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Today is the day I begin reading THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY by Slavoj Žižek.
May any existing gods have mercy on my soul.
😆
#SlavojZizek
#Zizek
#agency
#Hegel
#Lacan
#Marx
#philosophy
#reading
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Today is the day I begin reading THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY by Slavoj Žižek.
May any existing gods have mercy on my soul.
😆
#SlavojZizek
#Zizek
#agency
#Hegel
#Lacan
#Marx
#philosophy
#reading
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Today is the day I begin reading THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY by Slavoj Žižek.
May any existing gods have mercy on my soul.
😆
#SlavojZizek
#Zizek
#agency
#Hegel
#Lacan
#Marx
#philosophy
#reading
#ILoveBooks -
Today is the day I begin reading THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY by Slavoj Žižek.
May any existing gods have mercy on my soul.
😆
#SlavojZizek
#Zizek
#agency
#Hegel
#Lacan
#Marx
#philosophy
#reading
#ILoveBooks -
Today is the day I begin reading THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY by Slavoj Žižek.
May any existing gods have mercy on my soul.
😆
#SlavojZizek
#Zizek
#agency
#Hegel
#Lacan
#Marx
#philosophy
#reading
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@tekvsakdan Thanks, I love Slovenia, visited once and mostly know it from #Laibach and #Žižek.
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"Lacan, however, posited an equation between jouissance and superego: to enjoy is not a matter of following one’s spontaneous tendencies; it is rather something we do as a kind of weird and twisted ethical duty. Enjoyment itself is something that parasitizes upon human pleasures, perverting them so that a subject can draw a surplus-enjoyment from displeasure itself."
Slavoj Žižek, in one of his Substack newsletters
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Some can't explain Chomsky's relation to #Epstein, given that the guy is in his 90s and obviously his pecker isn't cut for such adventures.
What his relation shows, is that #Chomsky is in the same club as #Putin, and #Maga/ #Bannon, Mossad/KGB.
And I'd speculate the same thing for #Varoufakis and #JeffreySachs given their euroskepticism. Maybe they're on the payroll of unsavory actors?
Don't know of Slavoj Žižek yet.
AGI/aliens can't come soon enough. It's all f'ed.
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«Es ist furchtbar, aber in der momentanen Situation bin ich gegen #Pazifismus. Denn vergessen wir niemals: Aggressoren wollen immer #Frieden. Und Frieden heisst, dass sie gewonnen haben.»
Slavoj #Žižek
*Hör- oder Leseempfehlung*
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@Veza85UE Don't know, but I love Žižek @VaroufakisDE
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@Souvarine "È più facile immaginare la fine del mondo che la fine del capitalismo."
(Fredric #Jameson/Slavoj #zizek via #MarkFisher) -
@Souvarine "È più facile immaginare la fine del mondo che la fine del capitalismo."
(Fredric #Jameson/Slavoj #zizek via #MarkFisher) -
@Souvarine "È più facile immaginare la fine del mondo che la fine del capitalismo."
(Fredric #Jameson/Slavoj #zizek via #MarkFisher) -
🧵 "Ucraina, Palestina e altri guai” https://www.valigiablu.it/ucraina-palestina-crisi-climatica-libro-zizek/
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What's a good introduciton read/watch/listen?
I’m only really learning more about Žižek’s thoughts since seeing this place, what’s something you could suggest for me to read?
https://quokk.au/c/zizek/p/493381/what-s-a-good-introduciton-read-watch-listen
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Liebe #Mastobubble , frage für eine Freundin wegen #Übersetzung aus dem Tschechischen:
Verwenden #Lacan und #Zizek das Wort »Lücke« (statt etwa Riss) bzw. verwenden es die deutschen Übersetzungen?
Gerne boosten.
