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Sunday, 31 January 2016
In wanting me, what you want is the fantasmatic image of me. I will thwart your desire by directly gratifying it.
(paraphrased) SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1Q3fLx6
Saturday, 30 January 2016
The unconscious is the thought without being, not being itself.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on rereadings of ‘I am not where I think’ and ‘I do not think where I am’ http://ift.tt/1JPuuiC
Friday, 29 January 2016
There is an aspect of truth in the conservative claim that the freedom of the modern subject is ‘false’. ..There are fewer and fewer prohibitions, and more and more norms-ideals to follow. ..Prohibition re-emerges in the guise of the ferocious superego that fills the subject with guilt.
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Thursday, 28 January 2016
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Do not the commodified provocations to enjoy..push us toward..masturbatory, ‘asocial’ jouissance?
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on capitalism’s push for enjoyment http://ift.tt/2057Mdq
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Monday, 25 January 2016
They asked Mary Magdalene to…seduce Christ.. ..But..she run out screaming. ..She explained: “I..showed to Christ my pussy. He…said “What a terrible wound! It should be healed”, and gently put his palm on it.” So beware of..healing other people’s wounds; what if one enjoys one’s wound
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To go through the zero-point of losing everything,..to give up the very kernel of her being, that which means everything,..assuming existential indifference is..the very gesture of absolute negativity that gives birth to the subject.
Subjective destitution.. is..another name for the subject itself (i.e., for the void beyond the theater of hysterical subjectivizations).” SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1Sel4yi
Sunday, 24 January 2016
Saturday, 23 January 2016
Judith Butler’s best book, The Psychic Life of Power..applies the Freudian lesson that identification is identification with a lost object.. ..You become your lost object, you become what you have to renounce. … In other words, you become a woman by abandoning the woman as object and so on.
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Friday, 22 January 2016
Judith Butler accuses Dolar of..idealizing the big Other. Dolar doesn’t claim that there exists an ideal..big Other. Dolar merely claims that.. practices and..rituals of effective social institutions..do not suffice i.e. the subject has to presuppose the symbolic institution, an ideal structure
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From the fear of losing our anchorage in the big Other, we should pass to the terror of there being no big Other. The old formula “there is nothing to fear but fear itself” acquires thus a new and unexpected meaning
The fact that there is nothing to fear is the most terrifying fact imaginable. ..what we are afraid to lose, what is threatened by what we are afraid of (nature, the life-world, the symbolic substance of our community…) has always-already been lost. - slavoj zizek http://ift.tt/20jiHwK
Thursday, 21 January 2016
The fascinating..Other functions as a..means..by means of which we are able to preserve the unproblematic identity of our subjective position
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on seeking to not encounter the Other fully but rather keeping the Other distant Otherness in order to construct on the grounds of this distance an identity, distinguishing oneself in imaginary ways. http://ift.tt/1Jk1U8N
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
What bothers Kafka is the over-presence of his father: he is too much alive, too obscenely intrusive. However, this father’s over-presence is not a direct fact: it appears as such only against the background of the suspension of the father’s symbolic function.
This father’s “too-muchness”..is ultimately the too-muchness of life itself, the humiliating quality of the father’s excess of vitality which undermines his authority. ..It is not that father’s excessive vitality undermines his symbolic authority; it is, rather, the other way round, i.e., the very fact that one is bothered by father’s excessive vitality already presupposes the failure of symbolic authority. ..Kafka’s reluctance to assume the Name-of-the-Father is the very indication of his failure to break with and off from the father. ..The true function of the Name-of-the-Father..is..to allow the subject to “symbolically kill” the father, to be able to abandon father..and freely set on one’s own path in the world.” - SLAVOJ ZIZEK on Kafka’s symptomatic claim that ‘it would have been possible for him,’ in Zizek’s words, 'to establish a non-traumatic relationship with him, if he were his friend, brother, boss, even father-in-law, just not his father’ http://ift.tt/1T6l049
Today’s..impasse of..authority..is..the..father’s growing reluctance to accept the symbolic mandate “father”. ..The true universality is not that of the ideal being-a-father, but that of failure itself.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on ‘being-a-father’ as an ideal which 'fathers endeavor to approach and’ which they necessarily fail to achieve http://ift.tt/1Sxjxoh
I told my son,..let the dog scew your mother. He said: ‘a dog already did that and I’m the result.’
