Slavoj Žižek. The Big Other and The Event of Subjectivity. 2012

source: European Graduate School   2012年12月6日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about the big Other in Lacan in relation to Alain Badiou's theory of the Event. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the universality of anxiety, Lacan's theory of truth and subjectivity, the inconsistency of the symbolic structure and his polemic with Badiou in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Sigmund Freud, René Descartes, Jacques-Alain Miller, Antonio Hardt and Michael Negri focusing on being, truth, the real, language, knowledge, the existence of animal life, death drive, transposed belief, the figure of the neighbor, terror, political enthusiasm and capitalism. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2012. Slavoj Žižek.