Abstract

In this article I aim at analysing Žižek's recent critique of Badiou's notion of repetition with regard to the political subject. Furthermore, it is my intention to show that Žižek's own arguments should in their turn be supplemented with a detailed consideration of the function of repetition in Lacan's notion of the fundamental fantasy. This will finally allow me to indicate how, leaving aside the specific question of political subjectivization, it is only by means of a psychoanalytic approach to repetition that, more generally, we can identify the limits of Badiou's metaontological notion of the "phantom of inconsistency"