Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics | Robinson's Podcast #109

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Slavoj Žižek is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University, and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s Department of Philosophy. He and Robinson discuss a great many things, including the role of psychoanalysis in the cultural criticism of wokeness, the relationship between truth, science, and philosophy, and what quantum theory might tell us about the nature of reality. OUTLINE 00:00 Introduction 04:07 Wokeness and Psychoanalysis 15:00 Free Speech and Curb Your Enthusiasm 23:32 Trans Ideology and Racism 41:06 Fate, Freedom, and Falling in Love 53:08 Truth, Science, and Quantum Theory 57:22 Nazis, the Jew, and Psychoanalysis 01:04:26  Unholy Alliances 01:17:27 World War III and Ontological Openness 01:31:01 A Dirty Joke about Quantum Theory 01:34:14 Nazi Testicle Torture Robinson’s Website: ⁠http://robinsonerhardt.com⁠ Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.  (Photo by Matt Carr/Licensed from Getty Images)