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• Overview
  ...e Lacan's three registers of the [[Imaginary]], the [[Symbolic]] and the [[Real]]. ...with language, since the latter is involved also in the imaginary and the real. The symbolic dimension of language is that of the signifier, in which elem
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• Function of Language
  ...ation, but instead as sources of meaning. The facts of [[desire]] are as [[real]] to the [[subject]] as the facts of [[nature]] viewed by positive [[scienc ...conscious]] of what they are doing when they [[speak]]. In contrast, the [[Lacanian]] view of language centres round the [[lack]] of [[mastery]] of the speakin
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• Books/Peter Mathews/Lacan the Charlatan
  ...repeated by many [[other]] critics. Examining the arguments of key anti-[[Lacanian]] critics, Mathews weighs and contextualizes the legitimacy of Lacan’s en ** From the Symbolic to the Real
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• Lacan: A Genealogy
  ...le, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment. ...e Beistegui offers us an extensive and intriguing genealogy of the central Lacanian concept of desire. On the one hand this genealogy is undertaken in Foucauld
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...Lacan replies that it is "because it is the most tangible element in the [[real]] of sexual copulation, and also the most symbolic in the literal (typograp ...uity, oscillating as it does between its role as signifier and its role as real
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...self to transgressing its limits. But whenever the sublime Thing comes for real into the [[world]], it appears necessarily in error and goes against the ru ...bversive in this Kundera-like private space, but that the ideal subject of real [[socialism]] was precisely the one who did not believe in the system, who
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ===The [[Real]]=== ...ften dreamt of just such a scenario and, in his [[dream]], this had seemed real to him. However, even if the dream itself were an [[illusion]], what of the
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• Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary Father
  ...tinction]] between the actual father and the function of the father in its real, [[symbolic]], and [[imaginary]] instances. In the [[reality]] of the [[chi ...k an incestuous jouissance in the child. Still more broadly conceived, the real father is any [[being]] that, either in reality or by means of its reality,
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• Subject's Castration
  [[Lacanian]] notions of [[castration]] are linked to [[frustration]] and [[deprivation ...For him, [[links]] and attacks, the breast and the penis, are always quite real—even if their reality is only [[fantasmatic]].
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• Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic Father
  ...tinction]] between the actual father and the function of the father in its real, [[symbolic]], and [[imaginary]] instances. In the [[reality]] of the [[chi ...up to [[the imaginary]] father, to which they are inevitably compared, the real father also partially represents for the child the [[category]] of the [[im
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• Desire of the subject
  ...term <i>[[Wunsch]]</i> ([[wish]]), [[desire]] went on to become a major [[Lacanian]] [[concept]]. For [[Lacan]] as well as for [[Freud]], desire is the [[subj ...tected the paternal function, which he was deprived of by the death of the real father, and that was the origin of the dream. The desire of the dream was t
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• Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic father
  ...tinction]] between the actual father and the function of the father in its real, [[symbolic]], and [[imaginary]] instances. In the [[reality]] of the [[chi ...k an incestuous jouissance in the child. Still more broadly conceived, the real father is any [[being]] that, either in reality or by means of its reality,
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• Castration of the subject
  [[Lacanian]] notions of [[castration]] are linked to [[frustration]] and [[deprivation ...For him, [[links]] and attacks, the breast and the penis, are always quite real—even if their reality is only [[fantasmatic]].
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• Subject's desire
  ...term <i>[[Wunsch]]</i> ([[wish]]), [[desire]] went on to become a major [[Lacanian]] [[concept]]. For [[Lacan]] as well as for [[Freud]], desire is the [[subj ...[[paternal function]], which he was deprived of by the [[death]] of the [[real]] father, and that was the origin of the dream. The desire of the dream was
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• Zen
  ...orous to the influences and implications of these other perspectives. Both Lacanian and Jungian ideas not only bear the traces of these other knowledge systems ...y. Foucault writes: "the heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible. Th
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• Lack
  | align="center" | [[Real]] [[father]] | align="center" | [[Real]] [[breast]]
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• The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
  <blockquote><dd><i>[[Psycho]]-[[analysis]] is not an [[idealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Conscious ...tated towards that which, at the heart of experience, is the kernel of the real than psychoanalysis.</p><p>
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• Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses
  ...ne truly impedes one's external opposite. When cultural studies ignore the real of clinical experience, the ultimate [[victim]] is not cultural studies its ...ons]] of the symptoms, but symptoms themselves that are Jungian, Kleinian, Lacanian, and so on, that is, whose reality involves implicit reference to some [[Ps
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...w and, as we will see, played a crucial [[role]] in the dissemination of [[Lacanian]] [[ideas]] in [[film]] and [[cultural]] studies. There is also something o ...cal [[speculation]] and get back to the analysis of things themselves in [[real]] [[concrete]] situations.
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• Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
  ...theory]] and [[practice]]. It was almost 15 years before a distinctively [[Lacanian]] [[reading]] of psychoanalysis began to emerge when, in 1951, Lacan made h ...what was significant in this process was not so much the [[exchange]] of [[real]] [[people]] - of actual [[women]] - but the way in which women were transf
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