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God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse QUOTES

1 " The modern atheist thinks he knows that God is dead; what he doesn’t know is that, unconsciously, he continues to believe in God. What characterizes modernity is no longer the standard figure of the believer who secretly harbors intimate doubts about his belief and engages in transgressive fantasies. What we have today is a subject who presents himself as a tolerant hedonist dedicated to the pursuit of happiness, but whose unconscious is the site of prohibitions—what is repressed are not illicit desires or pleasures, but prohibitions themselves. “If God doesn’t exist, then everything is prohibited” means that the more you perceive yourself as an atheist, the more your unconscious is dominated by prohibitions which sabotage your enjoyment. "

― Slavoj Žižek , God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse

2 " [T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between "false" conflicts and the "true" conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a "false" one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its "truth": the Leftist emancipatory position. "

― Slavoj Žižek , God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse

3 " If, in other religions, we pray to God, only in Christianity does God himself pray, that is to say, address an external unfathomable authority. "

― Slavoj Žižek , God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse

4 " When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross: the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God. And now let the revolutionists choose a creed from all the creeds and a god from all the gods of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterable power. They will not find another god who has himself been in revolt. Nay (the matter grows too difficult for human speech), but let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist.77 "

― Slavoj Žižek , God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse

5 " Therein resides the attraction of cybersex: since we are dealing only with virtual partners, there is no harassment. "

― Slavoj Žižek , God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse

6 " Se no passado fingimos publicamente acreditar enquanto permanecíamos céticos na vida privada, ou ainda envolvidos na troça obscena de nossas crenças públicas, hoje tendemos publicamente a professar nossa atitude cética, hedonista e relaxada, enquanto na vida privada continuamos acossados pelas crenças e proibições severas. Nisso consiste, para Jacques Lacan, a consequência paradoxal da experiência de que “Deus está morto”.

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O ateu moderno pensa que sabe que Deus está morto; o que ele não sabe é que, inconscientemente, ele continua acreditando em Deus. O que caracteriza a modernidade não é mais a figura-padrão do crente que nutre em segredo dúvidas íntimas sobre sua crença e se envolve em fantasias transgressoras. O que temos hoje é um sujeito que se apresenta como hedonista tolerante dedicado à busca da felicidade, mas cujo inconsciente é o lugar das proibições – o que está reprimido não são desejos ou prazeres ilícitos, mas as próprias proibições. "

― Slavoj Žižek , God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse

7 " Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study will be the books we never read, for whatever reason. Aside from the music we never listened to, the movies we never watched, or the old archives and maps we never explored, the books we never read will be one of the indicators of our anachronisms and our flawed humanity. "

― Slavoj Žižek , God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse