ABSTRACT
The slash sign that separates class and antagonism is approached in three ways that corresponds to three theoretical moments in Slavoj Zizek's discourse. First, there is the post-Marxist moment of "antagonism" qua the real whereby Zizek affirms the thesis of the impossibility of society as such, as irreconcilable with class antagonism and yet gives this impossibility a thoroughly psychoanalytical inflection by explaining how enjoyment is organized around it. Second, there is the post-Marxist moment of "class antagonism", which refers to the impossibility of achieving a harmonious social organization of class relations through a translation of Lacan's well-known formulae regarding the non-existence of sexual relationship. And finally, there is the Marxist moment of "class" as a particular content, which, through its fundamental exclusion, overdetermines and grounds a certain historical horizon. For instance, in the supreme fantasy of anti-semitism, it is the corrosive identity of the Jew, associated with the finance/merchant capital that exploits the "'productive' classes", that functions as external obstacle.
