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• Death drive
  ...argues that the [[death drive]] is not a [[separate]] [[drive]], but is in fact an aspect of every [[drive]].
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• Father
  ...e family]], he attributes the importance of the [[Oedipus complex]] to the fact that it combines in the [[figure]] of the [[father]] two almost conflicting
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• Gaze
  ...ors of [[Sartre]] and [[Lacan]] have used different [[terms]] obscures the fact that both use the same term in [[French]] - ''[[gaze|le regard]]''.</ref>
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• Jouissance
  ...]], [[pain]] is a means to [[pleasure]]; [[pleasure]] is taken in the very fact of [[pain|suffering]] itself, so that it becomes difficult to distinguish [ ...]] of a primary [[experience]] of satisfaction is an illusion to cover the fact that all satisfaction is marked by a loss in relation to a supposed initial
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• Thing
  <blockquote>"The Thing is characterised by the fact that it is [[impossible]] for us to imagine it."<ref>{{S7}} p. 125</ref></b ...most fundamental [[human]] [[passion]]."<ref>{{S7}} p. 97</ref> Also, the fact that the [[Thing]] is not the [[imaginary]] [[object]] but firmly in the [[
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• Woman
  [[Lacan]] argues that it is precisely the fact that [[woman]] is pushed into the [[position]] of an exchange object that c ...For her, there's something insurmountable, let us say unacceptable, in the fact of being placed in the position of an [[object]] in the [[symbolic order]],
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• Other
  The [[little other]] is the [[other]] who is not, in fact, [[other]], but a [[reflection]] or [[projection]] of the [[ego]].<ref>This
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• Phallus
  ...from the final genital organization of the [[adult]]. This consists in the fact that, for both sexes, only one genital, namely the male one, comes into acc The fact that the essential [[role]] of only one genital organ is recognized at a ce
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• Symbolic
  ...easure principle]]" by means of [[repetition]];<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref> in fact, "the [[death drive]] is only the mask of the [[symbolic order]]."<ref>{{S2
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• Desire
  ...]; it corresponds ultimately to a [[loss]] of sexual jouissance due to the fact of the [[prohibition]] to which [[sexuality]] is subjected in the human [[b ...highly significant. Lacan emphasized that the analysis of the dream is in fact an analysis of the dreamer, that is, a subject who tells the dream to an ot
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• Louis Althusser
  ...t in interpellation. So ultimately, for Žižek, the ISAs themselves do in fact operate in the ways that Althusser has described – they are mechanisms of
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...ocial level as if they believe, but at an [[individual]] level they may in fact demur. By contrast, “advanced” [[media]] consumers are part of a genera ...d to [[capture]] the vibe of a beatnik coffee hangout – and disguise the fact that drinkers are in a Starbucks. Th e store will be called 15th Avenue Cof
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• Id
  ...of the [[symbolic]] determinants of one's [[being]], a recognition of the fact that "You are this" (You are this [[signifying chain|symbolic chain]], and
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• Narcissism
  ...n]]" (''[[narcissism|aggression suicidaire narcissique]]'') to express the fact that the [[eroticism|erotic]]-[[aggressive]] character of the [[narcissisti
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• Psychosis
  However, as Lacan points out, the fact that the psychotic's discourse is just as interpretable as that of the neur
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• Sublimation
  ...n]] in his [[seminar]] of 1959-60. He follows [[Freud]] in emphasizing the fact that the element of [[social]] [[recognition]] is central to the concept, s
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• Transference
  The positive [[value]] of [[transference]] lies in the fact that it provides a way for the [[analysand]]'s history to be confronted in
  14 KB (2,013 words) - 02:45, 21 May 2019
• Object
  ...t ceases to have any clinically observable psychic existence. This evident fact is irksome because it constitutes a [[paradox]] for [[logical]] [[thought]]
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• Instinct
  ...a [[harmonious]] relation between man and the [[world]], which does not in fact [[exist]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 88</ref> The concept of [[instinct]] supposes some ...human]] [[infant|baby]], is compensated for by means of [[complexes]]. The fact that [[human]] [[psychology]] is dominated by [[complex]]es (which are dete
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• Ego
  ...Works of Jacques Lacan|very early on in his work]], [[Lacan]] plays on the fact that the [[German]] term which [[Freud]] uses (''[[Ego|Ich]]'') can be tran ...e [[reality]] that the [[ego]] mediates with, in the latter account, is in fact made out of the [[pleasure principle]] which the [[ego]] represents in the
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• Displacement
  It was in fact Freud's analysis of the [[Dream Work|dream work]] that led him to discover
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• Condensation
  In fact, the content of an overdetermined representation [[acts]] as a fulcrum for
  8 KB (1,102 words) - 20:47, 27 May 2019
• Repetition
  ...rage the ambiguities of the concept of [[repetition]] that derive from the fact that its discovery took [[place]] in the course of the first hesistant step
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• Ethics
  ...utrality]] may seem to offer the analyst a way out of this dilemma, but in fact it does not, for [[Lacan]] points out that there is no such [[thing]] as an ...ects all ideals, including ideals of "[[happiness]]" and "health"; and the fact that [[ego-psychology]] has embraced these ideals bars it from claiming to
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• Subject
  The fact that the term possesses both these meanings means that it perfectly illustr The fact that the [[symbol]] of the [[subject]], '''S''', is a homophone of the [[Fr
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• Disavowal
  ...scover the [[absence]] of the [[penis]] in the [[girl]], they "disavow the fact and believe that they do see a penis all the [[time]]."<ref>{{F}}. "[[Works
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• Art
  ...]].<ref>Although [[Jacques Derrida]] has argued that [[Lacan]] does not in fact follow his own method; [[Jacques Derrida|Derrida, Jacques]] 1975. "Le facte
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• Affect
  ...rejects accusations of neglecting the role of [[affect]], pointing to the fact that a [[whole]] year of the [[seminar]] is dedicated precisely to discussi
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• Anxiety
  ...loping [[presence]]; it is the possibility of its [[absence]] which is, in fact, that which saves us from [[anxiety]].
