Despite the many intriguing bodily movements that followed Mr. Zizek's harsh realistic remarks, what captivated me was his perspective of the hamster. While the hamster served as a fetish for the absence of his wife, the fetish may not even be considered a fetish because that can be described as simply missing someone, a common emotion; such as uncertainty. While he dabbled around his connection between the hamster and a fetishist, It dawned on me the idea that he himself may have had a hamster of his own and so perhaps, his whole idea of the safety blankets, taking the form a glasses, really doesn't piece together as well as he thought. I took into consideration everything that Zizek said and one particular quote stuck with me: "The unconscious