"What gives ..satisfaction is not promiscuity as such, but the very accompanying feeling of being..."

“What gives ..satisfaction is not promiscuity as such, but the very accompanying feeling of being miserable”



- Guilt is a fake enabling us to give ourselves over to pleasures - when this frame falls away, anxiety arises.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113844639565

"The psychoanalyst reduces himself to the void, which provokes the subject into confronting ..desire."

“The psychoanalyst reduces himself to the void, which provokes the subject into confronting ..desire.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113827530163

"Zizek: Distrust of the big Other (the order of symbolic fictions) and refusal to take it seriously..."

“Zizek: Distrust of the big Other (the order of symbolic fictions) and refusal to take it seriously ends up in today’s conspiracy theories.” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113703312489

"It is in desire that the positive object is a.. stand-in for the void of the impossible Thing."

“It is in desire that the positive object is a.. stand-in for the void of the impossible Thing.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113495865176

"Does Fight Club not enact the obscene underside of the “normal” capitalist subject? ..Perversion or..."

“Does Fight Club not enact the obscene underside of the “normal” capitalist subject? ..Perversion or transgression are not necessarily emancipatory today.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK, on how “the universe of commodities: instead” “we get an aestheticist explosion of violence.” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113365841794

"men..take refuge in relentless activity in order to escape the proper dimension of the act. The..."

“men..take refuge in relentless activity in order to escape the proper dimension of the act. The retreat of man from woman..is..a retreat from the death drive as a radical ethical stance”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113332039613

In wanting me, what you want is the fantasmatic image of me. I...

In wanting me, what you want is the fantasmatic image of me. I will thwart your desire by directly gratifying it. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK (paraphrased)

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113264518873