Ontological Incompleteness in Film

Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about ontological incompleteness in film with a discussion on the split subject of psychoanalysis. Žižek discusses dialectical materialism, subjects without objects, organs without body, signifier without signified, Yugoslavian communism and the inconsistency of the symbolic structure in relationship to Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller, Gilles Deleuze, Renè Descartes, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud focusing on Hollywood censorship, sinthome, minimal difference, libido, obsessional neurotics, hysteria, lamella, death drive, object a, the real, fantasy, Vertigo, cogito and subjective destitution.