Interrogating the Real

Preface by Slavoj Zizek 'The Thing Itself' Appears: Introducing the Work of Slavoj Zizek Part One: Lacanian Orientations 1. The Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Yugoslavia 2. Why Lavan is Hegelian 3. The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel with Lacan 4. Connections of the Freudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture. 5. Lacan between Cultural Studies and Cognitivism Part Two: Philosophy Traversed by Psychoanalysis 6. The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis 7. A Hair of the Dog That Bit You 8. Hegel, Lacan, Deleuze: Three Strange Bedfellows 9. The Eclipse of Meaning: On Lacan and Deconstruction 10. The Parallax View Part Three: The Fantasy of Ideology 11. Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmic Spectre: Towards a Lacanian Theory of Ideology 12. Beyond Discourse Analysis 13. Re-visioning 'Lacanian' Social Criticism: The Law and its Obscene Double 14. Why is Wagner Worth Saving? 15. The Real of Sexual Difference Glossary.