Anthony Elliott writes that the work is 'a provocative reconstruction of critical theory from Marx to Althusser, reinterpreted through the frame of Lacanian psychoanalysis'. The Sublime Object of Ideology is a 1989 book by the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj iek. The Sublime Object Of Ideology is the first book iek published. Žižek believes The Sublime Object of Ideology to be one of his best books, while the psychologist Ian Parker writes that it is 'widely considered his masterpiece'. Žižek therefore argues that according to both Freud and Marx the dream-work and commodity-form itself require analysis. Žižek thinks it is more important to ask why latent content takes a particular form. The Sublime Object of Ideology: Slavoj Zizeks first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. Slavoj Zizek’s first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. The post-structuralist fascination with the sublime has emerged in. Žižek opposes any simplistic reading of the two thinkers, who are shown to have discovered the ' kernel' of meaning concealed within the apparently unconnected 'forms' of commodities (Marx) and dreams (Freud). Žižek provides an analysis of 'How did Marx Invent the Symptom?', in which he compares the ways in which the notion of symptom runs through the work of the philosopher Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock’s Rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to science fiction, from Alien to the Jewish Joke, the author’s acute analyses explore the ideological. Žižek thematizes the Kantian notion of the sublime in order to liken ideology to the experience of something that is absolutely vast and powerful beyond all perception and objective intelligibility. In this provocative and original work, Slavoj iek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. The work is widely considered his masterpiece. The Sublime Object of Ideology is a 1989 book by the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism, the book explores the political significance of.

The sublime object of ideology