critical theory with slavoj zizek: there is nothing…“constraining” about the fact that our innermost strivings are (pre)determined … when we feel thwarted in our freedom by the pressure of external reality, there must be something in us, some desire or striving, which is thus thwarted, but where do such strivings come from if not this same reality? … Our “free will” does not in some mysterious way “disturb the natural course of things;’ it is part and parcel of this course.