Pornography and the Fantasy Element

Işık Barış Fidaner, "Denialism is lying idly in order to curry to the Bön Crowd" (Google Translate from Turkish)

Through the 'word=phallus' equivalence that appears in the phrase 'putting the word in the crosshair', the social media sewage system is divided into feminine and masculine attitudes:

1) On the one hand, there are artists of dissatisfaction who say, "Where are the very deep words that will take me from me?"

2) On the other side, there are the detectives, that is, the hojas/yowzacilar, who say, "Take a word to you like an arm!"

Moreover, this method of satisfaction is in accordance with the equivalence of 'talking = talking' established by Lacan [1]. In other words, it not only is a 'consolation prize' for unfortunate 'disappointing' individuals who 'need to make love and relax' or 'whose parents do not love', but also constructs the symptomatic world in which they reside in order to construct their Ego.

The 'penetration' principle of social media is to get interaction (influencer / influenza?), that is, to benefit the big crowd [2]. The feminine and masculine forms of this are distinguished as follows:

1) Bön Vivant is the message 'look how full of life I am, but I am not satisfied with anything'.

2) Bön Mot is the message of 'look how I penetrate everything with depressed phallic determinations'.

These two extremes can feed off each other and lie idly on the hook. Thus we arrive at the most general definition of denialism:

Denialism is lying idly in order to benefit the big crowd.
(feminine denier is bön vivant, masculine denier is bön mot)

This generalized denial is also a pornographic world. Slavoj Žižek explained this many years ago in his documentary Perverse Guide Cinema (2006) [3]:

The purest form of the tense strange interconnection between real life and fantasy is revealed in pornography. Pornography has always been a very conservative genre. It is not a free genre that is allowed to do anything, it is based on a very basic prohibition:

A threshold has been crossed, everything is shown. Close-up, etc. But the price is unlimitedly swayed in stories that lure the parties to sexual hospitalization. Pornographic scriptwriters aren't that stupid. Isn't there an upper limit to this? For example, it begins with "the woman is alone in her house":

"The plumber came and repaired the tap hole. Then the housewife turned to him and said: "Look, handsome, I have another hole to fix?" and so on. [current translation: now give me some interaction with this excuse!]

It is certain that something is being censored here. A film is either emotionally gripping, then sexuality is obscured. Or everything is shown, but then you are emotionally stupid.

That's the tragedy of pornography: it tries to be as realistic as possible, but it can't disable the fantasy support unit.

(Perverse Guide Cinema, time adjustment: 01:22)

Işık Barış Fidaner is a computer scientist with a PhD (Boğaziçi University). He is the Editor of Irrelevant Things, the Editor of Žižekian Analysis, and the Curator of Görce Writings. Twitter: @BarisFidaner

Notes:

[1] See "Talking and Screaming" by Jacques Lacan

[2] See "Turbacracy/Turbo-crazy/Dur-bak-rasi: The Current Igdish Principle is an Anonymous Crowd Fetish", "What Relationship? Bon Vivant! (an exaggerated cartoon)", "Two Types of Idiots (Fool, Bon) and Stupid/Abdal" Slavoj Žižek, "Jikle Kaan: Hypothetical Turk Jacques Lacan", "Cakalı Kagan: Suppose a theater actor Jacques Lacan" (Fidaner, Aydoğan), "Fallik Kadın Dini: Without a Penis, Without a Child, Without a Success, Let's Give Identity", "The Mind of a Man Is Such a Manly Gentleman: The Excuse Is an Excuse/Occasion Dilemma" Slavoj Žižek

[3] See "Slavoj Žižek: The Perverse Guide to Cinema"