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020 _a9781844672127
028 _a: Brijwasi Book Distributors
_b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi
_c: BW/000392
_d: 01/01/2026
082 _a303.3 ZIZ
100 _aZizek, Slavoj.
245 _aFor they know not what they do
_b: Enjoyment as a political factor.
_c/Slavoj Zizek.
260 _aLondon
_b: Verso
_c , 2008.
300 _acvii, 288p.
_c: 18cm.
365 _b2072
520 _aPsychoanalysis 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.
650 _aPsychoanalysis
650 _aChristianity
650 _aSocialism
700 _aSlavoj Zizek
942 _cBOOK
999 _c66952
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