“No matter how much we may try to manipulate our feelings of anger with the techniques these books suggest, in the end we will probably only feel angry at ourselves for not overcoming this painful emotion.” — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
“The ego (one’s self-perception) is a very shaky structure, easily undermined by unconscious drives and desires. It is possible to repress those drives for… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity. — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
“No matter how much we may try to manipulate our feelings of anger with the techniques these books suggest, in the end we will… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
We still can't control the consequences our choices will bring. Not only do we want freedom of choice, but we also want a guarantee… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began with the… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
“The film nicely shows how a person may make a rational decision to achieve a goal while at the same time unconsciously doing everything… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
“Love is linked to the fact that in the end we know nothing about the object that attracts us in the Other, and that… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
“By working so hard at self-improvement we lose the energy and ability to participate in any form of social change” — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
I do have the power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out. — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack. — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
A friend, who's a psychologist, told me about a patient once: a woman who was well educated, had a good job, a house and… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life. — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
We can live a more relaxed life. We can accept that our decisions aren't rational, that we are always conditioned by society; that we… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness. Consumer culture… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
