It is not that father’s excessive vitality undermines his symbolic authority; it is, rather, the other way round, i.e., the very fact that one is bothered by father’s excessive vitality already presupposes the failure of symbolic authority.

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What bothers Kafka is the over-presence of his father: he is too much alive, too obscenely intrusive. However, this…father’s “too-muchness”..is ultimately the too-muchness of life itself, the humiliating quality of the father’s excess of vitality which undermines his authority.

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Fritzl defended himself thus: If it weren’t for me, Kerstin wouldn’t be alive today, I’m no monster. I could have killed them all. Then…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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Fritzl is also a child of 1968, ruthlessly realizing his fantasy. …It is misleading…to describe Fritzl as inhuman. 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.

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Fritzl is also a child 1968, ruthlessly realizing his fantasy. …It is misleading…to describe Fritzl as inhuman. 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.

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I wouldn’t like to live in a stupid society where I would have to be all the time engaged in local communitarian politics. …My idea of society is that… some invisible alienated machinery takes care of things so that I can… watch movies, read and write.. books and so on.

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that at any point the end may be near.. pushes you to strengthen ethical activity. The result… is not, “Oh, the end may be near, so let’s kill, let’s just enjoy”. No, it’s the opposite. Again, paradoxically, I claim it’s not a superficially but profoundly optimistic film.

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