SLAVOJ ZIZEK, ON JOUISSANCE (another name for enjoyment) http://ift.tt/2ehwab6
Monday, 17 October 2016
The post-68’ drive to jouissance — to reaching the extreme of forms of sexual pleasures that would dissolve all social links and allow me to find a climax in the solipsism of absolute jouissance … Is it not all too easy to denounce jouissance offered on the market as “false,” as providing only the empty package-promise with no substance? Is the hole, the void, in the very heart of our pleasures not the structure of every jouissance? … is it, rather, not that the…commodified provocations to enjoy…push us towards, precisely, an autistic-masturbatory, “asocial,” jouissance whose supreme case is the addiction to drugs? … The drive to pure autistic jouissance (through drugs or other trance-inducing means) arose at a precise political moment: when the emancipatory “sequence” of 1968 exhausted its potentials. … the only option left was a kind of direct, brutal, passage à l’acte … the only option left was a…push-towards-the-Real…: the search for extreme forms of sexual jouissance; Leftist political terrorism…; and finally, the turn towards the Real of an inner experience (Oriental mysticism). … the withdrawal from concrete socio-political engagement into a direct contact with the Real…sustains a stricto sensu “worldless” ideological constellation, depriving the large majority of people of any meaningful “cognitive mapping.”
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