Full Lecture: Žižek’s Love without the Fall

[@wolfiedude14]

It's baffling how someone can make lectures like this and just provide them freely these days, sometimes I'm just in awe at how there are these niche communities of genuine learning. This lecture was phenomenal, unpacks so much out of what is initially a very brief idea in popular representation of Zizek. Awesome work man.

[@julianphilosophy]

This is the nicest and most genuine comment! Thank you for “getting it”!

[@pieterkock695]

its not 'baffling', its a very good lecture, and 100% appreciated and many 'youtubers' do make money from it, by patrons and often adverts, it's a business model that works, just like schools and shops work. Also, you can walk into many universities around the world and follow lectures for free. Nothing baffling about it. Its not like they just do it for you. Without money it would stop just like most things would stop.

[@dyowe518]

@@pieterkock695 “baffling” is subjective bro slow your roll

[@pieterkock695]

​@@dyowe518 yeah Einstein bro. just mega wordhyperinflation tho.

[@stathispanayiotopoulos9800]

​@@pieterkock695that's subjective

[@ericacollins4581]

Love has been on my mind so much lately

[@strategoclownery389]

This was potentially the best video I've ever seen. There were so many new interesting ideas to see the connection between all of them in the end was crazy! Thanks

[@ekeneam3644]

this was amazing. These are concepts I've battled with understanding for unknowable amounts of time, and to have them clarified and interconnected so clearly is mind blowing. I'm floored, and will be returning for this very monday. thank you

[@kimodify]

I feel pretty lucky to have discovered your channel, down to earth in a simple style that Chomsky would love! Just joined your Patreon and excited for your upcoming content.

[@julianphilosophy]

This was the first thing I saw upon my asking up this morning. 😊Truly, thank you so much and Welcome to the patreon community! Do send me a message if you have any questions.

[@niharika2846]

Thank you for making Hegel less daunting in such a fun manner. I enjoyed it so much through and through

[@charlie3k]

I was about to go to sleep until this video came across my KZbin feed. Julian, thank you so much for the philosophy of love! This is perhaps one of my favorite lectures from you yet. My mind is absolutely blown away from the Hegelian perspective of what Love is. You’re such an amazing teacher, I’m so glad you exist and that I came across your channel. You have seriously changed my world view :) “Essence only arises from the fall into appearance itself.”

[@zohaibzafar-r1h]

Hello Julian, I am from Pakistan. I am a Math student but i love channels that simplify philosophical concepts like these for me to understand.

[@mariasteeneveldt7217]

Erich Fromm's idea that love is an art you should attempt to perfect as any other craft, seems to hold some truth that the idea of simply 'falling' for another lacks. In the process of falling one falls into an illusion, and when the bubble of the inital infatuation brusts, the love that seemingly was there, is feeble, nothing more than a desperate attempt to escape into the other

[@MyWritingJourney9]

Absolutely!! Ive read Erich Fromm but it didnt come to mind when seeing this video. Thank you for this! I think also that Fromm was saying what must be and Zizek is saying what is.

[@AM-sw9di]

Thank you for your lecture, I find accessing the internal via the external, reality via fantasy a very interesting theory. It's actually quite frustrating to me as someone who is much too preoccupied with finding 'truth' (no matter how much I try to rationalise it out of existence and in itself is a fantasy of mine). It seems that every day I am surrounded by images and fantasies, from the design of a shirt, photos on Instagram, a character in a book, assumptions about others, projections, etc. Their individual messages are so cryptic and fluid that I want to completely deny all of them and live in a world that's purely function, but that's unbareable and defeats function or any reason to. Now I'm in love I find myself embracing these cryptic images and fantasies whether I want to or not, I can't deny them because being in love is not under my control. Neither is creativity, a lot of things you talked about in regards to love can also be applied to the creation of art! When you are really in creative flow you are not in control of what comes out of you (only whether you take part, like how you can't fight love but you can run away), which can be simultaneously mortifying and sublime. It can be an erotic experience for sure, and to achieve it a part of you has to 'die' momentarily, the same or similar part of you that fears falling in love (which is why I feel more connection to my art while I'm in love!). I think I can apply this erotic experience to what you called 'love of wisdom', there is an invigoration and falling quality to philosophical revelation, a sublime moment when you discover a theory or observe something that makes you reevaluate everything and opens the world to you in a new and fantastical way. Anyway I apologise for the ramble, I will certainly be watching more of your lectures!

[@coolcommiedrew5990]

This was an amazing lecture. I never sit around for hour long philosophy chats, but this was worth every second. Thank you for making this information accessible

[@julianphilosophy]

Wow, thank you so much for this comment, truly. If you’re interested in listening to more of these might I recommend my patreon where I post the audio for a new lecture every week? Link: www.patreon.com/jenalineandjulian

[@HydroHunt3r]

Since the start of the year, I've been hooked by philosophy at the perhaps too old of an age at 26. Your videos, this one in particular, made that "fire" so much more fierce. I can't wait to dive into Hegel and others deeper. I appreciate your hard work, Julian.

