"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