For They Know Not What They Do

Enjoyment as a Political Factor

Slavoj Zizek

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English

Verso
01 April 2008

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Politics & government; Political science & theory

Series: Radical Thinkers

"Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Father's prohibition. Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that have emerged are far from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox, says Slavoj Zizek, socialist critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis. For They Know Not What They Do seeks to understand the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse, from Hegel through Lacan to these political and ideological deadlocks. The author's own enjoyment of ""popular culture"" makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, Lacan with Frankenstein, high theory with Hollywood melodrama."

By: Slavoj Zizek
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Set 3
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 424g
ISBN: 9781844672127
ISBN 10: 1844672123
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 April 2008
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor

The Elvis of cultural theory. * Chronicle of Higher Education * Zizek leaves no social or natural phenomenon untheorized, and is a master of the counter-intuitive observation. * New Yorker * The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades. -- Terry Eagleton