the art resides in a demand which, while ‘realist’, disturbs the very core of the hegemonic ideology and implies a much more radical change

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The masochist ,thinking ‘he knows it for her,’ ‘pretends to speak from the position of knowledge (about the other’s desire)’. He perversely ‘exerts control through’ ‘what he is for the Other’: ‘the object of’ their jouissance, Zizek says.

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the realization of desire does not consist in its being “fulfilled,” “fully satisfied,” it coincides rather with the reproduction of desire

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we mistake for the searching and indecision proper to desire what is, in fact, the realization of desire.

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Shakespeare’s Richard II is confronted with the void of his subjectivity outside the symbolic title “king,” forced into hysterical outbursts

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Richard II proves beyond any doubt that Shakespeare had read Lacan

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The object is “objectively” nothing, though, viewed from a certain perspective, it assumes the shape of “something,” begot by “nothing.”

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