie Qué vida más triste

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Álvaro Domingo Acevedo Zárate
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk

Esta investigación tiene por objetivo indagar acerca de cuál es la función que se le atribuye al amor en la construcción de la identidad de un sujeto cínico a través del análisis del diálogo y el lenguaje corporal. Para ello, se analiza la serie española Qué vida más triste, producción audiovisual que se transmitió, primero, por la plataforma de videos YouTube y, luego, por televisión entre los años 2005 y 2010. Esta serie es analizada a la luz de los planteamientos filosóficos de Peter Sloterdijk, Alain Badiou y Slavoj Žižek, así como la teoría psicoanalítica de Jacques Lacan. Las conclusiones a las que se llegan nos muestran que la serie plantea que el sujeto cínico, para serlo, debe renunciar a un encuentro «real» con el otro, dado que vive ensimismado en la búsqueda de su propio goce y ve a las demás personas como meros instrumentos. Sin embargo, la serie también plantea que hay una manera de romper con el aislamiento del sujeto cínico: el amor. Pero un amor vivido como lo que el filósofo francés Alain Badiou llama «un proceso de verdad», pues si se vive de otra manera, el amor pierde toda su potencia liberadora y se convierte en un mero simulacro que no hace sino reafirmar al sujeto en su cinismo y, por ende, en su aislamiento.

Psychoanalysis and International Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-31
Author(s):  
Ilan Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Ideology Critique ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Blind Spots

This chapter examines the contributions of psychoanalysis to international development, illustrating ways in which thinking and practice in this field are psychoanalytically structured. Drawing mainly on the work of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, it emphasizes three key points. First, psychoanalysis can help uncover the unconscious of development — its gaps, dislocations, blind spots — thereby elucidating the latter's contradictory and seemingly “irrational” practices. Second, the important psychoanalytic notion of jouissance (enjoyment) can help explain why development discourse endures, that is, why it has such sustained appeal, and why we continue to invest in it despite its many problems. Third, psychoanalysis can serve as an important tool for ideology critique, helping to expose the socioeconomic contradictions and antagonisms that development persistently disavows. The chapter then reflects on the limits of psychoanalysis — the extent to which it is gendered and, given its Western origins, universalizable.

scholarly journals Vuelos traumáticos, padres imaginarios y burguesía neurótica

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Frédéric Conrod
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Pedro Almodovar ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

La película Relatos salvajes de Damián Szifrón ha marcado la historia del cine argentino desde el día de su estreno, y no sólo porque ofrece una mirada íntima hacia un fondo agresivo de una cultura que auto-reprimió sus traumas sino también porque todas las culturas occidentales encuentran en esta colección de relatos anecdóticos un reflejo ético de sus propias heridas. El hecho de que el director español Pedro Almodóvar quisiera producir la obra del joven argentino habla mucho sobre la necesidad de usar el séptimo arte como terapia de choque donde el público se enfrenta con su naturaleza salvaje y primitiva (el Id freudiano), escondida en su profundo interior por siglos de represión acumulada. Este artículo se concentra en la figura del padre imaginario, definida por el psicoanalista francés Jacques Lacan, para explorar cómo se encadenan los capítulos de la película en su afán de presentar los traumas culturales, sus causas históricas e individuales, y la neurosis que se concentra alrededor de la clase burguesa que determina en Argentina – como en la mayoría del Occidente – el comportamiento social. Asimismo, y siguiendo el pensamiento teórico del filósofo esloveno Slavoj Žižek, se observará cómo en cada corto que compone Relatos salvajes se descomponen los síntomas éticos de una sociedad consciente de sus comportamientos neuróticos hasta reconocer que la explosión cómica de sus lados salvajes es la terapia más eficaz que le pueda ofrecer el cine.

Slavoj Žižek, Rex Libris, and the Traumatic Real

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 1265-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary P. Radford ◽  
Marie L. Radford ◽  
Mark Alpert
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use the work of philosopher Slavoj Žižek to gain insights into representations of the librarian and the library in contemporary popular culture. Design/methodology/approach – A psycho-analytic reading of the comic book series Rex Libris using Slavoj Žižek’s treatment of Jacques Lacan. Findings – Žižek’s approach can provide novel and previously unconsidered insights into the understanding of librarian stereotypes in particular and representations of the library in general. Research limitations/implications – This paper is limited to the representations of the librarian and the library in one comic book series. Its findings need to be generalized to representations in other forms of popular culture. Originality/value – As far as the authors know, this is the only paper that has applied the work of Žižek in the library and information science (LIS) literature. As such, not only are the insights into the representations of librarians and libraries important, this paper also acts as a valuable introduction to the work of Žižek for the LIS community of scholars.

