【齐泽克】无器官的身体：论德勒兹.docVIP

? Organs without Bodies - Gilles Deleuze ? .Slavoj Zizek .1. The Reality of the Virtual The measure of the true love for a philosopher is that one recognizes traces of his concepts all around in ones daily experience. Recently, while watching again Sergei Eisensteins Ivan the Terrible, I noticed a wonderful detail in the coronation scene at the beginning of the first part: when the two (for the time being) closest friends of Ivan pour golden coins from the large plates onto his newly anointed head, this veritable rain of gold cannot but surprise the spectator by its magically excessive character - even after we see the two plates almost empty, we cut to Ivans head on which golden coins nonrealistically continue to pour in a continuing flow. Is this excess not very Deleuzian? Is it not the excess of the pure flow of becoming over its corporeal cause, of the virtual over the actual?The first determination that comes to mind apropos of Deleuze is that he is the philosopher of the Virtual - and the first reaction to it should be to oppose Deleuzes notion of the Virtual to the all-pervasive topic of virtual reality: what matters to Deleuze is not virtual reality, but the reality of the virtual (which, in Lacanian terms, is the Real). Virtual Reality in itself is a rather miserable idea: that of imitating reality, of reproducing its experience in an artificial medium. The reality of the Virtual, on the other hand, stands for the reality of the Virtual as such, for its real effects and consequences. Let us take an attractor in mathematics: all positive lines or points in its sphere of attraction only approach it in an endless fashion, never reaching its form - the existence of this form is purely virtual, being nothing more than the shape towards which lines and points tend. However, precisely as such, the virtual is the Real of this field: the immovable focal point around which all elements circulate. Is not this Virtual ultimately the Symbolic as such? Let us take symb