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    Slavoj Žižek draws from examples in literature, film, and advertising to explain a phenomenon in which no sexual liaison is complete without a third element - an intruder, something like a fantasy. He also dishes out on topics including feminist crime fiction, 20-year-old British beer commercials, and the Taco Bell Quesarito.
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    SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK:
    Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World.
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    TRANSCRIPT:
    Slavoj Žižek: I like this new wave of feminine crime fiction writers who are feminists, but not in the stupid, politically correct way. That feminism isn’t authentic feminism, you know. They don’t have this patronizing attitude like, you know, women should always be passive victims and so on and so on. But even maybe now I’ll say something for that maybe I’m not very popular here. Even better than how she call Gillian Flynn or what is an Irish girl called Tana French. A series of crime fiction taking place in Dublin with more or less the same spirit, the same attitude. A kind of a, if I have to invent some stupid title, a kind of a dark neo-feminist crime thrillers. But no, of the movie that I recently saw, there is a problem. Often a movie attracts me - not attracts me, but gets me to think intellectually. But I don’t really like it as a movie. For example, the one, Her with Joaquin Phoenix. In the film at the end he is the hero together with the girl. I think she’s called Amy. But they are both abandoned by their machines. The big enigma here is, and this is what always attracted me. And this is I think what my mentor in theory, French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, insisted in his crazy theories there is no sexual relationship. Which means we are never alone, me and my partner. There has to be a third element, a fantasy scene, an intruder. It’s only through that mediation of a third element here, in Her they’re operating systems, that sex functions. And then I started to think about other variations of this, like for example, a perfect very intelligently made 20 years old British publicity for beer which is about wonderful ironic repetition of an old fairy tale motif you know. A young girl walks by a stream, sees a frog and, of course, that’s what you do in fairy tales. She picks up and kisses the frog and the frog turns into a prince, charming young man.




    But then the publicity goes on. The charming young man looks at her, kisses her and she turns into a can of beer, you know. That’s what really he wanted, you know. And then I found here in the States a similar, but inverted version. It’s pretty disgusting incidentally publicity for a Taco Bell publicity for something called quesarito, which is quesadilla and burrito - combination of the two. And it’s presented in such an obscene way that if you combine the two it’s really like a penis enwrapped by a vagina. But how is the publicity spot done here? A young guy and a girl seated during lunch break at the table and one has quesadilla, the other burrito. And they look at each other and then you see each person’s dream. Boy looks at her and imagines the future. They start to talk. They get married, have children. Then she looks at him, approaches him in her dream and takes his piece of burrito or whatever, wraps it up so that she gets a kind of a bisexual completing, and just makes a sign and he disappears. It’s similar to that one beer, but what I think is the enigma behind all this is why do we never get just a couple. Why it always have to be some intruder. And the best Hollywood version of this - I ask all the viewers who are watching this now to download - you can download it for free. It’s an American classic movie, Preston Sturges’ Lady Eve where you have the ultimate marriage proposal scene. You have Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck and a horse standing behind them and the horse’s head is always intruding and so on and so on. That’s the mystery of sex. It’s never two. You always need something, an imagined gaze, an element intruding ...
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ความคิดเห็น • 225

  • @ocb7160
    @ocb7160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    I get a strange joy from hearing Zizek talk about the Taco Bell Quesarito

    • @iMJBNi
      @iMJBNi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      In Žižek's voice: "An obscene pleasure, really"

    • @IAmTurbogfx
      @IAmTurbogfx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "combination of the two"

  • @PentaSquares
    @PentaSquares ปีที่แล้ว +112

    I feel like Slavoj is that guy who isn't too afraid to talk about the weird stuff that goes on in the world

  • @lightskinnedspidey8493
    @lightskinnedspidey8493 8 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    We all form individual bonds with different people. What ends up being the most harmful is not what we do to each other, but what we let our expectations and desires of the other person do to us.

  • @sogghartha
    @sogghartha 9 ปีที่แล้ว +442

    It's kind of funny he sounds the way his name looks.

    • @SevenRiderAirForce
      @SevenRiderAirForce 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Oh god my sides

    • @jarilocromlech1257
      @jarilocromlech1257 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He looks the way his name sounds.

    • @johnkalogeropoulos6570
      @johnkalogeropoulos6570 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why is this so true?

    • @stevoofd
      @stevoofd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He names the way his looks sound

    • @skyrimguy217
      @skyrimguy217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thats probably cause his name is slavic, and he speaks with a slavic accent.

  • @theunknowncorps22
    @theunknowncorps22 9 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    What is hilarious is that if you turn on subtitles (which are usually bad for most videos) they come out perfectly with this guy's voice.

    • @MrBeaux
      @MrBeaux 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      +Common Sense1776 That's because someone typed out everything he said, most videos have subtitles created by speech recognition software.

