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“If … the goal is … to “live life to the fullest,” … the merciless agency which makes … an evaluation of pleasure (the superego) will never be satisfied. … The superego is by definition unsatisfiable.”
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“If we are never … as … satisfied as … [we are told] we ought to be, [we] will be making it impossible for us even just to be happy in the sense of what is possible – [in the sense of] happiness not...
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Article 21
“The authoritarian father oppresses the child with his will, giving the child a symbolic obstacle to reckon with, but in so doing also creates a space for the child to desire something else. The...
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Article 20
“You can’t change your fantasy; but you can take responsibility for it by assigning a lack within the fantasy structure itself, that is to say a symbolized understanding..of its necessarily unfulfilled...
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Article 19
“a poet turns a prosaic monotony about existential grief into the new warmth of a well designed koan” – sinthematica: On fantasy, shame and a grand lack of irony
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Article 18
“To understand lack..opens a space in which one must..wonder just what..one would be without..fantasy as support [for coping with] the pain..of..unfulfillment.” – sinthematica: On fantasy, shame and a...
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Article 17
“I can..believe that one day my complaint..will be answered or I can come to terms with the idea that I myself am comprised of a collection of unanswered complaints.” – Sinthematica
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Article 16
“In depression “the loss of interest” in things is a “false renunciation,” Sinthematica writes. For him this renunciation is fake: we still “exalt the object to the unattainable glory”. We mistakenly...
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Article 15
“we don’t so much grieve the things..themselves we’ve lost. [We grieve] the sense of having possessed them” – sinthematica
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Article 14
“There’s no reason to feel shame for fantasy except to find an excuse to preserve it ‘as is.’ ..You’ve been holding out for its unreachable quality,..you’ve been hurting from the belief in its...
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Article 13
““Perhaps I will always simply enjoy my fantasy in private, shut far out from the world.” [In short,] my fantasy remains preserved..and the big Other..remains in a..despotic position [in my fatal...
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Article 12
“If my lack is [disavowed],…my love will be a torment. If my demands are divorced from desire, my love can be completed. …In love, the other fills my lack. The other is my lack.” –...
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Article 11
“the symptom is the question [of being]; the suffering is the [unsatisfyingly] satisfying answer.” – Sinthematica – [Andre Vantino: “Jouissance can be a protection against hardship. Thus this pleasure...
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Article 10
“We are lonely because we love with excess. We love with excess because we are lonely.” – sinthematica: On Verhaeghe’s wager
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Article 9
“if we know fullness, it’s in a lack of fullness, or in the fullness of emptiness. if we know engagement, it’s through disengagement and through the losses we risk in engagement. if we know...
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Article 8
to boycott is a noble, courageous gesture. ..What is incited in me is something much more radical than boycotting. ..I’m speaking of a refusal to allow a system such[,] as the one we tumbl in[,] to go...
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Article 7
“”Man”, [in] his envy of the Other sex,..envies what he perceives to be [his] limitation on bodily enjoyment — a logical conclusion given his..misery in his insistence on being an unchangingly sexuated...
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Article 6
“Sight is satisfying, relieving, even if what we are seeing causes melancholic or masochistic despair, for sight always connects anticipation with familiarity..” – “True despair is much more horrific...
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Article 5
“Consciousness could easily be a curse. …Melancholia speaks of it best: “What’s the point in eating?! I’ll only hunger again.” ..the desire for the death of the other is a defense against the...
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Article 4
“I’ve read some passages on Tumblr lately (Anti-Oedipus etc) that I think were ultimately better critiques of some embarrassing mutations of Freudian psychoanalysis than they were of psychoanalysis..”...
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