Zizek and Polls

Rob Schaap rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au
Mon Oct 2 09:39:58 PDT 2000


Hi again, Doug (and a hearty g'day to you, Carrol!)

Thought you had the last word, eh? Well, bugger the three-post limit!


>>Well, insofar as it could do with a bloody good edit,
>
>Had one, from Ezra Pound.

Exactly. Didn't Pound say somewhere he could never 'hold two sides of an idea together'? Hence his preference for onesided Mussofascist stasis rather than the dialectical subtlety of real socialism and hence his inability to help poor Eliot highlight and integrate the quest for human happiness that was the 'Other' of his despair in the post-WW1, mid-marital-crisis moment. There ya go - a bit of psychoanalysis and a couple of scare quotes to boot!

G'Night, Rob.



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