"Anno dommini but add another d
Attention deficiency, that's me
I'm the disease of the century but I don't care "
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We, potentially at least, have the power to link the sinthome as a site of compulsion—as what is inexorable in our existence in the sense that it “does not cease to write itself”—with the signifier as what allows us to write ourselves onto the map of the symbolic. While the symbolic is hegemonic in that it carries the weight of tradition, of all the cultural actions that have over time solidified into seemingly binding conventions, it cannot ever draw us into its circuit in an entirely dependable fashion.This is why conceiving the relationship between the symbolic and the real as a unilateral process that translates the energies of the real into oppressive symbolic formations is too reductive. Likewise, the idea that symbolic subjectivity represses the asocial energies of the real cannot be remedied by a theory that completely annihilates the social in favor of the real, for this merely reverses the poles of the binary, replacing one form of brutality by another. (This, incidentally, is one of the problems with Zizek’s notion of divine violence as a “response” to the systemic violence of the establishment.)
2012, The Singularity of Being pg 121-122