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Slavoj Zizek’s The Sublime Object of ideology is read as an effort to repress the content of psychoanalysis. In his desire to combine Marx, Lacan, and Hegel, we shall see how Zizek ends up producing a cynical theory of cynicism as a new form of behaviorism is equated with ideology and contemporary social practices.

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Samuels, R. (2022). Zizek and the Empty Unconscious. In: (Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13327-5_6

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