Slavoj Zizek's "The Lacanian Real: Television" is converted into Persian by Mahdi Salimi. According to Zizek, television vacates us of meaning and even disarms us of the ability to weep or laugh.

IBNA: This book is a complete translation of a seminar by Slavoj Zizek on television made in 1987 in New York. 

Referring to the Zizek's rereading of Jacqueas Lacan (French philosopher, physician and psychoanalyst), he said: "Despite its brevity, this text offers a very good idea of different stages of Lacan's thought. For instance, the text familiarizes the reader with the concept of 'The Real' in three phases of Lacan's thought. Besides, Zizek's keen view of everyday reality through popular phenomenon of television once again proves his loyalty to Slovenian School of psychoanalysis." 

Salimi continued: "Followers of Slovenian School make political readings of psychoanalysis and meantime draw on everyday phenomena for illustrating their opinions. Following this strategy Zizek probes into political and philosophical aspects of Lacan's theory of psychoanalysis and comes up with a radical political reading of Lacan. For doing so he also cites Jacques-Alain Miller's reading of Lacan." 

He went on to say that this Slovenian theoretician always finds an appropriate thought model for describing phenomena; in fact, the models are exploited out of the phenomena under survey. 

Salimi continued: "Zizek has a good theoretical background and never takes the meanest aspects of everyday life for granted. I mean that although he sometimes is trapped into populism and simplicity, his clear thought system and strategies make him an outstanding and autonomous critic." 

For instance, he added, he illustrates his ideas of The Real with an example from the television. It usually broadcasts short comedies that are immediately followed with a laugher sound. 

Zizek states that even in Greek tragedies there was a chorus in charge of the comic or tragic effect. In Zizek's opinion, by doing so sometimes the television frees us of the charge of laughing or crying and actually empties us of all meanings – the meanings that we could have extracted from the scenes by ourselves.
This act means infusion of ideas upon the audiences and by doing so, the television is attempting to omit the great Other. 

In fact Zizek's main goal in this speech is not to illustrate Lacan's ideas with the phenomenon of television, but rather to defamiliarize a well-known and popular phenomenon known as television. 

The first issue of "The Lacanian Other" is published in 1150 copies and 94 pages by Roshd Amouzesh.

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