| Jason Wakefield |
| English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University |
| May, 2010 |
| The Paradox of Nietzschean Atheism was my BA dissertation title. The Narcissism of Zizek's Ontology is my Master's thesis. |
Abstract |
| The crux of my argument is that Zizek's reading of Deleuze in Organs Without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences is narcissistic. Zizek's ontology is one territorialization avec German Idealism. In a film by Astra Taylor in 2005, he reflects that he has 'a sense of finitude' because he has only ten of fifteen years left of active theoretical life before he gets senile, which is why he publishes at such a furious rate. Zizek insists on the attitude that theory is more important than its praxis; justifying it with Lacan's short-circuit of the theory-practice dichotomy. My argument is that theory without praxis is ethically irresponsible and narcissistic. I also refute the phallogocentrism adopted by Zizek from Hegelio-Lacanianism. I have taken into consideration the Lacanian reversal of my argument that 'desire is the discourse of the Other' and used it to strengthen my argumentation by unpacking its role in Zizek's narcissistic archive fever. MacCormack's cinesexuality theory is also utilised within this critique of Zizek. |
Film-Philosophy | ISSN 1466-4615
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