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 Trosbegrebet hos Slavoj Žižek

2017 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Mads Peter Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Secular Society

The aim of this article is to provide a systematic presentation of Slavoj Žižek's reflections on belief and hereby to indicate his relevance for a philosophy of religion. The article begins with a brief introduction to Žižek's basic philosophical concern and a theological contextualization of his thinking from the perspective of this concern. This is followed by an exposition of his concept of belief. The starting point of this exposition is Freud's reflections on fetishism and disavowal that form the background for Žižek’s analysis of belief in modern secular society and as structural conditions of the human consciousness. Subsequently, the article presents Žižek's reflections on belief as reflective in terms ‘displaced belief’ in ‘the other who is supposed to believe’. It is demonstrated here how Žižek operates with a distinction between an ‘imaginary’ belief that is structured like the fetishistic disavowal and a ‘symbolic’ unconscious belief in belief as such. The final section of the article sheds light on Žižek's view of atheism and his introduction of a third form of ‘atheistic belief’, while considering whether this kind of belief belongs to the register of the ‘real’. Hensigten med denne artikel er at give en systematisk fremstilling af Slavoj Žižeks overvejelser over tro for herved at tematisere hans religionsfilosofiske relevans. Der indledes med en kort introduktion til Žižeks grundlæggende filosofiske anliggende og en teologisk kontekstualisering af hans tænkning ud fra dette anliggende. Derefter udfoldes fremstillingen af trosbegrebet. Udgangspunktet tages i Freuds betragtninger over fetichisme og fornægtelse, der danner baggrunden for Žižeks analyser af tro i det moderne sekulære samfund og som strukturelt vilkår ved den menneskelige bevidsthed. Derefter præsenteres Žižeks overvejelser over refleksiv tro som ’forskudt tro’ på ’den anden, der formodes at tro’. Det demonstreres her, hvordan Žižek opererer med et skel mellem en ’imaginær’ tro, der er struktureret som den fetichistiske fornægtelse og en ’symbolsk’ forudgående, ubevidst tro på selve det at tro. Til sidst i artiklen belyses Žižeks opfattelse af ateistisme og hans introduktion af en tredje form for ’ateistisk tro’, og det overvejes om denne form for tro kan siges at høre til i det reelles register.

Fantasy Space, Private Myths, Visions

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Alphonso Lingis
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Way

AbstractSlavoj Žižek proposed an ethic of respect for the fantasy space of another. Under "fantasy" Jacques Lacan borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss the notion of a "private myth." But this fantasy is, Žižek says, illusionary, fragile, and helpless. Fantasy is the way everyone, each in a particular way, conceals the impasse of his desire. Psychoanalytic practice can be criticized as a radical destitution of the fundamental fantasy of the patient. The author argues that what Žižek analyzes as fantasy is a misfire of vision, and could only be recognized in a subject where visions are possible. But visions-the visions of visionaries and seers, and the visions of youth-have to be envisioned dynamically in their activity of formulating, shaping, and intensifying one's insights and one's feelings. Žižek assumes that the forces mobilized by drive, which takes hold of an organ and compulsively makes it repeat the same failed gesture, aim at the excessive and monstrous paroxysm of pleasure in pain, which is jouissance. The author argues that that jouissance can never appear as something possible in the organism, not because it would be a death drive for a finite and temporal organism, but because it is a by-product and not a goal.

Borat, Multiculturalism,Mnogonatsional'nost

Slavic Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

In this article, Sacha Baron Cohen'sBoratappears as just the latest in a decades- long exchange between American and Soviet models of minority uplift: on the one side, civil rights and multiculturalism; on the other,druzhba narodov(the friendship of peoples) andmnogonatsional'nost’(multi-national- ness). Steven S. Lee argues diat, with Borat, multiculturalism seems to have emerged as the victor in this exchange, but that the film also hearkens to a not-too-distant Soviet alternative. Part 1 shows how Borat gels with recent leftist critiques of multiculturalism, spearheaded by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj żižek. Part 2 relates Borat to a largely submerged history of American minorities drawing hope from mnogonatsional'nost', as celebrated in Grigorii Aleksandrov's 1936 filmCircus.The final part presents Borat as choosing neither multiculturalism nor mnogonatsional'nost', but rather the continued opposition of the two, if not a “third way.” For a glimpse of what this might look like, the paper concludes with a discussion ofAbsurdistan(2006) by Soviet Jewish American novelist Gary Shteyngart.

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.

Lacan and the New Lacanians: Josephine Hart's Damage, Lacanian Tragedy, and the Ethics of Jouissance

PMLA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Mellard
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Pleasure Principle ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

Read through Lacan and such new Lacanians as Slavoj Žižek and Juliet Flower MacCannell, Josephine Hart's Damage (1991) illustrates how an ethics of jouissance founds a tragic action emblematic of postmodern narcissism. New Lacanians stress drive, jouissance, the real, the primordial father, and the femme fatale. Typically, they find these elements in film noir. Transforming noir into love story, Damage foregrounds an unnamed narrator whose sadomasochistic affair with his son's fiancée precipitates the son's death. Beginning with the narrator in the guise of the traditional oedipal father, the affair unveils the fiancée as a femme fatale who constitutes the narrator as what MacCannell would call the destructive, narcissistic brother become primordial father. Enacting an ethics of jouissance because the narrator will not abandon his drive to enjoyment beyond the pleasure principle, primordial father and femme fatale participate in a narrative that must be called Lacanian tragedy.

The Screened Stages of Slavoj Žižek: The Surplus of the Real

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

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.

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