# Quote — Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies

> The original question of desire is not directly 'What do I want?', but 'What do others want from me? What do they see in me? What am I to others?'

- Author: [Slavoj Žižek](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek.md)
- Book: [The Plague of Fantasies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-plague-of-fantasies.md)
- Page: 9
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek#The_Plague_of_Fantasies_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-plague-of-fantasies/the-original-question

## More from this book

> What we are thus arguing is not simply that ideology also permeates the alleged extraideological strata of everyday life, but that this materialization of ideology in external materiality reveals inherent antagonisms which the explicit formulation of ideology cannot afford to acknowledge …

p. 2 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-plague-of-fantasies/what-we-are.md)