description: It was already Franz Kafka who articulated this crisis of paternal authority in all its ambiguity; no wonder that the first impression one gets in reading Kafka's letter to his father is that there is something missing in it-the final twist along the lines of the parable on the Door of the Law ("This door was here only for you..."): the father's display of terror and rage is here only for you, you are invested in it, sustaining it... One can well imagine the real Herrmann Kafka as a benevolent and nice gentleman, genuinely surprised at the role he played in his son's imaginary. So, to put it in Californian, Kafka had a serious attitude-problem with regard to his father. Slavoj Zizek - "A Letter Which Did Arrive at its Destination." I think that the Zionist project has two different and opposite significations. On the one side, it was in the framework of the idea of emancipation. It is true that many Zionists had the general idea to create a new form of state with a collective democracy and so on. So there is a part at the beginning of the Zionist project which is in fact a part of the general idea of progress in the nineteenth century. But there is another part which is purely within the ideology of colonialism. So the Zionist project is the result of a strange mixture between the European idea of emancipation and the colonialist ideas.. Alain Badiou - "The Question of Democracy"
title: Lacanian Ink 28   Profane Illuminations
titlecomplete: Lacanian Ink 28   Profane Illuminations
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