“(Is the function of the masochistic practice of bondage not [also] to supplement this lack of social bond proper, so that, in it, the foreclosed returns in the real - the suspended symbolic bond returns as literal bodily bondage?)”
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Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times (2011)
I had my book signed by the man himself when I saw him speak at Cadogen Hall, just off Sloane Square. The fact this quote is in parentheses, written as an aside, captures his hilarious style and propositions with serious consequences. I can understand why someone would look at this and think it’s bullshit.
