An Evening with Slavoj Žižek
Intelligence Squared
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The Fetishist Split: The Material Force of Ideology
In psychoanalysis, this attitude is called a fetishist split. The old traditional functioning of ideology was more symptomatic. You know, symptom, like return of the repressed. And I think such a split is a clear indication of the material force of ideology which makes us refuse what we see and know. We all know about the impending catastrophe, ecological, social, and so on. But we somehow cannot take it seriously.
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