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ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Problem of Techno-Analysis in Sexuality

The problem of culture is again to symbolize, to re-stabilize death. This excess that Freud calls death drive and so on and so on. And you find it in all big erotic myths. Their love is obviously formulated like this,. It's transcultural. But it's also not nature, it's clearly you don't find this excess in nature. So the result to arrive at this level is that it's not directly that culture breaks with nature.

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