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“Looking at myself, the more I pondered, I could see that there was nothing in my head but a great want of sense and a blindness in esoteric matters. And if I could not even grasp the things that lay beneath my feet, which I dealt with every day, how much less was I born for the investigation and discovery of nature’s secrets!”

“Dear Mistress Bride, I shall willingly consume everything I have in the tavern. Let me be pulled through the coals of love and be struck with the firebrands of humiliation, so that I might very often enter the blessed wine cellar. This I gladly choose because regarding love I cannot lose.”

Daddy Zizek never disappoints

“…human beings bear upon their bodies, like bizare living fossils, the traces of all the ancient catastrophes that life on earth had to go through in order to reach its present stage of development.“

“Embracing darkness as a ruinous destiny, starvation, catatonia, and resignation turn into a shapeless, elusive atmosphere with vague and indefinite contours, a field of radical experimentation that may result in self-destruction or in the discovery of unknown pleasures.”

So good, written in a Landian style but definitely an esoteric metaphysics. Obsessed, it actually feels pleasurable to read.

Very good so far, Fink writes such accessible explanations of Lacanian theory. This book moreso than his Lacanian Subject draws on Freud and other psychoanalysts to expand upon desire/love in Lacan.