Enjoy Your Symptom!

Slavoj Zizek is Research Fellow at the University of Ljubljana. He teaches and lectures frequently in the United States. Among his many books are Looking Awry and The Ticklish Subject.

• Introduction; 1. Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination:; 1.1 Death and Sublimation: The Final Scene of City Lights 1.2 Imaginary, Symbolic, Real 2. Why is Woman a Symptom of a Man?; 2.1 Why is Suicide the Only Successful Act? ; 2.2 The Night of the World; 3. Why Is Every Act a Repetition? ; 3.1 Beyond Distributive Justice; 3.2 Idenitity and Authority ; 4. Why Does the Phallus Appear?; 4.1 Grimaces of the Real ; 4.2 Phallophany of the Anal Father ; 5. Why are there Always Two Fathers? ; 5.1 At the Origins of Noir: The Humiliated Father; 5.2 Die Versagung ; Index

"Sociology, contemporary cultural theory, linguistics and film meet once again in a text where fluid erudition and the anecdotal remain a characteristic of this compelling writer." -- Film Waves"Kant called example the 'go-cart of judgment.' His description can now be viewed as pre-Zizekian. This freshly expanded version of Enjoy Your Symptom! updates Kant, turning example into a whirling, dizzying, linear-logic defying turbo-jet of judgment. Pay attention to the title's imperative; it is a serious, all-out assault on theory's current obsession with an 'ethics of otherness'." -- Joan Copjec, author of Read My Desire