I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology … makes me not see … what I am effectively eating. It’s not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament, when we are within ideology, is that when we think that we escape it into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology. -Slavoj Zizek, "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology"
Sure there is. It comes at the point when you surrender your dreams, and cut the chord that binds you to the ideology. In the case of Titus Andronicus, it's when he strangles Lavinia. At that point, everything he surrenders everything that he has lived for (Rome).[Kill her for whom my eyes have made me blind]
Another example would be Antigone, when she buries her brother, despite Creon's decree.
Or in the Hunger Games, when Katniss threatens to eat the Nightlock.
Or when Socrates decides to drink the Hemlock rather than escape from jail and abandon Athens.
It's a "beyond the law" point... when the subject confronts his/her own subjectivity and that of "the Master", and chooses to become their own "Master".
11 comments:
Ha!!
This is Sparta!
funny, fj.
p.s. what's this about labeling people?
Every position had a label, didn't it? It's what "humans" do. Label.
...despite the recriminations.
Yep.
Every position had a label, but they all fall under "sleep".
:-)
...but you missed the label of the video.... ;)
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology … makes me not see … what I am effectively eating. It’s not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament, when we are within ideology, is that when we think that we escape it into our dreams, at that point we are within ideology. -Slavoj Zizek, "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology"
So, according to Zizek, there is no escape from ideology?
Sure there is. It comes at the point when you surrender your dreams, and cut the chord that binds you to the ideology. In the case of Titus Andronicus, it's when he strangles Lavinia. At that point, everything he surrenders everything that he has lived for (Rome).[Kill her for whom my eyes have made me blind]
Another example would be Antigone, when she buries her brother, despite Creon's decree.
Or in the Hunger Games, when Katniss threatens to eat the Nightlock.
Or when Socrates decides to drink the Hemlock rather than escape from jail and abandon Athens.
It's a "beyond the law" point... when the subject confronts his/her own subjectivity and that of "the Master", and chooses to become their own "Master".
...and in the "grand debate" between Marat and Sade, I am Sade.
Suffering has no meaning. And making life "painless" for self and/or others only makes it worse.
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