critical theory with slavoj zizek: The full assertion of the excess of life occurs when the subject is overwhelmed by demands, no longer being able to deal with them. …The subject is bombarded with an excess of data that he is unable to comprehend. The basic economy is here obsessional: the object of the hero’s desire is the other’s demand. This excess is the proper counterpoint to the Wagnerian Sublime, to the ‘highest lust’ of the immersion into the Void that concludes Tristan. This opposition of the Rossinian and Wagnerian Sublime is the one…between the inability of the subject to comprehend the pure quantity of the demands that overflow him, and the Wagnerian Sublime, the concentrated overpowering force of the one demand, the unconditional demand of love. …Wagner says…when religion becomes artificial, art can save the true spirit of religion, its hidden truth…by abandoning the dogma and rendering only the authentic religious emotion. By transforming religion into the ultimate aesthetic experience.