Dec 4, 2017
Moral order is established, according to psychoanalysis, not in obedience to some reasonable or compassionate command to sacrifice our pleasure to the state but because we recoil before the violence and obscenity of the superego’s incitement to jouissance, to a boundless and aggressive enjoyment.
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The sole moral maxim of psychoanalysis is this: do not surrender your internal conflict, your division.
Joan Copjec, Read My Desire, “The Sartorial Superego”