Slavoj Zizek – Surplus-Enjoyment

Who is Slavoj Zizek? For some the most dangerous philosopher in the
West, for others the most famous person from Slovenia after Melania
Trump. Is Slavoj Zizek even Slavoj Zizek? Or is he - as he claims
of all of us - just an actor portraying a certain image of himself?
In any case, Slavoj Zizek is a pop star. Because he still questions
capitalism. Because he has an almost romantic view of love. Because
he radically thinks the teachings of psychoanalysis through to the
end. His new book has just been published: „Surplus-Enjoyment. A
Guide for the Non-Perplexed”. Visiting the FREIHEIT DELUXE studio,
Slavoj Zizek experiences a Slovenian-Croatian homecoming. Together,
Jagoda Marinic and Slavoj Zizek go in search of the "true Balkans".
They venture into difficult territory when they analyze the failure
of woke ideologies and ask about the possible benefits of
authoritarian leadership. They shed light on why identity politics
does not help in the class struggle. And they peek into the abysses
of love and desire. Slavoj and Jagoda - a multilingual encounter of
a very special kind! Here you hear... how Slavoj describes an
unholy alliance between the woke left and the Alt-Right (3:40) and
why debates about toilets created the space for Trump (8:55) why
some on the left really wept over the Trump mob storming the
Capitol (11:35) Slavoj provocation #1: why we need a little more
authoritarian rule (17:16) why #MeToo goes further than Marxism
(24:38) what you can learn from porn (26:39) how Slavoj describes
his almost romantic notion of love (32:56) why Slavoj likes
Rammstein and why this provocation doesn’t work (43:00) where the
real Balkans are (48:00) how Slavoj survived his own psychoanalysis
(50:01) and why we are all just acting Slavoj provocation #7: the
great praise of politeness and sincere hypocrisy (52:45) why we
should all be more confused (1:03:35) what has become of the good
old working class and how capitalism should be criticized today
(1:06:00). Here is the translation of the conversation and a
machine-generated transcript of the English original:
https://download.hr2.de/podcasts/freiheit_deluxe/zizek-transkript-100.pdf
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