Zizek:The Aerial Photographer of Nothingness

Slavoj Zizek, the Yugoslav based psycho-analytic thinker is slowly becoming accepted as a sensitive-sensible defender-observer of Third World colonised territories. As a thinker and more as a writer I do have apt and due respect for him. But the common thread of his writing appears to me rather funny and to some extent evokes laughter. This thinker will start with describing the Real Politik forms and contents of the French Revolution with the aid of tools adopted from Kant, Fischte, Hegel and Schelling and in the very next passage he will jump onto the problematics of perspectives embodied in the vision of Strether in Henry James’ The Ambassadors and then he will present an anecdote gleaned from the off-screen peripheries of the battlefield of either First World War or the Second World War which will mostly be the story of sexual jealousy between hubby and his wife and most likely the protagonist will be a Jew!!! The fourth passage will talk about the dynamics of vision involved in a watching a Disney movie and then he will narrate another episode taken from Sherlock Holmes. In short, twenty different various passages will talk about hundred issues, problems, regions, personages and milieus. But all these diverse zones will have single-singular content that could be deduced from the essence of Psyche!!! This psycho analytic practice reminds me of the title of a story written by Shihabudden Poythumkadavu “The Unmapped Islands.”