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“love does not idealize the other. The miracle is that you say: ‘Okay you are this person who is slightly stupid, not a perfect body, or whatever – but still you are absolute for me’.” – Slavoj Žižek
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“Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them” – Walter Benjamin
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“The analyst has to function at the opposite pole from any conscious position of mastery. … The hysterical subject is on the lookout for a master who can produce knowledge of jouissance. The … analyst...
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“we are, from the start, given over to the other, even prior to individuation itself” – Judith Butler, Undoing Gender
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“One can recognize an obstacle – which can mean construct something as an obstacle – only when it can be tolerated. Only through knowing what we think of as an obstacle can we understand our fantasies...
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“in sexuality, man’s object is ..the fantasy..to which no actual woman can ever correspond..(..sublime infatuation). ..The ..actual woman in her uniqueness is annihilated.” – Slavoj Zizek
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“..Her being ..she obtains through the Other. ..The hysteric’s desire ..is to be the signifier of the Other’s desire, ..not the object of his satisfaction.” – Alterities – Desire studied through Zizek...
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“Religion is a response to ..helplessness when faced with the real.” – http://ift.tt/1Dt9NlR
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“The analyst has to function at the opposite pole from any conscious position of mastery.” – Paul Verhaeghe
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“I’m telling myself, “No, I’m not yet writing. I’m just putting down ideas.” Then, at a certain point, I tell myself, “Everything is already there. Now I just have to edit it.”” – slavoj zizek (via...
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“love occurs when the loving subject discovers that the treasure in the beloved is just a deceiving fetish, that the true treasure is the fragile beloved” – slavoj zizek (via alterities)
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“She is not interested in what satisfies him, but in what he desires.” – ..The hysteric is interested in the Other’s lack. ..Her being as subject ..she obtains through the Other. ..The hysteric’s...
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“A writer […] is able to describe her/his depression to us, and this is already a triumph of experience over depression.” – Julia Kristeva (via alterities) http://ift.tt/1EGHTp4
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“We used each other for sex, comfort, something to sink our chattering teeth into.” – We are fractions: Used (via alterities) http://ift.tt/1GNh2sb
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“What Lacan exposed is a “carrying over of the difficulty inherent in sexuality” itself “onto the woman”.” – Jacqueline Rose (via alterities) http://ift.tt/1AwKx9p
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“For Lacan, ..sexuality is the vanishing point of meaning ..because there can be no sexual relation when desire is always directed beyond the object which represents its desire.” – Thus woman, too,...
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“Lacan would say “Woman does not exist” to point out that there is no such thing as a feminine nature.” – Elizabeth Roudinesco, “Jaques Lacan”, p337 (via alterities) http://ift.tt/1BgsBzU
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