On Jun 2, 2006, at 12:02 PM, RE wrote:
> "There is nothing more miserable today," Mr. Zizek concludes, "than
> those
> people who organize their life in order to enjoy themselves." The
> linchpin
> of his lecture is the notion that if the goal of classic
> psychoanalysis was
> to liberate people from their repressions, mental health under late
> capitalism requires the struggle to free ourselves from the
> compulsion to
> satisfy an endless and irrational set of desires."
>
> = Marcuse's concept of repressive desublimation. Zizek is usually so
> dismissive of the Frankfurters that I'm inclined to slap him with a
> plagiarism charge.
Yeah, and SZ is an obsessive-compulsive who, by his own admission, has never sung aloud or done anything spontaneous. There may be a bit of envy in this analysis.
Doug