I have to say I found Myers's book to be by far the best of the summaries of Zizek's work. Myers is a wonderful writer , he writes very clearly and intelligibly. My only problem is that I have come to the conclusion that, despite Zizek being lauded as a philosopher on par with the likes of Foucault, I have come to think that Zizek is quite mixed up and that his confusion can be traced back to the Lacanian notion of the 'Real'.
It basically says there is an area of experience that cannot be known even indirectly. This is due to the failure of language to be able to completely capture reality. As Myers notes in his description of Lacan we are, according to Lacan, imprisoned in language. However this isn't the position that Hegel, Marx, Engels or Lenin took. They wrote tirelessly against the Kantians and neo Kantians, who claimed that human beings cannot directly know reality, that humanity is able in fact to approximate or mirror reality, perhaps not perfectly and sometimes quite grotesquely, but humanity does approximate it.
And what's more that their approximations continually improve. In other words there can be no 'Real' or area of unknowability in human experience. Sean Sayers has written an excellent book called 'Reality and Reason; Dialectic and the Theory of Knowledge' in which he demonstrates that the whole notion of being a prisoner of language found in accounts of Freud influenced by structuralism are incorrect and inconsistent with Freud's approach to the unconscious.
And that this notion of humanity being imprisoned in language is even more incorrect when it comes to a any claim of allegiance with the writings of Hegel, Marx, Engels and Lenin. If this is the case then it pretty much blows a hole through Zizek's supposed synthesis of the work of these writers with Lacan.
This of course doesn't mean that Zizek's work is worthless but it does mean that it needs to be properly critiqued and corrected and placed within a more appropriate framework.
For those who are interested I think there's a master's thesis or even a dissertation waiting to be written regarding this. Posting Komentar. Jumat, 18 Juni [K Myers outlines the key issues that Zizek's work has tackled, including: What is a Subject and why is it so important? Copyright Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server.
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