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• The Act
  ...thus closely connected with the [[ethics|ethical domain]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[thought]].
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• Desire
  By shifting the object of study from the imagery of the [[manifest]] [[content]] of the [[dream]] to its unconscious determinants in the dreaming subject, ...any one concept which can [[claim]] to be the very center of [[Lacan]]'s [[thought]], it is the concept of [[desire]]. -->
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• Object
  .... The object is neither a [[thing]] or a person, nor the [[fantasmatic]] [[content]] or a [[bodily]] zone of that person, although it relates to these through ...ent fact is irksome because it constitutes a [[paradox]] for [[logical]] [[thought]]; the [[nature]] of the total object can be described as something that ne
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• Condensation
  ...mentation|fragmentary]]: it is an abridged [[translation]] of the [[latent content]]. ...ion]], like [[displacement]], does not proceed directly by modifying the [[content]] of a [[representation]].
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• Subject supposed to know
  In [[other]] [[words]], the analyst is often [[thought]] to know the [[secret]] [[meaning]] of the analysand's [[word]]s, the [[si ...ossessed by the analyst, does not mean that the analyst can therefore be [[content]] with [[knowing]] nothing; on the contrary, [[Lacan]] argues that [[analys
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• The Subject
  Descartes concludes that his [[thought]] must [[exist]], if it is to be [[deceived]]. (myers 32) When descartes states ‘i who thought thus must be soemthing’, we udnerstnad that ‘i’, the ‘i’ of the c
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• Real2
  ...ic]] order," the real is utterly unavailable to the very [[categories]] of thought and articulation by which [[humans]] organise their worlds (both [[mental]] ...‘reality,’ reality as that which is named by language and can thus be thought and talked about" (Fink 25). reality is the order and organisation imposed
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that people thought, behaved, and learned about sexuality; this influence abides today. ...viations. The medical context of these publications justified their sexual content, and they were received with approbation. Nor did the last of the <i>Three
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...eud’s [[ideas]] have exerted a profound influence on twentieth-century [[thought]] and [[culture]]. ...condenses, distorts, and translates ‘‘dream thoughts’’ into dream content. Freud proposes that the ultimate [[value]] of dream analysis may be in rev
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• Semiotics
  ...from previous [[philosophers]] such as Plato or the [[Scholastic]]s, who [[thought]] that there must be some connection between a signifier and the object it ...of a sign system or the codes correlating a given expression with a given content or a more extensional, [[truth]]-condition-oriented one that concentrates o
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  Ever since the 1960s, an important [[body]] of [[thought]] has developed in reaction to the presumed behaviorism according to which ...ll as on expert systems in artificial intelligence (models of [[paranoid]] thought, Parry), and especially experimental research (anomalies in the processing
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...epetition]] ([[another]] concept deeply significant to Lacan’s system of thought), for only in the repetition of becoming can the new emerge. In addition, b ...elusive point [[outside]] the [[subject]]. In both Deleuzian and Lacanian thought the gaze disrupts subjects, but is in them more than themselves.
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...d [[infantile]] sexuality on the [[experience]] of boys, and at first he [[thought]] that the same process could simply be transferred to girls but in reverse ...psychoanalysis focused on two particularly problematic strands of Freud's thought. First, feminists saw psychoanalysis as propagating a form of [[biological]
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...owed from [[biology]], mechanics and the [[psychology]] of his day. Marx [[thought]] his discovery using [[Hegelian]] notions of the [[subject]]. It is fascin ...d with the growth of [[French]] phenomenology and he was influenced by the thought of [[Hegel]] and [[Heidegger]]. Structuralism offered Lacan a way of talkin
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Prior to this phase Freud [[thought]] of all [[children]] as essentially bisexual beings who attained sexual [[ ...nuclear complex of neuroses, and constitutes the essential part of their [[content]].