The Shifting Object of Desire: The Poetry of Oleksandr Irvanets

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Myroslav Shkandrij
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Sense Of Identity

AbstractOleksandr Irvanets produced some of his best known works shortly after Ukraine's declaration of independence in 1991. The writer's irreverent, ironic, and humorous reworking of the Ukrainian self-image is analyzed. Using the writings of Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan, the author argues that the poems surprise the reader by dislocating the object of desire from its expected, “traditional,” place, and relocating it in another, wholly unexpected, one. In this way Irvanets reveals existing fantasy structures both in the patriotic poem and in the Soviet cliché. He questions their validity and suggests the need for a new sense of identity.

scholarly journals El cine come metalenguaje. Haciendo visible el código de la moda

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Mazás
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
El Sistema

A través del análisis del rol del vestuario y la caracterización en el clásico film Vértigo (1958) de Alfred Hitchcock, este artículo pretende, mediante un marco teórico compuesto principalmente por las perspectivas de Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes y Slavoj Zizek, sacar al sistema de la moda de su habitual rol superficial y fomentador del consumo conspicuo, para proponer que al ponerse en combinación con el sistema audiovisual, se crea una potente herramienta crítica, capaz de echar luz sobre algunos de los discursos ideológicos más densos que configuran el imaginario social.

scholarly journals Quiet Refusals: Androids as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Nima Behroozi Moghadam ◽  
Farideh Porugiv
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Point ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Objet Petit A ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Cultural Theorist ◽  
The Way

This study intends to show how science fiction literature in general and Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in particular can be read as a symptom of the postmodern era we live in. Taking as the main clues the ideas of the cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who combines Marxism with the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, as well as his account of “postmodernism,” the study discusses how, contrary to what capitalism dubs a “post-ideological” era, we are more than ever dominated by ideology through its cynical function. It further examines (through such Lacanian concepts as fantasy, desire, objet petit a, and jouissance) the way late capitalistic ideology functions in Dick’s narrative, and discusses how the multiculturalist society prompts new forms of racism through abstract universalization which only accounts for and tolerates the other as long as they appear within the confines of that formal abstraction. Finally, it looks into how ideologies as such can be subverted from the Real point within the symbolic.

scholarly journals La construcción del bien en atmósferas antiéticas en La ciudad y los perros (1963)

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Jesús Miguel Delgado del Aguila
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Mario Vargas Llosa ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

Uno de los problemas planteados en la historia desarrollada de los protagonistas de La ciudad y los perros (1963), del escritor peruano Mario Vargas Llosa, es la presencia de una formación familiar mal constituida (padres agresivos, distanciamiento de cualquiera de ellos, favoritismo materno hacia el hijo, etc.). Esta base retrógrada provocó una limitación para cada uno de ellos: sus conductas no son corregidas, tienen comportamientos rebeldes o inhibidos, se sienten incapaces de afrontar la realidad con responsabilidad y terminan incluyéndose en el mecanismo dinámico de la violencia, ya sea como víctima o victimario. Para ello, se recurrirá al análisis literario, para abordar las conductas vinculadas con los personajes que poseen rasgos de violencia en su representación. Principalmente, las propuestas teóricas de Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek y Mijaíl Bajtín revelan qué se entiende en la actualidad por practicar el bien en nuestra sociedad. A partir de esa conceptualización, se buscarán indicadores que permitan apreciar la procedencia de la mala formación del Jaguar, el Poeta o el Esclavo.

Orientalism and Humour

2021 ◽  
pp. 760-777
Author(s):  
Serkan Biçer
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Internet Site ◽  
The West ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Interpretation System ◽  
The Relationship

Edward Said undoubtedly didn't analyze the concept of orientalism through an Ottoman or Turkish perspective in the context of the relationship with the West. However, although orientalism isn't directly connected to Turkey, it indirectly concerns the country as the image of Turkey and East is the same in many articles, literary works, political texts, and orientalist pictures. The purpose of this study is to understand and analyze the orientalist viewpoint about the Turkish identity on “9GAG” internet site, one of the most known humour sites created after 2000 with the participatory culture. In this study, the two-level interpretation system of Roland Barthes, involving the systematic connotation and denotation and myth, is used. The images of Turks in caps are presented with signifiers such as Turban, Islamic tabard, beard, prayer beads, coif, and shalwar. Signified, on the other hand, is usually the element of East, religion/Islam, tradition, underdevelopment, and violence. The specifically designed Turkish image is used as a kind of actor that creates a sense of threat.

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