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• Jouissance
  ...his involves an effort to link in a [[chain]], the isolated, persecuting [[signifiers]] in order to initiate a place for the subject outside the ''jouissance'' o ...alysis is that while enjoyment is experienced as Real, it is ultimately an empty [[spectre]], a kind of anamorphic effect of symbolic circumscription. Again
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• Language
  ...rgues that the [[unconscious]] is, like [[language]], a [[structure]] of [[signifiers]], which also allows [[Lacan]] to formulate the [[category]] of the [[symbo ...attend to the [[formal]] features of the [[analysand]]'s [[speech]] (the [[signifiers]]), and not be sidetracked into an empathic attitude baseed on an [[imagina
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• Structure
  ...myth]], the discovery of fixed relations between loci which are themselves empty.<ref>[[Lévi-Strauss]] 1955</ref>
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• Signification
  [[Signification]] is [[imaginary]] and is the province of [[speech|empty speech]]; [[meaning]] is [[symbolic]] and is the province of [[speech|full
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• Seminar:Transference
  ...aspect ([[repetition]]) it helps the cure [[progress]] by revealing the [[signifiers]] of the [[subject]]'s [[history]]. He argues that in its [[imaginary]] asp ...ead of making love, in the end desire, which has been purified, is but the empty [[place]] where the [[barred]] subject accesses desire. We should note that
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• Seminar VIII
  ...aking [[love]], in the end [[desire]], which has been purified, is but the empty [[place]] where the [[barred]] [[subject]] accesses [[desire]]. We should ...s, the [[phallus]], the [[symbol]] of [[desire]]." [[Desire]] is only its empty place.
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  Just as the [[phallus]] is an 'empty' signifier - it is a signifier of lack and has no positive [[content]] - th ...both subject to the imposition of the symbolic order and the networks of [[signifiers]].
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...[[missing]] from the symbolic and all other representations, images and [[signifiers]] are no more than attempts to fill this gap. In [[seminar VII]] Lacan [[id ...ing]] subjects. The [[space]] of fantasy, writes Žižek, 'functions as an empty surface, as a kind of [[screen]] for the [[projection]] of desires' (1992:8
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...by the signifiers, i.e. on whose behalf signifiers "act," who acts through signifiers… ...re void with no positive substantial content. The Lacanian subject is thus empty in the radical sense of being deprived of even the minimal phenomenological
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...ucture of the situation must be redoubled in [[the symbolic]] network of [[signifiers]].) When a situation is thus "counted as One," [[identified]] by its symbol ...e emancipated society, etc.). The denomination of the Truth-Event is thus "empty" precisely insofar as it refers to the "fullness" yet to come.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...a purely formal function which is neither noumenal nor phenomenal - it is empty, no phenomenal intuition corresponds to it, since, if it were to appear to ...n is that of a simple frame: all that has to intervene into the Real is an empty frame, so that the same things we saw before "directly" are now seen throug
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...they just relate in a kind of pre-symbolic cross-resonance. They are not [[signifiers]], neither the famous Hitchcockian stains, but elements of what, a decade o ...re mean? The Hitcocockian answer is: nothing - yet this nothing was not an empty nothing, but the fullness of libidinal investment, a tick which gave body t
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...ucture of the situation must be redoubled in [[the symbolic]] network of [[signifiers]].) When a situation is thus "counted as One," [[identified]] by its symbol ...e emancipated society, etc.). The denomination of the Truth-Event is thus "empty" precisely insofar as it refers to the "fullness" yet to come.
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• Anarchy
  ...ch there is always a gap between the universal and particular, between the empty place of the universal and the particular identity that attempts, ultimatel ...rtsmanship and athleticism (Klein, 2001, p 56) - thus creating a series of signifiers that we are expected to conform to, and through which we come to understand
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...s the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signifiers]] whose meaning is 'quilted' or determined by another but also that signifi ...nifier aspires to a kind of [[ideal]] emptiness, as it makes more and more signifiers equivalent to it; but in the end it is unable to escape the original contex
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...s unrealizable 'democracy', in which the locus of power must always remain empty (TK, 267-70), to an admiration for such figures as Lenin, who were willing ...'contraction' of the primordial void in Schelling (IR, 22-7). It is that 'empty' speech that for Lacan precedes and makes possible 'full' or authentic spee
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty,<br> to visual signifiers (nautical signals, etc.) which can offer simul-<br>
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...e]] to [[Left]]ist [[workers]]' opposition) recognized themselves in the [[empty signifier]] "Solidarnosc." ...[[equivalences]] which they totalize a large [[number]] of "[[floating]]" signifiers. Laclau mobilizes this [[gap]] between the "[[ontological]]" need for a po
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• Overview
  ...hat might exile it from there." If the symbolic is a set of differentiated signifiers, the real is in itself undifferentiated: "it is without fissure". The symbo ...s in complete command of its destiny, Zizek proposes that the cogito is an empty space, what is left when the rest of the world is expelled from itself. The
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• Function of Language
  ...age and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]]. ...ta. To put this in [[another]] way: biological 'facts' become [[signifiers|signifiers.]] Language, even for the non-[[speaking]] [[infant]], is already there in
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