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reminiscent of the works of George Gordon Byron, typified by gloomy Romantic themes and passionate, arrogant and self-destructive heroes

(adjective) of the same substance

the telling of a story by a narrator who summarizes events in the plot and comments on the conversations, thoughts, etc., of the characters

produce (especially literary work) by long and intensive effort

the ambivalence of love and hatred (a Lacanian concept)

aka Motion Picture Production Code; the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most US films from 1930 to 1968 (think profanity, drugs, sedition, miscegenation, etc)

in a nutshell

an idea that Zizek apparently talks about a lot, which he borrows from Lacan (?): that facts become true only if they are known by the “big Other” (public opinion, social values, etc) in addition to ourselves