Björn and Luís stumble through the first chapter of Slavoj Žižek's The Sublime Object of Ideology - "How did Marx invent the Symptom?"

The talk explores the short-circuit happening between Marx' critique of capitalism and Freud's discovery of the unconscious, tracing how this dynamic interplay stages a theatrical unfolding of concepts like commodity, real abstraction, symptom, and objective belief, among others.

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