A fundamental insight of psychoanalysis is the distinction between enjoyment and pleasure. The pact between the Catholic Church and nuns plagued by sexual desires: to pretend abstinence - in fact, to embrace all desires. Psychologist friend: Now people are guilty because they are not enjoying enough. The operation of ideology needs an empty container, and this container must be open to all possibilities - Ode to Joy Fantasy is an important material for ideology. Fantasy is blurred in things and we Provides simple answers when not clear. Fantasy often constructs a subject: it is not the subject who has the object of desire, but a virtual scene in which I am desired by others - desire is always to save the imaginary victim, but the problem is that the victim is not simply a victim People, who enjoy/participate in their victimized situations/encounters without wanting to be rescued - America's Humanitarian Intervention War Jaws: New Immigrants, Natural Disasters? Or a capitalist? - Zizek: Both are right and wrong. -Fear, the shark is to combine all these fears into a single fear, so that it is better to deal with the reality: the most extreme ideology in the world - Nazi anti-Semitism. The dream of every ideology: to have a cake and then eat it. The Nazis needed to create an ideological narrative to mask the deterioration of society as an inherently structural problem, passed on to the problem of foreign invaders. (such as as Jews, single mothers) How did the world as seen through the ideological frame change? Not because it "attaches" anything, but because it opens an abyss of doubt. In racism, the other is not only the enemy, but is often slapped with certain, depraved pleasures and/or the pleasures of trying to steal "us". Many elements of Nazi ideology are not naturally "fascist" and "evil". The key is to identify the ideology of "we" and "the people". How to use the elements of the previous ideology? Ideology uses these elements (the convulsive-libidinal/figurative concepts that condense all pleasures: solidarity, collective discipline) as bribes to lure us into the edifice of ideology. The elements themselves are free-floating, open to all ideologies. Turn to consumerism - Starbucks. What ideology do we buy when we buy Starbucks? "One percent of proceeds goes to charity" - pure consumerism used to make you feel guilty after buying, but now transforms you into a consumer with no scruples of conscience, while "delivering on duty and taking responsibility" . The peculiar religious structure of capitalism: driven by absolute demand, capital must circulate, multiply, expand and increase, and everything can be sacrificed for this purpose. Shipwreck - eternal redemption for love at the ideal level; military intervention in Czechoslovakia - the dream of communism "another possibility" is preserved. How ideology works: draws people together with trivial extra elements and ties them together. Fundamentalists: Be yourself the best spokesperson for the will to power—everything is allowed. This is what all totalitarian forms of organization do: Stalinism. The Big Other in Stalin's universe: the historical inevitability of communism, in short - history. Communism as an instrument of the Big Other to realize historical inevitability. The way to challenge Stalinism is not to make fun of leaders, but to destroy the mythical reference - the people. As the foundation of various ideological systems, what exactly is the Big Other? Two rather contradictory sides: 1. The secret order of things that governs our destiny, and the meaning of our actions. 2. As an order of appearances, many things that are forbidden are not simply forbidden, nor can they happen to the Other - appearances need to be maintained. We need to confess and confide in a big Other - but the Big Other does not exist, and the virtual Big Other does not accept confiding. At the same time, those others are hard to trust. So we are alone. There is a minimal amount of hysteria in our subjectivity, the way we question the symbolic identity of our society “why am I what you say I am?” Hysteria is a skeptical, creative certainty. Delegitimizing the Passion - what was crucified was the assurance of the Other "Father, why have you forsaken me" - Christ will not be resurrected individually (hierarchically), but It exists in the form of the Holy Spirit (the community of believers). While other religions retain a certain cult of the Other even though they claim that God does not exist, Christianity is truly atheistic. No big other - There is no reference to guarantee will. Two dreams: one right, pointing to a dimension that effectively transcends our existing society; one wrong, just a reflection of an idealized consumerism, a first step toward freedom, not a mere transformation Facts match your dreams, but change the way you dream, which is painful because all satisfaction comes from our dreams. Why do we easily imagine the destruction of the earth, but not the slightest changes in the economic order? Perhaps the time has come to square our possibilities. other - There is no reference to guarantee the will. Two dreams: one right, pointing to a dimension that effectively transcends our existing society; one wrong, just a reflection of an idealized consumerism, a first step toward freedom, not a mere transformation Facts match your dreams, but change the way you dream, which is painful because all satisfaction comes from our dreams. Why do we easily imagine the destruction of the earth, but not the slightest changes in the economic order? Perhaps the time has come to square our possibilities. other - There is no reference to guarantee the will. Two dreams: one right, pointing to a dimension that effectively transcends our existing society; one wrong, just a reflection of an idealized consumerism, a first step toward freedom, not a mere transformation Facts match your dreams, but change the way you dream, which is painful because all satisfaction comes from our dreams. Why do we easily imagine the destruction of the earth, but not the slightest changes in the economic order? Perhaps the time has come to square our possibilities.
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