Janice Adam Zizek Analysis

aiming to retain it” (19). First, jouissance defined and how it is being used here is pleasure, happiness—sexual for that matter. Zizek explores jouissance as being a sexual pleasure kept by Adam. Accordingly, there are quite a number of things and situations that often lead to failure and falls that we so much try to avoid, however, fantasy takes a toll and makes these falls and failures look fascinating and inherently good rather than bad. Adam idealistically wanted to keep Eve content and if he achieved that, then he would also achieve keeping his jouissance. When eve was tempted by the serpent to eat off the Tree of Knowledge of Good, she did eat from it and presumably wanted Adam to join her and eat off the tree just as she did. In order
He conveys this with an anti-abortion fairy tale. Fantasy makes this impossible gaze when it shows one thing to have a purpose or any given meaning---this could be an event or some action, but, in entirety, it’s for another purpose. The tale portrays babies collectively living on an island together looking back, saddened, on how their parents left them behind. However, these babies had been born into an alternative universe, having been born on the island and they have no idea about their parents and that they were left behind. This impossible gaze is vaguely impossible because there are two directions in which it can be seen and interpreted even when the fantasy gears to hide it. Overall, how fantasy takes control in the impossible gaze is that it readily depicts one event or image and prevents the showing of the other. This has ideological standpoints because society does a great deal of hiding certain images/ideas to the reasonable observer and blatantly points out others to make the individual feel as if they are in control when really they are not and they do not have any idea that they are not