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Freedom, History and the Subject of the Unconscious. Theoretical Contributions to the Ideological Study

Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A.; Žižek, Slavoj; Cabrera Sánchez, José; Perunović, Andrea; Balotol Jr., Ruben; Rengifo-Castañeda, Carlos-Adolfo; Salas, Gonzalo; Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás; Ayala-Colqui, Jésus

(Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Valparaíso, 2023)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A.
AU  - Žižek, Slavoj
AU  - Cabrera Sánchez, José
AU  - Perunović, Andrea
AU  - Balotol Jr., Ruben
AU  - Rengifo-Castañeda, Carlos-Adolfo
AU  - Salas, Gonzalo
AU  - Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás
AU  - Ayala-Colqui, Jésus
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3715
AB  - In this article we address the notions of freedom, history and subjectivity, in order make an original contribution to the studies of ideology. Our methodology will consist in crossing Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis and the theory of interpellation of Louis Althusser. In the introduction, we start by exposing two major critiques of Freudian psychoanalysis, one formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre, and the other by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, thus shedding the light on how the psychoanalysis could represent (despite those critical arguments), a field of freedom rather than determinism, and a domain which is inherently historical, rather than the opposite. In the first section, will look closer at the notions of freedom, memory and history, advancing a preliminary hypothesis according to which within the symbolic space, the past remains open to changes – which will make both ideology and freedom possible. Moreover, we will see what aspects of freedom could be found within the Althusserian theory of interpellation, and how Lacanian psychoanalysis is compatible with it or can lead us beyond its limitations. In the second section, we will see how there can be a subject that precedes subjectivation, and how Lacan’s theory of subject which arises from the traumatic remainder, surpasses the scope of the theory of interpellation. The third section will address the pulse-traumatic core of the subject, such as it is conceived by Freud, not only as a determining dimension of the individual psyche, but as a structural condition of culture. Via these considerations, we will show how psychoanalysis can provide an explanation of the foundations of ideology, by conceiving the pulse-traumatic core of law that resides in the Name-of-Father. In the conclusion, we will see, through a series of examples, how ideology appears in the guise of truth, and why the psychoanalytic understanding of the unconscious is necessary for debunking the illusions it produces.
PB  - Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Valparaíso
T2  - RHV, An International Journal of Philosophy
T1  - Freedom, History and the Subject of the Unconscious. Theoretical Contributions to the Ideological Study
VL  - 23
SP  - 69
EP  - 89
DO  - 10.22370/rhv2023iss23pp69-89
ER  - 
@article{
author = "Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A. and Žižek, Slavoj and Cabrera Sánchez, José and Perunović, Andrea and Balotol Jr., Ruben and Rengifo-Castañeda, Carlos-Adolfo and Salas, Gonzalo and Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás and Ayala-Colqui, Jésus",
year = "2023",
abstract = "In this article we address the notions of freedom, history and subjectivity, in order make an original contribution to the studies of ideology. Our methodology will consist in crossing Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis and the theory of interpellation of Louis Althusser. In the introduction, we start by exposing two major critiques of Freudian psychoanalysis, one formulated by Jean-Paul Sartre, and the other by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, thus shedding the light on how the psychoanalysis could represent (despite those critical arguments), a field of freedom rather than determinism, and a domain which is inherently historical, rather than the opposite. In the first section, will look closer at the notions of freedom, memory and history, advancing a preliminary hypothesis according to which within the symbolic space, the past remains open to changes – which will make both ideology and freedom possible. Moreover, we will see what aspects of freedom could be found within the Althusserian theory of interpellation, and how Lacanian psychoanalysis is compatible with it or can lead us beyond its limitations. In the second section, we will see how there can be a subject that precedes subjectivation, and how Lacan’s theory of subject which arises from the traumatic remainder, surpasses the scope of the theory of interpellation. The third section will address the pulse-traumatic core of the subject, such as it is conceived by Freud, not only as a determining dimension of the individual psyche, but as a structural condition of culture. Via these considerations, we will show how psychoanalysis can provide an explanation of the foundations of ideology, by conceiving the pulse-traumatic core of law that resides in the Name-of-Father. In the conclusion, we will see, through a series of examples, how ideology appears in the guise of truth, and why the psychoanalytic understanding of the unconscious is necessary for debunking the illusions it produces.",
publisher = "Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Valparaíso",
journal = "RHV, An International Journal of Philosophy",
title = "Freedom, History and the Subject of the Unconscious. Theoretical Contributions to the Ideological Study",
volume = "23",
pages = "69-89",
doi = "10.22370/rhv2023iss23pp69-89"
}
Barria-Asenjo, N. A., Žižek, S., Cabrera Sánchez, J., Perunović, A., Balotol Jr., R., Rengifo-Castañeda, C., Salas, G., Caycho-Rodriguez, T.,& Ayala-Colqui, J.. (2023). Freedom, History and the Subject of the Unconscious. Theoretical Contributions to the Ideological Study. in RHV, An International Journal of Philosophy
Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Valparaíso., 23, 69-89.
https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2023iss23pp69-89
Barria-Asenjo NA, Žižek S, Cabrera Sánchez J, Perunović A, Balotol Jr. R, Rengifo-Castañeda C, Salas G, Caycho-Rodriguez T, Ayala-Colqui J. Freedom, History and the Subject of the Unconscious. Theoretical Contributions to the Ideological Study. in RHV, An International Journal of Philosophy. 2023;23:69-89.
doi:10.22370/rhv2023iss23pp69-89 .
Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A., Žižek, Slavoj, Cabrera Sánchez, José, Perunović, Andrea, Balotol Jr., Ruben, Rengifo-Castañeda, Carlos-Adolfo, Salas, Gonzalo, Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás, Ayala-Colqui, Jésus, "Freedom, History and the Subject of the Unconscious. Theoretical Contributions to the Ideological Study" in RHV, An International Journal of Philosophy, 23 (2023):69-89,
https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2023iss23pp69-89 . .
1

