Žižek on death drive: the name for infinity, death drive has nothing to do with “nirvana”, what Freud calls death drive is a PERSISTENCE which insists beyond LIFE and DEATH. One of the figures of this obscene immortality is vampires. This is the Freudian death drive
The Montrosity of Christ talk at Harvard Book Store on July 2009.
Neighbour: I experience someone as neighbour, I know all my life, then all of a sudden they do something that totally shatters my impression of him, he kicks a child, at that precise moment he becomes my neighbour. the abyss beyond the fellow man.
Good manners are needed to keep the neighbour at a distance. Decency, manners. Politeness. Maintain a distance towards a toxic subject.