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Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Kafka’s universe is that of extreme alienation: the subject is confronted with an..Other whose machinery functions in an..‘irrational’ way. ..The..stance..towards this Other is that of impotent fascination.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the experience of seeing in-groups with the feeling of not belonging, looking at them as Other, in Kafka’s novels the Court and the Castle bureaucracy and their implicit rules create a sense of being shut out by the Otherness within those others of one group. http://ift.tt/1Pfgvoq
Monday, 18 January 2016
Capital does not engender itself. Capital..exploits the worker’s surplus value
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the ‘unconsious’ fantasy that capital itself creates capital and the belief that there is such a thing as a mysterious self-generating circular movement of capital. http://ift.tt/1V34Gjh
In ‘300’ ..the main characters are ‘placed against an artifical background, ..which produces an ..uncanny ‘closed’ world,’ a kind of relief-world ..creating..a perfect figuration of our socio-ideological predicament.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the predicament of capitalist end-times thinking http://ift.tt/1JUpWHu
Sunday, 17 January 2016
The man from the country waiting at the entrance to the court is fascinated by the secret beyond the door he is forbidden to trespass. In the end, the power of fascination exerted by the court is dispelled.
But how, exactly? Its power is lost when the door keeper tells him that this entrance was, from the very start, meant only for him. In other words, he tells the man from the country that the thing that fascinated him was, in a way, gazing back at him all along, addressing him. That is, the man’s desire was from the very start “part of the game.” The whole spectacle of the Door of the Law and the secret beyond it was staged only to capture his desire. If the power of fascination is to produce its effect, this fact must remain concealed. As soon as the subject becomes aware that the other gazes at him (that the door is meant only for him), the fascination is dispelled. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1RuQtxv
In the film Vertigo the diļ¬erence between the two fakes..renders all the more palpable the absolute otherness of Madeleine with regard to Judy – the Madeleine that is given nowhere, that is present just in the guise of the ethereal “aura” that envelops Judy–Madeleine.
The Real is the appearance as appearance, it not only appears WITHIN appearances, but it is also NOTHING BUT its own appearance – it is just a certain GRIMACE of reality, a certain imperceptible, unfathomable, ultimately illusory feature that accounts for the absolute diļ¬erence within the identity. - slavoj zizek. Looking_Awry http://ift.tt/1OXweXa
The Law..is the inherent obverse..of desire,..the internal..obstacle constitutive of desire..and thus ultimately identical to desire itself. ..“Desire is a defence, a prohibition against going beyond a certain limit in jouissance
The prohibition (to marry the Duke) which sustains her desire for him and eternalizes it, elevating it into an absolute, is a defence against the..turmoil of excessive jouissance of the consummated relationship with him. The true Law/ Prohibition is thus not imposed “by virtue and reason,” i.e. by an agency external to itself, but by desire itself – Law IS desire. SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1JS8bZh
Saturday, 16 January 2016
The so-called curtain of phenomena only hides the fact that there is nothing to hide + that this nothingness behind the curtain is the only subject.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on defining subjectivity as emptiness of being http://ift.tt/1OoLVVL
Friday, 15 January 2016
Kafka clearly noticed this paradox apropos of father’s demands that he should become an autonomous person who succeeds on his own. ..This is the obscene superego.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the paradox of wishing one’s son to succeed while being too much of a superego to the son and thus preventing the son’s success by taking away the son’s confidence http://ift.tt/1RqcCwY
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
love occurs when the loving subject discovers that the treasure in the beloved is just a deceiving fetish, that the true treasure is the fragile beloved
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Tuesday, 12 January 2016
The Unconscious ..registers the gaps and failures of the Other. ..When ‘it speaks ..through me’, it is not the big Other with speaks,..but..the failures..and inconsistencies of the big Other. — ‘I am spoken’
To bring to word my subjective position of enunciation, is to let myself be surprised by what I say, to experience my own words as a case of ĆÆt speaks in..me”. This is what happens in the case of a symptom: in ..a symptom, ..my true subjective position finds a way to articulate itself against my will and intention. ..In this empty place in the very heart of the Other, we must locate the problematic of the death drive. SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1TSJigj
Monday, 11 January 2016
Private disobedience in socialism and the withdrawing into the private is too quickly perceived as subversive. Private subversion was so common that..socialism went on much longer in a corrupt form because its obedient citizens considered themselves subversive in their private activities
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Moral majority..and tolerant multiculturalists..both share..the fascination with the Other. In moral majority, this fascination displays the envious hatred of the Other’s excessive jouissance
The multiculturalist tolerance of the Other’s Otherness is also more twisted than it may appear – it is sustained by a secret desire for the Other to REMAIN “other,” not to become too much like us. SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1OKY2hd
Sunday, 10 January 2016
Judith Butler..limits the subject’s intervention to..resignifications..of the basic “passionate attachment,” which therefore persists as the..condition of subjectivity. ..In the field from which she speaks, there is no place for the Freudian unconscious
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on Judith Butler’s ‘disavowal of psychoanalysis’ http://ift.tt/1OImnV2
A society which celebrates choice but..the only available alternative..is a blind acting out. Opposition to the system can no longer articulate itself in the form of a realistic alternative, or even as a utopian project, but can only take the shape of a meaningless outburst.
