
ZIZ294 Why Do We Enjoy Feeling Ashamed (01.11.2022)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
The Dark Side of Carnival
There are attempts to see even in mass sport events and some new forms of carnival. But for me, again, the least I would say is that there is also a very dark side to carnival. For example, in Nazi literature, when it's too crazy to say that's too horrible, that Auschwitz was a carnival. The way Kristallnacht, you know, in Weng 38, when Jews were beaten, has a clear structure of a carnivals. It even up to a point as it's typical for carnival run out of control,.
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