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Slovenian anti-abortion fairy tale

anecdote · Slovenian/Yugoslav · retold in 3 talks

A right-wing Catholic poet wrote a story where aborted children live in an alternate reality, gazing reproachfully at their parents, making parents feel guilty via an impossible gaze.

As told 2

“an anti-abortion Märchen, fairy tale, written in the eighties by a Slovene right-wing nationalist Catholic poet”
“the aborted children are presented as having been born only into an alternate universe… retaining the memory of parents who betrayed them”

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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)

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A right-wing Catholic poet wrote a story where aborted children live in an alternate reality, gazing reproachfully at their parents, making parents feel guilty via an impossible gaze., illustrating fantasmatic, non-existent, impossible gaze,ideology
A conservative Slovenian writer's fairy tale places aborted children on an idyllic island where they mourn their parents. Žižek analyzes the tale as a reactionary activation of the child's fundamental fantasy of disappearing to test the other's desire., illustrating the gaze of the big Other,se faire voir,fantasy structure,enigma of the Other's desire