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Saturday, 9 January 2016
This idea that if you talk to a director..you..discover something amazing, some secret. What they know is in what they produce.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK on mistakenly expecting to find in someone the more than herself. This more in her than her is only found in what she produces, and not even she herself will fully understand it, it is a secret even to her. This is the case with film directors as much as with celebrities and other people we desire to have a secret factor X, a hidden ‘objet a’, a magic agalma which would make them special to us. http://ift.tt/1IWrFvC
Friday, 8 January 2016
(Sometimes masked in the form of making a sacrifice) ..acting out..attempts to attest once ‘innocence..’ to 'shed the intolerable burdon of guilt’. … 'Acting out embodies a ..reproach to the Other.’
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Thursday, 7 January 2016
“Moral Law is a fierce order which does not admit excuses—"you can because you must “— and which in this way receives an air of mischievous neutrality, of mean indifference.” - According to Lacan, Kant avoids the other side of this neutrality of moral law, its meanness and its obscenity, its mischievousness which goes back to the enjoyment behind the law’s command; Lacan ties this dissimulation to the fact that Kant avoids the split of the subject (subject of speech/subject of grammar) SLAVOJ ZIZEK (via slavoj–zizek)
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Wednesday, 6 January 2016
“The “melancholy disease” appears … when the subject is closed off from meaningful expression.” - The melancholic..indifference and apathy is..linked to the impossibility of future-significant action. In melancholia a phantasy of dispossession..is at work. SLAVOJ ZIZEK (via slavoj–zizek)
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“‘You should visit her only if you really want to - if not, you should stay at home!’ The superego trick lies in this false appearance of a free choice, which, as every child knows, is actually a forced choice that involves an even stronger order” - Not only ‘You must visit Grandma, however you feel!’, but ‘You must visit Grandma, and, furthermore, you must be glad to do it!’ - the superego orders you to enjoy doing what you have to do. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK. The Ticklish Subject (via slavoj–zizek)
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“That is what the symptom does: it plugs up the “there is no such thing”’ with ’“there is.” Given that the appropriate partner for jouissance is lacking, a symptom puts in place some thing else, a substitute, an element proper to incarnate jouissance,’ Ragland writes.” - (via ellie-ragland)
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“When a sword cuts into one’s soul,..accept the coldness of the sword.. ..By means of the stab,..become invulnerable.” - FRANZ KAFKA on how “the wound is healed only by the spear that smote you”, as Zizek says: “Hegel’s point is..not to regain what was lost but to accept..loss..as liberating. ..Wagner’s “the wound is healed only by the spear that smote you” means: the only way to undo the..turn of..events, is to return..to the moment of the wrong decision and to repeat the choice” (via franz–kafka)
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Tuesday, 5 January 2016
“‘after the first penetration, and the pain I felt, I thought “oh, well, I am here to pay for Eve’s initial sin”. I am still not over the feeling of guilt every time I indulge into any sexual activity, and so not letting desire to fulfill itself. Desire can only be achieved through a ritual activity, where you are not you anymore,’ artist Nastia Yeremenko writes” - (via andre-vantino)
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Monday, 4 January 2016
“Joyce’s art ‘enabled him to inscribe himself in the Symbolic, thus keeping himself from identifying only with the jouissance attached to the symptoms’ ‘we love more than ourselves’. 'Why would we love our symptoms above all else? Because the jouissance they produce functions as a glue, giving an Imaginary consistency to our lives,’ Ragland writes.” - (via ellie-ragland)
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“‘It is in my nature. I collect relations.’ ‘As soon as you touch something it becomes ordinary. It is quite sad. I kind of see myself from a distance and when you come closer there is nothing interesting anywhere,’ artist Nastia Yeremenko says about desire as constant receding of the gardens that always escape our approaching” - (via andre-vantino)
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“The “melancholy disease” appears … when the subject is closed off from meaningful expression.” - The melancholic..indifference and apathy is..linked to the impossibility of future-significant action. In melancholia a phantasy of dispossession..is at work. SLAVOJ ZIZEK (via slavoj–zizek)
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“‘access to the Real as impossible’ ‘does not mean that Joyce’s writing is impossible. As Jacques-Alain Miller points out, the object a is not the impossible, is not the Real itself. Rather, it is seen between the Real and the Symbolic. It shows the contortions of the Symbolic trying to designate the Real through naming some object which is not quite sayable or visible. One can stop right here and mention Joyce’s play Exiles as continually stumbling over the object a, the stopper or limit placed on the jouissance proper to a symptom. The questions constituting the play are: what is freedom? truth? trust? adultery? sexual attraction? love? suffering? We meet the object a in language all the time, Miller says, as a function of the Symbolic trying to master the Real,’ Ragland writes.” - (via ellie-ragland)
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Sunday, 3 January 2016
