Fantasy is a way for the subject to answer..what object they’re for the Other in, the eyes of the Other. https://t.co/Ms7aToxRnw

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the symptom implies the great Other as consistent & complete, for its very formation is an appeal to the Other containing the meaning of it.

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The aim of libido is not to reach its object but to circle it—satisfaction is generated by the very repeated failure of direct satisfaction.

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A patient remains within a transferential attitude towards the analyst, remains within desire, bothered by the enig… https://t.co/I86yeZe1vG

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The point of the relationship in which the analyst is passive for the patient is that he remains in a transferential attitude to the analyst

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To gain the beloved woman’s love, the man has to prove he is able to survive without her. https://t.co/Vf2u9Q65V3 https://t.co/jNw12jXhFD

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The message of true love is: even if you are everything to me, I can survive without you, am ready to forsake you. https://t.co/jNw12jXhFD

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The psychoanalyst’s action consists in showing the positive side of symbolization’s failure, the empty space enclosed by this failure.

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man is woman with phallus: the phallus is an imposture, a lure which covers up a preceding unbearable Void.

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“God” is ultimately the name for the purely negative gesture of meaningless sacrifice

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What makes the uncanny uncanny is its homeliness itself, that fact that it is the rise-into-visibility of something too close to us.

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The subject does not overlap with stories it tells itself about itself: take them away, this remains: nothing, pure subject (of deathdrive).

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Much activity is a strategy to keep others’ desire at bay: from E&E Wright’s intro to Is It Possible To Traverse Th… https://t.co/KU1KIiqjEC

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God is the ultimate tamagochi https://t.co/zFIZnLArQz

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identification is, at its most radical, identification with the lost (or rejected) libidinal object https://t.co/OIkz8TCg7u

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Man wants to be loved for what he truly is https://t.co/PfwAMdjqL9

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Hamlet is hindered not by indecision as to his own desire. …What hinders him is doubt concerning the desire of the other (his mother)

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It is this lack in the Other which allows the subject a..‘de­-alienation’…in that the Other itself ‘hasn’t got it’, hasn’t the final answer.

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The Other itself is desiring. This gives the subject a breathing space..to avoid alienation, allowing him to identify himself with the Other

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The Other itself…is in itself blocked, desiring… This lack in the Other gives the subject…a breathing space

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Hamlet knows what he wants: to avenge his father. What prevents him from acting: his doubt as to his (m)other’s desire: what does she want?

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Beyond fantasy we find only drive, pulsation around the sinthome: Going-through-the-fantasy is correlative to identification with a sinthome

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The mythic past cannot be used as a legitimate excuse to seize a piece of land inhabited for a long time by other people. Of course every ethnic group has the full right to keep alive its founding myths and other narratives. I am saying you cannot come to a land out of which you were thrown almost 2,000 years ago—a land which was in the meantime inhabited by other people (and not those who threw you out, i.e., ancient Romans) who have their own myths and narratives concerning this land—and lay claim to it. This doesn’t mean that Jews have no right to this piece of land while Palestinians have the full right to it.

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With all my admiration for Noam Chomsky, I partially disagree with him. It’s an underlying premise of his work that you don’t have to do any theory — just tell all the facts to the people. The way ideology works today is much more mysterious — not more complex, one can always say this, things are always more complex, it means nothing just to say this. People just do not want to know too much. There’s an active refusal to know. If you ask average citizens with enough of their own worries, they’d say, “Don’t even tell me this. We pay taxes so the government can do all the dirty things that I don’t want to know about.”

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Freud proposed as a utopian solution for the deadlocks of humanity the “dictatorship of reason”―men should unite and together subordinate and master their irrational unconscious forces. The problem here, of course, lies with the very distinction between reason and the unconscious: on the one hand, the Freudian unconscious is “rational,” discursive, having nothing to do with a reservoir of dark primitive instincts; on the other hand, reason is for Freud always close to “rationalization,” to finding (false) reasons for a cause whose true nature is disavowed. The intersection between reason and drive is best signaled by the fact that Freud uses the same formulation for both: the voice of reason or of the drive is often silent, slow, but it persists forever. This intersection is our only hope. The communist horizon is peopled by two millennia of failed radical egalitarian rebellions from Spartacus onwards―yes, they were all lost causes, but, as G. K. Chesterton put it in his What’s Wrong with the World, “the lost causes are exactly those which might have saved the world.”

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The riots in the UK in 2011: Bauman was on the right track - he characterized the riots as acts of “defective & disqualified consumers”

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“You call on us to consume while simultaneously depriving us of the possibility to do it properly―so here we are..!” The 2011 UK riots thus in a way stage the truth of “post-ideological society”. …The problem with such riots is not their violence per se, but the fact that it is not truly self-assertive―in Nietzsche’s terms, it is reactive, not active, impotent rage and despair masked as a display of force, envy masked as triumphant carnival.