    • @sgtsnakeeyes11
      @sgtsnakeeyes11 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      +Common Sense1776 as if you knew.. "dont ruin the joke" suuure, nice back-pedalling

    • @boogiemeister9581
      @boogiemeister9581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@theunknowncorps22 Zizeck is perfectly articulate, if you're struggling there's no shame in changing the speed 0.75

    • @larietournelle7904
      @larietournelle7904 ปีที่แล้ว

      very usefull !

  • @eosapienrancher4045
    @eosapienrancher4045 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    If I got anything out of that, it's that human relationships don't exist in a vacuum. The minimum number of elements for a relationship (not just a sexual partnership, but in general) isn't 2, it's 3: at least two partners, but also a third element that allows the connection between them to be tested, negotiated, and grown. Outside challenges allow relationships to strengthen, as both people realize that (ideally) the other person isn't really the source of their unhappiness, they're actually in the same boat, and the process of fixing their problems begins with or results in(...Im not sure which at this point) them coming together once more and rekindling their connection. I dont know if that's what Zizek meant, I suspect I'm wrong, but it's what I got out of it at least. Sorta reminds me of the "red pill" approach to sexual relationships: It's never about forming a connection with another person, but using that person (women in this case) as a means to resolve one's own deficiencies (of sex, self-worth, validation, etc). I suspect a lot of people are driven by this, though. If I respect nothing else about the Manchildosphere (and I don't), it's that they're at least honest about their motivations. (Honest in terms of sincere and unabashed. If you ask them, I'm sure they'll reject my assessment.) However, digging your heels into this psychopathology is something else. So is inventing a self-serving interpretation of Darwinism to justify your moral poverty.

  • @dethkon
    @dethkon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I just figured out why “exhibitionism” (or in my case, having sex in deserted but public places) used to be so much fun more me. It was the fantasy/danger of us being intruded on by a passerby!
    Even though this never happened, the specter was always the 3rd “person” in the act.
    Lacan was something like a genius.

    • @Nobody-Nowhere
      @Nobody-Nowhere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Its not really the same, the idea is that the third is always present. What you were doing is simply the breaking of a rule, a societal prohibition. As its literally illegal, public indecency.
      It was Freud who came up with the third, its directly from the oedipal conflict where there is always 3 people involved. But he actually proposed that there are always 4 people involved.
      And Kernberg went even further, and said there is 6 people involved.

    • @Nobody-Nowhere
      @Nobody-Nowhere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      This is from Kornberg's book; Love Relations.
      Direct and reverse triangulations, which I have described in earlier work (1988), constitute the most frequent and typical unconscious scenarios, which may at worst destroy the couple or at best reinforce their intimacy and stability. I use direct triangulation to describe both partners' unconscious fantasy of an excluded third party, an idealized member of the subject's gender-the dreaded rival replicating the oedipal rival. Every man and every woman unconsciously or consciously fears the presence of somebody who would be more satisfactory to his or her sexual partner; this third party is the origin of emotional insecurity in sexual intimacy and of jealousy as an alarm signal protecting the couple's integrity.
      Reverse triangulation defines the compensating, revengeful fantasy of involvement with a person other than one's partner, an idealized member of the other gender who stands for the desired oedipal object, thus establishing a triangular relationship in which the subject is courted by two members of the other gender instead of having to compete with the oedipal rival of the same gender for the idealized oedipal object of the other gender. I propose that, given these two universal fantasies, there are potentially, in fantasy, always six persons in bed together: the couple, their respective unconscious oedipal rivals, and their respective unconscious oedipal ideals. If this formulation brings to mind Freud's (1954) comment to Fliess, "I am accustoming myself to the idea of regarding every sexual act as a process in which four persons are involved" (letter 113, p. 289), it should be noted that his comment was made in a discussion of bisex uality. My formulation arises in the context of unconscious fantasies based on oedipal object relations and identifications.

  • @planetary109
    @planetary109 9 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    A lot of people take his words literally and totally miss the point of what he's saying. Apparently thousands of youtubers think they're smarter than this man, yet they're on youtube complaining because they don't understand it. I'm sure all these youtubers are sophisticated philosophers...

    • @stevenglansburg856
      @stevenglansburg856 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Zizeck isn't even sophisticated

    • @JonSnow-pn4wd
      @JonSnow-pn4wd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude even Chomsky said that he is talking nonsense.

    • @demit189
      @demit189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Jon Snow1546521 chomsky has admitted being unable to understand postmodernism

    • @Javier-il1xi
      @Javier-il1xi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@JonSnow-pn4wd Chomsky is a total failure. The fact that people take his retarded ideas seriously is just sad.

    • @thomasrivera8626
      @thomasrivera8626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      The fact that some of you here can decide that these people are no good without providing evidence tells me alot of your bland mind.

  • @Ndo01
    @Ndo01 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Zizek is great, he really cracks me up.

