Lying in the guise of truth

And yet, even though this (potential) double inscription of certain actions (as simultaneously actions and acts) can be and is readily appropriated by varieties of a quietism in bad faith, this doesn t mean that it isn t nonetheless true (recalling that Zizek himself sometimes declares that an indispensable tenet of any contemporary critical analysis of ideology today must depart from the assumption that one can, as Lacan puts it, lie in the guise of truth, that is, marshal truths to the cause of various versions of conscious and unconscious [self-] deception see chapter 3,... 

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