Slavoj Žižek on Kant and radical responsibility
Channel: Sebids
Date: 2013-11-21

Transcript:
"The radical Kantian position is that it's only yourself who authorizes yourself this is and again and you can see it's something very radical. Kant is not rigorous in the sense that you have absolute rules you must obey then. No, no, no you must even establish what rules are, you are radically autonomous. You are responsible for moral rules themselves. And in this precise sense for Lacan when Lacan says that the only ethical rule admitted by psychoanalysis is "do not compromise your desire" the only thing the subject may? feel guilty or is compromise his or her desire. What Lacan means is something along the same line is that desire functions as a kind of a duty in the sense again that you are truly responsible. You can never say, Lacon's position is here radically ethically, you can never say "Sorry, I desired this." No! You are radically responsible for what you desire."