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墨汁綺譚 (Bokujyū Kitan, Marvellous Tales of Black Ink)
- Araki Nobuyoshi (2008)
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[The abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the “I” does not disappear in it but finds, in that sublime alienation, a forfeited existence.
— Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
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For the moment, I am not fucking, I am talking to you. Well! I can have exactly the same satisfaction as if I were fucking. That’s what it [sublimation] means. Indeed, it raises the question of whether in fact I am not fucking at this moment.
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Jacques Lacan, The Deconstruction of the Drive from The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, translation by Alan Sheridan
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![Collage by Max Ernst for The House of Fear, Notes From Down Below by Leonora Carrington, 1988
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Collage by Max Ernst for The House of Fear, Notes From Down Below by Leonora Carrington, 1988
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