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Is Surplus-Value Marx’s Name For Surplus-Enjoyment?

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Jul 2, 202619 April 2016
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Part 2 of the Masterclass: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge Jacques Lacan loc­ated the ori­gin of his key notion of plus-de-jouir (sur­plus-enjoy­ment) in Marx’s notion of sur­plus-value, and it is worth explor­ing in detail the homo­logy of the two notions, adding a third one, that of sur­plus-know­ledge, a pseudo-know­ledge in the guise of which our ignor­ance appears (“supreme” know­ledge of God and other hid­den forces, con­spir­acy the­or­ies, etc.). Such an ana­lysis ...

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Welcome everybody to the second of Slavoj Žižek's masterclasses for the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. I won't introduce him extensively. for two reasons. Many of you were here yesterday, and

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