Slavoj Žižek on Love
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Slavoj Žižek, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Slavoj Žižek, entry #2345: "If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them."
Attributed to Slavoj Žižek, entry #2927: "Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures."
8 Quotes by Slavoj Žižek on Love
"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."
"Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner."
"Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek."
"Everything pales into insignificance compared to our passionate attachment. In this sense, falling in love is like the blinding light that hit Saul/Paul on the road to Damascus: a kind of religious suspension of the Ethical, to use Kerkegaard's terms."
"Maybe, many years ago, Zizek made a bet with some of his Slovenian colleagues about how much post-modern sounding gibberish he could get contemporary academics to swallow-keep in mind that, recently, he's been trying to persuade people to embrace as unproblematic the juxtaposition of Stalinist dialectical materialism and Christian theology."
"In his seminar on The Ethic of Psychoanalysis, Lacan speaks of the role of the Chorus in classical tragedy: we, the spectators, came to the theatre worried, full of everyday problems, unable to adjust without reserve to the problems of the play, that is to feel the required fears and compassions - but not problem, there is a chorus, who feels the sorrow and the compassion instead of us - or, more precisely, we feel the required emotions through the medium of the chorus: 'You are then relieved of all worries, even if you do not feel anything, the Chorus will do so in your place.'"
"The big Other, the symbolic order, with a traumatic element at its very heart; and in Lacanian theory the fantasy is a construction allowing the subject to come to terms with this traumatic kernel. At this level the final moment of the analysis is defined as going through the fantasy : not its symbolic interpretation but the experience of the fact that the fantasy-object, by its fascinating presence, is merely filling out a lack, a void in the Other. There is nothing behind the fantasy; the fantasy is a construction whose function is to hide this void, this nothing - that is, the lack in the Other."