{"id":36512,"date":"2023-11-03T18:46:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/zizek-his-key-ideas-explained"},"modified":"2023-11-03T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:58:34","slug":"zizek-his-key-ideas-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/zizek-his-key-ideas-explained","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek: his key ideas explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Wikimedia Commons\/Blatterhin It might be said that books by Slavoj Z\u030ciz\u030cek don\u2019t conclude, they just end. And indeed, no matter which of his many books you open, you\u2019ll find philosophy, psychoanalysis, pop culture, a smattering of off-key jokes, and commentary on recent events \u2013 often in no readily-discernible order.<\/p>\n

Z\u030ciz\u030cek, a Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist, is known to many today for his 2019 debate with psychology professor and culture warrior Jordan Peterson.<\/p>\n

This debate, held in Toronto, Canada, was about the relationship between Marxism, capitalism, and happiness. Z\u030ciz\u030cek was presented as the Leftist counterpoint to Peterson\u2019s reactionary stylings.<\/p>\n

While the two disagreed on much, they agreed on certain things, such as their criticism of identity politics. Yet this debate, too, arguably ended rather than came to any conclusions.<\/p>\n

Z\u030ciz\u030cek burst onto the anglophone academic scene over 30 years ago with a sequence of groundbreaking works, starting with the 1989 book, The Sublime Object of Ideology. Then there were wonderful explorations of Hollywood cinema in Enjoy your Symptom! and Looking Awry.<\/p>\n

Once dubbed a \u201ccelebrity philosopher\u201d by Foreign Policy, he has since written books on everything from violence, the GFC and September 11 to Christianity and the pandemic. His latest book explores the question of freedom.<\/p>\n

The critique of ideology<\/b><\/p>\n

The title of Z\u030ciz\u030cek\u2019s 1989 book, The Sublime Object of Ideology, points towards a key aspect of his profuse intellectual productivity. From the start, Z\u030ciz\u030cek has been interested in what motivates people to act the ways they do.<\/p>\n

He is especially interested in why people passionately identify with political ideas and causes that may not serve their own best interests. An ideology is any political doctrine that promises to tell people how to organise political life, and where they fit into the larger scheme of things.<\/p>\n

Marxism-Leninism is one such ideology, liberalism another, fascism one more. An ideology can bring people meaning and a shared sense of common purpose.<\/p>\n

According to Z\u030ciz\u030cek, political ideologies also rationalise to their subjects why societies don\u2019t seem to always become, over the course of time, wiser, better, more just, and less prone to rolling crises.<\/p>\n

(Since 2000 alone, we have faced 9-11, the wars on terror and in Iraq, the Global Financial Crisis, the sovereign debt crises, the resurgence of authoritarian strongmen, Covid-19, the Ukraine war and now the Israel-Hamas conflict.) Political systems cannot flourish unless they can garner the peaceful support of the majority of their citizens.<\/p>\n

So, faced with problems like war, economic failures, or terrorism, argues Z\u030ciz\u030cek, ideologies externalise these problems\u2019 causes: it\u2019s not us, it\u2019s them, or forces beyond our control, so we cannot be blamed \u2013 if only these external or disloyal sources of disorder can be removed, all will be well.<\/p>\n

The political unconscious<\/b><\/p>\n

Z\u030ciz\u030cek draws on insights from French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, to explore the paradoxical sides of ideologies. He couples this with recourse to ideas from German idealist philosophers led by Immanuel Kant, G.W. F. Hegel, and Friedrich Schelling. Lacan argued that a good deal of human behaviour is motivated by irrational drives and wishes we do not consciously grasp. This is why one of Z\u030ciz\u030cek\u2019s early books bears the portentous Biblical title, For They Know Not What They Do.<\/p>\n

In order to understand these \u201cunconscious\u201d motives, Lacan drew on the linguistics and anthropology of his time, producing writings of almost legendary difficulty.<\/p>\n

One reason for Z\u030ciz\u030cek\u2019s success is his great ability to help Lacan make sense to us today by using examples from pop culture, jokes, and politics. For instance, Z\u030ciz\u030cek illustrates the Lacanian idea of the unsymbolisable Real, by comparing it to the monsters of the Alien movies.<\/p>\n

