The Last Temptation of Christ

As told 3

“Christ's resistance. 'F*ck it, why should I be the son of God?'”
~48:15 Slavoj Zizek lecture: the double nature of the capitalist discourse2016 · 1:29:13

“the message of christianity is here radically atheist. it's death of christ is not any kind of redemption... it's simply the disintegration of the god which guarantees the meaning of our lives.”
1:50:42 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

“What dies on the cross is precisely this guarantee of the big other.”
1:52:18 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

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

hysteria ×2 subjective destitution ×2 hysterical discourse ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Lindsay Anderson2 Nikos Kazantzakis2 Miloš Forman2 Martin Scorsese3 Bob Fosse2 John Frankenheimer2 Michelangelo Antonioni2 Abimael Guzmán2

alongside works

Zabriskie Point2 M*A*S*H2 If...2 A Clockwork Orange2 Capital, Volume 12 The Last Temptation of Christ3 West Side Story2 Taxi Driver2

Told together with

50% Abandoned planes in the Mojave Desert 2 shared talks 50% Brief Encounter, the busybody as the big Other 2 shared talks 50% Full Metal Jacket, the drill sergeant and Private Pyle 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 29% Rammstein and neo-Nazis 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

~48:15 Slavoj Zizek lecture: the double nature of the capitalist discourse2016 · 1:29:13

Žižek reads Scorsese's film as Christ acting as a hysteric, resisting his role ('Why do I have to play this role?') and wanting to 'screw ladies in Samaria.', illustrating hysterical discourse,religion-theology

1:50:42 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) - Slavoj Žižek2012 · 2:07:58

Kazantzakis's novel and Scorsese's film show Christ's own hysterical questioning of his identity. The Book of Job shows God validating Job's refusal to accept theological justification for suffering, the first step toward delegitimizing suffering and toward Christianity's radically atheist gesture., illustrating hysteria,subjective destitution,Christianity as atheism

1:52:18 The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)2012 · 2:10:30

Scorsese's film presents Christ as not simply accepting his divine destiny but experiencing it as traumatic news, a hysterical questioning of his own symbolic identity. The crucifixion is read as the death of the big Other., illustrating hysteria,Christianity and the big Other,subjective destitution