In order to relax from his dull Messianic work of preaching and performing miracles, Jesus took a short vacation and was playing golf with one of his apostles on the shore of the Galilean sea. There was a difficult shot to be performed, Jesus did it badly and the ball ended up in water, so he walked on the water (his standard trick) to the place where the ball was, reached down and picked it up. When he tried the same shot again, the apostle warned him that this was a very difficult one, only someone like Tiger Woods could manage it; Jesus replied “What the hell, I am the son of god, I can do what a miserable mortal like Tiger Woods can do!” and took another swing. The ball ended up again in water, so Jesus again took a walk on the surface of water to retrieve it; at this point, a group of American tourists walked by and one of them, observing what was going on, turned to the apostle and said: “My God, who does that guy there think he is? Jesus Christ?” The apostle replies: “No, he thinks he’s Tiger Woods!” This is how fantasmatic identification works: no one, not even God Himself, is directly what he is, so even God needs an external decentred point of identification in some minimal fantasy scenario. Slavoj Zizek
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:16:39 +0000
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