Slavoj Zizek - Lacan's Surplus Enjoyment, With Examples

The idea of surplus pleasure is described in this video in a basic way without Lacanian jargon, followed by examples from Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Hitchcock movies, and other sources, on how the phenomenon of surplus enjoyment manifests in the world.

[@4grammaton]

The day before your birthday is always better than your actual birthday,

[@Quinceps]

And the imperfection of your comma should stay right there.

[@nightoftheworld]

_”Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”_ -Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque; 1881

[@dawnkeyy]

@@Quinceps But if only he removed the comma, the comment would be perfect.

[@gustavogalvan2592]

@@dawnkeyy Let us enjoy with the idea of the perfect comment.

[@Rajo7777777]

I didn't even start watching the video and what you said kind of gave me a grasp on the idea lol

[@Sandvich18]

Zizek the kinda guy who would say "I just hope both teams have fun"

[@SPACEDOUT19]

8:00 this is how i feel about going to the gym and getting more muscle etc

[@addammadd]

I have watched so many Žižek lectures that I thought I had already comprehended his project. Since I began reading his works, I realize that his lectures are masterful explanations of his writing but to only watch and not read gives less than half of the understanding (to me; perhaps others are better read on the peripheral subjects he discusses. I’m just a plebeian veteran with a culinary degree trying to fix his brain so wtf do I know)

[@BRABMA1]

What of his work you recommend for reading? Thanks

[@HakWilliams]

its Ziz, we know there will be examples!

[@mellonclarinet4303]

I just come here for his pronunciation of lacan (lacong)

[@christosbinos8467]

This was very informative

[@patrickdaly3628]

Like Marc Maron said THE BEST part of a cocaine high is on the ride to go get more cocaine

[@FunerealObsession]

Wish the master volume was higher; even maxing out the volume bar it's kinda hard to make out.

[@Lavl-dq2tk]

I like how it ends mid-sniff

[@FG-fc1yz]

ZUR MEHRLUST 7:56 ab 8:30 super Beispiel MEHRLUST (shoppen, Einkäufe zum Auto tragen und vor den Nachbarn verstauen etc.): es geht nicht um den einfachen Genuss, den das Produkt / Event verspricht, sondern um die Erwartung / das Versprechen des [vollen] Genusses; es geht um den Prozess, um die FORM des Konsums (Exzess des Inhalts) und nicht um den positiv zu benennenden Inhalt (auch: Folgen eines Führers, Besuchen eines Events, Heirat etc.); über positiven Gehalt hinaus ist das Leben um diesen rein formalen Exzess (das "Drumherum") zentriert (und davon angetrieben), den Lacan den realen Kern des Lebens (jouissance) nennt; die Erwartung an den vollen Genuss bleibt immer eine Erwartung, aber gerade das niemals voll zu Befriedigende (und somit das Scheitern daran) macht das Begehren begehrenswert (jouissance)

[@flynnjaman]

Ty, Von Trier

[@Shushubearwhoo]

that would have been a great scene. why would it be too obscene?

[@jetblack8250]

Anyone know the title of the book he references at the very beginning?

[@InsaneShape]

I guess it’s „The Capitalist Unconscious“ by Samo Tomšič

[@matthewfrazier9254]

Zeezex me up baby

[@barrym3651]

Could anyone recommend an introductory on his work . I have little philosophy training but have science background

[@benthebenevolent1001]

I can't say I've read too extensively about or from Zizek, but I found a book called Zizek And His Contemporaries gave an interesting story of his experience in politics and philosophy which coloured his thinking. The more abstract stuff like the Lacanian and Hegelian facets of his thought would have to come from books like The Sublime Object of Ideology (for the former influence) and The Most Sublime Hysteric (for the latter influence). But it is hard to choose from his range of +50 books.

[@sbeerman1919]

The puppet and the dwarf is a great book in his short circuit series, also his movies Zizek!, the perverts guide to cinema, and the perverts guide to ideology

[@addammadd]

Insofar as (he himself would say) he’s written the same book over and over for 30+ years, you’re probably good with getting The Sublime Object of Ideology. That said, you’ll want to have a reasonable understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Adorno/Horkheimer’s take(s) on culture, Althusser’s take on Ideological State Apparatuses etc, Marxian and Hegelian dialectics, and probably just a general understanding of how to read laterally while you’re digesting this work because it’s a goddamn explosion of ideas.

[@kaimarmalade9660]

I really hope that Wal-Mart shit isn't true. That's some Hot Dog Soup shit af.

[@franciscamarin779]

Don’t you think is funny he is wearing a t-shirt with the UK flag? I think he barely cared lol

[@skstan1965]

The one or two kilos too much are the wrinkles that function to catch the excess that makes the beloved more beautiful than perfection, according to Benjamin. #reeducatezizek

[@oswurth8774]

Who’s Benny??

[@thenowchurch6419]

"To Me do ye reverence ! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss." Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law 3: 62.

[@farrider3339]

👁️ 🔮 He spoke true.. Man not escape pain Man search pain and misery

[@25usd94]

omg Slavoj Zizek is #NazBol??? GANG

[@ashraykotian1]

7:10 I get what Zizek means from this but isn’t it also the case that the generation of such a slip would be actually be counterproductive to his “ethical duty” later on in the bed. The slip only brings out his musings and makes him embarrassed about this whole thing, which would actually make him too conscious to perform well sexually. The slip then defeats the purpose and therefore its reason to be there (quoted by Zizek) actually does not make a lot of sense.