#alteritiesreview

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‘I would rather believe in nothingness than accuse Being, whatever it is. Nothingness is the good, it is; being is evil, it is not. Thus the will, stripped of illusions comes back to its essence.

BLONDEL on the negation of negation, on how reconciliation with the negative is possible through accepting that things are empty but not bleak

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this will not to be […] has to be omnipotent enough to create the evil and the error of being that it has to be omnipotent enough to annihilate its own work and undo itself.

MAURICE BLONDEL on the selfdestructive deathwish of those who want to do away with the uncontrollable too-aliveness in themselves. This hatred against the otherness in oneself, against the kernel of life that drives one like a foreign force which has a hold over us is despised by people who are against anything they cannot control, anything they cannot paranoiacally deaden down. These obsessive types, who have not loved and who do not know yet how to sublimate the death drive into the lacanian drive, are the types that drive the wars in the world as if they feel only better the more they can extinguish life.

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Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze.

Franz KAFKA on the real, or the real gaze, the sense of lack and the acute awareness about how one has many blind spots, how the sexuality is a constant conquering egendered by a drive or a zeal to know, a need to map the desires of others by meeting them, or dating ever new people, an unrest of wanting to absorb the field, of wanting to know who one is for others. In this sense sexuality is about vision, about what escapes vision, about the desire of the other who remains enigmatic to us. Sexuality in the field of vision is a story of our coming to terms with our lack, our never being able to look at oneself from outside, never able to deconstruct the riddle of what one is to the world, unable to stop wondering about it, unable to just simply go out into the world and be seen.

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The capitalist process is by definition interminable, ..its ultimate goal is the reproduction of the process itself;

SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how capitalism’s “lacking object ..is never at its own place, always missing,” how it is always excessively lacking, in the sense of justifying the excesses of trying to make up for its lacking

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laying bare.. strategies of legitimizing suffering [he] ..rejects.. that his suffering can have any meaning [as] either punishment for his past sins or a trial of his faith

SLAVOJ ZIZEK on how Job rightly rejects making his suffering into something that defines him. He is progressive in how he doesn’t have an identity, or how his very identity springs from the impossibility of having an identity. Suffering and hardship is what is used in ideology to create group identities and he refuses this ideological key mechanism.

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The enthusiasm of fans for their..star and the..trance of a devout Catholic in the presence of the Pope are..the same..

SLAVOJ ZIZEK on jouissance as the objet a that makes someone seemingly special

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advice ..how to form loving relationships often prevents ..opening up.

Human life is increasingly seen as a set of skills to be learned.. ..Yet we can’t just form bonds because we’re told it’s healthy to do so. - DARIAN LEADER on the superego pressure created in a society of constant improvement + enjoyment

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she ..cannot deal with the fact that she is lacking, ..she could not accept love’s phantasmatic nature, ..she ..gives up on ..love

we see in the other what he ..does not have, [and accept that subjectivity is defined by a lack]. Such is the very condition of love. - RENATA SALECL