Introducing Slavoj Zizek Quotes

“However, this cannot be achieved through direct perception. In other words, direct access to the void that is both language and the void that lies “behind” language is impossible.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“this void is perpetually filled in by the fiction of language.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“By recognizing the fictional nature of unitary identity, the dominating presence of the super-ego is overthrown.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“psychoanalysis claims that reality outside myself definitely exists.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“psychoanalysis is the exact opposite of subjectivist solipsism”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“Nevertheless, Žižek holds open the possibility of the subject recognizing their own fictional status within reality. This is the ultimate purpose of treatment in psychoanalysis.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“without some artificial system of symbolic order by which to organize “reality”, the individual ceases to exist.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“only in so far as the subject is prepared to relinquish altogether their attachment to any kind of ideal and to confront the fact that the symbolic order through which”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“given the ubiquitous presence of the super-ego, or the big Other, can its repressive authority be overcome?”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“a special effect which outdid all others?”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“way in which the strike on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11 was perceived.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“provides reality itself deprived of its substance; just as decaffeinated coffee smells and tastes like real coffee without being real coffee, Virtual Reality is experienced as reality without being so.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“suspicious of the equation that is made between happiness and self-realization”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“progressive causes today.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“focuses upon how and in what ways the product renders one’s life meaningful.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“Traditionally, advertising had an imaginary and symbolic dimension.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“According to today’s ideology, the key to achieving happiness is through self-realization and by making one’s life more “meaningful”.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“The Church needs sinners who repent their sins.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“Žižek’s thesis, therefore, is that the super-ego, itself, is an obscene agency active within every subject.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“transgression – imagined or real forms of enjoyment that seem to contradict the dominant ideas or laws”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“T.S. Eliot’s line from his verse drama Murder in the Cathedral (1935): ‘the highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“When we obey the Law, we do it as part of a desperate strategy to fight against our desire to transgress”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“Freud and the super-ego The big Other is the Law underlying the symbolic order.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“our inability to articulate and be fully conscious of our dependency upon the symbolic order.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“the big Other is just as much a fiction as the symbolic order.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“fundamental rule or law: meaning is dependent upon the symbolic system, itself.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“While we may be familiar with the grammatical and social rules governing language and communication, we cannot be conscious of all of them in the act of participating in communication.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“does not believe that political opposition to capitalism can arise solely through an understanding of economics. For him, political and social repression, however manifested, is ultimately caused by ideology.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“defended by the ideology: “We are the victims now and so we have every right to retaliate!”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide

“sees happening in reality post-9/11 is a reassertion of “America’s traditional ideological commitments and rejection of feelings of responsibility and guilt towards the Third World”.”
― Christopher Kul-Want, Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide