{"id":13934,"date":"2020-03-28T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=13934"},"modified":"2020-04-08T03:21:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:21:35","slug":"zupancic-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2020\/03\/28\/zupancic-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis&#8221; <br>\n\u2014 A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference (December 16 &#8211; 18, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d, &quot;The Fantasy of the End\u201d [1\/5]\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zxoeY7GnKeE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Repetition and the End, recurring fantasies is the fantasy of the end, of capital even, this fantasy of the end also existed prior to capital, but the way it is structured in capitalism and look at the shift in this structuring.  Namely the shift that took place end of 80s and beginning of 90s, Francis Fukuyama&#8217;s book the <em>End of History<\/em>, this book marks the opposite of what it seems to suggest, it marks the IMPOSSIBILITY to end capitalism, the impossibility for capitalism to come to an end, this transhistorical formation will continue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disappearance of all real OUTSIDE to capitalism: the end of the Cold War, socialism existing outside marking boundary of capitalism, now the outside is on the way to the inside, or already included in the inside, and this INSIDE is all there is.  The End of History, means we are living in times that cannot END, not for any intrinsic or dialectical reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is turn plays an important part of how the fantasy of the end is structured.  It can only come from the outside, but outside as a &#8216;natural universe&#8217;, it involves total destruction of earth, like hit by comet, at least extinction of biological basis of humankind. The only way we can think of capitalism is the end of the world, the end of the earth or at least end of the human.  Post-POST-Human endorses Fukuyama, end of history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past decade this capitalist resilience, its capacity to turn all contradictions\/resistances into its own advantage, to feed on these contradictions, no way out, the way out is appropriated by the inside.  No Way Out should not be confused with the non-existence of an OUTSIDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUGGEST: the idea of the end is Capital, functions as an ideological fantasy screen that obfuscates 2 levels, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>capitalism prospers on its own Contradictions are not NEW but are built in, <\/li><li>the historical disappearance of the outside, is not the same and should not be taken as one with its reliance on the internal contradiction.  <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That  there exists no symbolic Other to capitalism is a HISTORICAL contingency that can be changed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capitalism is changing all the time, but we should not take this as condescending to the two levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should not conceive the END as the end of the perpetuation of something, but is the end perpetuated by the repetition itself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can end it whenever I want.  Why bother now. The possibility of ending what we are doing is condition of its repetition. Not having the strength to end it, is the possibility of ending it. Why bother now, it can wait.  POSSIBILITY.  Every sperms is sacred, catholic family has 50 kids, dance and sing the song, perspective shifts to Protestant couple, Bloody Catholics, why do they have so many children, husband replies, because everytime they have sexual intercourse they have to have a baby, &#8230; Protestant can use condoms, french tickler wife says why don&#8217;t you, its the POSSIBILITY, the END IS STRUCTURED as a POSSIBILITY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freedom of possibility, expressed in FREEDOM of choice is the best antidote to freedom (Abolishing Freedom Frank Ruda),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be counter-acted by comic fatalism: Act as if the END HAS ALREADY HAPPENED, act as if you were dead, as if everything were already lost.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To stop smoking, ACT as if you&#8217;ve ALREADY stopped.  The cigarette you smoked 30 minutes ago was actually your LAST one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-bright-red-color has-white-background-color\"><strong>Once the possibility enters the game and structures freedom RESIST presenting the stakes as POSSIBILITY versus ACTUALITY or Realization of this possibility<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opposition is precisely how freedom as oppression works in practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kant: You must therefore you can. if it needs to be done, no matter how difficult you can do it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUPEREGO: You CAN THEREFORE YOU MUST, there is this possibility you can do it, You MUST.  Possibilities are to be realized by all means and by any price. You can do it therefore you MUST. We not to MISS out on ANY of these possibilities capitalism has to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But never to question of framework of these possibilities as possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unscrew the very framework of &#8220;Freedom as possibility to be realized.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protestant Couple: NOT YET CAUGHT INTO SUPEREGO IMPERATIVE OF ENJOYMENT.  