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Pill Pod 27 - BURNOUT SOCIETY by Byung-Chul Han *UNLOCKED*

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Is There a Role for the Other?

Jung will Chan says that there's a reaction to this, which is depressive. That you just try hard until there's no energy left in you. And that's why you're depressed because depression is not self hatred depression is is exhaustion. Isn't it a crisis of desire that like you stop desiring? Yeah, because you've desired too much. It's not because you're desiring the wrong things because that would be a different psychological state. That would be the hysteric though the hysteric is like self punishing. So I think that's a key distinction to be made that I would actually probably side with Lacan on this.

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