“There are three levels of stupidity you have idiots, imbeciles and morons:
IDIOT -IQ of 0-25 : I think that idiots are people who simply don’t get properly the symbolic dimension. Absolute naivete.
MORON - IQ of 51-75: Morons are those who simply rely on the Big Other. Morons are the opposite of idiots. Morons are people who fully identify with the symbolic order.
IMBECILE - IQ of 26-50: Imbeciles are the most interesting. There is a theory that becile in Roman is a stick that you need to walk with. So IMBECILE is the one without a stick to walk, and insofar as this stick that you need while walking or here talking thinking is the Big Other so it’s a very nice position (Lacanian) you know there is no Big Other IM-BECILE no stick but you still know that you must somehow relate to it.”
PS： “Such sociopaths would doubtless make for a great TV show, but we can’t expect our society to create them for us. To find sociopaths of this kind, we must seek them out in the real world – or else become them. “
“Why We Love Sociopaths” Adam Kotsko
"Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light." Oscar Wilde
(Source: bexes-dick)
"individual: one who is undivided"
“an unknown ‘something’ has taken possession of a smaller or greater portion of the psyche and asserts its hateful and harmful existence undeterred by all our insight, reason, and energy, thereby proclaiming the power of the unconscious over the conscious mind, the sovereign power of possession.”
"I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the whole world weeping." Rumi
(Source: larmoyante)
"‘What is the difference between an adult and a child in Psychoanalysis?’
“The Subject is easier to locate in children"
"the ego’s conceptualization is defined by the censored agent……how we fall into samsara is via the negative. the NO of language is the denial of will. by this denial we actualize the ego."
"My silences are immaculate." Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
(Source: fragilis)
"an authentic philosophical thought does not spine its web out of itself, following an “immanent conceptual necessity”; it is rather a reaction to the disturbing impact of some external truth event (in politics, science, art, or lover) , endeavouring to delineate the conditions of this event, as well as of a fidelity to it."
