u/Essa_Zaben

Here is the Zizek ending to Kafka's "Before the Law:"

"You dirty rascal, why do you pretend to guard the entrance to some enormous secret, when you know that very well there is no secret beyond the door, that this door in only intended for me, to capture my desire! And the door-keeper would answer him calmly: 'You see, now you've discovered the real secret: beyond the door is only what your desire introduces there...'"

The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek, Page 70 ✍️

On the same token, Zizek discusses the following example:

"A husband is obsessively convinced that his wife is cheating on him. He constantly looks for signs, interrogates her, and interprets everything as evidence of infidelity. Eventually, it turns out that she actually is having an affair."

In both above-mentioned examples are evidential of the immanence of the structural belief of the other in the subject's relation to reality...

However, wasn't it the Buddha who, if it wasn't for his transcendent desire (renunciation of desire for material and worldly pleasures), that kind of filled the spiritual hole by feeding his Chakras wisely (I cannot continue articulating my thought any further as I lack the knowledge on Buddhist philosophy).

There are realities we can explore but are not meant to explore:

Dark Arts, Black Magic, and Ouija Board Rituals etc.
Hallucinatory substances as a portal to the unknown as the Breakthrough on DMT (the research which has been discontinued in the USA).

On the other hand, there are realities we are meant to explore with our rational faculties but can not fully zero in on without a Kierkegaardian leap of faith, Zizek's notion of how subscribing to a belief works, and I scenario I just devised and I wonder if this happens to you also, which is as follows: when you stay in a darkly-lit room for a long time and you see these Geometrical shapes floating and flying before your eyes...

Do all rational endeavours and conclusions reach a dead, "Absurd" end, where we can not catch a glimpse of the ultimate reality?

There is no gold at the end of the rainbow. There is just the end.

Is Desire Immanent or Transcendent? Can the Eastern Schools of Spirituality and Western Philosophy Be Reconciled in their Notion of "The Origin of Desire?"

Where can we draw the line between the imaginary and the illusory using Lacanian psychoanalysis? Does Lacan imply that the imaginary complex number (i) is real in its implications,processes and functions but is unreal in its existence as an entity? Can we analogize objet petit a to √-1?

Where can we draw the line between the imaginary and the illusory using Lacanian psychoanalysis? Does Lacan imply that the imaginary complex number (i) is real in its implications,processes and functions but is unreal in its existence as an entity? Can we analogize objet petit a to √-1?

What a fucking joke, we are in the age of the internet and possibly entering a new 4th industrial revolution with AI, and these people are charging 400$?!?! I guess even those who call themselves Marxists are capitalist opportunists... Sad.

Hi, may someone please explain the analogy Zizek talks about here? I cannot see the continuity of the pre-symbolic babble of a child with the chanting of the Marines marching and how that links to the Kafka telephone call early on in the Castle...

"We are psychotics who try to play normal hysterics." Okay, what is the difference between a psychotic, a hysteric, a neurotic, and a pervert?

In nearly all of the Kafka philosophical interpretations it mentions the "Oedipus Complex" (including Zizek's interpretation). But I cannot make sense of it anymore, I read it in many contexts, and here is my question. Please interpret it from Zizekian POV rather than a Deleuzian one.

I find this Kafka quote "The problem isn't that of liberty but of escape" more interesting than "i am free and that is why I am lost."

I find this Kafka quote "The problem isn't that of liberty but of escape" more interesting than "i am free and that is why I am lost."

"A madman who believes himself a princess differs from the prince who is in fact a prince only because the former is a negative prince while the latter is a negative madman. Considered without their sign, they are alike."

What does Zizrk mean by the "Negative?" I am sorry guys, i just dumped Nietzsche to focus on "real system-builders" philosophers and thinkers in the tradition of Hegel, Lacan, and Zizek. I have a philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theology question each... I would deeply appreciate if you helped me in.

"My consequences have no actions." How is that a Hegelian idea?

"My consequences have no actions." How is that even a Hegelian idea?

What does Deleuze in his reading of Kafka mean by territorialization, deterritorialization, and reterritorialization?

"The only true emotion is anxiety, the rest of the emotions lie" Lacan via Zizek ✍️ May someone please not answer me but paint a picture of what Zizek and Lacan evoked in this idea?

What does Lacan mean by "Man thus speaks, but it is because the symbol has made him man."

What does Lacan mean by the Straussian "Zero Symbol?'

This is hilarious by the late Hitchens 😂

Zizek once mentioned the Kafka quote "one means of evil is dialogue," and to connect it with the full quote "evil is whatever distracts." (I seriously need your help and insights as I am in a tunnel and can't see the light at the end of it)