Anna Netrebko's Name
example · Russian language ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek puns on the Russian name Netrebko ('she doesn't need it' or 'she needs it like the Sahara needs water') to illustrate the 'fatal beauty' who pretends to be bored or superior.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“Netrebko means 'she doesn't need it.'... So it's a wonderful way, the fatal beauty, but to have it in the name inscribed, 'fuck off, I don't need you,' and so on”
“Netrebko. Trebat means needed. It's wonderful, a fatal woman and her name is Netrebko. Fuck off, I don't need you.”
“Netrebko means she doesn't need it... the fatal beauty but to have it in the name inscribed 'fuck off, I don't need you.'”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Anna Netrebko3Yevgeny Yevtushenko2Dean MacCannell3Lynn Margulis2Rider Haggard1Christina1Carla Bruni1Carl von Ossietzky1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
Žižek puns on the Russian name Netrebko ('she doesn't need it' or 'she needs it like the Sahara needs water') to illustrate the 'fatal beauty' who pretends to be bored or superior., illustrating language,fatal woman
Žižek notes that the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko's surname means 'not needed' (ne trebko), which perfectly captures the fatal feminine quality of indifference: a woman whose name says 'I don't need you.', illustrating objet petit a,feminine indifference as attractive,the fatal woman
Žižek notes the irony that Russian soprano Anna Netrebko's surname means 'she doesn't need it' in Russian, making the fatal beauty's dismissive stance inscribed in her very name, illustrating the role of the name in constituting identity., illustrating Master Signifier,identity and the name