…byproduct. It just comes, you cannot plan it. Academia should be a place for this. Last video question, please. Hi, Savoy from Australia. Send my greetings. You've often spoken critically of the Hölderlin paradigm, where the danger lies, there grows the…

…to grab a chance there. And I'm not celebrating it. I know it. Listen, I don't know if you did. Wait a minute, Savoy. Before you even get there, right at the beginning, in your last book, actually, before this, On Violence, you talk about this idea,…

…in it at all. I think that's an indication that a woman is walking around with a microphone, which means it's time for questions, Savoy. Actually, I can't really see into the house. If there were any way to bring the lights up so we could actually see…

…The desire is something that has to come into being, and that is the real function of fantasy. This is actually a theme that Savoy has worked on quite extensively, and one of the discussions that was inspirational for me is in the book on the plague of…

So, Savoy, this is a book about love. I'd love to know what you think about love, because my hunch is you're going to think it's a ridiculous bourgeois concept and we can get beyond erotic love. That's just something that Hollywood sells us. No, first,…

…No, Jacqueline, you go. All right, I think as co-director of the Berkeley University of Humanities, where I'm a colleague with Savoy, that I have a responsibility to respond to this evening's talk. And we've had conversations about this before. Let me start…

Welcome everybody to this week's second Masterclass by Savoy Žižek hosted by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. As ever, Zizek needs no introduction, so I'll do a stupid one. He's a man with a game, I mean, he's so notorious or famous, he's a man…

…teleological breakthrough in kind of... human intellectual development. It was actually a regression vis-à-vis nature. I know you disagree with this, Savoy, but you say we should be more alienated. I'm sorry, I think that's where we started to go wrong. A…

…that one week after my return, an official letter came from Indian Foreign Ministry to Slovenian Foreign Ministry, saying, your citizen, Savoy Zizek, claimed that Gandhi is no better than Hitler. Is this now the official Slovenian position? And I advised to…

…I'm dressed and so on. Just to give you an idea, when I had some money, I wanted to go with my son to Ritz. Or Savoy for a breakfast. You know what they told me? I asked them, is the breakfast room open? They looked at me and told me it's open,…

…Okay, I think we should break for lunch now. We're going to meet back at 2 prompt. But before we go to lunch, on your behalf, I'd like to thank Savoy very much. Don't applaud so much. I feel like in the old times being at a Communist Party Congress.

…most famous student, Jean-Paul Sartre. Okay, so these are abstract figures. And depending on the talent of the writer, And Savoy has incredible talent. You make it accessible to anyone. I think anyone can understand, although it's shocking. It's shocking,…

…It's shocking, this idea that you can change the past. But you cannot change it causally. That's what I would say. And Savoy goes so far as to say that in a world where political correctness is very strong, this phenomenon I've just described, it's…