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• Phallus
  ...mbolic [[exchange]], and such incompleteness frees up in [[The Subject|the subject]] her own jouissance. --> ...</ref> Both [[sexual difference|male]] and [[sexual difference|female]] [[subject]]s assume their [[sexual difference|sex]] via the [[phallus|symbolic phallu
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...]." He furthermore insisted that a member of the government should be paid no more than the salary of an average worker. ...War, No Peace", calling for a peace treaty only on the [[conditions]] that no territorial gains on either side be consolidated. After the negotiations co
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• Object
  No [[distinction]] is made between persons and inanimate things: individuals, ...into the part-object; the [[total]], [[narcissistic]], [[internal]], and [[external]] objects; the [[self]]-object; the object [[relationship]]; object choice;
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• Anxiety
  ...gst]]'') can have the [[psychiatric]] [[sense]] described above, but is by no means an exclusively technical term, [[being]] also in common use in ordina ...n]] relates [[anxiety]] to the [[threat]] of [[fragmentation]] which the [[subject]] confronts in the [[mirror stage]].
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• Signifier
  =====[[The Subject]] and the Unconscious===== ...which determine the [[subject]]; the effects of the [[signifier]] on the [[subject]] constitute the [[unconscious]], and hence also constitute the [[whole]] o
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• Signifying Chain
  ...y]] of [[desire]] is expressed through the associative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a cha ...nces. Thus it constitutes the [[design]] and the weave of the [[speaking]] subject's psychic fabric. More generally, it is involved in all psychic [[causality
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• The Subject
  What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? Descartes’ [[cogito]] is the basis of the subject – not as a substantial, [[transparent]] and fully [[self]]-[[conscious]]
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...central theme of the book. Freud's discussion of adult sexual aberrations links them to unexpected or abnormal events during childhood. He similarly unders ...y in infancy and childhood. Freud pointed to the lack of knowledge on this subject while noting, at the same time, that it would be sufficient to carefully ob
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• Psychiatry
  <!-- The following [[sentence]] has been the [[subject]] to extended debate. Do not make changes to it without first obtaining con ...ut for some conditions the [[etiology]] and [[pathogenesis]] are still the subject of intense research.
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• Semiotics
  ...rstanding|understood]]. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their The [[subject]] was originally spelled '''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...tablishing psychotherapy was his destiny, he told his wife that they could no longer engage in [[sexual relations]]. Indeed from about the age of forty u ...ake me when my time comes. Now it is [[nothing]] but [[torture]] and makes no [[sense]] any more." Schur administered three doses of morphine over many h
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• Roland Barthes
  ...outside]] of the actual work itself could never work. But since there are no [[symbols]] of constant and universal [[significance]], the entire premise ...h for a transcendental signified. He [[notes]] that in [[Japan]] there is no emphasis on a great focus point by which to judge all [[other]] standards,
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• Deconstruction
  ...nctly. When asked what deconstruction is, [[Derrida]] once stated, "I have no simple and formalizable response to this question. All my essays are attemp *While there is no doubting that principal [[figures]] associated with deconstruction in [[Fra
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...re of [[Existential despair|despair]] is one of the best accounts on the [[subject]] and has been emulated in subsequent philosophies, such as [[Martin Heideg ...onception of Christianity was in man's interest, rather than God's, and in no way was Mynster's life comparable to that of a 'truth-witness.'
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...trying to rethink [[Marxism]] without any reference to Hegel’s absolute subject, he sees Lacan as trying to [[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference ...appropriation of [[language]]; and it is language that constitutes us as a subject. Thus, we should not dichotomize the individual and society. Society inhabi
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives -, but Lenin, no, you can't be serious! The [[working]] [[class]] movement, revolutionary Pa ...imperceptibly transformed into a pseudo-[[psychoanalytic]] drama of the [[subject]] unable to confront its inner traumas… The [[true]] corruption of the Am
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]!"… I definitely prefer such naive immersion to the pseudo-sop ...dicament and step out to the surface of the Earth, what they find there is no longer the bright surface illuminated by the rays of the Sun, the supreme G
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...nic [[violence]] to the "apolitical" [[passivity]] of the [[postmodern]] [[subject]]), psychoanalysis cannot account for the miraculous emergence of an egalit ...tate-"state of things" versus "State" in the political [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the structure of society is r
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which move ...uch an assertion presupposes that my position of enunciation is that of an external observer who can grasp the whole of reality); it rather resides in the refl
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...eality, this awakening is not the opening into the wide [[space]] of the [[external]] reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each ...tries to explain to the still perplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he - he [[links]] it to a failure in the [[structure]] of the [[universe]]:
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