Ideas, ideas. If only we had commitments, like Zizek and his friends in the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis! If only we believed in something, be it Lacanian psychoanlysis and the necessity of rereading modern and classical philosophy through the lens of Lacaniasm or anything else for that matter! If only we had a project which genuinely opened from our beliefs, something akin to elaborating Lacanian theories of ideology and power, for example, or providing Lacanian analyses of culture and art! And instead? No projects, because we have no beliefs. No belief …
It's alright for them, we say half resentfully of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis. They believe in things. They have projects. And ideas, too – they even have ideas! In the end, they're brighter than us, as well as having projects and ideas. In the end, they're out of our league, for all that Mladen Dolar said on his visit, looking round the dining room, that the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis began with evenings like this. Like this? And with people like us? He must have been mad, mad! Dolar was generous. He was munificent. That's another sign of people who actually have ideas, we agree.
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