The Risk of this swift conclusion, were they to act on these possibilities, then they would have been really free, but this is NOT the case, the problem is not that they didn&#8217;t act although they could have, EVEN IF THEY WERE TO ACT, this act would have been caught up in this logic of freedom of possibilities.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They can go on practicing their puritanism because they believe they could stop it whenever they want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To go on smoking while the possibility of quitting is here to help me to smoke. How many people would start smoking if the state instead of putting warnings, threats and disgusting images on cigarette packages, but <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pass a law: if you start smoking you can never quit, once you start you commit to it for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are infinitely approaching the end as a limit, potentiality the very precondition of the movement of repetition, what structures it, what buys us the freedom to enjoy, structures the enjoyment of ending it. Enjoyment of the postponing of the end as a kind of absolute enjoyment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d, &quot;The Fantasy of the End\u201d [2\/5]\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L_3UhM7IFnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the end this is the last time I do it.This cigarette right here and now is the LAST cigarette I will smoke.  The ultimate cigarette. Think of every cigarette you smoke as your last one and enjoy it accordingly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you have to believe it is your last one, that this is the END. In other words you have to be a neurotic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The economy of enjoyment, you cannot say to yourself, I will act AS IF this is my last cigarette.  You want to stop you do everything in your power to stop, but you end up accumulating 1 cigarette after another  infinitely repeating the end. and Enjoying against your will THIS IS THE ECONOMY of the UNCONSCIOUS.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Different from the previous configuration as THE END AS POSSIBILITY AS INHERENT TO THE REPETITION, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> What is at stake here is REPETITION is INHERENT to the END.   There is something about the end itself that drives repetition, and repetition is repetition of an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does he want to stop to end it so badly?  Doctor&#8217;s strategy: There is no reason for you to stop. Smoking isn&#8217;t bad for you. Doctor imposes is the absolute freedom to smoke which throws out the imperative to end but the framework of possibility of ending it.  NO END IN SIGHT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this changes the configuration radically.  He goes on smoking like a chimney for a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ends analysis and stops smoking. &#8220;I have been able to Abolish the freedom that the foolish doctor granted me.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imperative to smoke and the imperative to quick smoking come from the same structural place and efficiently PROTECT each other and sustain the core of repression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABSTRACT FREEDOM OF CHOICE is the very form of existence of an imperative. The freedom to choose between products is the form of existence of the imperative to buy.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that he was cured the moment he stopped going to analysis. Zano&#8217;s obsession with smoking has been successfully changed into transference neurosis. He ends smoking by ending his analysis &#8230; he needed to end this other thing in order to end the first thing.  ?????<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AN ACTING OUT: subject acts out the very core of his symptom in a flagrant way but doesn&#8217;t notice it.  Example: solution proposed by doctor, patient, every noon when I leave here, I walk through these streets, in one of the restaurants I find my favourite dish &#8220;fresh brains&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONCLUDING PART OF NOVEL:  sickness and the sick will prosper and flourish, by devices outside our body, extensions of arm, by now the device has no relation to limb, creates sickness, loss of healthful selection, it will take much more than psychoanalysis to cure this sickness, it will take no less than the end of the world.  We will return to HEALTH after the catastrophe.   An enormous explosions and earth will wander through heavens free of parasites and sickness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>its no longer about quitting smoking but the whole world exploding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intellectual climate of our times.  The THEME OF THE END.  APOCOLYPSE, end of human beings.  Fantasmatic character of these representations of the end. The idea of most radical end, serves as framework in which we interpret our present reality. Serves as means of ideology consolidation. Provides a spectacular answer to question, what needs to change for our present troubles to end.  Answer: nothing, or the total catastrophe will happen and the new will begin.  PEOPLE TODAY CAN IMAGING EARTH BEING HIT BY A COMET RATHER THAN change in socio-economic system.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many cheer some total catastrophe.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idea of the end is framework we use to interpret present reality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just how much is needed to change present reality. What has to end in order for our present troubles to end. We have our pick.  