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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
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• 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
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• 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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• Law
  This [[legal]]-[[linguistic]] [[structure]] is in fact no more and no less than the [[symbolic order]] itself.
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• Seminar XII
  ...dean) way of representing [[space]], for it seems to have two sides but in fact has only one. The two sides are distinguished by the [[dimension]] of [[tim
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• The psychoanalytic act
  here is the entrance into [[analysis]] and the fact of becoming an analyst, which are decisions and commitments.
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...d [[displacement]] in the production of [[dreams]]. The unconscious is the fact "that the subject is not the one who [[knows]] what he says. Whoever articu * Meno – showing that the slave knows but at the same time concealing the fact that he is a creator of this knowledge and appropriating the knowledge for
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...tinctual gratification, the anomaly of perversion in adults resides in the fact that their sexual practices are permanently and predominantly based on sati ...t in connection with sexual chemistry, largely speculative at the time. In fact, the problem remained without a solution in the 1905 edition; it would only
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...ce will marry her. While this is unlikely, it is not [[impossible]]. The fact that it is grounded in her wishes is what makes it an illusion.
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• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...ares that 'I' and 'you' are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact." ...c) concerning the "[[religious]] [[sensation]]" and the "simple and direct fact of the 'eternal' sensation (which may indeed not be eternal, but simply wit
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...ims that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian and bases this [[claim]] on the fact that the [[name]] "Moses" was Egyptian, as well as on certain consideration
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...oaches have been largely abandoned in favor of more comprehensive methods{{fact}}.
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• Seminar XX
  ...ver fail to be that one." From there on the [[paradox]] is established: in fact there is no other than phallic ''jouissance'' (such as orgasm, detumescen
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• Seminar XV
  ...dy knew that they existed. There is the entrance into [[analysis]] and the fact of becoming an [[analyst]], which are decisions and commitments. On the sid
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• Psychiatry
  ...influenced by beliefs rather than proven scientific observations. And the fact that the brain and mind are one makes the separation artificial anyway." <r ...in) use among school children in the U.S. has come under greater scrutiny{{fact}}. However this may be partly due to the shortage of child and adolescent p
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• Semiotics
  ...nes also recognise that the technical process cannot be separated from the fact that the receiver must [[decode (semiotics)|decode]] the data, i.e. be able ...anthology, Semiotics of Art. In his programmatic article "Art as Semiotic Fact" (1934)Jan Mukařovský established the semiotic framework for the study of
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• Eros
  ...idence for the existence of fusion of instinct. Its [[danger]] lies in the fact that it originates from the death instinct and corresponds to the part of t
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...is theories, however, and even gained a few direct opponents as a result,{{Fact|date=March 2007}} the most famous [[being]] [[Carl Jung]], who was original ...e 1980s that Freud's speculations were confirmed by more modern research.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
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• Linguistics
  ...his [[lack]] of conceptual rigour was simply due, [[Lacan]] argues, to the fact that [[linguistics|structural linguistics]] appeared too late for [[Freud]]
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• Complex
  ...n he realizes that he has siblings. The [[child]] must then cope with the fact that he is no longer the exclusive [[object]] of his [[parents]]' attention
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...ut this is not an [[essence]] nor properly a [[thing]]: ''It is the simple fact of one's own [[existence]] as possibility or potentiality...'' {{ref|Com}} ...ffect", "but this is not an essence nor properly a thing", but the "simple fact of one's own existence as possibility or potentiality". This "coming commun
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• Class/Antagonism
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• Hannah Arendt
  ...lf instead as a [[political]] theorist because her [[work]] centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the [[world]]."
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• Roland Barthes
  ...s the viewer’ (which he called the punctum), Barthes was troubled by the fact that such distinctions collapse when personal significance is communicated ...inkers who attempt to [[model]] themselves after what he wrote about. The fact that Barthes’ work was ever adapting and always refuting notions of [[sta
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• Judith Butler
  ...[Sexual Difference|sexual difference]]’ will mean” (''CHU'': 111). The fact that sexual difference is Real means that all [[signifiers]] of [[sexual id
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...which in turn draws on behaviorism. More serious reservations involve the fact that cognitivism, which is primarily concerned with understanding, has ofte In fact it is easy to show that Sigmund [[Freud]]'s early work clearly makes use of
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• Deconstruction
  ...etically about deconstruction tend to use an "idiosyncratic" (sometimes in fact imitative) style with numerous neologisms, a bent toward playfulness and ir :[Deconstruction] is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis' itself, which et
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...urity of the wholly Other remains inconsistent, since his [[discourse]] in fact requires the “contaminating” phenomenology he rejects (ibid.: 133). Der
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• Frantz Fanon
  ...sed in depth the effects on Algerians of torture by the French forces. The fact that some French anti-terrorist units engaged in torture has had political ...tic dismissals, with Fanon portrayed solely as an advocate of violence. In fact, his work is interdisciplinary, broadening out from his psychiatric basis t
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...[[want]] of me?" Burr might as well have been addressing the audience. In fact, shortly before asking this, Thorwald turns to face the camera directly for ...nd the Three Investigators]]'' scored several reprints and out of respect{{fact}}, the latter reprints were changed to just ''[[The Three Investigators]]''
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...itics such as the British political [[scientist]] Alan Hooper point to the fact that Brazil today has an especially unstable party [[system]], in which the ...periority in applying organized [[violence]]. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...out Regine was engaged to be married to [[Johan Frederik Schlegel]]. This fact affected Kierkegaard and his subsequent writings deeply. In ''[[Fear and T Levinas points to the fact that it was God who first commanded Abraham to sacrifice [[Isaac]] and that
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• Orders
  Yet the fact that the three terms have been linked together in a series raises the quest
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[symptoms]]. The unconscious is comparable in structure to a language. In fact, Lacan argues that language is the condition for the unconscious, that it c ...nce any signifier can receive [[signification]] retrospectively, after the fact, no signification is ever closed, ever [[satisfied]].11 Each word is only d
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...difficulty of [[understanding]] [[The Real|the real]] is partly due to the fact that it is not a '[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[ ...no longer the arbiter of its meaning. We should be alert therefore to the fact that there is something else going on in this text and we might consider it
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• Matheme
  ...ept the real of the [[impossible]] [[sexual]] relation, which, in point of fact, cannot be transcribed by any [[mathematical]] relation: 'This is why the m ...re is no such [[thing]] as an atom of knowledge in mathematics. This is in fact what J. A. [[Miller]] means when, talking [[about]] the mathème in the Rev
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• Politics
  ...liberals wring their hands over the current [[state]] of affairs while in fact benefiting under it and passively promoting it. ...oses it is that (like perversion) cynicism poses as subversive, whereas in fact it reinforces [[ideology]], since its imagianry distance from it is somethi
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...></tr><tr><td class="bodyp">Regarding Islam, we should look at history. In fact, I think it is very interesting in this regard to look at ex-Yugoslavia. Wh ...o say: 'We shouldn't resist, because violence never helps?' It is simply a fact that at some point you have to fight. You have to return violence with viol
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• Postmodernity
  In fact, all big breaks were done in such a way. [[Nietzsche]] was in this [[sense]
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• Violence
  ...o say: 'We shouldn't resist, because violence never helps?' It is simply a fact that at some point you have to fight. You have to [[return]] violence with ...it is a [[sign]] of the authenticity of the revolutionary process, of the fact that this process is effectively disturbing the existing [[power]] relation
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• War
  ...o say: 'We shouldn't resist, because violence never helps?' It is simply a fact that at some point you have to fight. You have to [[return]] violence with
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...[identity]], etc.). However, the hegemonic liberal democracy is using this fact to [[blackmail]] the Left radicals: "we shouldn't play with fire: against t ...[nature]]" is thoroughly undermined. However… the "however" concerns the fact that, in Materialism and Empiriocriticism, there is NO PLACE FOR DIALECTICS
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing with the Real, not just with empty plans — the Party ...symbolic]] coordinates which determine what we experience as reality). The fact that, after September 11, the opening of many "of the blockbuster" movies w
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  ...d for their own lives?" Is not the obverse of this surprise the rather sad fact that we, in the First World countries, find it more and more difficult even
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...after my beloved wife dies of the [[breast]] cancer, I try to repress this fact by throwing myself into hard work or vivacious social life, but then there
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...h distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[regard]] to Marx: he was not a member of ...hat a true Leninist and a political [[conservative]] have in common is the fact that they reject what one could call [[liberal]] Leftist "irresponsibility"
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...nowledge IS "knowledge in the Real" — the deadlock resides simply in the fact that scientific knowledge cannot serve as the SYMBOLIC "big Other." The gap ...l frustrations. Conspiracy theories, of course, are not to be accepted as "fact" - however, one should also not reduce them to the phenomenon of modern mas
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Let me go directly to the point: It is a well known fact that the close-the-door button in most elevators is a totally dysfunctional ...e suffocating [[character]] of the pagan universe resides precisely in the fact that in this universe the dimension of radical evil, that in it the balance
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...ble instruments to be ruthlessly exploited, is strictly correlative to the fact that the "subject of the enunciation" of the Moral Injunction, invisible in ...desire, i.e. the guilt sustained by the superego bears [[witness]] to the fact that the subject has somewhere betrayed or compromised his/her desire),9 th
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...red upon this object on account of its [[place]] within the structure. The fact that [[money]] enables us to buy things on the [[market]], is not a direct ...now this from the very outset). Even more crucial than this feature is the fact that not only do we, the spectators, know in advance who did it (since we d
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...Etrurian origin. It would be nice to find a nation, which would accept the fact that they are not the first but the second. This might be a part of the Jap ...versies in Ljubljana about your involvement in the governing party and the fact that you write speeches for them.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...he Phi and S(%), the signifier of the lack in the Other, i.e., the crucial fact that the Phi, the signifier of the phallic power, phallus in its fascinatin ...: S(%) stands for the impossibility of the signifier of the Other, for the fact that there is no "Other of Other", that the field of the Other is inherentl
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...illage to perform it for them, and the dance performed next morning did in fact match the description. [[Satisfied]], the expedition returned to civilisati
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• Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination?
