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Zizek on Beethoven and Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange

The contrast between Judaism and Christianity is the contrast between anxiety and love. The idea is that the Jewish God is the God of the abyss of the others’ desire. Terrible things happen; God is in charge; but, we do not know what the big other God wants from us, what is the divine desire… This terrifying question-but, what do you want from me? The idea is that Judaism persists in this anxiety, like God remains this enigmatic terrifying other, and then Christianity resolved the tension through love. By sacrificing His son, God demonstrates that He loves us. So, it’s a kind of a imaginary, sentimental even resolution of a situation of radical anxiety…

What dies on the cross is precisely this guarantee of the big other. The message of Christianity is here radically Atheist. It’s the death of Christ is not any kind of redemption, or commercial affair in the sense of Christ suffers to pay for our sins. Paid to whom, for what, and so on? It’s simply the disintegration of the God which guarantees the meaning of our lives. And, that’s the meaning of that famous phrase-“Father, why have you forsaken me?”

La Chinoise | Jean-Luc Godard | 1967

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