Zizek on the supposed secret behind the mask:
The secrets of the Egyptians are secrets for the Egyptians themselves:the solution of the enigma is its redoubling,the same enigma displaced onto the Other.The solution to the enigma consists in understanding it as a question that the Other poses to itself:it is even by that which appears at first to exclude us from the Other –our question by which we conceive of it as enigmatic,inaccessible,transcendental –that we rejoin the Other,precisely because the question becomes the question of the Other itself. pdf
