Slavoj Žižek ; translated by Thomas Scott-Railton.
English edition.
Malden, MA :
Polity Press,
[2014]
2014
vi, 250 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Originally published in French as Le plus sublime des L'hystérique. Hegel avec Lacan Presses Universitaires de France, 2011 -- Title page verso.
L'hystérique la plus sublime
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-235) and index.
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction: Impossible Absolute Knowledge; Book I: Hegel with Lacan; 1: "The Formal Aspect": Reason versus Understanding; The story of an appearance; Wanting to say and saying; Zeno's paradoxes; Truth as loss of the object; 2: The Retroactive Performative, or How the Necessary Emerges from the Contingent; One-grain-more, one-hair-less; The Witz of the synthesis; Hegel and the contingent; Necessity as a retroactive effect; From king to bureaucracy; 3: The Dialectic as Logic of the Signifier (1): The One of Self-ReferenceThe "quilting point" ["point de capiton"]The dialectical return-to-the-self; The universal as exception; The subjectified structure; The Hegelian "one One"; 4: The Dialectic as Logic of the Signifier (2): The Real of the "Triad"; Lalangue and its boundary; Coincidentia oppositorum; The missed encounter is the object; Forbidding the impossible; Thesis-antithesis-synthesis; 5: Das Ungeschehenmachen: How is Lacan a Hegelian?; The three stages of the symbolic; Das Ungeschehenmachen; Crime and punishment; The "beautiful soul"6: The "Cunning of Reason," or the True Nature of the Hegelian TeleologyFailure in Austen; The Hegelian subject versus the Fichtean subject; The "reconciliation"; "The spirit is a bone"; "Wealth is the self"; 7: "The Suprasensible is the Phenomenon as Phenomenon," or How Hegel Goes Beyond the Kantian Thing-in-Itself; Kant and McCullough; The ne explétif; "The suprasensible is the phenomenon as phenomenon"; 8: Two Hegelian Witz, Which Help Us Understand Why Absolute Knowledge Is Divisive; The signifying reflection; The other's lack; The symbolic act". . . that integral void that we also call the sacred"How "Absolute Knowledge" is divisive; Book II: Post-Hegelian Impasses; 9: The Secret of the Commodity Form: Why is Marx the Inventor of the Symptom?; Marx, Freud: the analysis of form; The commodity form in the unconscious; Marx, inventor of the symptom; Fetish and commodity; The "subjects who supposedly . . ."; 10: Ideology Between the Dream and the Phantasy: A First Attempt at Defining "Totalitarianism"; The Real in ideology; Surplus jouissance [plus-de-jouir] and surplus value; The totalitarian phantasy, the totalitarianism of phantasy11: Divine Psychosis, Political Psychosis: A Second Attempt at Defining "Totalitarianism""Argue . . . but obey!"; The obscenity of the form; Kant with Kafka; "The Law is the Law"; Forced choice; Radical evil; Divine prehistory; 12: Between Two Deaths: Third, and Final, Attempt at Defining "Totalitarianism"; The second death; Benjamin: revolution as repetition; The "perspective of the last judgment"; The totalitarian body; "The People does not exist"; 13: The Quilting Point of Ideology: Or Why Lacan is Not a "Poststructuralist"; The "arbitrariness" of the signifier; The One and the impossibleLacan versus "poststructuralism"