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What Does the Other Want? | Anxiety and its Relation to Nothingness

Anxiety has often been described as the subjective experience evoked by our confrontation with nothingness. Whether we feel that the very foundations of our world are being shaken, or that our lives are under imminent threat, a dread can overtake us, destabilizing our daily life.

In this pyroseminar we’ll be taking a deep dive into understanding what anxiety is, why it can be so destructive, and how we might be able to overcome it.

As always, it can also be watched live or later via Patreon. To access this - and all other - pyroseminars, you just need to be signed up to the Flame level, or above, on Patreon.

OTHER PYROSEMINARS INCLUDE:

  • Embracing the Absurd | Atheism isn’t Enough

  • Beyond Belief | Christianity and Ideology Critique

  • The Alien from Inner Space | Sin and Prometheus

  • On Love | The Unwanted Gift of Nothing

  • Embracing Failure | On Not Getting what you Want

  • The Tech of Pyrotheology | Transformance Art

  • The Tech of Pyrotheology | Decentering Practices

  • Freedom from Meaning | Drive, Grace, the Absurd

  • The Last Guru | On Fantasy and Transference

  • Escaping the Sitcom | On Brent and Gargoyles

  • Catching Light | Lewis and the Sublime

  • God After God | The Certainty of Doubt

  • Joined by Lack | The Ontic and the Metaphysical

  • Confronting the Holy | Whole or Hole

  • Losing the Lost Object | On Conversion

  • On Envy and Jealousy | Girard and Christology

  • Deranged Animal | Desire, Drive and The Thing

  • The Meaning in Life | Drive and the Transcendental

  • Alienation Times Two | Traversing the Fantasy

  • God Forsaking God | Conversion, Forgiveness, Joy

  • Who is No. 1 | Peterson, PC and the Unconscious

  • Is God Dead | The Event of Radical Theology

  • Mapping Pyrotheology | Returning to the Start

  • Problem or Symptom | The Zizek/Peterson Debate

  • The Self-Castration of God | Authority, Freedom, Kenosis

  • The Magic Trick of Christianity | Pledge, Turn and Prestige

  • Identical Wines | Salvation and Object a

  • A Contingent Gristle of the Real | Joker and Divine Violence

Earlier Event: February 26
Atheism for Lent | God Without God
Later Event: April 6
Coffee and Concepts | The Gaze