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ZIZ009 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe (10.11.2006)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Importance of Death Drive

I think it's absolutely crucial to exist. I cannot develop it now that man is not enough. You must have a dimension which is more radical than only a man in man. Death drive paradoxically, I claim, is Freud's name for immortality. If you really want to understand what is death drive, forgot about all this Nirvana stuff and think about Stephen King. This and that, in the sense of death but living that, something which exists beyond life and death. So again, sorry for my tastelessness, but you got my book.

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