Search results

• Father
  ...f> it would be more precise to say that the [[subject|real father]] is the man who is said to be the [[subject]]'s [[biological]] [[father]]. The [[father
  9 KB (1,344 words) - 07:12, 24 May 2019
• Imaginary
  ...y]], yet it is [[structure]]d by the [[symbolic]], and this means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2} ...[[being]]s is [[structure]]d by the [[symbolic]], and this means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2}
  7 KB (985 words) - 00:10, 25 May 2019
• Jouissance
  ...elation of the speaking being to ''jouissance'' which determines his being man or woman, not [[anatomical]] difference. ...His partner is thus not the Other sex but an object, a piece of the body. Man looks for a little surplus ''jouissance'', that linked with [[Object A|obje
  36 KB (5,474 words) - 04:45, 29 July 2021
• Letter
  ...osis]]," 1918b [1914]. [[SE]] XVII, 3.</ref> As the example of the [[Wolf Man]] demonstrates, the [[letter]] is essentially that which [[return]]s and [[
  6 KB (844 words) - 00:47, 26 May 2019
• Woman
  ...], to which, on the other hand, she is entirely subjected no less than the man.<ref>{{S2}} p. 262</ref></blockquote> <blockquote>"Man here [[acts]] as the relay whereby the woman becomes this Other for herself
  10 KB (1,519 words) - 03:33, 21 May 2019
• Phallus
  ...the [[woman]] does not. This is complicated by the fact that the [[woman|man]] can only lay [[claim]] to the [[phallus|symbolic phallus]] on condition t ...ref> Conversely, the assumption of the [[phallus|symbolic phallus]] by the man is only possible on the basis of the prior assumption of his own [[castrati
  27 KB (4,118 words) - 20:36, 16 December 2019
• Symbolic
  ...; "Freud's discovery is that of the field of the effects, in the nature of man, produced by his relation to the symbolic order. To ignore this symbolic or
  8 KB (1,124 words) - 00:13, 21 May 2019
• Desire
  :Nowhere does it appear more clearly that man's desire finds its [[meaning]] in the desire of the other, not so much beca [[Lacan]] follows [[Spinoza]] in arguing that "[[desire]] is the essence of man."<ref>{{S11}} p. 275</ref> [[Desire]] is simultaneously the heart of [[hum
  27 KB (4,091 words) - 21:55, 27 May 2019
• Hysteria
  This question may be phrased "Am I a [[man]] or a [[woman]]?" or, more precisely, "What is a [[woman]]?"<ref>{{S3}} p.
  5 KB (655 words) - 23:50, 24 May 2019
• Id
  ...mation "I speak " is only a superifical part of the fundamental principle "Man is spoken by it."
  5 KB (789 words) - 16:13, 17 May 2020
• Transference
  Each time a man speaks to another in an authentic and [[full]] manner, there is, in the [[t
  14 KB (2,013 words) - 02:45, 21 May 2019
• Object
  Consider an example: a young man is contemplating asking a young woman from his university class to date him ...nscious "[[knows]]" otherwise. Despite the conscious [[message]] that that man does not really have anything to do with me, there is associated but inchoa
  31 KB (4,666 words) - 10:21, 1 June 2019
• Neurosis
  ...t]] of the question. The question of the [[hysteric]] ("[[hysteria|Am I a man or a woman?]]") relates to one's [[sex]], whereas the question of the [[obs
  4 KB (602 words) - 23:13, 23 May 2019
• Identification
  ...first [[signifier]] (S1), and compares it to the notch that [[primitive]] man made on a stick to [[signify]] that he had killed one [[animal]].<ref>{{S11
  7 KB (1,006 words) - 00:00, 25 May 2019
• Ego-ideal
  ...the [[subject]] to take up a [[sexual difference|sexual position]] as a [[man]] or [[woman]].<ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Les complexes familiau
  4 KB (563 words) - 23:01, 27 May 2019
• Ego
  ...mptom, the [[human]] symptom par excellence, the [[mental]] [[illness]] of man."<ref>{{S1}} p. 16</ref></blockquote>
  7 KB (1,069 words) - 06:23, 24 May 2019
• Sexual Difference
  "[[Man]]" and "[[woman]]" are [[signifier]]s that stand for these two [[subjective <blockquote>It is insofar as the function of man and woman is [[symbolized]], it is insofar as it's literally uprooted from
  9 KB (1,334 words) - 23:03, 20 May 2019
• Beautiful Soul
  ...e beautiful soul is a perfect [[metaphor]] for the ego; 'the ego of modern man . . . has taken on its [[form]] in the [[dialectical]] [[impasse]] of the
  1 KB (224 words) - 19:11, 27 May 2019
• Consciousness
  <blockquote>"[[Consciousness]] in [[man]] is by [[essence]] a polar tension between an [[ego]] [[alienated]] from t
  3 KB (378 words) - 04:36, 24 May 2019
• Death
  * beauty - "It is the function of beauty to reveal man's [[relationship]] to his own death."<ref>{{S7}} p. 260, 299</ref> ...]]), [[Lacan]] takes the [[idea]] that [[death]] is both constitutive of [[man]]'s [[freedom]] and "[[Master|the absolute Master]]."<ref>[[Alexandre Kojè
  5 KB (718 words) - 21:36, 27 May 2019
• Castration complex
  ...tions]] of [[fragmented body|dismemberment]] (as in the case of the [[Wolf Man]]) or even [[self]]-mutilation of the [[real]] [[genital|genital organ]]s. ...tions]] of [[fragmented body|dismemberment]] (as in the case of the [[Wolf Man]]) or even self-mutilation of the [[real]] [[genital|genital organ]]s.
