Couple Together Quote by Renata Salecl

“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

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

— Renata Salecl

“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

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

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

“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

“By working so hard at self-improvement we lose the energy and ability to participate in any form of social change”

— Renata Salecl

I do have the power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out.

— Renata Salecl

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

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack.

— Renata Salecl

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

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