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2iiek. Slavoj.

The metastases of enjoment: six essays on woman and causality /

Slavoj 2izek.

p . c m . - (Wo es war)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN -8609144-5: ISBN 0-8609l-68-X

(pbk.)

I. Violence. 2. Women. 3. Plesure. 4. Philosophy. Mrxist.

5. Pychoanalysis and philosophy. I. Tile. II. Seies.

BI05.V5Z58 1994 9-19936

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Contents

INTRODUCTION: FROM SARAJEVO TO HITCHCOCK ••.

AND BACK

PART I CAUSE

1 The Deadlock of 'Repressive Desublimation'

Criical Theory against Psychoanalyic 'Reisionism' 9 -

Contradicion s he Index ofTheoretical Truh 13 -

'Repressive Desublimation' 16 - Habermas: Pychoanalysis as

Self-Relecion 22 - 'The Object's Preponderance' 26

2 Does the Subject Have a Cause?

Lacan: From Hermeneuics to he Cause 29 - Beween Subsnce

and Subject 34 - The Syllogism of Christianiy 38 - Why Isn't

Hegel a Humanist Aheist? 41 - The Enigma of'Mechanical

Memory' 43 - Hegel's Logic ofthe Signiier 47

3 Superego by Default

A Law That Enj oys Isef 54 - The Split Suject of Interpellation

57 - Kundera, or, How to Enjoy Bureaucracy 62 - 'Do not give

up your desire!' 65 - Eg-Evil, Superego-Evil, Id-Evil 70-

The Impotent Gze and Is Guilt 73 - The Wr ofFnsies 75 -

Traversing the Fansy 80

PART II WOMAN

4 Courly Love, or, Wo man s Thing

. ,The Masochisic Theare of Courtly Love 89 - The Courtly 'Imp

of the Perverse' 94 - Exempliicaions 99 - From he Courly

Gme to Te Crying ae 102 - Te Crying ae Goes East 105

CONTENTS

5 Daid Lynch, or, the Feminine Depression

113

Lnch as a Pre-aphaelite 113 - A Voice That Skins the Body 116-

A Crack in the Causal Chain 117 - The Birth of Subjectiiy out

of the Feminine Depression 119 - The Pure Surface of the

Sense-Event 122 - Deleuze as a Dialecical Mat e r i lis t 125-

The Problems of 'Real Genesis' 129

6 Otto Weininger, or, 'Woman doesn't exist'

137

'Woman is only and thoroughly sexual .. .' 137 - The Feminine

'Night of the World' 143 - Beyond the Phallus 148 - The

'Formulas of Sexuaion' 153

ApPENDIX· TAKING SIDES: A SELF-INTERVIEW

16 7

Subjecive Desitution 167 - hy Popular C ult u r e? 173 - Fantasy

and the ojet petit a 177 - Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Philosophy 181

The Decenred Subject 184 - Lacan and Hegel 188 - Lacan,

Derrida, Foucault 193 - 'Phallocenrism' 199 - Power 203 - From

Pariarchy to Cyn i ci s m 205 -·Bosnia 210

INDEX

218

== INTRODUCTION ==

From Sarajevo to Hitchcock

'. and Back

here can we grasp 'enjoyment as a poliical factor' at is purest? A

fa mous photo from the ime of Nzi anti-Semiic pogroms shows a

frightened Jeish boy driven into a corner and surrounded by a group

of Germans. This group is extremely interesting in so far as the facial

expressions of is members render the enire scale of possible reactions:

one of them 'enjoys it' in an immediate, idiotic way; another is clearly

scared (perhaps he has a premonition that he might be next) ; the

fe igned indifference of the third conceals a freshly awakened cuiosiy;

and so on, up to the unique expression of a young man who is obiously

embarrassed, even disgusted, by the enire afair, unable to yield

wholeheartedly to it, yet at he same ime fascinated by it, enjoying it ith

an intensiy hat surpasses by far the idioy of immediate plesure. He s

te ost danrs: his quaveing indecision exactly corresponds to the

unique expression of the Rat Man's face noticed by Freud when the Rat

Man was relaing the story of the rat torure: 'At all the more imporant

momens while he ws telling his story his face took on a very strnge,

composite expression. I could only interpret it s one of horror at

pleasure of his on of which he himselfwas unaware.' 1

This enjoment'is the primordial generative element, ith is mesa

ses spreading out in he wo interconnected series, one politi c al and one

sexul, which account for the partiion of this book into wo pars. How,

then, are we to conceive of this interconnecion? In autumn 1992, after

I had delivere d a lecture on Hitchcock at an meican campus, a

member of the public asked me indignantly: How can you alk about

such a triling subject when your excounry is dying in lames? My

answer s: How is it that you in the UA can alk about Hitchcock?

There is nothing raumaic in me behaving as beits a icim and

testiing to he horrible events in my counry - such behaiour cannot

but arouse compassion and a false fe eling of guilt hat is the negative of

a narcissistic saisfaction - that is, of my audience's awareness that they

are all right while things are going badly f o r me. But I iolate a silent

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