"In the figure of the lady, ..woman as sexual object, reaches existence, .. this inaccessible..."

“In the figure of the lady, ..woman as sexual object, reaches existence, .. this inaccessible absolute other.. ..At the price of being posited as an inaccessible thing”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116355768796

"as such, the sexual relationship cannot be transposed into a symmetrical relationship between pure..."

“as such, the sexual relationship cannot be transposed into a symmetrical relationship between pure subjects.”



- the sexual relationship is condemned to remain an asymmetrical non-relationship in which the Other, our partner, prior to being a subject, is a Thing, an ‘inhuman partner’

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116335889807

"Every translation of sexual difference into a set of symbolic opposition(s) is doomed to fail....."

“Every translation of sexual difference into a set of symbolic opposition(s) is doomed to fail.. ..This ..“impossibility” ..opens up the terrain of the hegemonic struggle for what “sexual difference” will mean.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116335878422

"In this empty place in the very heart of the Other, we must locate the problematic of the death..."

“In this empty place in the very heart of the Other, we must locate the problematic of the death drive.”



- [Objet a is] a pure void, [the] cause of desire: a cause which ..in itself doesn’t exist +..is present only in a series of its effects.

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how jouissance thus doesn’t exist. Jouissance is the enjoyment one looks for in the Other, in whom one presumes to see objet a, enchanted by something that isn’t actually there http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116311437040

"In desire, the subject longs for the (lost) object, whereas in drive, the subject makes herself an..."

“In desire, the subject longs for the (lost) object, whereas in drive, the subject makes herself an object ..of “making-oneself-seen,” not simply of wanting to see”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the shift from desire to drive, from being only seeing to being seen, from idealizing to taking part in life http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/116043239160

"pleasure [is] generated by repression itself, which is why we lose it if we abolish repression."

“pleasure [is] generated by repression itself, which is why we lose it if we abolish repression.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115849223863

"the idiot for whom I endeavour to formulate a theoretical point as clearly as possible is ultimately..."

“the idiot for whom I endeavour to formulate a theoretical point as clearly as possible is ultimately myself.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115759118719