Abstract
Slavoj Žižek reflected on nature centrism from the basic concept of “trauma” in psychoanalysis, and demonstrated that “the Real is a trauma” and “man is the wound of nature.” He believed that when facing the natural environment, people should understand and accept the disaster inherently contained. With the emergence of human beings, the original natural balance has been lost, and disasters brought about by human beings to nature are inevitable, meaning that human beings have ruined the original nature. Dealing with the relationship between human beings and natural environment, it is necessary to establish a view of time facing the future and viewing the present and to imagine and project the occurrence of future disasters through human collective fantasy. According to this, human beings are supposed to actively respond to disasters and establish a view beyond the present and themselves. As human beings, we should have the consciousness of tragedy and crisis, reset it to the subject’s fantasy world, and establish a delicate balance between human beings and nature.
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Pan, C. (2022). “Trauma” and Delicate Balance: The Analysis of Salvoj Žižek’s Ontology and New Ecological Philosophy. In: Rau, PL.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Interaction Design Across Cultures. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13311. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06038-0_27
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