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We all know about the impending catastrophe, but somehow we cannot take it seriously. … While such a disavowal is clearly discernible in how the majority relates to ecological threats, we can discern the same mechanism in the predominant reaction to the prospect of a new financial collapse: it is difficult to really accept that the long period of post-World-War-II progress and stability in the developed Western world is approaching its end. What makes the situation especially volatile is the fact that the disavowal is supplemented by its opposite, excessive panicky reactions: in the fragile domain of financial speculations, rumors can inflate or destroy the value of companies―sometimes even whole economies―in a matter of days.

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We all know about the impending catastrophe, but somehow we cannot take it seriously. In psychoanalysis, this attitude is called a fetishistic split: I know very well, but … (I do not really believe it), and is a clear indication of the material force of ideology which makes us refuse what we see and know.

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The psychoanalyst gives body to the enigma of the impenetrability of the Other’s desire.

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The desire staged in fantasy, in my fantasy, is precisely not my own, not mine, but the desire of the Other.

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The ultimate support of what I experience as the uniqueness of my personality is provided by my fundamental fantasy. https://t.co/ixRNKT17np

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I have to renounce the fetish of the hidden treasure responsible for my unique worth.

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Act 3 of Siegfried is..the Oedipal problematic. …He was looking for a woman who’d be a symmetric supplement to man. https://t.co/dsjnFs5KZg

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Woman and Man are not complementary but asymmetrical, there is no yin-yang balance, there is no sexual relationship https://t.co/oXmZQMKJYu

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Looking for a woman who’d be a symmetric supplement to man, man found instead an unbearable lack/excess,..that there is no yin-yang balance.

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‘The true transgression today is no longer sex, but a dedicated commitment to love,’ Zizek writes. https://t.co/0J6trrStvC

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The real is real on account of its excessive character. Unable to integrate it into…reality, we experience it as a nightmarish apparition.

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Act III of Wagner’s Siegfried is the most concise statement of the Oedipal problematic. …Siegfried was looking for a woman who would be a symmetric supplement to man, with whom she would form a balanced dignifying dyad. And what he found instead was an unbearable lack/excess. What he discovered is the excess/lack…that is, the fact that Woman and Man are not complementary but asymmetrical, that there is no yin-yang balance, that there is no sexual relationship.

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Love..as the Absolute should not be posited as..direct goal. … Love should retain the status of a by-product..we get as..undeserved grace.

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We become (identify with) the object which we were deprived of. ..Our subjective identity is a repository of the traces of our lost objects.

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Obstacles…hinder our access to some ordinary object: they elevate the object into a stand-in for the Thing.

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That we are more&more living in an artificially constructed universe gives rise to the urge to ‘return to the Real’, to..some ‘real reality'

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Every attainable object is already a displacement of the impossible-real object of desire which is constitutively lost

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It is the lack in the Other which enables the subject to achieve a kind of ‘de­-alienation’

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We should resist the urge to fill in the void with the rich texture of what makes us a person.

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The Thing is Lacan’s name for an always deferred anticipation, a threat of an unimaginable X always to-come and ne… https://t.co/KL019UWbDY

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The Thing is the way the subject experiences/represents the very impossibility to experience/represent.

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Hamlet knows what he wants: to avenge his father - what hinders him is doubt concerning the desire 0f the other. …What prevents Hamlet from acting, from accomplishing the imposed revenge, is: …he is seized by doubt as to his mother’s desire - what does she really want?…Hamlet is therefore hindered not by indecision as to his own desire. …What hinders him is doubt concerning the desire 0f the other (his mother)

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One is informed that one has to renounce the impossible striving for full jouissance and accept “symbolic castration”: as soon as we enter symbolic order, all jouissance has to pass through the mortification of the symbolic medium, every attainable object is already a displacement of the impossible-real object of desire which is constitutively lost

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psychosis is defined in terms of a subject who has lost “control of himself”, who “cannot control his instinctive forces” – who, in short, behaves in a “socially maladjusted way”. The paradox of “pathological Narcissus” lies in the fact that he is a psychotic normal person: the pathological narcissus behaves “normally” in a “socially adjusted way”

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The real that returns has the status of a(nother) semblance, precisely because it is real — on account of its traumatic/excessive character, we are unable to integrate it into (what we experience as) our reality, and are therefore compelled to experience it as a nightmarish apparition.