  14 KB (2,015 words) - 03:29, 24 May 2019
• Cogito
  ...of the [[ego]] seems so [[nature|natural]] and [[time|eternal]] to western man today, it is in fact a relatively [[recent]] [[culture|cultural construct]]
  4 KB (617 words) - 20:30, 27 May 2019
• Unconscious
  <blockquote>"This exteriority of the symbolic in relation to man is the very [[notion]] of the unconscious."<ref>{{Ec}} p.469</ref></blockqu
  8 KB (1,055 words) - 02:58, 21 May 2019
• Obsessional neurosis
  ===Example of Rat Man=== ...[[obsessional neurotic]] [[patient]]s, whom [[Freud]] nicknamed the [[Rat Man]], the [[patient]] had developed elaborate rituals which he performed to wa
  4 KB (609 words) - 20:15, 20 May 2019
• Philosophy
  ...'[[cogito]]'' as summing up the very heart of the [[psychology]] of modern man.<ref>{{S2}} p. 6</ref> The [[Lacan]]ian [[concept]] of the [[subject]] is b
  5 KB (683 words) - 21:02, 20 May 2019
• Sexual relationship
  ...tasy]] (SOa); in other [[words]], the [[Woman]] does not [[exist]] for the man as a [[real]] [[subject]], but only as a [[fantasy]] [[object]], the [[caus
  4 KB (632 words) - 23:05, 20 May 2019
• Privation
  ...iled to provide her with a [[child]], the [[woman]] turns to [[another]] [[man]] instead).
  5 KB (711 words) - 21:24, 20 May 2019
• Science
  ...lic]] [[dimension]] of [[human]] [[existence]] and thus encouraging modern man "to forget his [[subjectivity]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 70</ref>.
  11 KB (1,527 words) - 06:12, 20 May 2020
• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  * Seminar on Freud’s case of the [[Wolf Man]]. * Lacan gives a seminar on Freud's Wolf-Man case.
  82 KB (12,528 words) - 20:43, 25 May 2019
• Law
  ...the [[law]] is essentially [[human]]; it is the [[law]] which separates [[man]] from the [[other]] [[nature|animal]]s, by regulating [[sexual relationshi
  5 KB (712 words) - 00:15, 26 May 2019
• Seminar V
  ...or refuse. The absolute primacy of the [[phallus]] - the single emblem of Man - has become a [[real]] doctrinal (perhaps dogmatic) basis of [[Lacanian]]
  13 KB (1,942 words) - 16:23, 30 June 2019
• Seminar VI
  ...e and on the [[anxiety]] of "To be or not to be," hopeless truth of modern man. ...ntains a radical asymmetry in the rapport to the [[phallic signifier]]. [[Man]] "is not without having it" and [[woman]] "is without having it." The only
  12 KB (1,768 words) - 16:18, 30 June 2019
• Seminar X
  ...ose apparition does for the sudden gap of an opening window (<i>The [[Wolf Man]]</i>)? An [[uncanny]] strangeness or familiarity, it is the [[horror]] of
  15 KB (2,146 words) - 05:15, 4 July 2019
• Seminar XVI
  ...go to the extreme, to trangress and force constantly the [[limit]]. It is man in whom the integration into the [[symbolic order]] is sustained by the sup
  11 KB (1,764 words) - 12:35, 2 March 2021
• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...who makes man - fait l'[[homme]] or the Master - she constructs him as "a man prompted by the desire to [[know]]"; a new conception of the [[cure]] as a ...ll as in the unconscious, man knows nothing of woman, and woman nothing of man. The [[phallus]] epitomizes the point in myth where the sexual becomes the
  22 KB (3,312 words) - 02:25, 21 May 2019
• Future of an Illusion
  Religion is an outshoot of the [[father-complex]], and represents man's [[helplessness]] in the [[world]], having to face the ultimate fate of [[ ...exorcize the terrors of nature," (especially death), "they must reconcile man to the [[cruelty]] of fate, particularly as is shown in death, and they mus
  9 KB (1,299 words) - 08:17, 24 May 2019
• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...]] for [[conformity]]. As a result, civilization, or its culture, inhibits man's [[instinctual]] [[drives]], which can (and perhaps must) result in [[guil ...object]] threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that 'I' and 'you' are one, and is prepared to beha
  11 KB (1,706 words) - 20:22, 27 May 2019
• The Seminar
  ...f [[Freud]]'s [[case histories]]: [[Dora]], the [[Rat Man]] and the [[Wolf Man]].
