For the political and ideological context in which the book “Metastases of pleasure” was created, the experience of the war in Yugoslavia and the surge of irrational, uncontrolled violence in modern society are especially significant. Turning Lacan's psychoanalysis into a basis for the revival of Marxist theory, Slavoj iek explores the role of women in modern philosophy and contemporary art, as well as the relationship between violence and inter-gender relations. “Where can one understand “pleasure as a political factor” in its purest form? In the famous photo of the times of the Jewish pogroms: a Jewish boy is cornered, he was surrounded by a group of Germans . This group is extremely interesting - the facial expressions of its participants represent the entire range of possible attitudes to what is happening. One "gets pleasure" quite directly, like an idiot, the other is clearly frightened (probably from a premonition that it may be next), the third depicts indifference, which hides the curiosity that has just awakened - and so on. d. , Exceptional expression of the face of a young man , Which is a shame,. It’s all about what’s going on ,. He can't do the whole thing ,. And yet it fascinates him ,. He enjoys it. CM whose power is far superior to the idiocy of immediate enjoyment. And here he is more dangerous than anyone: his trembling indecisiveness is exactly like that of Rat Man ;. Freud noticed the same expression in this patient when he told him about the torture of a rat: “When [the Rat Man] expounded the key episodes of this story, his face acquired the strangest complex expression .. I had only one interpretation: the horror of pleasure, which the patient himself did not realize.