>These extreme forms are found in many parts of the world far
removed from financial capital. I suspect their unconscious roots are
exacerbated by direct experience of, as opposed to insulation from, "the very material traumas capital movement creates".
Agreed. To that extent, Zizek seems wrong about the real but right about the fantasy. Americans did get what they fantasized about--as represented through the untrustworthy proxy of Hollywood cinema. (Disaster films and the Die Hard series are about, among other things, infrastructure-as-site of social cohesion.) But if you really want to take Lacan/Zizek seriously, you have to believe that this real is something both desired and enjoyed by many Americans--especially those geographically removed from, but still vulnerable to, the whims of financial capital. Enjoy your symptom, indeed.
Christian