Desire is caught in the logic of “this is not that,” while love as authentic sublimation fully accepts that “this is that”.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059490829130174464 https://ift.tt/2UdAUPc

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/1059471718442590208 https://ift.tt/2GLvoA4

the true site of my beliefs is not my conscious acts, but the unconscious. …The unconscious is not “deep in me”, it is out there, in my … interactions.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059444022526332933 https://ift.tt/2Ee8JJ7

in sexuality, man’s object is ..the fantasy..to which no actual woman can ever correspond..(..sublime infatuation). ..The ..actual woman in her uniqueness is annihilated.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059420115358400513 https://ift.tt/2VpikUx

Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation. In a superego blackmail..the developed countries ‘help’ the undeveloped with aid, credit and so on, and thereby avoid..their complicity in..the miserable situation

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059400201327312896 https://ift.tt/2EbcvCX

in love, I also am nothing, but as it were a Nothing humbly aware of itself, … made rich through the very awareness of its lack.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059376042891186178 https://ift.tt/2NqGwTn

Happiness is for opportunists. ..Happiness is a category of slaves.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059355928313634816 https://ift.tt/2GEWCID

instead of being bothered of what I am for the others, I fully assume the..contingency of my being. The subject becomes ‘cause of itself’ no longer looking for a guarantee [about oneself] in another’s desire. [No longer clinging to] “I was brought about with a special purpose”.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059340813270958080 https://ift.tt/2tz2EC9

our desire is always mediated by the Other (the symbolic texture which provides the scripts for possible desires); we are not directly ourselves, we play the role of ourselves, we imitate a fiction of what we are.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059324553128787968 https://ift.tt/2E2fbTt

love occurs when the loving subject discovers that the treasure in the beloved is just a deceiving fetish, that the true treasure is the fragile beloved

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059163406337560577 http://bit.ly/2V9suZb

this discourse of “resistance” is the norm today, and, as such, the main obstacle to the emergence of the discourse that would effectively question the dominant relations

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059126914210844673 http://bit.ly/2SbInfR

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

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059104253027983362 http://bit.ly/2TSydCs

universality is…the violent experience of how, across the cultural divide, we share the same antagonism.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059081607687143425 http://bit.ly/2tqMxGM

Modernity involves ..the inability of subjects to assume symbolic mandates. What prevents them ..is the ..perception of a ‘stain of enjoyment’ in the big Other

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059058953907331075 http://bit.ly/2GtJOVy

At the beginning, of course, Lacan was totally incomprehensible to us and it took us some years - to be quite honest, up until around 1975/6 before, after a further quasi­religious revelation, finally we made the choice: Lacan. So this period was one of confusion and experiment.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059038829628309506 http://bit.ly/2BBA9YJ

The modern subject can assert its radical autonomy…only insofar as its autonomy is sustained by the social substance. No wonder this gesture…of mercy intervening at the..moment of the subject’s assertion of..autonomy, is discernible throughout the history of opera

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1059016163768840194 http://bit.ly/2N66wn1

the cynical functioning of ideology: that in order to function ideology shouldn’t take itself too seriously. …The top party nomenclatura didn’t take their own official ideology seri­ously, …those who took it seriously were perceived as a threat.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058994776236789760 http://bit.ly/2BA4ozw

In ‘The Piano Teacher’..what repulses him is this total disclosure of her desire…. The displayed fantasy forms the core of her being, that…“in her more than herself,” and [his] sexual act..is..a defense-formation against the threat embodied in the [anxiety-generating] fantasy

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058977229424807936 http://bit.ly/2DxcRmW

sexual difference is not…between 2 modes of symbolization… It’s not: you’ve a…set of..human features (reason,…) & on top of that there are men & women. …Difference as such is universal. To be human..means…to live a…difference that pertains to a..fundamental deadlock

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058964633514577922 http://bit.ly/2I4S9R5

@ sexual difference is…the difference that pertains to a..fundamental deadlock of the symbolic order. …Difference as such is universal. To be human being means…to live a certain difference [/suffer an antagonism],…to be differentiated along the lines of sexual difference.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058963361453535232 http://bit.ly/2TG1oZn

It is..properly traumatic for a human animal to accept that his life is not just a stupid process of reproduction and attaining pleasures, but that it is in the service of a Truth.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058962129565425664 http://bit.ly/2GiCR9v

Perhaps, it is only when one is in love that one can fully confront one’s fundamental solitude.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058767744357883907 http://bit.ly/2MTxazu

Fascism emerged as an attempt to master capitalism’s excesses, to build a kind of capitalism without capitalism.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058763258855899141 http://bit.ly/2ULdgJE

we were excluded from academia… As a Society, we had the right to organize lectures and courses, which we did to propagate the theory. But these were still communist times and you could not organize spon­taneously; you had to have some institutional coverage.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058743216692965376 http://bit.ly/2HVzIyh

There is an old romantic formula: the true company is only when you can share your solitude, or some such rubbish. And that’s how [Mladen, Alenka and I function]

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058716721635299330 http://bit.ly/2TrHmli

I think that everything to do with institutions should be faked. I don’t know what this is, I never analyse myself. …in a deeper sense I don’t think we were cheat­ing. The work was always done, which is why I am telling this so publicly.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058694073857515520 http://bit.ly/2SmWPFT

my whole economy of writing is in fact based upon an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing. I never begin with the idea that I am going to write something. I always have to begin with one or two observations that lead on to other points

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058675248869052417 http://bit.ly/2MKXKL6

Today’s panicky anti-fascism doesn’t bring hope, it kills..the hope that we’ll really get rid of the threat of racist populism… The task is to cut off the working class oxygen supply to the alt-right by addressing their voter. The way to achieve this is to move more to the left

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/1058652556791025665 http://bit.ly/2SjWovR