"The idea that somebody is observing me is already inscribed into sexuality as such."

“The idea that somebody is observing me is already inscribed into sexuality as such.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the Third, the big Other, the witness in the minds of the couple, for which they perform and the imaginaning of which gives their act not so much consistency in the case of sex, but gives their act the necessary degree of fantasy to eroticize the sexual act enough in order to be immersed in it enough http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120876177482

"Even with our most intimate acts, we always act for a potential virtual gaze. So this structure..."

“Even with our most intimate acts, we always act for a potential virtual gaze. So this structure surrounding the idea that somebody is observing me is already inscribed into sexuality as such.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120864466808

"sex as sex is always already porno graphic. It is pornographic in the sense that even when I am with..."

“sex as sex is always already porno graphic. It is pornographic in the sense that even when I am with my lover ..I always imagine a third gaze; that I am doing it for someone. ..When you are engaged in sexual activity there is always a fascination ..as to how this would look in the Other’s eyes.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120853419586

"God no longer can be conceived as ‘we are in shit but at least we have an old guy up there’. ..God..."

“God no longer can be conceived as ‘we are in shit but at least we have an old guy up there’. ..God expresses his perplexity at his own creation. ..God can’t do anything without us, God has to trust us. This is a message of freedom. ..Holy Spirit is the..community bound by love. ”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on his christian atheism http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120632995416

"A sublime object..can persist only in an..intermediate state, viewed from a certain perspective,..."

“A sublime object..can persist only in an..intermediate state, viewed from a certain perspective, half-seen. If we want to see it in the light of day, it changes into an everyday object, it dissipates itself,..because in itself, it is nothing at all.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120621281098

"The dimension of inherent refusal ..is ..discernible in the ..outcome of her sacrificing everything:..."

“The dimension of inherent refusal ..is ..discernible in the ..outcome of her sacrificing everything: she sacrifices everything for X, her Cause (the old order embodied in the Pope), the Thing that really matters, and, as a result, she finally loses this X itself”

- the dimension of inherent refusal that pertains to Versagung, its self-negating quality, almost Aufhebung, does not enter only with the sinthome of Sygne’s “No”.
- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on Synge’s marriage as more than just false sacrifice http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120597419573

"we spontaneously tend to fill in that nothingness with our fantasies about the wealth of human..."

“we spontaneously tend to fill in that nothingness with our fantasies about the wealth of human personality and so on, and so on. To see what is lacking in reality, to see it as that, there you see subjectivity.   ..Woman is the subject. Masculinity is a fake.”

- Slavoj Zizek — The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120588665466

"We might perceive our own lack, trying to fill it by surrounding ourselves with strongminded or..."

“We might perceive our own lack, trying to fill it by surrounding ourselves with strongminded or successful people, while we ignore that they also lack”

- ANDRE VANTINO 
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120427161166

"The subject [is] an “answer of the real” ..: the subject is nothing but the point of failure of the..."

“The subject [is] an “answer of the real” ..: the subject is nothing but the point of failure of the process of its symbolic representation.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how the real is “nothing at all, just a void, an emptiness in a symbolic structure, marking some central impossibility” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120376859037

"fantasy ..tries to cope with the fact that I am originally decentered, part of an opaque network..."

“fantasy ..tries to cope with the fact that I am originally decentered, part of an opaque network whose meaning and logic elude my control.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120335443468

"The sublime voice of the beloved is] an object which is just a positivation of the lack in the..."

“The sublime voice of the beloved is] an object which is just a positivation of the lack in the Other. ..If we get too near it, it loses its sublime features and becomes an ordinary vulgar object.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120313858069

"The drive ..goes on even when the subject has ..broken out of its illusory craving for the (lost)..."

“The drive ..goes on even when the subject has ..broken out of its illusory craving for the (lost) object of desire.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/120277894891

“kneel down and you shall believe that you knelt down...

“kneel down and you shall believe that you knelt down because of your belief.”

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119675446052

"The pervert ..elevates the [fictive] enjoying big Other into the agency of Law."

“The pervert ..elevates the [fictive] enjoying big Other into the agency of Law.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119671547159

"A masochist locates enjoyment in the very agency of the Law that prohibits access to enjoyment."

“A masochist locates enjoyment in the very agency of the Law that prohibits access to enjoyment.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119665442711

"This is what is ..at work in consistent Christianity: I have to confront the terror of the big..."

“This is what is ..at work in consistent Christianity: I have to confront the terror of the big Other’s non-existence, which means that I myself am deprived of my symbolic identity - as a barred subject, I am no one’s and nameless.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on calling himself an atheist Christian http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119645609063

"we should still cling to the old socialist idea that the innermost happiness is something to be..."

“we should still cling to the old socialist idea that the innermost happiness is something to be shared.”

- vimeo.com/102591214 - SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the privatization of happiness http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119514971538

"Symbolic castration ..occurs by the very fact of being caught up in the symbolic order, assuming a..."

“Symbolic castration ..occurs by the very fact of being caught up in the symbolic order, assuming a symbolic mandate”

- Less Than Nothing - SLAVOJ ZIZEK on why symbolic castration is good
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119501852643

"Are ..political-correctness-prohibitions rules which are to be violated in the seduction process? Is..."

“Are ..political-correctness-prohibitions rules which are to be violated in the seduction process? Is ..the seducer’s art to accomplish this violation properly — so that afterwards, by its acceptance, its harassing aspect will be retroactively cancelled?”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how “there is no way to tell in advance what her reaction will be,” + how sometimes he can flirt only without knowing in advance if it will be seen as “harassment or a successful act of seduction” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119489126598

"The capitalist process is by definition interminable, ..its ultimate goal is the reproduction of the..."

