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ZIZ011 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself (26.11.2007)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Freudian Unconscious in Iraq

Donald Rumsfeld was debating the relationship between the known and the unknown in March 2003. He argued that there are not only weapons of mass destruction which we at least know but what if Saddam even has some weapons about the existence of which we don't even absolutely know. The American politics didn't take into account is not some mystery there in Iraq or whatever but the to use this in appropriate name the unconscious prejudices, he says.

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