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• The Act
  ...ng, sacrifice their Cause in the [[name]] of [[nothing]]: Medea of Greek [[tragedy]] and her contemporary [[counterpart]], Sethe in Toni Morison’s ''Beloved
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  Lenin distinguished himself in the study of [[Latin]] and [[Greek language|Greek]]. Two tragedies occurred early in his [[life]]. The first occurred when hi ...eviks, had its roots in a popular anger against the privileged. (A Peoples Tragedy, pp524-5) When in late 1918 Kamenev and Bukharin tried to curb the "excess
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...to whom he will dedicate his 1932 doctoral thesis with a line of thanks in Greek, the other dedicatee [[being]] his brother. Clinical training at the [[Pari ...ts an ethics for our time, an ethics that would prove to be equal to the [[tragedy]] of modern man and to the "discontent of [[civilization]]" (Freud). At the
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...later placed in the crematorium's [[columbarium]]. They rest in an ancient Greek urn which Freud had received as a [[present]] from [[Marie Bonaparte]] and ...reud named his new theory the [[Oedipus complex]] after the famous [[Greek tragedy]] ''[[Oedipus the King|Oedipus Rex]]'' by [[Sophocles]]. “I found in mys
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  The [[Oedipus complex]] refers to the [[Greece|ancient Greek]] [[tragedy]] ([[myth]]) by [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus Rex]'', in which Oedipus unwitti ...in his Introductory Lectures (Twenty-First Lecture): "You all [[know]] the Greek legend of King [[Oedipus]], who was destined by fate to kill his father and
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...e Middle Ages, we in the Western [[Europe]] regained access to our Ancient Greek legacy. While in no way excusing today's horror acts, these facts nonethele ...? The moment one thinks in the [[terms]] of "yes, the WTC collapse was a [[tragedy]], but one should not fully solidarize with the victims, since this would m
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• Opera
  ...d the New Bayreuth explosion of radical modernism: ascetic, pseudo Ancient Greek tunics, empty [[stages]] with strong lights and just some minimal simple [[ ...- is more and more emerging as an insurpassable canon, comparable only to Greek tragedies and [[Shakespeare]]: not a foundation with a fixed [[meaning]], b
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...ene superego supplement is accompanying its [[public]] [[message]]. In old Greek and Roman [[religions]], the public text was always supplemented by [[secre ...s that we shall get the standard Hollywood narrative in which the larger [[tragedy]] (the bus accident) just offers the background for the true focus, the pro
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...uicidal jump of the Sphynxh representing the disintegration of the old pre-Greek [[universe]]); and it is in Hamlet's "distortion" of the Oedipus that its r ...the minimal melodramatic flair of Hamlet. That is to say, in contrast to [[tragedy]] which is based on some [[misrecognition]] or [[ignorance]], melodrama alw
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• Oedipus complex
  The complex is named after [[Oedipus]], a prominent [[figure]] in Greek mythology who unwittingly killed his [[father]] and [[married]] his [[mothe ...his father and married his mother. Taking his cue from the ancient Greek [[tragedy]] by [[Sophocles]], [[Oedipus Rex]], where [[Oedipus]] unwittingly kills hi
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...The moment we [[think]] in the [[terms]] of "Yes, the WTC collapse was a [[tragedy]], but we should not fully solidarize with the victims, since this would me ...itude (recall St. [[Paul]]'s famous [[statement]], "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew" [Col. 3:11]) involves is a thorough [[exclusion]] of those who do
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• Desire, Life and Death
  ...incidence. [[Another]] one could have been chosen, since all the heroes of Greek mythology have some sort of connection with this [[myth]], they embody it u ...appens in the case of Oedipus. As everything right from the start of the [[tragedy]] goes to show, Oedipus is nothing more than the scum of the earth, the ref
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• Antigone Between Two Deaths
  ...It has occurred to some commentators to cast doubt on this side of the tragedy in the name of the so called unity of the character represented as the cold ...ndicated, is manifestly correlated to the moment of crossing over.</u> The Greek word is used here in its proper [[sense]], which is directly related to the
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• Catharsis
  '''Catharsis''', [[Latin]] from the Greek '''Katharsis''' 'purification', is a sudden [[emotion]]al breakdown or clim ...[[form]] of [[emotion]]al cleansing first defined by the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[philosopher]] [[Aristotle]].
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• Stalinism
  ...square /tetragonos/, without fault..." (The intermediary link between this Greek [[notion]] and the [[Communist]] one is none [[other]] than Kazimir Malevic ...d were also ruthlessly exterminated in the great purges); however, their [[tragedy]] was that they were not able to perceive in the Stalinist terror the ultim
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...The moment we [[think]] in the [[terms]] of "Yes, the WTC collapse was a [[tragedy]], but we should not fully solidarize with the victims, since this would me ...itude (recall St. [[Paul]]'s famous [[statement]], "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew" [Col. 3:11]) involves is a thorough [[exclusion]] of those who do
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• Oedipus at Colonus
  ...incidence. [[Another]] one could have been chosen, since all the heroes of Greek mythology have some sort of connection with this [[myth]], they embody it u ...appens in the case of Oedipus. As everything right from the start of the [[tragedy]] goes to show, Oedipus is nothing more than the scum of the earth, the ref
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• Post-Lacanians
  ...Freud, and Lacan after him, connects the unconscious, in a detour through Greek myth, inextricably with the [[family]] and the ideological investments inhe
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• Anthropological Theory and Criticism
  ...rimitive [[ritual]]. The [[civilized]] [[myth]] and [[literature]] of high Greek culture was evolved from vital primitive [[rituals]] that reflected [[prima ...sical [[material]] through a comparative study of the ritual beginnings of Greek and Shakespearean drama, and this was followed by Jessie Weston’s From Ri
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• Jacques Lacan:Biography
  <!-- with a line of thanks in Greek, the other dedicatee [[being]] his brother --> ...ts an ethics for our time, an ethics that would prove to be equal to the [[tragedy]] of modern man and to the "discontent of [[civilization]]" (Freud). At the
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