Subjectivization, Identification, And Act: Birth, Submission, And Re-Birth of Subjects in A Symbolic Order

Abdol Hossein Joodaki

International Journal of Asian Social Science, 2014, vol. 4, issue 8, 912-923

Abstract: This study has taken into consideration Žižek views on the notion of fantasy and its function in controlling thoughts and influencing the public. All of contemplations on subject and its position in society are significant, but Žižek’s is a different one. To elaborate this notion more closely this study focuses on the birth and death of subjects in Žižekian perspective. Fantasy plays an important role in symbolic submission and identification. It provides the context for internalization of cultural norms through language and identification with figures of symbolic authority like Ego Ideal. The only way out of such subjugation is a radical traversing of the existing ideological regime, or act. This research shows that there is indeed for Žižek an intimate connection between symbolic identity and the founding imposition of language. Language is a powerful tool to form human behaviors, beliefs, and finally their identity within a symbolic order. The process of subject’s enslavement into language is called subjectivization by Žižek. The symbolic order continues its livelihood by identifying subjects with Ego Ideals in the field of fantasy. As Žižek announces the fantasy of a subject manages or domesticates the traumatic loss of enjoyment, which cannot be symbolized. In spite of subjectivization and identification, some subjects traverse their ideological fantasy and accept the nonexistence of the big Other. They explicitly challenge the founding assumptions of the existing ideological order, with its undergirding political fantasies.

Keywords: Žižek; Fantasy; Subjectivization; Identification; Act; Symbolic order. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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