Discourse Beyond Foucault by Fabio Vighi and Heiko Feldner

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Contents

Prologue 1

Part I Discourse Analysis or Ideology Critique? 5

1 Why Discourse? 7

2 Foucault’s Critical Historicism 12

3 The Positive Unconscious: in Search of the Matrix 18

4 Suspending Ontological Questions 25

5 Matrix Reloaded: Zˇizˇek’s Ideology Critique 29

6 Locating Antagonism: the Return of Class Struggle 41

7 Beyond Anti-capitalism and Liberal Democracy 52

Part II On Power and How To Enjoy It 75

8 ‘Where There Is Power …’ 77

9 ‘… There Is Resistance’ 88

10 The Missing Subject 99

11 Liberation Hurts: Zˇizˇek on Superego, Masochism and

Enacted Utopia 109

12 The Leninist Act 121

13 Commodity Fetishism: from Desire to Drive 128

Excursus: Zˇizˇek In and Out of Europe 146

Part III Metastases of the Real 165

14 Zˇizˇek Against Badiou: the Real Beyond the Event 167

15 ‘There Is No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship’:

the Formal Deadlock of Sexuality 183

16 Objet a, or the Ruse of Masculinity 190

17 Woman’s ‘Not-all’ and the Paradox of Passive Aggression 194

18 The Zero-level of Femininity: the Real as Symbolic Failure 203

19 The Miracle of Love and the Real of Christianity 210

Epilogue: Maradona in Mexico 225

References 237

Index 249