Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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“Obscene Masters” is a concept from
Slavoj Žižek, based on the Lacanian notion of “the obscene” as that which undermines the symbolic order (but also tacitly sustains it). In this short lecture I attempt to provide a brief explanation.

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