SLAVO) ZIZEK THE INDIVISIBLE REMAINDER da ALL Ca Sead dont ga TE> TA golden teasury of theery" Eric < Banks, Bookfortim Beal Hy designed. a soghi isticgige blend of theary and. Ahought Ziauddin Sarda, New Statesman MINIMA MORALIA Reflections on a Damaged Life THEODOR ABDGRNG ISBN-13; 978 1 84467 051 2 FOR MARX LOUIS ALTHUSSER ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 052 9 : THE SYSTEM OF OBJECTS | JEAN BAUDRILLARD : ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 053 6 LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY NORBERTO BORBIO ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 062 8 THE POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP JACQUES DERRIDA ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 054 3 THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM TERRY EAGLETON iSBN-13: 978 1 84467 055 0 SIGNS TAKEN FOR WONDERS On the Sociology of Literary Forms FRANCO MORETTI ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 056 7 THE RETURN OF THE POLITICAL CHANTAL MOUFFE ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 057 4 SET 2 sirssiessosze09_ | AESTHETICS AND POLITICS | THEODOR ADORNO, WALTER | BENIAMIN, ERNST BLOCH, BERTOLT _ BRECHT, GEORG LUKACS ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 5708 : INFANCY AND HISTORY | On the Destruction of | Experience | GIDRGIO AGAMBEN : (SBN-13: 978 1 84467 5715 » POLITICS AND HISTORY Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx | LOUIS ALTHUSSER | ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 572 2 FRAGMENTS JEAN BAUDRILLARD ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 573 9 LOGICS OF DISINTEGRATION Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory PETER DEWS ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 5746 LATE MARXISM Adorno, Or, The Persistence of the Dialectic FREDRIC JAMESON ISBN-13; 978 1 84467 575 3 EMANCIPATION(S) ERNESTO LACLAU ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 576 0 THE POLITICAL DESCARTES Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project ANTONIO NEGRI ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 582 1 SEXUALITY IN THE FIELD OF VISION JACQUELINE ROSE ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 058 1 THE INFORMATION BOMB; PAUL VRILIO ; ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 059 8 CULTURE AND MATERIALISM RAYMOND WILLIAMS ISBN-13; 978 1 84467 060 4 THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT On Women and Causality SLAVO] ZEZEK ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 061 1 ON THE SHORES OF POLITICS JAGQUES RANCIERE ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 577 7 STRATEGY OF DECEPTION PAUL VIRIIG ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 578 4 POLITICS OF MODERNISM Against the New Conformists RAYMOND WILLIAMS | ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 580 7 THE INDIVISIBLE REMAINDER On Schelling and Related Matters SLAWOI ZIZEK ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 581 4 THE INDIVISIBLE REMAINDER Slavoj Zigek VERSO London + New YorkFirst published by Verso 1996 © Slavoj Zizek 1996 This edition published by Verso 2007 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted 13579108642 Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F ORG USA: 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014-4606 www.versobooks.com Verso is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-581-4 ISBN-10: 1-84467-581-5 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Printed in the UK by Bookmarque Ltd, Croydon, Surrey RO3227 61031 Contents social sciences vivist0K CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY A SUT STATE STREET CHICAGO, IL 60605 INTRODUCTION 1 PART I F.W.J. SCHELLING, OR, AT THE ORIGINS OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM ll 1 Schelling-in-itself: The ‘Orgasm of Forces’ 13 Before the Beginning * The unconscious act * The contraction of Being * Drives and their rotary motion e From freedom to a free subject * The divine madness ¢ Schellingian politics © The primordial dissonance * ‘Symbolic castration’ « The paradox of reflection * The virtual reality of Ideas ¢ The ascent from Eternity to Time * The ‘enchainment’ * ‘Selfhood as such is spirit’ ¢ Existence and its Ground © Evil as the perverted unity of Existence and Ground ¢ The three levels of freedom * The materialist notion of subject © The Absolute ‘out of mind’ ¢ The ‘formula of the world’ 2 Schelling-for-Hegel: The ‘Vanishing Mediator’ 92 From subjectivization to subjective destitution * Desire versus drive * “The voice is a voice’ * ‘And’ as a category * The ambiguous status of lalangue ¢ What is idealism? ¢ The ‘repressed’ genesis of modernity * Die Versagung: from Paul Claudel ...*... to France Pregeren © The dialectical transubstantiation * How does the Spirit return to itself? ¢ There is no subject without an empty signifier e The precipitate identification * The semblance of the ‘objective Spirit’ © The symbolic sleight of hand © ‘A is @ Voice as a supplement * The shofar * How not to read Lacan’s ‘formulas of sexuation’ * Femininity as masquerade ¢