confusion is introduced by desire into socalled “objective reality.”

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/891930201764057088 http://ift.tt/2hhPohS

Desire “takes off” when “something” (its object-cause) gives positive existence to its “nothing,” embodies its “nothing”, its void.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/891570330321514496 http://ift.tt/2eYVsvb

social demands no longer take the form of the ideal of the ego, of an “interiorised” symbolic code, but remain at the level of the Superego.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/891205419296751616 http://ift.tt/2vTCB8M

today’s society is no less “repressive” than it was at the time of “organisation man”, the loyal servant of the institution.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/890843038733537280 http://ift.tt/2uG8QcE

we undermine the hold a fantasy exerts over us: through overidentification with it,..embracing..the inconsistent fantasmatic elements.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/890485699794919424 http://ift.tt/2tGMyVD

borderline marks the point of its hysterisation, the point at which the subject is faced with the..contradiction of..pathological narcissus.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/890120796504567808 http://ift.tt/2uZR4C5

I interact with others obeying external “mechanical” rules, without sharing their “inner world”,…a dose of alienation is indispensable.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/889757276705234945 http://ift.tt/2tXq6Xg

“pathological Narcissus” is a helpless, terrified subject, victim of a cruel..Superego, faced with impossible demands

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/889398538786000898 http://ift.tt/2vCbWgr

It often seems that in the case of a neurotic, father is perceived as oppressive or as too weak, ridiculous (or even both at the same time)

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/889031092719759361 http://ift.tt/2gVeiUj

It effectively often seems that in the case of a neurotic, father is always the Other, traumatizes, the one who it experiences as too strong

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/888667450799161344 http://ift.tt/2uTjwq1

It effectively often seems that, in the case of a neurotic, it is impossible to imagine a situation from the father’s standpoint

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/888305071376740353 http://ift.tt/2vJgP6J

through love drive descends into the Symbolic: through love, the circular movement of drive is transposed onto another subject.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/887942682521346048 http://ift.tt/2ufehiF

Virtual Reality in itself is a rather miserable idea: that of imitating reality, of reproducing its experience in an artificial medium.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/887585332459429888 http://ift.tt/2uaWqcC

a human being overcomes its mortality (i.e. to risk life for spiritual cause). Hegel’s name for this is negativity, Freud’s is death drive.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/887217904273457152 http://ift.tt/2u5vM3n

a human being overcomes mortality (i.e. readiness to risk life for spiritual cause). Overcoming is paradoxically a form of ‘death in life’.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/886858176301346816 http://ift.tt/2tyFuZW

a human being overcomes its mortality through gaining a distance towards its life-substance, i.e. readiness to risk life for spiritual cause

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/886493121873408001 http://ift.tt/2vrsW84

Fritzl complained his life was ‘ruined’ by the discovery of his secret family. Fritzl is a child of 68, ruthlessly realizing his fantasy.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/886134517785923584 http://ift.tt/2tVBZR3

external threat of annihilation is nothing but the externalized/fetishized image of the radical negativity of self-consciousness

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/885769610737352704 http://ift.tt/2tUsiR3

To quote Ghandi, ‘be yourself the change you want to see in the world’: the subject is itself the catastrophe it fears and tries to avoid.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/885407223748448258 http://ift.tt/2tRDNsH

a throw of the dice will never abolish the hazard (Mallarme) the abyss of negativity remains forever the background of subjective creativity

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/885046286965239809 http://ift.tt/2ueFOlk

no annihilation of the entire natural order is needed, subject already is this cut in the natural circuit, the selfsabotage of natural goals

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/884684981435588609 http://ift.tt/2sRPxK8

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

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/884322589992157185 http://ift.tt/2ujQAqX

Kafka’s reluctance to assume the Name-of-the-Father is the very indication of his failure to break with and off from the father.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/883955153262587904 http://ift.tt/2tKUCVQ

not vitality undermines authority; that one is bothered by father’s excessive vitality already presupposes the failure of symbolic authority

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/883597808066015232 http://ift.tt/2uaUv8u

This father’s “too-muchness”…is that of life, the humiliating quality of the father’s excess of vitality which undermines his authority.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/883237954579296256 http://ift.tt/2v5gyun

Kant’s ethical rigorism:…a superego agency that sadistically enjoys the subject’s deadlock, his inability to meet its inexorable demands.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/882869255951265792 http://ift.tt/2sIjfBz

The neurotic clings to his doubts, to his uncertain status as the only sure support of his being. (Die Nacht der Welt, p. 85 - Slavoj Zizek)

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/882511913686532096 http://ift.tt/2u7nNpj

‘sublime object of ideology’ is the…object which has no positive…consistency, but merely fills in the gap of a constitutive impossibility.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/882148270734290944 http://ift.tt/2t2rQ17

Because of the “father’s absence”, the child is incapable of resolving the contradiction between the protective and threatening other

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/881783346988277760 http://ift.tt/2tBAOV4

The subject persists in his indecision. What he truly fears to lose is doubt, the uncertainty, the state where everything is still possible

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/881423473121398784 http://ift.tt/2tYdaEm

desublimation of sexuality intellectualizes it, changing an intense pathetic bodily experience into a cold, apathetic mechanical exercise.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/881062348970237952 http://ift.tt/2tr0kh7

there is something ‘spiritual’, spectral, sublime, about a passionate sensual lust, and vice versa (as the mystical experience teaches us)

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/880693681761734657 http://ift.tt/2tRK0ap

What Sade heroically takes into account is that bodily sensual pleasure and spiritual love are not opposed, but dialectically intertwined

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/880335235728248833 http://ift.tt/2uw28Ea

So, far from being an entity of full, earthly passion, the Sadean hero is apathetic, reducing sexuality to a mechanical planned procedure

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/879968902561894400 http://ift.tt/2tWEPq7

we should control our fury and think­ and ask what kind of a society it is that renders the bank bailout blackmail possible.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/879610456943579136 http://ift.tt/2tK1Agd

we must resist the populist temptation to act out our anger and thus wound ourselves.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/879246629202788352 http://ift.tt/2uKYBkM

The 20th-century saw a passion for penetrating the Real Thing (the destructive Void) through semblances which constitute our reality

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/878884253563588608 http://ift.tt/2unpr2L

the story we tell ourselves about ourselves to account for what we are doing, is a lie - the truth is rather outside, in what we do

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/878520596614844416 http://ift.tt/2umPDef

Hysterics provoke, master commands, analyst sits down and does nothing … I am for obsessional neurotics! we obsessionals do all the work!

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/878159467887685632 http://ift.tt/2tjNvn7

the postmodernist universe is the universe of the naive trust in the screen which makes irrelevant the very quest for “what lies behind it”.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/877795864982548481 http://ift.tt/2tJWuRN

cyberspace as a transparent, clearly structured universe allows him to elude (momentarily, at least) the opacity of his everyday environs

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/877438483924701184 http://ift.tt/2swHGFY

convinced, deep within that “we are not really that,” preserving an intimate distance toward “the social role we play,” we deceive ourselves

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/877071065373171712 http://ift.tt/2sBIgxm

“pretending to be something” “acting as if we were something,” we become something, assuming a place in the intersubjective symbolic network

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/876708660747096065 http://ift.tt/2t3Uy56

We effectively become something by pretending that we already are that.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/876351321737224193 http://ift.tt/2uwh1pk