abnormal

be yourself

social progress

normalizing

is not a marginal malfunctioning but an effect of the very structure of the system, which is essentially 'corrupt'.

With regard to the ancien regime, for example, what the Truth-Event of the Revolution renders visible is that injustices are not marginal malfunctionings but effects of the very structure of the system, which is essentially 'corrupt.' Such an effect, when misperceived by the system as a local 'abnormality,' condenses the global 'abnormality' of the system as such, in its entirely (what, in the Freudo-Marxian tradition, is called symptom). (Zizek 1998: 238-9)

is not conforming to standard. To be independent in matters of thought and conduct is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

is best studied by understanding the normal.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

is different enough to make others uncomfortable with your mere presence

is to have intelligence, character or genius

is, in matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested

is occupying a point outside the shifting boundaries of social convention, like english-speaking cab drivers or solitary restaurant patrons.

Occupying a point outside the shifting boundaries of social convention, like a same-sex couple before the 1970s or a twenty-two-year-old virgin today . Others now living beyond the fringe include rhyming poets, English-speaking cab drivers, solitary restaurant patrons, celibate celebrities, nonacademics who read anything written before 1920, businesspeople who read anything written before last Friday, Japanese underachievers, American students who can locate Japan on a map, and anyone who still says whom.

abnormal, n.All

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