Death+Drive+K

=Death Drive K=

The fantasy that we are the omniscient Masters that can conquer and defeat the violence that permeates our internal order plagues the international system. The ideology and desire of late capitalism and modernity structure this fantasy to overcome and conquer the psychic death drive. This fantasmic desire to overcome the drive produces an endless cycle of error replication because we repeatedly mistarget the sources of conflict and violence. This cycle is an inevitable march toward ultimate destruction. Paradoxically, the drive structures the logic of the international system, yet also poses as the radical possibility to move beyond it. Acknowledging that death is not the mark of humyn finitude allows us to take pleasure in the pain of continually missing our goal. This confrontation with the death drive allows for a radical break beyond this cycle of violence and corruption. Zizek 99 [Slavoj, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Ticklish Subject, pgs. 293- 29, 1999]

The lesson of drive is that…experience of repeatedly missing one’s goal.

To confront the internal order constituted by the death drive, we must accept the apolitical and destructive logic of the status quo. Any partial embracing of the death drive is underwritten by the desire to avoid authentically confronting it and to violently maintain the ideological fantasies of Truth and Goodness. Zizek 99 [Slavoj, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Ticklish Subject, pgs. 160- 61, 1999]

In Lacanese, the subject prior to…rule of the Truth and/or Goodness.  The inevitable disorder of the international system confronts us with two options: to fear collapse of the system and uphold and police it with genocidal and totalitarian results, or to make the move to confront the radical possibilities offered by the death drive… Our politics us a radical and complete over-identification with the system we are confronting, this ultra-orthodoxy allows us to expose the operation of the death drive and confront the desire to conquer the drive – strict adherence to the international ideology of the resolution is this ultra-orthodoxy – engaging in a mechanism of international relations that has so much baggage disturbs our understanding of the fantasy Zizek 97 (Slavoj, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Repeating Lenin, 1997, http://www.lacan.com/replenin.htm)

This repression of the regime’s own excess…but as warm passionate persons.

Our specific interrogation of how the death drive and the fantasy of defecting this drive manifests itself within the Obama Administration and military policy allows us to untie the ideological knot that holds together the entire international order. Zizek 99 [Slavoj, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Ticklish Subject, pgs. 175-76, 1999]

Ridiculous as this notion of the…does cure by addressing the sinthome…

Our radical authentic call to recognize the manifestation of global violence becomes a universal call to expose the violence underlying the entire international order. Attempts to eliminate or isolate parts of our call locks the demand within the apolitical and “safe” space of the particular, which only reproduces the violence and prevents radical solutions. Zizek 99 [Slavoj, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Ticklish Subject, pg. 204, 1999]

Let us recall the standard example of a popular…the dimension beyond particularity.

Recognition of the death drive abolishes the source of totalitarian temptations – our attempt to articulate a new way of living is the only hope to break away from our violent international order. Zizek 99 [Slavoj, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Ticklish Subject, pgs. 390-91, 1999]

On the other hand, against this stupid…closed order is profoundly misleading.