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• Neurotic defenses
  ...defense. Conversion was later placed in the [[category]] of [[symptoms]]. In his early writings on hysteria, Freud spoke of "[[abreaction]]," a kind of ...pression as the major mechanism of [[obsessional]] [[neurosis]]. Freud saw in the [[obsessional neurosis]] a [[separation]] of representation ([[image]],
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• A Project for a Scientific Psychology
  ...r the [[three]] kinds of neurones described in the [[text]]). His two aims in this piece were to arrive at "a sort of [[economics]] of nerve forces" and ...n" would in fact never [[disappear]] from his work, it would always remain in the background.
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• Primary process/secondary process
  ...es of processes, which varies between [[subjects]] and at different points in [[time]]. ...sh is therefore [[hallucinatory]] and "requires a criterion from elsewhere in [[order]] to distinguish between perception and [[idea]]." This mode of fun
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• Cynicism
  ...eality]] that it is distorting, and through this very act dissolve itself. In the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -- that develope We find, then, the [[paradox]] of a [[being]] which can reproduce itself only in so far as it is misrecognized and overlooked: the [[moment]] we see it 'as
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• Lamella
  The undead-indestructible object, [[Life]] deprived of support in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. ...ion]] that stands for and fills the [[ontological]] [[Void]], the [[hole]] in the [[texture]] of [[reality]] opened up by the fact that reality is transc
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• Lacan and the Pre-Socratics
  ...than themselves. There is, moreover, the risk of losing one's [[thought]] in a [[latent]] confrontation between Lacan and [[Heidegger]], which has all t ...[place]] of psychoanalysis in the strictly Western [[history]] of thought, in which psychoanalysis marks a rupture, and which is not at all constituted b
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• Traditional Freudian Criticism
  ...y of "latent content." The best examples of this style of criticism (still in practice) refuse to subordinate art to neurosis and deploy the tools of psy ...ity, Ireland, chess, ice-skating, and the common cold. He was instrumental in introducing Freud to the English-speaking world and presided over the origi
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• Film Theory and Criticism
  ...cism that took [[place]] as a result of [[structuralist]]/semiotic debates in the late 1950s and 1960s. ...e displayed by the much-cited Cahiers article on Young Mr. Lincoln (1969). In these essays and elsewhere on the pages of Cahiers, Althusserian [[Marxism]
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• Linguistics and Language
  ...rn [[linguistic]] study with [[synchronic]] linguistics, inaugurated early in the twentieth century by ferdinand de [[saussure]], himself a comparative p ...tions are sometimes controversial, but attempts to bridge disciplines have in fact characterized much of contemporary criticism. Sometimes critics have b
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• Anthropological Theory and Criticism
  ...1 and culminating with [[James]] G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough, published in various versions from 1890 through 1922, provided [[literary criticism]] wi ...agon that gave [[birth]] to the chants and gestures that later developed, in evolutionary fashion, into [[poetry]] and drama.
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• The Freudian terrain
  ...contributed to the [[whole]] [[cultural]] milieu of the twentieth century in that he has given us a way of [[seeing]] things. He fashioned a new [[image From the 'economic' point of view pleasure results from a decrease in the degree to which the body is disturbed by any stimulus.
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• The theory of the four discourses
  ...sociates, the [[three]] [[agencies]], id, ego and superego, can be defined in [[terms]] of their functions: id functions are centred upon basic [[needs]] ...nate in the id, and the demands of reality. The ego [[acts]] like a filter in both directions, from the id to reality and from reality to the id. As alre
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• Dependence
  ...e [[baby]]'s [[Hilflosigkeit]], or [[helplessness]] (détresse or désaide in [[French]]). ...in attitudes and behaviors of independence and rebellion. Franz Alexander used this [[idea]] to describe ulcerous [[subjects]] who indicate their conditio
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• Dualism
  ...ces, and monistic systems, both groups [[being]] distinct from skepticism. In [[anthropology]], [[epistemology]], and [[ethics]], a [[theory]] is dualist ...flict with the ego libido, as well as from the pressure of the [[drives]]. In the second topographic subsystem (after 1920), they arise from the [[life]]
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• Hypercathexis
  ...he description of the [[economy]] of [[consciousness]], but it also served in connection with the regulation of the flow of [[psychic]] energy and the [[ ...tation]], during perception, of [[particular]] neurones belonging to the [[system]] W. Attention first addressed the indications of quality transmitted by th
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• The Language of Psychoanalysis
  ...al discussions of concepts. However, the most important [[work]] presented in this book is its analysis of the tools of [[psychoanalytic]] [[thinking]]: ...]] came to naught, but Lagache, aware of Laplanche and Pontalis's interest in psychoanalysis, proposed that they write what became the Vocabulaire de la
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• The Letter
  ...ifier]] ([[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]]) in the creation of [[meaning]] and in the production of [[dreams]], where the letter designates one of the [[term ...he Wolfman, Freud (1918b) returns to the letter and its workings. In 1927, in his article on [[fetishism]] (1927e), he shows how a [[patient]]'s [[erotic
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• Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
  ...nd credentialing institute for [[analysts]] who then created organizations in [[other]] cities, including Topeka, Los Angeles, and Detroit. Although ulti ...n, the society's first president, was considered the first trained analyst in Chicago and a charming teacher who lacked administrative interests or skill
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• Choice of Neurosis
  ...the factors that determined the [[clinical]] [[form]] the neurosis assumed in [[particular]] cases had to be specified. The study of the [[choice]] of ne ...tablished the unified theory of neurosis. These two constructions differed in their conceptualization of the mechanisms and causes of neurosis, and the t
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• List of Algebraic Symbols
  The [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s used by [[Lacan]], which appear principally in the [[matheme]]s, [[schema l]] and the [[graph of desire]], are listed belo ...efer to the same [[concept]] throughout [[Lacan]]'s [[work]], but are used in different ways as his work develops.
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