perverts never have questions, only the answers. They are not a danger but an annoyance. They pretend…but…without anything substantial.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/910773116992999424 http://ift.tt/2kduXE6

‘femininity’ is a mask supple­menting a failure to become a woman. [Each sex gives form to never cancelling sexual difference to oneself]

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/910410728565288960 http://ift.tt/2kanWUT

in…hedonism, when the goal of life is directly…happiness, anxiety and depression are exploding

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/910048341215600641 http://ift.tt/2xF9asf

The true courage is not to imagine an alternative, but to accept the consequences of the fact that there is no clearly discernible alternative: the dream of an alternative is a sign of theoretical cowardice; it functions as a fetish that prevents us thinking through to the end the deadlock of our predicament. In short, the true courage is to admit that the light at the end of the tunnel is most likely the headlights of another train approaching us from the opposite direction

http://ift.tt/2xMnocV

‘masculine’ & ’ feminine’ positions are 2 modes of coping with this obstacle/loss [called sexual difference that both sexes have in common]

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/909688654674763776 http://ift.tt/2fRZ13Q

Woman is never fully a woman & man never fully a man [sexual differences is not difference between man & woman but difference to themselves]

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/909328595344117760 http://ift.tt/2wieoIP

it is not that woman is what man is not, and vice versa. Woman is never fully a woman and man never fully a man

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/908959917142347777 http://ift.tt/2huACoJ

sexual difference is not the opposition allocating to each of the two sexes its positive identity [defined] in opposition to the other sex

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/908602574198202369 http://ift.tt/2xyw2v9

Desire’s raison d’être is not…to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/908235150298927104 http://ift.tt/2jS69Se

The subject who directly believes need not exist for the belief to be operative: it is enough precisely to presuppose its existence

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/907877796822831104 http://ift.tt/2hqiVCG

for the belief to function, there has to be some ultimate guarantor of it, yet this guarantor is always deferred, never here in persona

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/907514310477443072 http://ift.tt/2xmYv5q

Symbolic identification…compensates for the ‘impossibility’…of the subject’s traumatic relationship towards objet a.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/907155539456659456 http://ift.tt/2xojYfN

One doesn’t wait for the ripe circumstances to make revolution. They become ripe through the political struggle itself.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/906791879454445568 http://ift.tt/2xkEuhb

Desire is a defence against desire: desire structured through fantasy is a defence against the desire of the Other

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/906430757886930944 http://ift.tt/2jFjYU1

It’s not that fantasy is an abyss of seduction threatening to swallow you, no, fantasy is ultimately sterile

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/906065855364157440 http://ift.tt/2w1ZCG7

In wanting me, what you want is the fantasmatic image of me. I will thwart your desire by directly gratifying it

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/905700942837886976 http://ift.tt/2xqliiR

in fighting this excess of vio­lence and contradiction, reason is fighting its own excess. It’s reason against its own excess of madness.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/905337297566126080 http://ift.tt/2wgOYzf

The Sadean crime is not empirical madness; it is the madness of reason. Only reason in its perversity can imagine such a radical crime.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/904979951249747969 http://ift.tt/2x0mfys

today ‘social life’ somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neighbours behaving in 'real’ life like stage actors and extras

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/904613778062487552 http://ift.tt/2h2jN43

in late-capitalist consumerist society, ‘real social life’ itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/904253904816394240 http://ift.tt/2h1Ve7j

Catholicism is..external playful rituals..allowing to just follow..ritual & ignore the pressure of authenticity characterizing Protestantism

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/903888996027297792 http://ift.tt/2jjky9v

He..in his indecision..puts off the choice. What he truly fears to lose is..uncertainty, the open state where everything is still possible.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/903531665246609408 http://ift.tt/2xexR0B

woman’s impossibility of achieving an identity with herself…is why woman is a symptom of man.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/903162967394541568 http://ift.tt/2xWAT7n

the pervert’s fundamental illusion is that he possesses a (symbolic) knowledge which enables him to regulate his access to jouissance

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/902799328410042368 http://ift.tt/2xScC1F

There is always something damp, claustrophobic, inauthentic, and even desperate in this striving for sexual and other pleasures.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/902436939869147137 http://ift.tt/2gLg5YV

the depoliticized private sphere is in no way the free domain of innocent pleasures.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/902074554083835904 http://ift.tt/2gIoGLE

The private indulgence in cynicism etc are all ways in which totalitarian ideology is at work in “non-ideological” everyday life

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/901712161168293888 http://ift.tt/2wDO9PU

When a man wears a wig, he usually tries to make it look like it’s real hair. Trump achieved the opposite: he made his real hair look like a wig; and maybe this reversal provides a succinct formulation of the Trump phenomenon. At the most elementary level, he is not trying to sell us his crazy ideological fictions as reality - what he is really trying to sell us is his own vulgar reality as a beautiful dream.

http://ift.tt/2w0vbPz

in the long term, the only way to fight anti-Semitism is…to express the underlying anticapitalist motive in a direct, non-displaced way.

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/901357326862626816 http://ift.tt/2xHVlJ8

acting out is an attempt to break through…an impossibility of…putting into words

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/900988642671431680 http://ift.tt/2eQgXuU

[Something] loses its alienated character of a foreign force..the moment the subject renounces..that there’s deep inside [it] some..treasure

http://twitter.com/extimacy/status/900627559641165825 http://ift.tt/2vyBPRS