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ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Melancholy

In the traditional way, ideology functions following what once in the good old times of structuralism, it was called the symptom logic. What is symptom in psychoanalysis? To put it in the most elementary terms, it is the return of the repressed truth within the field of the globalized lie. The structure today, predominant structure, is no longer that of a symptom. It's the particular lie which enables you to sustain to endure the truth.

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