Žižek on how to stop being depressed (Surplus Enjoyment/subjective destitution)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ค. 2024
- Hello and good morning everyone, today is like to discuss the introduction to Slavoj Žižek’s book “Surplus Enjoyment: A guide for the non-perplexed.
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Lecture begins at 1:40
Hope you and Zizek will have a podcast episode in the future.
Unprecedented hair game, sir.
I appreciate his resistance to grow a goatee or, dare I say, a beard.
This may the most useful Žižek lecture to me yet
10 years ago my then s.o. and I came up with a motto "the punishment is its own reward". I don't know if it's true or just a coping mechanism, but it has helped!
That's funny.
You are a beacon that illuminates in these endlessly thoughtless times… p.s. Julian, you should have an opener with credits with each ep.!
I agree
Somehow the philosophy just hits differently when Julian has a nice hair day. Maybe philosophy without combed hair is like coffee without cream? 😂
We are depressed as we are not as hot, young, smart, funny, capable, charming, successful as we wish we were. Its not that hard, but Zizek has a knack for making the most simplest of issues in fact more complex than they are.
Zizek is so brilliant and very funny but i hope not all men are as neurotic as him. If you reach and suffer, if you reach and find a void, then you are condemn to masoquist behavior. You can delay pleasure in order to gain pleasure, but if you delay pleasure forever you are not delaying, you are procrastinating, you are hating yourself, and hating in the way the object of your desire. The real challenge is desiring while you are actually there. Applies to everything. Love is desire. Or is nothing.
Procrastination in the name of desire is a very cheap solution for the most challenging cuestions, cuestions that we must face together.
Love your lectures Julian, but I am extremely tired of theoretical bullshit in which some jerks relie so comfortably.
Thanks for sharing anyways, you are brilliant, and I love your hair. Today was very tidy.
Greetings from Argentina. ❤
Honestly, I'm rather happier living the unexamined life. Call me a happy idiot. Too much self-reflection hurts my soul. And my soul has been hurt enough, thank you.
I've always enjoyed your videos. But lately - so incredibly good! Thank you for your work and effort.
Happy to hear I’m part of the non-perplexed :) great discussion, you break it down without watering down the complexity - not many channels find that sweet spot
Dear Julian, first, thank you for your videos.
Second, I would add that the title could also be an ironic reference to Maimonides' "The guide for the perplexed."
Thank you for talking about this subject!
It's just like going on gamemode on Minecraft, all of a sudden you have access to everything, but the surplus enjoyment makes the game dull and empty so you want to quit
just like life I guess
Excellent, yes please, more videos, Individual chapters would be great 👍🏻 Also, I love how you got right into the video with a relatively short introduction.
Love the connections to Freud’s ‘Krieg und Tode’ (precisely his “Si vis vitam, para mortem” and its relation to subjective destitution/repetitive death (partial) drive enjoyment) and repressive desublimation. The structuring of these lectures really amplify previous concepts and their applied contexts (in this case, Ž’s Surplus Enjoyment)!
that was awesome
If you play Dark Souls, you will understand what Zizek means.
Thank you for this video Julian. I hope you can make an upcoming video on the themes and contradictions Zizek explores in the post-covid unholy alliances you mention at 30:00
god bless u
Hello Julian - would appreciate more philosophical reviews on recent movies like Mad Max Furiosa, as well as extending out to cover tv shows. A few suggestions would be: better call saul, the wire, mr robot, the americans. Thanks!
Hi Julian, can you open the CC pls.
What about inaccessibility, when you cannot get what you want? it also makes you depressed
Thank you. Zizek is so difficult for me to follow.
This one hit home! At the risk of making enemies here, I will remark that these ideas (with different jargon) have a lot in common with what Jordan Peterson has long been trying to communicate. These insights are older and more common than they may appear. With that said, I have never heard them articulated so clearly, quickly, and completely, so thank you, Julian. Much better than anything Jordan Peterson has to offer these days! But I really think this is what he was aiming at before he fell off. Maybe one day he will come around. I hope he will talk with Zizek again, that would be very intriguing to watch.
