My introduction to Zizek is an object lesson in the cognitive paradox presented in The Sublime Image of Ideology. Intellectual curiosity, that desire for the power of knowledge fueled by what Nietzche would call the “will to knowledge”, wraps itself around a traumatic psychological void that is only ever temporarily satisfied by the reflexive self-awareness of the drive itself - a knowledge of the will to knowledge - only to turn back on itself and repeat, attempting to fill the negative space once again. As Zizek would have it, the infinite linguistic and cognitive re-interpretability of positive assertion gets us no closer to knowing what is really real. Rather, it veils a process of fantasy, desire, and antagonism that shapes our pursuit of what is Real and, as I will posit, could provide a clinical mechanism for inducing cognitive surrender in the troubled mind with corresponding neurological balance in the material brain.
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