Falling in Love (1980)
example · film: Falling in Love ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek analyzes the film *Falling in Love*, where two married lovers meet in an empty apartment but stop before having sex. He argues this refusal makes it an 'event' because doing it would have been a 'cheap love affair.'
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 4
“They go to an empty apartment... And then they start to embrace and they they stop. They don't do it. This makes it an event, I claim.”
“when you fall fortunately in love you never make the choice to fall in love all of a sudden you experience yourself as being in love”
“you never fall in love... all of a sudden you become aware that you already are in love”
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
freedom as inner necessity
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radical responsibility
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consciousness is an illusion
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Christina1Carla Bruni1Carl von Ossietzky1Anna Moffo1Medea1Buddhists1David McKerracher1H. P. Lovecraft1
alongside works
Every retelling 4
Žižek analyzes the film Falling in Love, where two married lovers meet in an empty apartment but stop before having sex. He argues this refusal makes it an 'event' because doing it would have been a 'cheap love affair.', illustrating sexuality-gender,ideology
1:06:25 Slavoj Žižek talks Nick Land AI singularity, ethics of psychoanalysis, Compact Magazine, and so on!pub. 2024-03-18 · 1:57:15
One never chooses to fall in love; it is experienced as an inner necessity/fate, yet one remains fully responsible for it, illustrating the highest form of freedom., illustrating freedom as inner necessity,radical responsibility
18:46 Quantum and the unknowable universe | FULL DEBATE | Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Slavoj Žižek2025-04-19 · 45:43
One does not consciously 'choose' to fall in love; rather, one suddenly realizes they are already in love, illustrating that key decisions are non-calculable and retroactive., illustrating consciousness is rooted in malfunctioning
59:32 Slavoj Žižek talks Nick Land AI singularity, ethics of psychoanalysis, Compact Magazine, and so on!pub. 2024-03-18 · 1:57:15
Citing Neil Gaiman, Žižek argues that love is a catastrophe that ruins daily life, representing a sacrifice of ordinary existence for a higher cause (fidelity to desire)., illustrating ethics of desire,sacrifice