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Wagner's heroes as Wandering Jew figures

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From the Flying Dutchman (designated by Wagner as 'Ahasver des Ozeans') through Wotan-as-Wanderer to Amfortas in Parsifal, Wagner's hero-type is the wandering Jew / the undead who wants to die and cannot, the antisemite's work embodies what he hates.

2015: 1 talk 2016: 1 talk 2021: 1 talk
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026

As told 2

“wagner himself designated fliegender holländer as ahasver des ozeans.”
49:07 Down with ideology? Talk with Slavoj Žižek | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur2016-06-19 · 55:47
“It's a weird obscene life which insists even after its biological death.”
28:47 XLII Sigmund Freud Lecture by Slavoj Žižek: Theology, Negativity, and the Death-Drive2015 · 1:49:50

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
undeadness ×3 death drive ×1 obscene immortality ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by
Robert Schumann2Tom Hanks1Olga Kurylenko1Daniel Craig1Clara Schumann1Gillian Flynn1Tana French1Albin Kurti1
alongside works
The Flying Dutchman2The Rat Man1Christ (Zeffirelli)1Schumann's works1Schubert's works1Die Walküre / Der Ring des Nibelungen1Christianity / Holy Spirit (Bible)1Bartleby the Scrivener1

Every retelling 3

49:07 Down with ideology? Talk with Slavoj Žižek | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur2016-06-19 · 55:47
From the Flying Dutchman (designated by Wagner as 'Ahasver des Ozeans') through Wotan-as-Wanderer to Amfortas in Parsifal, Wagner's hero-type is the wandering Jew / the undead who wants to die and cannot, the antisemite's work embodies what he hates., illustrating the undead,the artist's work versus the artist's person
~1:35:46 Slavoj Žižek on Marx, Hegel, Politics, Films, Burgers and Hot Dogs… and a lot more!2021 · 1:47:20
The main hero of all Wagner's operas, from the Flying Dutchman to Amfortas in Parsifal, is the figure of the wandering Jew: wounded, wanting to die but unable to die. Wagner himself said the Dutchman is Ahasverus. The anti-Semite's art celebrates the tragic Jewish figure., illustrating art defeats the artist
28:47 XLII Sigmund Freud Lecture by Slavoj Žižek: Theology, Negativity, and the Death-Drive2015 · 1:49:50
Wagner's heroes (Flying Dutchman, Amfortas) and zombies/vampires embody the death drive: an 'obscene life' that insists and repeats beyond death, remaining 'undead'., illustrating death drive,obscene bodily infinity,Wiederholungszwang