If I can get my target to move as I want, then I’ve succeeded as a hunter.

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  • I see enjoyment (jouissance) as a built-in surplus that pushes past satisfaction into something often painful or compulsive. Ideology hides this excess by promising straightforward fulfillment, but that promise produces the very leftover enjoyment it denies. The subject thinks it wants a clear goal, while an unconscious drive seeks the surplus; culture can redirect this surplus (sublimation) or it returns as symptoms (addiction, shame). So enjoyment isn’t just pleasure — it’s the extra push that both sustains desire and disrupts meaning.

    You saying no such thing is a misunderstanding. Žižek links this surplus to the paradox that prohibiting pleasure produces a new form of enjoyment — the pleasure of prohibition. The ban sets up a forbidden object that becomes more desirable; the surplus (jouissance) then migrates into transgression or guilt, so prohibition itself generates the very enjoyment it aims to stop.

    I’m curious to know specifically how this was experienced as offending


  • Ging@anarchist.nexustoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldStay positive
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    12 days ago

    hope you find peace soon, and I absolutely relate with your distaste of the current atrocities✌️

    There’s nothing outside the text. Whatever you’re reading into this is strictly your fantasy. I’m not denying we’re in a nightmare, I’m just old and stuck protecting the few that depend on me.