The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek

The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj ŽižekIn this provocative book, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcocks Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish joke, Zizeks acute analyses explore the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion that make up human society. Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism

despite a history steeped in controversy and death

How does one best practise its various cultural externals

her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law

the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich

struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis

Burk’s own medical research• Includes an introduction to dream journaling and interpretation techniquesYour dreams can provide inner guidance filled with life-saving information

No one leaves the City anymore

The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became a mountaineering classic

and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'

architects

can Nabokov revive him

*Understanding Stress