
ZIZ003 Markets without Substance (2003)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Importance of Symptoms
The old-style hospital that now is more digitalized but I always admire that you know how you lie here and at the feet you have so that of course you as a patient, you don't see it. It's literal, it presents you for the train of medical knowledge. A symptom accomplishes expansion the moment it is produced since it is inscribed into the decatur. You know it's put into circulation. They did in the good old days,. hysterical, conversing with hysteria, where okay we all know the symptom is a sign for message but to whom? Definitely not to another human being because nobody not even knew that nobody really understands it.
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