  ...we look at the [[process]] backwards, from its [[contingent]] result, the fact that events took precisely this turn could not but appear as [[uncanny]], c
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...f the non-political 'corporate' functioning of the Japanese society is the fact that, although voices like that of Sue Sum are heard on their behalf, the b ...ersal]] of the sublime into the ridiculous was, of course, grounded in the fact that there was a double misunderstanding at work in the public (self)percep
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...which protects us from confronting the [[trauma]] of our finitude, of the fact that there our story has to end at some point — there is no ultimate irre ...erson, etc. Against this "multiple reality" talk, one should insist on the fact that the fantasmatic support of reality is in itself necessarily multiple a
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...rd towards its [[interpretation]]. The "modernism" of Joyce resides in the fact that his works, at least [[Ulysses]] and Finnegans Wake, are not simply [[e ...very [[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[rational]] [[reason]]
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  The fact that this phase "never had a real existence," of course, indexes the status ...ction. While this is true, this "truth" is propagated by me to conceal the fact that the accident realized my desire. On the contrary, the [[hysteric]] tel
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...nch Revolution. In this precise sense, an Event emerges ex nihilo. But the fact that it cannot be accounted for in the terms of the situation does not mean ...ltural products. The answer to the obvious counterargument (that this very fact proves we are dealing with a distorted view, not with the true state of thi
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...y not its "prime movers." In [[other]] words, what Rand "represses" is the fact that the rule of the crowd is the inherent outcome of the [[dynamic]] of ca
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  The fact of this "anonymous" violence also allows us to make a more general point ab
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...o the more rigorously we OBEY the Law, the more we bear [[witness]] to the fact that, deep in ourselves, we fell the pressure of the desire to indulge in s ...r in the modern condition renders this condition even more horrifying: the fact is that, in spite of all the horrors of [[gulag]] and [[holocaust]], from [
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...[[moment]] when the only legitimizing [[reason]] for Socialism was a mere fact that it [[exists]] . . . “ ...icly legitimizes its reign with the reference to some Higher Good, and the fact that, ultimately, “you have to obey because I say so” reverberates only
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ...] fact of [[Christ]]'s Crucifixion stands for the silent admission of this fact. In [[order]] fully to appreciate the uniqueness of the [[figure]] of Chris
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...ide [[lacks]] the [[material]] basis for communism, it will be harmful, in fact, I should say, fatal, for communism to do so." His recurrent motif is: "The ...eois regime (the universal provision of education and so on). However, the fact that the agent of [[development]] is proletarian revolutionary power change
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...deserved to be banned it was this one, and matters are not changed by the fact that its actual ban was for wrong and hateful reasons."<ref>Richard Taruski ...into the [[sciences]] is precluded. However… this "however" concerns the fact that, in Materialism and Empiricocriticism, there is no place for dialectic
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...t the American military [[intervention]] in Irak, was a displeasure at the fact that Schroeder did what a normal politician in a functioning [[democracy]] ...chose]] the second option… What makes the strategy efficient is the very fact that we cannot ever be sure that it will [[work]] perfectly: what if a [[si
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...ome consumerist goods… However, it is all too easy to [[slip]] from this fact to the [[notion]] that "under their skin, Iraqis are also like us, and real ...ts and Rightist nationalists, is thus ultimately the refusal to accept the fact that France itself is losing its hegemonic [[role]] in Europe. The leveling
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...does this affect the subversive edge of the femme fatale figure? Does the fact that her triumph is real not undermine her much stronger spectral/fantasmat ...e modern notion of [[finitude]]. What is so difficult to accept is not the fact that the true act - in which noumenal and phenomenal dimensions coincide -
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• You May
  ...he [[goal]] of profound self-realisation. What [[disappears]] is not "hard fact" but [[the Real]] of a traumatic [[encounter]] whose organising role in the ...nd my [[environment]] - why oppose cloning? Is it possible that they do in fact believe in the ability of genetics to reach the very core of our personalit
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...se, is that the observed difference is not simply "subjective," due to the fact that the same object which exists "out there" is seen from two different st ...elf, about a certain gap that is <i>stricto sensu</i> a fundamental social fact. The "tickling object" is here the absent Cause, the unfathomable X that un
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...cally conditioned limitation: "We must be [[content]] with what we can, in fact, comprehend at [[present]]. There is plenty that cannot be comprehended ye ...tices which are indifferent to this [[distinction]]. It is an interesting fact of historical dialectic that Buddhism which, originally, dispensed with all
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...e for a Holy Family in Islam.</i> This is why Islam emphasizes so much the fact that Muhammed himself was an orphan; this is why, in Islam, God intervenes ...hough Islam recognizes the Bible as a sacred [[text]], it has to deny this fact: in Islam, [[Jesus]] did not really die on the Cross: the Jews “said (in
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...it is a [[sign]] of the authenticity of the revolutionary process, of the fact that this process is effectively disturbing the existing power relations.
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• With or Without Passion
  ...of immanence. As the melodramatic wisdom puts it, it is love itself, the fact of being loved, that ultimately makes the beloved beautiful.<br><br> When theologians try to reconcile the existence of God with the fact of [[shoah]], their answers build a strange succession of Hegelian triads.
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• Move the Underground!
  ...estra.") This [[absent]] melody is to be reconstructed on the basis of the fact that the first and third levels (the [[right]] and the [[left]] hand piano ...uld simply be hushed up. (In the same way, let us not forget that the very fact that the US forces did not find weapons of mass [[destruction]] is a positi
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...acteristic of our [[times]]. What is a [[cultural]] life-style, if not the fact that, although we do not believe in Santa Claus, there is a Christmas tree ...an unwilling American public. The [[demand]] for decadence is there. That fact does not excuse those who sell such degraded [[material]] any more than the
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...andards should apply to all, Israelis included. From this standpoint, the fact that Arab Muslims continue to function as Europe's constitutive Other is pr
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• Opera
  The fact remains that the Bayreuth stagings (or, rather, the stagings of Wagner in g ...al</i>? And is not a negative proof of the [[hegemony]] of this stance the fact that true unconstrained consumption (in all its main forms: drugs, free sex
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...y the passage from Master's [[ethics]] to [[slave]] [[morality]], and this fact, perhaps, enables us a new approach to Nietzsche: when Nietzsche scornfully ...i>? And is not a [[negative]] proof of the [[hegemony]] of this stance the fact that [[true]] unconstrained consumption (in all its main forms: drugs, free
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...obvious electoral manipulations, and of the patent meaninglessness of the fact that a couple hundred of Florida voices will decide who will be the preside ...rhetorical twist, when the pro-war leaders are confronted with the brutal fact that their politics is out-of-tune with the majority of their population, t
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...en me and the other addressing me with the infinite call is the primordial fact, and 'I" should never lose my grounding in this irreducibly first-person re ...n</i> that we tend to forget the [[split]] signalled by the und, i.e., the fact that the relationship between the two is that of what [[Deleuze]] called "d
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...courage and proclaim the politically incorrect (but, nonetheless, obvious) fact that there is a deep strain of violence and intolerance in Islam — that, ...ef characteristic of our times: what is a "cultural life-style" if not the fact that, although we do not believe in Santa Claus, there is a Christmas tree
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...the [[lack]]/inconsistency/obstacle is supposed to bear [[witness]] of the fact that what we experience as reality is a fake - however, towards the end of
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...al respectability of apes and wolves. /The police romance/ is based on the fact that [[morality]] is the most dark and daring of conspiracies." ...ion..." Or: "Thou shalt not [[divorce]] - except when your [[marriage]] in fact breaks down, when it is experienced as an unbearable emotional burden that
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...out of nowhere and [[disappear]] back into the [[void]]. Furthermore, the fact that in <b>Vertigo</b> this episode remains unexplained opens up the tempta ...ocation of the central scene of <b>The Rear Window</b> is sustained by the fact that it was held in the same year that Hitchcock's film was shot (1954):
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...i>—what makes it so irresistibly delicious is the [[author]]'s matter-of-fact "[[English]]" skeptical style, far from the usual pathetic narratives of th ...top of a bus. Without [[words]] and (I think) almost without [[images]], a fact [[about]] myself was somehow presented to me. I became aware that I was hol
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...ou punish, and then you look for proofs of the crime... Not to mention the fact that this, precisely, was what before the war the UN weapons inspectors wer ...crimes, mostly towards their own people. However, one should note the key fact that, when the US representatives were enumerating Saddam's [[evil]] deeds,
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...nts, of course, confirms precisely what it endeavors to deny: that you, in fact, did borrow and break the kettle. ...]], to bring peace and prosperity, and look what we get in [[return]]." In fact, movies such as John Ford's The Searchers and Martin Scorsese's Taxi [[Driv
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...ou punish, and then you look for proofs of the crime... Not to mention the fact that this, precisely, was what before the war the UN weapons inspectors wer ...to act as a [[Nation]]-State, ruthlessly pursuing its interests. And this fact also provides the background that the above-mentioned inconsistent argument
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• What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
  ...n” [[regime]], the case would simply be hushed up. (In the same way, the fact that U.S. forces did not find weapons of mass [[destruction]] is a positive
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...standards of what constitutes the violation of [[human rights]], etc. The fact that the situation appears catastrophic is thus in itself a positive [[sign ...iated from art by [[nothing]] more than an invisible, formal gap. The very fact that, in historical documentaries, movie shots from this reconstruction (as
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...ts own [[impasse]]: the movement of stars is in itself meaningless, just a fact of [[nature]] with no [[libidinal]] resonance, so why did [[people]] transl ...s repressed [[content]] articulates itself - the proof of it [[being]] the fact that the Hamlet matrix is found everywhere in pre-Classic mythology, up to
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...in a post-[[ideological]] era" has any [[sense]], it is here. Is this sad fact that the opposition to the [[system]] cannot articulate itself in the guise ...[[difference]] (their effort to preserve their identity), but the opposite fact that the fundamentalists are already like us, that they secretly already in
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...balization: the “global informational village” is the condition of the fact that something that took place in an obscure daily in Denmark caused such a ...cultural gap between the secular West and the Muslim countries, i.e., the fact that Islam fundamentalists find unbearable any playful-ironic reference to
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• Lenin Shot at Finland Station
  ...dimension shines through, that of [[universal emancipation]], which is in fact the ‘[[excess]]’ betrayed by the [[market]] [[reality]] that takes over
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...for his crimes. But for the [[Nazi]]s the [[guilt]] of the [[Jew]]s was a fact of their [[biological]] constitution: there was no need to prove they were ...id ‘hail himself’ when he joined others in the applause. Consider the fact that, on [[Stalin]]’s birthday, prisoners would send him congratulatory t
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...each one of us a <i>Wissenstrieb</i>, a '[[drive]] to know', there is, in fact, the opposite. Every advance in [[knowledge]] has to be earned by a painful ...is related to levels of serotonin in the brain,' our [[awareness]] of this fact must undermine the sense of dignity that comes from being recognised by oth
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• Knee-Deep
  ...al dynamics of capitalism? Is the strange turn in China not to do with the fact that it is a Communist state which has fully endorsed a [[capitalist]] econ ...new global [[empire]], but that it isn't one, though it pretends to be. In fact, the US continues to act as a [[nation]]-state, ruthlessly pursuing its own
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...which reality could be measured.</p><p>Havel seems now to be blind to the fact that his own opposition to Communism was rendered possible by the utopian [
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• Are We in a War
  ...he invisible Enemy. Far from suspending the binary logic Friend/Enemy, the fact that the Enemy is defined as the fundamentalist opponent of pluralistic [[t
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• Revolution
  ...it is a [[sign]] of the authenticity of the revolutionary process, of the fact that this process is effectively disturbing the existing [[power]] relation
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• Seminar VII
  ...guage and outside the unconscious. "The [[Thing]] is characterized by the fact that it is [[impossible]] for us to imagine it."
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• Oedipus complex
  ...ame sex and a [[hatred]] towards the parent of the opposite sex. In actual fact, a so-called 'normal' Oedipus complex consists of both positive and negativ <!-- the fact that a girl does not hav emale genitals is therefore the result of her cast
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• Master
  ...of the [[master]] and the [[master|slave]] is the inevitable result of the fact that [[human]] [[desire]] is the [[desire]] for [[recognition]]. In [[orde ...recognizes the victor as his "[[master]]" and becomes his "[[slave]]". In fact, [[human]] [[society]] is only possible because some [[human]] [[being]]s a
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• Nature
  The regulation of kinship by the [[incest]] [[taboo]] points to the fact that the [[Name-of-the-Father|paternal function]] is at the heart of the ri
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• Dream
  ...hich have been rejected or broken off during the day. I have based on this fact the theory of 'hysterical counter-will' which embraces a [[good]] [[number]
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• Castration
  ...o the fact that the woman does not have a penis and the assumption of this fact is a constant in nearly all of the accounts of Freud's cases. The [[notion] ...back to their origins in Freud. This reorientation of Lacan is due to the fact that by the 1950s many analysts had moved away from any reference to the ca
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• Lure
  ...re not the only [[animal]]s who are capable of setting [[lure]]s, and this fact is sometimes used to argue in favor of the [[existence]] of "[[lure|animal ...]] [[animal]]s are incapable of this special kind of [[lure]] owing to the fact that they do not possess [[language]].
