How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition … The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem today is not how to get rid of your inhibitions and to be able to spontaneously enjoy. The problem is how to get rid of this injunction to enjoy.

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

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

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: Don’t think, don’t politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.