Beyond Elegance And Popularity

The substance of the controversy between elite culture and popular culture is the traditional" The Real" and " The Subject". Thoughts of" The Real"-spiritual analytics in the late Jacques Lacan period provide the possibility for Zizek to comprehend " The Real" and " The Subject" in a new way. (1) Zizek take "the place of Thing" as the spiritual structure of art, which is the surplus of "The Symbolic" against the real. It established its majestic meaning because it will never be symbolized and art is the experienced object for filling this the place of Thing. It is different from traditional aesthetics and determinism of external condition of deconstruction. It is a combination of artwork and subject sipirit, which is a new kind of art comprehending and provide a chanel for Zizek to open Modernism Art and Postmodernism Art. Modernism Art is to hide the Thing, while post Modernism art is to reveal it. According to spiritual analytics, post Modernism Art is closer to the fact of the subject. Zizek not only combine the Modernism Art which is identified as elite culture and post Modernism art which is identified as popular culture, but also surpass them. Moreover, Zizek raise the issue of Modernism art and post Modernism art from the piont of view of acceptable visualization and this idea offer the foundation to Modernism Art and Postmodernism Art. (2) Zizek believe that God is result of " The Real" and "The Symbolic", is the mixture of activeness and passiveness. So, it can overcome the immanent contradiction between Modernism Art and Postmodernism Art. From this point of view, instead of being a kind of illusory consciousness or ritual practise, ideology is " The Real " and " The Unconscious Frame " of the subject. It realize the restoration of " The Real" through this kind of illusion. Therefore, ideology is not the passive inquiry of The Subject. When critisizing ideology, people can't set out from exterior and interior or obscurity and distinctness and should unscramble " The Unconscious Frame ". It subvert traditional ideology that popular culture is passive culture. Comprehending of the real and the subject of Zizek not only provide a foundation to combine elite culture study and popular culture study, but also offer the inspiration to humanities.