“The capitalist process is by definition interminable, ..its ultimate goal is the reproduction of the process itself;”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how capitalism’s “lacking object ..is never at its own place, always missing,” how it is always excessively lacking, in the sense of justifying the excesses of trying to make up for its lacking http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119442319292

"(the utterly depressive descriptions of the sexual orgies between forty-somethings are among the..."

“(the utterly depressive descriptions of the sexual orgies between forty-somethings are among the most excruciating readings in contemporary literature)”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on MICHELLE HOULLEBECQ’s novel Atomised which for Zizek portrays “the meaninglessness of the permissive sexuality” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119370690974

"The enthusiasm of fans for their..star and the..trance of a devout Catholic in the presence of the..."

“The enthusiasm of fans for their..star and the..trance of a devout Catholic in the presence of the Pope are..the same..”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on jouissance as the objet a that makes someone seemingly special http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119352692042

"Sexual difference is the name of a deadlock, a trauma, an open question—something that resists every..."

“Sexual difference is the name of a deadlock, a trauma, an open question—something that resists every attempt at its symbolization.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119325809948

"feminine abjection serves “to defer” the acknoledgement of the fact that the phallic man..."

“feminine abjection serves “to defer” the acknoledgement of the fact that the phallic man is lacking, Zizek says.”

- ANDRE VANTINO http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119299811184

"my alienation from the Absolute overlaps with the Absolute’s self-alienation"

“my alienation from the Absolute overlaps with the Absolute’s self-alienation”

- With the advent of modernity, the magic of the enchanted universe is forever lost.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119264584095

"A true love ..makes sex irrelevant.. - ..“fundamentally, sex doesn’t matter”, we can ..enjoy it..."

“A true love ..makes sex irrelevant.. - ..“fundamentally, sex doesn’t matter”, we can ..enjoy it without any superego pressure.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119242719191

"If we take away the obstacle, the very potential thwarted by this obstacle dissipates."

“If we take away the obstacle, the very potential thwarted by this obstacle dissipates.”

- if we abolish the obstacle, the intrinsic contradiction of capitalism, […] we lose precisely this productivity that seemed to be generated and simultaneously thwarted by capitalism
SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119216390425

"what the cynic leaves intact is the fantasy, the fantasmatic background of the public written..."

“what the cynic leaves intact is the fantasy, the fantasmatic background of the public written ideological text.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119202606448

"We obey the Law to fight our desire to transgress it. ..The more [we obey], the more we feel..the..."

““We obey the Law to fight our desire to transgress it. ..The more [we obey], the more we feel..the desire to indulge in sin.”

- ..The more we obey..the more we are guilty, because this obedience is a defense against our sinful desire.“ -Slavoj Zizek http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119190055658

"One of the ways to…conceal this inconsistency…is to claim that behind the…inconsistent reality…is..."

“One of the ways to…conceal this inconsistency…is to claim that behind the…inconsistent reality…is another reality”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on The MATRIX http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119181558654

"The “postmodern” subject …perceives himself as an out-Law, lacking the common ground shared..."

“The “postmodern” subject …perceives himself as an out-Law, lacking the common ground shared with others. ..The very presence of others ..is perceived as violent”

- Tarrying With The Negative, p.219 - SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119174777835

"Once she is confronted with one-night stands without ..objet a, ..one-night stands will ..become..."

“Once she is confronted with one-night stands without ..objet a, ..one-night stands will ..become meaningless.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on objet a as the thing that makes something more special, in this case it is the bad feelings after a one night stand that incite to have more one night stands. The pleasure she likes and dislikes in seeking one night stands is, in her case, caused by thinking of casual sex as something one should not do. This perceived prohibition is objet a in this case. The forbidden is the condition of pleasure being possible. http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119165760696

"The more the politicians were corrupt, the more ..they needed the Other, the one who sincerely..."

“The more the politicians were corrupt, the more ..they needed the Other, the one who sincerely believes.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119153813918

"Even if I don’t believe, I believe through my acts. ..Religion’s ultimate support is the illusion of..."

“Even if I don’t believe, I believe through my acts. ..Religion’s ultimate support is the illusion of the big Other, the symbolic order itself.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK, on how the big Other acts through us, in our acts themselves, even if consciously we do not support something http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119130212659

"The phallus is itself the signifier of castration + ‘penis envy is most profoundly felt by..."

““The phallus is itself the signifier of castration + ‘penis envy is most profoundly felt by those who have a penis’.”

-

SLAVOJ ZIZEK (Citing Boothby, “Freud As Philosopher” p.292 )

on how women might have less pressure to proof their potency than men and thus have less penis envy than men despite the fact that men already have penisses. 

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119106027213

"[In totalitarianism] social Law ..is no longer that which ‘forbids’ + on the basis of this..."

“[In totalitarianism] social Law ..is no longer that which ‘forbids’ + on the basis of this prohibition, ..guarantees the field of co-existence of ‘free’ bourgeois subjects + their diverse pleasures.”

- ..What is the super-ego ..if not..the intervention of the signifier-command under its chaotic, senseless aspect?“ - SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the totalitarian aspect of bureaucracy in Kafka’s The Trial
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119071714814

"a hysteric perceives the lack in the Other, its impotence, its inconsistency, its falsity"

“a hysteric perceives the lack in the Other, its impotence, its inconsistency, its falsity”

- lacan.com/zizek-love - SLAVOJ ZIZEK on anxiety
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119036777177

"In Lost Highway, Fred suspects that Renee’s previous life involved ..some secret … place of …..."

