Žižek, Slavoj. “Slavoj Žïžek in Kosova — Ideology Between Symptom and Fetish.” Online Video Clip. YouTube. YouTube, 29 May 2009. Web. 14 Feb. 2013.
Pfaller, Robert. “Where is Your Hamster The Concept of Ideology in Slavoj Žižek’s Cultural Theory.” Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Žižek. Eds. Geoff Boucher , and Jason Glynos and Matthew Sharpe, 2005.
Hamster This is the famous hamster story
Interpassivity Not only inter-activity, where others can be active for us, what about inter-passivity, others who could be passive for us.
Fascist Populism Fetish: The lie is at the surface. the cause of this antagonism is the Jew.
In the first case is from appearance to what is hidden behind it. On the other hand, JEWS are responisble, you tell me but don’t you see that when you are attacking jews, you are really attacking financial exploitation, and you are targeting the wrong guy.
Although one thought it would be easy to UNDERMINE the anti-semite, don’t you see you are just projecting on the JEWS for all that is wrong for society. It seems evident for those who are not in it. BUT IT ISN’T THIS EASY.
A naive liberal, but can’t you see universal rights are a problem, then he might say a more social liberal, we should include woman. or cynicsm, “I know but we can’t afford true equality, that’s life.”
Fetishist Ironic disavowal: Kung Fu Panda, oriental mythology, at the same time the film makes fun of its own orientalist mythology. Even though it makes fun of it, it still functions. Our beliefs still function even if we don’t believe in it. Niels Bohr again.
open fundamentalist disavowal: anti-semitism
The moment you accept the debate at the level of facts. The true question are Jews really like that: Why does Nazi needs this figure of the Jew to sustain its ideological edifice. Even if a husband is jealous, with a suspicion of his wife, even if his wife is sleeping around, his jealousy is pathological fact. Why did he need this pathological to sustain his psychic stability.
Here is the moment when Žižek distinguishes between being simply racist against Jews and true anti-semitism Jews is blah blah. This is racist. They are blah blah because they are jewish Being a jew is the mysterious X, that explains all of it. THE LOGIC OF FETISHISM AT ITS PUREST.
Here is the chicken joke Maybe Yugoslavia disappeared because Tito was not allowed to know. 1972 the economic situation had to be done, something big. But they didn’t tell Tito. The top nomenklatura decided if we make this public then Tito who is old will die unhappy. Let’s postpone the crisis, throughout the 1970s the economy was artificially sustained, and by the 1990s it all exploded. Yugoslavia had nothing to do with nationalist passions. It was the structure of this joke, Tito was a chicken who should not know. From everyday life: let’s say I have cancer, of course I would be strong enough, I would try not to tell this to my children, to NOT let them know. Maintain appearance, the chicken should not know. This chicken should not know logic, you find in Ptomekin villages, when it was know Tito would visit a village, in the end of the 1950s in China, when Mao ..