Slavoj Zizek, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment As A Political Factor (2008)

Slavoj Zizek, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment As A Political Factor (2008)

Happiness is denied
to whomever does not
renounce the pathway
of desire.

Jacques Lacan

Trying to push news about a Louvre heist so cliche to me man. What did they do, have an affair with the director and walk out the front door smoking a cigarette in an $8000 Italian suit? How many bad heist movies have been made about this? The world has seen too many shows about this, like everyone knows the perp was just at a safehouse across the street and chain smoking at a cafe with a wildly offensive Bulgarian hacker stereotype immediately afterward. Like you KNOW a whimsical mime child that bilks tourists for photos was obviously used as a distraction here. In our hearts and perhaps their own we all know that the French are a deeply unserious people.

Dynamics are not pathology. It is reasonable to infer character pathology, or personality disorder only when a person’s patterns are so stereotypical that they prevent psychological growth and adaptation.

Dr Nancy McWiliams
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis
2nd Edition