Another Long Listen - Zizek

Excerpt from above video:

To become free you have to be forced to be free, and this for this you need a figure of the master. But it's a paradoxical Master. It's not an oppressive master who tells you what you want. and so on. It's a master whose message to you is just, "you can do it, you are not just limited to what you are," and so on, and so on. "You can do more," and I refer here to your very naive everyday experience, this master can be a good friend, a good teacher. Isn't it that when you are in crisis, you know you should do something, you don't "not have the strength," and so on, and so on. A true Master figure, a friend, a teacher, whatever. His message to you is just a very naive one, "I know that you can do it" and he even doesn't have to know. What the point that Frank Ruda now makes here is, again, a subtle one. It's not only that if I'm left to myself in a (Plato's) cave. Even when I'm without chains, I prefer to stay there so that a master has to force me out. The situation is much more subtle. I have to... I know The Madness of this formula... I have to volunteer to be forced out, similar to psychoanalysis. 

And this is the genius of Ruda. He draws a parallel with a psychotic situation, where basically you volunteer here to abdicate your conscious ego, autonomy. But you must be a volunteer. You must volunteer to accept analyses as, of course, a very specific form of master. So here I have another quote from Frank Ruda, a question arises at precisely this point from using the reference to the master in psychoanalytic terms. Does this mean that those who need a master are always already in the position of an analysand-patient, if politically, such a master is needed to for us to become what we are, to use Nietzsche's formula, and this can be structurally linked to liberating The Prisoner from the cave. To force him out after the chains are broken and he still does not want to leave. The question arises, how to link this with the idea that the patient-analysand who demands psycho analysis treatment has to be a volunteer and not simply slave or bondsman. I mean why am I mentioning this example? So that you see I'm not involved in abstract um paradoxes this happens precisely in a psychoanalytic situation.

Antagonism

^^Wind River (ending)^^

What is Repressed in the Content, Returns in the Form

When you have some more fundamental anxiety (like of catching STDs), which is then sublimated into, embodied in this fear. So again, the fundamental lesson of "It Follows", the movie, it's a very nice one, is that: one and one is never two. There is always some excess, which can be "It", which can be some supplement in the sexual relationship. It can be the threat of another partner. It can be simply another's gaze. I think I already mentioned to you the last time I was here, but it's such a dirty story that I cannot resist to repeat it. You know, if you look at the most vulgar, and I don't... I was just told about it, hardcore pornography, how, I was looking for a paradigmatic scene in it, and I think I found it, it's no... I'm ashamed to draw it, but the position is this one. Woman is lying on her back with of course legs spread out, high, and the guy is screwing her. But they must put such a lot of effort into it because from the position of the camera, it's absolutely crucial, that, like you see you see the legs. You see here penetration. But between her legs, always, that's crucial, in the background you see her face... looking into the camera, Breaking All the (4th wall) Rules of a proper fiction movie, you should never look into the camera. And this tells us a lot. I don't justify pornography, I'm against pornography, prostitution, and so on. I'm just saying that the standard feminist doxa, according to which, in pornography, woman is objectified, it's not true (and this doesn't make it any better). You can be subjectified in a way which is much more humiliating than being objectified. Because, so you see it, the thing itself, blah blah, the Stupid action. But if you see just that, it would become a medical case, you know, and it wouldn't be attractive. You have to see at the same time, her face, I will not go into those gestures, but you know, for this you should raise my salary if you want to include into performance this, you know that, Fascinate. So you see how even here, what this Gaze looking at whom, at the viewer, this means that I, as a spectator, am the pure object 'a, it's me. It's one and one, the guy screwing the girl, lady, and me. my Gaze. Without that, it doesn't function. So if anything, I made this point often here, the one who is truly objectified is the guy. Usually, in most of the hardcore movies that my friends picked up for me, with this case, you don't even see the guy's face. Nobody cares about that. Usually, he approaches from behind, and just, you know, you because, of course he does his duty, you see ejaculation. No, so, okay, that's enough. We don't want your stupid face, and so on. So, but what I'm thinking is that this is a very simple example of 1 + 1 is not simply two. But it's plus a small something that is added to it.

Double Suture/ Cross-Cap Duality: Objectivity (Yin) with a touch of Subjectivity (Yang) to create "Reality" (+).    For subjectivity, you need a Klein bottle.