  • @lightskinnedspidey8493
    @lightskinnedspidey8493 8 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    So many seem confused.. what he's saying in a nutshell is that without an outside presence between you and your loved ones there is no actual relationship.
    For example, if you and your woman were the only two left on the planet, all these notions of jealousy and arrogance would not exist because there would be nothing to relate to. How does your girl know or think that she deserves better? Because her girlfriends or mother have displayed an example and/or sentiment as to why she should have her life a certain way.
    If you take the comparative lens away there is simply the average filter than bends based on whichever person's ideology we're speaking about.

    • @banamanane
      @banamanane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      you didn't understand but good effort.

    • @evgeniystepankevich7964
      @evgeniystepankevich7964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Interesting idea but not at all what he said

    • @Nobody-Nowhere
      @Nobody-Nowhere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Its basic psychoanalysis, the third is the excluded one that is always present in fantasy. The original oedipal relationship is a triangle. There is no way to understand this, if you don't have basic understanding of psychoanalytic theory.

  • @Brozime
    @Brozime 9 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    I understand what he means but this is presented in possibly the most distracting way imaginable..

  • @mitigiant5328
    @mitigiant5328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m exhausted watching him talk, but pretty good point

  • @GustafGouda
    @GustafGouda 9 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    Most of the commentators show no interest in "big thinking". Sad.

    • @TheUnQuake
      @TheUnQuake 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Big thinking and pretentious commenting are two different things

    • @cmattbacon7838
      @cmattbacon7838 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      GustafGouda Most people who would be interested in zizek would think that thinking is a waste of time anyways cuz truth cant be known

    • @romayonnaise7735
      @romayonnaise7735 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Irony

  • @cavalrycome
    @cavalrycome 9 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    It's as if Žižek woke up one morning and said to himself "I'm going to shnort a lot of coke and go on Big Think and shay 'You're never really alone with your shexual partner because I can think of sheveral examples from films and TV where people aren't.'"

    • @KungaTV
      @KungaTV 9 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      although i laughed at this, i think his point is that the other person's body and personality is not enough. the activities you do together, how you envision your future relative to the other person, the environment your in are factors that are sexually essential. But yeah, you're still pretty much spot on.

    • @KnasiTaket
      @KnasiTaket 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      looool

    • @PraviSlobodan
      @PraviSlobodan 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      More like Big Line.... :)))

    • @cavalrycome
      @cavalrycome 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bart Bols But you do realize Bart that to me you're just some random person on the internet? So unless you'd like to tell me why you think my lighthearted comment was "so wrong on an intellectual level", you're just adding to the stench in the air.

    • @cavalrycome
      @cavalrycome 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I doubt many people would consider "our relationships are always mediated by various expectations and fantasies" profound enough to qualify as a Big Thinky thought, but that seems to adequately summarize most of what Žižek is saying (leaving aside his apparently disconnected comments about feminism). He describes this fantasy element as an intruder who ensures we are not alone in a relationship, but this is just a metaphor which cleverly obscures the fact that he isn't saying much. You could say this about just about anything, not just relationships. And he's demonstrably wrong if he means that true intimacy is impossible, which is what I take to be the only interesting interpretation of what he's saying.

  • @SeeBillyRun
    @SeeBillyRun 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Perhaps the reason why the sexual relationship, in media, needs a third party mediator is to create tension? Perhaps it's used as a tool to maintain interest in the characters? If we, the viewers, are completely assured, in our minds, that there is no danger in the two characters not connecting then we don't need to invest as much emotion in their fates I.e. will they or won't they... "I know they will; so what's the point?".
    Throw something into the mix as subtle as a horse's head... it may create just enough tension for the viewer. In the viewer's mind, "Hey horse get out of THE WAY!"...
    JMO though. I haven't read any of the "crazy theories" Slavoj is referring too. It would have been great if he explained the importance of the mediator.

    • @sebastianjimenezbienen7045
      @sebastianjimenezbienen7045 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The point that you make about the adds keeping people entertained with tension is exactly the same way it works in real life. If there is not the possibility of loss, of some intrusion, then there is no tension in the relationship, that's when it stops becoming entertaining, that is when the experience of love dies.

    • @SeeBillyRun
      @SeeBillyRun 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sebastian Jimenez Bienen That's probably one of the reasons why it plays such an important role in advertising. The advertisers only have 30 secs (typically) to hook the viewer in, emotionally, to the product. With out tension, as you wrote, it stops becoming entertaining.

