Status Updates From Zero Point (Žižek's Essays)

“What Hysterics Only Dream About” offers a defence of Lacan and psychoanalysis, posing it as a necessary force in ordering a proper amount of shame and dignity into our lives. Zizek briefly explains the socio-political ramifications of this idea.

Zizek affirms the power of words in the global system, especially in the case of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Zizek advocates the recognition of Palestine and the fulfilment of the ICC arrest warrant against Israeli officials. Zizek concludes with the assertion that the horrors of reality may be used to escape from the futility of fantasy (Zizek’s implied psychoanalysis of the Israeli government’s motives).

Zizek, in reacting to the reelection of Donald Trump, discusses the larger paradigm shift involved in “Trumpian politics”; for example, that the vulgarity of Trump’s political rhetoric masks the anti-populist policies contained within his populist messaging.

Some very interesting and seemingly paradoxical geopolitical statements in here.
Enjoying it so far, even if my head hurts