Tag: zizek

• Žižek’s Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

  Žižek’s Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed presents itself, with unusual explicitness, as an ontology of the present articulated through a conjunctural relay among Marx, Freud/Lacan, and a final political wager on subjective destitution, while Hegel operates as the recurrent formal intelligence that makes the relay legible without becoming the declared object of exposition. The…

  S. Gros

  February 21, 2026

  Philosophy, Politics

  history, marxism, Philosophy, Politics, zizek

• Cogito and the Unconscious

  The volume advances a precise wager: that the most stringent account of the unconscious in the wake of Freud emerges when the Cartesian cogito is treated neither as a worn emblem of transparent self-presence nor as a quaint philosophical fossil, but as a shibboleth that divides conceptual labor and tests the rigor of method. Its…

  S. Gros

  October 31, 2025

  Philosophy

  books, dialectic, education, freud, lacan, metaphysics, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, psychology, religion, theology, zizek

• Collapse without Sovereignty: Reading History through Quantum Ontology and Hegelian Negativity in Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Politics

  A certain relief, in Slavoj Žižek’s view, announces itself at the outset, not in the content of a new doctrine but in the fact that one can still form, across disciplines that typically repel one another, an honest connection. To approach quantum theory as ontology rather than a mere computational apparatus, and to bring its…

  S. Gros

  September 7, 2025

  marxism, Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis

  books, dialectic, education, hegel, history, ideology, metaphysics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis, religion, slavoj-zizek, theology, zizek