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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Slavoj Zizek"”.
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Analyse critique du projet politique de Slavoj Zizek
… donné pour objectif d'explorer les travaux de Slavoj Zizek afin de voir si le projet marxiste pouvait bénéficier des acquis de la post-modernité et ainsi se présenter comme un projet politique viable aujourd'hui. Slavoj Zizek, philosophe et psychanalyste slovène est en effet mieux connu pour …
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Slavoj Zizek, Radical Theology, and the Materialist Defense of Christianity
… the theological assertions of the philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, an atheist and a materialist, has produced a rather substantial body of work concerning Christianity in general and Christian theology specifically. My aim here is several. First, to provide an intellectual portrait of the …
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Indentity-in-motion : the narrative duration of the dis/continous film moment
… films. film theor), and philosophers. such as Slavoj Zizek. Gilles Deletize, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. An encounter with a moment of image suspension. a cut to the blank screen- in Tacita Dean's film, Disappearance atSea (1996). motivates the beginning of this journey's narrative. My reading …
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The Ill Which Remains Within: Exploring the Limits of Hope as a Philosophical Basis for Education
… psychoanalysis as interpreted by the philosopher Slavoj Zizek to critically examine how hope, rather than freeing us from the present, traps us in a version of the future. Working with Freirean theories of subjectivity in education, I argue that hope holds us captive to our potential future …
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<i>Sucker Punch</i> and the Political Problem of Fantasy to Female Representation
… about women and, using the work of Laura Mulvey, Slavoj Zizek, Jeffrey Brown, Angela McRobbie and Rosalind Gill, among others, I explore the way the film gives important insight into the limits of successfully emptying fantasy of pleasure. I divide the film's engagement with pleasure into two main …
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Into the heartland of the ordinary
… Amongst contemporaries, the cultural critic Slavoj Zizek and the ethnomethodologist Harvey Sacks are treated as resources for alternative formulations of the collective interest in the relations between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Zizek's injunction to "look awry" at the habitual and …
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Rewriting the Future: The Construction of Masculine Subjectivity Within Articulations of Russia's Post-Soviet National Idea
… the ideas of Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, and others, I analyze the ways in which male corporeality is articulated as an embodiment of the nation, and point to the consequences of articulations that serve to "naturalize" or "normalize" certain masculinities over others. Many …
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A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
<p>Slavoj Zizek argues that, if Althusser was an adamant structuralist who reduced subject to a mere function of ideology, Lacan was a genuine critic of such a position, who showed how the subject can separate itself from the symbolic structure of ideology. Zizek's portrayal of the debate, however, …
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The politics of poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina: re-assessing tradition since the late 1980s
… culture, primarily on works by Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Zizek, Raymond Williams, and Alan Sinfield, I intervene in the cultural memory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and establish a tradition of dissidence, which I locate in the marginalised alternative practices of feminists, gays and lesbians, and …
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The transience of the interior self: Exploring the lost Real within a creative visual praxis
… of the interior self as explored by the theorist Slavoj Zizek. Theoretically, the notion of the interior self is defined as a transient state of co-existing contradictions. Its definition is located in Zizek’s reading of Jacques Lacan’ s triad of orders that comprise the thinking self (Zizek, …
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The encounter with the real and post-Soviet trauma : fantasy construction in Russian popular cinema /
… of Jacques Lacan and its interpretation by Slavoj Zizek, which emphases the traumatic encounter with the Real as a "hard core" of our reality. According to this paradigm, a new chain of signifiers is structured around the traumatic breach in the Symbolic, initiating a process of fantasy …
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Repetition Repeated: Reconstructing a Lacanian Subjectivity Through Kierkegaardian Repetition
… to scientific and political revolutions. But as Slavoj Zizek has pointed out, almost from the moment Descartes posited the mind-body problem, there was an anxiety about what it meant to be “one who thinks.”1 This anxiety presents itself as a continuous questioning of the ontology of the subject, …
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The National Committee for Liberation ("ARM"), 1960-1964 : sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… Pecheux, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Slavoj Zizek. Pechcux's elaboration of the Althusserian concept of interpellation formed the basis of a discourse analysis of NCL texts. In the interviews, some use was also made of techniques of ethnographic interviewing developed by qualitative …
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… oscillates between thought and affect. Following Slavoj Zizek, we can develop a Lacanian parallel to the social imaginary around the notion of the master-signifier that 'quilts' the production of meaning and anchors our social reality. Crucially, it does so by producing 'objects' that address the …
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« Tu m'arracheras de moi » : la limite de la représentation dans la poésie de René Lapierre (1990-2008)
… de sens. Les théories du philosophe slovène Slavoj Žižek, telles qu’elles sont formulées dans son ouvrage The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), et notamment en ce qui a trait à l’idéologie, permettent d’éclairer certains des enjeux cachés de la représentation. La présente analyse se …
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TOWARDS A POINTAL ECCLESIOLOGY: ZIZEK AND BADIOU IN THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATION
… subject,” followed by an examination of Slavoj Zizek’s materialist theology, undertaken with a view to what they can say to inform the modem Western Church. Though the thrust of their work is primarily political and ethical in nature, Zizek and Badiou will be drawn upon here to construct …