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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.
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.
Last remark in an interview for the CN8 show Nitebeat (2003)
Man as such is nature sick unto death, derailed, run off the rails through a fascination with a lethal Thing.
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
Reading Heidegger against the grain, one discovers a thinker who was, at some points, strangely close to communism.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
The medium here is not the message, quite the opposite: the very medium that we use—the universal intersubjectivity of language—undermines the message.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
All the proper balances of our daily life are disturbed, everything we do is colored by the underlying thought of "that".
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
Memento mori should be read: don't forget to die.
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
See you, either in Hell, or in Communism.
There is nothing in Lacan which is not stupid, no exceptions to stupidity, so that what makes him not totally stupid is only the very inconsistency of his stupidity.
Less Than Nothing (2012)
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 original question of desire is not directly 'What do I want?', but 'What do others want from me? What do they see in me? What am I to others?'
The Plague of Fantasies (1997)
Lenin is best remembered for his famous retort, 'Freedom – yes, but for WHOM? To do WHAT?'
Lenin 2017 (2017)
As Bertolt Brecht puts in his Threepenny Opera: What is the robbery of a bank compared to the foundation of a new bank?'
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.
A woman is not complimentary to a man, but she embodies his lack (which is why Lacan can say that a beautiful woman is a perfect incarnation of man's castration).
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
The general reference of the philosophical discussion is usually the triangle world: world-language-subject, the relation of the subject to the world of objects, mediated through language.
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
Zhuang Zi, who dreamt of being a butterfly, and after his awakening posed himself a question: how does he know that he is not now a butterfly dreaming of being Zhuang Zi?
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)