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Go to an UFC event, get a press pass and ask fighters questions in this vein. It would be a bit like (y/t channel) Meditations for the anxious mind but unironic. That Aldo fight was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in sports and he was already riding his own wave by that point.

Real talk

Never a surprise when fighters are also complete morons.

Mcgregor Analysis: Another MMA Anti-social personality.

Man. I'm a big fight fan, fighter myself and a fan of your work. Thanks a lot for this. Watching.

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Are we all gonna gloss over the billy eilish comment? 😂

haha, thought maybe for a second this was about Cassirer :) great video nonetheless Julian!

"Being ladylike is a bit like being powerful; if you have to say you are, you probably aren't."

One flew over the cuckoos nest

Thoroughly enjoyable Thankyou.

So that's why overcompensation of masculinity in fear of emasculatation is reeking of emasculatation itself. And I think this relates to what Julian said about friendship, that it's precisely when it cannot be explained or propeely defined is when it is the most real. If it becomes salient, it looses it's potency. Same with purpose, if one seeks it, it cannot be found.

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5:38 totally agree

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great explanation, thanks

This sounds rather like Reformed Evangelicalism to me, whereby the impotent (in the face of omnipotence) must then choose to obey and even enjoy doing so, the lack simply pointing back to their own sinful nature.

Something else from Kant's ethics: Never consider a person as a means to an end, but consider persons as ends in themselves. I would like to for the sake of my own enticement to suggest that the friend disclose their motivations as the reason the they are telling them in part, because they would like to see them split up. And for what reason (what that may be, could be varied). The harm of course could be that, this now becomes the reason they split up and not so much because her partner is cheating on her. She, if she is being honest would disclose this. I can see this spiral into more and more 'juicy" motivations and more disclosure. The stuff of therapy and soap operas.

i wonder how the hell I've survived to my mid 70s. My poor father was in no position to be a symbol of authority. He was dirt poor and uneducated.

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the vanishing mediator! I knew it!

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Please cover Alena Zupanic on her stance on her understanding reading of Antigone, by Sophocles.

So a well rounded intellect is required in order to be happy which requires study that is almost impossible with all the mindless distraction the modern world provides

So Neiches self made man being relitive to its self is constituted by motives rather then ambition.. To reject ambition for motives would require a well rounded intellect which almost nobody aquires until old age

great lecture!

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Hello Julian, have you thought about talking about the philosophy of Max Stirner?

This whole hypothesis relies on the premise that "the figure of parental authority actually helps child to access its true enjoyment". Is there any proof that child while doing what it pleases is not enjoying itself? No! The whole premise relies on the authority of the psychoanalyst (who is "supposed to know") and a linguistic play with words (le nom - le non). All Julian wants is to castrate your desire, he wants you to be docile and let others think for you. He wants you to fight for your own submission to a capitalist state and repay installments of the imposed infinite debt.

This is the best explanation available on youtube 👌🏾 straight to the point… easy to understand

Made my day thank you

Very beautifully said Julian. It is of great value to learn how others have perceived, experienced and expressed the world around them throughout history, and for where we can find similarities and differences to ourselves. Through this great weaving of ideas, perceptions and experiences we can participate in the world building of our present.

Julian, ive lost my father when i was 4 y/o. Not going into details, this event had profound negative effectsnin my life. What would lacan or zizek say aboit this. About losing your father in childhood?

Ans of course the freudian prohibition that the father represents is against the incestious desire of the child to be with the mother which lacan characterizes as a metaphor that allows the child to reject psychosis and enter the world - namely the symbolic order Thats some deep stuff

As someone who has struggled under liberal parenting, this video has been very useful. Thank you, Julian.

a good father pulls out because it is better to have not been born

Correction and apologies: upon further reflection I realize that I somewhat misrepresented Žižek’s example about the child meant to visit the grandmother. I erroneously claimed that the child is offered a “choice”, when in fact Žižrk’s position is more nuanced: the child is told that they are “supposed to want” to visit the grandmother. This is symptomatic (for Žižek) of the way in which in a supposedly permissive society social domination is outsourced to the nominally free subject, who is “supposed to want” to dominate himself on behalf of the silent/hidden authority. I see now that I missed this crucial dimension in my video, and I’ve been feeling rather badly about it. Hope this comment serves to rectify this somewhat. Apologies. Julian Ps: I’ll do a longer and more nuanced take in tomorrow’s livestream. You can join me here at 9am USA PT.

We can now sit back and enjoy this fathers day appreciating all the times we were scolded and told, No. And perhaps question our existence for all the times we were allowed to act with all abandon against their will 😂

Thank you Julian, always looking forward to one of your videos

1:50 zizek said the liberal parent says “if you don’t go it will make your grandma very upset” not that he just has the option. He meant there’s still force and the kid still has to go

I’ve assumed that the perverted stance on that issue would be the opposite than the adult child obsessing over satisfying the father. Ive assumed the enjoyment mechanism would come to a pervertion of the structure for an adult to maintain spite to his understanding of the father, for a person supposedly capable of self definition to check with himself what would oppose the authority he imagines his father still has, thus maintaining it as a symbol to endlessly try and spite

it's interesting to consider Lacan's idea of prohibition and jouissance in terms of post-modern and neo-liberal politics. Today the left wing so heavily pushs an idea that as long as we continue to deconstruct and demolish prohibitory social systems we will be free. Yet the more we do this the more un-free we feel. imo it should be more about replacing the signifier of the father with something which better fits the needs of a post-modern society, instead of demolishing these things completely and stoping there. The university has been a target of left wing protest recently, just as it has in the past, and instead of advocating for a development of universities and how higher education institutions in general function in the west, the goal mostly is to demolish them in favour of a 'grass-roots' education. Yet at the same time, universities have historically been one of the greatest existing formal institutions that have contributed to and developed left wing political thought and the numerous social issues that encompasses, granting these issues formal recognition. There seems to be a big lack of understanding today on what 'revolution' should look like and how prohibition does not mean oppression. Zizek has a good quote about Lacan's views of the 1968 protests, and how what the students unknowingly were fighting for was a new master. It's better to just be upfront about that, instead of advocating for a completely unrestricted society.

I look forward to these, thanks Julian!

Great video!

Yo Julian, thoughts on Alain Badiou?

awesome!