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Clash of the Titans, Zeus complains that gods die when men stop praying

example · film: Clash of the Titans (2010) · retold in 3 talks
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In the 2010 Clash of the Titans, Zeus (Liam Neeson) complains that if men stop praying to and celebrating the gods, the gods will cease to exist, illustrating the Lacanian point that God ex-ists only through belief.

2012: 2 talks 2014: 1 talk
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026

As told 3

“Zeus played by Liam Neeson of course complains that if men stop praying to Gods and stop celebrating Gods in their rituals, Gods will cease to exist”
53:48 Neurosciences and Freedom2014-11-11 · 2:11:34
“Heidegger was right to say mortals and immortals but he got it wrong it's the other way around: humans are immortal, gods are truly radically mortal.”
50:58 Lacanian Theology and Buddhism2012 · 1:27:34
“When a man dies, he somehow survives in memory, descendants. But when a god dies, he really dies. Only gods are real mortals.”
1:18:15 2011 as „The Year of Dreaming Dangerously“2012-04-25 · 1:47:37

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
God ex-ists ×1 the big Other ×1 death drive ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by
Francis of Assisi1Herbert McCabe1Lena Dunham1Gioachino Rossini1François Jullien1Alec Baldwin1Terrence Malick1Rey Chow1
alongside works
Wrath of Titans2Secret Beyond the Door1La Cenerentola1Il barbiere di Siviglia (Largo al factotum)1The Detour and Access1A Country Doctor1Trauer und Melancholie1Seminar VIII: Transference (Lacan), analysis of Claudel's L'Otage1

Every retelling 3

53:48 Neurosciences and Freedom2014-11-11 · 2:11:34
In the 2010 Clash of the Titans, Zeus (Liam Neeson) complains that if men stop praying to and celebrating the gods, the gods will cease to exist, illustrating the Lacanian point that God ex-ists only through belief., illustrating God ex-ists,intersubjectivity and existence
50:58 Lacanian Theology and Buddhism2012 · 1:27:34
In the film, Hades tells Zeus that if the enemy's plan succeeds, humans survive through tradition/big Other while gods, being the big Other, truly die. Žižek reads this as Heidegger inverted: humans are immortal, gods are radically mortal., illustrating big Other,immortality,death drive
1:18:15 2011 as „The Year of Dreaming Dangerously“2012-04-25 · 1:47:37
In the film Wrath of the Titans, Hades tells Zeus that when a man dies he survives in memory and descendants, but when a god dies he truly dies, inverting Heidegger's mortal/immortal distinction., illustrating death and finitude,Hegelian negativity,zero point of radical negativity