Žižek psychoanalyses himself | The life and philosophy of Slavoj Žižek

this is as much as you will get from me about [Music] life to ask you a question you ask in Hegel in a wide brain are we living in a dystopian time or a time of dystopian fantasies or both uh it's a very good question because this difference is crucial the only way I can account for it let me be precise which difference precisely are we really more or less approaching some kind of end or is it just that in a strange way we are obsessed by the end I think both are true but not in the sense of Harmony the explanation I have is that we at the same time we live in an era of what I call following my conservative German friend Peter slauter we live in an era of cynical reason where you know in the old times the disavowal worked like this you knew something is true but you pretend that it's not true and you or you try to explain it away and so on now we are entering a new era I have in my next book but also can impr lator of science where uh we learned we those in power not me we learned how to tell objectively at the level of facts the truth but this very fact immobilizes us precisely the fact of talking about it instead of mobilizing us makes us apathetic inefficient and so on for example even at the level of art because I'm here not at the other place is there another place in K I don't know I can't remember forgot because if there is a thing I hate and one of the things where I am tempted to act as a terrorist like a bomb there it's this big art banales Venice castle and so on did you notice something about them how uh in their programmatic notes to begin with they say we are all under capitalism we are part of exploitation eurocentric racist blah blah blah and then they go on and the way castle and Venice functions are perfect examples of pure capitalist uh commercialization of art you see the Paradox you are telling it what it is and instead of preventing you it goes on wasn't the same with uh no it was a little bit north two years ago when you remember the Glasgow conference on the prince now no longer just Prince Charles was there and in some stupid sense although it's not as he basically told the truth danger blah blah blah but nothing came out of it and this is very close to me now I enter this is as much as you will get me from me about life I know that stance because I have it it's the obsessional neurotic stance you talk all the time not to achieve something but to make it sure that nothing will happen that's why another detail from life when I was 50 years ago 40 in psycho analysis you can imagine how it looked it was a lan psycho analysis which means I could be sure that the session will not last more than 5 seven minutes so I talked all the time why because I was afraid that if I stop talking for a second the analyst will ask me some really embarrassing question so you see this idea of being active to make it sure that nothing will really change to continue watching this video click the link in the top left or in the description below or Visit ii. TV for more debates and talks from the world's leading thinkers on today's biggest ideas

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Length: 4min 22sec (262 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2023