01780nam a22002297a 4500 20260106122732.0 260106b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781844672127 : Brijwasi Book Distributors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi : BW/000392 : 01/01/2026 303.3 ZIZ Zizek, Slavoj. For they know not what they do : Enjoyment as a political factor. /Slavoj Zizek. London : Verso , 2008. cvii, 288p. : 18cm. 2072 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 Žižek, 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. Psychoanalysis Christianity Socialism Slavoj Zizek BOOK 66952 66952 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-01-06 Brijwasi Book Distributors 2072.00 0 303.3 ZIZ 31288 2026-01-06 12:27:00 2026-01-06 BOOK