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ZIZ006 The Spectator’s Malevolent Neutrality (08.06.2004)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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How Should I Put It?

There is a difference between playing on a theatre stage and playing a role in a daily life, isn't it? I would have parked the answering bus away. Because I think you've come so much from film. What I like with Brecht is this totally non-psychological, non-identification. You know, for example, an actor comes to stage and looks in the public and says, I am a policeman. And you know, this false, total self-transference. The core of our self, you cannot identify. Is that what I mean Massbledon shows? Is that an energy right now?"

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