A plea for a return to Différance (with a minor Pro Domo Sua)

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 226-249

  Žižek, Slavoj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34249426810     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500702     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Andrej Capuder, "Vino in most," Demokracija (Ljubljana), 9 Dec. 2004, p. 9;
2. trans. mine. Incidentally, does this "where there is a high-rise building, a bin Laden should come" not sound like a new politicized version of Freud's "wo es war soll ich werden" (Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. and ed. James Strachey, 24 vols. [London, 1953-74], 22:80)?
3. Kevin B. MacDonald, The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (Westport, Conn. , 1998), p. 169; hereafter abbreviated CC.
4. Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (Princeton, N. J. , 2004), p. 23.
5. See Georg Lukács, Die Zerstörung der Vernunft (Berlin, 1953);
6. trans. under the title The Destruction of Reason, by Peter Palmer (Atlantic Highlands, N. J. , 1980).
7. The same line of attack was brought to its extreme by Jörg Lau in Germany, who, after the weird claim that I celebrate the 9/11 attack as the proper Lacanian political act, as the intervention in the Real which breaks the spell of capitalist ideological hallucinations, ends up by directly characterizing me as a pathological person; there is, in me, "etwas Verkommenes, geistig Verwahrlostes" (Jörg Lau, "Auf der Suche nach dem guten Terror: Über Slavoj Žižek," Merkur 2 [Feb. 2003]: 162). Is it necessary to add that I was not able to answer these defamations in any German printed medium?
8. Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason, p. 307.
9. Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real (London, 2002), pp. 51-52.
10. See Jacques Derrida, Acts of Religion, trans. Samuel Weber et al. , ed. Gil Anidjar (New York, 2002).
11. Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York, 1994), pp. 64-65.
12. See Derrida, "Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of 'Religion,'" trans. Weber, in Religion, trans. David Webb and Weber, ed. Derrida and Gianni Vattimo (Stanford, Calif. , 1998), pp. 1-78.
13. See Ernesto Laclau, Emancipation (s) (London, 1995).
14. Derrida, of course, developed this motif in great detail in The Truth in Painting, trans. Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod (Chicago, 1987).
15. Krzysztof Kieślowski, "Workers '71," Kieślowski on Kieślowski, ed. Danusia Stok (London, 1993), pp. 54-55.
16. Kieślowski, "Station," Kieślowski on Kieślowski, p. 86.
17. For a more detailed account of this passage, see Žižek, The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski between Theory and Post-Theory (London, 2001), chap. 1.
18. Rebecca Comay, "Dead Right: Hegel and the Terror," South Atlantic Quarterly 103 (Spring-Summer 2004): 392.
19. Fredric Jameson, A Singular Modernity: Essays on the Ontology of the Present (London, 2002), p. 12.
20. See Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, trans. Alan Sheridan, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller (New York, 1979), p. 63.
21. See Miller, "Angoisse constituée, angoisse constituante," www. lacan. com/jamsem2. html
22. See Eric Santner, On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (Chicago, 2001).