By Slavoj Žižek
The Cartesian cogito—the precept articulated by way of Descartes that "I imagine, accordingly I am"—is usually hailed because the precursor of contemporary technological know-how. whilst, the cogito's agent, the ego, is typically feared because the service provider of manipulative domination chargeable for all current woes, from patriarchal oppression to ecological catastrophes. with out psychoanalyzing philosophy, Cogito and the subconscious explores the vicissitudes of the cogito and indicates that psychoanalyses can render obvious a constitutive insanity inside glossy philosophy, the purpose at which "I imagine, for that reason I am" turns into obsessional neurosis characterised by means of "If I cease pondering, i'll stop to exist."
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9 On the right-hand side, we have the couple of signifiers, S1/S2. If one is forced to choose sense, S2, this has to be paid for by the loss of an essential signifier that remains structurally inaccessible-this is what Freud aims at with Urverdrangung, the primary repression as the pre- Figure 2 22 Dolar condition of all other repression, and also with Vorstellungsreprasentanz, the representation that is essentially a stand-in for the structurally missing representation. The urverdrangt part is a place where signification and being would coincide - and this is indeed the usual understanding of cogito: a sense that immediately involves being and a being that immediately "makes sense," the grounding of being in sense (in thought), and vice versa.
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The price to pay for this "wanting the Real" is that the subject has to assume the perverse position where he sees himself as the instrument of the Will of the Other. Sex, Lies, and Executions Here is Kant's famous "apologue of gallows" to which Lacan often refers: Suppose that someone says his lust is irresistible when the desired object and opportunity are present. Ask him whether he would not control his passions if, in front of the house where he has this opportunity, a gallows were erected on which he would be hanged immediately after gratifying his lust.