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A Zizek PCM, and sho on, and sho forth
https://piefed.social/c/politicalcompassmemes/p/1457127/a-zizek-pcm-and-sho-on-and-sho-forth
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When I need to be comforted, I take 6 minutes of my life to listen to a short clip in which Slavoj Žižek explains what he understand to be the aim of psychoanalysis.
"The goal of psychoanalysis is precisely to bring you to the point where you can finally forget that piece of bullshit that is yourself... and finally work for a cause."
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"La falta de libertad verdaderamente peligrosa es la falta de libertad de la que ni siquiera eres consciente, que experimentas como tu propia libertad."
Slavoj Žižek, miembro cofundador de DiEM25.
https://bloghemia.com/2025/10/slavoj-zizek-control-digital-libertad-inconsciente.html
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In @KontextWZ mache ich mir Gedanken über die Novellierung des #Nichtraucherschutzgesetz in #BadenWürttemberg. Selbst für mich als bekennender Abstinenzler geht es zu weit. Frei nach #Žižek ist entscheidend, was das Gesetz eigentlich NICHT will. #HannahArendt hat auch einen Auftritt - natürlich mit Zigarette:
"#WinfriedKretschmann beruft sich in seinem Handeln als Politiker bekanntlich gerne auf Hannah Arendt. Für die politische Theoretikerin war das Zentrum des Politischen zwar wie für ihn "die Sorge um die Welt". Das hinderte die überzeugte Raucherin jedoch nicht daran, letztere vollzuqualmen."
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Zwei empirische Schwachstellen bei Slavoj #Žižek: #Computerspiele und #Drogen (mit #ChatGPT 5) | https://filmdenken.de/zwei-empirische-schwachstellen-bei-slavoj-zizek-computerspiele-und-drogen-mit-chatgpt-5/ #Zizek #Philosophie #Kulturtheorie #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #Psychoanalyse #GamingTheory
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Sorry, aber ich kann diesen Menschen nicht mehr ernst nehmen: #Zizek
„Wir müssen uns auf zentrale Ziele konzentrieren, die unser Überleben sichern, und dabei ist alles erlaubt, was diesen Zielen dient – Demokratie, wenn sie funktioniert; autoritäre staatliche Kontrolle, wenn sie notwendig ist, Volksmobilisierung, wenn sie gebraucht wird, sogar ein gewisses Maß an Terror, wenn die Lage wirklich verzweifelt ist.“
Natürlich in der Berliner Zeitung! Darum verlinke ich das auch nicht!
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"EE.UU. y muchos otros estados están cometiendo de manera serial (o participando en) crímenes de guerra que intentan justificar con falsas excusas: lo haces porque puedes hacerlo, y así el mundo entero se trumpiza poco a poco, normalizando brutalidades inauditas."
Slavoj Žižek, miembro cofundador de DiEM25.
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"Pienso que la izquierda debería ser más pragmática e ir más allá de las marchas de protesta, y aquí voy a ser brutalmente honesto respecto a Podemos. Aunque simpatizo con ellos, ¿qué son ahora? Un partido socialdemócrata relativamente modesto."
Slavoj Žižek, miembro cofundador de DiEM25, entrevistado en El Mundo.
https://www.elmundo.es/la-lectura/2025/07/22/686d217221efa043468b458c.html
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#Zizek: "Contra el Progreso"
"Como #Adorno: "Solo la desesperación podrá salvarnos".
Hoy los caminos del progreso nos llevan a la nada:
- Populismo de derecha
- Centro liberal
- Viejo Estado de Bienestar
- BRICS
Lá verdadera utopía -> Un Nuevo Orden Mundial que afronte las crisis -> No surgirá espontáneamente.
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Reformulacion del adagio de #Lincoln
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De vez en cuando suceden excepciones,
se dissipa la niebla, lá maioria se mobiliza" -
Vale, ya podéis dejar de mandarme el video de Žižek...
