Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What is “The Plague of Fantasies”. In this video I attempt to provide a short explanation of Slavoj Žižek’s engagement with Petrarch’annotion of the plague of phantasms, Lacan’s theory of fantasy, the difference between the pervert, the obsessional neurotic, and the psychotic. And finally why the ethical imperative of capitalism is to enjoy.

Thanks for watching,

Julian

Thumbnail: Stańczyk by Jan Matejko (or, the troubled jester)

#slavojzizek #zizek #philosophy #lacan #psychoanalysis