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ZIZ011 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself (26.11.2007)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Mystery of Habits

I offer something I get it back as unnecessary but in very paradoxical way as superfluous it's necessary that's a symbolic gesture at its purest this is what habits are about but habits can be more complicated the true mystery of habits is that it's not only that something is prohibited but that prohibition itself is prohibited. It wasn't only prohibited to criticize Stalin it was even more prohibited to publicly announce this prohibition. This is the level at which customs function and it's interesting to me more and more the way this all these functions namely this implicitLet's call it the implicit obscene underside of prohibitions which one shouldn't announce of transgressions which remain implicit for example  the Catholic Church pedophilia

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