Working through is working through the resistance, turning it from the obstacle into the very resort of analysis

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alienation does not introduce a gap…into a pre-existing organic unity, on the contrary, it covers up the gap in the Other.

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by alienation, we mean self-experience as..subordinated [to] some substantial big Other that runs the show (History, Destiny, God, Nature …)

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Alienation is “overcome” when the subject experiences that “there is no big Other”

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“reconciliation” is not an overcoming of alienation, but a reconciliation with alienation itself.

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universal health care is not some crazy, radically leftist notion. It’s functions relatively well–Canada, most Western European countries.

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large corporations are delighted to accept..evangelical attacks on the state, when the state tries…to strengthen air pollution regulations

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there is no secret beyond the door, this door is intended only for me, to capture my desire!

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the Other for whom the subject “makes herself (seen, heard, active)” is only what your desire introduces there, has no independent existence

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no matter how decisively we act ‘all around is darkness & impenetrable gloom’, as Godunov sings in his great monologue in Mussorgsky’s opera

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the ultimate fantasy of every organic-authoritarian vision is that of society organized as a family, with the leader as father to his people

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the need to be punished generates guilt feeling and gives birth to criminal intentions. (at time -27:17) https://t.co/2W68KTXXjf

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Nazism was an impotent acting-out which, ultimately, remained in the service of the very order it despised. Zizek https://t.co/OBtvzRUAmH

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instead of ‘winning’ (taking power) one maintains a distance towards state power, one creates spaces subtracted from the state. But is this solution really adequate? What about heroically accepting the risk of self-obliteration? A revolutionary process is not a well-planned strategic activity with no place for a full immersion in the Now without regard for the long-term consequences. Quite the contrary: the suspension of all strategic considerations based upon the hope for a better future is a key part of any revolutionary process

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if subjectivity is afraid not so much to fight but to win, it is because struggle exposes it to a simple failure (the attack didn’t succeed), while victory exposes it to the most fearsome form of failure: the awareness that one won in vain, that victory prepares repetition, restoration. That a revolution is never more than a between-two-States. It is from here that the sacrificial temptation of the void comes. The most fearsome enemy of the politics of emancipation is not repression by the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the cruelty without limits which can accompany its void

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Is not the basic experience of the end of Really Existing Socialism precisely the rejection of this shared feature, the resigned ‘postmodern’ acceptance of the fact that society is a complex network of ‘sub-systems’, which is why a certain level of ‘alienation’ is constitutive of social life, so that a totally self-transparent society is a utopia replete with totalitarian potential?

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even the struggle against [racism] can serve as means to…reproduce [racism].

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there is nothing sublime in sacred; Nazi parades were also sacred.

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by “sacred" I mean this kind of ecstatic communal feeling. I hate it. This is as sacred as an old religious ritual.

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there is nothing sublime, really great in sacred

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when symbolic authority loses its efficiency we get subjects who are strangely derealized deprived of their psychology as if robotic puppets

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symbolic authority disintegrates, what fills in its void is the brutal Ur–Father. Modern totalitarian masters are much this Ur-Father figure

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We can do whatever we want today, but the result is at the daily level we’ve so many prohibitions so as not to prevent others from enjoying.

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the message is “You may enjoy, but because you may, you must”.

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A very principled position serves as an excuse to do nothing. ..Everyone agrees in principle

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It is the full recognition.. of the absence of any external guarantee that distinguishes [you] from.. ‘totalitarianism’ or 'fundamentalism’.

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We must make a clear break with the 20th century communist experience if the communist project is to be renewed as a true alternative

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[a superegoic fake permissive dad says] not “You must obey my orders and do your duty” but “You must do it with pleasure. You must enjoy it”

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superego inverts this Kantian “You can, because you should!” into “You should, because you can!”.

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For Lacan, psychoanalysis at its most fundamental…confronts individuals with the most radical dimension of human existence.

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in China ..my translator ..was so embar­rassed that she stopped translating and almost lost consciousness.

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I have doubts about political correctness. Of course I agree with its goals – no humiliation, against power relations – but think about the figure of ‘human being’ that is silently presupposed by political correctness, its obsession with harassment and victimisation, we are always threatened. I look into your eyes for two seconds too long – visual rape. The vision beneath political correctness is very sad, a vision of ‘we are all potential victims’.

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the ideal country today is a country that is fully integrated into a global market but at the same time ideologically ethnocentric, focused on its own culture. Even Trump is doing this. That’s why Trump gets on well with dictators. China, India, Putin are playing this game. We are approaching a new world where a global market will coexist with a lack of universally accepted emancipatory rules. This is very sad

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In every crisis, Putin let the ordinary people suffer to the end

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Being unseen is an illusion, however, a screen against the fact…that I am here for the Other’s gaze

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