1968

is a highly contagious epidemic of hysteria that simply has to be lived through until it stops. It will end as suddenly as it began, with nothing much accomplished or permanently changed.

that it will end as suddenly as it began, with nothing much accomplished or permanently changed.

is not a revolt, but merely a shift to new forms of domination in which a scientific discourse legitimizes the relations of domination. As lacan said, 'as hysterics, you demand a new master. You will get it.

No wonder that the revolt was located at the universities: as such, it merely signaled the shift to the new forms of domination in which the scientific discourse serves legitimizes the relations of domination. Lacan's underlying premise is sceptic-conservative Lacan's diagnosis is best captured by his famous retort to the student revolutionaries: 'As hysterics, you demand a new master. You will get it!' This passage can also be conceived in more general terms, as the passage from the prerevolutionary ancien regime to the postrevolutionary new Master who does not want to admit that he is one, but proposes himself as a mere 'servant' of the People in Nietzsche's terms, it is simply the passage from Master's ethics to slave morality, (Zizek 2003b : pdf)

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1968