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...[[work]], where the real is elevated to the central [[category]] of his [[thought]]. Through each [[phase]] of his teaching Lacan placed a different emphasis ...eated. In short, the real does not exist, as [[existence]] is a product of thought and [[language]] and the real precedes language. The real is 'that which re
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ..., why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], there is [[freedom]] of thought… however, one should treat Lenin in an "[[objective]] critical and [[scie ...on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democratic "post-id
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...us desire which inscribes itself through the very distortion of the latent thought into the explicit texture.) ...fter the art practice isolates the frame/place as such, emptied of all its content, can one indulge in the ready-made procedure. Before Malevitch, a urinal wo
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  Of all the couples in the [[history]] of modern [[thought]] ([[Freud]] and Lacan, [[Marx]] and Lenin…), Kant and Sade is perhaps th ...keeps the [[structure]] of an unconditional injunction, positing as its [[content]] the utmost pathological singularity.
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...crime [[scene]]) and the [[truth]] [[about]] the crime (its "[[latent]] [[thought]]"), how he will prove to the culprit his or her [[guilt]]. The success of ...rbor a momentous liberating potential. By way of surrendering my innermost content, inclusive of my [[dreams]] and [[anxieties]], to the Other, a [[space]] op
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...our land, they even want our dreams. Behind this there's the notion of the thought control. It's the old Marxist notion of buying the whole chain, from the ha ...ial movements, like feminist and ecological groups. At that time everybody thought that we would be vanishing mediators. We made some solidly corrupted, but g
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...uses on what he perceived as the main [[negative]] aspect of Althusser's [[thought]]: his theoreticist elitism, his [[insistence]] on the gap which forever se ...cessary, but [[illusory]], form of expression of its [[concrete]] social [[content]], the universe of exploitation and class domination), or in the much more
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...dically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou is not yet well-known ...of being considered [[objects]] of thought. The problem for philosophical thought resides precisely in how the [[universality]] of "woman" emerges from this
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...ntrast to Mensheviks and skeptics among the Bolsheviks themselves, Lenin [[thought]] that the complex situation of 1917, i.e. the growing [[dissatisfaction]] ...threaten its very survival. Say, for a long time, [[sexual]] libertarians thought that monogamic sexual repression is necessary for the survival of capitalis
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...ified: Yes, why not, we live in a liberal democracy, there is freedom of [[thought]]. However, one should treat Lenin in an objective, critical, and [[scienti ...the point that one cannot and should not concede: today, actual freedom of thought must mean the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democratic postid
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...e story), thus signals a more radical deadlock that pertains to the social content itself. Fitzgerald's narrative failure and oscillation between the two vers ...anscendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely formal fun
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...]], he concedes his own historically conditioned limitation: "We must be [[content]] with what we can, in fact, comprehend at [[present]]. There is plenty th ...try to demonstrate some deeper affinity between [[Heidegger]] and Oriental thought, mostly [[Buddhism]], miss the point: when Heidegger speaks about the "appr
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...rself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she [[thought]], ‘I refuse to watch the child die.’ So she sat across from him and we ...him to “Recite!” (<i>Qarâ’</i>, whence <i>Qur’ân</i>). Mohammed thought he was going mad, and since he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...turing]] [[principle]], so that every neutralization of some [[partial]] [[content]] as "non-political" is a political gesture par excellence. ...ian notion of "[[biopolitics]]" as the culmination of the entire Western [[thought]] ends up getting caught in a kind of "[[ontological]] trap" in which conce
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...formulate directly, in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] idiom - say, "To be or not to b ...ue dimension is not to be sought primarily at the level of the narrative [[content]] - its original locus is elsewhere - where? Let me begin with contrasting
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...that of a common [[human]] [[consciousness]], so that Christ effectively [[thought]] he was dying abandoned by his father? Was he effectively occupying the [[ ...stian]] text. So what is revealed in Christianity is not just the entire [[content]], but, more specifically, that <tt><b>THERE IS NOTHING</b></tt> - <tt><b>N
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...parent]] content to the [[word]] 'terrorism' which is itself devoid of all content (in this [[instance]], political)."<a name="7x"></a><a href="#7"><font colo ...scribed into his thought - but with a twist: instead of problematizing his thought, Nolte justifies his political choice as a viable option in the situation o