“‘Make of yourself what you are’ and accept your symptom, Kafka says. ’“Salvation is an act of purely formal conversion,” writes Žižek, “a shift of perspective”. ‘We suddenly perceive our desire to be always already satisfied and the Messiah to have always already arrived,’ Comay writes.” - (via andre-vantino)
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“‘Josephine wants the impossible’: ‘a place beyond the law, beyond the equality-and equality is the essential feature of the mouse-folk’. 'She wants her status of the exception to be..symbolically recognized, properly glorified. She wants to be, like the sovereign, both inside and outside the law’. 'The moment art does this, it is cooked. The very break it has introduced is reduced to just another social function,’ Dolar writes.” - (via andre-vantino)
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Friday, 1 January 2016
big Other is this agency of social rules … which confers on everything we do a minimal aspect of theatricality
big Other is this agency of social rules … which confers on everything we do a minimal aspect of theatricality
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
our desire is always … mediated by the Other (the symbolic texture which provides the scripts for possible desires) slavoj zizek
our desire is always … mediated by the Other (the symbolic texture which provides the scripts for possible desires) slavoj zizek
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
Jelinek had a Lacanian phrase: we must torture language to make it tell the truth. s. zizek
Jelinek had a Lacanian phrase: we must torture language to make it tell the truth. s. zizek
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
man’s object is..the fantasy..to which no actual woman can ever correspond..The ..actual woman in her uniqueness is annihilated Slavoj Zizek
man’s object is..the fantasy..to which no actual woman can ever correspond..The ..actual woman in her uniqueness is annihilated Slavoj Zizek
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
there is no relationship between what the loved one possesses and what the loving one lacks
there is no relationship between what the loved one possesses and what the loving one lacks
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
’.” “[I am not really] in love … when I am simply fascinated by the […] other
’.” “[I am not really] in love … when I am simply fascinated by the […] other
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
. … I am in love … when I experience the other … as frail and lost, as lacking” — Slavoj Zizek
. … I am in love … when I experience the other … as frail and lost, as lacking” — Slavoj Zizek
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
Zizek: In wanting me,what you want is the fantasmatic image of me. I’ll thwart ur desire by directly gratifying it https://t.co/3m7z1wOxZz
Zizek: In wanting me,what you want is the fantasmatic image of me. I’ll thwart ur desire by directly gratifying it http://pic.twitter.com/3m7z1wOxZz
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
We are too narcissistic to risk any kind of accidental trip or FALL. Even into love. Zizek
We are too narcissistic to risk any kind of accidental trip or FALL. Even into love. Zizek
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
'awareness that there is no hidden content, makes [a woman] even more enigmatic,' Zizek writes on the femme fatale in noir films
'awareness that there is no hidden content, makes [a woman] even more enigmatic,' Zizek writes on the femme fatale in noir films
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
there is no (full, reciprocal) love, there is only an immense need for love
there is no (full, reciprocal) love, there is only an immense need for love
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
. Perhaps, it is only when one is in love that one can fully confront one’s fundamental solitude. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK
. Perhaps, it is only when one is in love that one can fully confront one’s fundamental solitude. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
everything is possible. But when you say let’s raise the taxes + spend a little bit ..money for healthcare.. - impossible
everything is possible. But when you say let’s raise the taxes + spend a little bit ..money for healthcare.. - impossible
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
all our attempts to generate new meanings are ..a form of ..a longing to regain the lost ..Thing. Slavoj Zizek
all our attempts to generate new meanings are ..a form of ..a longing to regain the lost ..Thing. Slavoj Zizek
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
There'd be no cinema viewer finding pleasure in observing' ' if the' 'structure of subjectivity were not' 'impassive fascinated perplexed'
There'd be no cinema viewer finding pleasure in observing' ' if the' 'structure of subjectivity were not' 'impassive fascinated perplexed'
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
We feel, at least I do, a kind of terrorist pressure beneath the compliant tolerance of New Age preachers.
We feel, at least I do, a kind of terrorist pressure beneath the compliant tolerance of New Age preachers.
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
'we are not directly ourselves, we play', 'we imitate a fiction of what we are', Zizek writes.
'we are not directly ourselves, we play', 'we imitate a fiction of what we are', Zizek writes.
— slavoj zizek quotes (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
'when the goal of life is directly' chappiness, anxiety & depression are exploding,' Zizek writes.
'when the goal of life is directly' chappiness, anxiety & depression are exploding,' Zizek writes.
— Slavoj Zizek v Lacan (@extimacy) January 1, 2016
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