【齐泽克】从政 治到生命政 治……然后回来.pdfVIP

Slavoj Žižek From Politics to Biopolitics . . . and Back In our Western tradition, the exemplary case of a traumatic Real is the Jewish Law. In the Jewish tradition, the divine Mosaic Law is experienced as something externally imposed, contingent, and traumatic—in short, as an impossible/real Thing that ‘‘makes the law.’’ What is arguably the ultimate scene of religious-ideological interpel- lation—the pronouncement of the Decalogue on Mount Sinai—is the very opposite of something that emerges ‘‘organically’’ as the outcome of the path of self-knowing and self-realization. The Judeo-Christian tradition is thus to be strictly opposed to the New Age gnostic problematic of self-realization or self-fulfillment: when the Old Testament enjoins you to love and respect your neighbor, this does not refer to your imaginary semblable/double, but to the neighbor qua trau- matic Thing. In contrast to the New Age attitude that ultimately reduces my Other/Neighbor to my mirror image or to the means on the path to self-realization (like the Jungian psychology in which other persons around me are ultimately reduced to the externalizations/projections of the different disavowed aspects of my