critical theory with slavoj zizek: the subject is as it were “blackmailed” into passively submitting to some form of the primordial “passionate attachment,” since, outside of it, he simply does not exist. This non-existence is not directly the absence of existence, however, but a certain gap or void in the order of being which “is” the subject itself. … Fantasy is thus a defense-formation against the primordial abyss if dis-attachment that “is” the subject itself.