critical theory with slavoj zizek: “The Wagnerian Sublime enacts the overpowering force of the …unconditional demand of love. One can say that the Wagnerian Sublime is the absolute emotion,” Zizek writes in The Wagnerian Sublime. “When religion becomes artificial, art can save the true spirit of religion, its hidden truth,…abandoning the dogma and rendering only the authentic religous emotion”, Zizek says, summarizing Wagner’s wager of transforming religion into art as an aesthetic experience.