๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ ๐๐ง๐ค๐จ by Byung-Chul Han.
Simply brilliant.
My thoughts so far:
In this narcissistic age, we do not know how to love. True love is to love the Other & to love them as the Other, & to love them in a way that they want to be loved, not...
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Simply brilliant.
My thoughts so far:
In this narcissistic age, we do not know how to love. True love is to love the Other & to love them as the Other, & to love them in a way that they want to be loved, not...
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... how we want to be loved. However, we project ourselves on the Other, & in doing so, we end up loving a protraction of our ego & not the one we claim to love.
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โIn a world of unlimited possibilities, love itself presents an impossibility...
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โIn a world of unlimited possibilities, love itself presents an impossibility...
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... The crisis of love does not derive from too many ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด so much as from the erosion of the ๐๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ. This erosion is occurring in all spheres of life; its corollary is the mounting narcissification of the Self. In fact, the...
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... the ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ is a dramatic process โ even though, fatefully enough, it largely escapes notice.โ
โToday, we live in an increasingly narcissistic society... Narcissism is not the same as self-love. The subject of self-love draws a...
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โToday, we live in an increasingly narcissistic society... Narcissism is not the same as self-love. The subject of self-love draws a...
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... negative boundary between him- or herself and the Other. The narcissistic subject, on the other hand, never manages to set any clear boundaries. In consequence, the border between the narcissist and the Other becomes blurry. The world appears only as adumbrations...
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... of the narcissistโs self, which is incapable of recognising the Other in his or her otherness โ much less acknowledging this otherness for what it is. Meaning can exist for the narcissistic self only when it somehow catches sight of itself...
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... It wallows in its own shadow everywhere until it drowns โ in itself.โ
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