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
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…
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…
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 [...] …
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…
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.
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…
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.
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