Slavoj Žižek

"If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them."

"Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures."

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"What we are thus arguing is not simply that ideology also permeates the alleged extraideological strata of everyday life, but that this materialization of ideology in external materiality reveals inhe…"

"I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem."

"The criticism of ideology must therefore invert the linking of causality as perceived by the totalitarian gaze: far from being the positive cause of social antagonism, the Jew is just an embodiment of…"

"Darcy wants to present himself to Elizabeth as a proud gentleman, and he gets from her the message 'your pride is nothing but contemptible arrogance.' After the break in their relationship each discov…"

"The analysis achieves its end when the patient is able to recognize, in the Real of his symptom, the only support of his being. That is how we must read Frued's 'wo we war, soll ich werden:' you, the …"