Read it as a book: excerpts from Zizek

Eddie 2022-12-16 10:38:57

Movies are the ultimate perverted art. They don't give you what you want. They tell you how to

want . The most interesting thing about the cellar of the mother's house in Psycho is the special arrangement of the mother's house. The first floor, basement, is like a replica of the three levels of human subjectivity. The first floor is: "ego" Norman is a normal son there. The dead mother... is basically a superego image not the mother I go to The
cellar is: "id"... the cistern of wrong impulses so we can explain this event in the middle of the film... Norman puts his own mother... Or that we know the mummy of our mother at the end... dragged from upstairs to the cellar as if he was in his head and when his, psyche
transitioned to id of course this old dogma that Freud had elaborated on... That is, the superego and the id are deeply connected mothers who first complained as a majestic person that the superego is not a moral force it is an obscene force that bombards us with impossible boxes and laughs at us... before we can't satisfy it The more we follow the demands of it, the more guilty it makes us. This is usually reflected in an obscene... madman with superego powers. We can often find examples of psychoanalysis... in human relationships.

Voice is not an organ of the human body, it comes from somewhere in your body. Voice has a traumatic side... Human voice is not an unusually thin medium... used to express the depth of human subjectivity... but an external intrusion


to understand today's world we really need movies we only get in movies... important dimensions we're not ready to face in reality if you're looking for something more real in reality than reality itself... look at cinematic fiction

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  • Slavoj Zizek: When we spectators are sitting in a movie theatre, looking at the screen... You remember, at the very beginning, before the picture is on, it's a black, dark screen, and then light thrown on. Are we basically not staring into a toilet bowl and waiting for things to reappear out of the toilet? And is the entire magic of a spectacle shown on the screen not a kind of deceptive lure, trying to conceal the fact that we are basically watching shit, as it were?

  • Slavoj Zizek: In sexuality, it's never only me and my partner, or more partners, whatever you are doing. It's always... There has to be always some fantasmatic element. There has to be some third imagined element which makes it possible for me, which enables me, to engage in sexuality. If I may be a little bit impertinent and relate to and unfortunate experience, probably known to most of us, how it happens that while one is engages in sexual activity, all of a sudden one feels stupid. One loses contact with it. As if, 'My God, what am I doing here, doing these stupid repetitive movements?' And so on and so on. Nothing changes in reality, in these strange moments where I, as it were, disconnect. It's just that I lose the fantasmatic support.