For Žižek, however, as for surrealistic psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan before him, Freud's great insight was that everything about us – our vaunted rationality as much as our unavowable impulses – is soaked with craziness and ambivalence all the way through.
We are full of contradictions and opposites, for this reason, Žižek says:
The first choice has to be the wrong choice.If we accept that there is no truth without error, according to Žižek we may well conclude that it is better to cling to the habits that were good enough for our `ancestors´ than to stake the happiness of future generations on a gamble with incalculable stakes and uncertain prizes.
After all it never led Hegel in that direction: he was notoriously timid about political change? No it (radicalism) was his headline.
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