    • @josephvictory9536
      @josephvictory9536 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sebastian Jimenez Bienen Well, you could say that. However, in reality, uncertainty is enough for that tension. Nothing is a guarantee, no matter how predictable the person. Interestingly, if a person is predictable, they feel trustworthy. If you look at a person as predictable, you may or may not condescend them for it (because people do not like to be seen as predictable). This is a real difference that awareness creates that confuses the circumstances of the relation often creating tension. Thus its not enough to be mildly aware, its better to pay close attention otherwise you miss the details that can damage trust.
      Also, love is not about entertainment. its about trust, entertainment is what you do when you are bored, trust is what you want when you are secure and want a good future. What i mean by trust is that the person is faithful, predictable and open (according to the literature on it). However, trust to me is a bit bigger, there are three major feelings you can get with a person. Physical attraction, emotional connection and an intellectual stimulation (do they respond and invest in conversation or do they say "true, woah, ect" are you of the same mind on many topics including values?). While these give the feeling of love and are entertaining they are not trust. When physical sensations combine with emotional connection that combine with a sense of being of the same mind this creates a very powerful sensation of being in love.
      Trust is almost like the results of an economic game. How does the person respond to uncertainty and threat. Say a threat to the relationship, or a problem that arises. Its one thing to trust a persons word, which can conveniently be carved from good intentions but may be totally naive to the way they will actually respond.
      Trust therefore is their actual response. If the response is healthy (benign or belittling the personal meaning of the circumstance) or they use conflict resolution strategies whilst keeping over the top emotions out of it therefore protecting and keeping the nature of the interaction healthy even under stress. you get an experience of a person effectively dealing with a genuinely challenging situation which because of the genuine threat posed, creates trust on its resolution. By actions are greater than words, we are talking trust and not merely proof. Trust is far larger as it affects all domains of a relationship.
      So in real life there are the visceral domains of physical, emotional and intellectual and the economic domains of trust that underplays the entire interaction. From the persons perspective there are emotional positions or vibes that create immediate tension (uncertainty and enjoyment) by their interplay. There are also particulars like techniques and states that when coalesced into a flow create a very fun and enjoyable albeit momentary dynamic.

    • @sebastianjimenezbienen7045
      @sebastianjimenezbienen7045 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Love is not about entertainment, its about trust" First, let me correct myself by adding that when I say entertainment, I'm merely using an unfair, but nonetheless convenient simplification of the idea of fullness of spirit. Fullness of spirit, so the philosophers of the Platonic traditions think, only comes when one desires something one cannot have. That's exactly what falling in love is, desiring something so much your whole self is invested in it even when you know you can't have it. Now, you could very well raise the point that there are a lot of people that already have what they want but keep desiring it (people that are rich who still want more money, people that are married that are still deeply in love. etc), but the thing is that having something doesn't mean that you'll have it forever. In the best case scenario you'll have what you want until you die, but even if, you will still die, and you will lose that. The idea of falling in love then is exactly that, wanting something, someone and wanting it/he/she forever. So because you can't truly want something that you can have forever, love in this sense fundamentally relies on the possibility of loss, the possibility that it will not last forever, the possibility that there can and will most likely come an intrusion (a third party) to interrupt or even break apart the relationship.
      Now, the type of love that you are talking about, the one that is founded on trust, that's not really falling in love, that's just a deep psychological need for stability as you very well put it. Freud called the need to trust someone a need to protect the ego. So in his terms it would not be a love for the other, but a love for oneself. I mean, don't get me wrong, you can very well describe that as love, it's just not the feeling/idea described in the video, and it really doesn't fit the concept of falling in love.

    • @josephvictory9536
      @josephvictory9536 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not quite, your example of love is not love. It is desire. To love in terms of psychology refers to a very particular process but ultimately the combining of three states with the imagined process (thinking of the person in magical ways, fun together, saying their name to yourself with that feeling in your chest) of love that creates investment. I say imagined because people fall in love when they are away not in front of the person.
      Desire is not equatable with love, trust itself is not love but is integral to love just as is desire. Im not talking a fantasy here, but reality. it is a combination of several levels of emotion and reality. Also, the feeling of falling in love is different to the nature of true love.
      If desire is the foundation of love, then we would expect arranged marrages to never last if we give the partners the freedom to break up. however, they are more stable than romantic relationships. your idea sounds nice "wanting what you cannot have" but its more poetic than true to nature. Otherwise affairs would be acceptable and functional parts of a healthy relationship. Trust is the actual foundation of a loving relationship. Desire the foundation of a passionate one. Passion is not bad, but alone it is prone to tragedy. Passion held with restraint and exercised in the context of trust. Thats what separates enacting a rape fantasy with your wife (who recently read 50 shades) from actual rape (an obscene expression of desire).
      Unlike in a movie or in mere intellectual consideration, there is serious uncertainty to real life. This uncertainty presents the constant threat of loss if considered authentically. Simply because you cannot-- like the camera-- observe anothers thoughts and behaviors all day whilst simultaneously minding your own life.
      I dont think your idea of love is healthy or realistic or even authentic. just romanticised lust.
      Also, for love to be genuine it requires trust more so than any particular feeling of desire. In fact, relationships based entirely on desire fail rather fast. Trust alone is just a business or friendship but with feelings in the context of romance, it creates healthy and fulfilling love.
      I dont need an argument about having what one has. The entire idea of "having" for happiness is not even provable. What one has and what one wants are separate from the self. People who want because it fills themselves do not know what they want. What they want is to be grateful for what they have including life. Why else would they seek it? Why else can people live so happily with so little? What of the poor man who is so content to farm for his daily bread and love his wife at night?
      Those desires you talk about, the best argument i have against you is this: if we accept that love is wanting what you do not have then having an affair is an act of love and not lust. This does not measure up to reality.
      Nor is it what i think you intend to say. For one, people have a desire to be competent and autonomous as well as have a secure social environment. Once obtained, these lead to immense feelings of satisfaction from which life becomes more about living it in harmony with ones revealed purpose.
      The most valuable thing you presented, that i agree with and that i can back to some degree with literature is:
      "So because you can't truly want something that you can have forever, love in this sense fundamentally relies on the possibility of loss, the possibility that it will not last forever, the possibility that there can and will most likely come an intrusion (a third party) to interrupt or even break apart the relationship."
      All this is, is uncertainty and potentially a challenge to the relationship-- that is, a context in which genuine trust can develop.
      Just as people want to have, they also want acceptance, to be loved for who they are, not what they have or what they do despite the influence of these things.
      To summarize, you described perfectly desire and the uncertainty that accompanies it. The same uncertainty, i talk about creates trust. Arranged marriages last therefore trust is sufficient and necessary because feelings can follow but if trust isn't developed the relationship fails quickly (and most often harshly).
      Love isn't only pursuit. pursuit is the beginning, after that, its a choice day by day to be respectful of both your own personal integrity and your partners and to believe in them and their integrity. Look at them with eyes of desire and trust that their love for you is genuine and if it is, being grateful in a way that best suits the highest expression of your human spirit even if it means centering yourself and following your own dreams (after all if they love you, they want to see you do your best). It takes effort and constant attention. Its not about having it either, its just about looking at your partner with respect, admiration and love and finding it natural to maintain these domains as part of the process of what feels truly right; for yourself and for the relationship. Love is founded on trust and healthily involves compromise and is filled in completely by the feelings that accompany the subjective perception of love.
      Also, freud is right, it does arise as a need to protect the ego. But this is not bad, having an ego that is at the whims of another is extremely unhealthy. Since love creates investment, if this investment isn't secure, it can affect your personal identity and security. You dont invest money (all the time) in your lover, you invest your heart. So being secure is critical to maintaining your personal integrity and therefore being in a good position to be authentic and loving.

  • @billygoatideas
    @billygoatideas 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Watching The Pervert's Guide to Cinema when this appeared on my feed, weird that.

  • @ModestMousekateer
    @ModestMousekateer 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I think he just had a cold here and so on and so on. I've heard him speak / seen videos featuring him before, and while he has tics sort of like this, he sounded different (less nasally, e.g.) and didn't spend as much time playing with his nose, and so on and so on. I'm also really self-conscious in the winter when speaking to people outside because I feel like my nose is constantly leaking (because cold and wet often feel the same), and I think I have mucus crusting on my mustache because my nose is leaking and it's so fucking cold outside, and so on and so on. (I live in Canada, where it gets really fucking cold in the winter, and so on and so on.)

    • @ModestMousekateer
      @ModestMousekateer 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      That article seems like bullshit to me (and so on and so on). I haven't found any other article corroborating the matter of his death, let alone the details of it. Until I do read other sources, I refuse to believe he is dead. Not mention (although this is of little consequence) the fact that they got his age wrong - albeit by a single year.

    • @isleen84
      @isleen84 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's alive :) Would be all over our news since he's from Slovenia.

    • @MisterXUnleashed
      @MisterXUnleashed 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      delusionnnnn That explains a lot.

  • @Khadangasantos
    @Khadangasantos 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this guy

  • @Markus9705
    @Markus9705 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My nose started to itch during this video!

  • @sterkvangeest9397
    @sterkvangeest9397 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, the message is that we are always alone in and as Void! Let's fill it up with PHALLUS!!!!

  • @kzr_1613
    @kzr_1613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Idk wtf is he talking about here but I fucking love it 😂👍

  •  9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This being a 10th+ video I saw with Žižek, I seem to got used to his ticks and I can finally focus on what he's saying.
    His opinions always seem like from a different world. I kind of like him, even though I mostly disagree with him.

    • @liberschndt486
      @liberschndt486 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      His opinions seem like he is from a different World because he is a revolutionary, who has more of an unique sense of reality and freedom.

  • @SierraSierraFoxtrot
    @SierraSierraFoxtrot ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If anyone has a link to this Taco Bell ad, I'd be grateful.

  • @funkyboodah
    @funkyboodah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That is fucking fascinating

  • @something-uj4eq
    @something-uj4eq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I never thought I would hear Zizek say “quesadilla and burrito” lol

  • @colt4667
    @colt4667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Can you imagine if he actually had a cold?

