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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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