the subject needs the camera’s gaze as a kind of ontological guarantee of his or her existence.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/875987666612887552 http://ift.tt/2usWyBR

I am a subject insofar as the radical perplexity persists as… as to what the Other… finds worthy of desire in me. …When Lacan claims that there is no desire without an object-cause, this does not amount to the banality according to which every desire is attached to its objective correlative:… the lack in question concerns her uncertainty as to her status for the Other’s desire. …The subject’s desire is the desire to ascertain her status as the object of the Other’s desire

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So, the typical attitude of the left is ‘there will be a crisis and then our moment will come.’ Well, fuck you. The crisis is here

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/875627831056678913 http://ift.tt/2trvup7

the worst thing that can happen is for us to get what we “officially” desire.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/875259115236466688 http://ift.tt/2sm6Oz3

her…compulsive gesture, an excessive facial expression, a tic.. signals the intensity of the real of jouissance. … I cannot.. integrate it into my universe, there is always a gulf separating me from it

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The ancient Greeks lost their moral compass precisely because they believed in spontaneous and basic uprightness of a human being

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/874895491326251010 http://ift.tt/2tlTlqz

there is no Self that precedes: the very alienation generates the “Self” from which Spirit is alienated and to which it then returns.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/874534339945660416 http://ift.tt/2ug8CGn

to get beyond this clinging to meaning, psychoanalysis is] de-subjectivizing [the analysand’s] words, depriving them of … his intention-to-mean. The goal is no longer to assume the meaning of his speech. The goal is … for him to assume its non-meaning, its nonsensical inconsistency.

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Therein resides Dostoyevsky’s ultimate lie: what he presents as a terrifying fantasy of a godless universe is effectively a Gnostic fantasy of evil obscene God. … when religious authors condemn atheism, they all too often construct a vision of the “godless universe” which is a projection of the repressed underside of religion itself from “If you are truthful, you should not fear death,” a pervert passes to “if you wish death, you are truthful.”

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The Spirit heals its wound not by directly healing it, but by getting rid of the very ful and sane Body into which the wound was cut.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/874170706631815168 http://ift.tt/2seYqfZ

to avoid] historicism, the notion of the linear succession of “historical epochs,” is to conceive these epochs as a series of ultimately failed attempts to deal with the same “unhistorical” traumatic kernel (in Marxism, this kernel is of course the class struggle, class antagonism

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fantasy is not an expression of her inability to let go & enjoy the act: the fantasy forms the core of her, that ‘in her more than herself’

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/873813361582059520 http://ift.tt/2taKVTv

His motto is “there are no accidents”: there are no gaps in the causal link of responsibility, there always HAS to be someone who is guilty…- his desperate strategy to cope with the private trauma, which is sorting out responsibility for his own daughter Zoe, a junkie who despises him,

Slavoj Zizek on The Sweet Hereafter http://ift.tt/2s3BGEu

he insists that everything must have a cause in order to counteract the inexplicable gap which separates him from her” Zizek writes.

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the non‐existing pure Gaze of the big Other…is the gaze for which, on ancient Roman aqueducts, the details were carved on the reliefs at the top, invisible to any human eye; the gaze for which the ancient Incas made their gigantic drawings out of stones whose form could be seen only from high up in the air; the gaze for which the Stalinists organized their gigantic public spectacles.

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“The objet a is … of the subject’s desire … it is not simply an objective property of the beloved—that X which fascinates me in the beloved exists only for me, not for an “objective” view. … the status of that which makes me desire an object is irreducibly linked to my “subjective” perspective … far from simply standing for the excess in the object eluding the subject’s grasp, the objet a is … his or her desire for me … what eludes me in a libidinal object is not some transcendent property, but the inscription into it of my own desire … in desire … the aspiration to fullness is transferred to partial objects … the drive is not an infinite longing for the Thing,” not the getting “fixated onto a partial object—the “drive” is this fixation itself in which resides the “death” dimension of every drive,” Zizek says

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the sexual act is, in effect, a defence-formation against the threat embodied in the fantasy.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/873445946876715009 http://ift.tt/2s1eTE5

narcissistic “care of the Self,” not “repressive” social prohibitions, is the ultimate enemy of intense sexual experiences.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/873091098821795840 http://ift.tt/2rVXGAW

