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April 16 - April 17, 2022
it is the Law, itself, that generates the desire for its own violation.
“The human being is this night, this empty nothing, that contains everything � an unending wealth of many representations, images, of which none belongs to him � or which are not present.� (Hegel)
Žižek suggests that desire no longer revolves around an unobtainable, forbidden � and therefore, effectively absent � object of desire guarded by a prohibitive super-ego. Today’s super-ego, with its demand upon us to enjoy, forces desire and its objects of gratification to short-circuit into an implosive spiral of addiction.
