
ZIZ004 The Reality of the Virtual (2004)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Role of Psychoanalysis in Social Prohibitions
I don't think that it is justified to talk today about consumption, we live in a society of consumption and so on. On the contrary I claim we consume less than ever if consuming means taking the risk really opening yourself. What is so terrifying to smoking is somebody really consuming the smoke with all the dangers this involves. The injunction society bombards us with is no longer the injunction to control yourself to repress your striving or whatever. It's on the contrary the injunction to go to the end, this is what we feel guilty about today. In other words you feel guilty if you transgress social prohibitions in order to enjoy it. We shouldn't take enjoyment just in the immediate sense of sex,
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