"..Apple? ..The boss of FoxConn ..said ..that he wants to learn from the zoo how you can discipline +..."

“..Apple? ..The boss of FoxConn ..said ..that he wants to learn from the zoo how you can discipline + control hundreds of thousands of animals. He explicitly referred to FoxConn as a big zoo.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK talking at cafe oto about the tycoon who produces apple products http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113250820812

"[The way in which the film depicts her] progressive suffering [puts] us in the position of the..."

“[The way in which the film depicts her] progressive suffering [puts] us in the position of the sadistic observer secretly enjoying what he officially condemns”



- [Lars von Trier’s film Dancer in the Dark professes] compassion with the excessively good heroine. [But the way in which the film depicts her] progressive suffering [puts] us in the position of the sadistic observer secretly enjoying what he officially condms: this sadistic pleasure is ..the hidden truth of compassion. And for this, von Trier should never be forgiven.

- Lenin’s Choice - SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113064652032

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"if you really love a woman or a man, ..you don’t idealize him or her. ..You accept a person with all..."

“if you really love a woman or a man, ..you don’t idealize him or her. ..You accept a person with all its failures”



- s. zizek http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/112537823205

"Having just hosted the Winter Olympics in Sochi, he must have realized he was all but throwing away seven years and $50 billion of effort to polish Russia’s image. He evidently calculated that any diplomatic damage did not outweigh what he sees as a threat to Russia’s historic interest in Ukraine" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/world/europe/russia-to-pay-not-so-simple.html?_r=1

"The object little a proposes that limit and excess coincide. The object little a is on the one hand an elusive object that avoids symbolization, a leftover, an object that embodies fundamental, constitutive lack and thus causes desire. Prozac seems to erase loss and contradiction by making those who take it desensitized to conflict”

A Lacanian-Reader-for-Psychologists

"we mourn people of whom we can say, “I was his lack.” More specifically, we mourn people vis-à-vis whom we do not know whether we fulfill this function of being at the place of their lack (January 30, 1963). What we give in love is essentially what we do not have, and when what we do not have is returned to us, this gift reveals how much we have failed the person in representing his or her lack. … Whereas the object of the need can be lost, the object of desire is mythical, it never existed as an actual object and yet has to be “lost”"

- A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists