Zizek on Alter Ego and Tarkovsky’s Stalker

This is an episode from The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema by Slavoj Zizek. In you listen to Zizek’s introduction you can see how an online character is more real than a real persona. But the fear is not that the real people we meet, the visible landscape of out life is a lie. But the devastating fear expressed by Andrei Tarkovsky in Stalker that when we are given an opportunity to be ourselves, to express our essence in real life, we no longer know what it is, or perhaps we reach the limits of our existence.The Stalker’s “Zone as Koidesh HaKadosim, Holy of Holies. The curse of the elusiveness of the essence.