“pathological Narcissus” is literally “somebody else” in relation to himself, or in terms of his symbolic identity or identification.

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somebody who is socially fully “adjusted” and fully “functional” can, in fact, be psychotic.

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Borderline is a step towards normalisation, a hysterisation, the subject loses all distance, caught up in the paradox of desire/the symbolic

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Borderline is not the breakdown of the mask of the “pathological” Ego, which supposedly maintained the appearance of unity.

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[In religion] ‘God’ is ..this Other’s gaze returned by objects, an imagined gaze.. ..This gaze exists only for a desiring subject.

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In love ..‘the gaze of the Other remains even if the Other ..ceased to exist.’ The Other’s gaze ‘sees in me more than myself’

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How would you defend yourself against charges that you are promoting terrorism or violence? Žižek: Such charges may be a below-the-belt blow

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