‘god’ is a name for the immanent decentrement of human subjectivity

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/872726184609579008 http://ift.tt/2sCqyeN

debt is an instrument of control and, as such, it strives for its own expanded reproduction.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/872366321652125696 http://ift.tt/2sUP2mk

Behind indifference and contempt there is the fear of establishing contact

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/872001419020251137 http://ift.tt/2tLfQC3

sexuality can infect everything because it is the one most radically thwarted in its actualization

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/871638030074990593 http://ift.tt/2sTbjk5

in cinema that we get that…which we are not ready to confront in our reality.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/871279139042590720 http://ift.tt/2rOSVnS

sex is…a desperate …measure aimed at keeping at bay the spectral netherworld of fantasies

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/870916757543931906 http://ift.tt/2sItp7V

the true conspiracy of Power consists in the very attempt to persuade subjects that they are victims of irrational, impenetrable forces.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/870551872872083456 http://ift.tt/2sI4h1N

psychoanalysis is the only discourse in which you are allowed not to enjoy

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/870191997914685440 http://ift.tt/2rFp4TG

love does not occur when the loving subject desperately searches the beloved for some hidden treasure

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/869828341309874176 http://ift.tt/2rrXpBj

What defines the “human dimension” is the frame (i.e. computer) through which we communicate with the suprasensible found nowhere in reality

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/869464690593804288 http://ift.tt/2tzoL9q

man as such is “derailed”, it follows its drives with an excess far beyond “natural” (instinctual) satisfaction

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/869101271265026048 http://ift.tt/2tx2DfM

man as such is “derailed”, eats more than “natural”, is obsessed with sexuality more than “natural”, this excess has to be “gentrified”

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/868742429666574336 http://ift.tt/2rzZi2Y

in a permissive universe, in order to have a life full of pleasures, you avoid dangerous excesses, so everything is prohibited

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/868372513532850176 http://ift.tt/2t7GTb7

a pervert unabashedly enjoys his symptom. Even if he is later ashamed of it it provides a firm anchoring point to his psychic economy

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/868017672868507650 http://ift.tt/2rwe3Uw

a pervert has no need of an analyst, i.e., there is no experience of suffering which sustains the demand for an analysis.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/867651715591524352 http://ift.tt/2sckxW1

The Sadean hero is more alienated from the true pleasure of the flesh than is the prudish, inhibited lover

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/867287836562780160 http://ift.tt/2stBOfY

humanity” as such ALWAYS–ALREADY WAS “posthuman

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/866927981704486912 http://ift.tt/2syFNI7

The subject loses itself in its otherness in order to re-appropriate its alienated content, as content willed by the subject, not as imposed

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/866561833263562753 http://ift.tt/2rXGnxC

we are decentered, caught in a web, overdetermined by unconscious mechanisms. Yes, I am “spoken” more than speaking.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/866202087167635456 http://ift.tt/2s47w0s

What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/865837052788658176 http://ift.tt/2sgi3HU

The male dread of woman..from…to..Kafka..is..the dread of..inconsistency:…of…the impossibility of discerning, behind the masks, a consistent subject

SLAVOJ ZIZEK on men’s inability to accept the inconsistency of subjectivity itself http://ift.tt/2rl43Zq

to control sexuality sexualizes this controlling activity itself.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/865477411739058176 http://ift.tt/2sc0GrI

The surface of pure appearance throws us into the state of “out-of-joint”: striving for that which remains forever ‘virtual’

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/865115013668909056 http://ift.tt/2rNcgce

Respect for other’s beliefs…can mean only…we treat the other in a patronizing way and avoid hurting him in order not to ruin his illusions, or we adopt the relativist stance of multiple “regimes of truth,” disqualifying as violent imposition any clear insistence on truth. What, however, about submitting Islam — together with all other religions — to a respectful, but for that reason no less ruthless, critical analysis? This, and only this, is the way to show a true respect for Muslims: to treat them as serious adults responsible for their beliefs.

