Diamond, Cora. . Realistic spirit [electronic resource] : Wittgenstein, philosophy, and the mind / Cora Diamond [0262540746 ] Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995.
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Zizek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Zizek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives.
Table of Contents

		Introduction : dialectical materialism at the gates		2
I		The stellar parallax : the traps of ontological difference		15
1		The subject, this "inwardly circumcised Jew"		16
2		Building blocks for a materialist theology		68
		Interlude 1 : Kate's choice, or, the materialism of Henry James		124
II		The solar parallax : the unbearable lightness of being no one		145
3		The unbearable heaviness of being divine shit		146
4		The loop of freedom		200
		Interlude 2 : objet petit a in social links, or, the impasses of anti-anti-Semitism		252
III		The lunar parallax : toward a politics of subtraction		271
5		From surplus-value to surplus-power		272
6		The obscene knot of ideology, and how to untie it		330

New dictionary of the history of ideas / Maryanne Cline Horowitz, editor in chief. [0684313774 (set) ] New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2005.
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