“In Lost Highway, Fred suspects that Renee’s previous life involved ..some secret … place of … obscene enjoyment. ..Fred, … sentenced to death for the murder … of Renee, … transforms into another person (Pete) in his prison cell.”

-

..A bizarre shift from the dull … existence of the impotent husband … to the exciting and dangerous life of ..Pete who is seduced by the ..femme fatale reincarnation of Renee. ..This shift … represents Fred’s psychotic hallucination … of himself as a virile lover, … after the slaughter of his wife

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119018689300

"complaining to the Other ..displaces the need to act onto the Other"

“complaining to the Other ..displaces the need to act onto the Other”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/119005073790

"..Our … identity is a repository of the traces of our lost objects"

“..Our … identity is a repository of the traces of our lost objects”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK, Introduction to Adorno’s “In Search of Wagner” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118955633948

"The chief motif of the ‘hard-boiled’ detective novel is that the femme fatale ..leaves many broken..."

“The chief motif of the ‘hard-boiled’ detective novel is that the femme fatale ..leaves many broken lives as a trace of its presence. ..Suddenly, one is placed in the perstpective which is hers + finds ..that she is..a..broken being,..not in control of her effects”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on objectifying a woman less when one suddenly finds out that she is lacking too, that she is not fatale, but human. http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118910485321

"the male subject ..expresses a dread that behind the many masks ..there is nothing - no ultimate..."

“the male subject ..expresses a dread that behind the many masks ..there is nothing - no ultimate feminine secret.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118884769724

"The infant ..is confronted ..by the unanswerable question of the mother’s desire. It is in the fate..."

“The infant ..is confronted ..by the unanswerable question of the mother’s desire. It is in the fate of this question that the mother assumes the form of das Ding, ..the unknowable, unmasterable + monstrous”

- RICHARD BOOTHBY http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118766636491

"[Militaristic Zen perversely says that] liberation lies in losing one’s Self, ..uniting with the..."

“[Militaristic Zen perversely says that] liberation lies in losing one’s Self, ..uniting with the ..Void, .. the difference between life + death no longer matters, we regain the original selfless unity.”

- ..This is ..perverse: ..The warrior no longer acts as a person; he is ..desubjectivized.
- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118717950083

"that figures like Eichmann were not ‘perverted sadists’ ..refers to the ..notion of a ‘sadist’ as a..."

“that figures like Eichmann were not ‘perverted sadists’ ..refers to the ..notion of a ‘sadist’ as a person who fully wills and enjoys the suffering he inflicts upon his others.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how Eichmann was actually a perverse subject in how he justified his actions by making himself someone who, in his view, just executes a quasi divine will http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118695856143

"cinema consists in arousing desire, to play with desire. But, at the same time, keeping it at a safe..."

“cinema consists in arousing desire, to play with desire. But, at the same time, keeping it at a safe distance, domesticating it”

- Slavoj Zizek (Pervert’s Guide to Cinema) http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118633197998

"our idea is too precious to be entrusted to the ..addressee, who may not grasp its worth, so we..."

“our idea is too precious to be entrusted to the ..addressee, who may not grasp its worth, so we ‘send’ it to the equivalent in fantasy, on whom we can absolutely count”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on why women send more letters than they post http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118607658332

People do everything possible not to be happy. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK

People do everything possible not to be happy. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118599216287

"Penis envy is most profoundly felt by those who have a penis."

““Penis envy is most profoundly felt by those who have a penis.””

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK citing Richard Boothby, “the fact that the phallus is itself the signifier of castration” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118534879757

"It is as if in order ..to desire her, to have sexual intercourse with her, ..Scottie has to mortify..."

“It is as if in order ..to desire her, to have sexual intercourse with her, ..Scottie has to mortify her, to change her into a dead woman. It’s as if, again, for the male libidinal economy, ..the only good woman is a dead woman. ..He has totally to erase the woman as a desiring entity. That’s for him the condition to desire. ~SLAVOJ_ZIZEK” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118480871590

"by destroying his agalma (..making him renounce it), she will own him, … he will become worthless"

“by destroying his agalma (..making him renounce it), she will own him, … he will become worthless”

- lacan.com/symptom13/?p=110 - SLAVOJ ZIZEK
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118422575958

"However much he stuffs himself, he cannot fill up the hole that constitutes the drive of his..."

“However much he stuffs himself, he cannot fill up the hole that constitutes the drive of his actions.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on why Don Juan is ready to go from one seduction to the next, never hoping to arrive anywhere + how ‘this makes Don Juan a figure of the drive’ in the Lacanian sense of 'drive’ as a circling around the libidinal object, as an aiming without an aim, an aiming that has no goal, no absolute Thing to arrive at, an aiming that has only the aiming itself as its goal. http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118292449960

"Authentic fundamentalists (like the Amish) get along ..with their ..neighbors since they are simply..."

“Authentic fundamentalists (like the Amish) get along ..with their ..neighbors since they are simply centered on their own world ..while the Moral Majority fundamentalist is haunted by horror/envy with regard to the pleasures in which the sinners engage.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118274316190

"Desire is grounded in its constitutive lack"

“Desire is grounded in its constitutive lack”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118248171033

"Kafka is a ‘writer of absence’, describing a world that remains religious in its structure but in..."

“Kafka is a ‘writer of absence’, describing a world that remains religious in its structure but in which the central place belonging to God is empty.”

