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• Sigmund Freud
  ...she discusses how Freudianism is essentially completely accurate, with the exception of one crucial detail: everywhere that Freud wrote "penis", the [[word]] sh ...ntellable and unnarratable mystery, but that the trauma of the Real of the constitutive act inhabits the symbolic as the [[Name-of-the-Father|Name of the Father]]
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...itude' par excellence, that is to say, it is the mask or [[veil]] that 'is constitutive of the feminine [[libidinal]] structure' (Heath 1986:52). In other words, ' ...d there. Increasingly, in the late Lacan, the drive is associated with the exception and limit; it is the concept of the drive that means that the subject is no
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• Logic of Sexuation
  Lacan argues that the law of prohibition always supposes at its horizon an exception, someone who escapes the law. This [[structure]] of constitutive of male sexuality.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...is no "normal" revolution, EACH revolutionary explosion is grounded in an exception, in a short-circuit of "too late" and "too early." The French Revolution oc ...ebacle of 1914, all European Social Democratic parties (with the honorable exception of the Russian Bolsheviks and the Serb Social [[Democrats]]) succumbed to t
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...tructures reality for us. This dimension of the "big Other" is that of the constitutive alienation of the subject in the symbolic order: the big Other pulls the st ...f the tribe are not neutral, but are overdetermined by the fundamental and constitutive antagonistic split? By what Levi-Strauss ingeniously calls the "zero-instit
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...hings… The paradox to be maintained is that displacement is original and constitutive: there is no immediate, [[self]]-[[present]] [[living]] [[subjectivity]] to ..., one usually fails to notice how this notion is not the standard, but the exception, which gains its [[value]] in contrast to the subject supposed to believe a
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ine [[fantasy]] par excellence. As the exemplary [[case]] of the exception constitutive of the phallic function, one usually mentions the [[fantasmatic]], [[obscen ...her.<ref>In the domain of politics, populist rhetoric offers a case of the exception which grounds universality: whenever the opinion prevails that politics as
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...istent, "antagonistic," every telling of "all the Truth" has to rely on an exception, on a secret that is withheld; the opposite case, the telling of non-all tr ...Kant was that he was not able to fully assume this paradox of finitude as constitutive of the ontological horizon: ultimately, he reduced transcendental horizon t
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...traying some [[perverse]] "totalitarian" twist, this [[identification]] is constitutive of democracy as such.<br><br> ...anti-Semitic figure of the Jew enables us to obfuscate the non-All of the constitutive [[social antagonism]], transposing it into the conflict between the social
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...ey define Jews in contrast to other "normal" groups, as their constitutive exception. ...of the DDR - his universal love was obviously grounded in its constitutive exception, the hatred of the enemies of [[socialism]].<br><br>
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  The same logic of exception applies also to [[economic]] relations. BBC reported, on December 21st, 200 ...sal into determinate [[reflection]]: "terrorist Islam," i.e., terrorism as constitutive of the very identity of Islam.<a name="8x"></a><a href="#8"><font color="#e
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...o be opposed to the carnivalesque [[reversal]] as a temporary respite, the exception stabilizing the hold of power.<br><br> ...network of "sub-systems," which is why a certain level of "alienation" is constitutive of social life, so that a totally self-transparent society is a utopia with
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• Parallax View
  ...istent, "antagonistic," every telling of "all the Truth" has to rely on an exception, on a secret that is withheld; the opposite case, the telling of non-all tr ...Kant was that he was not able to fully assume this paradox of finitude as constitutive of the ontological horizon: ultimately, he reduced transcendental horizon t
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  The same logic of exception applies also to [[economic]] relations. BBC reported, on December 21st, 200 ...sal into determinate [[reflection]]: "terrorist Islam," i.e., terrorism as constitutive of the very identity of Islam.8 - What makes Roudinesco's statement truly p
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...tructures reality for us. This dimension of the "big Other" is that of the constitutive alienation of the subject in the symbolic order: the big Other pulls the st ...f the tribe are not neutral, but are overdetermined by the fundamental and constitutive antagonistic split? By what Lévi-Strauss ingeniously calls the "zero-insti
  63 KB (10,769 words) - 14:59, 12 November 2006
• Anarchy
  ...very lack in the social itself - the lack that was irreducible and indeed, constitutive of the political itself . ...element of the politics is central. This disruptive element is based on a constitutive incommensurability or "disagreement" ( mésentente ) between the demos and
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  at the constitutive level of a subject who "is" a disjunction between Habermasians--though Dews is usually an exception here--Lacanians are some
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...'economy' is then evoked as a point of the real in and against — as the constitutive limit of — that superstructure. This also means that some Hegelian work h ...lready in place a 'subject supposed to believe' which is 'the fundamental, constitutive feature of the symbolic order'.<a name="74x"></a><a href="#74"><sup>74</sup
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...minine 'not-all', as opposed to a masculine 'universality produced through exception' (TN, 53-8), will have the widest implications for the rest of Zizek's work ...ereas 'it is man who is wholly submitted to the phallus (since positing an exception is the way to maintain its universal domination), only woman through the in
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom" border="0">with, of course, the silent exception of the Jews themselves: "the [[ideology]] that ethnocentrism was a [[form]] ..., vice versa, is the element that directly fits the universal not the true exception? Universality is not the neutral container of [[particular]] [[formations]]
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