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Zizek & Interpassivity w/ Robert Pfaller

Žižek And So On

CHAPTER

The Illusion of the Owners

An illusion is something that is multi-created out of a wish. For example, if my favorite football team is playing a television and I cross my thumbs, it is not that I think that my crossing of my thumbs will actually help them, but I express my wish that they may win. Freud: A illusion can even be true. He says that the bourgeois girl who has the illusion she will marry a prince, she can be right. The origin of this idea is not like trying to think of what is probable, but she thinks what she wishes for. And that's the mark of the illusion.

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