Know Not Why

BUT KNOW NOT WHY

Laurie was excited about her trip to China and Hong Kong…until someone sneaked into her apartment before her departure. She senses that the thief was after the ring that her boss made her keep. Her boss wanted to plan a surprise gift for his wife as an apology for his unfaithful past, but Laurie quickly regrets getting involved. She doesn’t have any choice but to bring it on the trip and becomes nervous when a mysterious man stares at her. But it turns out the mysterious man, Tyler Gray, is actually her company CEO, and he’s come all the way to Hong Kong just to track a missing page from a research document!

I Know Not why I Love Thee

For They Know Not What They Do

Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Father's prohibition. Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that have emerged are far from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox, says Slavoj Zizek, socialist critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis. For They Know Not What They Do seeks to understand the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse, from Hegel through Lacan to these political and ideological deadlocks. The author's own enjoyment of "popular culture" makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, Lacan with Frankenstein, high theory with Hollywood melodrama.