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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...eeted Freud's brief volume was primarily due to the second essay, in which he discussed sexuality in infancy and childhood. From a present-day perspectiv ...aberrations links them to unexpected or abnormal events during childhood. He similarly understands puberty as the sum of modifications acting upon infan
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...non in the USA. There are two million of them, mostly women, but also men, who cut themselves with razors. Why? It has nothing to do with masochism or sui ...kind of a spectral ghost. All this became apparent to those conservatives who were sensitive for the break of the new.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br clas
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• Postmodern Racism
  ...u have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Yes, the lesson of deconstructionism against [[universalism]] is that there are ...an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre
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• Clash of Civilizations
  ...u have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Yes, the lesson of deconstructionism against [[universalism]] is that there are ...an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...olitics, the idea to deal with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], there is [[freedom]] of t ...— it will be an act WITHIN the hegemonic ideological coordinates: those who "really want to do something to [[help]] people" get involved in (undoubted
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...on]], from the [[Lacanian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...n a kind of Real. [[Recall]] the phenomenon of "cutters" (mostly [[women]] who experience an irresistible urge to cut themselves with razors or otherwise
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...dern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked ...ause Jungian theory functioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan rei
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  .... A man in the late 20ies at my [[right]] was so immersed in the film that he all the [[time]] disturbed [[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, lik ...Carrey playing the small town clerk who gradually discovers the truth that he is the hero of a 24-hours permanent TV show: his hometown is constructed on
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...] which provides food and shelter, when he shows respect for his superiors who take care of him in a fatherly way, and so on and so on. And evil occurs wh ...s wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, even his own [[life]], he cannot be my disciple." Here, of course, I claim we are not dealing with a
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...inability to meet its inexorable [[demands]], like the proverbial teacher who tortures pupils with [[impossible]] tasks and secretly savors their failing ...bear in [[mind]] is that the focus of Lacan is always Kant, not Sade: what he is interested in are the ultimate consequences and disavowed premises of th
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...the discourse gave you the opportunity to [[identify]] yourself as the one who might get rich next. Wealth was [[right]] around the corner…maybe. SZ: Yes, that was enough; it was even proven by [[sociology]] polls. [[People]] act
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...[[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spinozist [[dream]], what he called "love of God'' or "perfect [[rational]] knowledge," which is a kind ...It is like with tobacco, the Spinozist doesn't say, "Don't smoke," he/she says "Smoke, but… ." You have this warning, "Nicotine can be dangerous to your
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...fectively cutting the throat of his "[[enemy]]"…). Against the theorists who [[fear]] that cyberspace involves the [[regression]] to a kind of psychotic ...subject's past so that his girlfriend would not have [[left]] him, or that he would not have failed the crucial exam; yet whatever we do, the outcome is
  31 KB (4,862 words) - 00:35, 21 May 2019
• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...nist dismissal of the alleged Marxist "[[essentialism]]"; on the contrary, he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form ...tuation is the [[Church]]; and its "subject" is the [[corps]] of believers who intervene in their situation on behalf of the Truth-Event, searching for th
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...act of supreme irony, his [[confession]] was dated September 30 1976) that he proposed the compromise date in order to disguise the [[existence]] of an u ...s utter seriousness (he is talking about his possible [[suicide]], and why he will not commit it, since it could hurt the Party, but will rather go on wi
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...self as serving real needs of real people? The originality of Marx is that he played on both cards simultaneously: the origin of capitalist crises is the ...tual capitalist not function in a homologous way: his "net value" at zero, he directly operates just with the surplus borrowing from the [[future]].
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...valent/expression of the power of the [[working]] [[class]], then everyone who opposes me is “objectively” an [[enemy]] of the [[working class]]). Aga ...he notion of the “psychological” [[subject]] endowed with propensities he or she strives to realize. This especially holds today, in the era of what
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...husser]]'s [[text]] on [[Machiavelli]], la solitude de Lenine: a time when he stood alone, struggling against the current in his own party. When, in his ...are afraid to take the second step of overcoming the old forms, are those who (in Robespierre's [[words]]) [[want]] a "[[revolution without revolution]]"
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...e guest is each [[time]] an ordinary (or, exceptionally, wellknown) person who made a peculiar choice that determined his or her entire lifestyle. For exa ...Lenin's obsessive tirades against formal freedom worth saving today; when he underlines that there is no pure [[democracy]], that we should always ask w
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...re Saddam's victims, and they would be really glad to get rid of [[them]]. He was such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in WHATE ...]]" in a patronizing way) an Eastern European from a [[Communist]] country who longs for Western [[liberal]] democracy and some consumerist goods… Howev
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