
ZIZ014 On Violence (12.09.2008)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Limits of Psychoanalysis
Some communities pay members of sexual-religious race minorities just to visit the majority families. The idea is precisely this one: When you get to know a guy's inner life, you no longer can hinologically be your enemy. What you are telling yourself about yourself is basically a lie that you construct in order to cope with usually some horrible dimension. It's wonderful to look at all these worst nations, worst in the sense of maybe in an unjust way, identified with horrible crimes and see what stories they were telling ourselves to justify their position, attitude.
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