Quotes by Lacanians

By Andy Vantino. https://enjoyments.substack.com

[walter-benjamin-quotes]

“The decline of aura and the withering of the fantasies of a better nature - owing to the defensive position of the class struggle - are one and the same. The decline of aura and the decline of sexual potency are in the end the same”

— WALTER BENJAMIN

[lacanians]

[onetwofeb]

“neurosis ‘is a refusal to sacrifice the hope that the Other holds some ultimate enjoyment,’ McGowan writes.”

— via http://twitter.com/AndreVantino (via andre-vantino)

[onetwofeb]

“the loss that haunts the subject also constitutes the subject, which is why it seeks to repeat this loss”

— (via todd-mcgowan)

[onetwofeb]

“When we encounter the enjoying other, we experience our own isolation, our own absolute insignificance for the other.”

— (via todd-mcgowan)

[onetwofeb]

“Fascism brings together perfectly the feeling of doing one’s duty and the feeling of transgressing moral norms (i.e. , enjoying). The increasing predominance of the superego—and its correlate, the emergence of the command to enjoy—produces the terrain on which fascism grows”

— (via todd-mcgowan)

[onetwofeb]

“Capitalism has the effect of sustaining subjects in a constant state of desire. As subjects of capitalism, we are constantly on the edge of having our desire realized, but never reach the point of realization. This has the effect of producing a satisfaction that we don’t recognize as such.”

— (via todd-mcgowan)

[andyvantino]

“‘The sadist makes himself into the servant of universal extinction’ ‘in order to avoid the deadlock of subjectivity,’ says Aaron Schuster.”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/1384325032801878020

[andyvantino]

“we learn in school to pull ourselves together, to repress, but not how to deal with the void feeling, the feeling of going to pieces.”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/1384328176705359872

[andyvantino]

“The hysteric wants…the master…to guarante a wholeness. - Paul Verhaeghe”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/1384392429592358912

[lacanians]

Th e typical modern subject can watch an antiwar fi lm like Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1961) and feel convinced that war is hell and completely unnecessary. Aft er leaving the theater, however, this same subject can come to believe that there is no alternative but to send troops to Vietnam to stop the potential spread of Communist aggression. War appeals to even modern subjects because it mobilizes our enjoyment.

mcgowan

[unpleasure]

Laplanche on sex and death

From An Interview with Jean Laplanche:

“For me, the sexual death drive is just sexuality, unbound sexuality, the extreme of sexuality.  And more than death, I would point to primary masochism.  I see more of a sense of the sexual death drive in masochism or in sado-masochism than in death.”

[elliebooks]

“The phallic signifier, in turn, orients the Other as a corpus of Language” https://t.co/ms0uY69cEv

Ellie Ragland (via ellie-ragland)

[bookowlnews]

sexuality can infect everything: not because it is “the strongest” component in people’s lives, exerting a hegemony over all other components, but because it is the one most radically thwarted in its actualization

LESS THAN NOTHING - SLAVOJ ZIZEK (via alterities)

[lacantexts]

“I desire you even if I know it not,” Lacan writes “The Other is the one who sees me and this is what kicks off the struggle on the plane of pure prestige,” Lacan writes “The Other concerns my desire to the extent of what he lacks,” Lacan writes. “It is at the level of what he lacks and of him not knowing that I am concerned in the most prominent way because there is no other path for me to find what I lack as object of my desire,” Lacan writes in “Anxiety”. “Desire for desire is the desire for a desire to respond to the subject’s appeal,” Lacan writes on page 24. “It’s the desire for a desirer. Why does the subject need this desirer? He needs the Other so that the Other may acknowledge him. It means the Other will institute something designated by a.  Objet a is what is involved at the level of what desires. In demanding to get acknowledged, right where I get acknowledged, I only get acknowledged as an object,” Lacan writes. “I get acknowledged, I get what I desire, I’m an object, and I can’t stand myself as an object, since this object that I am is of its essence a self-consciousness. I can’t stand myself acknowledged in the only type of acknowledgement I can obtain. There is no longer any mediation. … Such is desire’s lot in Hegel. In the Lacanian sense, desire for desire is far more open to a kind of mediation. At least on a first approach.,” Lacan writes

LACAN (via jacques–lacan)

[lacantexts]

Objet a is an object that desires. … Because of the existence of the unconscious, we can be this object that desires. It is in so far that we are stamped by finitude that our own lack can be desire. This ultimate Other, this irrational entity, this proof and sole guarantee of the Other’s otherness, is objet a.

LACAN (via jacques–lacan)

[lacanians]

“Often we arrive at ourselves far from ourselves,” Cixous says about novels as places liberated from our overdetermined life of selfhating