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• Jacques Lacan
  ...pact on [[critical theory]], [[literary theory]], twentieth-century French philosophy, [[sociology]], [[feminist]] theory and [[clinical]] psychoanalysis. <blockquote>''[[Chronology|Click here for a more complete chronology of '''Jacques Lacan''''s life]].''</blockquote>
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• Four Discourses
  ...st]] [[Jacques Lacan]] argued that there were '''four''' fundamental types of '''discourse'''. ...[[master signifier]], [[knowledge]] and [[objet petit a]]. The four types of discourse were: the [[Master]]'s, the [[University]]'s, the [[Hysteric]]'s,
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• Language
  It is important to note that the English word "[[language]]" corresponds to two [[French]] [[words]]: ''[[langue]]'' and ''[[langage] ...ench or [[English]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]] languages.
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• Subject
  The term "[[subject]]" is [[present]] from the very earliest of [[Lacan]]'s [[psychoanalytic]] writings,<ref>{{1932}}</ref> and from 1945 o ...ctive feature of [[Lacan]]'s work, since the term does not constitute part of [[Freud]]'s [[theoretical]] [[vocabulary]], but is more associated with [[p
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• Being
  =====Metaphysical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory===== =====Metaphysics and Philosophy=====
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• Truth
  [[Truth]] is one of the most central, and yet most [[complex]] [[terms]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[disco ...c]] [[treatment]] is to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate the [[truth]] of his or her [[desire]].
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of [[psychoanalysis]]. In 1936, [[Lacan]] presents his paper on the [[mirror stage]] at a conference of the '''[[International Psychoanalytical Association]]''' ([[IPA]]) in [[Mar
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• The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
  ...of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. ...nd compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language.
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• On Belief
  What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are ...eligious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers th
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• Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
  ...egies of the [[Left]] in a globalized [[economy]], and the relative merits of post-structumalism and [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis]] for a critical [[soc ...ony]], [[Universality]]'' benefits additionally from their clear [[sense]] of [[energy]] and [[enjoyment]] in a revealing and often unpredictable [[excha
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• Jacques Lacan Books2
  ...e]]</b> and <a href="papin.htm"><b>[[Motives of Paranoiac Crime: The Crime of the Papin Sisters]]</b></a>, transl. by Jon Anderson in <i>Critical [[Texts ...l. by B. Fink and M. Silver in Ellie Ragland-Sullivan (ed.), <i>Newsletter of the [[Freudian]] Field</i>, vol.2, 1988.<br>&nbsp;</font>
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...]] [[complex]] Lacan only saves the paternal [[metaphor]] and the [[Name]]-of-the-Father which "is positioned where knowledge [[acts]] as truth. [[Psycho ...herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absent]] from the field of the signifier.
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• Seminar I
  ...knowledge]] is gained. [[Psychoanalysis]] is a [[dialectic]]s, an [[art]] of conversation."''</span> ...' instead of ''négation''. The question here deals with how the [[return of the repressed]] operates. According to [[Freud]], the [[repress]]ed is int
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• Semiotics
  ...a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. ==Clarification of terms==
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• Eros
  '''Eros''' is the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[word]] for (especially) romantic or "[[Human sexual behavior|sexu ...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]).
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. ..., [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widel
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• Critical theory
  ...ng an umbrella term for an array of theories within the academic [[world]] of the United Kingdom and the [[United States]]. This article focuses primari ...] science, [[anthropology]], and [[psychology]]. Although this conception of critical theory originated with the Frankfurt [[School]], it also prevails
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• Roland Barthes
  ...riette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], learning p ...l for teaching positions, Barthes later professed an intentional avoidance of major degree-awarding universities throughout his career.
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• Judith Butler
  ...ments of [[Rhetoric]] and Comparative [[Literature]] at the [[University]] of California, Berkeley. She also has a professorial appointment at the Europe ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek==
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).
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