Philosophy
Looking Awry
by Slavoj Žižek · 1984
★4.48
Looking Awry
7 Takeaways: 1) The Real is Not Reality: Understanding the Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real
Key Insight 1: The Real is Not Reality: Understanding the Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real
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Key Insight 2: Fantasy as a Scenario of Desire: How We Learn to Want
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Key Insight 3: Paradoxes of Perception: Looking Awry and Seeing Beyond the Obvious
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Key Insight 4: The Detective and the Analyst: Parallel Approaches to Uncovering Truth
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Key Insight 5: Hitchcock's Cinematic Gaze: Revealing the Traumatic Kernel
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Key Insight 6: The Obscene Object of Ideology: Enjoyment and Social Structures
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Key Insight 7: Democracy's Fundamental Impasse: The Incommensurability of Universal Law and Particular Enjoyment
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Key Insight 8: What's Looking Awry about?
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Key Insight 9: Why should I read Looking Awry?
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Key Insight 10: What are the key takeaways of Looking Awry?
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Key Insight 11: How does Žižek connect Lacan to popular culture in Looking Awry?
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Key Insight 12: What is the significance of the "objet petit a" in Looking Awry?
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