
ZIZ001 A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism (18.09.2000)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Trauma of Femininity
I think that you know there is trauma and trauma let's take precisely the male relationship to work femininity I claim that this idea that behind the prejudice is the mask of what we men conceive as femininity. This is the ultimate male myth in other and the same goes for colonialism so I claim that the ultimate racism is not we can reduce the other they are primitive but it's on the contrary this idea that there is an inaccessible mystery out there. The most racist imaginable attitude is this idea that we will never fully understand the other because there is always something more to be learned, he says.
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