i like to look at car crashes. (Lacan, Sartre, Žižek)

My Patreon: - Twitter: - Instagram: and - ____ DESCRIPTION The channel’s first wild analysis! In this video, I explore what happens when I (personally) stumble across a car accident. Jacques Lacan, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Slavoj Žižek (Zizek) help me in uncovering what happens in this video essay. The gaze, or the look, is the central thing here. In existentialism, it’s tied to a harsh intrusion of the other, the other person. In psychoanalysis, it’s tied to the objet petit a, the violent encounter with the Real. Jacques Lacan’s philosophy mixed psychoanalysis with structuralism. People like Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, and Slavoj Žižek have all been inspired by Lacanian theory. His thought is applied widely in areas like film theory,