"Fantasy is ..a fantasy of the sexual relationship, a staging of it. ..There is nothing ‘behind’ it...."

“Fantasy is ..a fantasy of the sexual relationship, a staging of it. ..There is nothing ‘behind’ it. ..Fantasy masks precisely this ‘nothing’.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118181294377

"The hysteric is able to enjoy the object of love (the lover) only insofar as it remains illicit,..."

“The hysteric is able to enjoy the object of love (the lover) only insofar as it remains illicit, insofar as it maintains a potential status (i.e. in the guise of fantasies about what “might have” happened).”

- Four Discourses, Four Subjects, SIC2, p86 - SLAVOjZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118135358056

"Objet a deceives because ..it invokes the impression of some substantial Real behind, ..that, behind..."

“Objet a deceives because ..it invokes the impression of some substantial Real behind, ..that, behind it, there is the lost substance of jouissance”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/118001009923

It’s like fantasy realised. ..It’s called “nightmare”. ..The violence in this case of Scottie’s...

It’s like fantasy realised. ..It’s called “nightmare”. ..The violence in this case of Scottie’s brutal refashioning of Judy, a real, common girl, into Madeleine. It’s truly a process of mortification, which also is the mortification of woman’s desire. ~SLAVOJ_ZIZEK on Vertigo

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117960418877

"sex is ..a desperate ..measure aimed at keeping at bay the spectral netherworld of fantasies"

“sex is ..a desperate ..measure aimed at keeping at bay the spectral netherworld of fantasies”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on this netherworld which is not about anything forbidden or crazy, but is simply the netherworld of existence, of being alive and being unable to know how to respond to this aliveness. http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117941240102

"In Blade Runner, R. ..starts to cry when D. proves ..that she is a replicant. The ..grief over the..."

“In Blade Runner, R.  ..starts to cry when D. proves ..that she is a replicant. The ..grief over the loss of her “humanity,” ..or, [in the case of any human being] the eternal gnawing doubt over whether I am truly human or just an android - it is these states which make me human.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on subjectivity as lack, on how we are all replicants when it comes to the uncertainty of any identity http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117873590175

"subjects experience the need to have a good time ..as a kind of duty; consequently, they feel guilty..."

“subjects experience the need to have a good time ..as a kind of duty; consequently, they feel guilty if they fail to be happy.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on our feeling guilty for doing nothing http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117846619831