Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Perversion is the main symptom of contemporary postmodern life. In this video I explain how Žižek’s distinction between hysteria and perversion relates to the “polymorphous” postmodern subject, and the rise of perverted figures of parental authority like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate.

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