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The Burnout Society

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depression also follows from impoverished attachment — location: 164 ^ref-32401

rash change of focus between different tasks, sources of information, and processes characterizes this scattered mode of awareness. Since it also has a low tolerance for boredom, it does not admit the profound idleness that benefits the creative process. — location: 208 ^ref-10355

A purely hectic rush produces nothing new. It reproduces and accelerates what is already available. — location: 212 ^ref-16629

All forms of vita activa, both the matter of producing and that of acting, sink to the level of simple laboring. — location: 261 ^ref-54391

“every characteristic absence of spirituality [Ungeistigkeit], every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus” — location: 333 ^ref-51801

As a mode of saying no, sovereign action [Tun] proves more active than any and all hyperactivity, which represents a symptom of mental exhaustion. — location: 338 ^ref-53834

Rage is the capacity to interrupt a given state and make a new state begin. — location: 357 ^ref-18976

Paradoxically, hyperactivity represents an extremely passive form of doing, which bars the possibility of free action. It is based on positive potency that has been made absolute to the exclusion of all else. — location: 387 ^ref-43129

eloquent, seeing, reconciliatory tiredness in opposition to speechless, sightless, divisive tiredness. — location: 491 ^ref-1068

“tiredness that trusts in the world” — location: 496 ^ref-45861

the day of in-order-to is not sacred, but rather the day of not-to, — location: 534 ^ref-57240

I-tiredness, as solitary tiredness, is worldless and world-destroying; it annihilates all reference to the Other in favor of narcissistic self-reference. — location: 561 ^ref-8802

Freedom from the Other switches into narcissistic self-relation, which occasions many of the psychic disturbances afflicting today’s achievement-subject. — location: 600 ^ref-13052

Self-absorption does not produce gratification, it produces injury to the self; — location: 610 ^ref-27615

is not a matter of intentionally “avoiding” the achievement of goals in order to heighten the feeling of self. Instead, the feeling of having achieved a goal never occurs. It is not that the narcissistic subject does not want to achieve closure. Rather, it is incapable of getting there. — location: 628 ^ref-11289

Whereas the hysteric shows a characteristic morphe, the depressive is formless; indeed, he is amorphous. He is a man without character. One might generalize the observation and declare that the late-modern ego has no character. — location: 640 ^ref-32681

Increasingly, virtualization and digitalization are making the real disappear, which makes itself known above all through its resistance. — location: 682 ^ref-52962

the active life must lead to contemplation, but contemplation must proceed from what we have observed within and calls us back to activity.” — location: 870 ^ref-19133