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109 - Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics

109 - Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics

Robinson's Podcast vor 3 Jahren

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Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute
for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting
professor at New York University, and a senior researcher at the
University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy. He and
Robinson discuss a great many things, including the role of
psychoanalysis in the cultural criticism of wokeness, the
relationship between truth, science, and philosophy, and what
quantum theory might tell us about the nature of reality.

OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode…

01:31 Introduction

04:07 Wokeness and Psychoanalysis

15:00 Free Speech and Curb Your Enthusiasm

23:32 Trans Ideology and Racism

34:23 Violence, Gender, and the Unconscious

41:06 Fate, Freedom, and Falling in Love

48:53 Free Association and Gender Identity

53:08 Truth, Science, and Quantum Theory

57:22 Nazis, the Jew, and Psychoanalysis

01:04:26 Unholy Alliances

01:07:20 Analytic and Continental Philosophy

01:17:27 World War III and Ontological Openness

01:23:25 Life is a Quantum Theory Video Game

01:27:27 Hegel and Quantum Theory

01:31:01 A Dirty Joke about Quantum Theory

01:34:14 Nazi Testicle Torture

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Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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