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• Primary identification
  ...] have even [[thought]] of it as the "[[primal]] [[form]] of [[affective]] attachment to an object before an [[object relation]]" (Meissner, William W., 1970). L It is evident that the notion of the "father," so essential in all of the [[theory]] and [[practice]] of Freud, has been dropped from the concept of primary i
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• Psychic Causality
  ...otic subject. The neurosis is triggered by [[regression]] to the points of attachment; in the [[case]] of [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]] specific [[defense]] m ...27). Sándor Ferenczi, after attempting to illustrate Freud's phylogenetic theory and the concept of regression (Thalassa, 1924), reaffirmed the reality of s
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• Working
  The [[father]] is the agent who helps the [[child]] to overcome the primary attachment to the [[mother]]. ...of [[Lacan]]'s work is aimed at shifting the emphasis in [[psychoanalytic theory]] from the [[mother]]-[[child]] relation (the [[preoedipal]], the prototype
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• Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy
  ...ny of the [[theoretical]] statements made in the [[Three]] Essays on the [[Theory]] of Sexuality, which Freud had published in 1905, and which were, at that ...edipal [[conflict]], with which he was struggling. Hans's sexually excited attachment to his mother and his ambivalent [[feelings]] towards his father, whom he l
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• Decathexis
  ...ions and color his mood" (1911c [1910], p. 72), until it finds [[another]] attachment. In the [[case]] of paranoia it will hypercathect the ego. In "[[Mourning]] * ——. (1916-17f [1915]). A metapsychological [[supplement]] to the [[theory]] of [[dreams]]. SE, 14: 217-235.
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• Disorganization
  ...nd "[[thing]] representations" in the [[unconscious]]. The first anxiety [[theory]] postulates the accumulation of somatic sexual excitation. Among the psych ...ation is distinct from that of regression, with its points of fixation, or attachment.
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• Talk:Psychoanalysis
  ===Psychoanalysis, Theory of=== <blockquote>The whole of psychoanalytic theory is in fact built up on the perception of the resistance exerted by the pati
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• Talk:Acting out
  The notion of acting out is closely bound up with the theory of the transference and its development. Though Freud treated the transfere ...It is thus up to the analyst, relying on the patient's transference-based attachment, to control the patient's impulses and repetitive acts, notably by extracti
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• Talk:Sadism/Masochism
  ...mere active or impetuous attitude towards the sexual object to an absolute attachment of the gratification to the subjection and maltreatment of the object. Stri In "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (1905d) Sigmund Freud described sadism as the active form in
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• Talk:Cause
  ...neurotic subject. The neurosis is triggered by regression to the points of attachment; in the case of psychosis and perversion specific defense mechanisms—spli ...27). Sándor Ferenczi, after attempting to illustrate Freud's phylogenetic theory and the concept of regression (Thalassa, 1924), reaffirmed the reality of s
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• Talk:Drive
  [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of the [[drive]] was revised extensively throughout his career. ...self to in order to achieve its aim. Freud designates a particularly close attachment between the drive and its object as "fixation". Finally, the '''source''' o
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...ing for the moment when radical change will explode like what the system [[theory]] calls “emergent property”; it is also the patience of losing the batt ...olutionary orientation towards future the very opposite of the melancholic attachment to the past? What if, however, the future one should be faithful to is ''th
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• Talk:The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
  ...he managed to base "the auionomy of a signifying system" on "a generalized theory of exchange where women, goods, and words appear as homogeneous" - the very ...of Lac ani an theory, defines psychoanalysis as a practice of speech and a theory of the speaking subject.7 It is in this text, written in 1953, that Lacan b
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• Enjoyment as a Category of Political Theory
  ...demonstrates the importance of [[enjoyment]] as a category of political [[theory]]. It contributes to [[thinking]] [[about]] our attachment to and investment in violent, destructive, and authoritarian modes of [[bei
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• Talk:Fascism and Stalinism
  One of the key claims of Zizek's political theory is that every ideology relies on an unassimilable kernel of enjoyment.l As ...add to the concept of enjoyment an additional element of Zizek's political theory, namely, his use of Lacan's "four discourses." I begin by considering in mo
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• Talk:Jacques Lacan:The Subject of the Unconscious
  ...desire, and these three concepts emerge at the same point within Lacanian theory. The question psychoanalysis poses is: how can something come of nothing? I ...Contrary to the usual understanding of the term in philosophy or political theory - that is, alienation as self-alienation that must be overcome if the true
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• Talk:Seminar III
  ...er the key to human be- • coming. Paradoxically, it is on texts that the theory is constructed here�Schreber's Memoires, Freud's interpretation, Ida Maca In these lectures on the [[psychoses]], [[Lacan]]'s renowned theory of [[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]], along with the concept of the "quilting p
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...stand Marx's dialectics, the "bad" Lenin who didn't get the core of Marx's theory, the "bad" Stalin who spoils the noble plans of the "good" Lenin, etc.). ...f the Soviet power to break the inertia of the peasants, their substantial attachment to land, to "proletarize" them and thus fully expose them to the dynamics o
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• Psychosis (Compendium)
  .... In [[particular]], relations with the [[other]] are marked by [[erotic]] attachment and [[aggressive]] [[rivalry]]. Thus, ...boy [[identifies]] with another youth in what looks like a [[homosexual]] attachment but turns out to be a precursor of psychosis. Here there is something that
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ze and Guattari, especially to Thousand Plateaux, using it as "operational theory" - the catchwords used are "Formless Rival Entities", "Fractal Manoeuvre", ...iting for the moment when radical change will explode like what the system theory calls "emergent property"; it is also the patience of losing the battles in
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