One major goal of Slavoj Žižek’s thought throughout his life works is to establish politico-ethical subject. Žižek’s paradoxical subject, just like Lacan’s subject that is a posteriori result of a subjectivation event, situates itself in this world but does not belong to this world. Since this kind of subject does not resolve itself into the Symbolic of this world but remain as a foreign element, it keeps a revolutionary potential against this worldly order. For Žižek, a revolutionary moment happens when ‘the Thing’ of the Real is identified with a subject and intrudes into the Symbolic. Antigone, Abraham, and the Christ are the main characters who represent Žižek’s politico-ethical subject. Žižek’s criticism against Buddhism and Derridean deconstruction does not look accurate and fair. Also Žižek’s ethic fails to distinguish between the good and the evil. Despite the weaknesses in his thought, Žižek’s psychoanalytical insight can provide positive contributions for understanding the hidden structure of subconsciousness connected to human subject and this worldly structures.

• 윤원준(Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Korea Baptist University/Seminary) | Yun, Won-jun