Redefining the Common Causes of Social Struggles: An Examination of the Antinomies of Value, Labor and Subsumption

Barria-Asenjo, Nicol; Žižek, Slavoj; Willems, Brian; Perunović, Andrea; Salas, Gonzalo; Balotol Jr, Ruben; Ayala-Colqui, Jésus

(Madrid : Ediciones Complutense, 2023)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barria-Asenjo, Nicol
AU  - Žižek, Slavoj
AU  - Willems, Brian
AU  - Perunović, Andrea
AU  - Salas, Gonzalo
AU  - Balotol Jr, Ruben
AU  - Ayala-Colqui, Jésus
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3223
AB  - In the global contemporary political context, diverse social struggles are being alienated from each other to the point that the illusion of capitalism as the only possible socio-economic system is blurring all horizons of social change. In this article, we will aim to redefine the common causes of social struggles, by demonstrating their intersectionality and interdependence. In order to do so, we will engage with a number of concepts from Marx’s philosophy. In the introduction, we will examine the notion of value, claiming that Marx’s value theory is not simply a labor theory of value, but that it rather reflects the parallax structure of production and circulation, crystallized in the ultimate value-form of money. Having obtained these preliminary insights, we will go back to the phenomenon of labor in capitalism, to reinterpret, in the first section of the article, the Marxian distinction between productive and unproductive labor. From this will follow the first concrete examples of the intersectionality of social struggles against the abstraction of capital: namely, showing that gender and racial struggles have certain common causes, rooted in the Gramscian hegemony. In the second section, we will examine the distinction that Marx establishes between the formal and the real subsumption. The latter, we will claim, is decisive for understanding how capital structures the quasi-totality of our social relations. Following an interpretation of Maren Ade’s film Toni Erdmann, we will propose some possible means of intersectional struggle against real subsumption, that will find their theoretical backing in the concept of subversive universals. The concluding remarks will address the nuclear logic of the distribution and accumulation of capital, a symptom that survives throughout history preserved and driven by the omnipresence of ideology, and stress again implicitly the importance of common struggle in the unfreezing of emergence of a new revolutionary subject.
PB  - Madrid : Ediciones Complutense
T2  - Las Torres de Lucca. Revista internacional de filosofía política
T1  - Redefining the Common Causes of Social Struggles: An Examination of the Antinomies of Value, Labor and Subsumption
IS  - 12(2)
SP  - 201
EP  - 210
DO  - 10.5209/ltdl.84516
ER  - 
@article{
author = "Barria-Asenjo, Nicol and Žižek, Slavoj and Willems, Brian and Perunović, Andrea and Salas, Gonzalo and Balotol Jr, Ruben and Ayala-Colqui, Jésus",
year = "2023",
