Obsessional neurotic enjoying pandemic hand-washing
example · personal/autobiographical ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek confesses he is an obsessional neurotic who enjoys excessively washing his hands, far beyond any rational pandemic requirement. This illustrates that one can enjoy not just transgression but oppression and compliance itself.
As told 2
“I am among them, who enjoy—I am an obsessional neurotic—who enjoy obeying these rules, like I excessively wash my hands.”
“wash your hands all the time don't touch even yourself it's a neurotics paradise I mean obsessional”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Rainer Paris1Vittorio De Sica1Robert Sheckley1Jon Ronson1Jair Bolsonaro1Roland Barthes1Byung-Chul Han1Georgi Plekhanov1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
Žižek confesses he is an obsessional neurotic who enjoys excessively washing his hands, far beyond any rational pandemic requirement. This illustrates that one can enjoy not just transgression but oppression and compliance itself., illustrating enjoyment of oppression,obsessional neurosis,Superego,surplus enjoyment
Žižek admits he and some friends are obsessional neurotics who enjoyed quarantine: the injunctions to wash hands constantly and not touch oneself are a neurotic's paradise., illustrating obsessional neurosis,everyday-life normativity,Lebenswelt