SLSL Succession of the Criminally Insane (was Has anyone seen a Pynchon book lately?)

[Dave Monroe]

Main Entry: en·joy·ment 
Pronunciation: in-'joi-m&nt
Function: noun
Date: 1553
1 a : the action or state of enjoying b : possession
and use <the enjoyment of civic rights>
2 : something that gives keen satisfaction 

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Note 1 b, and see, e.g., ...

Zizek, Slavoj.  For They Know Not What They Do:
   Enjoyment as a Political Factor.  2nd ed.
   London and New York: Verso, 2002 [1991].

"Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity.
Where God the Father forgives our ignorance,
psychoanalysis holds out no suchy hope. Ignorance is
not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks
enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black
holes in our symbolic universe that escape the
Father's prohibition.

"Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we
are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the
re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism.
With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that
have emerged are far from democratic. To explain this
apparent paradox, says Slavoj Zizek, socialist
critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis.

"For They Know Not What They Do seeks to understand
the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse,
from Hegel through Lacan to these political and
ideological deadlocks...."

http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/xyz-titles/zizek_for_they.shtml

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:
> > <<"(...) that succession of the criminally insane
> > who have enjoyed power since 1945.">>
> 
> (I think it may be very significant that Pynchon
> chose the word "enjoy" rather than "held.")

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