Robinson's Podcast 109 - Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics
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Jul 2, 2023 
Slavoj Žižek, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, discusses wokeness, psychoanalysis, and quantum mechanics. They explore the role of psychoanalysis in cultural criticism, the relationship between truth, science, and philosophy, and what quantum theory reveals about reality. They delve into free speech, trans ideology, violence, gender, and unconscious, fate, freedom, and falling in love, truth, science, and quantum theory, and Nazis, the Jew, and psychoanalysis. They also touch on unholy alliances, analytic and continental philosophy, world War III, life as a quantum theory video game, and a dirty joke related to quantum theory. Lastly, they discuss topics like torture devices, permissiveness, sexual identity, Freud's concept of the unconscious, Hitler's influence, conflicts of ideologies, analytic philosophers, and the shocking story of Nazi torture tools.
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Testicle Crusher: From Torture to Toy
- Nazis had a metal device to crush testicles as a form of torture in concentration camps.
- Today, similar devices are commercially available for consensual use, symbolizing societal contradictions.
Permissiveness Turns Into Oppression
- Permissiveness today paradoxically produces new forms of oppression like political correctness.
- Psychoanalysis reveals that suppression often turns into a desire for that very prohibition.
Complexity of Sexual Identity
- Sexual identity is neither purely biological nor merely a subjective choice.
- Psychoanalysis shows our identities are split and often not fully conscious to ourselves.