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ZIZ003 Markets without Substance (2003)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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La Conne's Psychoanalysis of Desire

For La Conne psychoanalysis precisely is a kind of critique of pure desire, that is to say for La Conne there is a pure non-patological apriori proper transcendental object cause of desire. For La Conne when he says woman doesn't exist, he precisely means that there is no feminine counterpoint to the masculine phallic signifier,. incidentally is for me the ultimate argument for feminism, but that's another story."

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