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• Object
  It is the [[theory]] of [[object]]s that provides the [[intellectual]] basis for the [[object-relations]] [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis]]. The [[sexual]] [[object]] of a [[drive]] may, for [[instance]], be a person; its aim, or the act towards which the [[drive]]
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...rs the [[discourse]] of the Master and is thereby [[castrated]] ab initio. For Lacan "the [[death]] of the father is the key to supreme jouissance, later ...n). [[Three]] questions: the rapport between jouissance and the [[desire]] for unfulfilled desire; the hysteric who makes man - fait l'[[homme]] or the Ma
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• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...ks, though today it is usually read more as a "[[cultural artifact]]" than for its theories. ...he first posited in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' and the [[idea]] of a [[death instinct]] first developed in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]''.
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• Violence
  ...ed why, he says: 'I [[know]] I lost it over there, but it's easier to look for it here.' ...ht. You have to [[return]] violence with violence. The problem is not that for me, but that this war can never be a solution.
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• Voyeurism
  ..., he provided a [[metapsychology|metapsychological]] explanation for the [[instinct]] of [[look]]ing, which involved the voyeur-[[exhibitionism|exhibitionist]] ...cificity of [[voyeurism]] is important because of the vicissitude of the [[instinct]] of looking rather than its [[role]] in perversions.
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• Anarchy
  ...in non-[[utopian]] and non-essentialist [[terms]]. It concludes by calling for a new [[form]] of radical politics that seeks to avoid the [[discourse]] of ...], and to what extent it can provide a coherent [[theoretical]] foundation for a radical critique of existing political practices, discourses and institut
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  <b>[To imagine one understands is for one to suppose that one is able to grasp the [[whole]], to assimilate it to <br>It isn't enough for it to seem to hang together, a text. Obviously, it hangs together within th
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• Death Instinct
  ...] [[world]] through the musculature in the drive for [[destruction]] and [[mastery]] or the will to [[power]]: this is sadism proper; the part that remains "[ ...te things existed before living ones</i>" and that "everything living dies for <i>[[internal]]</i> reasons" (p. 38). Drawing on August Weismann's differen
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• Cruelty
  ...nce" (p. 169) that constitutes "one of the erotogenic roots of the passive instinct of cruelty" (p. 193). Freud also refers to [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]'s [[me ...rive towards the object. Whereas the drive for cruelty, like the drive for mastery, is characterized by indifference on the part of the [[subject]] to the [[f
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• Libidinal Development
  ...unctioning. These essays invite us to follow the evolution of the sexual [[instinct]] in the individual in accordance with specific phases of psychic organizat ...later in life in certain adult perversions ([[voyeurism]] and [[sadism]], for [[instance]]). But this predisposition could also "be regarded as the sourc
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• Mastery
  ...al stage]]: [[order]], [[economy]], and obstinacy. All three are marked by mastery, and they result from the [[sublimation]] of anal erotism. ...possible to see, throughout this [[chain]], the importance of phenomena of mastery in gifts, indebtedness, and exchanges.
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• Activity
  ...[[terms]] "activity" and "passivity" were already in use before [[Freud]]. For example, Richard von Krafft-Ebbing used [[them]] to compare [[sadism]] and For both paired opposites, "[[Instincts]] and Their Vicissitudes" (Freud, 1915c
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• Hatred
  ...hat "[[Hate]], as a relation to objects, is older than [[love]]" (p. 139), for this [[feeling]] originates in the ego's [[self]]-preservation instincts ra ...reservation instincts and that both the will to [[power]] and the urge for mastery originate in hatred; before the [[genital stage]], self-preservation of the
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• Outline
  ...entries are listed alphabetically within each [[category]] or subcategory. For ease of reference, one entry may be listed under several categories. Clinging [[instinct]]
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• Instinct of Violence
  ...instinct, but a natural life and survival instinct that corresponds to the instinct of [[self]]-preservation in Sigmund [[Freud]]'s first [[theory]] of the [[i ...icissitudes]]" (1915c) as [[being]] common to [[humans]] and animals. This instinct's [[goal]] is above all to protect life and the [[narcissistic]] integrity
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• Lacan and Language
  for unsatisfied desire, 280, 306, 320323 [[Death instinct, see Death drive Debt, 78, 100, 140, 141
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• Ethology and psychoanalysis
  ...hology]] is a [[biology]] of [[behavior]]. It has developed a nomenclature for describing the behavior of all [[living]] things in their [[natural]] [[env ...veloped the [[concept]] of ego organizers and showed how the [[child]]'s [[mastery]] of the head-shake, [[meaning]] "No," marks the behavioral emergence of th
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• Politics and Psychoanalysis
  ...h of the sexual [[drive]], the [[death]] drive, and the [[instinct]] for [[mastery]] exercises an implacable [[determinism]] throughout [[existence]], social ...thought remains an inexhaustible resource, even when contested or misused, for original [[psycho]]-political constructs.
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• Politics and psychoanalysis
  ...thought remains an inexhaustible resource, even when contested or misused, for original [[psycho]]-political constructs. Some of these include the researc ...ich, Wilhelm. (1945). [[Character]]-analysis: Principles and [[technique]] for [[psychoanalysts]] in practice and in [[training]]. (Theodore P. Wolfe, Tra
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• Doubt
  ...sional neurotics]] . . . is the need for uncertainty in their [[life]], or for doubt" (1909d, p. 232). ...ation]] of the [[instinct]] for [[mastery]] as sublimated into an instinct for [[knowledge]] (1913i, p. 324).
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