Slovenian philosopher who combines Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist ideology critique to produce a hyper-prolific and deliberately provocative commentary on everything.
The Sublime Object of Ideology: ideology is not false consciousness but a fantasy structure that organizes social reality — we know very well that X is false, but we act as if it were true. Enjoys his symptom: the American dream as ideological fantasy. For They Know Not What They Do. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. The parallax view: reality is the gap between two perspectives that can never be unified.
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