I do have the power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out..

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity..

Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness. Consu….

A friend, who's a psychologist, told me about a patient once: a woman who was well educated, had a good job, a house and a loving husband. "I did eve….

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life..

Every time we decide for something, we lose something else. Buying a car is a great example. A lot of people not only read ratings before they buy th….

One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to change his life. We a….

When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began with the American D….

The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such a subject usually ends up [...] ….

We constantly feel stressed, overwhelmed and guilty.It's our own fault if we're unhappy. It means we made a bad decision..

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..

We still can't control the consequences our choices will bring. Not only do we want freedom of choice, but we also want a guarantee that whatever we ….

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, cap….

We can live a more relaxed life. We can accept that our decisions aren't rational, that we are always conditioned by society; that we lose something ….