Zizek on love: The standard notion of love in psychoanalysis is reductionist: there is no pure love, love is just "sublimated" sexual lust. Until his late teaching, Lacan also insisted on the narcissistic character of love: in lovin an Other, I love myself in the Other; even if the Other is more to me than myself, even if i am ready to sacrifice myself for the Other, what I loved in the Other is my idealized perfected Ego, my Supreme Good - but still my Good.


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Zizek on aura:
Walter Benjamin noted that the aura surrounding an object signals that it returns the gaze; he simply forgot to add that the auratic effect arises when this gaze is covered up, "gentrified" - the moment this cover is removed, the aura changes into a nightmare, the gaze becomes that of Medusa. http://jujutsu-with-zizek.tumblr.com/post/21376624364/do-you-eavesdrop-what-others-say-about-you-zizek (art by elle shushan) 

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