there is no Other World in which we’ll be repaid for our losses: transcendence is absolutely immanent, Hegel’s name is “absolute negativity”

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he always loses anew that which he never possessed, while he continues to succumb to the necessary illusion that ‘he’d otherwise possess it’

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the experience that the object in its fundamental dimension is the positivization of a void, is this not the traversing of the fantasy?

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experience..the ‘positive’ character of loss,..the original void filled by the dazzling and fascinating experience of the fantasmatic object

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In the ‘loss of the loss’,…the regained ‘positivity’ is that of…the experience of loss as a ‘positive’, indeed ‘productive’, condition.

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loss ceases to be the loss of ‘something’, becomes the opening…the moment…the empty place is conceived as prior to that which fills it.

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the Symbolic is a differential network structured around an empty, traumatic place, …das Ding, the ‘sacred’ place of impossible jouissance

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if the Other is not fractured, if it is complete, the only possible relationship of the subject to the structure is that of total alienation

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he avoids alienation as he posits himself as the correlative of this remainder, objet a, the lack,..a non-integratable residuum in the Other

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this…Hegel who mortifies the living substance…is the Real of his critics:…the construction of a point which effectively does not exist

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the final moment of the analytic process is the experience of the lack in the Other, the void against which signification articulates itself

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Name-of-the-Father…allows..to “symbolically kill” the father, to be able to abandon father…and freely set on one’s own path in the world

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The hysteric is horrified at being..the object of others

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Absolute Otherness is…the subject beyond subjectivization,..not bound by the symbolic pact,..the point of failure of every identification’

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unable to integrate it into..reality we..experience it as nightmarish apparition. This is what the captivating image of the WTC collapse was

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what awaits us at the end of this process of virtualization is that we begin to experience “real reality” itself as a virtual entity

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I am not a communist out of optimism but out of despair. …I am saying, yes probably we are doomed, approaching a new apartheid society.

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one must leap into action, even prematurely, in order to reach, through this very error, the correct path.

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One must be taken in by one’s own desire, even if this desire is impossible, in order for something to actually happen.

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The hysterical subject is above all the subject who asks himself a question while at the same time presupposing the Other has the answer

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the way to confront anxiety is to transform ourselves.

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in anxiety we become aware there is something wrong with our identity itself

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the existing order of Power is also supported by unconscious “passionate attachments,” attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject.

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“I’m not responsible, I merely fulfill the Other’s Will” -…this is what Kantian ethics prohibits.

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For Kant our capacity to desire is…“pathological”,…Lacan claims…desire does have a non-pathological, a priori object-cause:…objet a.

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renouncing the guarantee of some big Other is the very condition of a truly autonomous ethics.

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In alienation, the subject experiences the Other as the full agent running the show, as the one who “has it” (what the subject is lacking)

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when the Master loses his authority and becomes hystericised (after his authority is questioned, experienced as fake), … authority reappears but is now displaced, de-subjectivised, in the guise of the authority of neutral expert-knowledge (‘it’s not me who exerts power, I just state objective facts and/or knowledge’). … ‘The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that it is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash.’ Is this remark by Kafka not the most succinct definition of what went wrong in the communist states of the twentieth century?

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Putin’s foreign policy is a clear continuation of this tsarist-Stalinist line. According to him, after the Revolution, it was the turn of the Bolsheviks to aggrieve Russia: ‘The Bolsheviks, for a number of reasons – may God judge them – added large sections of the historical South of Russia to the Republic of Ukraine. This was done with no consideration for the ethnic makeup of the population, and today these areas form the southeast of Ukraine.’10 In January 2016, Putin again made the same point in his characterisation of Lenin’s greatest mistake: Ruling with your ideas as a guide is correct, but that is only the case when that idea leads to the right results, not like it did with Vladimir Ilyich. In the end that idea led to the ruin of the Soviet Union. There were many of these ideas such as providing regions with autonomy, and so on. They planted an atomic bomb under the building that is called Russia and which would later explode.11 In short, Lenin was guilty of taking seriously the autonomy of the different nations that composed the Russian empire, and thus of questioning Russian hegemony. No wonder we see portraits of Stalin again during Russian military parades and public celebrations, while Lenin is obliterated. In a big opinion poll conducted a couple of years ago, Stalin was voted the third-greatest Russian of all time, while Lenin was nowhere to be seen. Stalin is not celebrated today as a communist, but as the restorer of Russia’s greatness after Lenin’s anti-patriotic ‘deviation’. For Lenin, ‘proletarian internationalism’ goes hand in hand with a defence of the rights of small nations against the big nations: for a ‘great’ nation dominating others, giving full rights to smaller nations is the key indicator of the seriousness of their professed internationalism.

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What broke down was their ‘objective’ illusion: the figure of the ‘big Other’ that had provided the background against which they were able to pursue their ruthless drive for power.

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