What is usually referred to as ‘borderline’ is precisely hysteria in our time of permissiveness, and the time when the traditional figure of the Master is more and more replaced by the neutral expert legitimized by his (scientific) knowledge

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The hysteric is horrified at being ‘reduced to an object’, at being invested with the agalma which makes him or her the object of other’s desire.

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Every neighbour is ultimately creepy. What makes a neighbour creepy is not his weird acts but the impenetrability of the desire that sustains these acts.

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We cannot find a proper way to relate to our own jouissance – the ultimate incompatibility is not between mine and another’s jouissance, but between myself and my own intruder. It is to resolve this deadlock that the subject projects the core of its jouissance onto an Other, attributing to this Other full access to a consistent jouissance.

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Loving the illusion of the good in others may make us be polite in order to become lovable, which, in turn, exercises our self-mastery, leads us to control our passions and, eventually, to love the good for its own sake.

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the love of the illusion of the good can lead to the love of the good itself: if one loves the illusion of the good and enacts this illusion in social intercourse, one might come to appreciate its worth and to love the good itself for its own sake

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There is no domain left unseen, ignored by the PC law – its law tolerates no unwritten rules, there is no space here for a transgressive behaviour which violates explicit rules and is precisely as such not only tolerated but even solicited by the law.

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