"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