I can’t find any references or discussions, precisely from someone who has gained for philosophising through dirty jokes and taboo subjects. So if anyone knows of a text where Žižek does discuss bestiality, please let me know. Otherwise, it seems as though the man does have some standards.
28 February, 2010
Question: does Žižek deal anywhere with bestiality?
Posted by stalinsmoustache under philosophy | Tags: bestiality, Slavoj Žižek |[18] Comments
28 February, 2010 at 5:05 pm
I think he’s drawn a line at rape and necrophilia.
1 March, 2010 at 2:32 am
And fisting. That’s what I’ve found. The man’s an impostor, then, a calculated risk taker who knows he can go only so far …
2 March, 2010 at 2:35 am
There’s a reference to fisting in the final chapter of Organs Without Bodies, in reference to Foucault’s predilection for it.
There’s also a short analysis of a specific piece of child porn in The Parallax View in usual Zizekian manner (the child’s reaction illuminates some Lacanian point).
I would have thought that would be more risky than bestiality, especially given he didn’t moralise about it.. I dunno.
28 February, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I’m stranded without books in the outback of Orstraaalia, but seem to remember some discussion of Nazis making Jews do unhuman acts in Plague of Fantasies and then comparing it to the Categorical Imperative (about page 230). I think he makes the same (illicit) linkages somewhere else, too.
28 February, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Oh – you meant THAT kind of bestiality.
28 February, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Did you know that there’s a Noah’s Ark Street in Ararat, Victoria? It’s more of a long driveway to a farm than a street, but still.
1 March, 2010 at 2:33 am
And what, pray tell, are you doing in Ararat?
1 March, 2010 at 8:09 pm
I was just having a trip around the place.
Apparently the ‘discoverer’ of Ararat gave it that name because, as he wrote in his diary, “we rested there”.
When we rested there, unfortunately some bugger had stolen the street-sign to Noah’s Ark Road. There was just a pole stuck in the ground at the start of the road.
1 March, 2010 at 2:14 am
Did you know that there’s a Noah’s Ark Street in Ararat, Victoria?
Is Ataturk writing comments on this blog now? Ararat isn’t part of ‘Victoria’, mate. Ararat is Armenian.
1 March, 2010 at 2:34 am
VM, you should get out in the country more (even though I know you hate nature) when you’re back in Oz. You’ll be surprised to find out that Victoria is actually larger than Melbourne. Come to think of it, I’ve been in Ararat.
1 March, 2010 at 10:54 pm
I know that Victoria is bigger than Melbourne. I have been to the countryside. Remember a few years back when we all met in Auckland?
1 March, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Must be named after the place in Australia, I guess.
1 March, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Like Moscow and Paris and Intercourse in the USA.
2 March, 2010 at 10:42 am
I think he does but I can’t for the life of me remember where. He’s pretty filthy in the introduction of Parallax – that’s for sure.
2 March, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Queen Emily: fisting is so passe, dear, even if it is the one new sexual invention of the 20th century.
Jon: that’s what I thought. If anyone would Zizek would, but I can’t find anything. But, surprisingly, the same applies to Freud and Lacan, from what I can find. Too hung up on Oedipus?
2 March, 2010 at 1:51 pm
“sex with an animal is today’s predominant form of the fantasy of full sexual relationship”
- The Fragile Absolute, 65
2 March, 2010 at 3:04 pm
One! It’s like the one mention of zoophilia in Freud, vol one, p 241. But I will of course, check it out.
6 March, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Gerard Reve fantasizes about zoomorphilia.