What causes anxiety is the lack of the prohibition that would sustain desire. This lack throws us into..suffocating proximity..: we lack the breathing space provided by the prohibition

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Documentaries intrude into the personal reality of the protagonists, fiction intrudes into dreams themselves, secret fantasies,..the unavowed kernel of our lives

when we film ‘reallife’ scenes in a documentary way, we get people playing themselves the only way to depict people beneath their protective mask of playing is,paradoxically, to make them directly play a role, i.e. to move into fiction. ..We cannot ever comprehend the whole of reality that we encounter: if we are to be able to endure our encounter with reality, some part of it has to be ‘derealised’, experienced as a spectral apparition Slavoj Zizek http://ift.tt/1mbtfyP

The desired ‘object is nothing but the positivization of a void/lack’, Zizek says

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What we never possessed can also never be lost. ..Melancholy obfuscates..that the object is lacking from the very beginning

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I am..hyperactive all the time, just to fascinate people enough so that they don’t notice..that if..I stopped talking, the whole spectacular appearance would disintegrate. People would think there is nobody and nothing there. This is my fear.

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False idolizing..projects its own phantasmagorical constructions; while true love accepts the beloved the way she or he is

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The excess in the beloved..is s the place of the..inscription of my own desire..into the beloved

SLAVOJ ZIZEK ON WHAT IN MY BELOVED ‘ELUDES MY GRASP’ http://ift.tt/1PsUgJN