#cómokEuropaeslaúnicaculturaautocriticakcojones #UE #Europa #EUpol #UniónEuropea #EU #europol #Žižek #eurocultura #dentrodeloquecabe
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We can’t escape the trap of desire, but we can approach that trap with greater poise
This extract from Zizek’s Hegel in a Wired Brain captures something crucial about human desire, caught between our satisfactions (what we actually enjoy in a straightforward way) and the overpowering surpluses which we relate to in ambivalent ways (the compulsion to do something which hurts but energises us). From loc 2852:
The paradoxical structure of human desire is a kind of a priori: we cannot step out of it and (re)establish some new balanced universe in which we will not be fixated on a surplus, but just work for our satisfactions.
The core existential Lacanian insight rests, I think, in the recognition that a balanced existence of pure satisfaction is itself a surplus upon which we fixate. To imagine a way out of the ceaseless metonymy of desire is itself another image on which we desirously fixate. The point is not to escape our desire, but rather to learn to wear it more lightly, to move through this terrain with greater poise rather than to imagine other, easier, terrain. There will always be surplus in our experience, there will always be desire, what matters is how we live it out and orientate ourselves to the activity involved.
#desire #enjoyment #existentialism #Jouissance #Lacan #poise #reflexivity #satisfaction #zizek
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We can’t escape the trap of desire, but we can approach that trap with greater poise
This extract from Zizek’s Hegel in a Wired Brain captures something crucial about human desire, caught between our satisfactions (what we actually enjoy in a straightforward way) and the overpowering surpluses which we relate to in ambivalent ways (the compulsion to do something which hurts but energises us). From loc 2852:
The paradoxical structure of human desire is a kind of a priori: we cannot step out of it and (re)establish some new balanced universe in which we will not be fixated on a surplus, but just work for our satisfactions.
The core existential Lacanian insight rests, I think, in the recognition that a balanced existence of pure satisfaction is itself a surplus upon which we fixate. To imagine a way out of the ceaseless metonymy of desire is itself another image on which we desirously fixate. The point is not to escape our desire, but rather to learn to wear it more lightly, to move through this terrain with greater poise rather than to imagine other, easier, terrain. There will always be surplus in our experience, there will always be desire, what matters is how we live it out and orientate ourselves to the activity involved.
#desire #enjoyment #existentialism #Jouissance #Lacan #poise #reflexivity #satisfaction #zizek
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Adam Ray Adkins - Substance and Subject
#mixedmediaart #outsiderartist #artbrut #rawart #popart #metamodernart #naiveart #outsiderartwork #mixedmediaartwork #artworknow #surrealcollage #newsurrealism #postcontemporaryart #thesubstance #cutandpaste #palletknifepainting #newaesthetic #aestheticartwork #popsurrealism #surrealartist #intuitiveartist #mixedmediaartist #floridaartist #abstractartwork #hegel #zizek #allseeingeye #esotericart #creation
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Adam Ray Adkins - Substance and Subject
#mixedmediaart #outsiderartist #artbrut #rawart #popart #metamodernart #naiveart #outsiderartwork #mixedmediaartwork #artworknow #surrealcollage #newsurrealism #postcontemporaryart #thesubstance #cutandpaste #palletknifepainting #newaesthetic #aestheticartwork #popsurrealism #surrealartist #intuitiveartist #mixedmediaartist #floridaartist #abstractartwork #hegel #zizek #allseeingeye #esotericart #creation
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Adam Ray Adkins - Substance and Subject
#mixedmediaart #outsiderartist #artbrut #rawart #popart #metamodernart #naiveart #outsiderartwork #mixedmediaartwork #artworknow #surrealcollage #newsurrealism #postcontemporaryart #thesubstance #cutandpaste #palletknifepainting #newaesthetic #aestheticartwork #popsurrealism #surrealartist #intuitiveartist #mixedmediaartist #floridaartist #abstractartwork #hegel #zizek #allseeingeye #esotericart #creation
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Adam Ray Adkins - Substance and Subject