-

less than nothing - (source: alterities) - SLAVOJ ZIZEK

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118196212469

"the torturer’s hurt sensitivity as the (main) human cost of torture -..Zero Dark Thirty is much..."

“the torturer’s hurt sensitivity as the (main) human cost of torture -..Zero Dark Thirty is much worse than 24, where at least Jack Bauer breaks down at the series finale.”

- Slavoj Zizek http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118188706438

"Fantasy is ..a fantasy of the sexual relationship, a staging of it. ..There is nothing ‘behind’ it...."

“Fantasy is ..a fantasy of the sexual relationship, a staging of it. ..There is nothing ‘behind’ it. ..Fantasy masks precisely this ‘nothing’.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118181294377

"The hysteric is able to enjoy the object of love (the lover) only insofar as it remains illicit,..."

“The hysteric is able to enjoy the object of love (the lover) only insofar as it remains illicit, insofar as it maintains a potential status (i.e. in the guise of fantasies about what “might have” happened).”

- Four Discourses, Four Subjects, SIC2, p86 - SLAVOjZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118135358056

"Objet a deceives because ..it invokes the impression of some substantial Real behind, ..that, behind..."

“Objet a deceives because ..it invokes the impression of some substantial Real behind, ..that, behind it, there is the lost substance of jouissance”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118001009923

It’s like fantasy realised. ..It’s called “nightmare”. ..The violence in this case of Scottie’s...

It’s like fantasy realised. ..It’s called “nightmare”. ..The violence in this case of Scottie’s brutal refashioning of Judy, a real, common girl, into Madeleine. It’s truly a process of mortification, which also is the mortification of woman’s desire. ~SLAVOJ_ZIZEK on Vertigo

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117960418877

"sex is ..a desperate ..measure aimed at keeping at bay the spectral netherworld of fantasies"

“sex is ..a desperate ..measure aimed at keeping at bay the spectral netherworld of fantasies”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on this netherworld which is not about anything forbidden or crazy, but is simply the netherworld of existence, of being alive and being unable to know how to respond to this aliveness. http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117941240102

"In Blade Runner, R. ..starts to cry when D. proves ..that she is a replicant. The ..grief over the..."

“In Blade Runner, R.  ..starts to cry when D. proves ..that she is a replicant. The ..grief over the loss of her “humanity,” ..or, [in the case of any human being] the eternal gnawing doubt over whether I am truly human or just an android - it is these states which make me human.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on subjectivity as lack, on how we are all replicants when it comes to the uncertainty of any identity http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117873590175

"subjects experience the need to have a good time ..as a kind of duty; consequently, they feel guilty..."

“subjects experience the need to have a good time ..as a kind of duty; consequently, they feel guilty if they fail to be happy.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on our feeling guilty for doing nothing http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117846619831

"If we want to see it in the light of day, it changes into an everyday object, it dissipates itself,..."

“If we want to see it in the light of day, it changes into an everyday object, it dissipates itself, precisely because in itself, it is nothing at all.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on “sublime objects” and the nature of desire in which the Thing we look for is foreever ceasing, forever keeping its distance from our view, forever just slightly out of sight http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117789775626

"The root of racism is thus hatred of my own enjoyment. ..We never possessed what was allegedly..."

“The root of racism is thus hatred of my own enjoyment. ..We never possessed what was allegedly stolen from us”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117764235648

"That ..‘If there is no God then everything is permitted’ is simply wrong."

“That ..‘If there is no God then everything is permitted’ is simply wrong.”

- via philosophies of desire - SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117680260457

"we only imagine that we do “not really” believe in our ideology—in spite of this ..we continue to..."

“we only imagine that we do “not really” believe in our ideology—in spite of this ..we continue to practise it.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how “we believe ..more than we imagine we believe” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117616159462

"ideology is … the gesture of explaining away a structural impediment as the result of unfortunate..."

“ideology is … the gesture of explaining away a structural impediment as the result of unfortunate concrete circumstances”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117616144852

"In U.S. slums+ghettos, police ..function ..as a force of occupation"

“In U.S. slums+ghettos,
police ..function ..as a
force of occupation”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK  http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117615823017

"by offering ourselves to the Other as the object of its desire ..we try to fill out the unbearable..."

“by offering ourselves to the Other as the object of its desire ..we try to fill out the unbearable gap of “What do you want from me?” ..of the Other’s desire”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on love as an accident, as a way of dealing with an impasse of seeing someone’s lack, or, in short, as answering the Other’s lack with my own lack, my own love, my own loving her or him back http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117606547126

"fantasy is ..an attempt to fill out this lack in the Other, i.e., to reconstitute the consistency of..."

“fantasy is ..an attempt to fill out this lack in the Other, i.e., to reconstitute the consistency of the big Other.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117508897992

"..As such, this voice signals simultaneously a distance ..and an obscene over-proximity, a presence..."

“..As such, this voice signals simultaneously a distance ..and an obscene over-proximity, a presence more intimate, more penetrating, than that of an external body in front of us”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117501078965

"A friend or lover can remains luringly Other to us. What we perceive as her secrets are also..."

“A friend or lover can remains luringly Other to us. What we perceive as her secrets  are also secrets to her herself + “the solution to the enigma” about the Other “consists in understanding it as a question that the Other poses to itself,” Zizek says.”

- ANDRE VANTINO http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117197253307

"what I want is all those perverse twists of redemption through suffering, the death of God, etc.,..."

“what I want is all those perverse twists of redemption through suffering, the death of God, etc., but without God!””

