
An Afternoon with Slavoj Zizek -- Lacan
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Is Abj'an for Slavoy Just a Certain Point of Contradiction?
I think abj'an for Slavoy just names a certain point of contradiction, right? That it's not, that opacity would always already be saying too much about what exists there. If you are instead confronted simply by opacity, there's not a beyond, there's just opacity. I don't know, like, I'm not sure about that. It's very, I mean, this is part of where this actually goes back to Lovecraft. There is this beyond, and there is only beyond. It's not really a place, it's just a beyond, and it's like, you cannot go there or think it, and that's what's sort of terrifying about it.
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