Žižek doesn’t accord much to Lacan’s seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis. He said it ended in a deadlock. Lacan immediately turned away. Jean Claude Milner, “Do not give way as to your desire” Lacan says this only once or twice in one lecture. He never returns to it. This is because it is not Lacan’s position. He was trying to work something out and things are more complicated.
7:30 Madness: Psychotic withdrawal and then come habit in efforts to calm and get stability.
1st act of freedom is that you treat as freely chosen something that is deemed absolutely necessary
Why does Antigone insist on funeral rights. Symbolic act the natural necessity of dying
Antigone: for Ž she is an evil bitch.
13:10 Ž’s 3rd version of Antigone. Jacobin revolutionary Chorus steps forward and establishes popular dictatorship, the Chorus becomes a Jacobin council for revolutionary democracy
Žižek_Big_Other.mp4
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If it is prohibited it arouses my desire (St. Paul) the LOGIC OF TRANSGRESSION. Ž doesn’t think much of this. It is Bataille’s theory. In order to do transgression you need the law first to prohibit it. Desire is only produced by the prohibition of law.
25:00 Bottle of beer, reducing the other to a partial object sex for procreation (children) you have to be married
sex for loveLaura Kipnis: Against Love. Ž thinks that on the contrary, love is more and more a radical thing. It isn’t a bourgois decadence. (Does he have Kipnes right here?)
27:00 Ž against the flux of identity, Today more and more LOVE is the transgression
The message you get from society is not marriage and be faithful, but Dalai Lama hedonism.
30:00 Empirical proof of the big Other
From Vertigo, jumps into the bay, takes her out of the bay, undresses her and puts her into his bed. Above the kitchen sink he hangs her dresses.
The camera shot implies that her panties are hanging above the kitchen sink. But if you put it on freeze there is no panties and bras, just towels and dress.
Hays Code censorship. It should not be really underwear because this would be proof that he say her naked while undressing her. And they are not married.
But who are they protecting. The viewers assume it is underwear. They act as if, there is a big Other an innocent gaze, and that gaze should be protected. You must include the innocent gaze of the big Other for whom Appearances Must be Maintained. Don’t underestimate the appearances.
34:00 Cascablanca scene. Did they do it or not?
37:11 Richard Maltby wrote a text on this scene. The scene is contructed as consciously contradictory. There is a series of codified signals that they did it, but there are other codes that they didn’t.
The film addresses us at 2 levels simultaneously, we live in repressive times so I will give you a moral cover, you can say no they didn’t do it, but they also give you codified signs all the possible transgressions to fantasize.