- “Can’t we have Christiantiy without this perverse core ..celebrating ..redemption through suffering,” a ..friend ..commented on ..“The Perverse Core of Christianity”: I could not bring myself to answer him: “But that is precisely the point of my book: what I want is all those perverse twists of redemption through suffering, the death of God, etc., but without God!”
- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117071791184

IN TRANSFERENTIAL LOVE I OFFER MYSELF.. ..HERE YOU HAVE ME, SO...

IN TRANSFERENTIAL LOVE I OFFER MYSELF.. ..HERE YOU HAVE ME, SO THAT YOU WILL NO LONGER PROBE INTO ME.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK. In: COGITO + THE UNCONSCIOUS

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117039628761

"The subject does not offer his sacrifice to profit from it.., but to ..sustain the appearance of the..."

“The subject does not offer his sacrifice to profit from it.., but to ..sustain the appearance of the Other’s omnipotence or ..consistency.”

- lacan.com/zizek-love - SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117031601062

"What the neurotic ‘holds back from is the falsity of sacrifice’ + thus is right and wrong at the..."

“What the neurotic ‘holds back from is the falsity of sacrifice’ + thus is right and wrong at the same time by saying: ‘I refuse to sacrifice the agalma in me because there is nothing to sacrifice, because I am unable to fill in your lack,’ Zizek says.”

- ANDRE VANTINO on how the hysteric is right to see how the lack of the Other makes the existing relation meaningless and how she is wrong at the same time in refusing to answer this lack with love. She is right that “the falsity of sacrifice resides in its underlying presupposition, which is that I effectively possess, hold in me, the precious ingredient coveted by the Other and promising to fill in its lack,” Zizek says. http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117031573742

"Man simply cannot find meaning in his suffering. ..‘Father, why have you forsaken me?’ ..represents..."

“Man simply cannot find meaning in his suffering. ..‘Father, why have you forsaken me?’ ..represents both the impotence of God and the meaninglessness of his own suffering”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117013846919

"Prohibition ..enters in order to pacify the situation, to rid us of the inherent impossibility"

“Prohibition ..enters in order to pacify the situation, to rid us of the inherent impossibility”

-  SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how when it has no hidden underside, the prohibiting Law is without a superego and allows us to be free of anxiety  http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116971499030

"the ever-lacking object-cause of desire is ..nothing but an ..embodiment of a certain lack; ..its..."

“the ever-lacking object-cause of desire is ..nothing but an ..embodiment of a certain lack; ..its fascinating presence is here only to mask the emptiness of the place it occupies, the emptiness which is exactly the lack in the Other—which makes the big Other (the symbolic order) inconsistent.”

- The Sublime Object Of Ideology, p195 -  SLAVOJ ZIZEK
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116926444775

"Fantasy is a defence against the desire of the Other, against ..the desire of the Other beyond..."

“Fantasy is a defence against the desire of the Other, against ..the desire of the Other beyond fantasy.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116908752382

"The desire with regard to which we must not ‘give way’ is the ..desire of the Other beyond fantasy."

“The desire with regard to which we must not ‘give way’ is the ..desire of the Other beyond fantasy.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how “the desire structured through fantasy is a defence against the desire of the Other” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116898107671

"The ‘lost object’ which sets in motion my desire is ..the subject herself"

“The ‘lost object’ which sets in motion my desire is ..the subject herself”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK how subjectivity as based on lack works as a strange attractor that keeps every human life in motion http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116850539532

"all our productivity.., all our attempts to generate new meanings, is..a longing to regain the lost...."

“all our productivity.., all our attempts to generate new meanings, is..a longing to regain the lost. ..Thing.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116850502492

"That our lives are forever out of joint is what propels us towards permanent creativity."

“That our lives are forever out of joint is what propels us towards permanent creativity.”



- slavoj zizek on symbolic castration http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116850492967

"The difference between drive and desire is..that, in desire..this fixation onto a partial object..."

“The difference between drive and desire is..that, in desire..this fixation onto a partial object is..[too] “transcendentalized,” [too] transposed into a stand-in for the void”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116801371468

"the beloved feels that her lover sees something ..“in herself more than herself’.., which ..is..."

“the beloved feels that her lover sees something ..“in herself more than herself’.., which ..is the inscription of desire into its object, ..what the lover sees is the lost part of himself contained in ..the Other”



- LESS THAN NOTHING - SLAVOJ ZIZEK on something “which exists only for the lover’s gaze” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116785106618

"if we want to avoid all totalitarian threats and so on, ..we should all go to this ..experience of..."

“if we want to avoid all totalitarian threats and so on, ..we should all go to this ..experience of accepting that at some day everything will finish, that at any point the end may be near.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on “the attitude of ..Justine, played by Kirsten Dunst, this inner peace, how she accepts this.” And on Lacan’s concept of subjectivity as lack in Lars von Trier’s film MELANCHOLIA
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116712739600

"..The very failure to reach, ..the endless circulation.., generates a satisfaction of its own. The..."

“..The very failure to reach, ..the endless circulation.., generates a satisfaction of its own. The true aim of a drive is not to reach its goal, but to circulate endlessly around it.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how “fixation onto a partial object, is ..a stand-in for the void of the Thing [as the object is taken to be the Thing].” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116697696484

"man’s partner is ..woman ..reduced to the fantasy-object! ..For something real to be experienced..."

“man’s partner is ..woman ..reduced to the fantasy-object! ..For something real to be experienced ..“reality,” it must fit the ..coordinates of our fantasy-space”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116454840841

"Woman ..offers the mask as ..pretence, in order to give rise to the search for the secret behind the..."

