Normality and Other Kinds of Madness: Zizek and the traumatic core of the subject

Abstract

Analyzes the use of the concept of madness to understand the style and substance of Slavoj Zizek's work. Zizek's brand of stand-up theory; Zizek's work derived from a fundamental surrealist reversal; References to repression; Foundation of subjectivity; Views on poststructuralism.