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...<ref>[http://www.humanthermodynamics.com/Freud.html Freud's Psycho Dynamic Theory and Thermodynamics] [1873-1923] - Institute of [[Human]] Thermodynamics</re ...uential in two related but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a [[theory]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how h

...as been some overlap between these disciplines. This has led to "critical theory" becoming an umbrella term for an array of theories within the academic [[w ==Critical theory (social theory)==

...nstructive reading is a reading which analyzes the specificity of a text's critical [[difference]] from itself." (Johnson, 1981). :"[Deconstruction] signifies a [[project]] of critical thought whose task is to locate and 'take apart' those concepts which serve

...always included in, is a part of, the framed [[content]]: in modernism, [[theory]] [[about]] the work is comprised in the work, the work is a kind of [[pree ...i.e. whose [[reality]] involves implicit reference to some psychoanalytic theory. Today, the "free [[associations]]" of a typical educated [[analysand]] con

..., which are considered [[contingent]], not merits.<ref>5. John Rawls, <i>A Theory of Justice</i>, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1971 (revised edition 1 ...ig city, society starts to break down; the film plays imaginatively with [[race]] relations, and our prejudicial attitudes toward strangers - as the public

...other religions – to a respectful, but for that reason no less ruthless, critical analysis? This, and only this, is the way to show a true respect for Muslim ...lds together a symbolic field. That is to say, for Lacan (at least for his theory of four discourses elaborated in late 1960s), human communication in its mo

...murder"). This is the central point of his [[Meta-ethics|meta-ethical]] [[theory]] that establishes Kant as an extreme [[moral objectivism|moral objectivist Although Kant was intensely critical of the use of examples as moral yardsticks, because they tend to rely on ou

For many, Jacques [[Lacan]] represents [[postmodern]] [[theory]] at its height--that ...[[work]] of Slavoj [[Zizek]], whose frenetic endorsements of [[Lacanian]] theory

...le' that is at once only one of the competing master-signifiers - class, [[race]], [[gender]] - and that antagonism to which every master-signifier is an a ...r on <i>[[The Psychoses]]</i>, in which he first begins to formulate his [[theory]] of the master-signifier, this is just what the [[psychotic]] is unable to

...]]. He is associated with what became known as the [[Frankfurt School]] of critical thinkers. ==Psychological theory==

[[Antonio Gramsci]] devised one of the best-known accounts of hegemony. His [[theory]] defined the [[State]] by a mixture of [[coercion]] and hegemony, between Recently, [[critical theory|critical theorists]] [[Ernesto Laclau]] and [[Chantal Mouffe]] have re-defined the t

...mental]] disorder; everything, from patriotism to religion to family-and [[race]]-loyally, is disqualified as a sign of a dangerous and defective "authorit ...<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom" border="0">and race<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom" border="0">loyal

== Theory == ...tualism]] (and its heir, the Development in Context or Human [[Ecology]] [[theory]] of [[Urie Bronfenbrenner]]), and especially the [[information processing]

...mental]] disorder; everything, from patriotism to religion to family-and [[race]]-loyally, is disqualified as a sign of a dangerous and defective "authorit ...of mental disorder; everything, from patriotism to religion to family-and race-loyally, is disqualified as a sign of a dangerous and defective "authoritar

...f [[work]] written by a loosely affiliated group of [[philosophers]] and [[critical theorists]]. Žižek's point of reference for this [[theory]] of the genealogy of the subject is the work of the [[German]] philosopher

...[[psychiatry]]. Therefore, in American [[film]] productions as well as in critical [[analyses]] of those [[films]], there has not always been a clear [[distin More recently we have seen a [[return]] to a more critical [[position]]. <i>Dressed to Kill</i> (Brian de Palma, 1980) involves an [[a

[[Film]] [[Theory]] and Criticism: 2. May [[1968]] and Beyond ...academic study in the postwar era and reflective of the huge shift in film theory and criticism that took [[place]] as a result of [[structuralist]]/semiotic

...economics has been singularly defined by its thorough engagement with, and critical revision of, the [[theoretical]] problems endemic to essentialist models of ...“elementary [[conceptual]] matrix”, Laclau argues that the Žižekian theory of economics ineluctably “returns to the nineteenth-century [[myth]] of a

* [[The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils]]. 8 January 2008. ''[http://www.lacan.com Lacan.com]''. <http:/ ...rance|A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)]]. ''Critical Inquiry''. Chicago: Winter 2006.Vol. 32, Iss. 2; pg. 226, 24 pgs.

* [[The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils]]. 8 January 2008. ''[http://www.lacan.com Lacan.com]''. <http:/ ...rsality (the universal capitalist order) without its symptoms, without its critical points in which its "repressed truth" articulates itself?<br><br>

* [[Books/Slavoj Zizek/Contemporary Marxist Theory|Contemporary Marxist Theory]] * [[Books/Slavoj Zizek/Slavoj Zizek A Critical Introduction|Slavoj Zizek A Critical Introduction]]

...text/books/slavoj-zizek/zizek-and-law/index.html Žižek and Law (Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers)]<br /> 2018, [../../../text/books/slavoj-zizek/does-the-in

...ribing itself in polls and consensus necessarily arouses the philosopher's critical suspicions. For philosophy, since Plato, means breaking with opinion polls. ...ative of democracy, since this romantic democracy immediately includes, in theory as well as in practice, its reversibility into dictatorship. You are dealin

To the extent that the century has contributed innovations to the theory of the subject, it has conceived the subject as a separation from self, as ...ted with the definition of great collectives of reference: the nation, the race, the West. We can call 'Stalinism' the substitution, pronounced on the basi

...herefore, can have no other cause than a moral predisposition in the human race. (CF 85) ...ychoanalysis|"The Seminar of Jacques Lacan'', book 2: ''The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954–1955"], trans. Sylvana Tomase

...effectively accomplished: there certainly is an entire stratum of Lacanian theory which corresponds to this reading; the easiest way to isolate this stratum ...lic subject of strategic reasoning, as exemplified in the "rational choice theory." For that reason, one is even tempted to replace the term "multiculturalis