"Heidegger too, if read correctly, no longer invites us... to seek the truth in the inner person; instead, he calls upon us to become involved with the monstrousness of the external."—Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres I: Bubbles, 629.

"Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself. Entirely incapable of stepping outward, of standing outside itself, of relying on the Other, on the world, it locks its jaws on itself; paradoxically, this leads the self to hollow and empty out. It wears out in a rat race it runs against itself." Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 42.

"what we should focus on is rather a certain minimal change which amounts to the self-emptying of the subject and is as such profoundly revolutionary" Slavoj Žižek, Disparities, 209.