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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Lacan

Why Theory

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Transphobia and Existential Projects - It's Not Their Being, or It Is Nothing?

I think transphobia is really well named because it really does bring out this horror of my own. I feel like there's a way in which the idea of psychoanalysis is really tied to this idea of an exos, like you give yourself a project in your life that you have an existential project and that's what gives your life its significance. Outside of that project, there's no inherent significance in the world at all. And so that's why I think it's incredibly traumatic for people. It's not their being or it's nothing, Todd. You come to your project that then defines your existence. So I think it, I don't know. What was hard for me

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