[@julianphilosophy]

Amazing! And you’re not too old at all 😊

[@thekajalflaneur]

I had that oh shit problem with a hookup. I fell into love. But it was unrequited. I created this channel and made six albums to explore who I fell in love with. As you say, I realised, it was all training wheels for the real thing which one day will come. Thankyou for these, they have saved my soul, my heart from further pain. I am okay now, almost. 🙏✨

[@philcollinslover56705]

I'll check your music out

[@blackplague-x3y]

I think the internet has certainly changed the ways we "fall" in love. What interesting, and problematic, is we are technically writing "love letters" before we are acquainted. Its so easy to fall for someone's words and then realize it was all in your imagination, when all you are doing is exchanging signs through a keyboard your mind fills in all the gaps.

[@detasa2927]

As a german i must say your pronunciation of german philosophical terms are on point.

[@sfcull]

He is fluent in German, more so than English I believe

[@Itachi52496]

Hey Julian, also Julian here! Just wanted to say im glad to have found you and sincerely appreciate your analysis and content on Zizek!

[@ryan_c_letsgo]

this was so good!!! i love the feeling of starting to understand all these seemingly disparate concepts in zizek and how they all connect -- seriously appreciated!!

[@user-il9ze9py8c]

Love your work man! Real fucking bummer though.

[@noelimmermann9670]

Wow just wow. I fell in love with someone about 2 weeks ago and you described exactly what it feels like. The feeling of falling in love is so new to me, i haven’t experienced anything like it in my life and i am 23. Tomorrow comes after the fall (Hopefully), i am going to ask her out.

[@renato.p.trindade]

So inspiring thanks

[@renato.p.trindade]

Brasil ❤

[@sebleblan]

start at 6:20

[@wodidos]

I found the idea of not being present when intensely thinking very interesting. As somebody with adhd, when hyperfocus hits you, you can almost become deaf to the world around you. You forget how uncomfortably you’re sitting or standing and only when you snap out of it you realize that your back hurts from staying almost frozen in the same position. Maybe Socrates had adhd?

[@luluwazarzar2850]

I couldn’t make it to the live, joining from Syria, thank you as always for a great great lecture❤️

[@julianphilosophy]

Greetings back to Syria! That’s incredible

[@hyperrealhank]

starts at 6:12 kzbin.info/www/bejne/en7YmXSijb52oa8

[@sagnikmukherjee3748]

Thanks for your existing!

[@julianphilosophy]

Wow, thank you for existing 😍

[@sagnikmukherjee3748]

But f... I wish this was easier

[@thethikboy]

The romantic swoon is the invention of the romantic poets. Though some of them are less romantic like Shakespear - '"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments." His one play that deals with Romantic Love , Romeo and Juliet ends in disaster. "We are all punished,"

[@sealedindictment]

Arthur Schopenhauer and Noam Chomsky just entered the chat

[@13hansonr]

you the man!

[@bezawitgetahun427]

I am not Catholic at all....but it strikes me how most points here seem to be none other than the core principles of Christian orthodoxy-- starting first with the fact that sexual promiscuity is the comodification of pleasure which is the enemy of true love which can only be found in sacrifice and suffering and the end in which there is the emphatic assertion that one cannot access life except to a living death. Is that not just "one cannot access the father except through me", which is to say Christ-like sacrifice of self is the only way to access metaphisicical transcendence? Even the Hegelian idea that the one accesses the metaphysical in the object itself rather than in transcending it seems to me to be "one cannot hate their neighbor and love me"-- that a relationship with the metaphysical (God) can only be accessed through one's relationship with the object (the neighbor/humanity). Further, when Christ says "my yoke is easy and my burden is light" and yet previously says "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than a rich man to heaven" isn't this just the idea that there is a "fall" required in which man must relinquish themselves and carry a cross, which paradoxically leads them to true lightness/happiness and fulfillment?

[@amorphis150]

44:48 that is a Moomin mug!

[@heitorgervasio7813]

Brazil !!!

[@thatoneguywhoraps]

@18:03 I, as a matter of fact, do not feel like I'm "in touch with God" when I have sex

[@AlBundy287]

Jesus...video has put me in a weird place

[@jgeorge415]

that was [sic]

[@waverick1372]

🤯❤❤❤

[@abdullahiji8642]

I want love without the kissing!

[@ComradeDt]

Ahhaha he said zadiya

[@mr.j8900]

Do you need a comb?

[@lukefisch1918]

lol let him be

[@lungilesithole1463]

Lol. Zizek fiddles with his nose, let Julian be!

[@chadpilled7913]

You have a nicely decorated room, but I will say I don't think very much of this talk related to love between humans very much at all. Kant was a volcel and Freud was a sexual pervert/predator who would get metood if he was alive today. Hegel I don't know much about. Socrates of course has his famous quote about having a bad wife and becoming a philosopher.