Top Highlights

• Is it that Christ had to sacrifice himself in order to pay for the sins of His Father who created such an imperfect world?
• For the Gnostic tradition, on the other hand, the human Self is not created, it is a preexisting Soul thrown into a foreign inhospitable environment. The pain of our daily lives is not the result of our sin (of Adam's Fall), but of the fundamental glitch in the structure of the material universe itself which was created by defective demons; consequ...
• technology and capitalism are triumphing world-wide, at the level of “ideological superstructure,”
• catastrophic consequences of the radical revolutionary endeavors: the overthrowing of the ancien regime brought about even harsher forms of totalitarian domination
• Finally, Seminar XX provides the libidinal economy of today's postmodern, post-revolutionary, “society of consumption,” which began in the US, also became popular in France – the society of “non-rapport” in which all stable forms of social cohesion disintegrate, in which the idiotic Jouissance of individuals is socialized only in the mode of fragil...