Slavoj Zizek Dream Quotations

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.

Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system.

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.