/lit/ - Literature

>>15447952
No, what is indicating that I meant that?
There is something as objective poor taste, as there is objective good and bad art.

>>15363065
>You people will feel more for a squirrel than another person

Describing jealousy as pathological makes sense within the confines of a nearly strictly individualist worldview, in an atomised society. Hence it's association with weakness and deviance in contemporary social culture, whereas in antiquity its an heroic emotion. If codependence and relation bonds are valued less than individual autonomy and 'resilience', then yes, jealousy can be described as 'pathological'. But we must recognise that pathology is an extremely relative, immaterial concept, and not let ourselves become slaves to it. Zizek is really just reframing Nietzsche's theory of ressentiment but with a more psychoanalytic emphasis.