tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post1950709184365410082..comments2024-03-27T06:34:24.901-07:00Comments on Goethe Etc.: America and the Enlightenment ProjectGoethe Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11390542069637659154noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post-89446542422720824802011-04-06T22:42:20.842-07:002011-04-06T22:42:20.842-07:00Zizek has a whole book about Lacan and popular cul...Zizek has a whole book about Lacan and popular culture. I'd be willing to bet he discusses The Sound of Music in this book! Like many teachers, he uses his favorite examples over and over. By the way, a fellow from Benares, India, a techie, introduced me to the name, Zizek, which until about a month ago, I'd never heard before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post-15675034671401707682011-04-06T22:37:09.390-07:002011-04-06T22:37:09.390-07:00Zizek talks about the Sound of Music in a film pro...Zizek talks about the Sound of Music in a film produced by Ben Wright. I forget the title but it is easy to get via Netflix. (2003.) We also ordered "Zizek!", a movie created by Astra Taylor. <br /> Zizek "reads" The Sound of Music in terms of Lacan's three categories--the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real. I think you'd find his remarks interesting. <br />Oh. Just remembered the title: something like THE REALITY OF THE VIRTUAL. For me, this tension is analogous to the Pauline tension in his Letters...between the nunc and the nondum, the now and the not yet. We have already in the New Testament a kind of REALITY OF THE VIRTUAL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post-30435816800451459132011-04-01T18:55:10.960-07:002011-04-01T18:55:10.960-07:00Yes, I forgot to mention the "Dichter und Den...Yes, I forgot to mention the "Dichter und Denker." Where can I find that essay on "The Sound of Music."Goethe Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11390542069637659154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9020609400967229954.post-76618038965120494352011-04-01T12:01:36.413-07:002011-04-01T12:01:36.413-07:00To understand how Germany, with its sublime histor...To understand how Germany, with its sublime history of achievement, could have tacitly assented to Hitler's deeds--this conundrum requires the skills of an analyst. Lacan or Zizek. The latter, in particular, thinks notably in terms of the chronically paradoxical. One of his favorite examples is the "chocolate laxative," the remedy that coincides with the "negative," the sin. I love these paradoxes of Zizek even though I don't fully understand them! They smack of truth! His interpretation of the great movie, The Sound of Music, is a marvel of insight into what analysts call "the unconscious mind." We find ourselves "attracted" to the sharp-looking and the apparently "cultivated." For me, however, things German ARE the ultimate in culture. I don't care about my "unconscious" mind 24/7. Just think of the year in Europe, 1800. Especially Germany. Beethoven; Goethe; Hegel; Kant; Fichte; Schelling; Schiller...it is inconceivable. To this day, Emily Dickinson and Company notwithstanding, Americans SHOULD be humbled in the presence of such conglomerations of human genius.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com