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• Surrealism
  ...edical journals he was also contributing to surrealist reviews; it was, in fact, in surrealist circles that his doctoral thesis on paranoia received its mo hypothesises that the phenomenon is in fact a kind of insectoid [[psychosis]]. He argues that the life of any organism
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• Penis-envy
  ...a great expenditure of [[mental]] [[energy]]. That the girl recognizes the fact that she [[lacks]] a penis, does not mean that she accepts its [[absence]]
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• Need
  ...auses a '''[[split]]''' between [[need]] and '''[[demand]]'''; this is the fact that every '''[[demand]]''' is not only an articulation of [[need]] but als This account presents in [[chronological]] terms what is in fact a question of [[structure]]. In [[truth]], it is not the [[case]] that the
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• International Psycho-Analytical Association
  ...rton, 1990]. p. 27</ref>), and attributed this [[betrayal]] largely to the fact that the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association|IPA]] was dominated
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• Love beyond Law
  ...by way of positing itself as its own cause, the subject fully assumes the fact that meaning - i.e., the fact that within the Lacanian conceptual edifice, 'love beyond
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...ration of intent to act immorally is inconsistent with [[free will]]. The fact that one has acted immorally in the [[past]] would not release him or her f
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• Two Deaths
  The fact that for [[Zizek]] the apparently all-inclusive [[whole]] of [[life]] and [
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• Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves
  However, even if there is an element of [[truth]] in all this, the very fact that the No was not sustained by a coherent alternative political [[vision] For in fact, there was a positive choice in the No: the choice of the choice itself, th
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• Beloved
  ...aracter [[looking]] to wreak revenge on Sethe for killing her, despite the fact that the [[murder]] was an entirely loving act. Sethe's [[guilt]] at Belove ...ion]]" with this account. The novel itself can be seen as the reworking of fact into something with a very emotional central [[message]]. [[History]] is wo
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• Richard Wagner
  The surprising fact is how similar these two versions are, in spite of their [[difference]]: Sy
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• Parallax View
  ...lly mediated-reconciled - the "synthesis" of the two dimensions (i.e., the fact that our Reason seems to fit the structure of external reality that affects ...ing of intense bodily pain returns us back to reality, but, rather, to the fact that cutting oneself is a form of making a mark: when I make a cut into my
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• Parallax
  ...hat the observed [[difference]] is not simply "[[subjective]]," due to the fact that the same object which [[exists]] "out there" is seen from two differen
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• Gap
  ...he fundamental rupture between [[man]] and [[nature]], which is due to the fact that "in man, [[the imaginary]] relation has deviated, in so far as that is
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• Francis Scott Fitzgerald
  ...y]] itself, about a certain gap that is stricto sensu a fundamental social fact. The "tickling [[object]]" is here the [[absent]] [[Cause]], the unfathomab
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• Seduction
  ...y not intelligible without an explanation. . . . Then came surprise at the fact that in every [[case]] the [[father]], not excluding my own [a phrase long ...w Foundations for Psychoanalysis, Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1989.</ref> The fact of seduction is thus that of the Kantian transcendental X, a structurally-n
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• René Descartes
  ...iously then we must reverse Descartes' formulation thus: 'By virtue of the fact that I doubt, I am sure that I think' (1979 [1973]: 35). The certainty of c
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...and caring friends? As [[Arendt]] knew, far from redeeming them, the very fact that they are able to retain their normality while committing such acts is ...problematic about “[[24]]” is not the [[message]] it conveys, but the fact that this message is so openly stated. It is a sad indication of the deep
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...ostly toward its own people. However, one should note the strange but key fact that, when the U.S. representatives were enumerating Saddam’s [[evil]] de As to Iran and nukes, the surprising fact is that the [[MAD]] logic still operates today: Why hasn’t the tension be
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  However, even if there is an element of [[truth]] in all this, the very fact that the No was not sustained by a coherent alternative political [[vision] For in fact, there <i>was</i> a positive choice in the No: the choice of the choice its
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• The Pope's Failures
  ...] was to liberate, not to legislate. … It is simply self-evident that in fact some marriages do break down, that commitments are abandoned, that promises ...otions. “Thou shalt not divorce — except when your [[marriage]] ‘in fact’ breaks down, when it is experienced as a unbearable emotional burden tha
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...least the [[past]] [[three]] decades, what Zakaria [[demands]] is already fact. What we [[experience]] today are acrimonious splits over [[ideological]]
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• The Desert of the Real
  sad fact that we, in the First World countries, find it more and
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...[[act]]s. Instead, one should gather the courage to recognize the obvious fact that there is a deep strain of [[violence]] and in[[tolerance]] in [[Islam]
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  ...erendum about the building of a mosque in [[Ljubljana]] is sad enough; the fact that the majority of the population thinks that one should not allow the mo
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...And doesn’t [[China]]’s strange [[economic]] [[dynamic]] stem from the fact that it is a [[Communist]] state that fully endorses [[capitalist]] [[econo
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...s. The ultimate proof of this [[secularism|secular]] nature is the ironic fact that, in the Iraqi elections of October 2002, in which [[Saddam Hussein]] g
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...oes the same not go for the soda drinks: Coke or Pepsi? It is a well-known fact that the “Close the door” button in most elevators is a totally disfunc
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• Catastrophes Real and Imagined
  ...s be destroyed) had a fatal flaw: What if the attacking side counts on the fact that, even after its first strike, the opponent continues to act as a ratio But what makes MAD efficient is the very fact that we cannot ever be sure that it will [[work]] perfectly. What if a [[si
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...e of obvious electoral manipulations and the patent meaninglessness of the fact that several hundred votes in Florida decided who would be president of the
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...ld thus act as a first step toward "liberation." It confronts us with the fact that the [[cause]] of our suffering is not objective reality — there is n
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...an unwilling American public. The [[demand]] for decadence is there. That fact does not excuse those who sell such degraded [[material]] any more than the
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• Anxiety: Kierkegaard with Lacan
  ...o the more rigorously we OBEY the Law, the more we bear [[witness]] to the fact that, deep in ourselves, we fell the pressure of the desire to indulge in s
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• The Constitution is Dead - Long Live Proper Politics
  However, even if there is an element of truth in all this, the very fact that the no in both countries was not sustained by a coherent alternative p
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• A Cup of Decaf Reality
  ...pation. And is not a negative proof of the [[hegemony]] of this stance the fact that true unconstrained consumption (in all its main forms: drugs, free sex
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please
  ...ld [[claim]] that the so-called [[threat]] of the new media resides in the fact that they deprive us of our [[passivity]], of our authentic passive [[exper
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...the space is now open for struggle.&nbsp; It's this nice paradox that the fact that the big thing happened does not mean it's over.&nbsp; It precisely ope ...situation for women was bad, but [rather] that they just accepted it as a fact.&nbsp; Even in revolution it goes like this.&nbsp; If you look at the Frenc
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• Hooray for Bush!
  ...': in spite of obvious electoral manipulation, and of the absurdity of the fact that a couple of hundred votes in Florida decided who would be president, t
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...courage and proclaim the politically incorrect (but, nonetheless, obvious) fact that there is a deep strain of violence and intolerance in Islam — that, ...ef characteristic of our times: what is a "cultural life-style" if not the fact that, although we do not believe in Santa Claus, there is a Christmas tree
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• Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
  effect of the fact that du Maurier's narratives directly, all too directly, [[stage]] the [[fa ...antasizes about being raped, this only bears [[witness]] to the deplorable fact that
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? Under the [[Bush] ...lief as faith versus knowledge as [[objective]], scientifically verifiable fact?<br><br>
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...ou punish, and then you look for proofs of the crime... Not to mention the fact that this, precisely, was what before the war the UN weapons inspectors wer ...crimes, mostly towards their own people. However, one should note the key fact that, when the US representatives were enumerating Saddam's [[evil]] deeds,
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...y the passage from Master's [[ethics]] to [[slave]] [[morality]], and this fact, perhaps, enables us a new approach to Nietzsche: when Nietzsche scornfully ...i>? And is not a [[negative]] proof of the [[hegemony]] of this stance the fact that [[true]] unconstrained consumption (in all its main forms: drugs, free
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• The Desert and the Real
  ...d for their own lives?" Is not the obverse of this surprise the rather sad fact that we, in the First World countries, find it more and more difficult even
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  In fact, all big breaks were done in such a way. Nietzsche was in this sense a cons Regarding [[Islam]], we should look at history. In fact, I think it is very interesting in this [[regard]] to look at ex-[[Yugoslav
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...h distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[regard]] to Marx: he was not a member of ...hat a true Leninist and a political [[conservative]] have in common is the fact that they reject what one could call [[liberal]] Leftist "irresponsibility"
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  Plain to see, in fact, is the structural role of the populist Right in the legitimation of curren ...are somehow contributing to the speed of the elevator journey - whereas in fact, when we push this button, the door closes in exactly the same time as when
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...pretext for his loud monologue... So what is so thoroughly false here? The fact that the scene presents a (psychologically) [[impossible]] [[position]] of ...him to stay. Of course, the tension of the [[situation]] is created by the fact that we, the spectators, are well aware that the father's offer to go home
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  What better proof of the fact that this Thing comes from Inner Space than the very first [[scene]] of <i> ...nce-fiction rules to enact in reality itself, to [[present]] as a material fact, the notion that woman merely materializes a [[male]] [[fantasy]]: the [[tr
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• You May!
  ...he [[goal]] of profound self-realisation. What [[disappears]] is not "hard fact" but [[the Real]] of a traumatic [[encounter]] whose organising role in the ...nd my [[environment]] - why oppose cloning? Is it possible that they do in fact believe in the ability of genetics to reach the very core of our personalit
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...knowledge IS "knowledge in the Real" - the deadlock resides simply in the fact that scientific knowledge cannot serve as the SYMBOLIC "big Other." The gap ...l frustrations. Conspiracy theories, of course, are not to be accepted as "fact" - however, one should also not reduce them to the phenomenon of modern mas
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  And there is a kind of poetic justice in the fact that the West finally intervened apropos of Kosovo - let us not forget that ...of trying to achieve a well-defined goal, rather bears [[witness]] to the fact that there is no such goal, that the [[agent]] is caught in a web of confli
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...nch Revolution. In this precise sense, an Event emerges ex nihilo. But the fact that it cannot be accounted for in the terms of the situation does not mean ...ltural products. The answer to the obvious counterargument (that this very fact proves we are dealing with a distorted view, not with the true state of thi
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...unconscious wish, but, as Freud emphasizes again and again, a prehistoric fact which "really had to occur", to allow the passage from [[animal]] [[state]] ...another name for the gap between [[the big Other]] and jouissance, for the fact that the two can never be "synchronized." One can also see in what precise
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• Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
  The fact that this phase "never had a real existence," of course, indexes the status ...ction. While this is true, this "truth" is propagated by me to conceal the fact that the accident realized my desire. On the contrary, the [[hysteric]] "te
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...Etrurian origin. It would be nice to find a nation, which would accept the fact that they are not the first but the second. This might be a part of the Jap ...ies in [[Ljubljana]] about your involvement in the governing party and the fact that you write speeches for them.
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
  The fact of this "anonymous" violence also allows us to make a more general point ab
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  the governing party and the fact that you write speeches for [[them]]. emphasized the fact that after a [[phase]] of introduction, the [[seduction]] of the new
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• Why Does A Letter Always Arrive At Its Destination?