#mixedmediaart #outsiderartist #artbrut #rawart #popart #metamodernart #naiveart #outsiderartwork #mixedmediaartwork #artworknow #surrealcollage #newsurrealism #postcontemporaryart #thesubstance #cutandpaste #palletknifepainting #newaesthetic #aestheticartwork #popsurrealism #surrealartist #intuitiveartist #mixedmediaartist #floridaartist #abstractartwork #hegel #zizek #allseeingeye #esotericart #creation
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Adam Ray Adkins - Substance and Subject
#mixedmediaart #outsiderartist #artbrut #rawart #popart #metamodernart #naiveart #outsiderartwork #mixedmediaartwork #artworknow #surrealcollage #newsurrealism #postcontemporaryart #thesubstance #cutandpaste #palletknifepainting #newaesthetic #aestheticartwork #popsurrealism #surrealartist #intuitiveartist #mixedmediaartist #floridaartist #abstractartwork #hegel #zizek #allseeingeye #esotericart #creation
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https://youtu.be/_1lXUpKWIZc?feature=shared
Gabriel #Rockhill: Western #Marxism, #Imperialism, Slavoj #Zizek, #Stalin, USSR, #China, Deng Xiaoping
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Magnificent how you can ctrl+f yourself pretty efficiently to any half forgotten quote by any whichever author imaginable, but try that with Zizek and you'll just find your tired brain struggling to understand why he's talking about staircases.
#Zizek
#zizekquotes
#zizekposting
#staircases
#philosopy
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Poetry-in-the-Round with Slavoj #Žižek: Why Authoritarian Leaders Are Obscene
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I tider då man borde tänka på annat ägnar jag mina tankar åt ideologikritik, Slavoj Žižek och looser-mentalitet.
"If the concept of ideology is the classic one in which the illusion is located in knowledge […] then today’s society must appear post-ideological"
https://www.turist.blog/2024-04-11-att-bryta-med-det-post-ideologiska/
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When I was studying #cinema in college, much of the underlying theory fueling my research was #structuralism, #PostStructuralism, #semiotics, #constructivism, and #AuteurTheory. I knew nothing of #Psychoanalysis, nothing of #Freud or #Lacan.
When #Zizek came out with his 2006 #film, THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA, it blew me away. Though I was done with college I still continued with a strong interest in cinema. I found his insights fascinating and provoking.
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When I was studying #cinema in college, much of the underlying theory fueling my research was #structuralism, #PostStructuralism, #semiotics, #constructivism, and #AuteurTheory. I knew nothing of #Psychoanalysis, nothing of #Freud or #Lacan.
When #Zizek came out with his 2006 #film, THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA, it blew me away. Though I was done with college I still continued with a strong interest in cinema. I found his insights fascinating and provoking.
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When I was studying #cinema in college, much of the underlying theory fueling my research was #structuralism, #PostStructuralism, #semiotics, #constructivism, and #AuteurTheory. I knew nothing of #Psychoanalysis, nothing of #Freud or #Lacan.
When #Zizek came out with his 2006 #film, THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA, it blew me away. Though I was done with college I still continued with a strong interest in cinema. I found his insights fascinating and provoking.
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When I was studying #cinema in college, much of the underlying theory fueling my research was #structuralism, #PostStructuralism, #semiotics, #constructivism, and #AuteurTheory. I knew nothing of #Psychoanalysis, nothing of #Freud or #Lacan.
When #Zizek came out with his 2006 #film, THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA, it blew me away. Though I was done with college I still continued with a strong interest in cinema. I found his insights fascinating and provoking.
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When I was studying #cinema in college, much of the underlying theory fueling my research was #structuralism, #PostStructuralism, #semiotics, #constructivism, and #AuteurTheory. I knew nothing of #Psychoanalysis, nothing of #Freud or #Lacan.
When #Zizek came out with his 2006 #film, THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA, it blew me away. Though I was done with college I still continued with a strong interest in cinema. I found his insights fascinating and provoking.
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CW: This excerpt of Zizek speaks of bodily functions. Long read.