Something new can begin, silver lining of catastrophe fables.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only a radical catastrophe can save us from ourselves.  here that we should <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has already happened, radical extinction ? is not too optimistic.  Total extinction cannot guarantee a way out.  Our we need already living a repetition of this scenario.  Distinguish actual possibility of ending in planetary disaster, from end of our troubles as a future possiblity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delegating our end to another end, which will take care of it in one go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IT is a real symptom of an utter impotence to intervene in course of events .. this impotence is real, it should not let us confuse with absolute necessity that could only be dealt with the end of it all <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ANOTHER SLOGAN:  THE WORLD WILL SURELY END BUT IT WON&#8217;T BE THE END OF OUR TROUBLES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d, &quot;The Fantasy of the End\u201d [3\/5]\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QI7ibPbKVJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We seem to be delegating our present end to another end which will take care of it.  Impotence is real, our inability to intervene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Slogan: The world surely end but it won&#8217;t be the end of our troubles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freedom as such as something yet to be realized. Entraps us in a certain logic. PREDETERMINES OUR VERY FRAMEWORK OF POSSIBILITIES.  There could be a choice that dismantles this framework. But the way the choices are structures, a certain framework excludes certain things as impossible.  The way possibilities induce us to follow the logic of Freedom as realization of potential of possibility  The way the choices are structured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political Act, a political intervention, a choice that makes a DIFFERENCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AS IF &#8230; I would not follow all the way through this modality.  THE END SHOULD BE TAKEN AS SOMETHING THAT ALREADY HAPPENED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our universe itself is inconsistent &#8230; To what extent when we think about capitalism, end it get out of it, we think what follows from these ideas of the end, capitalism as so much as one with our BEING the only way to get rid of it, is to get rid of the last trace of human nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RUDA. END as the Beginning &#8230; SPLIT &#8230; This outside can be created, an alternative social reality &#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLAVOJ:  A possibility which has to be evoked, though we know it won&#8217;t be used. I compete with a job with my friend, my friend wins, my friend says to me, you deserved it, should I step down, and you are supposed to reject his offer.  We have to go through this gesture.   We have to go through gesture of doing an empty possibility.  You are free to choose, on condition that you make the right choice.  There is something in the very basis of our symbolic order. The only way to make a demand, it would be impolite to ask for it indirectly, ask for it directly, enigma &#8230; logic of primitive exchanges &#8230; do it as if its doing a pure act of generosity, and the returned in the same way &#8230;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduce something, at some point the Absolute freedom as another kind of possibility  becomes oppressive, doctor says you CAN continue smoking!  Parents often react, child doesn&#8217;t want to go to bed at 9 o&#8217;clock, ok if you don&#8217;t want to go, you can stay &#8230; do whatever you want I won&#8217;t pressure you anymore &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d, &quot;The Fantasy of the End\u201d [4\/5]\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KyovEcqWCHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d, &quot;The Fantasy of the End\u201d [5\/5]\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFViM1sy7R0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jnanapravaha Mumbai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time: Thirteen minutes 8 seconds , is a good summary of her argument.  Compulsive repetition of a catastrophe, people who end up in the same relationships, a catastrophe even bigger which would prevent this compulsive repetition to go on, but this is delegating the solution to a more imaginary re-articulation of this end &#8230;  For me something else, some other kind of DIFFERENCE should appear, it should not happen at the END, but in the MIDDLE of something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fantasies of Capital: Alienation, Enjoyment, Psychoanalysis&#8221; \u2014 A Jnanapravaha Mumbai Conference (December 16 &#8211; 18, 2016) Repetition and the End, recurring fantasies is the fantasy of the end, of capital even, this fantasy of the end also existed prior to capital, but the way it is structured in capitalism and look at the shift in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2020\/03\/28\/zupancic-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d in India&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13934"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13953,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions\/13953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}