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

- Renata Salecl

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…

- Renata Salecl

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…

- Renata Salecl

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…

- Renata Salecl

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 [...] …

- Renata Salecl

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.

- Renata Salecl

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

- Renata Salecl

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

- Renata Salecl

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…

- Renata Salecl