"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