In Defence of the Real: The "Pathology" of Violence in Buddhist Folk Rituals and Statecraft of Sri Lanka : A Psychoanalytic Review
According to Slavoj Zizek, "Real" is the world before it is carved up by the Symbolic. The Symbolic is the big Other that distorts/represses the Real. Fantasy is the mask that covers up this distortion and makes people of necessity live with repressed or sublimated forms of pleasure in dif...
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Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2016]
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Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-16 |
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