Slavoj Žižek presents: ‘From Freud's Death Drive to Hegelian Dialectics’

Opposing the notions of death drive (Todestrieb) as biological instinct, cosmic principle, Nirvana-like release, and self-annihilating impulse, Žižek highlights instead the Lacanian notions of repetition automatism, excess negativity, ‘undead’ eternal life, and symbolic mortification. He provides useful applications of a series of related Lacanian ideas - the lamella, the zone between two deaths, and the ethical dimension of the death drive - and extends these via a set of philosophical conceptualizations: self-relating negativity, negative inherence & death drive as non-historicizable.
Slavoj Žižek is a Philosopher and Psychoanalytic social theorist. He is Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London; Distinguished Scholar at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul; and Visiting Professor at the German Department, New York University. His field of work comprises Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, dialectical-materialist metaphysical interpretations of German Idealism and Marxian critique of ideology. His more than sixty books in English have been widely translated. His latest publications include 'Hegel in a Wired Brain', 'Sex and the Failed Absolute', 'Like A Thief In Broad Daylight', 'Reading Marx', 'Incontinence of the Void', 'The Day After the Revolution', 'Heaven in Disorder', 'Reading Hegel', 'Surplus-Enjoyment' and 'Žižek Responds!'.

[@LepenskiVir]

Seriously, this lecture (if I may say so?), is both dire and awakening. I don't know much about Hegel, but listening to Zizek, he comes very much alive and real. Thank you Simon Gros for uploading.

[@donaldissitt1082]

Is this an excerpt from a longer recording?

[@SimonGros]

This is the entire recording I got, with a few seconds cut at beginning and end for listener's pleasure.