abstract = "In the global contemporary political context, diverse social struggles are being alienated from each other to the point that the illusion of capitalism as the only possible socio-economic system is blurring all horizons of social change. In this article, we will aim to redefine the common causes of social struggles, by demonstrating their intersectionality and interdependence. In order to do so, we will engage with a number of concepts from Marx’s philosophy. In the introduction, we will examine the notion of value, claiming that Marx’s value theory is not simply a labor theory of value, but that it rather reflects the parallax structure of production and circulation, crystallized in the ultimate value-form of money. Having obtained these preliminary insights, we will go back to the phenomenon of labor in capitalism, to reinterpret, in the first section of the article, the Marxian distinction between productive and unproductive labor. From this will follow the first concrete examples of the intersectionality of social struggles against the abstraction of capital: namely, showing that gender and racial struggles have certain common causes, rooted in the Gramscian hegemony. In the second section, we will examine the distinction that Marx establishes between the formal and the real subsumption. The latter, we will claim, is decisive for understanding how capital structures the quasi-totality of our social relations. Following an interpretation of Maren Ade’s film Toni Erdmann, we will propose some possible means of intersectional struggle against real subsumption, that will find their theoretical backing in the concept of subversive universals. The concluding remarks will address the nuclear logic of the distribution and accumulation of capital, a symptom that survives throughout history preserved and driven by the omnipresence of ideology, and stress again implicitly the importance of common struggle in the unfreezing of emergence of a new revolutionary subject.",
publisher = "Madrid : Ediciones Complutense",
journal = "Las Torres de Lucca. Revista internacional de filosofía política",
title = "Redefining the Common Causes of Social Struggles: An Examination of the Antinomies of Value, Labor and Subsumption",
number = "12(2)",
pages = "201-210",
doi = "10.5209/ltdl.84516"
}
Barria-Asenjo, N., Žižek, S., Willems, B., Perunović, A., Salas, G., Balotol Jr, R.,& Ayala-Colqui, J.. (2023). Redefining the Common Causes of Social Struggles: An Examination of the Antinomies of Value, Labor and Subsumption. in Las Torres de Lucca. Revista internacional de filosofía política
Madrid : Ediciones Complutense.(12(2)), 201-210.
https://doi.org/10.5209/ltdl.84516
Barria-Asenjo N, Žižek S, Willems B, Perunović A, Salas G, Balotol Jr R, Ayala-Colqui J. Redefining the Common Causes of Social Struggles: An Examination of the Antinomies of Value, Labor and Subsumption. in Las Torres de Lucca. Revista internacional de filosofía política. 2023;(12(2)):201-210.
doi:10.5209/ltdl.84516 .
Barria-Asenjo, Nicol, Žižek, Slavoj, Willems, Brian, Perunović, Andrea, Salas, Gonzalo, Balotol Jr, Ruben, Ayala-Colqui, Jésus, "Redefining the Common Causes of Social Struggles: An Examination of the Antinomies of Value, Labor and Subsumption" in Las Torres de Lucca. Revista internacional de filosofía política, no. 12(2) (2023):201-210,
https://doi.org/10.5209/ltdl.84516 . .
3

The Cinematic Daydream as a Tool of Political Emancipation: Plus-de-Jouir, Aufhebung and the Parallax

Barria-Asenjo, Nicol; Žižek, Slavoj; Willems, Brian; Perunović, Andrea; Balotol Jr., Ruebn; Salas, Gonzalo; Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás

(Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 2023)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barria-Asenjo, Nicol
AU  - Žižek, Slavoj
AU  - Willems, Brian
AU  - Perunović, Andrea
AU  - Balotol Jr., Ruebn
AU  - Salas, Gonzalo
AU  - Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3220
AB  - In this research, we will start by expo- sing the paradox of ‘surplus enjoyment’ (the Lacanian plus-de-jouir), showing that its parallax structure of lack and excess is also applicable to the pheno- menon of (surplus) repression. Linking his concept with the Hegelian Aufhebung, understood as a ‘failed negation of negation’ or a ‘negation of negation’ as failure, we will focus in detail on the central example illustrating our theoretical positions, which is Iciar Bollain’s film Tambien la Lluvia (Even the Rain). In analyzing its narrative structures that address the neocolonial reality, we will tend to approach indirectly, by reading the medium of cinematic narration, the ‘neocolonial question.’
PB  - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
T2  - Bajo Palabra. Revista de Filosofía
T1  - The Cinematic Daydream as a Tool of Political Emancipation: Plus-de-Jouir, Aufhebung and the Parallax
IS  - 32
SP  - 37
EP  - 55
DO  - 10.15366/bp2023.32.002
ER  - 
@article{
author = "Barria-Asenjo, Nicol and Žižek, Slavoj and Willems, Brian and Perunović, Andrea and Balotol Jr., Ruebn and Salas, Gonzalo and Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás",
year = "2023",
abstract = "In this research, we will start by expo- sing the paradox of ‘surplus enjoyment’ (the Lacanian plus-de-jouir), showing that its parallax structure of lack and excess is also applicable to the pheno- menon of (surplus) repression. Linking his concept with the Hegelian Aufhebung, understood as a ‘failed negation of negation’ or a ‘negation of negation’ as failure, we will focus in detail on the central example illustrating our theoretical positions, which is Iciar Bollain’s film Tambien la Lluvia (Even the Rain). In analyzing its narrative structures that address the neocolonial reality, we will tend to approach indirectly, by reading the medium of cinematic narration, the ‘neocolonial question.’",
publisher = "Universidad Autonoma de Madrid",
journal = "Bajo Palabra. Revista de Filosofía",
title = "The Cinematic Daydream as a Tool of Political Emancipation: Plus-de-Jouir, Aufhebung and the Parallax",
number = "32",
pages = "37-55",
doi = "10.15366/bp2023.32.002"
}
Barria-Asenjo, N., Žižek, S., Willems, B., Perunović, A., Balotol Jr., R., Salas, G.,& Caycho-Rodriguez, T.. (2023). The Cinematic Daydream as a Tool of Political Emancipation: Plus-de-Jouir, Aufhebung and the Parallax. in Bajo Palabra. Revista de Filosofía
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.(32), 37-55.
https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2023.32.002
Barria-Asenjo N, Žižek S, Willems B, Perunović A, Balotol Jr. R, Salas G, Caycho-Rodriguez T. The Cinematic Daydream as a Tool of Political Emancipation: Plus-de-Jouir, Aufhebung and the Parallax. in Bajo Palabra. Revista de Filosofía. 2023;(32):37-55.
doi:10.15366/bp2023.32.002 .
Barria-Asenjo, Nicol, Žižek, Slavoj, Willems, Brian, Perunović, Andrea, Balotol Jr., Ruebn, Salas, Gonzalo, Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomás, "The Cinematic Daydream as a Tool of Political Emancipation: Plus-de-Jouir, Aufhebung and the Parallax" in Bajo Palabra. Revista de Filosofía, no. 32 (2023):37-55,
https://doi.org/10.15366/bp2023.32.002 . .

