Slavoj Žižek Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Dream, Reality, Knowledge And Power

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?”, Verso Books

• Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Reality, Fiction

  Slavoj Žižek (2012). “Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism”, p.4, Verso Books

• As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Reality, Consistency, Fiction

  Slavoj Žižek (1993). “Tarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology”, Duke University Press Books

• In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Reality, Order, Firsts

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?”, p.149, Verso

• What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly

  Slavoj Žižek

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Caring

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?”, p.128, Verso

• Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Running, Distance, Reality

• The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Dream, Sweet, Art

• I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Reality, Thinking

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

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