critical theory with slavoj zizek: The perverse ritual stages the act of castration, of the primordial loss that allows the subject to enter the symbolic order. In contrast to the ‘normal’ subject, for whom Law functions as the agency of prohibition, for the pervert, the object of his desire is the Law itself; The Law is the ideal he is longing for, he wants to be fully acknowledged by Law, integrated into its functioning. The irony should not escape us: the pervert, this transgressor par excellence who purports to violate all the rules…in effect longs for the very rule of Law