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• Aphanisis
  ...e face of [[demand]] and in the face of the [[object]], as is shown by the fact that the [[subject]] is [[bar]]red in these [[matheme]]s.
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• Death
  ...subject]] articulates a signifying [[chain]] that he comes up against the fact that he may [[disappear]] from the chain of what he is."<ref>{{S7}} p. 295<
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• Discourse
  ...ntersubjectivity|transindividual]]'' [[nature]] of '''[[language]]''', the fact that '''[[speech]]''' always implies [[another]] [[subject]], an interlocut This illustrates the fact that behind all attempts to impart an apparently "neutral" [[knowledge]] to
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• Cogito
  ...construct]]; its [[time|eternal]]-[[nature|natural]] [[appearance]] is in fact an [[illusion]] produced by [[punctuation|retroaction]].<ref>{{S2}} p. 4-5< ...]] proposes that the [[subject]] of the [[Cartesian]] ''[[cogito]]'' is in fact one and the same as the [[subject]] of the [[unconscious]].
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• Truth
  [[Lacan]] later argues that [[science]] is in fact based on a [[foreclosure]] of the concept of [[truth]] as [[cause]].<ref>{{
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• Time
  The fact that [[logical time]] is not [[objective]] does not mean that it is simply ...e [[anticipation]] of an imagined [[future]] [[wholeness]] which never, in fact, arrives. The [[structure]] of [[anticipation]] is best illustrated [[ling
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• Subject supposed to know
  ...'[[savoir]]'') is not located in any [[particular]] [[subject]] but is, in fact, [[intersubjective]].<ref>{{L}} [[Seminar IX|Le Séminaire. Livre IX. L'ide The term "[[subject supposed to know]]" also emphasizes the fact that it is a particular [[relationship]] to knowledge that constitutes the
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• Split
  The [[subject]] is [[split]] by the very fact that he is a "[[speaking being]],"<ref>{{E}} p. 269</ref> because [[speech]
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• Structure
  However, [[Lacan]] does not in fact agree that such an opposition is implicit in the concept of [[structure]].< ...at of the [[moebius strip]]; just as the two sides of the [[strip]] are in fact continuous, so [[structure]] is continuous with phenomena.
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• Signifying Chain
  ...tal [[position]] in our [[writing]] – if this linearity is necessary, in fact, it is not sufficient. It applies to the chain of discourse only in the dir ...presence (however illusory). This revelation also introduces, however, the fact that presence is always haunted by absence, a feature which is perpetually
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• Semblance
  ...[[appearance]] are like the two sides of a [[moebius strip]], which are in fact only one side.
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• Privation
  Its [[symbolic]] [[nature]] is confirmed by the fact that it can be substituted by a [[child]] in the [[girl]]'s [[unconscious]]
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• School
  ...[[school|society]]", but the term "[[school|school]]" also highlighted the fact that the [[EFP]] was more a means of [[school|psychoanalytic formation]] ce ...of the dangers that beset all [[school|psychoanalytic institution]]s, the fact that he himself founded one is evidence that he [[thought]] that some kind
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• Science
  ...roperty <ref>{{Ec}} p. 79</ref>; and, on the other hand, [[science]] is in fact based on a [[foreclosure]] of the [[concept]] of [[truth]] as [[cause]].<re [[Lacan]] argues that this paradigm shift is in fact implicit in [[Freud]]'s own reformulations of the concepts that he borrowed
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• Sadism/Masochism
  ...]], [[pain]] is a means to [[pleasure]]; [[pleasure]] is taken in the very fact of [[pain|suffering]] itself, so that it becomes difficult to distinguish [
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• Order
  ...]. It is therefore difficult to see what they have in common, and yet, the fact that [[Lacan]] refers to all three as "[[order]]s" implies that they share
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• Pass
  ...cticians, since an analysis could be recognized as didactic only after the fact by the analysand in question becoming an analyst. There were three categori
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• Preoedipal phase
  ...ts function in paving the way for the [[Oedipus complex]], but also in the fact that all the [[perversion]]s have their origin in this [[phase]].<ref>{{S4}
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...his motto that the unconscious is “[[structured]] as a language” is in fact a tautology, since “structured” and “as a language” are synonymous. ...a direction about which nothing at present prevents me from answering." In fact Lacan remains its director until the dissolution in 1980. He [[divides]] th
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• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
  ...[symptom]] and ''sinthom''/the [[structure]] of the Borromean [[knot]]/the fact that [[Woman]] is one of the Names-of-the-[[Father]] ... you've totally mis
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• The Subject
  However, schelling’s philosophhy is all [[about]] the fact that the beginning is not at the beginning. ...willing (wollen) that wills nothing’ (taof 15), the brute [[contingent]] fact which, for schelling, must be presupposed to exist.
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