Žižek on How to Be Free/How to be a subject

[@julianphilosophy]

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[@posanijaswanth7274]

In all of your clips, your able to unite and explain such diverse concepts so easily. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@posanijaswanth7274]

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[@subhabratabanerjee5201]

There are so many shades of Vedanta in Zizek's philosophy

[@tavo6496]

Ironically, Zizek would call that a disgusting idea 🤣 I agree with you though

[@Rivulets048]

Love the way you sneak in always already to these videos

[@unusualpond]

This was awesome. Thank you so much for your videos.

[@pobblebonk3]

This raises the question of whether the traversal is ever possible without an analysis. I suspect not, although those exceptions such as it is argued Joyce is, may prove the rule.

[@norasummer4846]

Brilliant. I now want to read some book about this.

[@Desperation--Live]

Your best video so far Hope that doesn't kill the channel ;)

[@ahmedmusa5103]

As someone with symptoms of social anxiety, this is both helping but hurting. The so called social rules or perceptions that I want to follow only exist in my head, and hence I am already free from the rules, but my perception of the Other, even if distorted, still carries a hint of truth I think. Am I truly free? To say that I am free is to say that my perception of the Other is devoid of reality, that would not be free, it would be insane.

[@JuanHugeJanus]

No, that IS reality - but easier said than done

[@SisypheanRoller]

The rules, as understood, are in your head and are what we refer to as "folk psychology," or the innate understanding we have of others. Something being in your head does not nullify its effect. You are still acting and reacting to the space of possibilities determined by those rules. In fact, you are right in that we are working with approximate rules because we can never fully predict howy others will act all the time. That said, my understanding is that you are free precisely when you grasp and relish this fundamental uncertainty. You are freed by the very lack of control you have over others (and nature).

[@canreadandsee]

I am curious about how the concept of “free” vs “unfree” as universals that one claims to know but never experiences as such came into being in the first place. In my understanding, “free” or “unfree” presuppose something one is free or unfree “from” or “of.” In this binary, one cannot be just free or unfree as such. But nonetheless being free has a rather positive connotation. However, to me, this has to do with feelings rather than knowledge. I hope this doesn’t sound like a sophism but fighting the feeling of being unfree from something gives it more power over you-whatever you think you are or others of you. Here I would oppose Zizek-if I got him right-that one’s liberation through the realization that one is a (mental) construct of oneself as well as to and from others does not go to the end. The concept of freedom itself already sets the boundaries of and predetermines the binary outcome of that struggle. In analogy to the core atheist notion about the existence of god, speaking of freedom and all its ontological “implications” therefore shouldn’t make sense at all but be a nice intellectual exercise.

[@srbislavn]

Žižek is very modest intellectual mildly said , he is other people's invention like that Harare guy .

[@dinodracula24]

Not to drag any of your other clips but this is the clearest you’ve ever been in a breakdown. Well done. I grock this in full. You can take this one step further, and think about the fantasy of who you think you are based on someone else’s perception of you… And apply it towards social media and the worlds obsession being performative - so that they can somehow influence the perceived opinion of others. But it’s really just a self masturbation of your own illusion.

[@gdanio89]

I recommend also book Solaris by Stanisław Lem.

[@siddhartacrowley8759]

Lem😍

[@Cheiiik]

Reaching this emancipation, realizing this - truely realizing it, not just saying or writing it - is supposed to be the result of psychoanalysis for Lacanians, right ? This is not something that can simply be achieved by reading some kind of guide.

[@viktorsboroviks5322]

There are other ways. Achieving this exact practical realization is the only purpose of zen buddhism, for example.

[@syedadilhasan9926]

We free like wild animals bound by our own materialistic and expectations to behave according to the perceived person done by other person who won't remain in your life but you still adopt his manner for your future self but it doesn't matter you can be complete noone which is the real you do however you feel nd you shall feel free in things like so normal but your can feel the presence of life within that's you, you are just complete personal of your mind which limits you and also your body but your soul set you free your soul knowd itself it's yours subconscious where you say whatever your mind makes in such a way it's your superficial ego birth from which doesn't mean it's fake it's just your own projection and your consciousness helps you to change that in such a way coz it see things in third perspectives moreover

[@DJWESG1]

Freedom only exists in the minds and lives of those who can afford to be free. The majority of ppl know they are bound by structures and rules.

[@vuksha_yo]

No one is really free from structures and rules. For you will find that even If you have enough money to " be free ", you will then have to create your own rules and structure so that your life can still be meaningful and fulfilling. So I would argue that true freedom is just a choice in which way you will be unfree. But ultimate freedom just leads to meaninglessness.

[@DJWESG1]

@@vuksha_yo to afford something can mean many thing, its not simply a reference to money, power or capital, although it encompasses all three of these things. and yes, to be free would be meaningless in any regard, that person is insane.

[@Sandvich18]

so: do not be a slave to the big other but do not pretend it doesn't exist; shape the big other according to your will and follow it?

[@djhardcorehengst6356]

Yea strive to follow ideas and guidelines you're consciously choosing again and again

[@corrupted6683]

Yoo Jules, have you heard of Ernst Bloch? I think he's very underrated as a philosopher

[@JuanHugeJanus]

How many years have eastern philosophy known this?

[@benzur3503]

Time is an illusion

[@benzur3503]

Also i havent encountered eastern discussions of the truth in appearance as appearance and not only its falsehood as one. Though i didnt read many at all, would love if you do know some and could point me at em

[@JuanHugeJanus]

@@benzur3503 How would you then get enlighten if appearances wasn't truth also? If you begin with the Heart sutra you have already come far. As Rinpoche Zopa would say: "If you don't know the Heart sutra, you are really really blind, - real blind!" One thing is to write the essence as Zizik does another is to embody this knowledge

[@benzur3503]

@@JuanHugeJanus wmbodiers aren’t necessarily the best teachers. Writers spread that stuff better

[@JuanHugeJanus]

@@benzur3503 Writers spead that stuff better.... begin with HC Andersens the first 5 years

[@TheRealNickG]

Listen to Zizek about freedom?..... I would prefer not to 😂 Just kidding. Thanks for the great lesson.

[@coprographia]

If I see one more video thumbnail of a Slavoj Zizek interview or lecture for a video that features anything but Slavoj Zizek speaking, I’m going to start picking off KZbinrs.

[@ham.ster1997]

chill dude

[@vinix333]

😢😢