ABSTRACT
This chapter argues about the political implications of psychoanalysis, and of the Lacanian orientation in particular, there is a question that arises with respect to Zizek's account of both individual action and political change. According to Slavoj Zizek an act of absolute freedom can be performed either by individuals or groups—the structure or 'logic' is the same in either case. Essentially, for Zizek absolute freedom addresses the issue whether everything that happens or that one can do is determined in advance by a kind of monolithic big Other. Zizek is inclined to overestimate how radical Antigone's act actually is, at least in terms of it being an absolute no-saying or refusal. The constraining effects of the prevailing social order are manifest not just in subjective compliance with its imperatives but also in the "subversive" acts that transgress its norms.
