Full Metal Jacket, the drill sergeant and Private Pyle

As told 3

“all his obscene shouting is just a show put on, not so much to impress ordinary soldiers... as to bribe them with bits of enjoyment.”
1:17:31 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

“If you over-identify with it, if you really immediately become the voice of this super ego, it's self destructive.”
~1:19:26 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

“those in his unit who are presented most skeptical, looking at him ironically... those who do not fall into this trap, they are the good soldiers”
34:32 Special Session on “Ideology Today”2021-03-21 · 1:30:30

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

over-identification ×3 obscene supplement ×2 ideological surplus enjoyment ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Lindsay Anderson2 Nikos Kazantzakis2 Miloš Forman2 Bob Fosse2 John Frankenheimer2 Michelangelo Antonioni2 Abimael Guzmán2 Stephen Sondheim1

alongside works

Full Metal Jacket3 Zabriskie Point2 M*A*S*H2 If...2 A Clockwork Orange2 Capital, Volume 12 West Side Story2 Taxi Driver2

Told together with

50% Rammstein and neo-Nazis 3 shared talks 50% Abandoned planes in the Mojave Desert 2 shared talks 50% Brief Encounter, the busybody as the big Other 2 shared talks 50% The Last Temptation of Christ 2 shared talks 40% Prague Spring saved by Soviet intervention 2 shared talks 40% Abu Ghraib as obscene underside of military culture 2 shared talks 40% Bosnian rape survivors and the absent big Other 2 shared talks 40% The Fall of Berlin, Stalin as divine matchmaker 2 shared talks 22% Kinder Surprise Egg 2 shared talks 20% Jaws shark as ideological condensation 2 shared talks 6% Starbucks ethical consumerism 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

1:17:31 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

The drill sergeant in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is a tragic figure whose obscene shouting is a show to bribe soldiers with bits of enjoyment. Private Pyle got too directly identified with the obscene rituals, lost the distance, and turned suicidal/murderous, the danger of over-identification., illustrating obscene supplement,over-identification,ideology as enjoyment

~1:19:26 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

Kubrick's drill sergeant performs obscene excess as a show to bribe soldiers with enchantment. Private Pyle over-identifies with the obscene rituals, loses the protective ironic distance, and the result is self-destruction, he kills the sergeant then himself., illustrating obscene supplement,over-identification,military discipline

34:32 Special Session on “Ideology Today”2021-03-21 · 1:30:30

The soldier who over-identifies with military discipline (Pyle) is not a model soldier but a failed excess who goes too mad; the skeptical, ironic soldiers in his unit are the successful ones, proving over-identification is not the only or best subversive mode., illustrating over-identification,military discipline