Spirit is a Bone

Ep. 6: From Symptom to Sinthome in Slavoj Žižek “The Sublime Object”


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What is a symptom? Luís and Björn continue their journey through Slavoj Žižek’s first book “The Sublime Object” traversing Freud, Lacan and plenty of social and cultural examples from Kafka, Wagner, Joyce, Josquin Desprez and theorists like Carlo Ginsburg, Erwin Panofsky, Georges Didi-Huberman, Mladen Dolar, Robert Pfaller, Gilles Deleuze and Lawrence Kramer…They explore ways of interpreting the symptom from meaningful to meaningless and its relation to enjoyment.



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