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I have been watching and rewatching and showing and emploring people to watch Zizeks "Perverts Guide"-s
The Movies, The Perverts Guide to Ideology (2012) and the prequel to it, The Perverts Guide to Cinema (2005) are fantastic deconstructions of the media Zizek analyzes and at the same time tremendous instances of teching people about the power of community and psychoanalysis.
My favorite part in Ideology has to be the part where he talks about Jesus Christ dying on the cross. Basically, so Zizek if I undertsood him right, Christ, by exclaiming "Father why have you forsaken me" abandones the holy. The divine god dies on the cross. But he does not leave behind a godless helscape for us to inherit and for us to wait for his return, as some christians may want you to belive. Instead he leaves behind the community he formed, and in it, you find the holy. The holy in this case, something completely profane but sacred non the less.
The second part from Ideology I have come to love is Zizeks analysis of Beethovens 9th symphony. In short he analyzes it as a vessel for meaning and thus it becomes the distilled symbol of ideology. Something that can shape but is open to content to assimilate.
A Perverts Guide to Cinema talks a lot more about sexuality, desire and frameworks through whicht to view such, it is much more psychoanalytical. Zizeks analysis in it is really interesting but I have to A: Rewatch it to undertstand it more and B: The subject matter does not interest me as much as the one in Ideology.
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