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Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader's Guide

Author(s) : Rafael Winkler

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Part I: Context
The Habermas-Foucault debate, and Althusser
Laclau and Mouffe; Antagonism and the Real of the Drive

Part II: Overview of Themes

Part III: Reading of the text
Section 1
1.1 What is Money?
1.2 Exchange; Alfred Sohn-Rethel
1.3 Cynical consciousness; Peter Sloterdijk
1.4 Belief and Ideology
1.5 Althusser; Interpellation and Misrecognition
1.6 Kant and the Law
1.7 Disidentification

Section 2
2.1 Retroactivity (Nachträglichkeit)
2.2 Error as the Way to the Truth
2.3 Desire and Lack
2.4 Trauma redux
2.5 The Form of Ideology

Section 3
3.1 (a) The Constitution of Sublime Objects
3.2 The Quilting Point; Laclau and Mouffe's Hegemonic Logic
3.3 Descriptivism vs. Anti-descriptivism
3.4 The Essence or 'je ne sais quoi' of the Object
3.5 (b) The Constitution of the Subject and Enjoyment (Jouissance)
3.6 Imaginary and Symbolic Identification
3.7 'Che vuoi?'
3.8 Fantasy
3.9 The Real
4.0 Ideology Revisited

Section 4
4.1 Symbolic and Physical Existence; Symbolic and Physical Death
4.2 Benjamin's 'Theses on the Philosophy of History'
4.3 Power and its Representation

Section 5
5.1 'There is No Metalanguage'; Derrida and Dissemination
5.2 Lacan and 'Lenin in Warsaw'
5.3 The Real Revisited
5.4 Freedom and the Forced Choice; the Real
5.5 Lack, the Subject, and the Ontological Inconsistency of the Big Other
5.6 The Ideological Function of objet a
5.7 The Subject Presumed to …

Section 6
6.1 The Indefinite Judgment, Lack, and Negation
6.2 Beauty and the Sublime; the Pleasure Principle and its Beyond
6.3 From Kant to Hegel; Lack and Negativity
6.4 'Spirit is a Bone'
6.5 Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and the Heroism of Flattery
6.6 The 'Beautiful Soul' and Positing the Presuppositions

Part IV: Reception and influence