Slavoj Žižek Quotes about Reality

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

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

Slavoj Žižek

Reality, Fiction

Slavoj Žižek (2012). “Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism”, p.4, Verso Books

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

Slavoj Žižek

Dream, Reality, Knowledge And Power

Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?”, Verso Books

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

Slavoj Žižek

Reality, Consistency, Fiction

Slavoj Žižek (1993). “Tarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology”, Duke University Press Books

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Slavoj Žižek

Reality, Thinking

Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

Slavoj Žižek

Reality, Order, Firsts

Slavoj Žižek (2001). “The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?”, p.149, Verso

Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.

Slavoj Žižek

Running, Distance, Reality

Slavoj Žižek Quotes about Reality

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