Publication at Central Library of Charles University |
2019
Abstract
Slavoj Žižek is supposed to provide perspicacious insights into the paradoxical and spectral ideological appearances in the contemporary world. He conceptualized the demise of the big Other as the disappearance of the shared rules of lives.
The author connects the demise of the big Others with Lyotard's concept of paralogy and shows that fragmentized society is a result of neoliberalism that has created social paralogy with heterogeneous communities. The author argues that Žižek's theory of ideology is lacking for the concept of the semantic field that is not unified by the Master-Signifier regarding the demise of the big Other.
The Signifier-Real is proposed to be the semantic agent of populist unification that keeps social paralogy.