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'La [[passion ]] du [[réel]]'

'La passion du réel', the passion of the [[real]]. Precisely because the [[universe ]] in which we live is somehow a universe of [[dead ]] conventions and artificiality, the only authentic real [[experience ]] must be some extremely violent, shattering experience.

Slavoj [[Zizek]]: I [[think ]] this may be what defined the twentieth century, which really began with the First [[World ]] War. We all [[remember ]] the war reports by Ernst Jnger, in which he praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one.There must be extreme [[violence ]] for that [[encounter ]] to be authentic.

[[Another ]] emblematic [[figure ]] in this [[sense ]] to me is the so-called '[[cutter]]'- a widespread pathological phenomenon in the USA. There are two million of [[them]], mostly [[women]], but also men, who cut themselves with razors. Why? It has [[nothing ]] to do with [[masochism ]] or [[suicide]]. It's simply that they don't feel real as persons and the [[idea ]] is: it's only through this [[pain ]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel reconnected again. So I think that this tension is the background against which one should appreciate the effect of the act.