Explained: The Big Other 

My latest ebook is available here: www.patreon.com/julianphilosophy PS: there’s lots more to unpack here and I have plenty more examples, so for the Monday livestream I’ll return to the “Big Other”

This new format is really excellent. Some of the longer videos are a bit meandering at times, whereas this is very sharp.

If you were a BMW driver...you would never signal

Thanks for a helpful, brief explanation of a subtle idea

Why is a philosophy channel the only one I know regularly posting HDR video

I like this new format of videos

I look at the big other as an extension of infantile object relations with primary caregivers/parents. This is the first big other who primes us through separation and individuation to accept the social big other. I think that we form ideological constructs with multiple big others in an attempt to heal early psychological fractures and voids brought about frustrations, neglect, insults or abuse from our parents. This big other is used unconsciously to fuel a phantasy that helps to fill in the left over void and fracture with jouissance. This then ties us to the phantasy and prevents us from seeing our defects or cognitive errors and self examination becomes anathema. I have also noticed in discussions with people who hold strong ideologies that the phantasy fills the voids of security, safety, certainty, comfort or belonging. I would go farther to suggest that philosophy itself is an elaborate manifestation of our search for those fundamental infantile needs.

Is that introductory quote from Zizek paraphrased? I couldn't find it in the actual book.

The way i understand it, identifying with the symbolic persona of this Big Other when it consists of a trauma based image, is almost similar to the punishing superego, for the subject to maintain a certain resistance against a more spontaneous and momentary reaction to emotional stimuli. Very existential nauseating. ''I must be this (big other symbolic persona) in order to have an image of who i am''. The need for absolute certainty

symbolic horizon of all social participation

another BANGER. ❤

10 Minutes are great. I guess my mind isnt capable of getting your full lectures. I rather program assembler, thats far simpler.

Hi Julian! great video, I'm loving this series. Where could I read more about this idea of the overlapping between two lacks? I'm currently working on a thesis on a similar subject

thank you🙏

Quick question. Why wouldn't you want to signal left if you were told to do so? Is the BO just a private game we play?

tysm

So the big other is like the superego??

who is the real then, Dr jeckel or Mr hyde?

Hi. I don't read LACAN, but I have more vidéos about him then anyone on the internet. Now, STOP.

It would have been great to signal left and then turn right, sticking it up to the Big Other

Great content as always ! I would like to hear your lectures on thinkers like Nietzsche, Heidegger and Deleuze.

Why single out masculinity as fake and or false if we are all roleplaying? In other words why conceive of manhood as false when fantasy is the only bridge to the "real" world? What is the distinction?

You have quite the elegant command of this. Impressive, thou art.

The new god, the big other. We call now: 'The greater good'.

Jessica Rabbit

Thanks