"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