  5 KB (810 words) - 02:05, 21 May 2019
• Eros
  ...ile she was nursing her sick [[father]], she had [[thought]] about a young man who made a slight erotic impression on her" (1894a, p. 48), and who is then
  13 KB (1,919 words) - 06:44, 24 May 2019
• Zizek's Politics
  ...[[inside]] and [[outside]] of the academy have been intrigued by both the man and his writing yet, given the density of his prose and the radical views h
  1 KB (169 words) - 03:42, 21 May 2019
• Sigmund Freud
  ...so suggested that [[William Little (English surgeon)|William Little]], the man who first [[identified]] [[cerebral palsy]], was wrong about [[lack]] of [[ ...ychology of [[Suggestion]]: A Research into the Subconscious [[Nature]] of Man and Society'' in 1898, followed by ten or more works over the next twenty
  78 KB (11,491 words) - 23:08, 20 May 2019
• Giorgio Agamben
  ...ship|citizen]] were revoked. He thus became a ''"[[homo sacer]]"'' (sacred man). In consequence, he could be killed by anybody -- while his life on the ot ...a simultaneous inclusion and exclusion of "bare life": as Aristotle says, man is an [[animal]] born to [[life]] (''zen''), but existing with [[regard]] t
  17 KB (2,688 words) - 08:36, 24 May 2019
• Hannah Arendt
  ...litical]] theorist because her [[work]] centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the [[world]]."
  5 KB (730 words) - 23:12, 24 May 2019
• Deconstruction
  ...xplored by [[others]], including [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]], [[Paul de Man]], [[Jonathan Culler]], [[Barbara Johnson]], [[J. Hillis Miller]], [[Jean-F ...the National Socialist [[German]] [[Workers]] Party ([[Nazi]]s), while de Man worked, during the German occupation of Belgium, as a writer for a collabor
  50 KB (7,273 words) - 21:41, 27 May 2019
• Frantz Fanon
  ...family background of African slaves, Tamil indentured servants and a white man. The family were relatively well off for Martinicans but far from a middle ...was a very personal account of Fanon’s [[experience]] being black: as a man, an intellectual, and a party to a French education.
  9 KB (1,388 words) - 12:25, 2 March 2021
• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...e first truly "Hitchcockian" film, incorporating such themes as the "wrong man". ...first film for the company, ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' (1934), was a success, while his second, ''[[The 39 S
  35 KB (5,516 words) - 17:58, 27 May 2019
• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...k. His [[father]], Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard, was a strongly religious man. Convinced that he had earned God's wrath, he believed that none of his [[ ...ds Mynster, but had come to see that his conception of Christianity was in man's interest, rather than God's, and in no way was Mynster's life comparable
  46 KB (7,030 words) - 00:20, 21 May 2019
• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...f guarding herself against the woman's retribution is harder than with the man; her efforts to placate and make reparation by restoring and using the peni ...s ''not'' wholly hemmed in. A woman is not [[split]] in the same way as a man; though [[alienated]], she is not altogether subject to the symbolic order.
  40 KB (6,616 words) - 20:49, 25 May 2019
• Logic of Sexuation
  If all men are [[subject]] to a law, one man escapes. ...to Lacan, women participate in a [[logic]] very different from that of the man.
  3 KB (493 words) - 01:12, 26 May 2019
• Femininity
  ...that women are defined negatively in relation to men; a [[woman]] is not a man and therefore [[lacks]] something that men have - a [[penis]]. Rather, wome
  3 KB (472 words) - 07:18, 24 May 2019

View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)