Explained: The Big Other
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- What is “The Big Other?” In this video I provide a short and accessible introduction to the Lacanian “Grand Outre”, relying heavily on Slavoj Žižek’s interpretation, and some accessible examples, this video explains why “there is not Big Other”.
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PS: there’s lots more to unpack here and I have plenty more examples, so for the Monday livestream I’ll return to the “Big Other”
This new format is really excellent. Some of the longer videos are a bit meandering at times, whereas this is very sharp.
Thanks for a helpful, brief explanation of a subtle idea
The way i understand it, identifying with the symbolic persona of this Big Other when it consists of a trauma based image, is almost similar to the punishing superego, for the subject to maintain a certain resistance against a more spontaneous and momentary reaction to emotional stimuli. Very existential nauseating. ''I must be this (big other symbolic persona) in order to have an image of who i am''. The need for absolute certainty
I agree. I think it also involves the need for safety, security, comfort and belonging.
I like this new format of videos
I look at the big other as an extension of infantile object relations with primary caregivers/parents. This is the first big other who primes us through separation and individuation to accept the social big other. I think that we form ideological constructs with multiple big others in an attempt to heal early psychological fractures and voids brought about frustrations, neglect, insults or abuse from our parents. This big other is used unconsciously to fuel a phantasy that helps to fill in the left over void and fracture with jouissance. This then ties us to the phantasy and prevents us from seeing our defects or cognitive errors and self examination becomes anathema. I have also noticed in discussions with people who hold strong ideologies that the phantasy fills the voids of security, safety, certainty, comfort or belonging.
I would go farther to suggest that philosophy itself is an elaborate manifestation of our search for those fundamental infantile needs.
What do you consider a “strong ideology”?
If you were a BMW driver...you would never signal
Yeah, sure. But isn’t that just pursuing the big other of a “BMW driver” rather than the big other of a “regular driver”?
Why is a philosophy channel the only one I know regularly posting HDR video
😂 interesting observation
Great content as always ! I would like to hear your lectures on thinkers like Nietzsche, Heidegger and Deleuze.
It would have been great to signal left and then turn right, sticking it up to the Big Other
symbolic horizon of all social participation
another BANGER. ❤
You have quite the elegant command
of
this.
Impressive, thou art.
10 Minutes are great. I guess my mind isnt capable of getting your full lectures. I rather program assembler, thats far simpler.
Is that introductory quote from Zizek paraphrased? I couldn't find it in the actual book.
thank you🙏
Hi Julian! great video, I'm loving this series. Where could I read more about this idea of the overlapping between two lacks? I'm currently working on a thesis on a similar subject
Try the end of absolute recoil (if I remember correctly). Good luck with the thesis
@@julianphilosophy Thank you very much!!
Thanks
Quick question. Why wouldn't you want to signal left if you were told to do so? Is the BO just a private game we play?
tysm
Why single out masculinity as fake and or false if we are all roleplaying? In other words why conceive of manhood as false when fantasy is the only bridge to the "real" world? What is the distinction?
who is the real then, Dr jeckel or Mr hyde?
So the big other is like the superego??
No. The superego is the internalisation of the rules and precepts of the big Other.
The big Other itself is a fantastical/virtual idea of an external authority or foundation of meaning. (Like God)
But God is not the superego. The superego can be an internalisation of the image of God, however.
You see?
The misidentificagion of God as one's own superego is I think the most common way to misunderstand god. And so theology becomes sterile
@@DelFloBut doesn't what your saying just loop back to "the big other doesn't exist" becoming equivalent to saying "god is dead"?
@@tristanreynolds5748 Of course. But that’s a given in psychoanalysis. “You are alone”, as Zizek would put it.
two side of the same coin
The new god, the big other. We call now: 'The greater good'.
Jessica Rabbit
Hi. I don't read LACAN, but I have more vidéos about him then anyone on the internet. Now, STOP.
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