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ZIZ004 The Reality of the Virtual (2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Virtual Real: Trauma Is Virtual

The primordial theft and also the primordial real is a purely formal imbalance. The symbolic space of his sexual theories was curved, it is only at this point that he resuscitated the traumatic scene. So I think in clear parallel to Einstein we can see how here is the other way around. In its fascist version, antisemitism, rather the figure of the Jew, the Jewish plot is precisely an external trauma which brutally intrudes disturbing social balance. It's not that there is disorder, antagonism, disintegration, class struggle because of the Jews. Class travel or more generally social antagonism comes first.

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