Slavoj Žižek, The Perverts Guide to Cinema: Part 2

Fantasy can be both pacifying and radically destabilizing. From David Lynch s Lost Highway and Ingmar Bergman s Persona to Michael Haneke s The Piano Teacher, fantasy is the battleground of the war between the sexes. Part 2 interrogates the structure of fantasy that makes the sexual act possible. But it also asks whether this very plague of fantasies is finally staged like cinema itself as a defence against anxiety.