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Slavoj Zizek:
The function of music here is precisely that of a fetish, of some fascinating presence whose function it is to conceal the abyss of anxiety. Music is here what, according to Marx, religion is, a kind of opium for the people. Opium which should put us asleep, put us into a kind of a false beatitude, which allows us to avoid the abyss of unbearable anxiety
The function of music here is precisely that of a fetish, of some fascinating presence whose function it is to conceal the abyss of anxiety. Music is here what, according to Marx, religion is, a kind of opium for the people. Opium which should put us asleep, put us into a kind of a false beatitude, which allows us to avoid the abyss of unbearable anxiety
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The function of music here is precisely that of a fetish
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of some fascinating presence
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whose function it is to conceal the abyss of anxiety
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Music is here what according to Marx religion is
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a kind of opium for the people
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Opium which should put us asleep put us into a kind of a false beatitude
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which allows us to avoid the abyss of unbearable anxiety
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Movie Summary
Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.
