The Sublime Object of Ideology

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Navayana
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189059130

Description

In this provocative book, the author takes a look at the question of human agency in a post modern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock's rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to the science fiction, from the Alien to the Jewish Joke, zizek's acute analyses explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion that make up human society.

Linking Philosophical and psychological concepts to social phenomenon such as totalitarianism and racism, this book explores the political fantasies of political control, In doing so the sublime object of Ideology represents a powerful contribution to a psychoanalytical theory of Ideology as well as offering persuasive interpretations of a number of contemporary cultural formations.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART 1 THE SYMPTOM
How did Marx Invent the Symptom ?
From Symptom to Sinthome

PART 2 LACK IN THE OTHER
Che Vuoi
You only Die Twice

PART 3 THE SUBJECT
Which Subject of the Real ?
Not only as Substance but also as Subject

Bibliography
Index