Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

Stellan Skarsgård: Seligman

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Quotes 

• Joe : Nobody knew his secret. Most probably not even himself. He sat there with his shame. I suppose I sucked him off, is a kind of apology.

  Seligman : That's unbelievable!

  Joe : Listen to me. This is a man who had succeeded in repressing his own desire, who had never before given into it right up until I forced it out. He had lived a life full of denial and had never hurt a soul. I think that's laudable.

  Seligman : No matter how much I try, I can't find anything laudable in pedophilia.

  Joe : That's because you think about the, perhaps 5% who actually hurt children. The remaining 95% never live out their fantasies. Think about their suffering. Sexuality is the strongest force in human beings. To be born with a forbidden sexuality must be agonizing. The pedophile who manages to get through life with the shame of his desire, while never acting on it, deserves a bloody medal.

• [last lines] 

  Seligman : But you... you've fucked thousands of men.

• Joe : Even though only one in a million, as my dubious therapist said, succeed in mentally, bodily, and in her heart ridding herself of her sexuality, this is now my goal.

  Seligman : But is that a life worth living?

  Joe : It's the only way I can live it. I will stand up against all odds, just like a deformed tree on a hill. I will muster all my stubbornness, my strength, my masculine aggression.

• Joe : By the way, I can assure you that women who claim that negroes don't turn them on, are lying.

  Seligman : So do they satisfy you, those negroes?

  Joe : No, but they showed me there was a world far from mine I had to explore. And there perhaps on the other side get my life back.

• Seligman : [about to be shot by Joe after he attempts to rape her]  But you fucked thousands of men!

• Seligman : Freud says the opposite. He talks about the polymorphic perversion of a child. Meaning that in a child, all kinds of perversions exist. And then we use the childhood to diminish or remove some of them. Basically a child is sexually polymorphic and everything is sexuality in an infant.

• Joe : I seem to remember that the systematic approach to the crucifixion is of a violent and not to say sadistic nature.

  Seligman : Oh yes, the passion of Christ is full of systematic violence... The Via Dolorosa, the nine stations of the cross and the 39 lashes.

• Seligman : You shouldn't use that word. It's not what you call politically correct. Negro.

  Joe : Well, excuse me, but in my circles, it's always been a mark of honor to call a spade a spade.