In this tour de force filmed lecture Slavoj Žižek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy and on the various forms that belief takes drawing on Lacanian categories of thought In a radical dismissal of todays so called postpolitical era he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible It is a characteristic virtuoso performance moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view