Castration Quotes

• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Being Yourself, Jobs, School

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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• Monastic incarceration is castration.

  Victor Hugo

  Encarcelamiento

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.130

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• The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Men, Energy

  germaine greer (1971). "el eunuco femenino"

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• La eliminación total de la voluntad y la desconexión de todas las emociones equivale a la eliminación de la razón: la castración intelectual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Intellectual, Emotion, Reason

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• The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

  Theodor Adorno

  Giving Up, Symbolism, Sound

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.352, Univ of California Press

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• But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

  Anna Quindlen

  Gentleman, Feminism, Busy

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.122, Random House

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• Yo diría que el efecto de fuera de cuadro en fotografía resulta de un corte singular y definitivo que figura la castración y se cifra en el clic del obturador.

  Christian Metz

  Fotografía, Recorte, Figuras

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• La lujuria y la automutilación son impulsos estrechamente relacionados. También hay automutiladores entre los conocedores: no quieren ser creadores bajo ningún concepto.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Lust, Want

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• The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Artist, Intellectual, States

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• Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Self

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• Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Dream, Cutting, Psychics

  Fuente: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  Michel Foucault

  Believe, Sedentary, Nomadic

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• For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Character, Men

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• Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.

  Novalis

  Clever, Opponents, Way

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 105, 1798.

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• When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Doors, Rooms

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.164, Penguin

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• Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  Michel Foucault

  Creer, Realidad, Ley

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• I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Long, Laughing

  Yoko Ono (1970). “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Long, Laughing

  Yoko Ono (1970). “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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