Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst! (1996)

Directed by

Claudia Willke, Katharina Höcker

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

52 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This German documentary follows Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek as he discusses his ideas about psychoanalysis and culture. The film opens with him telling a joke about the border between the Balkans and Central Europe.

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What happens

Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst! (German: Thou shalt love thy symptom as thyself; 1996) is a German documentary film about the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek. The title of the film is taken from a book published under the same name by Žižek via Merve Verlag, a Berlin-based publisher with leftist orientation. The film opens with Žižek sharing a joke that he has repeated elsewhere. This river here is the official geographical limit between the Balkans and Mitteleuropa. So, beware! On the other side: Horror, oriental despotism, women get beaten, get raped, and like it. On this side: Europe, civilization, women get beaten, get raped, and don’t like it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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