  ...we look at the [[process]] backwards, from its [[contingent]] result, the fact that events took precisely this turn could not but appear as [[uncanny]], c
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...his affect the subversive edge of the <i>femme fatale</i> figure? Does the fact that her triumph is real not undermine her much stronger spectral/fantasmat ...e modern notion of [[finitude]]. What is so difficult to accept is not the fact that the true act - in which noumenal and phenomenal dimensions coincide -
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...he invisible Enemy. Far from suspending the binary logic Friend/Enemy, the fact that the Enemy is defined as the fundamentalist opponent of pluralistic [[t
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...h distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[regard]] to Marx: he was not a member of ...hat a true Leninist and a political [[conservative]] have in common is the fact that they reject what one could call [[liberal]] Leftist "irresponsibility"
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• Democracy
  ...to cover over the [[lack]] in our [[big Other]] or [[symbolic order]]: the fact that our regime, nation or [[community]] does not [[exist]] as a fully cohe
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• The Future of an Illusion
  ...ce will marry her. While this is unlikely, it is not [[impossible]]. The fact that it is grounded in her wishes is what makes it an illusion.
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• Anarchy
  ...t, along Foucauldian lines, the State functions as a way of disguising the fact that power has already colonized the subject ([[Foucault]], 1980, p 116). T ...slave - in which opposition to authority is a kind of game that hides the fact that revolutionary subjectivity and desire are actually dependent on this v
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• Civilization
  The cunning lies in the fact that humanity creates civilization by transforming and sublimating individu They are betrayed, however, by the fact that men sublimate to their detriment.
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• Transgression
  ...[[notion]] of transgression entered [[psychoanalysis]] only gradually. In fact, the [[word]] already had a well-established [[meaning]] in ethnology, a [[ In fact, it is with the advent of the superego that the problem of transgression re
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• Illusion
  In fact the only [[ideal]] he [[defends]] is that of [[truth]].
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• Historicism
  ...and yet at the same time can [[construct]] for itself an inward world." {{fact}}
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...praised Lacan. The two men had not yet met—and that would not occur, in fact, until the beginning of December 1963, as these letters and Althusser's dia ...o the point of disconcerting some) to the pure act of saying—to the sole fact of having said (they are the ones who express themselves like that).
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...t]] (in its guise as the self-[[transparent]] [[thinking]] subject) is, in fact, a misnomer that fails to acknowledge the cogito's constitutive [[moment]]
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...I would become a philosopher. But then it took some time." About a year in fact, before the wave of French thinking associated with the late Sixties hit a Otherwise, he tells me this in a notably matter of fact [[voice]], as if surprised by my interest. This is not reluctance on his pa
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...e]] [[Object]] of [[Ideology]]</i> (Verso, 1989), may owe something to the fact that it off ers an alternative to two entrenched and antithetical bodies of
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...used to dismiss IN A RACIST WAY the other as a racist. Not to mention the fact that this kind of "tolerance" is as a rule patronizing. Its respect for the
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  this political indifference signals the fact that although they appear ...="arial" size="-1"><b>CH:</b> <i>The "democratic resistance" in Serbia, in fact, is also
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...or the theft/sabotage of social harmony - thereby concealing the traumatic fact that social harmony never existed and that it is an inherent impossibility ...el about Zizek's universalism is that it would not attempt to conceal this fact or to reduce the status of the abject Other to that of a "glitch" in an oth
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ment about how it is possible to put the pieces of the jigsaw together. In fact, it is precisely because of the deadlock that Zizek arrives at in his rende In fact, Zizek's relationship to the psychoanalytic community, which he proudly cha
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...size="3">The [[dialectical]] paradox [of 'radical democracy'] lies in the fact that the particular struggle playing a hegemonic role, far from enforcing a ...mpaniment to the first, but after a while we realize that this first is in fact the accompaniment to the second, which as it were 'descends 'from above' (T
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...ntext of the English-speaking reception of Continental philosophy, were in fact the outcome of a larger body of work done by Zizek and a group of like-mind ...', in which the problem was not the direct imposition of ideology, but the fact that the old regime did not appear to take its own ideology seriously, and
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...y a kind of [[paralysis]], unable to [[suggest]] any meaningful action? In fact, this exact criticism, often coming from the perspective of a pseudo-[[ethi ...ether to enter [[society]] or not—which, although it appears free, is in fact forced because the only alternative to it is psychosis—so in his politica
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• Literature
  ...eater than the interests of historians in the same conceptions despite the fact that such theories can be as easily applied to historical phenomena as to l ...es between literature, literary criticism, and psychoanalysis has been the fact that some [[figures]] have been able to [[master]] all three. The protean w
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• Seduction theory
  ...or of the [[thesis]] that what appear to be memories of 'seduction' are in fact [[fantasies]] related to the [[Oedipus complex]] and that they are an expre
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• Guilt
  ...[[thoughts]] and attitudes in [[order]] to regain self-esteem. What is in fact a deficiency of the superego is largely manifested as self-destructive [[re
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• Interpellation
  ...by a police officer - 'Hey, you there!' - and turns round to recognize the fact that he is being addressed.
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• Luce Irigaray
  ...ssing how society’s two [[gender]] [[categories]], man and woman, are in fact just one, man, as he is made the [[universal]] [[referent]].
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• Uncanny
  ...]] claims that the seeming antonyms ''heimlich'' and ''unheimlich'' are in fact synonyms adn that they prove that [[primitive]] elements still survive in t
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...nancing and helping them to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan? Why was this fact quoted as an argument against attacking them? Would it not be much more [[l ...red by the failure to establish [[liberal]] [[democracy]], the gap between fact and [[ideal]] [[essence]] does not show up only in ... so-called [[primitiv
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? ...s, gymnastics, thousands of bodies. I'm very sorry, but it's an historical fact that the [[Nazis]] took these forms from the [[Social]] [[Democrats]]. Orig
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...ly those assumptions that have already proven their value by virtue of the fact that language through them has attained the status of an object of scientif For it is by virtue of this fact that linguistics is seen to occupy the key position in this domain, and the
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• The Freudian Thing
  ...]]. He gave an account of the paper in Seminaire III (30). Then, after the fact, he wrote it for the E.P. and later, in 1966, he revised the [[text]] again
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• Kant with Sade
  But beyond the fact that, if there is something to which the deduction of the ''Critique'' has ...nstitutes the pleasure proper to [773] desire. And let us come back to the fact that desire is not subject, in that it cannot be indicated anywhere in a si
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• From The Function of the Veil
  ...op for a [[moment]] at this intermediate [[position]] which amounts to the fact that what is loved within the [[object]] of [[love]] is something which is ...all sorts of things be clarified beginning with, up to, and including the fact that Freud gives us as the first example of an analysis of fetishism this m
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• Tuché and Automaton
  What is repeated, in fact, is always something that occurs -the expression tells us quite a lot about ...e. Our experience then presents us with a problem, which derives from the fact that, at the very heart of the primary processes, we see preserved the insi
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...cted his sadism, sees it coming back from these objects, and, by this very fact, finds himself jammed up by an anxious [[fear]], don't you have the [[feeli ...motor [[consciousness]] of the ego.</u> <i>I shall entirely disregard the fact that the [[mental]] [[apparatus]] with which we are here concerned is also
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• Desire, Life and Death
  <dl><dd>The fact that Oedipus is the patronymic hero of the Oedipus [[complex]] isn't a coin ...n from the start, and unfolds [[right]] up to its final end, including the fact that Oedipus assumes it through his own [[action]]. I, he says, <i>have not
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...e secret message that the [[Jewish]] [[people]] bears by [[reason]] of the fact that, by assassinating Moses, it reenactod the archaic [[murder]] of the fa ...alibi for the crisis of confidence in their [[faith]]. It is a paradoxical fact, which hadn't occurred before in [[history]], that the torch of Akhenaton f
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  </dd><dd>It is, therefore, not a bad [[idea]] to expose the fact that something may degenerate from the expectation of assurance - which is ...unnoticed by the finest minds and even more so by the masses - I mean the fact we call the [[death]] of God.<p>
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• Antigone Between Two Deaths
  ...tation for everything in life that is refused her.</u> She even evokes the fact that she will never know a conjugal bed, the bond of marriage, that she wil ...and be linked to the desire of the [[mother]]? The [[text]] alludes to the fact that the desire of the mother is the origin of everything. The desire of th
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  image is par excellence the natural representation of the word as a fact of<br> the arbitrariness of the sign. In fact, every means of expression used<br>
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• The Anamorphosis
  ...st'-in the sense one speaks of 'resist' in the dying of material-marks the fact of consciousness in Freud's very discourse.</p><p> ...nception of the Psychical development as elucidated by psychoanalysis, the fact of the tycliic is central. It is in relation to the eye, in relation to th
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• Italian Note
  ...utes by rejecting with the old moons a first formulation. There is of this fact no progress which is notable fault of knowing the continuation of it. There
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• Action
  ...l-motor [[activity]], a "trial activity" involving representations, was in fact familiar to a [[number]] of authors at the beginning of the twentieth centu
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• Aliénation
  ...]] one of [[ignorance]], [[denial]] and [[narcissistic]] alienation is the fact of ego. <ref>{{L}} (1957) "[[La psychanalyse et son enseignement]]." ''[[É <blockquote>Alienation is the fact of the subject. <ref>{{L}} (1960, 1964) "[[Position de l'inconscient ''au c
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• Cure
  ...ompared to a formulation of Freud's that is similar only if we neglect the fact that it involves the question of symptomatic [[suffering]] and not "cure."
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• Frustration
  ...is soon completely overshadowed by its [[symbolic]] function, namely, the fact that it functions as a [[symbol]] of the [[mother]]'s [[love]].<ref>{{S4}}
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• Infans
  ...l Journal of [[Psychoanalysis]]</i> in 1960. He explicitly referred to the fact that the infant does not yet have the use of [[verbal]] [[symbols]] or [[wo
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• Aimée, Case of
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• Death and Psychoanalysis
  ...rst refers to the make-up of the unconscious [[system]] and especially the fact that it ignores [[time]] and its passage, and more radically, [[negation]]. ...considered it to be the root not of the representation of death but of the fact that the [[disturbance]] caused by it might have led men to [[think]]: "Wha
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• Defense
  ...enough grounds for re-introducing the old concept of defence" (p. 164). In fact, Freud had never entirely abandoned the term, since he discussed the [[deni
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• Deprivation
  ...isocial act and the accompanying [[feeling]] of hopeful [[suffering]]. "In fact," he writes, "deprivation does not deform the organization of the ego as in
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• Death Instinct
  ...inds expression in the pleasure principle; and our [[recognition]] of this fact is one of our strongest reasons for believing in the [[existence]] of death ...idence for the existence of fusion of instinct. Its [[danger]] lies in the fact that it originates from the death instinct and corresponds to the part of t
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• Cruelty
  ...the object's [[tolerance]] of the subject's drive-based egoism varies. In fact, some parents and spouses are better able than [[others]] to tolerate narci
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• Helplessness
  ...|human infant]] is grounded in its "'''[[prematurity]]'''" of [[birth]], a fact which was pointed out by [[Freud]] and which [[Lacan]] takes up in his [[Ja ...]]'''. [[Lacan]]'s originality lies in the way he draws attention to "the fact that this dependence is maintained by a [[world]] of [[language]].<ref>{{E}
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• Inferiority
  <blockquote>As a matter of fact the phrase "inferiority-[[complex]]" is hardly ever used in [[psycho]]-[[an
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• Interpretation
  ...to recognize the [[existence]] of "[[symbolism]]" in [[dreams]] (i.e. the fact that there are some [[images]] which have fixed [[universal]] [[meanings]] Other [[analyst]]s before [[Lacan]] had recognized the problems caused by the fact that [[patient]]s were increasingly knowledgable of [[psychoanalytic theory
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• Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
  ...ams, these mechanisms are unconscious and can only be determined after the fact. But to these mechanisms Freud adds the element of [[meaning]], that is, th ...resence]] of a [[third]] party. The activity is further complicated by the fact that group as well as [[individual]] dynamics are at play: "Why are we driv
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• Latent Dream Thoughts
  ...s expression, always used in the plural, was never precisely described. In fact, however, the context of its use made it quite clear that it connoted repre
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• Law of the Father
  ...it serves as a [[principle]] of differentiation and [[separation]], is in fact the law of [[language]] and a sine qua non for the [[existence]] of desire.
