learning to enjoy alcohol and cigarettes

As told 3

“The first cigarette—you start coughing and so on, it's horrible. This is the crucial lesson: especially transgressions are regulated.”
~0:02 First as Tragedy, then as Farce2010-01-05 · 2:21:08

“you literally have to learn to enjoy as part of the initiatic ritual. I claim it's the same with drinking.”
25:43 No Sex please, We are Post-Human2009-01-20 · 1:20:27

“I claim it's the same with drinking... if you want pure pleasure, masturbation is much better.”
25:49 We’re Only Human2009-10-20 · 1:20:27

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, 2 jobsuses

rules of transgression ×2 obscene underside ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Hilary Neroni2 Samuel Maoz2 Ari Folman2 Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu2 Saint Theresa of Avila Church, New Orleans1 Michael Nyman1 Leonardo Padura Fuentes2 Anwar Congo2

alongside works

Risk Society2 Ephesians (Paul)2 Waltz with Bashir2 Tsahal2 Topaz2 Stage Fright2 Lebanon2 La Mésentente (Disagreement)1

Told together with

60% Chinese scientists: Three Gorges Dam caused earthquake 3 shared talks 50% Golda Meir: I believe in Jewish people 2 shared talks 50% Charity ad for the price of a cappuccino 2 shared talks 50% Žižek escaping student Q&A via fake dean summons 2 shared talks 40% Fight Club: Ed Norton beats himself before his boss 2 shared talks 33% Toms Shoes 1-for-1 formula 2 shared talks 33% Sound of Music censored in communist Yugoslavia 2 shared talks 18% Kung Fu Panda 2 shared talks 14% Da Vinci Code / Da Vinci, sex displaced onto Jesus 2 shared talks 14% Heydrich playing Beethoven string quartets 2 shared talks 11% Daisetz Suzuki's Knife 2 shared talks 10% Santa Claus Belief 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

~0:02 First as Tragedy, then as Farce2010-01-05 · 2:21:08

Žižek asks audiences to recall their first drink or cigarette, it was bitter, horrible, and notes they were taught to enjoy it by imitating peers. This shows transgressions must be learned, not felt spontaneously., illustrating transgressions are regulated,ideology

25:43 No Sex please, We are Post-Human2009-01-20 · 1:20:27

Nobody enjoys smoking or whisky on first encounter, it requires a transgressive initiatic experience and deliberate learning; even sex at its deepest level is a transgressive duty rather than pure pleasure, proving that transgressive enjoyment is fully rule-governed., illustrating transgression as rule-governed,obscene underside

25:49 We’re Only Human2009-10-20 · 1:20:27

First-time smokers cough and find it disgusting; first whiskey is bitter. Both must be learned as initiatory rites. Žižek extends this to sex itself: at the deepest level it is a transgressive-enforced duty, not pure pleasure, otherwise masturbation would be preferred., illustrating solicited transgression,enjoyment as duty