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ZIZ012 Ecology – A New Opium for the Masses (28.11.2007)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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Freud's Theology of Death Drive

The cause of the catastrophe remains libidinally meaningless, resisting any interpretation. Every traumatic present serves as a trigger to revitalize, resuscitate all traumas and so on. For Lacan it's not only death drive as destruction, but you survive your death. This kind of blank existence for her is something that Freud and for she thinks even Lacan was not able to think. Literally, a post-libidinal subject survives. And this is the mystery already of Musselmanon of this.

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