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The Impossibility to Enjoy in the Super Ego

Jijek asks, why does the absence of law universalize prohibition? Yes, love that. Exactly. What we experience as transgression is something that gets imposed or ordered on us as an injunction, the call of the super ego to enjoy. And now like obviously you can sit in class and watch porn on your phone. It's already packed with it. An obvious she's jacking an example is in they live when Don Nada is not wearing the sunglasses for Nada is wearing a sunglasses for the first time. He's seeing the underlying meaning of the ads around him. The obscene underside to a prohibition is the demand for you to enjoy. That call is actually what sustains

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