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An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Hegel

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Hegel's Controversy in Contrary to Delizian Flux

I think psychoanalysis really clarifies Hegel's position about contradiction being actual, I think. And his famous saying is, you cannot step in the same river twice. So, there's a way in which both our separation from ourselves and the object separation themselves are not who we are. It's interesting to think about contradiction in contrast to delizian flow or flux with the river example. For deliz, there's just even the idea that there is a river is dubious. There's never a thing that just stays in the same place. Like it's so...

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