Notes from the Pervert's Guide to Ideology

1. Consumerist fantasy and excess desire

1. Surface and Deep

i. Giving up the illusion of freedom is painful, ideology is the eye, and ideological criticism is the spectacle

ii. Hidden corners organized by institutions, pretend to give up and you can have it all (abstinence in the Catholic Church is actually the acceptance of hidden desires)

2. Desire as obligation

i. The patient goes to psychoanalysis because he cannot fully enjoy himself

ii. Coke reflects the invisible transcendence, rather than a simple single consumer product, reflects the desire of "excess" and the "pleasure responsibility" imposed by society on the individual mass

iii. A desire to desire

3. Lizi for the skin: "Ode to Joy"

i. The existence of structure (inside-outside) is to allow people to indulge in appearance and enjoy the external form

ii. Ode to Joy is universal to all social genres and movements, left and right authoritarian freedom - ideology operates, not only with inner content, but an empty container open to all content (seeking in the empty container). profound)

iii. Simultaneously expressing the sublime (Love, Acceptance) & the absurdity of exclusion (Ode to Joy Part II), the failure of ideology lies in what is not tamed

4. Behaviour and "consumption" awareness

i. The UK 2011 Liberal Zero Dollar Purchase Incident, on the surface people practice tiny dreams and freedoms, in fact, those people are coerced by consumerism but have no way to realize ideology, thus twisting it into a kind of atrocity

ii. The big ideology of fraternity and peace has no effect, only consumerism is left to maintain life

5. Fantasy and Violence

i. Fantasies mask a gap in consistency and provide answers when we don’t see things clearly

ii. Fantasy mode: instead of constructing a scene where I have the object of desire, imagine a scene where I am desired by the other, as a savior

iii. But there are cases where the victim actually refuses to be rescued and the victim enjoys/participates in her own victimization in a perverted way

iv. Violence as a result as a form of intervention in reality to mask one's own powerlessness ("cognitive mapping")

6. The embodiment of the other

i. Nazi antisemitism, a revolution that strengthened traditional social hierarchies

ii. Attribution transfer, outsider

iii. The other is given a particular image of pleasure/indulgence and may also be the object of our pleasure

7. Perspective suspension

i. Nazi-like populism originated in the labor movement, supported by workers

ii. Countermeasures: Free "passion" from Nazi ideology, enjoy it as a "pre-ideological" element, subvert Nazism by suspending the Nazi perspective

iii. The elements themselves are floating, open to various ideologies (post-structural?)

8. Consumerism in its highest form

i. The highest form of consumerism is to combine it with "goodness", while exploiting, with a small part of its anti-exploitation (charity) for better integration;

ii. All for the circulation and expansion of capital

9. Crisis and Pause

i. The crisis of capitalism does not stop capitalism, but facilitates its expansion

ii. The Right Way: Recognize “Excess” and Uselessness

iii. " Real Inertia " (psychoanalytic term) - a silent being outside of meaning, an artistic moment of feeling the true inertness , "Perhaps something new can only emerge from failure, from a sense of what we are, the existing life. The normal operation of the network is suspended"

2. The Virtual "Big Other"

1. Iceberg metaphor

i. The ruins of the Titanic, which means "inflexible pleasure"; James Cameron's Hollywood Marxism - when the upper class is in crisis, reaching out to Jack (charity) as the lower class will help her to know herself, Reborn, letting go means "disappearing intermediary"

ii. The Soviet Union saved the Czech Republic during the Prague Spring: without intervention, reformist communism would have turned into a liberal capitalist state (a corollary), destruction contributed to an ideological eternity , similar to an “iceberg”

2. Machine Operation

i. Machines need obscene supplies (snooping and uninstitutional pleasure) to keep functioning

ii. It is extremely dangerous to be truly a spokesperson for the superego (representing destruction)

iii. "Batman" elevated the lie to an important criterion for maintaining the operation of society. Politicians know the truth, but they still need to tell the public lies "pessimistic skeptics"/"noble language"; the Joker, as the whistleblower of lies, will bring The breakdown of the functioning of society

3. Divine Power

i. A government that appears to be “legitimate” but still can do whatever it wants

ii. Fundamentalists/totalitarians see themselves as direct instruments of God , even atheists have such conservative tendencies, Stalinists play a role of the "big other" (historical/must-path to communism) perfect servant

iii. People are abstracted as ideal people to assist historical purposes

4. "The Big Other"

i. The hidden order of things on the one hand, and the order of appearances on the other (things are forbidden only because they cannot happen to the Other)

ii. We need the ideal object of confession (as an intermediary), and also the existence of an order that prohibits confession to constitute the “big Other”; but in reality, there is no ideal confessional intermediary (ie, the Big Other is fictional, Such as ultimate truth, God, freedom, with an order of prohibition of access and practice to maintain its fictional persistence ), there may be a real Other, but it will never be like the Big Other, and we don't need it-- So we are alone

iii. For atheists, the bureaucracy is a divinely voiced dimension: bureaucracy and the thrill of performance

5. Atheism and the love of Christ

i. Atheists not only have to keep their obligations but also decide for themselves what obligations are

ii. There are hysterical doubts and questions about the status of the identity in the subject, which produces new creation ; while God in Christianity himself is the subject, and assumes the hysterical doubting quality, and people will frantically ask God "what do you want"— — Judaism Anxiety and Christian Love

iii. People fantasize that by hurting his Son, God proves that he loves the world—“a hypothetical even sensational solution to a situation of radical anxiety”

6. Freedom

i. Jesus’ death represented the disintegration of God, not the repayment of mortal sins – a radical atheist revelation from the Christian church

ii. The believers form a "liberating community" where Christ will not return, but already exists: liberty is returned to you

3. The future

1. Two dreams

i. Two kinds of dreams: one "points to a dimension effectively beyond our existing society" is the right dream; the other "idealized, mirror image of our society" is the wrong dream

ii. Rebellion is not transcendence, but reintegration by hegemonism

2. Redemption

i. The past few decades have demonstrated that even if capitalism only serves itself, it is a revolutionary force; to practice some economic and political moves that were considered impossible

ii. “All wandering, discontented ghosts find their home in new freedom”