“The Wagnerian Sublime enacts the overpowering force of the …unconditional demand of love. One can say that the Wagnerian Sublime is the absolute emotion,” Zizek writes in The Wagnerian Sublime. “When religion becomes artificial, art can save the true spirit of religion, its hidden truth,…abandoning the dogma and rendering only the authentic religous emotion”, Zizek says, summarizing Wagner’s wager of transforming religion into art as an aesthetic experience.

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a prohibition of asserting the particular identity of White Men (as the model of oppression of others) although it presents itself as the admission of their guilt nonetheless confers on them a central position: this very prohibition to assert their particular identity makes them into the neutral medium the place from which the truth about the others oppression is accessible.

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Where shamelessness resides in openly displaying one’s castration, shame enacts a desperate attempt to keep up the appearance: although I know the truth, let us pretend it hasn’t happened.

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The most elementary structure of fantasy is that when I have sex I fantasize that somebody is observing me.

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It is the setting of a firm limit which is liberating, and it is the very absence of a firm limit which is experienced as suffocating. This is why the Kantian autonomy of the subject is so difficult—its implication is precisely that there is nobody outside, no external agent of “natural authority,” who can do the job for me and set me my limit, that I myself have to pose a limit to my natural “unruliness.”

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My home is where my books are, Zizek says. https://t.co/I8wakn5BDS

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I’m paranoid about IQ tests as I’ve a deep distrust of myself & I fear that if I took one I’d find out I’m an idiot https://t.co/HLz6CrgBRv

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