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The Philosophy of Georges Bataille with Tim Themi and Adam Lovasz

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The Metaphysics of Batai's Philosophy

Tim Lakhani: What is a Batai book without eroticism and the psychoanalytical sexual stuff? And I think I don't think we can leave out this, you know, why probably why Freud, Lacan, and Nietzsche are going to haunt this discussion. In one sense, we begin to draw these things together, drawing this psychoanalytic sort of moment as a foundation, and how it sort of splinters off into becoming postmodernism. He says what taboos are a taboo on is nature, our animal nature, animal drives and instincts pertaining to sex and death.

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