Slavoj Žižek, in his foreword to The Desire of Psychanalysis by Gabriel Tupinambá
The basic function of a Master is not to serve as a model of rational reasoning, providing the ultimate arguments for adopting a certain position, but, on the contrary, to surprise us by uttering statements which run against our (and the Master’s own) hitherto doxa; that is, by performing gestures which cannot but appear as willful arbitrariness.
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Slavoj Žižek, in his foreword to The Desire of Psychanalysis by Gabriel Tupinambá
The basic function of a Master is not to serve as a model of rational reasoning, providing the ultimate arguments for adopting a certain position, but, on the contrary, to surprise us by uttering statements which run against our (and the Master’s own) hitherto doxa; that is, by performing gestures which cannot but appear as willful arbitrariness.
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