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Psychoanalytical question here, but anyone is welcome to answer even if they have no knowledge of Freud, Lacan, Zizek, etc.
How do we reconcile the fact that "sometimes it's okay not to enjoy" (what psychoanalysts today, according to Zizek, have to tell their patients that are anxious due to a fear of missing out etc.) with the fact that the negation of jouissance becomes jouissance of negation (so that even abstinence can become a perverse pleasure)? Is it just a matter of degree or is there a more precise explanation?
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>>8887218
It's all about accepting reality.
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>>8887339
And yourself.
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Socrates on women pursuit.
>Socrates: You say that you cannot be happy without a women.
>X: correct
>S: I assume the relationship with said women would involve sex on a regular basis?
>X: Yes
>S:Just to clarify, having this would make your life better. As in, make you happy. Suggesting that at this moment you are unhappy until you get sex?
>X:Yes
>S:Therefore it is right to assume that all your life, there has not been a moment where you were happy? Outside of having sex with a woman of course.
>X: Well uh...
>S: Birthdays? Christmas? Hanging out with friends?
>X: You win socrates
>S: I am not finished yet. Don't end the fun too soon.
>S: When you crave delicious sweets. Are you eternally satisfied after indulgence?
>S: When you have exhausted a game. Do you go find another game to play? Or are you satisfied for life after one game?
>S: Therefore the pursuit of pleasure you are constantly striving for under the delusion that it would lead to a happy life is futile. For it is an infinite journey. And harms the soul for eventually the craving would get so big it would be impossible to satisfy in the moment. Even if you were the king of the known world!
X:You speak too much. But you have convinced me. But logic won't fix what I feel. I want what I don't have.
S: And you will always want what you don't have my dear friend.
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>When you crave delicious sweets. Are you eternally satisfied after indulgence?
>When you have exhausted a game. Do you go find another game to play? Or are you satisfied for life after one game?
He's saying you gotta up those numbers senpai.
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EVErYTHING IS LIkE A GameEEE, STOP PLAYING AND YOU WIN LIFE MAN. STOPpp cravingGG StufFF
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First of all, stop fucking posting this
Secondly, it is fucking stupid to say "you don't need this because other things make you happy"
Why not apply that to birthdays, christmas, and hanging with friends as well?
Also entering a relationship is not a final indulgence. The intricacies of a relationship can constantly provide goal to work towards and ways to self improve
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What are the most redpilling, game-changing books on how media affect our lives? Especially the Internet, video games and TV. Already read McLuhan's stuff.
Is pic related any good?
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Yeah, it is. Bit outdated, but lots of interesting thoughts that are still vigent.
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So, I'm neither trying to be ironic nor trolling. If you've read IJ then read Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. If you haven't read IJ Read that and then IJ. DFW goes into a lot of detail about what entertainment is and how it affects us. It's really good stuff even though the /lit/ard trolls will just give you shit about it.
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Socrates on women.
>Socrates: You say that you cannot be happy without a women.
>X: correct
>S: I assume the relationship with said women would involve sex on a regular basis?
>X: Yes
>S:Just to clarify, having this would make your life better. As in, make you happy. Suggesting that at this moment you are unhappy until you get sex?
>X:Yes
>S:Therefore it is right to assume that all your life, there has not been a moment where you were happy? Outside of having sex with a woman of course.
>X: Well uh...
>S: Birthdays? Christmas? Hanging out with friends?
>X: You win socrates
>S: I am not finished yet. Don't end the fun too soon.
>S: When you crave delicious sweets. Are you eternally satisfied after indulgence?
>S: When you have exhausted a game. Do you go find another game to play? Or are you satisfied for life after one game?
>S: Therefore the pursuit of pleasure you are constantly striving for under the delusion that it would lead to a happy life is futile. For it is an infinite journey. And harms the soul for eventually the craving would get so big it would be impossible to satisfy in the moment. Even if you were the king of the known world!
X:You speak too much. But you have convinced me. But logic won't fix what I feel. I want what I don't have.
S: And you will always want what you don't have my dear friend.
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got a kobo for christmas. where is the best place to get epubs for free?
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Look up "title" and ".epub" together on the Google machine.
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ive gathered that much but sometimes the links suck
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http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
Harry Potter is total garbage, but also awesome. Like a chocolate dumpster.
Oh wait...
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Yeah man, and same with Twilight!
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>>8887091
d-dont bully the potters
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>>8887097
>implying Petunia isn't the only interesting character in the HP series
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C-critique me, /lit/. A little something I wrote for school. It's the only time I really have dedicated to writing. I'm not sure if I should go on with it.
You're welcome to post anything of your's you wish to be critiqued
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>>8887088
How about, "looked like slow ants in a bird's eye"? Dainty frogs croaking doesn't make much sense to me.
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Soz I forgot to post the second part
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What are some good books on will power and success? Anything motivational would be great.
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Just stop being a faggot and ""just do it", literally.
Stop wasting time on books.
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>>8887158
I understand that, and I do just that; however I would rather "love the grind" if you catch my drift.
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To find new appreciation of what it is ur trying to do, try experiencing the pinnacles of whatever you want to do and admire it? Im a music major and whenever i feel low id listen to some of the tracks i admire and itd spark my again :/
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Could he have accomplished more as a writer? Did cinema limit him?
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What does it matter?
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The art of sculpting in time is best fit to cinema, mon ami.
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literature wouldnt have given him the cancer
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What is a "spook"?
Seriously, there has to be an agreed upon definition of the word.
Reading Der Einzige gave me the impression that total freedom from ideology was the goal. But this definiton gets stretched so far as to become utterly meaningless if acting in accordance with ANY form of idea or conception means being spooked.
There seems to be an agreement that everyone knows what it means to act in self interest, and that this will always produce the most personally beneficial result. I disagree. It rather feels like any personal ideology can be justified without requiring reflection, no matter how disconnected it might be from reality.
So what's the point? Is it about individuation? The internalization of social norms and morals?
What the fuck is up with this dude
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>>8887028
>gave me the impression that total freedom from ideology
Remove 'from ideology.' Way to completely miss the point.
>So what's the point?
Remember when those unhelpful fucks were telling you to "Just b urself"?
They weren't unhelpful, they just didn't discuss the issue in a 300+ page book with you.
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>>8887028
Definitions are a spook desu.
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>>8887038
So individuation then.
What if I hate myself? What if being myself means I act in bad faith? Is there a way to be a stirnerite without being perceived as a hypocrite?
"Just be yourself" misses out on how hard it is to actually know ones true self. It just seems like he's dismissing the arduous path to self realization by claiming an early victory. It's literally taking the easy way out.
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Discuss.
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>>8887002
Boring and too flowery
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>>8887002
French are fags
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>>8887002
>french """literature"""
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How will redditors ever recover?
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>>8886982
why would anyone have to recover from a bunch of pussies who think that creating life isn't a worthwhile pursuit because kids might feel pain. I hope you weak faggots don't procreate and water down the gene pool
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>>8886994
You have missed the point entirely.
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>>8886994
Life is cancer, it should have never come into existence.
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>Socrates: So, you claim that getting dubs is the ideal result of a post, because of their rarity, is that right?
>Anon: Yes, that's right.
>Socrates: Now, which is rarer? Dubs or trips?
>Anon: Why, trips of course.
>Socrates: Just so, anon. Then surely if the rarity of dubs is what is remarkable about them, therefore trips must be the superior ending of a post number?
>Anon: You're right Socrates, that must be it.
>Socrates: And so on for quads, quints, and the rest.
-from the "Anon", by Plato
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>>8886977
but wut abt gratenes in boipucci?
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>>8886977
>get's dubs discussing dubs
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>>8886992
It's easier on a slow board.
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Honor de Ballsac
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BALLSACK
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>>8886948
Honour the Ballsack.
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Pablo Escobar?
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/comc/ Day 4 - The Count of Monte Cristo read-through
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Chapters 11 through 15
>Ebooks and audiobook
https://mega.nz/#F!NIcBwCYL!ZZo5gGqjat1yL_-RkuzZFw
Hope!
Good Christmas? Get ahead? The chapters with dantes in prison are especially comfy for me because it is a fantasy of mine, to be trapped in a dungeon. I would probably hate it, but the thought of such a simple life, with nothing to do but meditate, finding inner peace, god or both, really appeals to me. Helps to be a reclusive introverted tard like myself. I also just generally enjoy books and films about prison.
Are you yet filled with a lust for revenge?
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Here is a tourist attraction cell in the Chataue D'if kept to look like dantes' cell
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Is abbé faria the Virgil of our Dante? Is he going to educate him and show the way out of hell? He is depicted as a wise old man, who is scientific but mad (Socrates?) - a philosopher after all.
I'm curious about the revenge part. So far Dantes doesn't seem to be thinking about revenge at all. Is the philosopher gonna influence him on taking revenge? What does Dumas think about ethicality of revenge?
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Are there any good books that critique post-modernism/post-structrualism/post-alllthatshit? Preferably from the left but as long as its intellectually serious I'd like to see it.
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Pic is pretty accuarate. Continental philosophers are not even people
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>>8886932
in fact, they're hardly physical bodies in space!
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>>8886796
kys