I'll be, #Zizek does get there (see: https://fediphilosophy.org/@Eph/110471776328493702) (by referencing others that do), or at least very close to the #ExodusEarth realization. He/they reframe idea of setting free that which we have come to know and love further, paraphrasing page xxi 'if we #love the #earth/#nature then for our sake, and the earth's/nature's sake, we must set #earth/#nature free.' Zizek only needs to extend his reasoning a little further. Maybe he does elsewhere, we are still neophyte Zizekians.
It is natural to not consider exodus-ing earth to live in space. We prefer the idea of finding another planet to exploit. We tend to repress the idea of living in the vacuum of #space in favor of another planet (diagnosed as planetary chauvinism by Isaac Asimov).
Or if we do empathically and compassionately realize we are no longer healthy for the earth and nature and we need to be removed, we may even contemplate something graver like self-extinction of ourselves, our species.
The #reason (from a gross amateur psychoanalyst) is the idea of living in space is akin to acknowledging the *das ding* of the 'real.' Here, we repress, or maybe more accurately, we are forbidden to acknowledge the existential truth that all existence resides precariously within a vacuous void of unpredictability and unknowing. Or represented more colloquially here by the real idea of living in the vacuum of space. Such an existence isn't imagined as comfortable or cozy for humans or any other earth mammalian species. It literally repulses us we think
We may think there must be another way. But if if we free our philosophy to reach its own conclusion and liberation, as recommended in The Sublime, the ACT will liberate the earth and humanity. We allow the truth to manifest philosophically without the subject, us (xxii).
This is hubris humans sacrificing themselves on the cross of earthly existence so that the earth can be reborn and man abolveres/sublamates to heaven, free of guilt, shame, and other fetters that had up til now invisibly enslaved them.
The most important thing to realize here, practically, as a first step, is that exodus-ing Earth is achievable now. We need not consider deep space, exploring the universe, etc. for now. Exiting Earth is about NEAR SPACE, to orbiting the earth, staying close to our mother but also weaned from her. This is the most profound, liberating, and loving thing we can do for ourselves as a species, but also for the sake of the Mother. It is, as Zizek refers to elsewhere in the preface, *absolvere*.
Collectively, our repressed guilt for being too good at what evolution made us, master exploiters, is destroying us psychoanalytically as it is destroying the earth and all life on it. Exodus Earth will not only exculpate our guilt but allow us to become angels in the sky for our Mother and all her other children.
The Sublime Subject of Ideology, Preface to the New Edition: The Idea's Constipation? Slavoj Zizek
p. xxi
"So, to pursue the rather tasteless metaphor, Hegel was not a sublimated coprophagist, as the usual notion of the dialectical process would lead us to believe. The matrix of the dialectical process is not that of excrementation externalization followed by a swallowing (reappropriation) of the external
ized content, but, on the contrary, of appropriation followed by the excremental move of dropping it, releasing it, letting it go. What this means is that one should not equate externalization with alienation. The externalization which concludes a cycle of dialectical process is not alienation, it is the highest point of disalienation: one really reconciles oneself with some objective content not when one still has to strive to master
and control it, but when one can afford the supreme sovereign gesture of releasing this content from oneself, of setting it free. Which is why, incidentally, and as some of the sharper interpreters have pointed out, far
from subduing nature totally to man, Hegel opens up an unexpected space for ecological awareness: for Hegel, the drive to exploit nature technologically is still a mark of man's finitude; in such an attitude, nature is
perceived as an external object, an opposing force to be dominated, while a philosopher, from his standpoint of Absolute Knowledge, experiences nature not as a threatening force to be controlled and dominated, but as something to be left to follow its inherent path."End quote.
The realization that we must exit the Earth is traumatic and we will naturally protest and argue the conclusion and its cure and even compromise to going to another planet to exploit. The reasons for living in space are legion from free resources (energy) to space travel itself. The most dangerous, expensive, and resource intensive aspects of space travel is leaving and entering a planets atmosphere. But most profoundly and analytically, is that living in space, where we have nothing to exploit but each other, we have the possibility of truly coming to know ourselves and maybe evolve from Homo exploitus to becoming truly Homo sapiens.