Nice
Anyone know if he's covered the Mad Max movies?
Good stuff, i like it when you give examples, like the big mac, bc it helps a lot. Generally though, these theories have lots of black and white thinking. For example when talking about the protest, yes many people have ni hope of their wishes for peace come true and on some level are happier being miserable. But that's far from universal. It's cynical to think a whole population suffers from that delusion. Many of them/us are sincere in changing leaders' minds.
And yes some ppl esp rich ones are happier accumulating money but i'll bet they also enjoy spending it.
who's philosophical opinions have more relevance, Zizek or Mao? which is the better role model?
If enjoyment is always indirect what's the point of finding something one could die for ?
lookin dishy :D
i agreed with everything until 23 minutes in and i can smell you dont believe it
me before I go to sleep
Vitamin D reduces depression.
Together with Vitamins B6, B12 and C , lack of alcohol/ coffee excess , therapeutic activities and good environment :)
Word is perplexity - not perplexion.
Well, Protestants and Muslims hold with Predestination, so whatever they do or don't do can only be the Will of God. Great cop out. Yet they both try to make their will God's Will, even when it isn't.
If you all lived my life youd all be clinically depressed.
Luckily hair grow.
commenting to let you know someone exists dont care about hair
Marx was a kind of conservative communist
Zizek confuses effect with cause. Depression is brain fog when you look at everything pleasure or delayed pleasure/pain and you don't find content in it. I can generate pain and connect it with higher cause but brain fog won't go away. When you don't have brain fog you are high, optymistic and find pleasure in pain or pleasure in pleasoure or in imaginary higher cause or whatever but it' s just an effect
I am pretty sure that depression is not a universal experience but a term for a wide collection of issues which are somewhat similar. Apathy, fear, anger, anxiety and lethargy are all symptoms associated with depression and are completely different to brain fog.
@he1ar1 thats the problem, the word became normalised, and ppl now use it generally to mean low mood. Which doesn't help ppl with actual debilitating depression
Free palestine.
Or we can do what Zizek does: mountains and mountains of cocaine 😂
AM I the only Marxist who thinks Freuds work was nonsense?
Lol far from it. It's a meme to poop on Freud. For a man who wrote over 15 books of original material, many based on research, it's a disgrace that so many dismiss them as "cocaine-fueled ranting." I would suggest those who think he was a charlatan choose a specific area, reference other's criticism of that area, and synthesize some new knowledge around it.
His entire work? The foundation for modern psychology?
@@user-mx9iq7pi6u There's a whole world of non-Freudian psychology. I think most professions these days would NOT consider themselves Freudians.
@@DIYDSP I certainly do not dismiss the mans work as if it were nothing. I just think we have gone past it. Science evolves. Even Marx wasn't infallible LOL.
@@joeyj6808 i think you ought study his influence more
I think u r just a masochist buddy
Wacko. Just find new normal friends with interesting lives.
Zizek is so brilliant and very funny but i hope not all men are as neurotic as him. If you reach and suffer, if you reach and find a void, then you are condemn to masoquist behavior. You can delay pleasure in order to gain pleasure, but if you delay pleasure forever you are not delaying, you are procrastinating, you are hating yourself, and hating in the way the object of your desire. The real challenge is desiring while you are actually there. Applies to everything. Love is desire. Or is nothing.
Procrastination in the name of desire is a very cheap solution for the most challenging cuestions, cuestions that we must face together.
Love your lectures Julian, but I am extremely tired of theoretical bullshit in which some jerks relie so comfortably.
Thanks for sharing anyways, you are brilliant, and I love your hair. Today was very tidy.
Greetings from Argentina ❤.
very insightful bro. well i think here zizek is just stating problems of modern man are facing with the tool of psychoanalysis