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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your [[word]], your [[thought]], and your sympathy touch me deeply. ...and handy)—at the time, then, when I found myself able to give to Marx's thought (I am speaking emphatically of his "[[philosophy]],'' and not of his work:
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...hesis is that the "nursery tale"of the cogito which has dominated modern [[thought]] (in its guise as the self-[[transparent]] [[thinking]] subject) is, in fa ...]] in an age which has seen the re-emergence of obscurantist [[religious]] thought. However, part of the broad remit of this compact book is an attempt to res
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...s in the interview here, [[philosophy]] helps us, not by "purifying" our [[thought]], but by making it more [[complex]].</p> ...lists worldwide. Unlike the vast majority of commentators, Zizek was not [[content]] to express disbelief and outrage. His [[words]] offered an antidote to th
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...'conditions of impossibility' operate at the substantive level — of the content of his claims — and at a stylistic level, so that the manner in which he ...n contradiction does make him a good deal more radical than someone who is content with merely identifying and describing structures in literary and cultural
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...et rid of the 'remnants of the liberal-democratic stance' of his earlier [[thought]], which 'oscillates between Marxism proper and praise of 'pure democracy' ...ek says of Maurras' masterstroke: 'It looked at things in a way no one had thought or dared to look' (TK, 28) - and, we might even say, what Maurras added, li
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...world? The penis, because it is the only one that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Stra ...other' - and the second treating the same concept in terms of its inherent content - 'in itself' (E!, xi). Thus we have a discussion of Lacan's notion of the
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...wants to see himself as an "engaged" [[intellectual]], but on the level of content he is struck by a kind of [[paralysis]], unable to [[suggest]] any meaningf ...nning it stands in for its own opposite. To the very extent that it can be thought—this is Hegel's point about immersing abstract universality in the medium
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• Phenomenology
  ...two spheres before examining its [[relationship]] to [[psychoanalytic]] [[thought]]. ...pupils) was, at heart, Kantian and held that the [[contents]] of conscious thought are shaped by rule-governed judgments that engage the subject with [[object
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  In the last two decades of his [[thought]], Derrida emphasized that, the more radical a deconstruction is, the more ...that, <i>mutatis mutandis</i>, Derrida threw away all positive ontological content of messianism, retaining nothing but the pure form of the messianic promise
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...didn't tell me to pass the salt." There's a certain paradoxical level of [[thought]], you cannot but call it sincere lying. If I ask you, "how are you?" liter ...hat there was from the very beginnings of Liberalism the tension between [[content]] and form. The properly political [[dialectic]] is that the form, even if
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...ion of the original relations between the signifier and labour. I shall be content, for my little jab at the general function of ''praxis'' in the genesis of One cannot go further along this line of thought than to demonstrate that no signification can be sustained other than by re
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• Kant with Sade
  ...f the statement, in that each address suscitates him through its equivocal content: since ''jouissance'', by shamelessly confessing itself even as it speaks, ...stion''] "with Sade," that is to say with Sade filling the office, for our thought as in his sadism, of an instrument, confesses to what is plain to see about
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...reads the brightness of [[consciousness]]. His attributes are those of a [[thought]] which regulates the order of the [[real]]. It is Akhenaton's God, the God ...also [[knows]] that, although that love is articulated now and then in the thought of such exceptional men as the famous polisher of lenses who lived in Holla
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...nding that might occur because we are dealing with Sade, and it might be [[thought]] that that constitutes a wholly [[external]] way of [[looking]] upon ourse ...[[Christianity]], through the drama of the [[passion]], gives a [[full]] [[content]] to the naturalness of the [[truth]] we have called the death of God. Inde
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• Latent
  Latent [[dream]] [[thoughts]] (latent [[content]]) are the [[meanings]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[interpretation]] discovers in Latent thoughts (also called by Freud "dream thoughts" or "latent content") are primary; they are the motor of the dream. They are comprised of [[inf
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• Parricide
  ...at served as the foundation and chief precondition of [[psychoanalytic]] [[thought]] and "the main source of the [[sense]] of [[guilt]]" (1928b [1927], p. 183 ...parents]]. In Totem and Taboo (1912-1913a), Freud noted the adventitious [[content]] of the two oedipal crimes—the two prohibitions forming the core of tote
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• Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
  ...that is, to "phantasies, processes of reference, emotional impulses, [and] thought connections" (p. 148). From this point on, memory, a favorite theme of Freu ...sistance, which deprives the analysand's thought of memorable ideational [[content]] and displaces the corresponding quota of [[affect]] onto the act.
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• Overdetermination
  ...ng a web whose linking strands are lines of associated [[thoughts]]. The [[content]] of psychic [[formations]] [[understood]] in this way is determined by the ...ermination suggested a procedure for selecting the components of the dream-content, he proposed the notion of the displacement of [[psychical]] intensity alon
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• Irma's injection
  ...[[about]] one of his [[patients]], whom he called Irma. The [[manifest]] [[content]] of the dream can be summarized as thus: ...wed [[signs]] of recalcitrance, like [[women]] with artificial dentures. I thought to myself that there was really no [[need]] for her to do that. - She then
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• Taboo
  ...t or contagion plays so large a [[role]] in the neurosis and is made the [[content]] of so complicated a [[system]], the answer is that touching, [[physical]] ...the Unconscious, points toward [[animism]], magic, and the omnipotence of thought—in short, to a study of [[narcissism]]. And the analogy, almost the [[ide
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