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Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

by Slavoj Žižek

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Jul 04, 2014 12:18PM

“But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

tags: cost, desire

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“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
― Edward Said

tags: colonialism, imperialism, israile, palestine, postcolonialism, victim

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“Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet”
― Neil Peart

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“My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.”
― Edward Said

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