ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Death Drive of Freud
Kant says that the wild and disciplined character, you know, a tribe who resists, beats and so on, he says this is not animal nature. Animals have instincts, they follow the instincts, it's kind of a derailment of instincts. It's already the naturalist nature, but it's not yet culture. And I think that the Freudian name for this excess is death drive. What is sexuality, what are we humans? Our sexuality is not the animal coupling,. You eat, you eat, you sleep, and incidentally, when I'm in a bad mood, I almost would like to be dead. For as close as I can imagine happiness, if you are, we
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