ABSTRACT
In the third part of The Parallax View (hereafter TPV), Slavoj Žižek wonders whether we can have a “sociopolitical transformation that would entail the restructuring of the entire field of the relations between the public law and its obscene supplement” (TPV 308, italics in original). While one might expect a theorist of revolutionary politics to concern himself with the Law – its range of application, its enforceability, its capacity to sustain justice, the mechanisms of power it enables, and so on – it is perhaps surprising to those unfamiliar with his work that Žižek focuses on the question of the Law's structure. He wonders whether a revolutionary legal order will necessarily reproduce the same problems as the old order on account of some inherent and irremediable feature of Law itself that functions as a permanent obstacle to justice.
