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• Sigmund Freud
  ...<ref>[http://www.humanthermodynamics.com/Freud.html Freud's Psycho Dynamic Theory and Thermodynamics] [1873-1923] - Institute of [[Human]] Thermodynamics</re ...uential in two related but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a [[theory]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how h
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• Critical theory
  ...as been some overlap between these disciplines. This has led to "critical theory" becoming an umbrella term for an array of theories within the academic [[w ==Critical theory (social theory)==
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• Deconstruction
  ...nstructive reading is a reading which analyzes the specificity of a text's critical [[difference]] from itself." (Johnson, 1981). :"[Deconstruction] signifies a [[project]] of critical thought whose task is to locate and 'take apart' those concepts which serve
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...always included in, is a part of, the framed [[content]]: in modernism, [[theory]] [[about]] the work is comprised in the work, the work is a kind of [[pree ...i.e. whose [[reality]] involves implicit reference to some psychoanalytic theory. Today, the "free [[associations]]" of a typical educated [[analysand]] con
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ..., which are considered [[contingent]], not merits.<ref>5. John Rawls, <i>A Theory of Justice</i>, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1971 (revised edition 1 ...ig city, society starts to break down; the film plays imaginatively with [[race]] relations, and our prejudicial attitudes toward strangers - as the public
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...other religions – to a respectful, but for that reason no less ruthless, critical analysis? This, and only this, is the way to show a true respect for Muslim ...lds together a symbolic field. That is to say, for Lacan (at least for his theory of four discourses elaborated in late 1960s), human communication in its mo
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...murder"). This is the central point of his [[Meta-ethics|meta-ethical]] [[theory]] that establishes Kant as an extreme [[moral objectivism|moral objectivist Although Kant was intensely critical of the use of examples as moral yardsticks, because they tend to rely on ou
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  For many, Jacques [[Lacan]] represents [[postmodern]] [[theory]] at its height--that ...[[work]] of Slavoj [[Zizek]], whose frenetic endorsements of [[Lacanian]] theory
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...le' that is at once only one of the competing master-signifiers - class, [[race]], [[gender]] - and that antagonism to which every master-signifier is an a ...r on <i>[[The Psychoses]]</i>, in which he first begins to formulate his [[theory]] of the master-signifier, this is just what the [[psychotic]] is unable to
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• Erich Fromm
  ...]]. He is associated with what became known as the [[Frankfurt School]] of critical thinkers. ==Psychological theory==
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• Hegemony
  [[Antonio Gramsci]] devised one of the best-known accounts of hegemony. His [[theory]] defined the [[State]] by a mixture of [[coercion]] and hegemony, between Recently, [[critical theory|critical theorists]] [[Ernesto Laclau]] and [[Chantal Mouffe]] have re-defined the t
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...mental]] disorder; everything, from patriotism to religion to family-and [[race]]-loyally, is disqualified as a sign of a dangerous and defective "authorit ...<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom" border="0">and race<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom" border="0">loyal
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• Developmental psychology
  == Theory == ...tualism]] (and its heir, the Development in Context or Human [[Ecology]] [[theory]] of [[Urie Bronfenbrenner]]), and especially the [[information processing]
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...mental]] disorder; everything, from patriotism to religion to family-and [[race]]-loyally, is disqualified as a sign of a dangerous and defective "authorit ...of mental disorder; everything, from patriotism to religion to family-and race-loyally, is disqualified as a sign of a dangerous and defective "authoritar
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...f [[work]] written by a loosely affiliated group of [[philosophers]] and [[critical theorists]]. Žižek's point of reference for this [[theory]] of the genealogy of the subject is the work of the [[German]] philosopher
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• Cinema
  ...[[psychiatry]]. Therefore, in American [[film]] productions as well as in critical [[analyses]] of those [[films]], there has not always been a clear [[distin More recently we have seen a [[return]] to a more critical [[position]]. <i>Dressed to Kill</i> (Brian de Palma, 1980) involves an [[a
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• Film Theory and Criticism
  [[Film]] [[Theory]] and Criticism: 2. May [[1968]] and Beyond ...academic study in the postwar era and reflective of the huge shift in film theory and criticism that took [[place]] as a result of [[structuralist]]/semiotic
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• Economics
  ...economics has been singularly defined by its thorough engagement with, and critical revision of, the [[theoretical]] problems endemic to essentialist models of ...“elementary [[conceptual]] matrix”, Laclau argues that the Žižekian theory of economics ineluctably “returns to the nineteenth-century [[myth]] of a
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• Articles by Slavoj Zizek
  * [[The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils]]. 8 January 2008. ''[http://www.lacan.com Lacan.com]''. <http:/ ...rance|A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)]]. ''Critical Inquiry''. Chicago: Winter 2006.Vol. 32, Iss. 2; pg. 226, 24 pgs.
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• The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils
  * [[The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils]]. 8 January 2008. ''[http://www.lacan.com Lacan.com]''. <http:/ ...rsality (the universal capitalist order) without its symptoms, without its critical points in which its "repressed truth" articulates itself?<br><br>
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