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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?'

— Slavoj Žižek The Plague of Fantasies (1997)

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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)

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