"..The precious agalma perceived..as the unique..kernel which cannot be shared by others..."

“..The precious agalma perceived..as the unique..kernel which cannot be shared by others (non-believers) is precisely jouissance”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how one is trapped in the idea of what the Other is like, what their jouissance is like, if one overestimates the Other by overestimating their impossible jouissance http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114043989597

"The notion of symptom is the necessary counterpoint to [deconstructivism’s notion of constructed..."

“The notion of symptom is the necessary counterpoint to [deconstructivism’s notion of constructed identities] ..The ..symptom [is] the substance of enjoyment ..around which this signifying interplay is structured”



- "the fundamental gesture of poststructuralism is to deconstruct every identity".

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the Lacanian notion of symptom as the glue which holds the subject together http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114004107777

"The analyst’s silence stands for the absent meaning of the patient’s talk"

“The analyst’s silence stands for the absent meaning of the patient’s talk”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on coming to terms with the lack at the centre of subjectivity by working with language and through language and by having the analyst present as the locus that gives my language a direction as if it gives the lack of myself and the lack of language a locus or a meaning through which one can arrive at being okay with lack and with lack of meaning. http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113957293855

"morality or “the good” is a defense mechanism and an imaginary relation towards reality in which the..."

“morality or “the good” is a defense mechanism and an imaginary relation towards reality in which the moralist sees everything he cannot control in his obsessive life as evil”



- ANDRE VANTINO on how, in Zizek’s words, “Evil is hatred for all that fails to correspond to our idea of Good” http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113950004747

"The subject ..“causes itself”, becomes its own cause. ..The enigma of the Other’s desire no longer..."

“The subject ..“causes itself”, becomes its own cause. ..The enigma of the Other’s desire no longer has any hold over it.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113883808118

"Anxiety signals not ..loss ..but overproximity.."

“Anxiety signals not ..loss ..but overproximity..”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on feeling anxious because one has nothing that one can desire, one has no desire left that would destract from anxiety, because one already has everything and feels guilty for no reason in the midst of this saturation http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113872194204

"Accepting guilt is a manoeuvre which delivers us of anxiety, and its presence signals that the..."

“Accepting guilt is a manoeuvre which delivers us of anxiety, and its presence signals that the subject compromised his desire.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/113857656677