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| Author | Slavoj Žižek |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Ideology,Marxism,psychoanalysis |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
Publication date | December 1989 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 978-0860919711 |
| OCLC | 21158412 |
The Sublime Object of Ideology is a 1989 book by the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theoristSlavoj Žižek. The work is widely considered his masterpiece.[1]
Žižek thematizes theKantian notion of thesublime in order to likenideology to the experience of something that is absolutely vast and powerful beyond all perception and objective intelligibility. Žižek provides an analysis of "How did Marx Invent theSymptom?", in which he compares the ways in which the notion of symptom runs through the work of the philosopherKarl Marx andSigmund Freud, the founder ofpsychoanalysis. Žižek opposes any simplistic reading of the two thinkers, who are shown to have discovered the "kernel" of meaning concealed within the apparently unconnected "forms" ofcommodities (Marx) anddreams (Freud). Žižek thinks it is more important to ask why latent content takes a particular form. Žižek therefore argues that according to both Freud and Marx the dream-work and commodity-form itself require analysis.
Žižek believesThe Sublime Object of Ideology to be one of his best books,[2] while the psychologistIan Parker writes that it is "widely considered his masterpiece".[1] Anthony Elliott writes that the work is "a provocative reconstruction of critical theory from Marx toAlthusser, reinterpreted through the frame ofLacanian psychoanalysis".[3]
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