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“In contrast to other modes of production, capitalism does not try to contain its structural instability, it puts to use the surplus that destabilizes other social formations: it thrives on surplus, counting it �� However, sooner or later a second-level excess is produced, a surplus that cannot be included in capital’s reproduction (workers�� dissatisfaction with the system), and Rightist populism is an attempt to re-configure this excess that threatens to destabilize the smooth running of capitalist reproduction in the guise of racist enjoyment, working class resentment, anti-intellectualism��”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“everything that was repressed, all repressed content, comes out in all its obscenity, but this return of the repressed only strengthens the repression—and this is also why there is nothing liberating in Trump’s obscenities, they merely strengthen social oppression and mystification.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“The contrast between Trump’s official ideological message (conservative values) and the style of his public performance (saying more or less whatever comes into in his head, insulting others and violating all rules of good manners��) tells a lot about our predicament: what world do we live in in which bombarding the public with indecent vulgarities presents itself as the last barrier to protect us from the triumph of the society in which everything is permitted and old values go down the drain—as Alenka Zupančič put it, Trump is not a relic of old moral-majority conservatism, he is to a much greater degree the caricatural inverted image of postmodern “permissive society�� itself, a product of this society’s own antagonisms and inner limitations”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Trump is not a relic of old moral-majority conservatism, he is to a much greater degree the caricatural inverted image of postmodern “permissive society�� itself, a product of this society’s own antagonisms and inner limitations”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“I don’t believe �� (but the big Other does, and for its sake I have to act as if I do believe).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Hysteria is a subjective stance of questioning (what do I really desire? what does my Other see or desire in me, i.e., what am I for the Other?), while a pervert knows, he is not haunted by questions. Today’s consumerist is a cynical pervert who knows—in this way, desire is neutralized, nothing happens when we achieve the object of desire, no event of a true encounter, when we love there is no FALLING in love.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“capitalism can only thrive through its own constant self-undermining and revolutionizing. The paradox is that, because we desire the surplus that eludes every object, our very orientation towards pleasure and satisfaction compels us to permanently sacrifice available satisfactions on behalf of satisfactions to come—in capitalism, hedonism and asceticism coincide.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“with its focus on extracting surplus-value, capitalism changes the basic coordinates of how we desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“capitalist globalization will give rise to a new mode of racism focused on the figure of an Other who either threatens to snatch from us our enjoyment (the deep satisfaction provided by our immersion in our way of life), and/or itself possesses and displays an excessive enjoyment that eludes our grasp”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the lack of the subject with regard to the Other is transposed into the Other itself, as a separation of the Other from itself—what the subject presupposed the Other has (the subject’s object-cause of desire), the Other itself doesn’t have, so what unites me with the Other is this shared lack.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the only thing one can be guilty of, at least in the analytic perspective, is having given up on one’s desire��(”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“The third term is not any synthesis of the two but just the pure gap itself, and desire and drive are the two reactions to this gap: desire externalizes the lack into a cause-object, drive circulates around the object. In desire, the gap appears as lack; in drive, it appears as an excess that derails the circulation of life.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the duality between desire and drive: desire stands for lack, non-satisfaction, while drive’s circular movement generates satisfaction. Desire and drive are co-dependent: each can be understood as a reaction to the other. Desire is metonymic, always sliding from one to another object, again and again experiencing that “this is not that,�� and drive resolves this endless movement of desire by way of elevating the endless circulation around a lost object into a source of satisfaction.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the duality between desire and drive: desire stands for lack, non-satisfaction, while drive’s circular movement generates satisfaction.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“enjoyment is always the enjoyment of the subject’s alienation, it’s how the subject lives this alienation and makes it its “own��.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“enjoyment entails a kind of return-to-self, an appropriation of the alienated conditions of desire as if they were one’s own (“the human subject is able to take possession of the very conditions imposed upon him�� and “manages to be satisfied with them��).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“(“the human subject is able to take possession of the very conditions imposed upon him�� and “manages to be satisfied with them��).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“so that the subject experiences that his/her desire is threatened when s/he is deprived of a space to just say NO. This paradox also confronts us with the minimal structure of surplus-enjoyment: the object that we desire provides pleasure, while the satisfaction provided just by saying NO to an object comes in surplus of this object, a surplus which cannot be reduced by proposing to the subject another object.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“The only solution to this deadlock is the Hegelian one: we should abandon the very ideal of a self-transparent society where full democracy abolishes all alienated structures. Alienation is a condition of our freedom, it gives us a breathing space to exercise freedom. I am free only insofar as the big Other (social substance) in which I dwell is non-transparent to me and to itself (there is no secret Master who pulls the strings). Reconciliation means that we have to reconcile ourselves with alienation,”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“The demand for justice is ultimately the demand that the excessive enjoyment of the other should be curtailed, so that everyone’s access to enjoyment will be equal. The necessary outcome of this demand, of course, is asceticism: since it is not possible to impose equal enjoyment, what one can impose is the equally shared prohibition.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Lacan shares with Nietzsche and Freud the idea that justice as equality is founded on envy:”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“as Hegel put it clearly in his Phenomenology, id beyond the veil of phenomena is only what we (subject) put there—every being is also a failed approach to Non-being.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“it is not the lack of being which is a failed being, it is our being itself which is our failure to achieve non-being.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“stick to the inhuman core of subjectivity against the temptations of being-human. Subject is what is in a human being more than human, the immortality of the death-drive which makes it a living dead being, something that insists beyond the cycle of life and death.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the best thing that can happen to us is not being born in the first place, then our being born is already a kind of failure,”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“being as such (in the sense of being a determinate entity) signals a failure, everything that is (as a particular entity) is marked by a failure, and the only way to achieve perfection is to immerse oneself into the void of no-being.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“our central preoccupation is to own our time, getting as much of it as possible disposable for the free development of our creative capacities in all their diversity. This, however, by definition cannot happen in capitalism where, in order to survive, we have to spend most of our time working for a wage, “losing time�� for things we intrinsically don’t care about.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“there is no freedom without impossibility, and this impossibility not just the limit imposed on us by external reality (the limited number of objects that satisfy our needs) but also the immanent “self-contradiction�� of our desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“it’s premise is that we cannot get rid of a constitutive impossibility, but we can re-inscribe it in a different way.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“That’s why psychoanalysis does not aim at liberating our desires so that we can freely desire what we want (what we want is not what we desire: our innermost desire as a rule appears to us as what we don’t want, what terrifies us)—more precisely, it liberates our desires only in the precise sense that we fully assume the impossibility on which our desiring capacity is grounded.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed