the subject needs the camera’s gaze as a kind of ontological guarantee of his or her existence.

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I am a subject insofar as the radical perplexity persists as… as to what the Other… finds worthy of desire in me. …When Lacan claims that there is no desire without an object-cause, this does not amount to the banality according to which every desire is attached to its objective correlative:… the lack in question concerns her uncertainty as to her status for the Other’s desire. …The subject’s desire is the desire to ascertain her status as the object of the Other’s desire

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So, the typical attitude of the left is ‘there will be a crisis and then our moment will come.’ Well, fuck you. The crisis is here

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the worst thing that can happen is for us to get what we “officially” desire.

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her…compulsive gesture, an excessive facial expression, a tic.. signals the intensity of the real of jouissance. … I cannot.. integrate it into my universe, there is always a gulf separating me from it

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The ancient Greeks lost their moral compass precisely because they believed in spontaneous and basic uprightness of a human being

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there is no Self that precedes: the very alienation generates the “Self” from which Spirit is alienated and to which it then returns.

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