The cult of surplus.

We worship residues because we've lost access to real objects. Surplus became sacred when the substantial became inaccessible.

The cult of surplus.

We live in times where waste has ascended to the altar of collective worship. Our culture has radically inverted traditional hierarchies: what was once discarded after consumption now becomes the very object of cult worship. Like societies that build temples with garbage, we elevate to divinity that which should remain at the margins as natural residue of all human activity.

This operation reveals something disturbing about contemporary libidinal economy. Surplus is not accidental but structural: we produce it deliberately to have something to worship. Like obsessive collectors who accumulate empty wrappers, we develop sophisticated rituals around elements that traditionally didn't merit attention. Influencers showing their food waste, brands selling products designed to break, festivals celebrating waste itself: all testify to this cultural inversion where excess has become sacred.

The clinic receives the consequences of this inverted worship: subjects who have lost the capacity to distinguish between essential and superfluous, between nourishment and waste, between desire and compulsive accumulation. They drug themselves with residues of experiences they never fully had, converting leftovers into the main course of their emotional lives.

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