fantasy

Going through the fantasy

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Zizek writes at p.195 that 'going-through the fantasy' involves recognizing any objects of desire as embodiments of a fundamental lack (in the self, in the Other, in the symbolic order), as sociofantastic makeshifts constructed over the lack to conceal the lack. He also writes at 230-1 that

Disneyland, Video Games and Reality TV: Opposition Blurred

Baudrillard's assessment of Disneyland (p. 12) as the explicit fantasy against which our simulated 'reality' is defined as 'real' resonates in vary tangible ways. I have been working to apply this 'real indicated by opposition' framework into other avenues of the spectacle society.

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