“Woman ..offers the mask as ..pretence, in order to give rise to the search for the secret behind the mask.”



- Man tries to live up to his image, i.e., that he really is what he pretends to be; the trick of the feminine masquerade is to present itself as a mask that conceals the feminine secret.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116370266471

"In the figure of the lady, ..woman as sexual object, reaches existence, .. this inaccessible..."

“In the figure of the lady, ..woman as sexual object, reaches existence, .. this inaccessible absolute other.. ..At the price of being posited as an inaccessible thing”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116355768796

"as such, the sexual relationship cannot be transposed into a symmetrical relationship between pure..."

“as such, the sexual relationship cannot be transposed into a symmetrical relationship between pure subjects.”



- the sexual relationship is condemned to remain an asymmetrical non-relationship in which the Other, our partner, prior to being a subject, is a Thing, an ‘inhuman partner’

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116335889807

"Every translation of sexual difference into a set of symbolic opposition(s) is doomed to fail....."

“Every translation of sexual difference into a set of symbolic opposition(s) is doomed to fail.. ..This ..“impossibility” ..opens up the terrain of the hegemonic struggle for what “sexual difference” will mean.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116335878422

"In this empty place in the very heart of the Other, we must locate the problematic of the death..."

“In this empty place in the very heart of the Other, we must locate the problematic of the death drive.”



- [Objet a is] a pure void, [the] cause of desire: a cause which ..in itself doesn’t exist +..is present only in a series of its effects.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how jouissance thus doesn’t exist. Jouissance is the enjoyment one looks for in the Other, in whom one presumes to see objet a, enchanted by something that isn’t actually there http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116311437040

"In desire, the subject longs for the (lost) object, whereas in drive, the subject makes herself an..."

“In desire, the subject longs for the (lost) object, whereas in drive, the subject makes herself an object ..of “making-oneself-seen,” not simply of wanting to see”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the shift from desire to drive, from being only seeing to being seen, from idealizing to taking part in life http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116043239160

"pleasure [is] generated by repression itself, which is why we lose it if we abolish repression."

“pleasure [is] generated by repression itself, which is why we lose it if we abolish repression.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115849223863

"the idiot for whom I endeavour to formulate a theoretical point as clearly as possible is ultimately..."

“the idiot for whom I endeavour to formulate a theoretical point as clearly as possible is ultimately myself.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115759118719

"when police are no longer perceived as the agent of law, of the legal order, but as just another..."

“when police are no longer perceived as the agent of law, of the legal order, but as just another violent social agent, protests against the predominant social order also tend to take a different turn: that of exploding “abstract negativity” – in short, raw, aimless violence.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115731436916

"It is not enough to “sacrifice everything”; one still has to renounce the subjective economy in..."

“It is not enough to “sacrifice everything”; one still has to renounce the subjective economy in which sacrifice leads to narcissistic jouissance.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the hidden enjoyment of playing the victim who sacrifices
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115665475493

"Woman ..appears to the obsessive as possessing ..self-destructive jouissance. The obsessive will..."

“Woman ..appears to the obsessive as possessing ..self-destructive jouissance. The obsessive will ..save her from her own jouissance, even if it comes at the cost of her destruction.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115588690011

"The subject is internal to the substantial Other because he is identified with the blockage, the..."

“The subject is internal to the substantial Other because he is identified with the blockage, the “impossibility” of arriving at a closed self-identity.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115482781441

all authentic beliefs ..cannot be based on a chain of reasoning-...

all authentic beliefs ..cannot be based on a chain of reasoning

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115427590256

"woman’s impossibility of achieving an identity with herself ..is why woman is a symptom of man"

“woman’s impossibility of achieving an identity with herself ..is why woman is a symptom of man”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115279690242

"Sacrifice is ultimately the gesture by means of which we aim at compensating the guilt imposed by..."

“Sacrifice is ultimately the gesture by means of which we aim at compensating the guilt imposed by the impossible superego injunction.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115264611416

"Love is the “interpretation of the other’s desire”: by way of offering myself to the other, I..."

“Love is the “interpretation of the other’s desire”: by way of offering myself to the other, I interpret his desire as the desire for myself and thereby obfuscate the enigma of the other’s desire.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115177710643

"the very decision to kill himself, ..allows him to survive: ‘OK, the pressure is too much, I’ll kill..."

“the very decision to kill himself, ..allows him to survive: ‘OK, the pressure is too much, I’ll kill myself - not now, but one of these days, so it’s decided, let’s go on with business as usual.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115103626954

the pervert’s fundamental illusion is that he possesses a...

the pervert’s fundamental illusion is that he possesses a (symbolic) knowledge which enables him to regulate his access to jouissance - SLAVOJ ZIZEK

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114780477395

"Why the word ‘fuck’, and not the word ‘making love’? According to Lacanian..."

“Why the word ‘fuck’, and not the word ‘making love’? According to Lacanian theory, ‘we fuck in order to escape and stifle the excess of the dream that would otherwise overwhelm us,’ Zizek says.”



- ANDRE VANTINO on what exactly strong language is about, it references a feeling of existence described by Freud as death instinct, as overintensity of life that cannot be fully stifled http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114680000843

"The lack of prhibition ..throws us into the suffocating proximity ..we lack the breathing space..."

“The lack of prhibition ..throws us into the suffocating proximity ..we lack the breathing space provided by the prohibition [that would allow us to] assert our individuality through our resistance to the Norm.”



