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“Although not a factual necessity, madness is a formal possibility constitutive of the human mind: it is something whose threat has to be overcome if we are to emerge as “normalâ€� subjects, which means that “normalityâ€� can only arise as the overcoming of this threat.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“To seek one’s life in a spirit of furious indifference to it—this is how subjective destitution works.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the paradox of courage: A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.94”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“One should avoid the trap of placing them in some hierarchic order like a pseudo-Hegelian triad that seems to offer itself: in the misery of peaceful times, we have recourse to nirvana or mystical experience; when crisis arises, we explode in self-destructive violence; finally, we transform nihilism into revolutionary practice focused on a positive project â€�”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Will Joker not turn out to be just another proof that today’s sphere of culture and entertainment can easily integrate even the most “subversiveâ€� anti-capitalist messages and practices?”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“this symbol of meaningless expenditure of labor which plays no role in the struggle for survival or for better life—not a spectacular monument to death-drive as a social category?”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the central and eastern European revolutions were just “rectifyingâ€� or “catch-upâ€� (nachholende) revolutions, their aim being to enable those societies to gain what the western Europeans already possessed; in other words, to rejoin the West European normality.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“In Europe, the Socialism repressed in the dissident imaginary returned in the guise of Right populism.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Vanishing mediatorâ€� designates a specific feature in the process of a passage from the old order to a new order:”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

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― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“we are not all Jokers in reality, but the position of Joker is something the human mind in general has to overcome in the course of its development. The”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“we do not all have to be mad in reality, but madness is the reality of our psychic lives, a point to which our psychic lives necessarily refer in order to assert themselves as “normal.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Hegel for whom madness is not an accidental lapse, distortion, “illnessâ€� of human spirit, but something which is inscribed into individual spirit’s basic ontological constitution: to be a human means to be potentially mad:”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Crime and insanity are extremes which the human mind in general has to overcome in the course of its development.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“The citizen of a developed country who wants fewer immigrants and is ready to do something so that they will not have to come to this place which they mostly don’t even like is much better than a humanitarian who preaches openness to immigrants while silently participating in the economic and political practices which brought the countries where immigrants are from to ruin.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“The Gatesâ€� charity implies the formula: respect all cultures, your own and others. The Rightist nationalist formula is: respect your own culture and despise others which are inferior to it. The Politically Correct formula is: respect other cultures, but despise your own which is racist and colonialist (that’s why Politically Correct woke culture is always anti-Eurocentric). The correct Leftist stance is: bring out the hidden antagonisms of your own culture, link it to the antagonisms of other cultures, and then engage in a common struggle of those who fight here against the oppression and domination at work in our culture and those who do the same in other cultures.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease â€� The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim â€� It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the ignorance of political struggle always serves the establishment.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the first step of the critique of ideology is not just to engage in emancipatory politics but to emancipate politics, proper political struggle, as such.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Morality regulates how we relate to others with regard to our shared common Good, while ethics concerns our fidelity to the Cause which defines our desire, a fidelity which reaches beyond the pleasure-principle. Morality in its basic sense is not opposed to social customs, it is an affair of what in ancient Greece was called eumonia, the harmonious well-being of the community.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“he surpasses the objective circumstances of his situation. He identifies himself with his fate, but this identification is a free act: in it, he posits himself as a unique figure of subjectivity”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the basic ontological fact is the tension between the ultimate meaningless void/crack and our (humanity’s) attempts to impose some universal meaning onto this chaotic crack”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“An additional twist is needed to pass from drive to desire, to leave behind the nihilist point of self-destruction, to make this zero-point function as a new beginning. However, the lesson of Joker is that we have to go through this zero-point to get rid of the illusions that pertain to the existing order.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“An additional twist is needed to pass from drive to desire, to leave behind the nihilist point of self-destruction, to make this zero-point function as a new beginning.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Malevich’s famous black square on white surface is not some kind of self-destructive abyss we should beware of not being swallowed by, but a point through which we should pass to gain a new beginning. It is the moment of death-drive which opens up the space for sublimation.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Malevich’s famous black square on white surface is not some kind of self-destructive abyss we should beware of not being swallowed by, but a point through which we should pass to gain a new beginning.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Drive is compulsively-repetitive, in it, we are caught in the loop of turning again and again around the same point, while desire enacts a cut; it opens up a new dimension.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Giri describes subjective destitution as a stance which enables us to engage in a construction of a new social order. As such, revolutionary subjective destitution should be strictly separated from the outbursts of radical negativity which appear as self-destructive political nihilism.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“In Nietzsche’s terms, we have to take a step from passive nihilism to active nihilism—an outburst of self-destructive negativity”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“our multicultural globalized societies are societies whose spirit is tired (as Nietzsche put it), unable to engage in a large-scale passionate project which may demand from us that we even risk our lives.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed