Understanding Zizek: Jaws & Capitalist Ideology
What makes Jaws so good? In this video, I undertake a Zizekian interpretation of Jaws. I argue that Jaws is capitalist propaganda in its simplest sense. Zizek argues, through the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, that ideology has the same structure as the mind - ideology maps itself onto the mind to make sense of the world. Jaws - a groundbreaking film in 1975 - might just be one of the best pop culture examples of this working in a subtle way - the ideological mirrors the personal, and the personal mirrors the ideological. Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Reading List: Sean Homer s Introduction to Lacan is very accessible: https://goo.gl/Bcy4w3 Jodi Dean - Zizek s Politics - is a good introduction to Zizek: https://goo.gl/idATZV Slavoj Zizek - The Sublime Object https://goo.gl/xffKfj Credits: Image of Zizek by Andy Miah (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) https://www.flickr.com/photos/25272992@N00/2340905187 Edited by Lewis Waller Music: Chris Zabriskie - Divider (Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))
