Blog #6

Unlike traditional Marxist ideology (false consciousness), Zizek presents ideology as a "reality." As in a new interpretation of Marx's theory of ideology, ideology is not a lie to deceive us into blinding reality, but rather an important component of reality. In other words, the ideology clearly functions to cover something, but through the covering action, rather it constitutes reality, or more precisely, social reality.

He says we act like we believe in the ideology, even though we don't believe in it. This belief is not a belief in thought, but a belief in action. For example, we know that money is not everything. Nevertheless, it acts as if money is everything.

Zizek approaches ideology not in a purely dualistic way, but in a ternary way. The dualist method divides ideology and reality into dualism, but the tri scientist method means a reality that is not recognized as a symbolic system in reality. He calls this the ghost of ideology that conceals the gaps inside the symbolic world. It means the real world that is not ideological. Zizek says these ghosts confirm the existence of ideology. He says that through this, he can criticize ideology by talking about the existence of ideology.

According to Freud, the ultimate function of dreams is to help dreamers continue to sleep. When an external disturbance threatens us to wake up, we are dreaming just before we wake up. They can quickly imagine a situation created by mixing external stimuli, and this will allow them to continue to sleep. However, it is said that when the external stimulus becomes too strong, it wakes up.

In the meantime, he tells the story of a father's dream that fell asleep next to his dead son. Contrary to the previous explanation, this dream is that the father prolonged his sleep to avoid the unpleasantness of waking up, but the ghost of the son he met in the dream was much harder to endure than the outside, so he awoke and fled to reality. This was to avoid the unbearable trauma of his own responsibility for his son's painful death.

In Freud's example of a father's dream, it is often understood that reality exists for people who cannot endure dreams. But it is not sure yet. When people have a really painful nightmare, he or she knows in dreams that this is a dream. So they woke up trying hard to come to reality. But when they fall asleep again, they have a nightmare.

Zizek insisted the fantasy scene is not a fascinating scene that we see, it is the idea that there is someone out there watching us, not a dream, it is the idea that we are the object of someone's dream.

Personally, the ideology that Zizek says to me is more touching. I think his way of thinking realistically, not a philosophical approach, will make it more understandable to the public. In particular, the method of using money as an example was very sympathetic. People know what is right, but we live in a way that is not right for personal desire or pleasure. And he thinks it is an ideology.

So am I. I think that all human beings deserve respect, but acts are not. The bad things of others are seen and avoided. Treating people like this is not the right way, but it ism y ideology. I know what is ideal, but what I am doing is different.