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How do I signal…my detachment from my particular biological life? By unconditionally attaching myself to some totally trivial and indifferent little-bit-of-the-Real for which I am ready to put everything, including my life, at stake―the very worthlessness of the object for which I am ready to risk everything makes it clear that what is at stake is not it but myself, my freedom. It is against this background of the subject as actual infinity that we should read the well-known passage in which Hegel describes how, in experiencing the fear of death during his confrontation with the master, the servant gets a whiff of the infinite power of negativity; through this experience, he is forced to accept the worthlessness of his particular Self

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The disciplinary practice of regulating pleasures itself gets infected by pleasure, as in obsessive or masochistic rituals. The true excess of pleasure is thus not the excess generated by disciplinary practices, but these practices themselves, which literally come in excess of what they regulate. …This is what Foucault does not take into account

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Assuming the inquisitive attitude of a voyeur, we are looking…for the fascinating X, for some trace of what is hidden ‘behind the curtain’

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Love is stronger than death. Love can overcome death.

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redemption resides not in following passion to self-destruction overcome passion & in wise resignation return to daily symbolic obligations.

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The full assertion of the excess of life occurs when the subject is overwhelmed by demands, no longer being able to deal with them. …The subject is bombarded with an excess of data that he is unable to comprehend. The basic economy is here obsessional: the object of the hero’s desire is the other’s demand. This excess is the proper counterpoint to the Wagnerian Sublime, to the ‘highest lust’ of the immersion into the Void that concludes Tristan. This opposition of the Rossinian and Wagnerian Sublime is the one…between the inability of the subject to comprehend the pure quantity of the demands that overflow him, and the Wagnerian Sublime, the concentrated overpowering force of the one demand, the unconditional demand of love. …Wagner says…when religion becomes artificial, art can save the true spirit of religion, its hidden truth…by abandoning the dogma and rendering only the authentic religious emotion. By transforming religion into the ultimate aesthetic experience.

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Wagner’s opera Tannhauser is not, as it is usually claimed, the conflict between the spiritual and the bodily, the Sublime and the ordinary pleasures of flesh, but a conflict internal to the Sublime itself, splitting the Sublime up. …Therein resides the unpardonable sin of Tannhauser: not in the fact that he engaged in a little bit of free sexuality, but that he elevated sexuality, sexual lust, to the level of the Absolute, asserting it as the inherent obverse of the Sacred.

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Tannhauser makes it clear that what he longs for is the peace of death itself: ‘My longing drive me into the fight, not looking out for delight and lust! Oh, may you understand that, Goddess. It drives me towards death, as I look out for him!’ …on the side of a terrifying eternity of unbearable excessive enjoyment. …Tannhauser complains that, as a mortal, he cannot sustain continuous enjoyment: 'Though a god may incessantly savor enjoyment, I am subject to change; pleasure alone does not lie close to my heart - in the midst of joy I crave after pain.’ …The tension between sublime passion and religion is…operative in Tannhauser.

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Refusing to compromise one’s desire, one goes to the end and willingly embraces death. [But] redemption resides not in following the immortal to its self-destructive conclusion; one should rather learn to overcome it via creative sublimation and to return, in a mood of wise resignation, to the ‘daily’ life of symbolic obligations.

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what if one prays not to regain belief but to GET RID of one’s belief’s over-proximity, to acquire a breathing space of a minimal distance?

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The recognition that we are all each in our own way weird lunatics, provides the hope for a tolerable co-existence of different ways of life

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In the “normal” cynical functioning of ideology…the true logic is: “Kneel down and you will thereby MAKE SOMEONE ELSE BELIEVE

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The point isn’t to recognise ourselves in strangers, but to recognise a stranger in ourselves, the innermost dimension of European modernity

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it all of a sudden strikes us how stupidly meaningless and arbitrary our customs and rituals are

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To believe “directly,” without mediation of a ritual, is a burden. Through ritual one has a chance of transferring this burdon onto an Other

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it is love itself, the fact of being loved, that ultimately makes the beloved beautiful.

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An encounter of the Other’s desire…can be an experience of utter alienation: I’m obsessed with inaccessible Desire which plays games with me

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a fundamentalist loses his sensitivity for the enigma of the Other’s desire.

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Kneel down and you will believe!” has to be understood as: "Kneel down and you will believe that you knelt down because you believed!

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What is your most unappealing habit? The ridiculously excessive tics of my hands while I talk.

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What do you most dislike about your appearance? That it makes me appear the way I really am.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/773526722197192705 http://ift.tt/2fwHgWH

there are not only right and wrong solutions to problems, there are also right and wrong problems.

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even if I live side by side with others, the normal state is to ignore them. I am allowed not to get too close to others; I move in a social space where I interact with others obeying certain external “mechanical” rules, without sharing their “inner world” – and, perhaps, the lesson to be learned is that, sometimes, a dose of alienation is indispensable for the peaceful coexistence of ways of life.

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There is thus a kind of poetic justice in the fact that the all-Muslim outcry against godless Denmark was immediately followed by the hightened violence between Sunnis and Shiites, the two Muslim factions, in Iraq. Is not the lesson of all totalitarianisms that the fight against the external enemy sooner or later always turns into an inner split and the fight against the inner enemy?

