#alteritiesreview

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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