- What causes anxiety is the elevation of transgression into the norm, ..What causes anxiety is ..the lack of the prohibition that would sustain desire. .. ..[When prohibiton is no longer shaping society] ..the Norm [suffocatingly] enjoins us ..to violate, to go further and further.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114629573477

"The illusion that pertains to objet a, is ..the ..illusion ..that, behind it, there is the lost..."

“The illusion that pertains to objet a, is ..the ..illusion ..that, behind it, there is the lost substance of jouissance..”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114606750830

"Far from constraining in advance the variety of sexual arrangements, the Real of sexual difference..."

“Far from constraining in advance the variety of sexual arrangements, the Real of sexual difference is the traumatic cause that sets in motion their contingent proliferation.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114565037823

"fantasy is ..always a fantasy of the sexual relationship, a staging of it. As such, fantasy is not..."

“fantasy is ..always a fantasy of the sexual relationship, a staging of it. As such, fantasy is not to be interpreted: ..there is nothing ‘behind’ it, ..fantasy masks precisely this ‘nothing’.”



- Fantasy is ..filling out the empty space of a fundamental impossibility, a screen masking a void.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114552541745

"The presymbolic, eternally feminine is a retroactive, patriarchal fantasy, ..the exception which..."

“The presymbolic, eternally feminine is a retroactive, patriarchal fantasy, ..the exception which grounds the reign of the phallus, ..the .

.retroactive legitimization of the male rule.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114534067217

"sexuality can infect everything: not because it is “the strongest” component in people’s lives,..."

“sexuality can infect everything: not because it is “the strongest” component in people’s lives, exerting a hegemony over all other components, but because it is the one most radically thwarted in its actualization”



- LESS THAN NOTHING - SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114504669709

"It’s only in cinema that we get that crucial dimension which we are not ready to confront in our..."

“It’s only in cinema that we get that crucial dimension which we are not ready to confront in our reality.”



- Slavoj Zizek http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114478172968

"The aspiration to fullness is transferred to partial objects -..an infinite longing for the Thing..."

“The aspiration to fullness is transferred to partial objects -..an infinite longing for the Thing which gets fixated onto a partial object”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114431963413

"Desire desires desiring itself"

“Desire desires desiring itself”



- Less Than Nothing - SLAVOJ ZIZEK, borrowing from NIETZSCHE http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114416953017

"[Something] loses its “alienated” character of a foreign force.., the moment the subject renounces..."

“[Something] loses its “alienated” character of a foreign force.., the moment the subject renounces its attachment to ..the notion that there is deep inside [it] some..treasure”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114396397442

"The sublime object is an object which cannot be approached too closely: if we get too near it, it..."

“The sublime object is an object which cannot be approached too closely: if we get too near it, it loses its sublime features”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114389501686

"It is in desire that the positive object is a ..stand-in for the void of the impossible Thing."

“It is in desire that the positive object is a ..stand-in for the void of the impossible Thing.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how desire, not drive, goes after something impossible http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114358130072

"The subject’s desire is the desire to ascertain her status as the object of the Other"

“The subject’s desire is the desire to ascertain her status as the object of the Other”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on our wanting to know who we are for others http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114358077282

"The symptom is ..a way for the subject to organize his enjoyment. ..That is why he “loves his..."

“The symptom is ..a way for the subject to organize his enjoyment. ..That is why he “loves his symptom more than himself.””



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the question “Why, in spite of its interpretation, does the symptom not dissolve itself’? http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114301020862

"when he speaks, it is the big Other who speaks (or, rather, keeps silence) through him; he is not..."

“when he speaks, it is the big Other who speaks (or, rather, keeps silence) through him; he is not just another subject, he occupies the empty place of death. The analyst’s silence stands for the absent meaning of the patient’s talk,”



- LESS THAN NOTHING - SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the function of silence in the psychoanalytic session - silence as the experience of the smallness of the Other, the lover, the friend, the parent http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114276922342

"When the subject encounters a lack in the Other, he responds ..with his own lack"

“When the subject encounters a lack in the Other, he responds ..with his own lack”



- [Wagner’s Tristan is] the murderer of her betrothed. When ..Isolde raised the sword to stab him, the suffering ..surrender ..aroused ..her love + she ..let him go.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on love as a way of accepting lack http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114267789957

"in love, I also am nothing, ..made rich through the very awareness of its lack."

““in love, I also am nothing, ..made rich through the very awareness of its lack.””



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114267766657

"..The pervert’s subjective position is the attitude of radical self-instramentalization, of turning..."

“..The pervert’s subjective position is the attitude of radical self-instramentalization, of turning oneself into the pure instrument-object”



- The sadistic pervert is not a passionate figure of demoniac evil but a thoroughly depersonalized ‘bureaucrat of Evil’, a pure executioner - there is no psychological depth in his personality, no complex cobweb of traumatic motivations.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114207141785

"The more the subject’s structure is “narcissistic,” the more he blames the big Other, and thus..."

“The more the subject’s structure is “narcissistic,” the more he blames the big Other, and thus asserts his dependence on it.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114089930447

"what he loves is the vision of himself displaying his love for her."

“what he loves is the vision of himself displaying his love for her.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on Orpheus http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114089890612

"Orpheus ..loses Euridice intentionally in order to regain her as the object of sublime poetic..."

“Orpheus ..loses Euridice intentionally in order to regain her as the object of sublime poetic inspiration.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on “the link between the death-drive and creative sublimation” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114089881942

"What interests me are the ..sado-masochistic ..practices. You never go to the end, you just repeat a..."

