Happy to hear I’m part of the non-perplexed :) great discussion, you break it down without watering down the complexity - not many channels find that sweet spot
10 years ago my then s.o. and I came up with a motto "the punishment is its own reward". I don't know if it's true or just a coping mechanism, but it has helped!
Excellent, yes please, more videos, Individual chapters would be great 👍🏻 Also, I love how you got right into the video with a relatively short introduction.
Love the connections to Freud’s ‘Krieg und Tode’ (precisely his “Si vis vitam, para mortem” and its relation to subjective destitution/repetitive death (partial) drive enjoyment) and repressive desublimation. The structuring of these lectures really amplify previous concepts and their applied contexts (in this case, Ž’s Surplus Enjoyment)!
Dear Julian, first, thank you for your videos. Second, I would add that the title could also be an ironic reference to Maimonides' "The guide for the perplexed."
Hello Julian - would appreciate more philosophical reviews on recent movies like Mad Max Furiosa, as well as extending out to cover tv shows. A few suggestions would be: better call saul, the wire, mr robot, the americans. Thanks!
This one hit home! At the risk of making enemies here, I will remark that these ideas (with different jargon) have a lot in common with what Jordan Peterson has long been trying to communicate. These insights are older and more common than they may appear. With that said, I have never heard them articulated so clearly, quickly, and completely, so thank you, Julian. Much better than anything Jordan Peterson has to offer these days! But I really think this is what he was aiming at before he fell off. Maybe one day he will come around. I hope he will talk with Zizek again, that would be very intriguing to watch.
Good stuff, i like it when you give examples, like the big mac, bc it helps a lot. Generally though, these theories have lots of black and white thinking. For example when talking about the protest, yes many people have ni hope of their wishes for peace come true and on some level are happier being miserable. But that's far from universal. It's cynical to think a whole population suffers from that delusion. Many of them/us are sincere in changing leaders' minds. And yes some ppl esp rich ones are happier accumulating money but i'll bet they also enjoy spending it.
Zizek is so brilliant and very funny but i hope not all men are as neurotic as him. If you reach and suffer, if you reach and find a void, then you are condemn to masoquist behavior. You can delay pleasure in order to gain pleasure, but if you delay pleasure forever you are not delaying, you are procrastinating, you are hating yourself, and hating in the way the object of your desire. The real challenge is desiring while you are actually there. Applies to everything. Love is desire. Or is nothing. Procrastination in the name of desire is a very cheap solution for the most challenging cuestions, cuestions that we must face together. Love your lectures Julian, but I am extremely tired of theoretical bullshit in which some jerks relie so comfortably. Thanks for sharing anyways, you are brilliant, and I love your hair. Today was very tidy. Greetings from Argentina. ❤
Honestly, I'm rather happier living the unexamined life. Call me a happy idiot. Too much self-reflection hurts my soul. And my soul has been hurt enough, thank you.
Thank you for this video Julian. I hope you can make an upcoming video on the themes and contradictions Zizek explores in the post-covid unholy alliances you mention at 30:00
I’m wondering if, to truly enjoy a movie, you have to make it part of a process that serves some other goal (like philosophical endeavors). In doing so, aren’t you, in a way, avoiding a true, non-interpretational experience (as Susan Sontag criticized)? Or, in the words of another philosopher, isn’t this more of an ‘I-It’ rather than an ‘I-You’ relationship
It's just like going on gamemode on Minecraft, all of a sudden you have access to everything, but the surplus enjoyment makes the game dull and empty so you want to quit just like life I guess
We are depressed as we are not as hot, young, smart, funny, capable, charming, successful as we wish we were. Its not that hard, but Zizek has a knack for making the most simplest of issues in fact more complex than they are.
Well, Protestants and Muslims hold with Predestination, so whatever they do or don't do can only be the Will of God. Great cop out. Yet they both try to make their will God's Will, even when it isn't.
I actually had to shut this video off because the creator mispronounced the word "conzerrzative" so many times. Look up the word online, it's easy to pronounce no matter what your language background is. Heck, I can even type it out, it's phonetically a word with three parts: 1st, "CON" 2nd, "SERVE" (and this is the part where you have a big problem, it's pronounced the same way as the word "serve") and 3rd, "TIVE" to rhyme with "give". A similar remark applies to how the creator pronounces "philoZoZical". That's comically mispronounced as well but not as frequently as conservative.
Zizek confuses effect with cause. Depression is brain fog when you look at everything pleasure or delayed pleasure/pain and you don't find content in it. I can generate pain and connect it with higher cause but brain fog won't go away. When you don't have brain fog you are high, optymistic and find pleasure in pain or pleasure in pleasoure or in imaginary higher cause or whatever but it' s just an effect
I am pretty sure that depression is not a universal experience but a term for a wide collection of issues which are somewhat similar. Apathy, fear, anger, anxiety and lethargy are all symptoms associated with depression and are completely different to brain fog.
@he1ar1 thats the problem, the word became normalised, and ppl now use it generally to mean low mood. Which doesn't help ppl with actual debilitating depression
Lol far from it. It's a meme to poop on Freud. For a man who wrote over 15 books of original material, many based on research, it's a disgrace that so many dismiss them as "cocaine-fueled ranting." I would suggest those who think he was a charlatan choose a specific area, reference other's criticism of that area, and synthesize some new knowledge around it.
@@DIYDSP I certainly do not dismiss the mans work as if it were nothing. I just think we have gone past it. Science evolves. Even Marx wasn't infallible LOL.
Zizek is so brilliant and very funny but i hope not all men are as neurotic as him. If you reach and suffer, if you reach and find a void, then you are condemn to masoquist behavior. You can delay pleasure in order to gain pleasure, but if you delay pleasure forever you are not delaying, you are procrastinating, you are hating yourself, and hating in the way the object of your desire. The real challenge is desiring while you are actually there. Applies to everything. Love is desire. Or is nothing. Procrastination in the name of desire is a very cheap solution for the most challenging cuestions, cuestions that we must face together. Love your lectures Julian, but I am extremely tired of theoretical bullshit in which some jerks relie so comfortably. Thanks for sharing anyways, you are brilliant, and I love your hair. Today was very tidy. Greetings from Argentina ❤.