One of frustrating aspects of #scifi is that human nature follows us where ever we go? It doesn't matter how we engineer society or utopias, our nature doesn't allow us to abide Eden. We think we know ourselves and we certainly do not know ourselves from an evolutionary psychology(analysis) perspective. Even worse than not knowing ourselves, we believe we have the will power to change. Our will power is not enough. The more we ignore our true biological and evolutionary natures, the more destructive we become. What we resist, persists. We are uber exploiters, it is the ground of our being (personal thesis). But we can change with wisdom. But not by just willing it, again, our will is not superhuman, but our drive to exploit is. An no amount of therapy can change it, but it can let us see it, for what it really is, an apparently inescapable ideology of nature and evolution.
#Mindfulness is becoming the preferred method of coming to terms with our true nature, Homo exploitus. Mindfulness creates both the space and time to be discerning ourselves before we act. It allows us to act compassionately and consciously. We don't change in that our true natures, Homo exploitus, is still there, but we can sidestep that reality and truly ACT in the Zizekian sense.
The biggest danger is ourselves. Even now, those at the forefront of #FreeSpace aren't advocates of FreeSpace, but capitalists.
Need some inspiration? Try these music video youtubes:
Sting's 1985 (remastered) Video of "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free." Don't worry, your monitor is just fine. 4:05 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSGl3d4KOMk
And
Peyton's 2009 vdeo (warning bright flashing bright club light) "A Higher Place." 3:56 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFfEOnNfD1o
#philosophy #Hegel #evolution #psychology #psychoanalysis #Lacan #space
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So I am a week into my #Zizek #Lacan #Hegel studies, through Zizek's lens. All good. I think Zizek's #philosophy of looking at Hegel through the Lacanian lens is seductive. That said, where I find the lens of Zizek lacking, and I now wish he'd not talk about these 2(3) things any more are:
1. #Buddhism (https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-lacan-is-not-a-buddhist-a-belated-reply-to-my-critics/)
-the boy criticizes Buddhism like people criticize #Freud. All or nothing, for the most part.
2. #Christianity and #God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABnznhzdIY
- I was a serious #catholic half my life, seminarian for minute, and an ordained deacon, still, even after I confessed my #atheism. So I get what he is saying. My atheism has never felt the same as #Dawkins or #Hitchens, whom we adore, and Zizek sneers. Slipping through the profound safety net religion and a transcendent, all powerful, personal god into the #existentialism of nothing was terrifying, it was my first experience of the "#real." This is it. This is all there is. The problem is it appears Zizek commits the #fallacy of #reification (if we understand it correctly). Clearly he knows it is #fiction, even if profound from a #psychoanalytic Hegelian #CriticalAnalysis, we get it we really do, but it is not real. The #event is real, and the fiction caused the event, but the fiction is still fiction. There is no God, IOP, that became an atheist. The #story Zizek emphasizes is powerful, the changing of the cosmos when #Jesus on the cross questions Gods love. Good story and that is all. Some RCC positions from recent popes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBZy_iu0m8 and https://www.romereports.com/en/2021/09/14/full-homily-of-pope-francis-at/
So please, Zizek, can I say stay in your lane where you are brilliant, please. -
In der #Entwicklung der #Philosophie könne man nicht #direkt zur #Wahrheit gelangen, sondern müsse mit #metaphysischen #Täuschungen beginnen.
#Illusionen sind #strukturell #notwendig, #unvermeidbar und kein bloßer #Zufall.
#Metaphysische #Aussagen erzeugen #Antinomien, die die #Metaphysik zu #vermeiden versucht, wodurch sich eine #selbstwidersprüchliche #Reihe von #Begriffen und #Aussagen ergebe;
