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• Psychoanalytic Theory
  ...f [[Psychological trauma|trauma]] through [[literary]] studies informed by philosophy, [[psychology]], [[neurology]], and [[Freudian]] and [[Lacanian]] theory).
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• Sigmund Freud
  ..., [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widel ...She presented with symptoms such as paralysis of the limbs, [[Dissociative identity disorder|split personality]] and amnesia; today these symptoms are known as
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...whose [[complete]] works he edited in Italian [[translation]]. Agamben's [[philosophy]] draws from [[Michel Foucault]] as well as from Italian neo-[[marxist]] th ...[[other]] occupied countries was made possible by the photos taken from [[identity cards]] {{ref|Lemonde_2005}}. Furthermore, Agamben's political criticisms o
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• Roland Barthes
  ...arliest work was very much a reaction to the trend of [[existentialist]] [[philosophy]] that was prominent during the [[1940s]], specifically towards the figureh ...quired an avoidance of any labels that might carry an implied meaning or [[identity]] towards a given [[object]]. Even carefully crafted neutral writing could
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• Judith Butler
  ...ade major contributions to [[feminism]], queer [[theory]], [[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of [[Rhe Butler’s ''[[Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity]]'' (1990) is frequently cited as one of the most influential books of the
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...rmation. Included in the term are certain areas of speculative research ([[philosophy]] of [[mind]]), artificial intelligence, semantic, syntactic, and lexical m ...is more [[recent]] (M. C. Hardy-Baylé, 1996) and is based on work in the philosophy of mind and a renewed interest in [[phenomenology]] as well as on expert sy
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• Deconstruction
  ...is used in contemporary [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' that [[meaning]] is constructed and The term ''deconstruction'' in the context of Western philosophy is highly resistant to [[formal]] definition. [[Martin Heidegger]] was perh
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• German Idealism
  '''[[German]] [[Idealism]]''' was a [[philosophy|philosophical]] movement in [[Germany]] in the late [[eighteenth century|ei ...known indirectly. This is the meaning that should be associated with the [[philosophy]] of German Idealism.
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...re received. Lacan's [[insistence]] that all notions of a [[stable]] fixed identity are a [[fiction]] rather than [[biologically]] given were seen to provide f ...ndermines any stable or fixed identity and that includes a stable [[sexual identity]]. For early Lacan, sexual difference is not a question of biology but of [
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...f his work: the relation between self and language; problems of self and [[identity]]; the main theoretical differences between Lacan and Freud; the influence
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...d to the freedom to choose your lifestyle. You can even choose your ethnic identity up to a point.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></ ...xmlns:script="urn:my-script-blocks">Dr Slavoj Žižek</b> is professor of philosophy at University Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is currently a member of the Director
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ..., the [[need]] to constrain abstract [[citizenship]] on behalf of ethnic [[identity]], etc.). However, the hegemonic liberal democracy is using this fact to [[ ...ound familiar? Is this, in the [[Anglo-Saxon]] [[tradition]] of analytical philosophy, not the basic position of [[Karl Popper]], the archetypal anti-[[Hegelian]
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  [[Philosophy]] Today; Celina; 1999; Volume: 43. ...uter network, it is easy to imagine an evil programmer erasing our digital identity and thus depriving us of our social existence, turning us into non-persons.
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...t) and the "subject of the [[enunciated]] (statement)" (the [[symbolic]] [[identity]] the subject assumes within and via his statement): Kant does not address Lacan himself pointed the way out of this deadlock by referring to Kant's [[philosophy]] as the crucial antecedent of the [[psychoanalytic]] ethics of the duty "b
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...gh the Other. The gesture of criticism here consists in the assertion of [[identity]]: no, it is YOU who believes through the Other (in the theological whimsie ...olic]] and the Real? In the case of (symbolic) belief, you [[disavow]] the identity (you do not recognize yourself in the belief which is yours); in the case o
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ial, contingent.<ref>See F.W.J. von Schelling, <i>On the History of Modern Philosophy</i>, Cambridge: CUP, 1994.</ref> It is precisely insofar as woman is chara ...as the passage from [[being]] to having? That is to say, in Schelling's [[philosophy]], (what previously was) a Being becomes a predicate of a higher Being; (wh
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...'t see anything very revolutionary in this return to Spinoza. Contemporary philosophy is [[conscious]] of what we were just discussing, that is, of the Spinozist You formulate your [[identity]] on the fantasy that the Other is the one who automatically wants to steal
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...al social body, fixing the rules of political competition, etc. `Political philosophy' is thus, in all its different shapes, a kind of `[[defence]]-[[formation]] ...cized). To put it in Hegel's terms, what is crucial is their speculative [[identity]], i.e. the `infinite judgement', `Humanitarian depoliticized compassion is
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...tuation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysis cannot provide access to the specif ...s not yet well-known in Anglo-American academia, the basic outlines of his philosophy will be rehearsed here prior to offering a [[Lacanian]] response to his dep
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...tterns of interaction, from the forms of sexual partnership up to ethnic [[identity]] itself, have to be renegotiated or reinvented.<ref>See Ulrich Beck, [[Wor ...are to survive we have to change our most fundamental notions of personal identity, society, [[environment]], and so forth. New Age wisdom claims that we are
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