#cf.sacrifice

[rebecca-comay]

Only in forgiveness ..the subject breaks through its own narcissism and from the instrumental rationality on which it has always fed. (§807)

REBECCA COMAY echoing Hegel’s PhG

[slavojquotes]

one begins with a sincere readiness to sacrifice everything for the honor of serving a noble Cause, and one ends by sacrificing this Cause itself, of losing the honor itself.

Zizek on how sacrifice leads to disaster insofar as one didn’t see that all sacrifice is false sacrifice, that one has to give up the very idea of sacrifice before one can achieve something. 

[bookowlnews]

As more people now prefer the word refugees to the word 'migrants,' the discourse completely changes. The word 'refugees' becomes the new master signifier, which makes the discourse on immigration meaningful in new ways. The master signifier "has the role of making discourse meaningful" & readable

ANDRE VANTINO citing BEN RAMM

[slavojquotes]

Obsessional neurotics experience the compulsion repeatedly to accomplish their rituals of sacrifice-in order to disavow their jouissance in the eyes of the Other

SLAVOJ ZIZEK