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The only political force which does not reduce them to second-class citizens, but allows them the space to deploy their religious identity, are the “godless” atheist liberals, while those who are closest to their religious social practice, their Christian mirror-image, are their greatest political enemies. The paradox is that (not those who first published the caricatures, but) those who, out of solidarity with the freedom of expression, reprinted the Muhammad caricatures, are their only true allies.

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the fact that there is no sexual relationship in no way implies that “there is no sexual difference in the unconscious,” that the unconscious is beyond or beneath sexual difference, a fluid domain of partial drives that defy sexuation. … The unconscious is thoroughly and only about sexual difference in the sense of an antagonism that is impossible to symbolize and that haunts the symbolic order. The impossibility of sexual relationship does not mean that sexual relationship is simply absent from the unconscious. … The very impossibility of sexual relationship is the traumatic point of failure which structures the entire symbolic space, or, as Lacan put it…, “we take language as that which functions as a supplement for the absence of the only part of the real that cannot manage to be formed in being, namely, the sexual relationship.” … There is objet a because there is no sexual relationship. …Sexual difference is the point of failure of logos, of the Symbolic, but this failure absolutely does not mean that there is a domain of sexuality prior to (or outside of) sexual difference and its deadlock. Sexual difference/antagonism is not just the point at which logos/reason fails; it is nothing but the effect of this failure.

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masculine and feminine positions are the two inconsistent ways to cope with—or, rather, to assume—the trauma of the impossibility of sexual relationship

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Not only sexuality but human subjectivity as such is thoroughly “sexed” precisely in the sense of the trauma of sexual difference. …Yes, every solution to the failure of sexual relationship is unsatisfactory and in this sense incomplete, but this does not mean that sexual difference is a secondary imposed frame

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Nancy Fraser has shown how the predominant form of feminism in the US was basically co-opted by neoliberal politics.

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The link between the struggle for sexual liberation and what was traditionally designated a “class struggle” in all its diverse dimensions (not just the workers’ struggle but…the plight of immigrants and refugees, etc.) is…ignored by my opponents.

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Although critics like to emphasize how they reject normativity (“the imposed heterosexual norm,” etc.), their stance itself is one of ruthless normativity, denouncing every minimal deviation from the PC dogma as “transphobia,” or “Fascism,” or whatever. Such a tweet culture, combining official tolerance and openness with extreme intolerance towards actually different views, simply renders critical thinking impossible. It is a true mirror image of the blind populist rage à la Donald Trump, and it is simultaneously one of the reasons why the Left is so often inefficient in confronting rightwing populism, especially in today’s Europe. If one just mentions that this populism draws a good part of its energy from the popular discontent of the exploited, one is immediately accused of “class essentialism”…

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His or her “positive” characteristics are glow in some void and are a “positivisation” of the void itself – of objet a, that x.

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Proper “love” entails a feeling that one would still love a person if he or she lost all his or her positive features.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/767514171063820288 http://ift.tt/2flP9wx

The only true answer to “Why do u love me?” is: I do not know, there is something in u, some x, that gives a miraculous lustre to ur virtues

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/767150516992348160 http://ift.tt/2fcPO78

Answering “Why do you love me?” with a well-defined list is a..negation of love. ..The other is “objectivised” & denied existence as subject

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The Other’s jouissance is by definition experienced as a threat to our identity, as something to be rejected, destroyed even.

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I have to trick myself, telling myself, “No, I’m not yet writing. I’m just putting down ideas.“ At a certain point I just have to edit it.

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The (anti-Semitic figure of the) “Jew” as the threat to the organic order of a society, as the element which brings into it from the outside corruption and decay, is a fetish whose function is to mask the fact that antagonism does not come from the outside but is immanent to every class society. Anti-Semitism “reifies” (embodies in a particular group of people) the inherent social antagonism: it treats “Jews” as the Thing which, from outside, intrudes into the social body and disturbs its balance. What happens in the passage from the position of class struggle to Fascist anti-Semitism is not just the replacement of one figure of the enemy (bourgeoisie, the ruling class) with another (Jews); the logic of the struggle is totally different. In class struggle, the classes themselves are caught in the antagonism inherent to social structure, while the Jew is a foreign intruder who causes social antagonism, so that all we need in order to restore social harmony, according to Fascist anti-Semitism, is to annihilate Jews.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK ON THE RACIST CONSTRUCTION OF WHAT OTHERS ARE LIKE http://ift.tt/2eYJzAJ

Antagonism (or, as Lacan put it, the fact that “there is no sexual relationship”) is at work in the very core of normative heterosexuality, and it is what the violent imposition of gender norms endeavors to contain and obfuscate.

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