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It is highly probable that sexual activity, indeed the frenetic preoccupation with sex that characterises Western culture, is in many cases not the expression of sexual interest at all, but rather a search for the satisfaction of the need for contact.
— Ashley Montagu, Touching
We seek the Other to become larger than ourselves, fear their otherness, dream of freedom and tremble before its responsibility — and so the only way out is the Third Path: to create a space of love where intimacy does not abolish freedom, and freedom does not destroy love.
The cult of victimhood in the modern world — where everyone sees themselves as a victim of history, men, women, the state, capitalism, technology, patriarchy, majorities, minorities, and God knows what else — is often, in fact, a hidden form of aggression, disguised as “goodness” and moral righteousness; and this is the very essence of neurosis: when it remains unconscious and unprocessed, it demands more and more pity for one’s beloved self.
Our desires never fully belong to us - they are always born in the field of the Other; therefore, our success in work, relationships, and life depends on whom we surround ourselves with: beside those who are unfulfilled, we inevitably become poorer, while beside those who have truly come into their own - in business, love, family, and even spiritual life - we begin to grow ourselves.
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@PaulaSeeksTruth You should read “Lying on the couch” by Irvin Yallom. This is a typical case of projection due to transference in a therapeutic relationship.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is:
‘What does a woman want?’
"If the psychoanalyst thinks he knows something, in psychology for example, then that is already the beginning of his loss, for the simple reason that in psychology nobody knows much, except that psychology is itself an error of perspective on the human being."
Jacques Lacan
Naivety is the highest form of evil: it is a refusal to see reality and one’s own darkness, allowing one to believe the world is good only because one refuses to admit one’s own capacity for evil.
It’s ironic that Deleuze’s father was an engineer who worked for sometime in a factory, and then Deleuze essentially build his philosophy on that model - acting in the symbolic order of the father. Another great example of psychoanalytic deniers living the psychoanalytic order without comprehending it 😉
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MESSAGE
I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach.
Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace.
An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters.
I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end.
DALAI LAMA
31 March 2026