On Envy & Self-Sabotage (Zizek)

The true opposite of egotist self love is not altruism, a concern for common good, but envy, ressentiment, which makes me act against my own interests.

[Sigmund] Freud knew it well: the death drive is opposed to the pleasure principle as well as to the reality principle.

The true evil, which is the death drive, involves self-sabotage. It makes us act against our own interests.

'Violence' by Slavoj Zizek
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