Woman is the symptom of man, caught in the hysterical game of demanding that he refuse her demand, precisely to the extent to which she is submitted to the phallic enjoyment. … Woman redeems man by renouncing phallic enjoyment. (What we have here is the exact opposite to Weininger where man redeems-destroys woman by overcoming his phallicity.) This is what Wagner was not able to confront, and the price to be paid for this avoidance fully to assume the “feminization” of Parsifal after he enters the domain “beyond the phallus” was the fall into perversion. - Slavoj Zizek

Zizek on love: The standard notion of love in psychoanalysis is reductionist: there is no pure love, love is just "sublimated" sexual lust. Until his late teaching, Lacan also insisted on the narcissistic character of love: in lovin an Other, I love myself in the Other; even if the Other is more to me than myself, even if i am ready to sacrifice myself for the Other, what I loved in the Other is my idealized perfected Ego, my Supreme Good - but still my Good.


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Zizek on aura:
Walter Benjamin noted that the aura surrounding an object signals that it returns the gaze; he simply forgot to add that the auratic effect arises when this gaze is covered up, "gentrified" - the moment this cover is removed, the aura changes into a nightmare, the gaze becomes that of Medusa. http://jujutsu-with-zizek.tumblr.com/post/21376624364/do-you-eavesdrop-what-others-say-about-you-zizek (art by elle shushan) 

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