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“repression comes first (in the guise of what Freud called “primordial repression��), it designates an immanent impossibility that is constitutive of human subjectivity. This “primordial repression�� is the other face of what we call “freedom��: it opens up the void, a crack in the chain of natural causes, which makes us free.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“The opposite of oppression is not freedom to do what one wants but depression, the loss of desire itself.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Oppression (the brutal exercise of power) is not repression: oppression is directly experienced as such, but we are not aware of repression (in the Freudian sense). When I am oppressed, what is often repressed is the way I enjoy this oppression (with all that it involves: my complaints, etc.).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“surplus-oppression (the prohibition for which there is no apparent reason) which generates surplus-enjoyment—as Lacan says, enjoyment is something that serves nothing”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“what if we enjoy oppression itself, not just its violation?”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“There are prohibitions one is not only permitted to violate but obliged to violate, so that the true transgression is to stick strictly to the rule of prohibition.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Prohibition is, as Lacan repeatedly claimed, here precisely to create the illusion that enjoyment is not in itself impossible, that we can reach it through violating the prohibition. The goal of psychoanalysis is precisely to make the move from prohibition to immanent impossibility. So a prohibition primarily prohibits something that is in itself impossible”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“That’s why psychoanalysis aims not to enable the patient to fully enjoy but to limit the power of the superego, to turn enjoyment from enjoined to permitted (you can enjoy but you are not obliged to.)”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“that enjoyment, once permitted, sooner or later inevitably turns into injunction—you HAVE to enjoy, hedonism is superego at its most cruel. This is the truth of today’s permissiveness: we feel guilty not when we violate prohibitions but when we cannot enjoy.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“in principle, everything is permitted (all different form of sexuality), but every particular case is prohibited”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“We can see how PC rigorism and religious fundamentalism are two sides of the same coin: in both cases, there is no exception—either nothing is prohibited or everything is prohibited”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“This means that “the ethical lesson is that the parents should pretend (to know what to do and how the world works), for there is no way out of the problem of authority other than to assume it, in its very fictionality, with all the difficulties and discontents this entails�� (219).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“An ethical person acts in the way prescribed by religion even if he knows there is no god—the moment god enters the equation, we are not dealing with faith but with calculation. That’s why we have to accept the paradox that only atheists have true faith.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“if there is no god then reason itself disappears.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“if God is dead, then, at least for libidinal reasons, he would have to be resurrected—and that has certainly been done.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the decline of the Master in no way automatically guarantees emancipation but can well engender much more oppressive figures of domination.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“permissiveness kills desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“a fast post-modernization: an explosion of consumerist hedonism, superficial sexual permissiveness, competitive individualism, etc. Those in power realized that such atomized social space is much more effective than direct state oppression against radical Leftist projects which rely on social solidarity: classes continue to exist “in themselves�� but not “for themselves,�� I see others from my class more as competitors than as members of a same group with solidary interests. Direct state oppression tends to unite opposition and promote organized forms of resistance, while in “postmodern�� societies even extreme dissatisfaction assumes the form of chaotic revolts (from Occupy Wall Street to the gilets jaunes) which soon run out of steam, unable to reach the “Leninist�� stage of an organized force with a clear program.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the usual notion that the “pure�� abstract subject (the Cartesian cogito) is a kind of ideological illusion whose reality is the actual concrete individual caught and torn in psychic antagonisms: all the wealth of the individual’s “inner life�� is a content which ultimately just fills in the void of the pure subject—in this sense, Lacan said that the ego is the “stuff of the I��.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the big Other cannot be reduced to a psychic agency, but it exists only if it is “externalized�� by subjects—the “internalization�� of the Law is effectively its externalization, its (presup)position as a non-psychic symbolic space.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the ideal symbolic order which sustains individual subjects, for the public space of institutional state authority which makes us subjects in the double meaning of the term (autonomous subject and an individual subjected to the Law).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Ego-Ideal (the anonymous big Other, the symbolic order the status of which is non-psychic, i.e., which cannot be reduced to empirical psychic processes)”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Lacan’s triad Imaginary-Symbolic-Real:”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“to enjoy is not a matter of following one’s spontaneous tendencies; it is rather something we do as a kind of weird and twisted ethical duty.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the operator of the a-sexualization of social space is superego.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“an unconscious sense of guilt of this kind plays a decisive economic part and puts the most powerful obstacles in the way of recovery.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“what is in our usual experience conflated (a person in front of us and our fantasy projections onto her/him) gets clearly separated”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the mutual “what do others think of me�� (what do I think of him, what does he think of me) is replaced by (or sublated in) “what does the big Other (a virtual entity presupposed by both of us) think of me and him.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“But we still recognize each other because the mask I am wearing for others (the mask embodying what others think of me) and the mask the other is wearing for me (embodying what I think of him) are in some senses more truthful than what is behind the mask.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“This also accounts for why the minimal number in an intersubjective communication is not two but three: when two meet, they are BOTH divided into their self-experience and their symbolic identity, and this redoubling can only function if a third moment is operative, the big Other which is not reducible to the two.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed