Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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superego

Superego is not an ethical agency proper, but a sadistic agent with bombards the subject with impossible demands, obscenely enjoying the subject's failure to comply with them.

on the EU and Greece lol

—p.45 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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neoliberalism

As individuals become poorer through the shrinkage of their salaries and the removal of social provision, neoliberalism offers them compensation through debt and by the promotion of shareholding.

—p.41 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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Laffer curve

the so-called 'Laffer curve', evoked by free-market advocates as a reason against excessive taxation

I first encountered this in an earlier book but I guess I didn't add it to Bookmarker. he defines it later on, and goes into what's wrong with the theory (i.e., proceeds of taxation creating conditions appropriate for business, plus taxation money itself being spent on private business)

—p.40 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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nomenklatura

dispensing with the non-Russian republics would have been to destroy much of the party nomenklatura

—p.39 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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eo ipso

since meeting these financial dictates/expectations is the condition of maintaining the constitutional order, they have priority over the constitution (and eo ipso state sovereignty)

—p.37 Diagnosis (17) by Slavoj Žižek
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