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Lacanian Ethics

Žižek And So On

CHAPTER

Chuzak and the Drive

G-jug: Of course, every object of desire is an illusory lure. But it is here that one should fully assert the Lacanian maximum of like the non-dupe at all. The object of desire in its positive nature is vain, but not in the place it occupies, the place of the real. This is why there is more truth in the unconventional fidelity to one's desire than in resigned insight into the vanity of one's striving. I loved that line. If there's still, there's still desire, Eric's wine with that understanding of Nirvana.

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