#cf.desire

[rebecca-comay]

Split between my own incompatible desires, i compulsively project this split outward. To sustain the moral purity of my action, i end up appealing to a “master and ruler of the world” without whose presence every deed threatens to remain untethered and ineffective

REBECCA COMAY citing HEGEL on the big Other as a result of needing a higher agency to sanctify the split between my competing desires, the split between what I need and what I want

[rebecca-comay]

in my zeal to see through appearances, to render the world transparent, i have all the while been staring beyond it: what i have been gazing at with such fascination is the virulence of my own denunciatory desire.

in “seeing through” the object, i have already twice destroyed it: first, by reducing it to an object of utilitarian consumption (in using the object, i overlook its singular claim to existence); next, by peeling away its patriotic veneer (in unmasking its treacherous interior, i deprive the object of the very right to exist). Whether utilizing or scrutinizing the object, i reduce it to the transparent vehicle of my own self-encounter. Absolute freedom thus reveals itself as pure speculation—nothing but the “gazing of the self into the self, the absolute seeing of itself doubled” (PhG §583). - HEGEL, cited by REBECCA COMAY 

[bookowlnews]

If only we could live in a different time, ..if only the circumstances were right, etc. This again is another way of avoiding the encounter. ..One of the strategies used to avoid confronting the encounter is precisely that of positing it as this indefinite ideal which is eternally post­poned.”

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

[bookowlnews]

She was four months pregnant, and one could not help but to stare at her face and see how she evaporates through the red smile she kept on showing. I craved for it. I remember I craved for it, for her, for her skirt.

“A man passed us with his dog, somewhere on the street a yellow cab stopped, someone fat had yawned as some mothers were playing with their twins. Everything had a sense of silence. I shall be forgotten-that is what I meant. I will die and shall be eaten by dogs.” - via themaladyofdeath.tumblr.com

[bookowlnews]

“It is only through fantasy that the subject is constituted as desiring: through fantasy, we learn how to desire.”

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

[bookowlnews]

the Real ..is the unfathomable wedge of otherness at the heart of identity which ..because it involves desire.. prevents us from being truly identical with ourselves

TERRY EAGLETON

[bookowlnews]

Woman knows that man is caught in the finite … limitations of desire, while she knows that desire concerns something more, the void in being

ELLIE RAGLAND