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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...or the theft/sabotage of social harmony - thereby concealing the traumatic fact that social harmony never existed and that it is an inherent impossibility ...el about Zizek's universalism is that it would not attempt to conceal this fact or to reduce the status of the abject Other to that of a "glitch" in an oth
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ment about how it is possible to put the pieces of the jigsaw together. In fact, it is precisely because of the deadlock that Zizek arrives at in his rende In fact, Zizek's relationship to the psychoanalytic community, which he proudly cha
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...size="3">The [[dialectical]] paradox [of 'radical democracy'] lies in the fact that the particular struggle playing a hegemonic role, far from enforcing a ...mpaniment to the first, but after a while we realize that this first is in fact the accompaniment to the second, which as it were 'descends 'from above' (T
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...ntext of the English-speaking reception of Continental philosophy, were in fact the outcome of a larger body of work done by Zizek and a group of like-mind ...', in which the problem was not the direct imposition of ideology, but the fact that the old regime did not appear to take its own ideology seriously, and
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...y a kind of [[paralysis]], unable to [[suggest]] any meaningful action? In fact, this exact criticism, often coming from the perspective of a pseudo-[[ethi ...ether to enter [[society]] or not—which, although it appears free, is in fact forced because the only alternative to it is psychosis—so in his politica
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• Literature
  ...eater than the interests of historians in the same conceptions despite the fact that such theories can be as easily applied to historical phenomena as to l ...es between literature, literary criticism, and psychoanalysis has been the fact that some [[figures]] have been able to [[master]] all three. The protean w
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• Seduction theory
  ...or of the [[thesis]] that what appear to be memories of 'seduction' are in fact [[fantasies]] related to the [[Oedipus complex]] and that they are an expre
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• Guilt
  ...[[thoughts]] and attitudes in [[order]] to regain self-esteem. What is in fact a deficiency of the superego is largely manifested as self-destructive [[re
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• Interpellation
  ...by a police officer - 'Hey, you there!' - and turns round to recognize the fact that he is being addressed.
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• Luce Irigaray
  ...ssing how society’s two [[gender]] [[categories]], man and woman, are in fact just one, man, as he is made the [[universal]] [[referent]].
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• Uncanny
  ...]] claims that the seeming antonyms ''heimlich'' and ''unheimlich'' are in fact synonyms adn that they prove that [[primitive]] elements still survive in t
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...nancing and helping them to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan? Why was this fact quoted as an argument against attacking them? Would it not be much more [[l ...red by the failure to establish [[liberal]] [[democracy]], the gap between fact and [[ideal]] [[essence]] does not show up only in ... so-called [[primitiv
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? ...s, gymnastics, thousands of bodies. I'm very sorry, but it's an historical fact that the [[Nazis]] took these forms from the [[Social]] [[Democrats]]. Orig
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...ly those assumptions that have already proven their value by virtue of the fact that language through them has attained the status of an object of scientif For it is by virtue of this fact that linguistics is seen to occupy the key position in this domain, and the
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• The Freudian Thing
  ...]]. He gave an account of the paper in Seminaire III (30). Then, after the fact, he wrote it for the E.P. and later, in 1966, he revised the [[text]] again
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• Kant with Sade
  But beyond the fact that, if there is something to which the deduction of the ''Critique'' has ...nstitutes the pleasure proper to [773] desire. And let us come back to the fact that desire is not subject, in that it cannot be indicated anywhere in a si
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• From The Function of the Veil
  ...op for a [[moment]] at this intermediate [[position]] which amounts to the fact that what is loved within the [[object]] of [[love]] is something which is ...all sorts of things be clarified beginning with, up to, and including the fact that Freud gives us as the first example of an analysis of fetishism this m
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• Tuché and Automaton
  What is repeated, in fact, is always something that occurs -the expression tells us quite a lot about ...e. Our experience then presents us with a problem, which derives from the fact that, at the very heart of the primary processes, we see preserved the insi
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...cted his sadism, sees it coming back from these objects, and, by this very fact, finds himself jammed up by an anxious [[fear]], don't you have the [[feeli ...motor [[consciousness]] of the ego.</u> <i>I shall entirely disregard the fact that the [[mental]] [[apparatus]] with which we are here concerned is also
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• Desire, Life and Death
  <dl><dd>The fact that Oedipus is the patronymic hero of the Oedipus [[complex]] isn't a coin ...n from the start, and unfolds [[right]] up to its final end, including the fact that Oedipus assumes it through his own [[action]]. I, he says, <i>have not
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