
ZIZ003 Markets without Substance (2003)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Zero-Neventh Discourse
The subject is represented by a signifier, the one which is your standing within the field of, within the symbolic order. So something, let's say your name or whatever, because it's not your name, stands for you and presents you in the symbolic Order. And this is the aid you see of lacking in theory and giving you watercolor, this representation, signify symbolic representation always structurally. This failure is where this body in what lephon calls the object of the desire, precisely that which remains the leftover, the excess, that which is not caught in the logic of symbolic representation.
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