It is not that father’s excessive vitality undermines his symbolic authority; it is, rather, the other way round, i.e., the very fact that one is bothered by father’s excessive vitality already presupposes the failure of symbolic authority.

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What bothers Kafka is the over-presence of his father: he is too much alive, too obscenely intrusive. However, this…father’s “too-muchness”..is ultimately the too-muchness of life itself, the humiliating quality of the father’s excess of vitality which undermines his authority.

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Fritzl defended himself thus: If it weren’t for me, Kerstin wouldn’t be alive today, I’m no monster. I could have killed them all. Then…no one would have found me out.’ What is crucial here is the underlying premiss: as a father, he had the right to exercise total power

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Fritzl is also a child of 1968, ruthlessly realizing his fantasy. …It is misleading…to describe Fritzl as inhuman. He was, to use Nietzsche’s phrase, ‘human, all too human’. No wonder Fritzl complained that his own life had been 'ruined’ by the discovery of his secret family.

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Fritzl is also a child 1968, ruthlessly realizing his fantasy. …It is misleading…to describe Fritzl as inhuman. He was, to use Nietzsche’s phrase, ‘human, all too human’. No wonder Fritzl complained that his own life had been 'ruined’ by the discovery of his secret family.

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I wouldn’t like to live in a stupid society where I would have to be all the time engaged in local communitarian politics. …My idea of society is that… some invisible alienated machinery takes care of things so that I can… watch movies, read and write.. books and so on.

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that at any point the end may be near.. pushes you to strengthen ethical activity. The result… is not, “Oh, the end may be near, so let’s kill, let’s just enjoy”. No, it’s the opposite. Again, paradoxically, I claim it’s not a superficially but profoundly optimistic film.

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I like to live in a society where you do whatever you want. Just please don’t express yourself too much. I like people who know how to control themselves. I believe in..manners. This aspect… that you stage a certain image of yourself, this doesn’t bother me with online dating.

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One would have thought the situation is this one: In normal conversation we control ourselves. Then when I cannot any longer control myself, I explode. No, I claim precisely this moment of explosion are the most precisely trained structures, artificial, if you want.

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after 10 minutes of talking dirty, we tell to each other okay, we paid our tribute to ugliness. We got rid of it. Now we can finally be what we are and talk in a nice polite way, you know.

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we have a certain perverse superego duty to talk dirty. And after you get rid of that, we can believe what we are. This is why I have always had a deep sympathy — although I’m not practicing — for sadomasochist sexuality.

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The illusion proper to the Unconscious is not that its core eludes us forever, it is the very illusion that there is some hidden core which eludes us. …The Unconscious is not a Real that forever eludes.., it is this very twisted structure of failures, repetitions, displacements

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“Prohibition produces dissatisfied, desiring subjects, subjects who remain securely within the confines of the social order. Desire is consonant with the social order because of its reliance on absence rather than presence,” McGowan writes.

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the..chauvinist scenario:…all the time I dream, “if my wife were to disappear…it would open up new life for me with the mistress.” You know what every psychoanalyst will tell you quite often happens? That then, for some reason, wife goes away, you lose the mistress, also.

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what you want is not really to live with the mistress but to keep her at a distance as an object of desire about which you dream. And this is not just an excessive situation. I claim that this is how things function. We don’t really want what we think we desire.

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Marx traced it but he wasn’t radical enough. Marx’s dream of communism was that we can get capitalist dynamics without the obstacle

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Goebbels’ Totaler Krieg speech in early 1943. He does something ingenious in a terrifying way. All he promises to German people is more suffering. He says: “Do you want a war that will be so total that you cannot even imagine how much you will suffer?” And they all cheer

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I agree with its goals.. but think about the figure…silently presupposed by political correctness, its obsession with harassment and victimisation, we are always threatened. …The vision beneath political correctness is very sad, a vision of ‘we are all potential victims’.

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We have to go through capitalism, but at the same time…move on, not because I am a utopian… …Capitalism is approaching a crisis in the sense that the problems it encounters today…it will not be able to resolve on its own.

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