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Subjective destitution in art and politics: From being-towards-death to undeadness

Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2023
Jacques Lacan coined the term “subjective destitution” to describe the concluding moment of a psychoanalytic treatment. This concept can also usefully be applied to art and to politics.
Slavoj Žižek
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The Vagaries of the Superego

Elementa, 2022
Starting from the distinction between “ideal ego”, “ego-ideal” and “superego” structured from the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real triad made by Lacan, this study investigates how is possible to distinguish the a-sexual social space from the domain of libidinally-
Slavoj Žižek
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Contra os direitos humanos

Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2010
Álibi para intervenções militares, sacralização para a tirania do mercado, base ideológica para o fundamentalismo do politicamente correto: pode a “ficção simbólica” dos direitos universais serem recuperada com vistas a uma politização progressiva das ...
Slavoj Žižek
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The Unconscious of Political Economy

Revista Guillermo de Ockham, 2022
The libidinal tensions described by Freud are not simply characteristic of the subject, but are part of interpersonal politics (family) of the struggle for power.
Slavoj Žižek
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Philosophy, Science, Capitalism and Truth [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
Fascinated by the recent scientific progress, even some philosophers today claim that philosophy is dead and that natural sciences (quantum cosmology, cognitive sciences) can answer questions which were once considered a domain of metaphysics: is our ...
Slavoj Žižek
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Ladrones del mundo, uníos

Revista Teknokultura, 2011
La repetición de un hecho, según Hegel, juega un papel crucial en la historia: todo acontecimiento que solo se produce una vez, puede considerarse mero accidente, un hecho que podría haberse evitado si la situación se hubiera manejado de otro modo; pero,
Slavoj Žižek
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In defense of Hegel’s madness [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2015
The article is a confrontation with Robert Brandom’s reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, his attempt to systematically “renormalize” Hegel, i.e., to reduce his extravagant formulations to the criteria of common sense.
Žižek Slavoj
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Is There A Post-Human Sexuality? [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Will human sexuality survive the passage to Artificial Intelligence? To answer this question properly, we should first analyze the paradoxical inner structure of sexuality itself, which is never simply binary: it always involves a third element that ...
Slavoj Žižek
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C-dur ali Es-mol? Ne hvala! Faustova alegorija F. Busonija

Muzikološki Zbornik, 2009
Busonijev Doktor Faust je melanholična žaloigra, ki sega nazaj v tradicijo lutkovnih iger. Busonijeva nedokončana partitura je rezultat lastnega ustvarjalnega zastoja ne pa zunanjega naključja. Dvoumnost v zvezi z mladim fantom, ki se ob koncu pojavi kot
Slavoj Žižek
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FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITY

Filozofia, 2023
Throughout the 20th century, quantum mechanics was celebrated as the ultimate proof that modern science is leaving behind deterministic mechanical materialism and admitted that it is dealing with non-material entities; moreover, the notion that our ...
Slavoj Žižek
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