“There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs” – ADAM PHILLIPS http://ift.tt/1AKEpvF
alterities on love
“libido is a drive that can be tamed by love, sublimated in the sense in which this drive is stifled by accepting that it cannot be stifled, by making this drive the Lacanian drive.” – ANDRE VANTINO http://ift.tt/1zmiHCX
“It is as if her message is: let’s fuck as soon as possible in order to stifle the thriving fantasies, before they overwhelm us again.” – SLAVOJ ZIZEK on libido as that which plagues us, which makes our life somehow irrational, somehow beyond mere pleasure. Sexuality is not just pleasure, also it is not just purely an urge, but it is a very different drive, less a biological one and more a weird one, a drive which makes us almost too alive, almost too unable to ever know what it wants us to do, a drive that can be tamed by love, sublimated in the sense in which this drive is stifled by accepting that it cannot be stifled, by making this drive the Lacanian drive. Zizek speaks from the experience in which making love is ‘a desperate preventive measure aimed at keeping at bay the spectral netherworld of fantasies’. This netherworld is nothing forbidden or crazy, but simply the netherworld of existence, of being alive and being unable to know how to respond to this aliveness. http://ift.tt/19fgDjV
“Neurotic men elevate women in order to avoid encountering the overbearing presence of subjectivity as something fundamentally defined by lack. Neurotics know about this lack but try to deny its existence.” – ANDRE VANTINO http://ift.tt/1Mb0xtF
“in love, I also am nothing, ..made rich through the very awareness of its lack.” – SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1CJjspa
“what he loves is the vision of himself displaying his love for her.” – SLAVOJ ZIZEK on Orpheus http://ift.tt/1980g8v
“Orpheus ..loses Euridice intentionally in order to regain her as the object of sublime poetic inspiration.” – SLAVOJ ZIZEK on “the link between the death-drive and creative sublimation” http://ift.tt/1Cz5aaD