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...the positive [[content]] that fills it in: although, as to their positive content, the Communist regimes were mostly a dismal failure, generating [[terror]] ...aucratic" RES, its inherent [[transgression]] with no substantial positive content of its own, i.e., unable to serve as the permanent basic organizing [[princ
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...]); and it is in Hamlet's "distortion" of the Oedipus that its repressed [[content]] articulates itself - the proof of it [[being]] the fact that the Hamlet m ...verlooked in the Marxian [[analysis]] of economy, the dominant one for the thought of our time - something whose force and extent we feel at every moment: rit
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• Ethics and the Real
  Lacan’s [[thought]] around 1960 is characterized by a tension centering around the [[ethical] ...m]] of [[universality]] that is at issue in ethics, and any [[particular]] content specified in a maxim will only serve to deprive that maxium of the universa
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• Dream
  ...g, but its rules are very different from those that prevail in the logical thought of the waking state: dreams know nothing of contradiction. ...cent past) and physical sensations that occur during sleep. But its "real" content is reactivated infantile memories, especially those of an oedipal kind: the
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• Surrealism
  ...theorist of the group, maintained a close [[association]] with Freudian [[thought]] throughout his career. He was most interested in the [[logic]] of the unc [[Lacanian]] thought developed throughout the nineteen-sixties, and, although it has a [[number]
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...e of all aspects or faculties of [[desire]]. Thus, an act can have moral [[content]] if, and only if, it is carried out solely with [[regard]] to a [[sense]] Although actions with respect to non-persons do not have intrinsic moral content, Kant derived a [[prohibition]] against [[cruelty]] to animals as a violati
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• Parallax View
  ...al source of our passive sensible perceptions) AND the purely intelligible content-less construct of an X without any support in our senses.</ref> ...o - the symbolic order; the imaginary stuff that provides the matter, the "content," of the subject.</ref>
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...ok’s publisher to give a fresh boost to its sales.) Nevertheless, the [[content]] of the Vatican’s [[message]] was basically correct. <i>The [[Da Vinci] ...y is threatened in the West itself by the onslaught of New Age "Asiatic" [[thought]]. Such Eastern wisdom, from "[[Western Buddhism]]" to Taoism, is establis
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...ul?&nbsp;&nbsp; Can or should those lessons be separated out, as form from content, from their particularity as aspects of the history of Christianity, itself ...ivities, and so on, nonetheless I try to ground it in a specific Christian content, which again for me focuses precisely on Christ's death, (his) death and re
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...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 ..., now, I'm not saying what Elizabeth Wright, who edited a reader about me, thought. I love her, an [[English]] old lady. I had tea with her once, and she said
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...parent]] content to the [[word]] 'terrorism' which is itself devoid of all content (in this [[instance]], political)."7 ...scribed into his thought - but with a twist: instead of problematizing his thought, Nolte justifies his political choice as a viable option in the situation o
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...at which there is no [[need]] for [[speech]], for [[signs]], since, in it, thought directly intervenes in the Real? This gigantic Brain, this Other-Thing, inv ...ed), or, even more interestingly, they rely on a contrast between form and content, like the long shot of Eugenia's hysterical outburst against the hero, a mi
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...us desire which inscribes itself through the very distortion of the latent thought into the explicit texture.)<br> ...fter the art practice isolates the frame/place as such, emptied of all its content, can one indulge in the ready-made procedure. Before Malevitch, a urinal wo
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  It is here that we have to look for the central ambiguity of Schelling's thought: apropos of subject of [[thought]] and the Freudian [[subject of the unconscious]], which is perceived as
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...dically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou is not yet well-known ...of being considered [[objects]] of thought. The problem for philosophical thought resides precisely in how the [[universality]] of "woman" emerges from this
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...ic efficiency? We all know the old, worn-out [[joke]] about a madman who [[thought]] he was a grain of corn; after being finally cured and sent home, he immed ...ouble]], the One of pure [[theory]]. But, on a closer look, the positive [[content]] of this "secret teaching" reveals itself to be pop-wisdom commonplaces a
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...they even want our [[dreams]]. Behind this there's the [[notion]] of the [[thought]] [[control]]. It's the old [[Marxist]] notion of buying the [[whole]] [[ch ...movements, like [[feminist]] and ecological groups. At that time everybody thought that we would be vanishing mediators. We made some solidly corrupted, but g
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  everybody [[thought]] that we would be vanishing mediators. We made some slyly it you discover Leni Riefenstahl. I am not interested in direct [[content]]
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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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• Freud Lives!