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• Lay Analysis
  ...s of such a solution for the [[cohesion]] of the association, which was in fact on the verge of collapse over this issue and, some time later, over problem
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• Libidinal Stage
  ...and precise [[order]] of the stages. It is [[impossible]] to overstate the fact that for [[psychoanalysis]] no strict sequencing is required: "The temporal ...one another [or] be [[present]] alongside one another" (1940a, p. 155). In fact, the chief benefit of the theory of stages is that it helps us to [[constru
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• Kantianism and Psychoanalysis
  ...ometimes [[need]] to be differentiated. Just as important, however, is the fact that psychoanalysis can be considered an avatar of [[Kantianism]], if not o
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• Knot
  ...al]] loops become letters (in the [[form]] of polynomials). This marks the fact that the knot originates in the lost [[letter]].
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• Wish-Fulfillment
  ...ve that a dream is the fulfilment of a wish" (1900a, pp. 118-119, 121). In fact, four months before his dream of injecting Irma, in his correspondence with
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• Word-Presentation
  ...[[apparatus]] to be accessible at all [[times]] to the thought process. In fact, the impartiality of language makes it possible for the [[demands]] of the ...ever, he proposed a more restricted view, arguing that language did not in fact constitute the preconscious, though it was an important feature of it. He t
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• Weltanschauung
  ..., the fulfillment of which is relegated to the future." (pp. 158-159). The fact was that the notion of <i>Weltanschauung</i> usefully supplemented that of ...uman]] intellectual [[activity]] to be of equal [[value]]: "It is simply a fact that the truth cannot be tolerant, that it admits of no compromises or limi
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• Parricide
  ...hild's two [[primal]] wishes. The institution of a [[prohibition]] hid the fact that those who punished transgression harbor the same desire as the transgr ...uffer from a sense of guilt. Such guilt may predate the crime, which is in fact perpetrated as a way of seeking [[punishment]]. This [[claim]] was clinical
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• Negative Transference
  ...ent]]'s expressing hostile [[feelings]] towards the analyst—which may in fact be helpful to the treatment—but rather negative feelings toward the perso
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• Memory
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• Oceanic Feeling
  ...y Scripture, any hope for personal salvation, etc.—the simple and direct fact of a feeling of 'the eternal' (which may very well not be eternal, but simp
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• Omnipotence of Thoughts
  ...highly intelligent man who suffered from obsessional ideas," (p. 85)—in fact, the "Rat Man" (1909d). That it was a question..
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• Passion
  ..., he goes on to point out that this [[apparent]] abandonment to love is in fact a [[demand]] without any basis in [[reality]]. Those [[patients]] "would li
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• Mourning
  ...eud's own mourning preceded by far the greater part of his written work, a fact that reminds us not to confuse the [[psychic]] work of mourning with any ki ...t means confining all [[cathexis]] to the [[internal]] world. There are in fact few tasks more engrossing than taking stock of what will never again exist.
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• Primal Scene
  ...d feels in response. The [[particularity]] of the primal scene lies in the fact that the subject experiences in a simultaneous and contradictory way the em
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• Psychic Temporality
  ...rality]]" does not appear as such in the writings of Sigmund [[Freud]]. In fact, it is difficult to conceive of any [[other]] kind of temporality than psyc
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• The Question of Lay Analysis
  ...Tandler, the Viennese city councilor for [[welfare]], with whom he had in fact discussed the Reik [[case]].
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• Reality Testing
  ...ferentiating internal and external realities. This process is based on the fact that external reality resists fantasized [[destruction]] and is not destroy
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• Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
  This required that [[forgetting]], a psychic fact that had been previously [[thought]] to be negligible, be reconsidered in a
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• Screen Memory
  ...pseudos, was in effect a screen memory serving to negate the unacceptable fact of the [[traumatic]] [[seduction]] of a [[child]] by an [[adult]], the memo ...nslated back . . . at a later date" (p. 321). "The [[recognition]] of this fact must diminish the [[distinction]] we have drawn between screen memories and
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• Stage
  ...r "positions" rather than stages, because these alternatives emphasize the fact that what are referred to here are moments in [[psychosexual]] [[developmen
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• Substitutive Formation
  ...r "[[substitutive]] formation" refers to the [[psyche]]'s replacement of a fact or [[mental]] [[object]] through [[unconscious]] chains of [[association]].
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• Subject's Desire
  ...tally lost [[object]]. Thus for Freud, any [[search]] for an object is, in fact, an attempt to refind it. For Lacan, however, the [[object of desire]] is l
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• Symbolization
  ...ssion from the time of [[being]] to, as Freud himself said, only after the fact, the time of having. Beneath these abstractions, at a more [[concrete]] lev
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• Totem and Tabbo
  ...of the Soul and its [[Symbols]]'' (1912), is mentioned, and their break in fact occurred while the book was [[being]] written.
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• Visual
  ...ral [[role]] that [[psychoanalysis]] grants the visual is justified by the fact that there must be a visual reference, a [[virtual]] psychical mirror (cert
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• Turning Around Upon the Subject's Own Self
  ...three stages previously described as unfolding in a linear fashion are in fact all [[present]] in varying degrees and that they develop in conjunction wit
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• Lack of Being
  ...ental emptiness as it was caused by the first [[symbolization]] and by the fact that [[desire]] originates in [[castration]]. ...[[identifies]] with a certain point within the [[maternal]] [[space]]. In fact, what the subject takes for its own being is an [[other]], both an [[image]
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• Fool
  ...from his mouth that are not simply tolerated but adopted, by virtue of the fact that this 'fool' is sometimes clothed in the insignia of the jester. And in ...ring-wing intellectual, is precisely to play the [[role]] of what he is in fact, namely, a 'knave'. In [[other]] words, he doesn't retreat from teh consequ
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• Feminism
  The [[psychoanalysis]] that so offended many feminists was in fact vulgarized or revisionist version of Freud.
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• Anna O.
  ...happened when the [[symptoms]] started, she would recover a [[repressed]] fact and then recover a bit. This is what Pappenheim called her "talking [[cure]
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• Obsession
  ...ore correct to [[speak]] of 'compulsive [[thinking]]' and to emphasize the fact that compulsive [[structures]] may be equivalent to the most diverse psychi
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• Jungian psychology
  ...or the final third [[Adlerian|Adlerian analysis]] was most appropriate. In fact, it seems that most contemporary Jungian clinicians merge a developmentally ...l understanding (again, as yet still [[lacking]]) would not [[change]] the fact that schizophrenia is lived by those who have it psychologically; that is t
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• Catharsis
  The fact that there existed those who could suffer a worse fate than [[them]] was to
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• Taboo
  ...nce between the compulsion prohobitions of neurotics and taboo lies in the fact that the origin of these prohibitions is just as unmotivated and enigmatic. ...with taboo he goes on to point out. "The [[difference]] is related to the fact that taboos still [[exist]] among us. . . . They do not differ in their psy
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• Developmental psychology
  ...ique to their generation, apparently normative developmental trends may in fact be universal only to their cohort.
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• Genital stage
  ...e]] 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
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• Working-through
  ...[[form]] of resistance forwarded at the time is repression, attests to the fact that Freud conceived the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]] as highly-advanced in th
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• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  apologies for the fact that it will have no sequel. to be a given and a fact, we can, using evolution as a [[guide]], deduce the prog-
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...ck of coordination between artillery and infantry" -- an euphemism for the fact that the Soviet artillery bombed its own men, which signal the Soviet horri ...of a duel of Zaitsev with the top German sniper); it rather resides in the fact that this borrowing served the "hollywoodization" of the story. The most ex
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• Ego-psychology
  ...heritor of [[Freud]]ian [[psychoanalysis]] in its purist [[form]], when in fact there are radical differences between some of its tenets and [[Freud]]'s wo
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• Activity
  ...uline/feminine, which he sometimes used as synonyms. In some [[texts]], in fact, Freud's clinical observations shows them to be nearly indistinguishable, f
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• Moebius strip
  ...ut when the [[whole]] strip is traversed it becomes clear that they are in fact continuous.
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• Heraclitus
  ...e]] are almost completely unknown. "Reliable information is limited to the fact that he was a native of Ephesus, on the coast of Asia Minor north of Miletu
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• Metalanguage
  ...s [[discourse]], then the [[falsity]] of this guarantee is revealed by the fact that the [[guarantor]] himself [[lacks]] such a guarantee.
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• Anthropology
  ...]] and ethnology, the history of the development of the human species—in fact, the principal [[subjects]] of anthropology. ...for anthropology have attacked both aspects of its explanatory powers. In fact the articulation of knowledge through field studies is as complicated as it
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• Stalinism
  3. The fact that Stalin's last [[paranoiac]] obsession concerned the so-called "doctor' ...blic]] [[knowledge]], while the bloody terror of the [[Nazis]] in point of fact had been kept a secret from the [[German]] people." <ref>Quoted in Berel La
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• Feminist theory
  ...ut if say, an empirical theory is purported to be about ‘women’ and in fact is only about
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• Symbol
  ...tution between two terms —the symbol and what is symbolized—allows, in fact, for an interpretation where meaning might attributed according to context. ...efore be separated from a conception of symbolization, which bears out the fact that the psychoanalytic approach is more a [[tripartite]] theory of interpr
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• History
  One [[difference]] between them is the fact that while the historian focuses on the effects of time in the collective m
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• Censorship
  [[Censorship]] is in fact defined as that which opposes the [[return]] of that which is [[repressed]]
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• Denial
  ...o allow the [[experience]] to become [[reality]] for [[them]], despite the fact that it happened. The use of denial is a [[primitive]] and dangerous [[defe ...edge that they were in an automobile accident but they will not accept the fact that a loved one who was critically injured might die.
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• Parapraxis
  [[Parapraxes]] represented, in fact, an important demonstration of [[disturbance]]s created by the [[unconsciou ...]], moreover, is established, according to [[Freud]], uniquely through the fact that, in the [[case]] of [[chance]] [[event]]s in a real [[world]], "slips"
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• Primal scene
  ...d feels in response. The [[particularity]] of the primal scene lies in the fact that the subject experiences in a simultaneous and contradictory way the em
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• Schizophrenia
  ...ated, like [[neurotic]] conflicts, in infancy and early [[childhood]]. The fact that some small but significant percentage of [[patients]] experienced [[fu ...sitive outcome of [[analytic]] interest in the severe mental disorders, in fact, was a sophisticated and durable typology of what became known as the borde
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• Anaclisis
  ...1967/1973). An important [[reason]] for this inattention is doubtless the fact that the [[Standard Edition]] did not heed the consistent use of the German
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• Biopolitics
  ...]). This [[dialectic]] of exclusion is wholly subscribed to by Žižek. In fact, it is embedded in his understanding of the Hegelian dialectic [[understood ...y]] of a disjunctive gesture rather than a synthetic one (''PV'': 299). In fact, whenever Agamben attempts to move beyond the primacy of the negative by em
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• Bureaucracy
  ...] not justified by its qualification … the king is justified by the very fact that he is king” (LN: 30). Indeed, to [[return]] to [[Lacanian]] [[discou ...symbolic]] institution, on the contrary, must know or “register” this fact if the performative consequences of [[stating]] it are to ensue.
