Friday, 30 November 2012

In hysteria the subject himself has the status of a question addressed to the big Other: ‘What am I for the Other?’ In perversion the question is displaced on to the Other - that is, a pervert has the answer (say, a Stalinist Communist who knows what people really want), whereas the question is foisted on the Other in whom the pervert endeavours to arouse anxiety. -Zizek

Jujutsu With Zizek

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