Prologue PART I: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OR IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE? Why Discourse? Foucault's Critical Historicism The Positive Unconcious : in Search of the Matrix Suspending Ontological Questions Matrix Releaded: Žižek's Ideology Critique Locating Antagonism: the Return of Class Struggle Beyond Anti-capitalism and Liberal Democracy PART II: ON POWER AND HOW TO ENJOY IT 'Where There is Power ...' '... There is Resistance' The Missing Subject Liberation Hurts: Žižek on Supergo, Masochism and Enacted Utopia The Leninist Act Commodity Fetishism: From Desire to Drive Excursus : Žižek In and Out of Europe PART III: METASTASES OF THE REAL Žižek Against Badiou: the Real Beyond the Event 'There Is No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship': the Formal Deadlock of Sexuality Objet a , or the Ruse of Masculinity Woman's 'Not-all' and the Paradox of Passive Aggression The Zero-level of Femininity: the Real as Symbolic Failure The Miracle of Love and the Real of Christianity Epilogue: Maradona in Mexico References Index