critical theory with slavoj zizek: In the case of so-called “fundamentalists,” this “normal” functioning of ideology in which the ideological belief is transposed onto the Other is disturbed by the violent return of the immediate belief - they “really believe it.” The first consequence of this is that the fundamentalist becomes the dupe of his fantasy (as Lacan put it apropos Marquis de Sade), immediately identifying himself with it. …One plays with such fantasies, not “taking them seriously,” it is in this way that they fulfill their function - and the fundamentalist lacks this minimal distance towards his fantasy.