“What interests me are the ..sado-masochistic ..practices. You never go to the end, you just repeat a certain foreplay, ..[enabling] a certain distance”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how BDSM creates a “distance, ..far from spoiling enjoyment makes it even more intense” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114070021747

"the ‘sublime object of ideology’ is the … object which has no positive … consistency, but merely..."

“the ‘sublime object of ideology’ is the … object which has no positive … consistency, but merely fills in the gap of a certain constitutive impossibility.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114055695737

"..The precious agalma perceived..as the unique..kernel which cannot be shared by others..."

“..The precious agalma perceived..as the unique..kernel which cannot be shared by others (non-believers) is precisely jouissance”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how one is trapped in the idea of what the Other is like, what their jouissance is like, if one overestimates the Other by overestimating their impossible jouissance http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114043989597

"The notion of symptom is the necessary counterpoint to [deconstructivism’s notion of constructed..."

“The notion of symptom is the necessary counterpoint to [deconstructivism’s notion of constructed identities] ..The ..symptom [is] the substance of enjoyment ..around which this signifying interplay is structured”



- "the fundamental gesture of poststructuralism is to deconstruct every identity".

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the Lacanian notion of symptom as the glue which holds the subject together http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114004107777

"The analyst’s silence stands for the absent meaning of the patient’s talk"

“The analyst’s silence stands for the absent meaning of the patient’s talk”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on coming to terms with the lack at the centre of subjectivity by working with language and through language and by having the analyst present as the locus that gives my language a direction as if it gives the lack of myself and the lack of language a locus or a meaning through which one can arrive at being okay with lack and with lack of meaning. http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113957293855

"morality or “the good” is a defense mechanism and an imaginary relation towards reality in which the..."

“morality or “the good” is a defense mechanism and an imaginary relation towards reality in which the moralist sees everything he cannot control in his obsessive life as evil”



- ANDRE VANTINO on how, in Zizek’s words, “Evil is hatred for all that fails to correspond to our idea of Good” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113950004747

"The subject ..“causes itself”, becomes its own cause. ..The enigma of the Other’s desire no longer..."

“The subject ..“causes itself”, becomes its own cause. ..The enigma of the Other’s desire no longer has any hold over it.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113883808118

"Anxiety signals not ..loss ..but overproximity.."

“Anxiety signals not ..loss ..but overproximity..”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on feeling anxious because one has nothing that one can desire, one has no desire left that would destract from anxiety, because one already has everything and feels guilty for no reason in the midst of this saturation http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113872194204

"Accepting guilt is a manoeuvre which delivers us of anxiety, and its presence signals that the..."

“Accepting guilt is a manoeuvre which delivers us of anxiety, and its presence signals that the subject compromised his desire.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113857656677

"What gives ..satisfaction is not promiscuity as such, but the very accompanying feeling of being..."

“What gives ..satisfaction is not promiscuity as such, but the very accompanying feeling of being miserable”



- Guilt is a fake enabling us to give ourselves over to pleasures - when this frame falls away, anxiety arises.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113844639565

"The psychoanalyst reduces himself to the void, which provokes the subject into confronting ..desire."

“The psychoanalyst reduces himself to the void, which provokes the subject into confronting ..desire.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113827530163

"Zizek: Distrust of the big Other (the order of symbolic fictions) and refusal to take it seriously..."

“Zizek: Distrust of the big Other (the order of symbolic fictions) and refusal to take it seriously ends up in today’s conspiracy theories.” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113703312489

"It is in desire that the positive object is a.. stand-in for the void of the impossible Thing."

“It is in desire that the positive object is a.. stand-in for the void of the impossible Thing.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113495865176

"Does Fight Club not enact the obscene underside of the “normal” capitalist subject? ..Perversion or..."

“Does Fight Club not enact the obscene underside of the “normal” capitalist subject? ..Perversion or transgression are not necessarily emancipatory today.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK, on how “the universe of commodities: instead” “we get an aestheticist explosion of violence.” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113365841794

"men..take refuge in relentless activity in order to escape the proper dimension of the act. The..."

“men..take refuge in relentless activity in order to escape the proper dimension of the act. The retreat of man from woman..is..a retreat from the death drive as a radical ethical stance”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113332039613

In wanting me, what you want is the fantasmatic image of me. I...

In wanting me, what you want is the fantasmatic image of me. I will thwart your desire by directly gratifying it. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK (paraphrased)

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113264518873

"..Apple? ..The boss of FoxConn ..said ..that he wants to learn from the zoo how you can discipline +..."

“..Apple? ..The boss of FoxConn ..said ..that he wants to learn from the zoo how you can discipline + control hundreds of thousands of animals. He explicitly referred to FoxConn as a big zoo.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK talking at cafe oto about the tycoon who produces apple products http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113250820812

"[The way in which the film depicts her] progressive suffering [puts] us in the position of the..."

“[The way in which the film depicts her] progressive suffering [puts] us in the position of the sadistic observer secretly enjoying what he officially condemns”



- [Lars von Trier’s film Dancer in the Dark professes] compassion with the excessively good heroine. [But the way in which the film depicts her] progressive suffering [puts] us in the position of the sadistic observer secretly enjoying what he officially condms: this sadistic pleasure is ..the hidden truth of compassion. And for this, von Trier should never be forgiven.

- Lenin’s Choice - SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113064652032

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http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/112810179821

"if you really love a woman or a man, ..you don’t idealize him or her. ..You accept a person with all..."

“if you really love a woman or a man, ..you don’t idealize him or her. ..You accept a person with all its failures”



- s. zizek http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/112537823205