Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

OUVERTURE: LIVING IN A TOPSY-TURVY WORLD
From Catastrophe to Apocalypse… and Back
An Unexpected Lustgewinn
2 + a
“Good luck, Mr Hegel!”
1 WHERE IS THE RIFT? MARX, CAPITALISM, AND ECOLOGY
Neoconservative Communism
Hegel in the Critique of Political Economy
Actual Life versus Substanceless Subjectivity
Eco-proletarians and the Limits of Valorization
No capitalism (and no way out of it) without science
Is abstract labor universal?
Workers or Worker?
Fiction and/in Reality
The Emancipatory Potential of Capitalist Madness
Ecology with Alienation
Last Exit for Communism
2 A NON-BINARY DIFFERENCE? PSYCHOANALYSIS, POLITICS, AND PHILOSOPHY
Critique of Critique
“They are both worse!”
A Critique of Lacanian Ideology
A (Malevolent) Political Neutrality of the Analyst
Limits of Historicization
Formulas of Sexuation
Vagaries of Truth
Trans versus Cis
Sexual difference is not binary
From Special to General Theory of Queerness
Why there is no true love without betrayal
Kurc te gleda… through Lubitsch’s looking class
3 SURPLUS-ENJOYMENT, OR, WHY DO WE ENJOY OUR OPPRESSION
Vikings, Solaris, Katla: the big Other and its Vicissitudes
The Birth of the Superego out of the Breakage of the Law
From Authority to Permissiveness… and back
No Freedom Without Impossibility
Repression, Oppression, Depression
So what is Surplus-Enjoyment?
Enjoying Alienation
Martin Luther as a film noir Figure
A Desire Not to Have a Mother
FINALE: SUBJECTIVE DESTITUTION AS A POLITICAL CATEGORY
The Two Ends of Philosophy
Man as a katastrophe
“We must live till we die”
From Being-Towards-Death to Undeadness
Revolutionary Self-Destitution…
… versus Religious Fundamentalism
“Les non-dupes errent”
Lambs to the Slaughter
The Two Faces of Anachronism
Destructive Nihilism
The Return of Vanishing Mediators
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