The Da Vinci Code DVD
example · personal/autobiographical ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek admits buying an illegal DVD of *The Da Vinci Code* from Petticoat Lane Market, noting it was a perfect copy, to introduce a psychoanalytic reading of the film.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“I bought three days ago at Petticoat Lane Market from a nice Indian girl for four pounds the DVD, illegal.”34:09 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 2pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:56:22
“It's paradoxical how to be really lit to be really popular for the wide public you must pretend to tell a secret.”
“It's the first James Bond without sex at the end... why does the poor God himself have to have sex to cover up the fact that here there is no sex?”
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)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Tom Hanks1Olga Kurylenko1Daniel Craig1Sophia Karpay1Arthur C. Clarke1Wiesel? (Implicit: Holocaust victims/survivors)1Fox Mulder1Jean Améry1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
34:09 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 2pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:56:22
Žižek admits buying an illegal DVD of The Da Vinci Code from Petticoat Lane Market, noting it was a perfect copy, to introduce a psychoanalytic reading of the film., illustrating ideology,psychoanalysis
The most popular books in Europe today are ones that publicly tell secrets (like those The Da Vinci Code is based on), to be truly popular for the wide public you must pretend to tell a secret., illustrating the paradox of the public secret
1:35:42 XLII Sigmund Freud Lecture by Slavoj Žižek: Theology, Negativity, and the Death-Drive2015 · 1:49:50
Modern films like James Bond and The Da Vinci Code lack sex at the end; Žižek reads this as a Freudian cover-up for the fact that there is no sex, reflecting a societal obsession with avoiding the 'fall' of love., illustrating self-defeating hedonism,the fall