Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University, and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy. He and Robinson discuss a great many things, including the role of psychoanalysis in the cultural criticism of wokeness, the relationship between truth, science, and philosophy, and what quantum theory might tell us about the nature of reality.
OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
01:31 Introduction
04:07 Wokeness and Psychoanalysis
15:00 Free Speech and Curb Your Enthusiasm
23:32 Trans Ideology and Racism
34:23 Violence, Gender, and the Unconscious
41:06 Fate, Freedom, and Falling in Love
48:53 Free Association and Gender Identity
53:08 Truth, Science, and Quantum Theory
57:22 Nazis, the Jew, and Psychoanalysis
01:04:26 Unholy Alliances
01:07:20 Analytic and Continental Philosophy
01:17:27 World War III and Ontological Openness
01:23:25 Life is a Quantum Theory Video Game
01:27:27 Hegel and Quantum Theory
01:31:01 A Dirty Joke about Quantum Theory
01:34:14 Nazi Testicle Torture
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.
