Lacan at May '68: you will get a new master
anecdote · Lacan ·
retold in 7 talks
Reacting to the Paris 1968 protests, Lacan told students: 'What you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one.' Žižek invokes this as partly true of the Indignados while rejecting Lacan's liberal cynicism as a universal law.
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As told 7
“What you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one.”
“What you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one.”
“What you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one.”
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
disavowed call for a new master
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contingency of monarchy
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the big Other
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Emmanuel Todd3Daniel Pink2Ernest Jones2André Monglond2Daniel Paul Schreber1Jean Clavreul1İdris Naim Şahin1William Blake1
alongside works
Every retelling 7
Reacting to the Paris 1968 protests, Lacan told students: 'What you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one.' Žižek invokes this as partly true of the Indignados while rejecting Lacan's liberal cynicism as a universal law., illustrating disavowed call for a new master,hysterical provocation of the master,limits of protest without program
At the 1968 Paris protests Lacan told students: what you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master, and you will get one. Žižek rejects this as too cheap but acknowledges a grain of truth in the context of today's protests., illustrating hysterical call for a new master,limits of protest
Lacan told the 1968 Paris protesters 'What you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one.', Žižek reads this as a diagnostic-prognostic with a grain of truth, manifested in the subsequent appointment of technocratic governments., illustrating new master,protest without transformation,big Other
Modern rulers dress casually and act 'like us,' renouncing all dignitary insignia, but this displayed castration is the very instrument of their limitless power, not a limitation on it., illustrating castration of the symbolic public image,cynicism as hegemonic ideology,power through weakness
Lacan's final public seminars culminated in one where he appeared, spoke for one minute, and left; the last or penultimate appearance was simply an admission of failure, used by Žižek against the idea of an approaching final enlightenment., illustrating rejection of the final mystery in Lacan,Lacan's deadlock
Lacan tells May '68 protesters they lack shame, fearing they are carried away by 'buffonnerie' (clownishness). Žižek uses this to argue that leftist protesters should rehabilitate shame/decency against state shamelessness., illustrating shamelessness,buffonnerie