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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...] but also allows this relationship, is that medium through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideologic ...me - and this is why Zizek is able to [[repeat]] Feuerbach's critique of [[religion]] as offering a merely [[specular]], reversed image of the world, secretly
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...for upward [[social]] mobility, social status, family pride, the Christian religion, and patriotism" (CC, p. 194). ...orn for upward social mobility, social status, family pride, the Christian religion, and patriotism" (<a href="#fn2" name="cfn2"><i>CC</i></a><i>,</i> p. 194).
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...l their complaints against [[liberal]] decadence, the way they relate to [[religion]] is a kind of [[narcissistic]] ego trip. The way they deliver their messag ...re [[structured]] into the [[system]]. Greider suggests, for example, that organized labor, which controls billions of dollars in the form of [[workers]]' pensi
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• Myth of Origins
  ...comes God in [[place]] of the father. The religion of the son replaced the religion of the father. To mark this [[substitution]], the old totemic meal was revi ...latter, as he wrote in "Totem and Taboo," to constitute "the beginnings of religion, morals, society and art" (p. 156) and also "the nucleus of all neuroses" (
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...[[self-interest]]s, they think in [[subconscious]] [[narrative]] "frames" organized around central metaphors; their [[belief]]s are sustained by such frames, n ...sed: Marx's initial thesis, in his early works, was that the critique of [[religion]] is the starting point of every critique; from here, he proceeded to the c
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...for upward [[social]] mobility, social status, family pride, the Christian religion, and patriotism" (CC, p. 194). ...orn for upward social mobility, social status, family pride, the Christian religion, and patriotism" (CC, p. 194). Although he came later, Derrida followed the
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• Outline
  ...of the International [[Dictionary]] of [[Psychoanalysis]]. The outline is organized by four major [[categories]]: [[Concepts]]/Notions, Biographies, Works, and [[Religion]] and psychanoalysis
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...mediator between the two, the missing link around which the transition is organized. In other words, we have to 'get rid' of [[the Real]] before we can constru ...capitalism led to the obsolescence of Protestantism in [[particular]], and religion generally, as Jameson [[notes]]:
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• Science and psychoanalysis
  ...ing]]: <i>Wissenschaft</i> is constituted as a [[system]] of [[knowledge]] organized into a coherent and ordered arrangement of fundamental [[concepts]] ([[doct ...visions of the world, and [[absolute knowledge]] of [[metaphysics]] and [[religion]]. The work of the [[scientist]] entails the [[sublimation]] of epistemophi
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• Training of psychoanalysts
  ...ial for analytic thinking: anthropology, prehistory, mythology, history of religion, biology, linguistics, as well as others that have been added since, such a ...ment to analysis (as in the United States), a model that requires a highly organized course of study at an institution, all the way to certification after the f
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• Myth of origins
  ...comes God in [[place]] of the father. The religion of the son replaced the religion of the father. To mark this [[substitution]], the old totemic meal was revi ...latter, as he wrote in "Totem and Taboo," to constitute "the beginnings of religion, morals, society and art" (p. 156) and also "the nucleus of all neuroses" (
  10 KB (1,462 words) - 19:42, 20 May 2019
• Introducing Lacan
  An outstanding pupil, he excelled in [[religion|religious studies]] and [[Latin]]. As a teenager, [[Jacques Lacan]] develo ...especially interested in their work with small groups. Rather than being organized around the presence of an [[authority]] figure with whom they were supposed
  51 KB (8,172 words) - 00:52, 25 May 2019
• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...they are de facto included into a state by the [[links]] of black economy, organized crime, religious groups, etc., the state control is nonetheless suspended t ...for the masses replacing the declining [[religion]]: it takes over the old religion's fundamental function, that of putting on an unquestionable [[authority]]
  47 KB (7,661 words) - 20:02, 27 May 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...on generally for Enlightenment rationalists, up to Dawkins today), ''and'' religion (God) enters as the solution to (solipsistic) madness (Descartes). This triangle of ''cogito'', religion, and madness is the focus of the polemic between Foucault and Derrida, in w
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/lacan-as-a-reader-of-hegel.html
  ...e Maistre had in mind how even the most cruel sacrificial rituals of pagan religion implicitly harbor a correct insight into the efficacy of sacrifice brought ...he really was a trustee for a fund that the Communist Party of the USA had organized to protect its persecuted members and sympathizers. The truth was that he k
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/plato-descartes-hegel-three-philosophers-of-event.html
  ...r. As it was made clear by Kierkegaard, Christianity is the first and only religion of the Event: the only access to the Absolute (God) is through our acceptan ...develops this parallel to its conclusion, to the horror of the Jesuits who organized his excommunication: in the same way that the saintly person uses the suffe
  86 KB (13,956 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/the-superego-and-the-act.html
  My god, in Kosovo we didn't have this other! Albanians were organized and fighting! What horrified me is that after the agreement was signed for ..."positing the very presuppositions". Let me take my favorite example from religion which every true Christian, which I unfortunately am not, would tell you. A
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