  ...[[Todd Dufresne]] put it, no [[figure]] in the [[history]] of [[human]] [[thought]] was more wrong [[about]] all the fundamentals – with the exception of [ ...onclude, "and probably the syringe had not been clean." So, the '[[latent thought]]' articulated in the dream is neither sexual nor unconscious, but Freud’
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• Stalinism
  ..."[[empty speech]]," the speech whose denotative [[value]] ([[explicit]] [[content]]) is suspended on behalf of its functioning as an [[index]] of [[intersubj ...s proves neither more nor less than that I was mistaken, and that what I [[thought]] to be the general will was not so. If my [[particular]] opinion had carri
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• Association
  Association:: The link between one mental content and another. To Freudian thought itself, for example, some people associate trains going into tunnels.
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• Biopolitics
  ...ubt]], two extreme poles in the [[complex]] [[universe]] of biopolitical [[thought]]. Yet, precisely as ''[[theoretical]]'' positions, they are the most [[rep Considering that, as we have seen, Žižek’s thought is sustained by the conviction that negativity, in its dialectical [[role]]
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• Guarantee
  ...]] in relation to the [[outside]] world. The A.M.E. had to be chosen, he [[thought]], according to what he called "[[good]] [[sense]]", a convention evoking s ...) with the practice of this title by Lacan, or one goes beyond it. Being content is not to make ripples. At the most, this amounts to making it known discre
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• Lie
  A lie, the dissimulation or willful deformation of the [[contents]] of a [[thought]] that the [[subject]] deems to be [[true]], can be practiced only either v ...fact, and if it is not acknowledged, this is because of the unconscious [[content]] it manifests. The "[[impossibility]]" of [[confession]] opens the way for
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...ulticulturalist]] [[openness]], obliterating its [[displaced]] [[class]] [[content]] - benevolent as it wants to be, the mere [[insistence]] on multiculturali ...c]] [[struggle]] between "[[us]]" ([[people]]) and "[[them]]." Again, the content of "us" and "them" is not prescribed in advance but, precisely, the stake o
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  In the last two decades of his [[thought]], Derrida emphasized that, the more radical a deconstruction is, the more ...ot that, mutatis mutandis, Derrida threw away all positive [[ontological]] content of messianism, retaining nothing but the pure form of the messianic promise
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• Overview
  # [[Hegel]] provides Zizek with a dialectical type of thought or methodology that he uses. (In Zizek's reading of Hegel, the dialectic is ..., for what he is trying to do is to contribute to the Marxist tradition of thought, specifically that of a [[critique of ideology]].
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• Work
  ...daily residues, [[bodily]] stimuli, dream-thoughts—into a [[manifest]] [[content]] acceptable to the otherwise vigilant consciousness of the dreamer. In [[J ..., the other toward erotization. It is also worth mentioning the "work of [[thought]]" (Anzieu, 1996; Mijolla-Mellor, 1992). And, lastly, the phenomenon of men
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• Myths
  ...nherited this opposition between [[rational]] [[thought]] and [[mythical]] thought. ...ns that borrow the anonymity of myths and a few contemporary elements of [[content]], bear [[witness]] to the persistence of a [[discourse]] that is both inti
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• Sigmund Freud:Biography
  ...ut found the allure of science too compelling to ignore. Although he was [[content]] to be engaged in [[work]] that might benefit humanity through [[working]] ...himself the residing expert on all matters pertaining to psychoanalytic [[thought]]. He was not tolerant of disagreements, especially those that challenged c
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories In Action
  ...st content, which is the dream as it appears to the dreamer. This manifest content is often disguised in symbols. The therapist's task in dream analysis is to ...herapist may ask the patient to free associate some aspect of the manifest content to help him or her understand latent meanings. As the meaning of the dreams
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• Function of Language
  ...o the same sources as Lacan in [[order]] to support their critiques: the [[thought]] of [[Hegel]] and Heidegger. In Lacan's (phenomenological) view biological ...was undoubtedly the result of a growing [[awareness]] of [[structuralist]] thought, and was marked by a break in the phenomenological [[vocabulary]] of his ea
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...of this [[particular]] collection, but rather because over the years his [[thought]] has led him into deeper and deeper waters. We [[know]] that his [[doctora ...ublished) on which both papers are based. Without these supports we must [[content]] ourselves with a kind of make-do [[coherence]] which is [[forced]] to tak
