Index advertising 112–13 Afghanistan 51–3 anamorphosis 129–30 anti-capitalism 43–4 Antigone 134–5, 141

Badiou, Alain 31 Beckett, Samuel 84,

86 big Other 62–4,

69–71, 154–5, 158–61, 167–8 Bohr, Niels 169 Brecht, Bertolt 25 Buñuel, Luis 131–2

Carmen 140 categorical imperative

156 charity 46–7 Church 86–9 “clash of civilizations”

50–3 collective change 29 communism 26–8, 94 consumerism 45 Crucifixion 167

Darwin, Charles 34 deconstruction 23–4 Derrida, Jacques 23,

160 Descartes, René

122–3

desire 107, 132–4,

138, 152–4, 156 dialogue, refusal of

136–7 “divine dimension”

144–5 Dolar, Mladen 10–11 Don Giovanni 138–9 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

98, 100 duty 156–8

ecology 31–40 Eichmann, Adolf 157 Einstein, Albert 169 enjoyment 105–8, 111 exchange, system of

66–9 experience 113

fictional subject

118–26 French revolution

142–9 Freud, Sigmund 71–3,

102–4

God as blasphemer 164 as computer programmer 171 death of 97–8 failure of 166–7

175

happiness 111–12,

115 Hegel, G.W.F. 20, 75 Heisenberg, Werner

169 Hitchcock, Alfred

76–8

ideology 20–1, 69

and repression

30, 57 immoral ethics 133–

41, 151–2 irrationality 95–6

Job 162–7 Joyce, James 63,

85–6

Kafka, Franz 79–84,

86 Kant, Immanuel

156–7

Lacan, Jacques 7,

10–11, 20, 35, 65, 100, 124–7, 129, 134, 141, 155 lack 65 language, fiction of

125–6 law, obscenity of

79–83