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• Partial object
  ...[[infant]]'s underdeveloped capacity for [[perception]], together with the fact that he is only concerned with his immediate gratifications, means that the ...ire]]. Now each [[partial object]] becomes an [[object]] by virtue of the fact that the [[subject]] takes it for the [[object]] of [[desire]], ''[[objet p
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• United States
  In a way, Freud had described some of these dilemmas as arising from the fact that psychoanalysis was a social and intellectual movement, a clinical [[th ...r writings more accessible than the works of the "classical Freudians." In fact, Horney and Fromm were addressing social issues, and, though far from simpl
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• Class
  a way of [[living]] life based on, but not exclusively defined by, the simple fact that we must
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• Guarantee
  ...thorisation, which is to be radically distinguished from the guarantee. In fact "the analyst does not guarantee himself", as Graciela Brodsky has formulate ...tic practice. But it is not on this basis that he is nominated as A.E. The fact that some of [[them]] testify, after the procedure, to the major influence
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• Lie
  ...ency toward simulation and lying in [[hysterics]], he attributed it to the fact that the [[patient]] "wishes to be ill," (p. 249), itself the result of [[p .... The well-known example of Emma shows that the "error" had to do with the fact that she related her attack of [[agoraphobia]] to the shop-assistants' ridi
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...[[threat]] to our employment; however, one should bear in mind the simple fact that the influx of immigrant workers from the post-[[Communism|Communist]] ...ism is not the [[ontic]] content of these [[demands]], but the mere formal fact that, through their enchainment, "people" emerges as a political subject, a
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• Change
  Throughout his work, in fact, Freud emphasized the study of resistances. In "Analysis Terminable and Int ...ork. Rather than an expression of allegiance, this is a consequence of the fact that Freud's theory of change (and the different models successively added
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• Suicide
  ...self-[[destruction]]. It is possible that [[people]] who in the end do in fact commit suicide belong to this group.<ref>{{OoPA}} Ch. 1</ref></blockquote> ...1962-75), but it was a rather superficial [[discussion]], centered on the fact that the differing [[choice]] of means by men and [[women]] reveals a [[pri
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...nancing and helping them to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan? Why was this fact quoted as an argument against attacking them? Would it not be much more [[l ...red by the failure to establish [[liberal]] [[democracy]], the gap between fact and [[ideal]] [[essence]] does not show up only in . . . so-called [[primit
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• Creativity
  ...vity and submission to the outside world but, unlike Freud, emphasized the fact that fantasy [[life]] could diverge from the creative attitude. Fantasizing ...ot the creative capacity but something [[universal]], inherent in the very fact of living. In the [[case]] where the individual submits to outside reality
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• Le Cas Aimée
  ...oia]]". [[Lacan]] argued that, in striking the actress, [[Aimée]] was in fact striking herself: [[Duflos]] represented a [[woman]] with [[freedom]] and [
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• Overview
  ...the truth of it is something else. The term "reactualizing" refers to the fact that there are different possible ways to interpret German idealism, and Zi ...o opposed concepts and thereafter disappears. Zizek draws attention to the fact that a vanishing mediator is produced by an assymetry of content and form.
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• Outline
  Selected fact
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• Want of Being
  ...ental emptiness as it was caused by the first [[symbolization]] and by the fact that [[desire]] originates in [[castration]]. ...[[identifies]] with a certain point within the [[maternal]] [[space]]. In fact, what the subject takes for its own being is an [[other]], both an [[image]
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• Weaning
  ...distic]] stage. Bernard Golse emphasized its ambivalent aspect, due to the fact that incorporating the mother becomes destructive with teething. The infant
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• Working-Through
  ...[[form]] of resistance forwarded at the time is repression, attests to the fact that Freud conceived the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]] as highly-advanced in th
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• Work
  ...implying a certain expenditure of energy. Throughout Freud's writings, in fact, the idea of work supplied him with the yardstick with which to gauge every
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• Hallucinatory Satisfaction of a Wish
  ...ing in certain neurotics, or certain [[psychoses]], called, as a matter of fact, delusional. ...easure principle could not survive "for the shortest time," responding, in fact: "the infant—provided one includes with it the care it receives from its
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• Schema
  ...ject has with his or her own unconscious—is precarious and uncertain. In fact, it is always mediated by the subject's ego, which, according to Lacan's [[ The real in the center of the schema is in fact a [[Moebius strip]], the edges of which are rejoined when the strip is cut
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• Humor
  ...of [[Jokes]] and their Relation to the [[Unconscious]] (1905c). It was, in fact, on the [[death]] of his [[father]] that he started to collect [[Jewish]] j ...self that [[nothing]] [[traumatic]] can [[affect]] him, and that he can in fact find in such things a yield of pleasure.
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• Symbolism
  ...of education and evolves spontaneously in human [[development]]. Given the fact that these symbols are universal in individuals as well as cross-cultural,
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• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
  ...[regard]] to Freud's ideas about group psychology, can be explained by the fact that the majority of psychoanalysts after Freud, when [[working]] on groups
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• Myths
  ...ir different [[codes]] express an underlying [[logical]] [[structure]]. In fact, myths are not only speculations [[about]] social organization but also, an
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• Anthropology and Psychoanalysis
  ...]] and ethnology, the history of the development of the human species—in fact, the principal [[subjects]] of anthropology. ...for anthropology have attacked both aspects of its explanatory powers. In fact the articulation of knowledge through field studies is as complicated as it
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• Formulas of Sexuation
  It is from this fact that Lacan derived the [[formula]], "[[Woman does not exist]]."
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• Sigmund Freud:Introduction
  ...deas]] in the 1890s, many of his contemporaries reacted with hostility. In fact, throughout his career, Freud faced enormous opposition to many of his idea
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• Sigmund Freud:Biography
  ...gh he rejected formal religion, he did not reject his [[Jewish]] roots. In fact, he was proud of his Jewish [[identity]] and did not attempt to hide his Je ...een out of work for some time and was barely supporting his own family. In fact, Freud increasingly felt the burden of needing to help support his parents
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories
  ...ly refuses to allow the experience to become reality for them, despite the fact that it happened. The use of denial is a [[primitive]] and dangerous defens ...edge that they were in an automobile accident but they will not accept the fact that a loved one who was critically injured might die.
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• Sigmund Freud:Critical Response
  ...our fellow [[humans]]. "There have always been men who [[understood]] this fact; who knew that the meaning of life is to be interested in the whole of mank ...or to [[science]]. In contrast, [[religious]] imagery and occultism had in fact been a recurring [[fascination]] for Jung, and he had had several "paranorm
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories In Action
  ...ers use modified versions that faintly resemble Freud's original work. The fact remains, however, that the discipline of psychology owes a large debt to th
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• Fourth Analysis
  ...e, without ever taking as given what must be perceived as a process, is in fact the [[ideal]] not only of analytic training, but also of analytic [[practic
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• Function of Language
  ...eryone to know who he or she is a [[total]] - promiscuity. No one could in fact be called father, son or sister and no one would be able to situate her- or ...d first came to recognise (the [[mechanism]] of condensation in the simple fact that the [[dream]] itself is (much shorter and much more compressed! than i
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...as it stumbles or is interrupted" (1977, p. 299/801). Paradox or not, the fact remains: "If linguistics enables us to see the signifier as the determinant ...Es war, sol! Ich werden"(cf. 1977, pp. 128-129/417-418). He underlines the fact that the tense of Freud's war corresponds not to the [[French]] [[past]] hi
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...can give. But such is Lacan's manner, and we simply have to live with that fact, settling for what provisional [[sense]] we can make out of what he actuall ...hrough the order of signifiers (i.e., the [[symbolic order]]) by the very "fact that he speaks" (1977, p. 286/690). When these needs become articulated thr
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...is no [[sexual]] relation." This should not make lovers too upset, for in fact, [[Love]] is what we have to make up for the Relation that is [[missing]].
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...as second-[[class]] citizens, subject to the rule of the masterful men. In fact, the [[mastery]] of women formed part of the larger [[project]] to dominate ...inning'. However, for Žižek, Schelling's philosophy is all [[about]] the fact that the Beginning is not at the beginning. Before the Beginning 'is the ch
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• Unary trait
  ...ch other. They do not need to be identical in [[order]] to be the same. In fact, the contrary is [[true]]. Because no simple trait is recognizable as a [[t
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• Splits in psychoanalysis
  ...ore Jungian than Freudian. Thus Carl Müller-Braunschweig, in spite of the fact that his [[past]] did not inspire much confidence, was encouraged by those ...ear, the [[Lacanian]] movement suffered split after split, giving rise, in fact, to a plethora of small groups, most of them not very long-lived. In spite
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• Applied psychoanalysis and the interaction of psychoanalysis
  ...The "interactions of psychoanalysis" (Mijolla-Mellor, S. de) highlight the fact that it is [[impossible]] to focus psychoanalysis on a specific [[domain]]
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• Literary and artistic creation
  ...trated by Freud's famous [[translation]] error, since the "vulture" was in fact a kite.
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• Phantom
  ...which is presented as a collection of older or unpublished articles, is in fact the second volume of <i>Anasémies</i>, the first volume of which appeared ...t operates in the unconscious: the burial in the object of an inadmissible fact . . . . The phantom is a [[formation]] of the unconscious, which is peculia
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• Formula of Fantasy
  ...esented in fantasy, as in the [[dream]], in a more or less obvious way. In fact, the fantasy [[stages]] a certain relation and mode of interaction between ...ger [[symbolic]] structure. In other [[words]], its value derives from the fact that the image in question (a [[representation]] of something unconscious)
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• Subject's Castration
  ...s such, castration is not directly related to the reality of the penis. In fact, this relation is problematic and requires several operations: "It is thus
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• Want
  ...ental emptiness as it was caused by the first [[symbolization]] and by the fact that [[desire]] originates in [[castration]]. ...[[identifies]] with a certain point within the [[maternal]] [[space]]. In fact, what the subject takes for its own being is an [[other]], both an [[image]
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• Parade of the signifier
  ...arily linked to [[others]] that [[form]] a [[chain]] of signifiers and, in fact, [[discourse]], or a march of signifiers.
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• Psychoses, chronic and delusional
  ...meaning, and so forth. [[Links]] between the fields [[exist]] despite the fact that their founders never met. Freud may have seen de Saussure's name quote
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• Desire of the subject
  ...tally lost [[object]]. Thus for Freud, any [[search]] for an object is, in fact, an attempt to refind it. For Lacan, however, the [[object of desire]] is l
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• Fort-Da
  ...down below a [[mirror]], he made his [[image]] "gone." Freud stresses the fact that the <i>fort</i> part of the game was much of the time sufficient unto
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• Imaginary identification
  ...dentification by adopting a single [[trait]] taken from the [[object]]. In fact, imaginary identification depends on symbolic identification. In the mirror
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• Symbolic identification
  ...dentification by adopting a single [[trait]] taken from the [[object]]. In fact, imaginary identification depends on symbolic identification. In the mirror
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• Identificatory project
  ...[[think]], anticipate, and invest in a future time-[[space]], despite the fact that lived experience will quickly reveal that in doing so, the I is invest
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• Law of the father
  ...it serves as a [[principle]] of differentiation and [[separation]], is in fact the law of [[language]] and a sine qua non for the [[existence]] of desire.
