“forms of displeasure (..fear, disgust, guilt and pain) can be converted directly into forms of pleasure.. (sexual desire, .. disregard of moral principles..).” – ROBERT PFALLER
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jouissance
“enjoyment..comes from our knowledge that our pleasure involves..entering a forbidden domain. ..Pleasure involves a certain displeasure. The..excess..is therefore the “short circuit” between law and desire” – Slavoj Zizek
“When we go crazy in our … mindless jouissance, even totalitarian manipulation cannot reach us. When we go crazy in our … mindless jouissance, even totalitarian manipulation cannot reach us” – “he escapes his torturers by whistling … ‘Brazil’! ..That overspill..of the Real … enables us to ‘pull ourselves out’, to preserve a kind of distance from the sociosymbolic order.” – Slavoj Zizek – alterities/politics
