May 2012
76 posts
lawgiverz:
new aesthetics
Death drive is not something suicidal but the one... →
jujutsu-with-zizek:
Dreaming is an act of hommage to the missed reality which can no longer produce itself except by repeating itself in some never attained awakening. The dream repeats something actually more fatal by means of reality. … Desire manifests itself in the dream by the loss of an object. Only in the dream this can occur. The dream is the counterpart of the representation of...
Zizek on what happens if you say "I love you." →
jujutsu-with-zizek:
Being loved makes me feel directly the gap between what I am as a determinate being and the unfathomable X in me which causes love. Everyone knows Lacan’s definition of love (“Love is giving something one doesn’t have…”); what one often forgets is to add the other half which completes the sentence: “… to someone who doesn’t want it.” And is this not confirmed by our most...