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• Seminar III
  ..., there are nevertheless in the [[neurotic]] [[subject]] certain points of attachment between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] where the [[slip]]page is temporari ...version as [[Lacan]] is concerned with creating the formal bases for his [[theory]] before addressing the problems of the [[treatment]] of [[psychosis]]. The
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• Object Relations Theory
  ...hat are major building blocks of the [[personality]]. [[Object relations]] theory was pioneered in the 1940's and 50's by British psychologists [[Ronald Fair ...ic locus. The central [[thesis]] in [[Melanie Klein]]'s [[object relations theory]] was that objects play a decisive [[role]] in the [[development]] of a [[s
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...]].<ref name="Bowlby">{{cite book | last = Bowlby | first = John | title = Attachment and Loss: Vol I, 2nd Ed. | publisher = Basic Books | pages = 13-23| year = ...uential in two related but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a [[theory]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how h
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• Roland Barthes
  ...[[French]] [[literary critic]], [[literary theory|literary]] and [[social theory|social theorist]], [[philosopher]], and [[Semiotics|semiotician]]. ...ed to [[Paris]] and it was there that he would grow to manhood (though his attachment to his provincial roots would remain strong throughout his [[life]]).
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• Judith Butler
  ...[[philosopher]] and has made major contributions to [[feminism]], queer [[theory]], [[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot profess ...theorist well known for her early [[role]] in shaping the field of [[queer theory]] and for defining the anti-identitarian turn in [[feminist]] [[thought]].
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  of [[choice]] and [[individual]] [[responsibility]]. But as a [[theory]] of the self ...questions of self-expression, [[desire]] and [[sexuality]], and Lacan’s theory offered a way of [[thinking]] about the social and the [[linguistic]] [[con
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...alues of autonomy, competitiveness, etc., the feminine values of intimacy, attachment, interdependence, care and concern, responsibility and self-sacrifice, etc.
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...always included in, is a part of, the framed [[content]]: in modernism, [[theory]] [[about]] the work is comprised in the work, the work is a kind of [[pree ...cknowledged attachment to an ethnic (or religious) Thing — the more this attachment is disavowed, the more violent its sudden eruption… We should always bear
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...ts side and place his bets on the winner; the engaged view permeates his [[theory]] from the very outset. Within the Marxist tradition, this notion that part ...in order to be able to open oneself up to the true life of Eternity, one's attachment to "this" life must be suspended for entry into the domain of ate, the doma
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...ipatory potential. The [[true]] difficulty — and the task of authentic [[theory]] — is to link together this explosion and its [[tragic]] outcome. ...ives best. This is Lenin's ultimate lesson: it is only by throwing off our attachment to liberal democracy, which cannot survive without private property, that w
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...nstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use - is that [[Lacan]] e ...al]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an attachment to subjection at the level of the unconscious, what kind of resistance is t
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• You May
  ...customs in today's 'risk [[society]]'. According to the [[risk society]] [[theory]] of Anthony [[Giddens]], Ulrich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our ...Lacanian - they don't [[exist]] without reference to some [[psychoanalytic theory]]. The unfortunate result of this reflexivisation is that the [[analyst]]'s
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...e contrary, the reference to Hegel enable us to discern a flaw in Laclau's theory itself? The philosophical/notional limitation of Laclau's couple of two log ...is why the standard deconstructionist criticism according to which Lacan's theory of sexual difference falls into the trap of "binary logic" totally misses t
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...s]] and distortions of the explicit symbolic tradition. Judaism's stubborn attachment to the unacknowledged violent founding gesture that haunts the [[public]] [ ...God”(320). This was the problem with Islam for Freud, since his entire [[theory]] of religion is based on the parallel of God with father. More importantly
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...]], a [[refusal]] to come to terms with its [[loss]], it is the [[Jewish]] attachment to their land and Jerusalem, the _(See you) next year in Jerusalem!í. And, ...t, even more, formulating their critique as based on their very passionate attachment to Jewishness, on what they see as worth saving in the Jewish legacy.<a nam
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• Mother
  Since the [[agent]] who helps the [[child]] to overcome the primary attachment to the [[mother]] is the [[father]], these peculiarities may also be said t ...of [[Lacan]]'s work is aimed at shifting the emphasis in [[psychoanalytic theory]] from the [[mother|mother-child]] relation (the [[preoedipal]], the protot
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• Seduction
  ...he period 1895-1897, based on these clinical observations, he worked out a theory designed to explain the [[repression]] of [[infantile]] [[sexuality]]. On S ...ate clearly that Freud was becoming increasingly dubious. In "Draft L," an attachment to this last-cited letter, he went on: "The aim seems to be to arrive [back
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...]], a [[refusal]] to come to terms with its [[loss]], it is the [[Jewish]] attachment to their land and Jerusalem, the _(See you) next year in Jerusalem!í. And, ...t, even more, formulating their critique as based on their very passionate attachment to Jewishness, on what they see as worth saving in the Jewish legacy.12 Is,
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...es, lifestyles, religions, sexual orientations. The reply of a materialist theory is to show that this very One already relies on certain exclusions: the com ...n perhaps resides the ultimate cause of Ostalgie, a continuing sentimental attachment to the defunct 'real Socialism' of the former GDR - the sense that, in spit
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...therein resides the point of the [[notion]] of [[suture]] in [[cinema]] [[theory]]. What I propose to do is something much more naive and abrupt: to analyze ...utter meaningless of our [[social]] [[links]], the [[dissolution]] of our attachment to reality itself - all of a sudden, other people are derealized, reality i
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