Žižek, S. The Plague of Fantasies. New York: Verso, 1997.
The standard subject’s reaction to the act is that of aphanasis, of his/her self-obliteration, not of heroically assuming it: when the awareness of the full consequences of ‘what I have just done’ hits me, I want to disappear. At this precise point Lacan (and already Freud’s notion fo the death drive) parts with the Romantic ideology of a ‘demonic’ self-destructive Will: the death drive is not a ‘will to die’, radical Evil is not a ‘diabolical’ intention that seeks pleasure in inflicting pain on one’s neighbour …