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Vighi, Fabio. On Žižek’s Dialectics. New York: Continuum, 2010.
Žižek’s “subject” re-appropriates the utopian urge inherent in what Lacan called ‘subjective destitution‘: the traumatic “fall of knowledge”, the assumption of the non-existence of the big Other and consequent evacuation of all subject ideals references and points of identification. 101
note 3 page 174: Apropos Lacan’s subjective desitution, Žižek claims that ‘at the end of the psychoanalytic cure, the analysand has to suspend the urge to symbolize/internalize, to interpret, to search for a “deeper meaning”; he has to accept that the traumatic encounters which traced out the itinerary of his life were utterly contingent and indifferent, that they bear no “deeper message”‘
note 4: … the subject qua site of antagonistic substance is the opposite of the subject of interpellation: ‘far from emerging as the outcome of interpellation, the subject emerges only when and in so far as interpellation liminally fails. Not only does the subjectg never fully recognize itself int eh interpellative call: its resistance to interpellation (to the symbolic identity provided by interpellation) is the subject’ (Žižek in CHU 2000, 115).