German Idealism and Psychoanalysis – A Lacanian Perspective. A conversation with Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Mladen Dolar. Friday, April 20th, 2012. 6:30 p.m.
Deutsches Haus, New York’s leading institution for culture and language of the German-speaking world. Located in the historic Greenwich Village district, Deutsches Haus is an integral part of New York University.
The weight of an event provided by its symbolic inscription SUBLATES the event’s immediate reality:
The Peloponnesen war took place so Thucydides could write a book about it. From the standpoint of the Absolute it is the book that matters.
Other truly great works of Art:
Shakespeare was humanity’s Absolute gain of the Elizabethan era
Hitchcock’s masterpieces were the absolute gain that humanity derived from the vicisitudes of Eisenhower period
How to read this subordination of reality to its narrativization: contingent materialist process
Wolfman: the absolute gain to humanity was Freud’s case study
Link between GI and P. Frankfurt School: Habermas Interest and Human Knowledge
Basic matrix is the homology of Hegelian process of alienation and overcoming through mediation and Freudian process of repression and overcoming.