The Most Sublime Hysteric Hegel with Lacan
The Most Sublime Hysteric Hegel with Lacan
- ISBN 13:
9780745663753
- ISBN 10:
0745663753
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 08/11/2014
- Publisher: Polity
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Summary
When Lacan described Hegel as the ‘most sublime hysteric’, he was referring to the way that the hysteric asks questions because he experiences his own desire as if it were the Other's desire. In the dialectical process, the question asked of the Other is resolved through a reflexive turn in which the question begins to function as its own answer. We had made Hegel into the theorist of abstraction and reaction, but by reading Hegel with Lacan, Zizek unveils a Hegel of the concrete and of revolution - his own, and the one to come.
This early and dazzlingly original work by Zizek offers a unique insight into the ideas which have since become hallmarks of his mature thought. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in critical theory, philosophy and contemporary social thought.