"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
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"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 
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