Pandemija! Novi koronavirus potresa svet [fragmenti]

Žižek, Slavoj

(Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, 2020)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Žižek, Slavoj
PY  - 2020
UR  - https://kritika.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/kc/article/view/34/102
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2140
PB  - Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
T2  - Kritika: časopis za filozofiju i teoriju društva
T1  - Pandemija! Novi koronavirus potresa svet [fragmenti]
T1  - Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
IS  - 2
VL  - 1
SP  - 305
EP  - 318
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2140
ER  - 
@article{
author = "Žižek, Slavoj",
year = "2020",
publisher = "Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju",
journal = "Kritika: časopis za filozofiju i teoriju društva",
title = "Pandemija! Novi koronavirus potresa svet [fragmenti], Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World",
number = "2",
volume = "1",
pages = "305-318",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2140"
}
Žižek, S.. (2020). Pandemija! Novi koronavirus potresa svet [fragmenti]. in Kritika: časopis za filozofiju i teoriju društva
Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju., 1(2), 305-318.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2140
Žižek S. Pandemija! Novi koronavirus potresa svet [fragmenti]. in Kritika: časopis za filozofiju i teoriju društva. 2020;1(2):305-318.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2140 .
Žižek, Slavoj, "Pandemija! Novi koronavirus potresa svet [fragmenti]" in Kritika: časopis za filozofiju i teoriju društva, 1, no. 2 (2020):305-318,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2140 .

In Defense of Hegel's Madness

Jovanov, Rastko; Žižek, Slavoj

(Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, 2015)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Žižek, Slavoj
PY  - 2015
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/353
AB  - The article is a confrontation with Robert Brandom’s reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, his attempt to systematically “renormalize” Hegel, i.e., to reduce his extravagant formulations to the criteria of common sense. The article analyses a number of Brandom’s “domestications” of Hegel’s speculative concepts: self-relating, determinate negation, mediation, In-itself, action, knowledge, Spirit, reconciliation, history. On the basis of the examples from Marx, Freud, structuralism, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Lacan, Adorno, the text defends Hegel’s “madness”, the irreducible speculative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel’s statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot be explained away through interpretation since the truth they deliver hinges on that.
PB  - Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
T2  - Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society
T1  - In Defense of Hegel's Madness
SP  - 785
EP  - 812
DO  - 10.2298/FID1504785Z
ER  - 
@article{
editor = "Jovanov, Rastko",
author = "Žižek, Slavoj",
year = "2015",
abstract = "The article is a confrontation with Robert Brandom’s reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, his attempt to systematically “renormalize” Hegel, i.e., to reduce his extravagant formulations to the criteria of common sense. The article analyses a number of Brandom’s “domestications” of Hegel’s speculative concepts: self-relating, determinate negation, mediation, In-itself, action, knowledge, Spirit, reconciliation, history. On the basis of the examples from Marx, Freud, structuralism, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Lacan, Adorno, the text defends Hegel’s “madness”, the irreducible speculative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel’s statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot be explained away through interpretation since the truth they deliver hinges on that.",
publisher = "Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju",
journal = "Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society",
title = "In Defense of Hegel's Madness",
pages = "785-812",
doi = "10.2298/FID1504785Z"
}
Jovanov, R.,& Žižek, S.. (2015). In Defense of Hegel's Madness. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society
Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju., 785-812.
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1504785Z
Jovanov R, Žižek S. In Defense of Hegel's Madness. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. 2015;:785-812.
doi:10.2298/FID1504785Z .
Jovanov, Rastko, Žižek, Slavoj, "In Defense of Hegel's Madness" in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society (2015):785-812,
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1504785Z . .
1

Politička subjektivizacija i njene mene

Žižek, Slavoj

(Beograd : Radio televizija Srbije, 2002)

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Žižek, Slavoj
PY  - 2002
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/274
PB  - Beograd : Radio televizija Srbije
T2  - Treći program
T1  - Politička subjektivizacija i njene mene
SP  - 203
EP  - 226
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_274
ER  - 
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author = "Žižek, Slavoj",
year = "2002",
publisher = "Beograd : Radio televizija Srbije",
journal = "Treći program",
title = "Politička subjektivizacija i njene mene",
pages = "203-226",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_274"
}
Žižek, S.. (2002). Politička subjektivizacija i njene mene. in Treći program
Beograd : Radio televizija Srbije., 203-226.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_274
Žižek S. Politička subjektivizacija i njene mene. in Treći program. 2002;:203-226.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_274 .
Žižek, Slavoj, "Politička subjektivizacija i njene mene" in Treći program (2002):203-226,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_274 .