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• Childhood
  As related in <i>Beyond the [[Pleasure]] [[Principle]]</i> (1920g), the fact that an act provoking [[unpleasure]] would be repeated, coupled with [[clin
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• Word-presentation
  ...[[apparatus]] to be accessible at all [[times]] to the thought process. In fact, the impartiality of language makes it possible for the [[demands]] of the ...ever, he proposed a more restricted view, arguing that language did not in fact constitute the preconscious, though it was an important feature of it. He t
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• Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
  ...The [[thesis]] of schizoanalysis proposes that desire is a [[machine]], in fact, interconnected machines—"desiring-machines." This assemblage of machines
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• Siegfried Bernfeld
  ...ional" interpretation takes account of the [[value]] of a specific psychic fact. "Reconstruction," an [[instrument]] of [[psychoanalytic]] [[science]], con ...scious connections (Bernfeld returns to this [[subject]] in 1941 in <i>The Fact of Observation in Psychoanalysis</i>, a work that exercised considerable in
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• Philosophy and psychoanalysis
  ...t relations between philosophy and psychoanalysis arise primarily from the fact that both investigate the same field, [[human]] experience (including sexua
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• Linguistics and psychoanalysis
  ...meaning, and so forth. [[Links]] between the fields [[exist]] despite the fact that their founders never met. Freud may have seen de Saussure's name quote
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• Sociology and Psychoanalysis
  ...ical sociology (Louis Wirth), particularly in Quebec and in [[France]]. In fact, clinical sociology was recognized as a branch of sociology by the Internat
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• Rite
  ...dent in the [[phenomenology]] of ceremonials thus becomes intelligible. In fact, the fundamental theme of any ritual having to do with "touching" is the "f ...Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety</i>, written in 1925, Freud lamented the fact that "no one has as yet collected [ceremonials] and systematically analysed
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• Castration of the subject
  ...s such, castration is not directly related to the reality of the penis. In fact, this relation is problematic and requires several operations: "It is thus
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• Narcissistic elation
  ...e protonarcissistic [[existence]] as before, and this is reinforced by the fact that [[people]] around it, in [[particular]] the [[mother]], meet all its n
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• Subject's desire
  ...tally lost [[object]]. Thus for Freud, any [[search]] for an object is, in fact, an attempt to refind it. For Lacan, however, the [[object of desire]] is l
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• Self-Consciousness
  ...[[connaissance]]</i>] that remains attached to it" since alienation is the fact of the subject who is not "a being [[conscious]] of itself." [[Jean Laplanc
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• Psychoanalytic Treatment
  ...d]] gradually developed the [[system]] of [[psychoanalytic treatment]]. In fact the method emerged from the hypnotic treatments that he used after his [[re
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• Lay analysis
  ...s of such a solution for the [[cohesion]] of the association, which was in fact on the verge of collapse over this issue and, some time later, over problem
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• Framework of the psychoanalytic treatment
  ...[incest]] prohibition in the [[analytic]] situation, a prohibition that in fact favors expression and [[analysis]]. The frame can be considered an "exclude
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• Training of psychoanalysts
  ...course of study at an institution, all the way to certification after the fact, which makes candidate analysts fully responsible for the various aspects o
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• Turning around upon the subject's own self
  ...three stages previously described as unfolding in a linear fashion are in fact all [[present]] in varying degrees and that they develop in conjunction wit
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• Transference love
  ...the treatment is that some [[patients]] refuse to resign themselves to the fact that the [[material]] fulfillment of this surrogate love is not an option; ...e of [[analytic treatment]] has the [[character]] of a 'genuine' love." In fact transference love was no different from any [[other]] kind of love, for "Th
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• Friendship
  ...d abstract [[ideas]]. The sexual basis of these ties is attested to by the fact that they retain some of the primary sexual aims: "Even an affectionate dev ...</i> and to the love of mankind in general. How large a contribution is in fact derived from erotic sources (with the [[sexual aim]] inhibited) could scarc
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• Doubt
  ...ree aspects do not necessarily function simultaneously, as [[witness]] the fact that we can be certain yet unable to decide on [[action]]; at the same [[ti ...seemingly as a [[form]] of protection against the risk of [[knowing]]. In fact the obsessive neutralizes any [[idea]], any decision, by evoking its opposi
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• Primitive
  In fact, [[thought]] itself, at these primitive [[stages]], possesses original char
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• Sex and Character
  ...haracterized by the addition of chapters on [[Jews]] and [[women]] and the fact that he extended the metaphysical [[system]]. ...isting of multiple [[philosophical]] digressions, Weininger's book does in fact revolve around a central question that brings it closer to [[psychoanalytic
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• Kantianism
  ...ometimes [[need]] to be differentiated. Just as important, however, is the fact that psychoanalysis can be considered an avatar of Kantianism, if not of [[
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• Psychoanalytic treatment
  ...Freud]] gradually developed the [[system]] of psychoanalytic treatment. In fact the method emerged from the hypnotic treatments that he used after his [[re
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• Ideational representation
  ...ng [[Schizophrenic]] [[Patient]] " [1962]) but instead on the basis of the fact that thinking, which constitutes the equivalent of an [[erogenous zone]]-fu
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• Intergenerational
  ...k]] of intergenerational phenomena from a psychoanalytic point of view. In fact, this notion involves a parental and grandparental intrapsychic [[agency]] ...ho]]-[[Analysis]]" (1933a [1932]): "Thus a [[child]]'s [[super-ego]] is in fact constructed on the [[model]] not of its parents but of its parents' super-e
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• Fear
  In fact, [[another]] [[concept]] appeared in 1916 in Freud's writings, that of "<i>
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• Primal
  ...uman [[being]]. . .this phytogenetic point of view is partly veiled by the fact that what is at bottom inherited is nevertheless freshly acquired in the [[
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• Archaic mother
  ...rchaic mother points up a persistent [[psychoanalytical]] [[paradox]]: the fact that we mourn for origins that are inaccessible yet somehow open to [[retro
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• Oceanic feeling
  ...y Scripture, any hope for personal salvation, etc.—the simple and direct fact of a feeling of 'the eternal' (which may very well not be eternal, but simp
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• Memories
  ...f the [[past]] suspected of [[being]], at least in part, [[illusory]]. The fact is that conscious memories or recollections may conceal [[unconscious]] one ...y a [[phallic]] [[mother]]. A memory then, appears to be a fantasy, but in fact the fantasy harbors [[real]] memories: the memory of having been passionate
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• Zen
  ...s of mysticism and occulticism. Without realizing that he could, in actual fact, have lifted his own phone and dialled the Dalai Lama, Jung believed that o
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• Case of Aimée
  ...er quantity of bibliographical references, Lacan responded that he had, in fact, read [[them]] all. Furthermore, Lacan claimed to have personally evaluated ...gnitive disorder in a way clearly contradicted by observation, despite the fact that paranoia was defined very narrowly. Lacan wrote in glowing [[terms]] o
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• Word
  ...t some of my audience, because I had perceived long before then the simple fact that if you open a book of [[Freud]], and particularly those books which ar
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• Psychoanalytic criticism
  The study of Leonardo, which is in fact flawed by Freud's reliance on inaccurate ifnormation, provides the prototyp
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• Anna O
  ...happened when the [[symptoms]] started, she would recover a [[repressed]] fact and then recover a bit. This is what Pappenheim called her "talking [[cure]
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• Interview with Jacques Lacan
  Dr. Lacan: Psychoanalysis, in the [[order]] of man, has, in fact, all the subversive and scandalous features that the Copernican de-centerin ...ething which is much more important than the discovery of hot and cold. In fact, he burns himself and then there is always someone who gives him a whole sp
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• Fundamental Rule
  To resolve the [[paradox]] resulting from the fact that this negative prescription assumes a patient who is already in the [[p 3. Further [[reflection]] confronts us with the fact that this as-yet unverbalized material comprises "[[word]]-presentations";
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• Saussure's Concept of the Sign
  image is par excellence the [[natural]] representation of the word as a fact of<br> the arbitrariness of the sign. In fact, every means of expression used<br>
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• Love of the Neighbor
  ...e secret message that the [[Jewish]] [[people]] bears by [[reason]] of the fact that, by assassinating Moses, it reenactod the archaic [[murder]] of the fa ...alibi for the crisis of confidence in their [[faith]]. It is a paradoxical fact, which hadn't occurred before in [[history]], that the torch of Akhenaton f
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• The Game of Fort-Da
  fact that the first act, that of departure, was staged as a game<br> the fact that there is a yield of pleasure from another source.<br>
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• The Function of the Veil
  ...et us stop for a moment at this intermediate position which amounts to the fact that what is loved within the object of love is something which is beyond. ...all sorts of things be clarified beginning with, up to, and including the fact that Freud gives us as the first example of an analysis of fetishism this m
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• Oedipus at Colonus
  <dl><dd>The fact that Oedipus is the patronymic hero of the Oedipus [[complex]] isn't a coin ...n from the start, and unfolds [[right]] up to its final end, including the fact that Oedipus assumes it through his own [[action]]. I, he says, <i>have not
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• The Agency of the Letter
  proven their [[value]] by virtue of the fact that language through them has<br> For it is by virtue of this fact that [[linguistics]] is seen to occupy the key<br>
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• Anamorphosis: The Stain of the Real
  ...st'-in the sense one speaks of 'resist' in the dying of material-marks the fact of consciousness in Freud's very discourse.</p><p> ...nception of the Psychical development as elucidated by psychoanalysis, the fact of the tycliic is central. It is in relation to the eye, in relation to th
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• The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
  What is repeated, in fact, is always something that occurs -the expression tells us quite a lot about ...e. Our experience then presents us with a problem, which derives from the fact that, at the very heart of the primary processes, we see preserved the insi
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...mple and radical? What if sexual difference is not simply a [[biological]] fact, but [[the Real]] of an [[antagonism]] that defines humanity, so that once ...of sexual [[life]] that [[Virtual]] [[Reality]] offers cannot conceal the fact that, once cloning supplements sexual difference, the game is over.
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• Lozenge
  In [[other]] [[words]], the lozenge stands for the fact that each subject is characterized by the [[whole]] of the L [[schema]] ([[
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• Intersubjectivity
  ...to the importance of [[language]] in [[psychoanalysis]] and emphasizes the fact that the [[unconscious]] is "[[intersubjectivity|transindividual]]."
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• Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses
  ...as the pure reign of university discourse. Consequently, not only does the fact of being turned into an [[object]] of the university interpretive machinery ...ationship]] between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[cultural]] studies. The first fact to note here is that what is [[missing]] in cultural studies is precisely p
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• Sigmund Freud:Quotes
  * Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. * Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the [[psych
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• Slavoj Zizek:Quotes
  ...ct – it’s an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.
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• Breastfeeding
  ...toward the mother's breast are especially intense. As for the mother, the fact of feeding her baby has a restorative effect because it terminates the [[sa
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• Formulae of sexuation
  ...hese experiences are asserted, there seems to be evidence that it does, in fact, occur. ...ouissance that is outside of language and which disturbs language, and the fact that "there is no jouissance that isn't phallic jouissance or governed by t
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• Ideological State Apparatus
  ...by a police officer - 'Hey, you there!' - and turns round to recognize the fact that he is being addressed.
