“the subject can become bored or morose because he or she rejects repression and thus the unconscious, ..not prepared to take responsibility for his or her unconscious.” – RIK LOOSE, “Modern Symptoms”
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“Bertrand Russell ..tried to help T.S. Eliot + his wife Vivien in their marital troubles, úntil I discovered that their troubles were what they enjoyed’, in short, until he discovered that they enjyed their symptom.” – slavoj zizek
“[Sylvia Plath] celebrates “the illicit sensuous delight I get from picking my nose” ..These “minute joys” are..Plath’s sinthomes: there is no..“deeper” meaning – they are simply what they are, a certain “knot” around which varieties of jouissance circulate.” – Slavoj Zizek on Jacques Lacan’s term sinthome
“by acknowledging her symptom,..by letting [him] appropriate its libidinal value, she is..released from..her narcissism.” – fabio vighi
“A man is ill, but the illness is nature’s attempt to heal him.” – C.G. Jung on the function of neurotics
