The antagonism between Batman’s and the Joker’s ethics runs parallel to contradictions of Kantian Ethics and Sadean Ethics. The usual, dualistic interpretation (Good and Evil) sees Batman and the Joker or Kant and Sade as opposites whose moral/ethical incompatibility brings them into conflict.
However, Lacan wants us to think about the relation between Kant and Sade dialectically. We use a dialectical framework to expose the lack around which both Batman and the Joker are constituted as subjects. Kant and Sade, like Batman and the Joker, bring each other into being and are stuck in an endless conflict, orbiting the same symbolic void. Batman and the Joker both engage in a Sisyphean struggle, where batman seeks to enact the moral law and the joker seeks expose its non-existence.
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You guys should most definently read 596-671 of Hegels phenomenology of spirit. The dialectic between the moral world view, kantianism, and conscience, the individual who's act is in principle the moral, being a law in himself (somewhat a libertine). For hegel, the social-spiritual concept of forgiveness seems the solution to this dialectic conundrum.
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Shout out to ya'll. Excellent job! Thoughtful, very well put together, and eminently useful for communicating otherwise complicated concepts to people who are interested but not necessarily motivated to read primary texts. I shared it with friends. Let's get the cocktail conversations going!