109 - Slavoj Žižek: Wokeness, Psychoanalysis, and Quantum Mechanics

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 In This Episode… 01:31 Introduction 04:07 Wokeness and Psychoanalysis 15:00 Free Speech and Curb Your Enthusiasm 23:32 Trans Ideology and Racism 34:23 Violence, Gender, and the Unconscious 41:06 Fate, Freedom, and Falling in Love 48:53 Free Association and Gender Identity 53:08 Truth, Science, and Quantum Theory 57:22 Nazis, the Jew, and Psychoanalysis 01:04:26  Unholy Alliances 01:07:20 Analytic and Continental Philosophy 01:17:27 World War III and Ontological Openness 01:23:25 Life is a Quantum Theory Video Game 01:27:27 Hegel and Quantum Theory 01:31:01 A Dirty Joke about Quantum Theory 01:34:14 Nazi Testicle Torture (Photo by Matt Carr/Licensed from Getty Images) 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.