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The metastases of enjoyment
Book • 1994
In "Metastases of Enjoyment," Slavoj Žižek explores the affective dimension of power, focusing on the role of enjoyment in the reproduction of ideological structures.
He argues that ideology does not simply operate through false representations of reality but also through the production and manipulation of enjoyment.
Žižek analyzes various forms of enjoyment, from the perverse enjoyment of transgression to the melancholic enjoyment of suffering, demonstrating how they are implicated in the maintenance of power relations.
He emphasizes the importance of disrupting these patterns of enjoyment to achieve genuine social and political transformation.
The book is a significant contribution to critical theory and offers a powerful framework for understanding the workings of ideology.
He argues that ideology does not simply operate through false representations of reality but also through the production and manipulation of enjoyment.
Žižek analyzes various forms of enjoyment, from the perverse enjoyment of transgression to the melancholic enjoyment of suffering, demonstrating how they are implicated in the maintenance of power relations.
He emphasizes the importance of disrupting these patterns of enjoyment to achieve genuine social and political transformation.
The book is a significant contribution to critical theory and offers a powerful framework for understanding the workings of ideology.
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Mentioned by Todd as a book where Žižek first theorizes the obscene underside of ideology.
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