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• Point de capiton
  ...the term in his 1955-6 [[seminar]] on [[the psychoses]] to account for the fact that despite the continual [[slip]]page of the [[signified]] under the [[si The [[diachronic]] dimension of the ''[[point de capiton]]'' lies in the fact that [[communication]] is always a [[retroactive]] effect of [[punctuation]
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• System
  ...system. The best indication that a system has been formed then lies in the fact that each result of it can be shown to have at least two motiv­ations, one
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• An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...me terms, inherited from Freud, can create the impression that they are in fact all dialects of the same [[language]]. Such an impression is, however, misl ...t]]. It is not that no such dictionary has yet been written; there are, in fact, a [[number]] of dictionaries in French that deal extensively with Lacanian
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...xplanation, insects that assume the appearance of their environment are in fact assimilating themselves to that environment. In other words they are captiv Critics of Lacan's mirror stage argue that he in fact has things completely the wrong way round. In order for the subject to iden
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• Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
  ...o identify that figure with someone in their life. This figure may well in fact not be a single person, however, but a composite, or condensation, of a [[n ...successfully, by Dupin. The twist in Poe's story is that the letter is in fact never hidden but always in full disclosure. According to Lacan, the tale ca
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• Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever
  ...t some of my audience, because I had perceived long before then the simple fact that if you open a book of [[Freud]], and particularly those books which ar ...perfectly the ineptitude of the attempt. The real difficulty lies in the fact that every integer is in itself a unit. If I take two as a unit, things are
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• Patriarchy
  ...llet's definition of patriarchy: "our [[society]]...is a patriarchy. The fact is evident at
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• Temporality
  ...porality" does not appear as such in the writings of Sigmund [[Freud]]. In fact, it is difficult to conceive of any [[other]] kind of temporality than psyc ...sentation, and allows the latter to be expressed. This is explained by the fact that the [[visual]] is the mode of inscription of the [[infant]]'s [[memory
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• Working
  ...the [[human]] [[infant]] is grounded in its '[[prematurity]]' of birth, a fact which was pointed out by [[Freud]] and which [[Lacan]] takes up in his earl [[Lacan]]'s originality lies in the way he draws attention to "the fact that this dependence is maintained by a [[world]] of [[language]].<ref>{{E}
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• Homosexuality
  ...56-1939, p. 423). However, such [[permissiveness]] was contradicted by the fact that from 1920 onwards many psychoanalytic societies refused to admit openl
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• Seminar XVII
  ...d [[displacement]] in the production of [[dreams]]. The unconscious is the fact "that [[The Subject|the subject]] is not the one who [[knows]] what he says
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• Dream symbolism
  ...reams, for they occurred widely too in stories, [[myths]], and folklore, a fact tending to confirm their universal validity. [[Verbal]] connections were ve
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• Symptom-formation
  ...y recognize these as pathological in [[nature]], and seek [[treatment]], a fact which distinguished such symptoms from fixed "character traits." The fact is that Freud's entire work, in its attempt to elucidate the [[neuroses]],
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• Substitutive formation
  ...resorted frequently to this [[idea]] in the following years: this was, in fact, a key notion in the [[metapsychology]] he was drafting, since he was descr
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• The Splitting of the Ego in the Processes of Defence
  ...urprising here that what Freud called a "[[real]]" [[danger]] was just the fact that the child had been threatened with [[castration]].) Through the [[mech ...anatomy. Demarcating this mechanism from [[psychotic]] functioning is the fact that the substitute is not hallucinated but chosen in a [[regressive]] mann
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• Actual neurosis/defense neurosis
  ...alysis as a result of new [[thinking]] on [[psychosomatic]] disorders. The fact that it corresponds so closely with the distinction drawn by Pierre Marty i
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• Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy
  ...ils of the [[appearance]] of the horse that so frightened the boy stood in fact for the eyeglasses and moustache of the father. Freud's revelations prompte
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• Masculinity/femininity
  ...[[puberty]]. This conception of masculinity and femininity comes from the fact that Freud based his theory of sexuality on the prevalence of the [[phallus
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• A Project for a Scientific Psychology
  ...dation of the [[neuroses]]"; and if the "quantitative conception" would in fact never [[disappear]] from his work, it would always remain in the background ...sed without protection to the quantity of endogenous stimuli, "and in this fact lies the mainspring [Triebfeder] of the [[psychical]] [[mechanism]]" (pp. 3
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• Primary process/secondary process
  ...aratus is to that extent a [[theoretical]] [[fiction]]. But this much is a fact: the primary processes are [[present]] in the mental apparatus from the fir
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• Lamella
  ...[[Void]], the [[hole]] in the [[texture]] of [[reality]] opened up by the fact that reality is transcendentally constituted by the finite [[transcendental Lacan stresses the fact that in the so-called fort/da-[[game]] a rudimentary use of [[language]]--a
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• The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud
  ...lus. Theorists such as [[Slavoj Žižek]] have frequently pointed out this fact in order to defend Lacan against his [[feminist]] critics. ...eorists often note that capitalist [[consumerism]] is predicated upon this fact about desire: because desire is never satisfied and yet, always sliding fro
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• Lacan and the Pre-Socratics
  ...ve on the scope of Lacan's [[texts]], one should not lose [[sight]] of the fact that it is a localization, the disinterested examination of a [[symptom]].< ...es of a mathematization to come; through poetry, Parmenides attests to the fact that the grasp of thought upon the Real can be established only by the regu
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• Post-Lacanians
  ...is Freud’s conception of the unconscious as a static representation. The fact of the unconscious as such is not objectionable, and to a certain point Fre
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• Traditional Freudian Criticism
  .... . We must admire the art and separately regret the life. And yet it is a fact that the two are inextricable" (270–71).
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• Linguistics and Language
  ...ns are sometimes controversial, but attempts to bridge disciplines have in fact characterized much of contemporary criticism. Sometimes critics have borrow ...ing, sometimes not ( "Social"). Labov suggested that such variants were in fact not random but socially constrained; noting that r-pronunciation represente
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• Anthropological Theory and Criticism
  ...ch flows back into [[The Real|the real]] world and transforms fantasy into fact" (360).
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• The Freudian thing
  ...most innocent [[intention]] is disconcerted at being unable to conceal the fact that one's unsuccessful [[acts]] are the most successful and that one's fai Lacan mentions the fact that Freud regarded the study of [[literature]], art, [[languages]] and ins
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• Aimée
  ...tions led him to the conclusion that Aimee's assault on the actress was in fact a means of punishing herself by attacking her ideal. Lacan's comments rely
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• Dreams, slips and jokes
  ...[[philosophers]] or all the poets. It is [[true]] that they were never in fact assembled in a single hall or on a single mountain-top; but they certainly
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• The Freudian terrain
  ...e [[analyst]] investigates 'buried' [[childhood]]. He wrote: 'There is, in fact, no better analogy for repression, by which something in the mind is at onc Lacan stresses the fact that psychoanalysis is about human sexuality and the unconscious. For [[psy
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• Master-Slave
  ...s no simple relation between desire and an object that will satisfy it; in fact, he shows how desire is linked •in a complicated fashion to the desire of
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• La Langue Versus Parole
  ...l]] context) as the basis of [[communication]] is usually explained by the fact that we are both engaged in a shared [[human]] [[environment]] obeying rule
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• Self-punishment paranoia
  ...oia]]". [[Lacan]] argued that, in striking the actress, [[Aimée]] was in fact striking herself: [[Duflos]] represented a [[woman]] with [[freedom]] and [
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• Dark Continent
  ...[[traumatic]] [[event]], associated with a [[concrete]] experience, but in fact it may be the transposed expression of, say, a [[guilty]] unconscious [[wis
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• Dementia
  ...term dementia praecox, as well as the term schizophrenia. This despite the fact that he felt it important to distinguish between the two, [[writing]], in "
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• Decathexis
  ...fect—the sum of excitation—with which it is loaded" (1894a, p. 48). In fact the notion of decathexis first appears as a means of [[repression]] in his
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• Dream Symbolism
  ...reams, for they occurred widely too in stories, [[myths]], and folklore, a fact tending to confirm their universal validity. [[Verbal]] connections were ve
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• Historical Truth
  ..., since what endows an [[event]] with its [[historicity]] is precisely the fact that it occurred at one time that will never be repeated. Thus, seen from a
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• Hysterical Paralysis
  ...to any distribution of lesions in [[real]] anatomy. Based as it was on the fact that peripheral points on the [[body]] are grouped at the level of the nerv
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• Hypocritical Dream
  ...ion towards his friend R. But the [[analysis]] of the dream showed that in fact the [[latent]] wish was to portray R. as a simpleton (1900a, pp. 137 ff.).
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• Hermeneutics
  Understood as philosophy, hermeneutics rejects the fact that [[logical]] [[concepts]], in the [[Hegelian]] sense, can [[present]] a
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• The Letter
  ...sion, we recognize in this the [[model]] of [[symptom]] [[formation]] as a fact associated with language. Within the differential coupling of [[signifiers]
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• Literary and Artistic Creation
  ...trated by Freud's famous [[translation]] error, since the "vulture" was in fact a kite.
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• General Theory of Seduction
  ...onetheless legion in Freud's [[work]]. What is perhaps the most surprising fact is that it was effectively tabooed and misrepresented until 1964 (Laplanche ...he child brings on [[mental]] [[disturbance]]. Freud's first theory was in fact intimately interwoven with the [[clinical]] [[doctrine]] of the time.
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• Unconscious Sense of Guilt
  ...[[thoughts]] and attitudes in [[order]] to regain self-esteem. What is in fact a deficiency of the superego is largely manifested as self-destructive [[re
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• Language and Disturbances of Language
  ...language may be slightly artificial, but they all serve to underscore the fact that language always displays both a phonetic and a semantic aspect.
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• Character
  ...en considered a [[development]] of character theory. However, these are in fact an attempt by Freud to attribute a key role to the [[agencies]] of the [[st
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• Child Analysis
  ...sis can be seen as the application of psychoanalysis in all its facets. In fact, it has not been limited to the treatment of [[neuroses]], but has rapidly
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• Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest
  ...tional journal," Freud wrote to Oskar Pfister on March 11, 1913. It was in fact a "propaganda article," in Freud's [[words]] to Karl [[Abraham]] on Septemb
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• On Freud's "Trieb" and the Psychoanalyst's Desire
  ...me, to male desire, indicated by Freud, should suffice to avert us to that fact. (It is the fact that a woman must go through the same dialectic, whereas nothing seems to o
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• Affective
  ...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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• Écrits
  <blockquote>In fact, Lacan’s [[seminars]] and [[ecrits]] relate like analysand’s and analys
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• The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I
  ...ur starting point in a feature of [[human]] [[behaviour]] illuminated by a fact of comparative [[psychology]]. The human offspring, at an age when he is fo The fact is that the [[total]] form of the body by which the subject anticipates in
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...ll effectuate a system-preserving modification only to find out, after-the-fact of this gesture, that their intervention unexpectedly hastened (rather than ...efeat, to the final victory”). Or, to put it in more Badiouian time: the fact that the evental irruption functions as a break in time, as introducing a t
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• L'agressivité en psychanalyse
  ...t remains specific [[about]] [[psychoanalysis|analytic experience]] is the fact that it takes [[place]] entirely in [[speech]].
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• Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'
  ...would remain, properly [[speaking]], invisible from the pit-aside from the fact that the dialogue would be expressly and by dramatic necessity devoid of wh ...e scene which begins with the entry of the Minister D-. At that moment, in fact, the Queen can do no better than to play on the King's inattentiveness by l
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• Remarque sur la rapport de Daniel Lagache 'Psychanalyse et structure de la personalité'
  In fact, two major concepts are involved in the conflict, structure and inter�sub
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• Le savoir du psychanalyste
  ...at does not depend on the One, a properly [[feminine]] jouis�sance." The fact that her jouissance is [[dual]] is a "landmark in the [[whole]]." Lacan sai
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• Lituraterre
  ...s an entire [[domain]] as bordering [[another]], but pre�cisely from the fact that they have absolutely [[nothing]] in common, not even a reciprocal rela
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• Radiophonie
  ...cement]] in the production of [[dreams]]. The uncon�scious is simply the fact "that the [[subject]] is not the one who [[knows]] what he says." "Whoever
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• Jacques Lacan:Biography
  ...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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