in…modern anti-feminism, woman presents herself to man, endeavouring to fascinate his gaze and thus to drag him down from the spiritual heights into the pit of sexual debauchery -

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A Greek statue is the perfect human form, the balance of body and spirit – however, as such, it has to be without gaze: Their eyes are flat, pure surfaces, not the punctual window into the depth of the soul, since such a crack in the bodily surface would disturb its unity

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This, for Lacan, is beauty – the domesticated ugliness of the gaze. The painter gives something for the eye to feed on, but he invites the person to whom this picture is presented to lay down his gaze there as one lays down one’s weapons.

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the painting we are looking at “returns the gaze.” Insofar as this gaze, the blind spot of the painting, is an ugly “phallic” protuberance, an excess that disturbs the painting’s harmony, a work of art has to obfuscate this stain..if it is to become beautiful.

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it is, of course, well known that Kafka is a ‘writer of absence’, describing a world that remains religious in its structure but in which the central place belonging to God is empty; … this Absence itself conceals an inert, nightmarish presence ..of an obscene Superegoic object

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When it.. arrives at what it was striving for –… emancipation from the sacred, from social utility,… – the prize becomes worthless; the emancipation of art turns into the emancipation from art… –is.. not.. modern art effectively.. caught..in.. permanent.. self-questioning

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The very form of sitcoms seems to evoke the Hegelian “spurious infinity”: There are no big issues, just melodramatic complications that pop up and disappear

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Hegel prophesied the end of art because he failed to perceive radical antagonisms that persist in the apparently nonantagonistic self-reconciled bourgeois society where individuals are condemned to lead a prosaic everyday life.

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that art plays a key role within an epoch means that in this epoch Spirit is not reconciled with itself – this is why it still needs sensual embodiment (in a work of art).

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the price of happiness is that the subject remains stuck in the inconsistency of its desire. In our daily lives, we (pretend to) desire things which we do not really desire, so that, ultimately, the worst thing that can happen is for us to get what we »officially« desire.

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not only are we controlled and manipulated, but »happy« people secretly and hypocritically demand to be manipulated for their own good.

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Truth and happiness don’t go together. Truth hurts; it brings instability; it ruins the smooth flow of our daily lives. The choice is ours: do we want to be happily manipulated or expose ourselves to the risks of authentic creativity?

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The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state

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Man as such is nature sick unto death, derailed, run off the rails through a fascination with a lethal Thing.

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The symptom is… a way for the subject to organize his enjoyment — that is why, even after the completed interpretation, the subject is not prepared to renounce his symptom

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You, the subject, must identify yourself with the place where your symptom already was; in its pathological particularity you must recognize the element which gives consistency to your being. -

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Wylie’s plan was to break into facebook, harvest the profiles of…people…, use their private and personal information to create sophisticated psychological and political profiles, and then target them with political ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup

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At a certain point, Wylie was genuinely freaked out: “It’s insane. The company has created psychological profiles of 230 million Americans. And now they want to work with the Pentagon? It’s like Nixon on steroids.”

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It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more successful than ourselves

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The horror of the Holocaust cannot be represented; but this excess of represented content over its aesthetic representation has to infect the aesthetic form itself.What cannot be described should be inscribed into the artistic form as its uncanny distortion

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80% of us “left behind.” …What about the prospect of reuniting..all the “living dead” of the..capitalism,..left behind by the neo-capitalist “progress,”…should we..play the humanitarian game of taking care of those left behind, or should we tackle…changing the global system

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I can never see the picture at the point from which it is gazing at me: … The gaze as object is a blemish that prevents me from looking at the picture from a safe, ‘objective’ distance, framing it as something which is at the disposal of my grasping view.

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The problem is not that humans do not recognize their own nature, but rather the opposite: The problem is that they see much more to be their own nature than is actually the case. They have the curious tendency to see themselves and their freedom in everything they do

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Lacan’s position is that only lesbians are true heterosexuals, while gays and straight heterosexuals are homosexual.

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objet a designates what is in an object more than this object itself, its unreachable core—… what causes love is some elusive je ne sais quoi in the beloved, some X that cannot be pinned down to any perceptible particular feature of the beloved

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this X does not exist in itself, it is the inscription of my desire into the object (which is why, as they say, a human being appears sublime only to the gaze of the subject in love with him/her).

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the attitude of ‘understanding-each-other’ has to be supplemented by the attitude of ‘getting-out-of-each-other’s-way’, by maintaining an appropriate distance, by implementing a new ‘code of discretion’

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I move in a social space where I interact with others, obeying certain external ‘mechanical’ rules, without sharing their inner world. 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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The true function of the Name-of-the-Father..is..to allow the subject to “symbolically kill” the father, to be able to abandon father..and freely set on one’s own path in the world. …Kafka’s reluctance to assume the Name-of-the-Father is.. indication of his failure to break off

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