the pathological narcissus is convinced that life is a game, everybody wears a mask and is a criminal hiding behind a conformist appearance

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individuals can only desire insofar as they become victims of an illusion: they think they desire another person because of him or her

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the impossibility of sexual relationship is covered up by the sexualized cosmo-ontology of masculine and feminine principle

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The true site of my beliefs is not my conscious acts, but the unconscious.

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They are not aware that their desire is caused by the essence/odour which has nothing to do with the person as such. Since Grenouille can bypass the person and directly target the object-cause of desire, he can avoid this illusion - this is why eroticism is for him a ridiculous game of lures. The price he pays for it, however, is that he cannot ever accept the inverse illusion that someone loves him: he is always aware that it is not him but his perfume that makes people adore him

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One should avoid the trap of putting the blame on patriarchal authority as such, seeing in Fritzl’s monstrosity the ultimate consequence of paternal Law, as well as the opposite trap of putting the blame on the disintegration of paternal Law.

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it is misleading, even outright wrong, to describe Fritzl as ‘inhuman’ - if anything, he was, to use Nietzsche’s phrase, 'human, all too human’. No wonder Fritzl complained that his own life had been 'ruined’ by the discovery of his secret family. What makes his reign so chilling is precisely the way his brutal exercise of power and his usufruit Fritzl claimed that he noted Elisabeth wanted to escape her home - she was returning home late, looking for a job, had a boyfriend, was possibly taking drugs, and he wanted to protect her from all that The contours of the obsessional strategy are clearly recognizable here: 'III protect her from the dangers of the outside world even if it means destroying her’. According to the media, Fritzl defended himself thus: If it weren’t for me, Kerstin wouldn’t be alive today, f m no monster. I could have killed them all. Then there would have been no trace. No one would have found me out’ What is crucial here is the underlying premiss: as a father, he had the right to exercise total power

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