In his explorations, including those of David Lynch's films and constantly drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Slavoj Žižek investigates the mechanisms that inextricably link the political and the erotic beneath the surface of their apparent opposition. In his analysis, Žižek connects the erotic category of enjoyment with the political category of violence, tracing the traumatic conflict experience of enjoyment against the backdrop of Freud's noted "general degradation of love life." It becomes clear, among other things, that the physical reality of political violence requires a phantasmatic background to be effective, and that the public law of bourgeois society rests on the obscene enjoyment of the superego and its unfulfillable demands. In the metastases of the Gen.