A Pervert's Guide To Ideology Slavoj Zizek Analysis

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Slavoj Zizek, in “A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology,” expresses his view of society. He says, “Ideology is our spontaneous relationship to our social world, how we perceive each meaning and so on and so on.” However, our ideology is controlled by a few powerful and wealthy people who influence society, so that we never have a chance to see the reality. In Zizek’s essay, he introduces to us an idea of sun glasses that allow us to see the reality. People are dominated by different organizations in the modern age. Corporations and institutions get benefits from us by creating an ideal illusion of advertisements and public relations that captures our psychological world such as happiness and sympathy.

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