  • @stevenmcshane5807
    @stevenmcshane5807 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It reminds me of the Reeses Peanut butter cups commercial,where the man accidentally bumps into the woman with an open jar of peanut butter and dropped his chocolate bar into her peanut butter jar.Thus they discovered the great taste of the combination 😋

  • @adnannajeeb5619
    @adnannajeeb5619 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I'll have what he's having.

  • @geekygambler2191
    @geekygambler2191 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like your funny words magic man

  • @kylebowles9820
    @kylebowles9820 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It always kinda sucked that my X had a better time when she had a vivid fantasy, not much to do with me :(
    I don't enjoy fantasy or even fiction very much so it took me a while to figure it all out

  • @thewretchedexcess3203
    @thewretchedexcess3203 8 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    lol guys i just came up with a funny joke: cocaine

  • @fisgonaciega8210
    @fisgonaciega8210 ปีที่แล้ว

    En español necesitamos estos vídeos

  • @MrIgor13
    @MrIgor13 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And so on and so on

  • @hezzajm
    @hezzajm 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This guy has a serious cold

  • @tilinapple
    @tilinapple 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i rlly wish i could understand this guy

  • @GianfrancoFronzi
    @GianfrancoFronzi 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So much is put on the sexual parts of life that we've become a real fantasy driven species . The other creatures are more structured than humans .
    This big think escaped my reason for watching it .
    What I was expecting was that eventually both sex partners tell at least one other person , in the future or immediately . So that's why we're never alone in sex .
    Unlike my situations where I've got multiple women in the room .

  • @DoloRRes
    @DoloRRes 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The combination of quesadilla and burrito

  • @Draemn
    @Draemn 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    subtitles with audio muted ....

  • @bearchildofdeath
    @bearchildofdeath 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is like that reggie watts song where people call up a hotline to confirm if they are or not having sex

    • @Vence.
      @Vence. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a fuckin crossover in this comment section

  • @cmattbacon7838
    @cmattbacon7838 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    “oar wat!”

  • @miguel666ization
    @miguel666ization 9 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    sniffing intensifies

  • @hollywooshti4943
    @hollywooshti4943 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now we are four :D

  • @briancollins1296
    @briancollins1296 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    My head feels kinda weird now. >_>

  • @Gooberpatrol66
    @Gooberpatrol66 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this guy.

  • @Gintas333
    @Gintas333 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    By the comments i see people don't know how Žižek does his thing...

  • @bottomendbliss
    @bottomendbliss 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where would we be without so on and so on

  • @SCWoodbury2009
    @SCWoodbury2009 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "They will tell you, you can't sleep alone in a strange place
    Then they'll tell you you can't sleep with somebody else
    Ah, but sooner or later you sleep in your own space
    Either way it's okay you wake up with yourself"

    • @selfhoodrenaissance9630
      @selfhoodrenaissance9630 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      for anyone interested in a partnership without a third element. Search:
      Gurdjieff, Barry Long, David R. Hawkins or Tolle.

  • @samuelnjuki
    @samuelnjuki ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I laughed at him...now i have a cold

  • @gabriellegrieco3766
    @gabriellegrieco3766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SOMETHING CALLED QUESARITO

  • @Neogarcilaso
    @Neogarcilaso 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤ 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 👌🏼

  • @christophermillerfagan1251
    @christophermillerfagan1251 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    so on and so on

  • @JohnSmith-td7hd
    @JohnSmith-td7hd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Can't say I understand this idea of his.

    • @sledgehammer5033
      @sledgehammer5033 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You have to understand the "relationship" in question here through the lens of "desire." What he is saying (and what Lacan said to an extent, though I am by no means an expert on Lacan) is that you don't desire the concrete, tangible being of your partner, but rather the desiring itself, the act of being attracted to a fantasy that you've built on top of and around the partner. This is why both he and Lacan mention the sort of paradox of the mistress in that when you are married and have a mistress you think to yourself that if you leave your wife and are with your mistress wholly that all your problems would be solved. What you would find instead would be a situation wherein you would simply be always looking for the next mistress.
      This is all to say that we desire most is desire itself. The metaphysical exercise of desiring someone or something is what we call desire and it is what drives us, under most other things. Were we to ever actually "find" what we desire we would hypothetically end up at the end of the line, a miserable emotionless husk of a human with nothing left to live for.

    • @ajmalibrahim8927
      @ajmalibrahim8927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @young : this is the point. But most people who commended seems to miss it

  • @sandeepkhairwa3300
    @sandeepkhairwa3300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    download it for free.
    Yeah, Zizek, mah Bruh!!!!

  • @shauntaxali1653
    @shauntaxali1653 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He moves at 1.5x speed

  • @aerowing73
    @aerowing73 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He's going to rub his nose off if he keeps talking!