Z\u030ciz\u030cek\u2019s basic Lacanian claim, in terms of his \u201ccritique of ideology\u201d, is that people do not always identify with political causes on rational bases. They form passionate, sometimes unconditional identifications with causes and leaders based on their earliest attachments to parental figures.<\/p>\n

They are thus identifying with what Z\u030ciz\u030cek calls the \u201csublime objects\u201d of ideologies: whether it is a \u201ccharismatic\u201d leader, or an elevating idea like \u201cthe revolution\u201d or \u201chuman freedom\u201d.<\/p>\n

This identification does not turn upon any individual necessarily knowing what the cause means, truly, or what their \u201cbeloved leader\u201d actually stands for.<\/p>\n

It is enough for us each to see that others around us identify with the ideological cause, and assign especial significance to it. We then \u201cbelieve through the Other\u201d, as Z\u030ciz\u030cek characteristically says.<\/p>\n

Parishioners in medieval churches, he writes, would mostly have not understood the mass, which was carried out in Latin. But it did not matter. The ritual still acted as a salve. People \u201cbelieved through their priests\u201d, who they supposed knew the meaning of the words being recited.<\/p>\n

In exchange for our identification with ideologies, Z\u030ciz\u030cek claims, we gain a sense of \u201cideological enjoyment\u201d: that we are \u201call in this together\u201d, sharing everything from public events and festivals to the micro-customs organising everyday life, including shared cultural senses of humour.<\/p>\n

On the flipside, Z\u030ciz\u030cek\u2019s analyses suggest that what subjects of ideologies most despise in \u201cout-groups\u201d (ie outsiders), is that they seem not to enjoy the same things, in the same way, that \u201cwe\u201d do.<\/p>\n

They smell, speak, eat, worship, even play differently. It is therefore a very common ideological device to position these others as trying to steal our enjoyment from us: taking away our jobs, our taxpayer\u2019s dollars, our \u201cway of life\u201d .
\nWhither Z\u030ciz\u030cek?<\/b><\/p>\n

Z\u030ciz\u030cek\u2019s early work suggested that the goal of his Lacanian rethinking of ideology was to enable societies to free themselves from \u201cideological fantasies\u201d \u2013 like recurrent ideas of a utopian \u201cend of history\u201d, or of a \u201cpurified\u201d, fascistic community of the People.<\/p>\n

The result would be a form of enlightened political democracy. Since around the turn of the millennium, Z\u030ciz\u030cek has, however, vacillated as to whether any political regime can endure without resting on such irrational political myths.<\/p>\n

From this time, often seeming to utilise parodic humour, Z\u030ciz\u030cek has positioned himself as a \u201cdefender of lost causes\u201d, to echo the title of arguably his most controversial book.<\/p>\n

These causes sometimes seemingly include even the Jacobin Terror of the French revolution or Stalinism. He has claimed, too, that Martin Heidegger\u2019s embrace of Nazism was a \u201cright step in the wrong direction\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, critics like political theorist Ernesto Laclau have questioned the credentials of Z\u030ciz\u030cek\u2019s professed \u201cMarxism\u201d. Some wonder if his patented radical poses are under-girded by any progressive vision of the political good.<\/p>\n

Others point out that his own political record in Slovenia in the late 1980s, in which he supported \u201cmore privatizations\u201d (\u201cif it works, why not try a dose of it?\u201d), does not sit easily with his Marxist stances in the West since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

Z\u030ciz\u030cek was recently described by philosopher Gabriel Rockhill as a kind of unlikely \u201ccourt jester\u201d in today\u2019s hyper market-driven societies: a radical anti-capitalist who is a commercial success, and whose scattered writings are uncannily suited for readers in a rapid-pace world.<\/p>\n

Z\u030ciz\u030cek\u2019s evident delight in reversing expectations, and making almost unbelievably provocative propositions, at times makes it difficult to ascertain just how seriously we are meant to take him.<\/p>\n

Z\u030ciz\u030cek has defended himself against such criticisms by saying he wishes to challenge the \u201cpost-political\u201d idea that social change is no longer possible, after the fall of the iron curtain.<\/p>\n

Beyond the brilliant exegeses and application of some formidably difficult theory, it is perhaps as an intellectual provocateur that Z\u030ciz\u030cek is most generously to be read.<\/p>\n

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