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Max is on page 40 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
When borders and thresholds vanish, fantasies of the Other disappear too.
Without the negativity of thresholds or threshold-experiences, fantasy withers. The contemporary crisis in literature and the arts stems from a crisis of fantasy: the disappearance of the Other. This is the agony of eros.
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The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 38 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Desire is not “rationalized” today by increasing opportunities for, and criteria of, choice. Instead, unchecked freedom of choice is threatening to bring about the end of desire. Desire is always desire for the Other. The negativity of privation and absence nourishes it. As the object of desire, the Other escapes the positivity of choice.
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Max
Max is on page 34 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
However, nudity that is displayed without secrecy or expression approaches pornographic bareness. What is more, the pornographic face says nothing. It has no expressivity or mystery. […] In contrast, the erotic is never free of secrecy.
— Jun 05, 2026 10:10AM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 25 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Capitalism absolutizes bare life. Its telos is not the good life. Capitalism’s compulsive accumulation and growth is specifically aimed against death, which counts as absolute loss. For Aristotle, merely accumulating capital merits scorn because it has no concern for the good life—only for bare life.
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Max
Max is on page 23 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Today, through the increasing positivization and domestication of love, it is disappearing entirely. One stays the same and seeks only the confirmation of oneself in the Other.
— Jun 05, 2026 08:26AM 1 comment
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Max
Max is on page 20 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Erotic desire is tied to a particular absence of the Other—not the absence of nothingness, but rather “absence in a horizon of the future.”
— Jun 03, 2026 10:51PM 1 comment
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Max
Max is on page 17 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt and default. It offers no possibility for atonement, which would free the debtor from liability. The impossibility of mitigation and atonement also accounts for the achievement-subject’s depression.
— Jun 03, 2026 09:51AM 1 comment
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Max
Max is on page 11 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
Depression is a narcissistic malady. It derives from overwrought, pathologically distorted self-reference. The narcissistic-depressive subject has exhausted itself and worn itself down. Without a world to inhabit, it has been abandoned by the Other. Eros and depression are opposites. Eros pulls the subject out of itself, toward the Other. Depression, in contrast, plunges the subject into itself.
— Jun 01, 2026 09:44PM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 10 of 88 of The Agony of Eros
In recent years, the end of love has been announced many times.
— Jun 01, 2026 09:30AM 1 comment
The Agony of Eros

Max
Max is on page 298 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
Mom made it very clear she had no interest in changing. If she were still alive, she’d still be trying her best to manipulate me into being who she wants me to be. I’d still be purging or restricting or binging or some combination of the three and she’d still be endorsing it.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 281 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
I’m confused and sad that he didn’t reach out to me first. I will never know for sure if he wanted to meet me, or if he’s just saying it because that’s what you’re supposed to say.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 227 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
The years that you’re supposed to spend you’re supposed to spend building character, I was spending building characters.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 183 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don’t. And whenever I encounter someone who doesn’t, I disregard the them.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 110 of 168 of Madonna in a Fur Coat
’I actually don’t really enjoy dancing, but sometimes the person I’m dancing with does and so I find a way to bear it.’
‘I’m not sure I’ll like it.’
‘Neither am I … but never mind, friendship is all about making sacrifices.’
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Madonna in a Fur Coat


Max
Max is on page 107 of 168 of Madonna in a Fur Coat
”When love spreads, it does not diminish.”
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Madonna in a Fur Coat

Max
Max is on page 166 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 127 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
I’m humiliated. And ashamed. How did I let this happen? How did I become a woman? I don’t know the answer, but I know the solution. I know what I’ll do to fix this.
Tomorrow there won’t be any 2% milk or Honeycomb or Smart Ones. I’ve been slacking and the slacking needs to stop. I need to get back to anorexia. I need to be a kid again.
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Max
Max is on page 122 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realise that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine.
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Max
Max is on page 73 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
So I do. I Imagine it. And I feel bad. I was better in the callback than I was on the day of filming. I failed. I wish Mom would stop bringing it up, but I know she’s just trying to get me to be better. I know she means well. She just wants me to stop messing up and not doing as well as I could. She just wants me to be as impressive as I can be. She’s just being a good mom.
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Max
Max is on page 17 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
”So what do you say? You want to act? You want to be Mommy’s little actress?”
There’s only one right answer.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 11 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
The other missionary then said the blessing, asking for Mom’s life to be extended if it was God’s will. Grandma jumped up from her seat and said, ”Even if it’s not God’s will, goddamnit!” which disrupted the Holy Spirit so the missionary had to start the prayer over.
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Max
Max is on page 6 of 304 of I'm Glad My Mom Died
It’s strange how we always give big news to loved ones in a coma, as if a coma is just a thing that happens from a lack of something to be excited about in your life.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Max
Max is on page 23 of 26 of Good-Bye, Jack
The carriage was bouncing, swaying and lurching around corners at such a wild pace as to make conversation impossible. Besides, there was nothing to say. But I could hear him
muttering over and over, "And I never knew. I never knew.”
— May 11, 2026 08:23AM Add a comment
Good-Bye, Jack

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