  • @andrewbaker943
    @andrewbaker943 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always an intruder I find interesting.
    Maybe the representation of that is emergent from the amalgamating collective superego

  • @lindat.9976
    @lindat.9976 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    because ŽiŽek is also there

  • @keem005
    @keem005 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I could not finish this.. seriously.. can someone explain his point?

    • @SeeBillyRun
      @SeeBillyRun 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I had to re-read the transcript, but from what I understand in media, TV/Hollywood, there is never just the couple. There is always a third element to the sexual relationship acting on the couple that "we", the viewers, are watching. It could be an intruder (the horse E.g.), a fantasy scene (commercial E.g.s), something in the environment etc. that mediates the progress (positive/negative) of the sexual relationship.

  • @MyplayLists4Y2Y
    @MyplayLists4Y2Y 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Why do these brilliant people always have so many "tics?"

    • @ajmosutra7667
      @ajmosutra7667 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      If u explored nuff zizek u would know this...

    • @davidsoael615
      @davidsoael615 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@ajmosutra7667 So you're trying to put him down for not having investigated Zizek enough to know the particulars of his tic origin when he just asked why "brilliant people always have so many tics"? He doesn't have to go through the entirety of Zizek's bibliography to just ask a question.

    • @ajmosutra7667
      @ajmosutra7667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidsoael615 whaaaattt

  • @clumpymold
    @clumpymold 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    64: The approximate number of times he pinched his nose during this video.

  • @giorgigudiashvili4876
    @giorgigudiashvili4876 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Zizek is a smart man, really smart. But the more I listen to him the more I'm convinced that he must have some kind of a compulsive need to read too much into things. I mean, it's not that he sees these things, I think he just wants to see them so bad. And if you want to see something, you probably will but it doesn't always make it universal. I think all this has to do with his popularity. He wants to stay afloat all the time.

    • @ranjitmenon4698
      @ranjitmenon4698 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      totally right. Such bullshit passing off as philosophy is classic of today's age when you just take bits and pieces of everything - down the drainhole

    • @zbotte
      @zbotte 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      isn't philosophy itself just reading into things unnecessarily?

    • @zkcrisyee
      @zkcrisyee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@zbotte Oof. This is what you call a subversion of expectations, in this case expectations are notions of elitism inserting itself into the ontological definition of what “philosophy” should be. Or what you could call a “sick burn bro” lmao.
      Philosophers way more out there and crazier than Zizek have existed since Ancient times, and we still learn about their ideas today in universities across the world for a reason. It’s not a “problem of today’s day and age, those darn kids today”, those kind of generationally condescending platitudes have been around since immemorial times… didn’t Plato call Aristotle’s generations “lazy and lacking intellectual sense”…. Then Aristotle did the same with the generations following him, “entitled and finding meaning in useless subjects!”
      Every generation think the next one is doing crazy stuff. It’s human nature: adolescence and young adulthood are the times the brain develops in a way as to increase dopamine signalling, increase creativity, increase neurosteroids and hormones which influence behaviour greatly and the creative/revolutionary world view that accompanies it… it’s normal. And the happiest adults are those who manage to keep intellectually active and engaged, as well as engaged in societal life and don’t give into cynicism. Many great intellectuals, writers, philosophers, painters, artists, etc remained relevant and interesting into old age because they never lost that spark that went off during youth and lighted up a fire burning inside them. Fire never to be extinguished, even against the evil wind of cynicism one encounters so often as we grow older.

    • @zbotte
      @zbotte 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zkcrisyee I totally agree this was really well written

  • @jeebersjumpincryst
    @jeebersjumpincryst 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    coke?!

  • @charlestaylor8624
    @charlestaylor8624 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've never had anyone else around, or pictured in my mind anyone else around, in my love making with my partner. If Zizek means something broader by "sex," well my spouse and I have been on self-isolation 4 weeks due to Corvid-19 (we got to it early) and are quite enjoying ourselves. Then again, I can recall personal ads where couples asked for another man to join them. The error in almost all philosophy is that statements are too broad. Some may need the presence of another in their coupledom; others may not.

    • @Jamhael1
      @Jamhael1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What he tries to explain here is not simply related to sex in itself, but to other things that envolve a relationship: an enviroment (workplace, dance club, park, etc), an action (eating a dinner, watching a movie, talking about something interesting) - it is about the couple doing SOMETHING beyond "being together" that marks his thought.

  • @CptBald
    @CptBald 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    YES The guys with the BIG NOSE !!!! Cheer m8 ! Keep touching your nose MORE MOAR!!!!!!!!

  • @DavidMacDonellDHM
    @DavidMacDonellDHM 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cocaine is a hell of a drug

  • @zabooog
    @zabooog ปีที่แล้ว

    I dare anyone here to shake his hand

  • @Caligula138
    @Caligula138 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't know how his nose never turns red or peels from such constant agitation. His speech and mannerisms don't bother me though.

