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The Sublime Object of Ideology

Žižek And So On

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Is the Titanic a Good Representation?

Like the titanic, that works well is a as a symbol. But when we look for the titanic and we try to identify it in the way that we might do any other object, it's harder to find. And any single representation is also not at all what the titanic is. The negativety that you say that that is repressed, or a a masked by the object itself in its terrifying presence. By extension, the nothingness or the impossibility that is a masked by a quilting point, or sublime object, is repressed but will be articulated through ideological forms. This is a, perhaps what we can say lecon is reverencing by the notion of

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