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Cinema as the art of appearances…tells us something about how reality constitutes itself.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/864752647752044545 http://ift.tt/2sndgF7

if you are completely isolated from your surroundings, you are left with a void

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/864390246112342016 http://ift.tt/2sclqR1

Hysteria is questioning the identity imposed.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/864031417067593728 http://ift.tt/2r7nUjG

deprived of my symbolic identity, I am no one’s and nameless.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/863666474602434560 http://ift.tt/2sjS1nC

The male dread of woman is the dread of a multitude of masks, of the impossibility of discerning behind the masks a consistent subject.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/863303094741983235 http://ift.tt/2shpK15

Happiness is hypocritical: it is happiness of dreaming about things we do not really want.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/862939180745330688 http://ift.tt/2r6L8S5

When I organized a colloquium, German secret service asked what we were doing. According to the official ideology there is no censorship.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/862576793240424448 http://ift.tt/2se0AjT

in our postpolitical societies, we encounter…explosions of the raw real of a violence

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/862213160211808257 http://ift.tt/2qUlKzK

the real of the outbursts of the “irrational” violence is generated by the globalization of the symbolic

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/861857078159314947 http://ift.tt/2sxAupu

The narcissistic “big Ego” is…a reaction to an unresolved and unsymbolised conflict situation.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/861488379820740608 http://ift.tt/2swXDIj

our inner truth is the lie we construct to be able to live with the misery of our lives

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/861125978956984322 http://ift.tt/2rzZpZf

when the poet loses his lady he acquires her, through loss she gains her place in the fantasy space that regulates the subject’s desire.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/860766352386252800 http://ift.tt/2qQNyZF

Does not capitalist globalization give rise to the new racism focusing on the “theft of enjoyment”

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/860405014648541184 http://ift.tt/2qLKBWk

That which makes me love someone, is objet petit a, the “pathological” tic which makes him/her unique.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/860041575346393088 http://ift.tt/2sqcLHJ

Today, the old joke more appropriate then ever: I am such a tender person that I cannot stand seeing people suffering

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/859677702449659904 http://ift.tt/2rAWwcI

such traumatic encounters, such penetrations into the forbidden or damned domain, in Antigone , are called ate , and can only be sustained for a brief moment. These authentic moments are rare; one can only survive them if one soon returns to the safe domain of semblances—truth is too painful to be sustained for more than a passing moment. At other times (especially in his ruminations about the symptom towards the end of his life), Lacan adopts the opposite (but effectively complementary) attitude of wisdom: the analyst never knows what will happen when he pushes analysis too far and dissolves the analysand’s symptoms too radically—one can get more than one expected, a local interpretive intervention into a particular symptomal formation can destabilize the subject’s entire symbolic economy and bring about a catastrophic disintegration of his world. The analyst should thus remain modest and respect appearances without taking them too seriously; they are ultimately all we have, all that stands between us and the catastrophe. It is easy to see how these two stances complement each other: they rely on a (rather Heideggerian) image of human life as a continuous dwelling in “inauthentic” semblances, interrupted from time to time by violent encounters with the Real. (What this entire field encompassing the two stances excludes is the Christian “work of love,” the patient work of continuous fidelity to the encounter with the Real.) This modest approach of merely “making life a little bit easier,” of diminishing suffering and pain, forgetting about capitalized Truth, makes the late Lacan almost a Rortyan

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remem­ber when it was the debate about who is more guilty, either Black demon­stra­tors where some mad­man also shot a cou­ple of police­men, or white police­men who over­stepped their lim­it? And Trump, he actu­al­ly phys­i­cal­ly talked about it. Trump’s idea was no. The ulti­mate crime is when peo­ple are shoot­ing police­men because they attacked the law. No, I claim. The ulti­mate [inaudi­ble] is police­men shoot ordi­nary — you know why? Because if an ordi­nary guy shoots a police­man, it’s deplorable. It shouldn’t be done. But it’s still some­body out­side the law attacks the agent of the law. But if an agent of the law attacks, the whole law and order dis­in­te­grates. The state agent acts as a com­mon crim­i­nal. That’s the true hor­ror

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Žižek: I con­sid­er you — I’m not say­ing this in vain. Although we met just briefly, one of the few peo­ple whom I see as my authen­tic friend here. Tavis: I appre­ci­ate that. Žižek: I am so sick of this full of career-pur­su­ing acad­e­mia and so on and so on. Even if I am an athe­ist, I am pray­ing to God that you will sur­vive here [laugh].

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