The Other is the unconscious regarded as “the pure subject of the signifier”, whereas others are the counterparts of the ego: any object, including other persons qua objects, with which the subject may affiliate in a real, imaginary, or symbolic mode. The difference between Other and other is consti­ tuted by the bar of repression, much as attention to particular beings veils the meaning of Being, according to Heidegger. FIGURATIONS-OF-THE-OB-JET-A

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when the subject fully assumes his or her identification with the sinthome, when he or she unreservedly “yields” to it, rejoins the place where “it was,” giving up the false distance which defines our everyday life. “ — Tarrying With The Negative - Slavoj Zizek

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Crucial to Buddhism is the reflexive change from the object to the thinker himself:first,we isolate the thing that bothers us,the cause of our suffering;then we change not the object but ourselves,the way we relate to (what appears to us as)the cause of our suffering:“What was extinguished was only the false view of self.What had always been illusory was understood as such.Nothing was changed but the perspective of the observer.” … The path towards Buddhist Enlightenment begins by focusing on the most elementary feelings of “injured innocence,”of suffering an injustice without cause (the preferred topic of narcissistic,masochistic thoughts:“How could she do this to me?I don‟t deserve to be treated that way.” ). The next step is to make the shift to the Ego itself,the subject of these painful emotions,rendering clear and palpable its own fleeting and irrelevant status—the aggression directed against the object causing the suffering should be turned against the Self itself. … We gain the insight into the illusory nature of that which appears to need repair. http

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The object is ceded as a way to avoid anxiety. Anxiety is not triggered by a loss. Anxiety predates the loss of the object. The object is given up in order to quell anxiety. The infant at the breast is confronted above all by the unanswerable question of the mother’s desire. It is in the fate of this question that the mother assumes the form of das Ding, not the little other of the imaginary object, the mirror object of the imaginary human being, but the unknowable, unmasterable, and monstrous big Other. … The infant comes to experience itself as a body for the first time with the separation or ceding of the breast. “ — Richard Boothby, Freud as Philosopher, p. 246

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The drive can be ‘mortal’ precisely because it is indifferent to death (as well as to life); because it is not preoccupied with death, because death does not interest it. - A Zupancic

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Death drive is the opposite of dying, a name for the ‘undead’eternal life itself, for the horrible fate of being caught in the endless repetitive cycle of wandering around in guilt and pain. ... Human life is never just life: humans are not simply alive, they are possessed by the strange drive to enjoy life in excess, passionately attached to a surplus which derails the ordinary run of things .

—	Slavoj Zizek, Adieu Derrida

You must sacrifice being recognized for recognizing. Your project, so to speak, needs to fit in with what the other wants you to be (or what you imagine they want you to be). p43 - Missing Out, A. Phillips

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