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Supposedly, for us moderns, art and religion no longer command absolute respect: we can admire them, but we no longer kneel down before them, our heart is not really with them. Only science – conceptual knowledge – deserves this respect. And it is only psychoanalysis that can disclose the full contours of the shattering impact of modernity. Modernity – understood as combination of capitalism and the hegemony of the scientific discourse. / No wonder then modernity led to the so-called “crisis of sense,” disintegration of truth and meaning.

Most images are now produced and circulated in the service of maximizing the amount of time spent in habitual forms individual self-management and self-regualtion. / Mass culture imagery up to mid twentieth century often provided ways of evading prohibitions of a super-ego. Now in a reversal, the demand for mandatory 24/7 immersion in visual content effectively becomes a new form of institutional super-ego.