Zizek! Page #7

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to some deconstructive analysis,

"But he's a Lacanian."

I am a card-carrying Lacanian.

Something is going on here,

and I just wanted to draw

the attention to this,

how all this popular,

and I think so to give you now

the true answer.

I think that I admit it.

There is a clownish

aspect to me,

like they put it

in "New York Times,"

Marx Brother, or whatever.

All that, I maybe

flirt with it.

But nonetheless,

I'm getting tired of it,

because I notice

that there is, as it were,

when there are some stupid

reports on me, reactions to me,

a kind of a terrible urge,

comparison,

to make me appear

as a kind of a funny man.

And the true question would be,

where does this urge come from?

Why is there this necessity

to portray me

as somebody who can

only thrive through jokes?

And even my publishers buy it.

You know that my Lenin book...

introduction of Lenin's...

was almost turned down by Verso?

Why?

First, they always, at Verso,

gave kinks at me...

"Oh, you are just making jokes,"

then I told them, "Okay, now you

have a book, Lenin's text,"

Their reproach was,

"Where are the jokes?

Nobody will buy the book."

So, you know, much more

than it may appear

is going on here.

It's quite a complex phenomenon.

I'm almost tempted to say

that making me popular

is a resistance against

taking me serious.

And I think it's my duty,

for this reason,

to do a kind

of a public suicide

of myself as a popular comedian

or whatever.

Let's hope we can enter here.

I don't know how this

functions now.

This is it.

Here you should do

your Hitchcockian shot

like from "Vertigo."

I saw two, three times

that I came here,

because when it was still open,

you took there

the elevator to the top.

And often I saw here

some policemen

are cordoned off,

and an object here, covered.

Because you will immediately

see what l...

if you take the shot up.

That's it.

From up there, it was practical

to jump down, no?

Go up, you jump down,

and it's kind of a nice,

modest, ethical suicide.

It's not this spectacle

that on the street,

you embarrass other people.

You go here, and you jump down.

Of course, my idea

was to organize this.

You want to kill yourself.

We organize it.

We prevent so that

we guarantee that no small...

$5.00, no small children

will be here.

I even have the idea that,

the way they do it

in this society of biopolitics,

as Foucault would have put it,

where they ask you...

In order to get married:

You don't have AIDS,

you're mentally stable.

Obviously, doesn't work,

because if it were to work,

I would never be allowed

to get married.

But they should do it the same

like if you want

to kill yourself, no?

I was thinking about it.

I think that only people...

some medical...

or psychiatric

advisory committee, team,

should decide is it a case

of a true metaphysical suicide,

or just a short crisis,

like you were just dropped

by your girlfriend or boyfriend,

and there is a reasonable hope

that it's a momentary depression,

then, in two or three weeks,

it will be over.

So it can be medical crisis.

It can be this kind

of psychological crisis,

or pure metaphysical suicide.

As a Marxist,

if somebody tells me

that Lacan is difficult,

this is class propaganda

by the enemy.

I never thought I'd have

this much fun talking about this.

- Thank you.

- Have a great weekend. Take care.

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