2024-05-06
39 分钟Today we talk about a potential way to find meaning for someone prone to postmodern subjectivity. We talk about surplus enjoyment. Zizek's alcohol use, or lack thereof. Resisting surface level consumption. Love. And failure. Sponsors: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS https://www.AuraFrames.com Use code PT at checkout to save $30! Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow
Hello, everyone, I'm Stephen west.
This is philosophize this.
So we're going to be connecting a lot of dots today.
From the last five episodes of the show we've been talking about Slava Zizek.
Highly recommend listening to those before this one.
You obviously don't have to, but just know, outside of a short recap about what's been said, I'm not going to be re explaining lacanian desire, dialectics, absolute knowledge, postmodern subjectivity.
But you'll need to know what these are to get the most out of this episode.
I put them out there.
They're all there for you to enjoy.
Check them out if you want to.
Now, that said, slava Zizek says that the postmodern subject we talked about all last episode, when they fully take on this way of looking at the world, supposedly without grand narratives to make sense of things, that person usually has about three choices at their disposal, he says, for how they can live their life from here on out.
And as he says, they often oscillate between these three choices, just depending on what position they're in in life, how frustrated they are, etcetera.
The first choice a postmodernist has is just to burn out.
We can all relate to this one in some way.
The idea is with no objective meaning to anything, and where the only thing I can do is shoot for career achievements that are ultimately going to be meaningless just a few years after I'm dead.
Easy place to go in your head from there is what's the point of doing anything?
I mean, in that world?
Why not just give in to my worst impulses every day when life is giving me these psychological symptoms of burnout, the anxiety, the depression, the ADHD.
Why not just medicate yourself with something?
Anesthetize yourself to Zizek, things like drugs, alcohol, sex, video games, TikTok.