Rahul Sam | What Does Slavoj Žižek Mean by "Enjoy!" Is Superego? @RahulSam | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
My take on what Slavoj Žižek means by "'Enjoy!', Is Superego?' and the moral injunction of our time is 'Enjoy!'
"How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law
universalizes Prohibition? There is only one possible explanation:
enjoyment itself, which we experience as "transgression", is in its innermost status something imposed, ordered - when we enjoy, we never do it spontaneously", we always follow a certain injunction. The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction, for this obscene call. 'Enjoy!', is superego." (For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor)
"Although jouissance can be translated as “enjoyment,” translators of Lacan often leave it in French in order to render palpable its excessive, properly traumatic character: we are not dealing with simple pleasures, but with a violent intrusion that brings more pain than pleasure. This is how we usually perceive the Freudian superego, the cruel and sadistic ethical agency which bombards us with impossible demands and then gleefully observes our failure to meet them. No wonder, then, that Lacan posited an equation between jouissance and superego: to enjoy is not a matter of following one’s spontaneous tendencies; it is rather something we do as a kind of weird and twisted ethical duty." (How to read Lacan)
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My take on what Slavoj Žižek means by "'Enjoy!', Is Superego?' and the moral injunction of our time is 'Enjoy!'
"How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law
universalizes Prohibition? There is only one possible explanation:
enjoyment itself, which we experience as "transgression", is in its innermost status something imposed, ordered - when we enjoy, we never do it spontaneously", we always follow a certain injunction. The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction, for this obscene call. 'Enjoy!', is superego." (For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor)
"Although jouissance can be translated as “enjoyment,” translators of Lacan often leave it in French in order to render palpable its excessive, properly traumatic character: we are not dealing with simple pleasures, but with a violent intrusion that brings more pain than pleasure. This is how we usually perceive the Freudian superego, the cruel and sadistic ethical agency which bombards us with impossible demands and then gleefully observes our failure to meet them. No wonder, then, that Lacan posited an equation between jouissance and superego: to enjoy is not a matter of following one’s spontaneous tendencies; it is rather something we do as a kind of weird and twisted ethical duty." (How to read Lacan)
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{Podcast}
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le
Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake
{Social Media}
twitter.com/trsam97
instagram.com/name_is_rahul
linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b
Facebook Group: goo.gl/JoL9CA
{Reference Links}
goodreads.com/book/show/18919.How_to_Read_Lacan
goodreads.com/en/book/show/90568
Why Love Matters: theunhappyman.substack.com/p/why-love-matters
{Images & Videos used}
youtu.be/FheVftrguhg
youtu.be/AoNNG9byXuw
youtu.be/KjEtmZZvGZA
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If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting theunhappyman.substack.com
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