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...efore represents a corresponding level of [[development]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[thought]]. In fact it complements the former insofar as, for Lacan, the essential f ...that desire" (1977, p. 289/693). But sooner or later the child must be "[[content]] to present to the Other what in [[reality]] he may have that corresponds
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...roclaims, constantly liable to attempts to exorcize it from contemporary [[thought]] by New Age obscurantists, [[postmodern]] deconstructionists, Habermasians ...[body]] may be an illusion, Descartes concludes that at the very least his thought must exist, if it is to be deceived:
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• Philosophy and psychoanalysis
  ...lity]] of any pure [[transparent]] [[knowledge]] of the [[world]] and of [[thought]] to itself. Less negatively, on the [[interpretation]] of art proposed by ...s. Freud did not hesitate to apply such conceptions to Immanuel [[Kant]]'s thought by suggesting, for example, that the [[superego]] is the metapsychological
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• Science and psychoanalysis
  ...h it has developed to varying degrees of probability. The capacity to be [[content]] with these approximations to [[certainty]] and the ability to carry on ...logical option appears constant over the [[development]] of [[Freudian]] [[thought]]: "What characterizes psychoanalysis, as a science, is less the material o
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• Over-interpretation
  ...to [[form]] any conception of the abundance of the unconscious trains of [[thought]], all striving to find expression, which are [[active]] in our minds. Nor ...ravelled and which moreover adds [[nothing]] to our [[knowledge]] of the [[content]] of the dream. This is the [[dream's navel]], the spot where it reaches do
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• Prehistory
  ...ge of its disposition and [[constitution]], but also the transmission of [[content]], that is, the lived [[experience]] of previous generations. This is not a The notion of prehistory attempts to legitimize the systems of [[thought]] of primitive peoples, of [[children]], and of [[adults]] to be compared,
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• Certainty
  ...o the [[idea]] of conviction, which connotes an [[illusory]] or mistaken [[content]] (delusional conviction). However, [[dreams]] are an example of a [[mental ...de]] [[world]] (1901b). This idea was developed in connection with animist thought and later with the [[category]] of [[experience]], which included [[feeling
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• Dream-work
  ...ms that transform the raw [[materials]] of a [[dream]] into its [[manifest content]]. ...or in the dreamer's [[free association]]s) and dream-[[thought]] ([[latent content]]).
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• Love of the 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 Agency of the Letter
  tions between the [[signifier]] and labour. I shall be [[content]], for my little<br> One cannot go further along this line of [[thought]] than to demonstrate<br>
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• An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...n the one hand, some commentators present the [[development]] of Lacan's [[thought]] in terms of dramatic and sudden '[[epistemological]] breaks'; 1953, for e ...its present incomplete and rudimentary state. This dictionary may thus be thought of as a [[resistance]], in the way Lacan defined resistance, a 'the present
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...mes a new thesis generating its own anti-thesis and so on. [[Dialectical]] thought, therefore, foregrounds the contradictory nature of all things, as all phen ...ectatorship. This shift in the use of psychoanalysis from interpreting the content of individual texts to an analysis of how our subjectivity and identity are
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• Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
  ...rimary processes in contrast to the secondary processes of [[conscious]] [[thought]]. By [[mapping]] Jakobson's distinction between metaphor and metonymy on t ...onships, pivot around the shifting position of the letter itself. As the [[content]] remains unknown throughout this process of symbolic exchange, we can also
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• Lacan and the Pre-Socratics
  ...[[other]] than themselves. There is, moreover, the risk of losing one's [[thought]] in a [[latent]] confrontation between Lacan and [[Heidegger]], which has ...ine the [[place]] of psychoanalysis in the strictly Western [[history]] of thought, in which psychoanalysis marks a rupture, and which is not at all constitut
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• Reconceptualizing Freud
  ...was reconceptualized by four [[literary]] theorists who argued that the [[content]] of [[psychic]] [[fantasy]] was relevant to literary study as well as to [ ...e" position. On the [[other]] hand, [[feminist]] adaptations of Kleinian [[thought]] have been questioned. Janice Doane and Devon Hodges describe the evolutio
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