Interrogating the Real

Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring, provocative and entertaining cultural critics at work today. Drawing upon the full range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture, reflecting the remarkable breadth and depth of Zizek's interest in politics, culture and philosophy, and also showcasing his entertaining style. A full and clear sense of Zizekian philosophy emerges, derived from Hegelian dialectics, Marxist politics and Lacanian psychoanalysis. At the same time, Zizek's witty and accessible approach to his subject and his choice of exemplars from pop culture ensure that this is a consistently fresh and surprising body of work.

The book includes a new preface by Zizek himself, as well as an introduction by the editors and a helpful glossary for those coming to Zizek's work for the first time.

Autorentext

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Zusammenfassung
Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj i ek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring, provocative and entertaining cultural critics at work today. Drawing upon the full range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture, reflecting the remarkable breadth and depth of i ek's interest in politics, culture and philosophy, and also showcasing his entertaining style. A full and clear sense of i ekian philosophy emerges, derived from Hegelian dialectics, Marxist politics and Lacanian psychoanalysis. At the same time, i ek's witty and accessible approach to his subject and his choice of exemplars from pop culture ensure that this is a consistently fresh and surprising body of work. The book includes a new preface by i ek himself, as well as an introduction by the editors and a helpful glossary for those coming to i ek's work for the first time.

Inhalt

Preface by Slavoj Zizek
'The Thing Itself' Appears: Introducing the Work of Slavoj Zizek
Part One: Lacanian Orientations

1. The Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Yugoslavia 2. Why Lavan is Hegelian
2. The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel with Lacan
3. Connections of the Freudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture
4. Lacan between Cultural Studies and Cognitivism
   Part Two: Philosophy Traversed by Psychoanalysis
5. The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis
6. A Hair of the Dog That Bit You
7. Hegel, Lacan, Deleuze: Three Strange Bedfellows
8. The Eclipse of Meaning: On Lacan and Deconstruction
9. The Parallax View Part Three: The Fantasy of Ideology 11. Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmic Spectre: Towards a Lacanian Theory of Ideology
10. Beyond Discourse Analysis
11. Re-visioning 'Lacanian' Social Criticism: The Law and its Obscene Double
12. Why is Wagner Worth Saving?
13. The Real of Sexual Difference
    Glossary