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    Slavoj Žižek’s Passion (for the Real) and Flannery O'Connor's Hermaphrodite
    International Journal of Žižek Studies 10 (3). 2016.
    Žižek has argued in his books on Christianity and modernity that institutional Catholic Christianity has placed its members in a double bind by insisting on belief in a nonexistent God of Being. The laws of this God of the Symbolic are perverse in that they impose impossible requirements on all believers. By the mid-twentieth century, however, Catholicism was experiencing the revolutionary reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Dogmatic Law at this time gave way to a renewed emphasis on the comm…Read more