Bosnian rape survivors and the absent big Other

As told 4

“they discovered the truth of what? jacques laccon claims there is no big other.”
1:41:14 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

“they didn't find the big Other to whom to tell the story… it's then that suicides or breakdowns happen not the rape itself but when… there is no big Other who will”
~39:55 The Function of Fantasy in the Lacanian Real2012 · 1:25:19

“There is no one really to listen to them.”
1:42:43 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

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)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

the big Other ×4 permanent trauma ×1 no big Other ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Lindsay Anderson2 Nikos Kazantzakis2 Miloš Forman2 Bob Fosse2 John Frankenheimer2 Michelangelo Antonioni2 Stanley Kubrick3 Abimael Guzmán2

alongside works

Zabriskie Point2 M*A*S*H2 If...2 A Clockwork Orange2 Capital, Volume 12 West Side Story2 Taxi Driver2 Full Metal Jacket2

Told together with

40% Abandoned planes in the Mojave Desert 2 shared talks 40% The Last Temptation of Christ 2 shared talks 40% Full Metal Jacket, the drill sergeant and Private Pyle 2 shared talks 40% Brief Encounter, the busybody as the big Other 2 shared talks 33% Prague Spring saved by Soviet intervention 2 shared talks 33% Abu Ghraib as obscene underside of military culture 2 shared talks 33% The Fall of Berlin, Stalin as divine matchmaker 2 shared talks 25% Rammstein and neo-Nazis 2 shared talks 20% Kinder Surprise Egg 2 shared talks 18% Jaws shark as ideological condensation 2 shared talks 6% Starbucks ethical consumerism 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

1:41:14 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

Women who survived rape in the Yugoslav wars kept themselves alive by the idea of telling the truth, but on surviving found no adequate listener, only bored social workers or relatives with obscene insinuations. This illustrates Lacan's claim: there is no big Other., illustrating the big Other,there is no big Other

~39:55 The Function of Fantasy in the Lacanian Real2012 · 1:25:19

Bosnian rape survivors during the Yugoslav wars often survived the assault with the imperative to bear witness; the breakdowns and suicides occurred afterward, when they found no big Other, no symbolic space, that would receive their testimony without dismissal or mockery., illustrating the big Other,trauma,testimony

1:42:43 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

Women who survived wartime rape in Bosnia kept themselves alive to tell the truth, and then discovered there was no one truly to listen. This illustrates Lacan's claim that the big Other does not exist., illustrating the big Other,trauma and the symbolic,Lacan's claim the big Other does not exist

1:14:15 Hegel with Neuralink2019-04-16 · 1:29:20

Žižek recounts speaking with rape survivors from the Yugoslav wars whose will to survive depended on the hope of a 'big Other' witness before whom they could testify; when that witness failed them (family silence), suicides followed., illustrating the big Other,loneliness and the Other,trauma and testimony