“The ultimate Woman does not exist, that is, the elevated ideals that many men have of women. This is why Lacan says ‘Woman does not exist’.” – Woman as such a symptom of man means that the actual woman is misunderstood or even avoided precisely because she ‘represents the radical negativity which constitutes all subjects,’ as Zizek phrases it.
– ANDRE VANTINO http://ift.tt/1IGHeaf
“Strong language is often an outlet for a feeling of an over-abundance of inner life. d” – ANDRE VANTINO on what is described by Freud as death instinct, as overintensity of life that cannot be fully stifle http://ift.tt/1dpxovt
“Penis envy is most profoundly felt by those who have a penis.” – SLAVOJ ZIZEK citing Richard Boothby, “the fact that the phallus is itself the signifier of castration” http://ift.tt/1AN8Pxd
“Fantasy is ..a fantasy of the sexual relationship, a staging of it. ..There is nothing ‘behind’ it. ..Fantasy masks precisely this ‘nothing’.” – SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1KIDi5G
“Psychoanalysis is ..what the hysteric needed.. ..It agrees to recognize the enigma of sex + assumes responsibility for it.” – COLETTE SOLER http://ift.tt/1IAITfc
“Woman ..offers the mask as ..pretence, in order to give rise to the search for the secret behind the mask.” – Man tries to live up to his image, i.e., that he really is what he pretends to be; the trick of the feminine masquerade is to present itself as a mask that conceals the feminine secret.
– SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1aN7DDl
“In the figure of the lady, ..woman as sexual object, reaches existence, .. this inaccessible absolute other.. ..At the price of being posited as an inaccessible thing” – SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://ift.tt/1IYTAWC
