ABSTRACT
Zizek's model of interpellation fits with Zizek's notion of 'cynical subjectivity'. This chapter looks at the framing of Zizek's ontology in four theoretical moves 'beyond' other pre-eminent standpoints. Each of these theoretical moves is carried out in fidelity to Lacan. The chapter looks at Zizek's move 'beyond Althusser'. It discusses Zizek's move 'beyond phenomenology'. The argument is that his position at once mirrors the post-structuralist reading of inter-subjectivity proffered by the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and puts an entirely different socio-theoretical 'spin' upon it. The chapter describes Zizek's move 'beyond Freud'. It examines Zizek's move 'beyond structuralism', which he carries out in the name not only of Lacan, but of a reading of Hegel. Zizek thinks that he can make his ontology political, and ground his politic in a Lacanian ontology, because its terms uncover how the 'big Other' of any ideology, that point from whence the interpellating call of power emanates, will itself never command a fully self-consistent semantic totality.
