Fight Club: Ed Norton beats himself before his boss

As told 4

“That's how you should begin: change your dreams.”
~3:04 No Sex please, We are Post-Human2009-01-20 · 1:20:27

“instead of hitting him, he strikes back at him. and it's the most painful, incredibly subversive thing”
56:50 The New Sacred2012 · 1:05:22

“His fist hand, like in Grimm fairy tale, gets autonomous and starts to — he starts to beat himself. This is death drive at its purest.”
1:11:19 Why Todestrieb is a Philosophical Concept2009-03-06 · 1:29:44

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

spiritual violence ×2 autonomous organ ×1 undeadness ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Hilary Neroni2 Samuel Maoz2 Ari Folman2 Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu2 Leonardo Padura Fuentes2 Anwar Congo2 Golda Meir2 Brothers Grimm1

alongside works

Risk Society2 Ephesians (Paul)2 Waltz with Bashir2 Tsahal2 Topaz2 Stage Fright2 Lebanon2 Seminars XVI and XVII (Lacan)1

Told together with

40% Žižek escaping student Q&A via fake dean summons 2 shared talks 40% learning to enjoy alcohol and cigarettes 2 shared talks 40% Charity ad for the price of a cappuccino 2 shared talks 40% Golda Meir: I believe in Jewish people 2 shared talks 29% Chinese scientists: Three Gorges Dam caused earthquake 2 shared talks 29% Sound of Music censored in communist Yugoslavia 2 shared talks 29% Toms Shoes 1-for-1 formula 2 shared talks 17% Kung Fu Panda 2 shared talks 13% Da Vinci Code / Da Vinci, sex displaced onto Jesus 2 shared talks 13% Heydrich playing Beethoven string quartets 2 shared talks 10% Daisetz Suzuki's Knife 2 shared talks 9% Santa Claus Belief 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

~3:04 No Sex please, We are Post-Human2009-01-20 · 1:20:27

In Fight Club, Ed Norton's character beats himself in front of his boss, Žižek reads this as the correct model for radical politics: a spiritual violence aimed at oneself, transforming your own dreams, before any outward action., illustrating spiritual violence aimed at yourself,revolution and political action

56:50 The New Sacred2012 · 1:05:22

The scene in Fight Club where Ed Norton beats himself up rather than his boss is cited as the most subversive illustration of 'turning the other cheek', destabilizing the adversary by refusing the expected response., illustrating Christian love as active struggle,turning the other cheek as subversion

1:11:19 Why Todestrieb is a Philosophical Concept2009-03-06 · 1:29:44

In Fight Club, Ed Norton's fist becomes autonomous and beats his own boss, like the arm in Grimm's fairy tale. Žižek reads this as death drive at its purest: an organ that rebels against the subject's own will., illustrating Todestrieb,autonomous organ,undead

1:19:52 We’re Only Human2009-10-20 · 1:20:27

Edward Norton's character confronts his boss and beats himself rather than the boss, Žižek reads this as the proper first act of radical politics: spiritual violence directed inward, transforming one's own dreams before acting on the world., illustrating spiritual violence,subjectivity,revolutionary praxis