{"id":335,"date":"2014-08-23T21:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T21:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2014\/08\/23\/fantasy-is-a-defence-a-screen-concealing\/"},"modified":"2014-08-23T21:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T21:07:06","slug":"fantasy-is-a-defence-a-screen-concealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2014\/08\/23\/fantasy-is-a-defence-a-screen-concealing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

fantasy is [\u2026] a defence [\u2026], a screen concealing the gap, the abyss of the desire of the Other.
\n[\u2026]
\ndesire itself is a defence against desire: the desire structured through fantasy is a defence against the desire of the Other
\n\u2026
\nThe desire with regard to which we must not \u2018give way\u2019 is not the desire supported by fantasy but the desire of the Other beyond fantasy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Sublime Object of Ideology\u00a0books.google.de<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Slavoj Zizek<\/span>
<\/span> (via alterities<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

fantasy is [\u2026] a defence [\u2026], a screen concealing the gap, the abyss of the desire of the Other. [\u2026] desire itself is a defence against desire: the desire structured through fantasy is a defence against the desire of the Other \u2026 The desire with regard to which we must not \u2018give way\u2019 is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-5p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6143,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2018\/12\/02\/mediating-desire-distance\/","url_meta":{"origin":335,"position":0},"title":"mediating desire + distance","author":"monochromist","date":"December 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Longing we say, because desire is full of endless distances \u2013 Robert Hass In a poem called \u201cMeditation at Lagunitas,\u201d the poet Robert Hass writes: \u201cLonging, we say, because desire is full \/ of endless distances.\u201d The simultaneously terrible and wonderful property of desire is that the intensity of feeling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "deep diving with objet petit a"","block_context":{"text":"deep diving with objet petit a","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/deep-diving-with-objet-petit-a\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1692,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/04\/sublimation-does-not-mean-that-the-object\/","url_meta":{"origin":335,"position":1},"title":"Sublimation \u2026 does not \u2026\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"July 4, 2013","format":"quote","excerpt":"Sublimation \u2026 does not \u2026 mean that the object must be changed or mutated. 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