"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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"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