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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Main Author: Bandyopadhyay, Debashis (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2016]
In: Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-16
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)