  • @ismireghal68
    @ismireghal68 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What does that mean for pornography? With the camera being a 3rd element.
    And also a partner being perceived more attractive in public.
    Or what a bout role play. We never want the other how he is. Sexuality wants to mix things up. Do this, i like that etc.

  • @jarijansma2207
    @jarijansma2207 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'll have what he's having.. or do I?

  • @TONIKOBLER
    @TONIKOBLER 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ok it is very interesting , but professor you need to care about your Sinusitis or psychosomatic thing

  • @sterkvangeest9397
    @sterkvangeest9397 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    We're always Alone. He's afraid of IT. Who isn't? Pinokkio?

  • @DiogoVKersting
    @DiogoVKersting 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Close your eyes.
    It sounds like an artificial voice reading somewhat random words.

    • @4ndr3w70
      @4ndr3w70 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Diogo V. Kersting Random to you just means you're not able to comprehend. So sorry.

  • @TheCakeIsNotaVlog
    @TheCakeIsNotaVlog 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ...wut?

  • @Nah_Bohdi
    @Nah_Bohdi ปีที่แล้ว

    Whats a "sexual partner"? I dont understand what any of this means.

  • @luisantolafrancis519
    @luisantolafrancis519 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yd take the idea further more in the sense there are four in sex the two in the act and their two fantasies of idealization even more a infinite especular archetipe of idealization an so on and so on ...

  • @larietournelle7904
    @larietournelle7904 ปีที่แล้ว

    neighbor ..?

  • @KnasiTaket
    @KnasiTaket 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    really don't get his point

  • @Tyler-pj3tg
    @Tyler-pj3tg ปีที่แล้ว

    And her dog

  • @elmanuki
    @elmanuki 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't really get the point

  • @11STANE11
    @11STANE11 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    was he drug addict ? i saw in Bones that this kind of behavior is telling us that he was drug addict. It was on TV it must be true

  • @TheAlva714
    @TheAlva714 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fuck! This guys manic nose rubbing is driving me insane! But his words cruise out his mouth with wisdom. He has also become an enigma! Ahhhhhhhh! Someone please...
    TIE MY SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @listofromantics
    @listofromantics 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow... The crazy panhandler outside my local grocery store makes more sense than this guy. What the what, Chief?!

    • @jonasdamion1627
      @jonasdamion1627 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      no you just aren't following what he's saying

  • @Sternertime
    @Sternertime 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    his argument here is so weak.. he just presumes that this third part is here because, you know, it just is, and so on and so on.

  • @sageryan25
    @sageryan25 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy needs to give a better example. I don't get the point he thinks he's making.

  • @OfficialRedux
    @OfficialRedux 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    what a load of hot air

  • @recabarrennahuel
    @recabarrennahuel 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mr Slavoj really needs medical help with those ticks he have. I cant pay atention to someone doing all that innecesary movement.

  • @sunsofrevolution5419
    @sunsofrevolution5419 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy is shnorting shome pretty powerful coke!! Shuckey duckey quack quack

  • @kylewit924
    @kylewit924 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have to say, that snorting nose cocain thing ye guys are talking about is pretty distracting. But his accent is really interesting. As for what he has to say, well, I haven't finished the video let me get back to you ha

    • @kylewit924
      @kylewit924 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some pretty interesting points, it is a nice and manageable idea to think of a couple always needing some external influence to keep the dynamic interesting.

  • @sekainiheiwa3650
    @sekainiheiwa3650 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Zizek switch off your television!

  • @Sternertime
    @Sternertime 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Youre never really alone with your partner *tic* because, you know, jaques lacan *tic* and some reference to obscure pop culture references *tic and so on and so on, you know, Hegel would say that this is because , and you know *tic* and as such there is this other obscure pop culture reference *tic* *tic* where this happens and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on you knw *tic*
    WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON ABOUT SLAVOJ

  • @thatsterroristsbro7855
    @thatsterroristsbro7855 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This "element" he says is needed, I suspect Jordan Peterson will have a lot to say about in their sports debate this year.

  • @OnTheRailTV
    @OnTheRailTV 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude needs to get some stank on the hang low.

  • @Bc232klm
    @Bc232klm 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Big Coke Addiction

  • @11kindpunk11
    @11kindpunk11 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He's throwing too much sex vibes..

    • @mohamedrev410
      @mohamedrev410 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      ɷɷ I Havee Watched Thisss Moviee Leakeddd Versionn Hereee : - t.co/SjZpZXw5gt

  • @Ida-Adriana
    @Ida-Adriana 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    omg

  • @jonasdamion1627
    @jonasdamion1627 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    NONE of you know what he's talking about

  • @Hyuzuka
    @Hyuzuka ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Because God is always with you 🙏🙏

  • @TheSeaflame
    @TheSeaflame 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    So much coke...

  • @scottgreen132
    @scottgreen132 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Too much coke bro

  • @enrihsan
    @enrihsan 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    lmfao