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So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.
So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.
Approximate author period: c. 1949 AD · modern
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- Slavoj Žižek
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- Approximate author period: c. 1949 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Slavoj Žižek: documented birth year 1949; activity date not established. Wikidata Q184750, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184750 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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