ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Mystery of Freud
Why do we humans always bother with impossible tasks? Why are we, as it were from the very beginning, try to ask metaphysical questions. The true mystery for me as it were is that again, back to sexuality, that's caddled. It's not that we have our natural sexuality which is gradually civilized and so on and so on. No, natural sexuality gets denaxialized in some kind of deadly passion, crazy insistence. How is it that even I know some brain scientists or other behavioral scientists who are doing things with apes and told me some interesting, even empirical, results? We should invent a problem, we should invent it.
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