Det posttraumatiska subjektet - subjekt, kapitalism och kristendom hos Slavoj ?i?ek.
Slavoj ?i?ekPolitikDet posttraumatiska subjektetKristendomKapitalismkritikIdeologikritikApologetikSubjektsfilosofiJesus KristusNattvarden
The study is aimed at investigating the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj ?i?eks theories ofthe ontology of the subject, the crisis of our modern society and his views on how theology,especially Christian theology, can provide the answer for the threats to our society.My main object is the article Descartes and the post-traumatic subject (2008)where ?i?ek elaborates thoughts about the subject and our capitalistic society. To be ableto grasp these thoughts in full I have undergone an investigation not only on the writingsof Slavoj ?i?ek, but also on the philosophers to whom he owe much of his theories,such as G.W.F. Hegel, Friedriech Schelling, Karl Marx and Jaques Lacan.In the study I have shown how the subject is, according to ?i?eks psychoanalytictheories, decentered. That it's lacking a stable core, that it basically is lack. One of themain problems, creating our global capitalistic ?worldless? and excluding society is, accordingto ?i?ek, the fact that we do not realize this, but instead are forever attached tothe fantasy of returning to the paradise from which we once came.I have done the above to provide an understanding of how the psychoanalyticgoal of ?traversing the fantasy? is for the subject to realize its status as a decentered subject,to no longer search for its lost origins, a paradise from which it has been thrownout. I have also shown how Christianity today can be the answer to these problems byrethinking the death of Christ as the death of God, the death of transcendence, and as thedeath of objet petit a, the object-cause of desire. And last I have provided an interpretationof Jesus Christ as the revolutionary grounding post-traumatic subject as the startingpoint from where our society must go to become a totally inclusive one, and how theritual of the Eucharist is the main vessel for the overcoming of the society into a new socialcommunity, an egalitarian community in the Holy Spirit.