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• Liberation Hurts
  ...d, what is not. For example, this abstract Jewish spirituality is in; in [[other]] circles, some kind of a pagan spirituality is in. Of course, as you hinte ...ief is something more paradoxical. Do you [[remember]] how we greeted each other the [[first time]]? Let's say we said "Hello, how are you? Nice to meet you
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• Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies
  ...s what [[Lacan]] called [[gaze]] as [[objet]] [[petit a]], the part of our image which eludes the mirror-like symmetrical [[relationship]]. When we see ours
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...s companion, 'What is in that unusual package you are carrying there?' The other man replies, 'That is a MacGuffin.' 'What is a MacGuffin?' asks the first. ...nded in a benevolent paternalism which takes into account the interests of other nations and their people, it reserves for itself the ultimate right to DEFI
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...radical [[dimension]] of freedom and [[democracy]] has been removed - in [[other]] [[words]], the [[belief]] that basic decisions [[about]] [[social]] [[dev ...e end in a [[sexual]] [[encounter]], when you practically [[torture]] each other to [[death]]. There must be extreme [[violence]] for that encounter to be a
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...he Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] ...first group that they have the free choice to say no, and one says to the other group [[nothing]], in BOTH groups, the SAME (very high) percentage will agr
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...tions of the primordial father's incestuous destructive impulses against [[other]] men who might threaten his symbiosis with the daughter. ...erself, since she only [[exists]] as the Other's [[dream]], insofar as the Other's fantasies turn around her - it is this predicament that imposes suicide a
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• You May!
  ...[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impulses, from [[s ...d is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ies at my right was so immersed in the film that he all the time disturbed other spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no realit ...es of 0 and 1, of passing and non-passing of the electrical signal. On the other hand, this very digital machine generates the "simulated" experience of rea
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  ...on of the unconditional iconoclastic [[monotheism]]: God is One, totally [[Other]], with anthropomorphic (say, old Greek gods fornicated, cheated, and engaged in other ordinary
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...etal situation): this element is presented, but not re-presented. On the [[other]] hand, there is an excess of re-presentation over presentation: the [[agen ...s defining a specific [[community]] at the expense of excluding members of other communities), while divine grace is truly universal (i.e., nonexclusionary)
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...now]] that his loving followers have (always-already) betrayed him. On the other hand, this means that the father "really thinks that he is a father," that ...se with still a [[semblance]] of an ultimate [[harmony]] between the [[big Other]] (the [[symbolic order]]) and jouissance, and the notion of a macrocosm re
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...[[death]], the absolute, [[ethical]] Japan. Then there is the [[leftist]] image, from Eisenschtein already: the semiotic Japan. The empty [[signs]], no Wes ...he rich and Sony for the poor. Twenty years later this was of course the [[other]] way round. Then there is the Kojevian Japan. First for [[Kojeve]] the end
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
  ...ur reality — on condition that we do not forget to [[supplement]] this [[image]] from the manifesto with its inherent [[dialectical]] opposite, the "spiri
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  party that saved Slovenia from the fate of the [[other]] former Yugoslav republics, other hand, if some nationalist poet publishes a small poem in some obscure
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  .... The machine thinks for you: just by observing it you can enjoy how the [[other]] does it for you — again this is the ultimate Spinozist [[vision]], [[pa ...a refined form of semi-prostitution. No, the idea of minitel is "sex is an Other." You type in your password but you do not [[communicate]] with a paid pros
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...nstrates that the Foucauldian "[[body]]" as the site of resistance is none other than the [[Freudian]] "psyche." Paradoxically, "body" is [[Foucault]]'s [[n If the unconscious escapes from a given normative [[injunction]], to what other injunction does it [[form]] an attachment? What makes us [[think]] that the
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...ks and choices were thus nicely distributed. In the [[risk society]], in [[other]] [[words]], some (the Enron managers) have the choices, while [[others]] ( ...tion]] on the part of the Western powers - and direct attacks on the US or other representatives of the new [[global order]], in which [[case]], again, we d
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...he Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] ...first group that they have the free choice to say no, and one says to the other group [[nothing]], in BOTH groups, the SAME (very high) percentage will agr
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...ms to be something like a cybernetic insect [[state]], combining the old [[image]] of the parasitic [[alien]] with a man-[[machine]] [[relationship]] which ...ollective mind, while on the [[other]] hand you have this positive New Age image. There are two opposite versions, but what I'm tempted to disagree with is
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• Illusion
  ...orality]]"—hope and expectation in one case, real [[certainty]] on the [[other]]. In other [[words]] even if for Freud religion is a "serious [[enemy]]" of science, i
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