Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness. Consumer culture exhausts us. We suffer. We destroy ourselves. And we just can't stop.
Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack. - Renata Salecl
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
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…
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
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… - 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…
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
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 [...] …
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 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.
I do have the power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out. - Renata Salecl
I do have the power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out.
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
We constantly feel stressed, overwhelmed and guilty.It's our own fault if we're unhappy. It means we made a bad decision.
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
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…
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