![]() ![]() They can play these back for themselves internally, or on external devices, with the press of a button. Thanks to small pieces of tech known as “grains” implanted into people’s heads, the characters of this story have a digital back-up of all of their memories, unless they delete them. I begin with this little anecdote because it involves the two themes one finds at the center of “The Entire History of You”: jealousy and memory. He does mention jealousy in there, but I found myself thinking that perhaps Zizek had confabulated this supposed quote that does indeed seem like something Lacan would have said-that this was like how Gandhi never said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” ![]() I opened the text and read the portion in question, and… nope. We found something claiming that it was a particular section of his seminar on Psychoses that was the reference point. I searched the internet, and ultimately crowd-sourced the question to friends whom I knew to have also studied Lacan. He does this all over the place (if you’ve read any Zizek, you know what I mean), but being a consummate scholar, I wanted to track down the actual Lacan reference before mentioning it in this piece. Slavoj Zizek is fond of citing Jacques Lacan’s claim that a jealous husband is pathological even if it turns out that his wife truly is cheating on him. Here, Caemeron Crain digs into Black Mirror S1E3, “The Entire History of You.” 25YL is proud to feature analyses of each and every episode. If you have, you know it is arguably one of the most important and thought provoking shows of our era. If you haven’t seen Black Mirror, well, I’m not sure why you’re here. ![]()
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