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You must be compelled to be free, if you easily believe in your involuntary happiness, and so on. You will never be free. Freedom is painful.

The basic point of psychoanalysis is to distinguish between pleasure and pure pleasure, pleasure is distorted pleasure, even enjoyment of pain.

Pretend to give up so you can have it all.

Desire is never the desire for something, it is always the desire for the desire itself, a desire to continue the desire, perhaps the ultimate fear of desire is to be so completely filled and satisfied that I am not in desire. The ultimate form of depression, the loss of desire itself.

The basic dialectical logic of commodities. is given excess value. (Diamonds are given the value of love.)

The way ideological cynics work, they are never as cynical and cruel as they appear to be, they are always dreaming of tiny secrets.

Humans are not just a product of objective circumstances, we always leave a little bit of freedom to decide how we should objectively respond to these objective circumstances that limit ourselves at the same time. How we rebel against them by building our own universe.

Fantasy is an important material that makes up our ideology.

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  • Slavoj Zizek: One of the great platitudes - which are popular today - when we are confronted with acts of violence - is to refer to Theodore Dostoievsky's - famous statement from 'The Brothers Karamazov': "If there is no God then everything is permitted. "

  • Slavoj Zizek: It is precisely: if there is God, that everything is permitted - to those who not only believe in God - but who perceive themselves as instruments, - direct instruments of the divine will. If you posit or perceive or legitimise yourself - as a direct instrument of the divine will - then of course all narrow petty moral considerations - disappear. How can you even think in such narrow terms - when you are a direct instrument of God? This is how so-called religious fundamentalists work, - but not only them.