I could listen to this a hundred times and not fully understand it, but I certainly feel enriched! I am a young resident psychiatrist and can think of so many examples of the patient loving the symptom (myself and my colleagues included).
Thank you for this very inspiring lecture. These concepts are difficult per se, and you managed not only to explain them, but also to put them in the same picture. Awesome
In the past weeks, I felt like I had things more or less figured out in terms of where I fit into things. That came after a long time studying these videos and others like them, as well as committing myself to working hard at my hobbies and commitments. Then I disrupted my sleep pattern significantly and wasn't eating as well. I am now struggling to recover what I felt was a healthy balance between knowing that I had my limitations and knowing that so did everyone else, and that's ok. I now feel this is not ok, and I back where I once was. This lecture about being stuck and how wonderfully human that is seems..., well it's uncomfortable, but it also seems to just be conjecture from your position. A literary example interpreted by one person does not a universal truth make. In other videos I felt like there was an epiphany sensation, but here I no longer feel this. Is this just simply a physiological difficulty in producing something like dopamine during this week of poor sleep? How much does the sensation of "truthiness" depend on our ability to eat healthy food and hit REM sleep consistently? All of this seems inadequate in the face of physiological stressors. I worry that our elections will face similar challenges when voting populations are struggling.
I learned a few many insights this lectures and was left with a lot to think about. Also I was quite moved, though I cannot quite put into words why (see what I did there? ;>) Thanks for your work! It is truly enriching and my joy every Monday to start the week with Philosophy! Greetings from Germany~
É a segunda oportunidade que tenho para assistir aos seus vídeos. Espetacular. Estudo o livro de Jó e o quanto a repetição e o prazer da repetição, explicam um pouco esse livro. Obrigado.
Really impressed by your videos, Julien. I'm a recent Zizek fan but I've only read Looking Awry and so how his project fits in with Hegelian dialectics has escaped me a bit and now I'm grasping it's enfolding in a powerful way. My one question is why Das Unhemlich (1919) is seen as the essay of Freud that best points too the unstuck-ness of the human animal, when Beyond The Pleasure Principle (1920) is a more concrete focus on how life and death cease to be in the tension between. The use of term Uncanny Valley has robbed a bit of the radicality of the observation by attributing it to evolution, while BTPP more solidly points to the difference in the human organism and why it seeks to release tension that can never go away.
Very Great!, especially around 30:24 you are talking about "Assetization",how people define their identity in late stage capitalism.Where there are no trade unions,churches,any identity anchors. We dont care about the product,if we like it or not that is secondary,the primary is identity forming around a commodity. I saw a transphobe buying 6 copies of Hogwarts Legacy,i know very well he is never going to play the game (not care about Harry Potter) ,but buying and posting it to OWN THE LIBS is identity forming activity.
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