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• The Act
  ...act]], "since to our [[knowledge]] there is no [[other]] [[act]] but the [[human]] one."<ref>{{S11}} p. 50</ref> [[Lacan]] dedicates a year of his [[seminar]] to discussing further the [[nature]] of the [[act|psychoanalytic act]].<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Semi
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• Imaginary
  ...the structure of the imaginary [[order]] and to the [[development]] of the human ego.</i> The basis of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is the [[mirror sta ...means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref>
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• Jouissance
  ...raw substance of enjoyment that reflects the primordial [[character]] of [[human]] drives and obsessions. ...nt against [[Hannah Arendt]] and her conclusion regarding the routinized [[nature]] of the extermination of [[Jews]] as a “banality of evil” ([[Arendt]]
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• Thing
  ...an objection to [[Lacan]]'s theories [[about]] the [[linguistic|linguistic nature]] of the [[unconscious]]. [[Lacan]] counters such objections by pointing o ...as ''[[thing|das Ding]]'' is seen as "the cause of the most fundamental [[human]] [[passion]]."<ref>{{S7}} p. 97</ref> Also, the fact that the [[Thing]] i
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• Mirror stage
  ...ef> It refers to a [[particular]] experiment which can differentiate the [[human]] [[infant]] from his closest [[animal]] relative, the chimpanzee. The six ...h occurs in the development of the child. It illustrates the conflictual [[nature]] of the [[dual]] relationship.<ref>{{S4}} p. 17</ref></blockquote>
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• Symbolic
  ...]], the "[[symbolic]]" is one of [[three]] [[order]]s that [[structure]] [[human]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[imaginary]] and the [[real] ...ic]] [[structure]]s is an essential feature of the human transition from [[nature]] to [[culture]].
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• Desire
  ...the fact of the [[prohibition]] to which [[sexuality]] is subjected in the human [[being]]. This prohibition is a structural [[cultural]] [[necessity]], no ...which is embedded in discourse, is an essential property of human desire. Human desire is the desire of the Other (over and above the [[others]] who are [[
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ses" of the Cheka, it was Lenin who defended it. (Figes p649) However, the nature of these so-called "excesses," as well as Lenin's reasons behind their defe ...itic of these practices, which he saw as a form of deification of a mere [[human]] being who could, and did, make mistakes. [http://www.marxists.org/archive
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• Demand
  ...]] of 1956-7, [[Lacan]] argues that the '''cry''' of the '''[[helplessness|human infant]]''' -- its '''call''' (''l'appel'') to the '''[[mother]]''' -- is n It is the [[symbolic|symbolic nature]] of the infant's screams which forms the kernel of [[Lacan]]'s [[concept]]
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• Perversion
  ...[human]] [[sexuality]], which is characterized by the [[absence]] of any [[nature|pregiven natural order]]. ...ally]] [[perversion|perverse]]; on the contrary, the [[perversion|perverse nature]] of [[perversion|homosexuality]] is entirely a question of its infringemen
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• Object
  ...t of the drive]] is [[contingency|contingent]] and is not defined by any [[nature|natural]] or predetermined [[purpose]]; [[sexual object]]-[[choice]] is det ...her and father clearly play an essential [[role]] in the creation of the [[human]] being's representational [[system]] from the very beginning of life. By c
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• Instinct
  ...vely rigid and invariable, and imply a direct relation to an [[object]], [[human]] [[sexuality]] is a matter of [[drives]], which are very variable and neve ...s earliest works, [[Lacan]] criticizes those who attempt to [[understand]] human [[behavior]] purely in terms of [[instinct]]s, arguing that this is to supp
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• Identification
  =====Human Subjectivity===== ...entification]] eventually came to denote "the operation itself whereby the human subject is constituted."<ref>Laplanche, Jean and Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand. '
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• Drive
  [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of the [[drive]] is central to his [[theory]] of [[human]] [[sexuality]]; it lies at the heart of his theory of [[sexuality]]. For [[Freud]], the distinctive feature of [[human]] [[sexuality]] -- as opposed to the [[sexual]] [[life]] of other animals -
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• Sexual Difference
  ...inition of these [[terms]], [[Freud]] limits himself to describing how a [[human]] [[subject]] comes to acquire [[masculine]] or [[feminine]] psychical char This is not an [[instinct]]ual or [[nature|natural]] [[process]], but a complex one in which [[anatomical]] difference
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• Fantasy
  ...ot imply a [[rejection]] of the fundamentally discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[b ...rly [[understood]] as a way of perceiving that is already stained by the [[human]] subject’s desire. Therefore, reality is already a [[subjective]] [[proc
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• Biology
  ...be misleading and will obliterate the essential [[distinction]] between [[nature]] and [[culture]]. ...re, according to [[Lacan]], the ''primacy'' of the [[symbolic order]] in [[human]] [[existence]]. [[Lacan]] sees this "[[biology|biologism]]" in the [[work]
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• Adaptation
  ...s early [[work]] in the 1930s on, [[Lacan]] opposes any attempt to explain human phenomena in terms of [[adaptation]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.158; {{Ec}} p. 171-2</re ...ntially excessive [[drive]] potential summed up in the [[death drive]]. [[Human]] [[being]]s are essentially [[maladaptive]].
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• Death
  ...[[death]], because "the [[signifier]] already considers him [[dead]], by [[nature]] it immortalizes him."<ref>{{S3}} p. 180</ref> The [[death|first death]] ends one [[human|human life]] but which does not put an end to the cycles of corruption and regene
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• Development
  ...l development]] and takes no account of the [[symbolic]] articulation of [[human]] [[sexuality]], thus ignoring the fundamental differences between [[drive] ...tal]]) are not observable [[biology|biological]] phenomena which develop [[nature|naturally]], such as the [[development|stage]]s of [[development|sensoriomo
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