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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...the real." The key opposition is here the one between Frankfurt School and Lacan: should we historicize the Matrix into the metaphor of the Capital that col ...wever, it is here crucial to note that, in the key chapters of Seminar XI, Lacan struggles to delineate the operation that follows alienation and is in a se
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  [[Lacan]].com. ...aló, which transposes it into the dark days of Mussolini's Salo republic? Lacan developed this link first in his [[Seminar]] on The Ethics of [[Psychoanaly
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...ses, searching for proofs, etc.; he embodies the absolute certainty (which Lacan compares with the certainty of [[Descartes]]' [[cogito]] ergo sum) of the a ...some content elaborated by [[others]], the institutional cachet. The later Lacan is fully justified in reserving the term "act" for something much more suic
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  JA: May we call it the possibility of a kind of [[jouissance]], in the [[Lacanian]] [[sense]] of the term? ...ifier itself provides jouissance, the signifying machinery itself provides Jouissance.
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
  ...ables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine [[jouissance]]. ...[[being]] drawn into the [[dialectic]] of (male) [[desire]], a mysterious jouissance beyond [[Phallus]] about which [[nothing]] can be said…
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...n]]'s effect on [[language]] and its [[structural]] [[behavior]] confirm [[Lacan]]'s emphasis of [[Kant]] over [[Spinoza]]? In reducing the field of God to SZ: Lacan says that Kant was [[right]] historically [[about]] the Spinozian universal
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...rians busy for the next 400 years has to be read against the background of Lacan's assertion that, within a [[psychoanalytic]] [[cure]], a symptom is always ...te that I never experienced [[real]] love or [[friendship]]." This is what Lacan had in [[mind]] when he claimed that "there is no [[metalanguage]]": what Z
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...nstructed. This [[notion]] of "acephalic" knowledge emerges rather late in Lacan's teaching, after the [[relationship]] between knowledge and truth underwen ...tead of dissimulating truth, gives rise to truth-effects, i.e. to what the Lacan of the fifties called "[[full]] speech," the speech in which subjective tru
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...later spoiled. At the same time, it is important to emphasize here what [[Lacan]] calls the [[space]] or distance [[between the two deaths]]: in order to b ...etailed examination, since it condenses the gap that separates Badiou from Lacan and psychoanalysis in general. Badiou, of course, is well aware of the [[tw
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  <p>How, then, is this horrifying [[position]] subjectivized? As Jacques [[Lacan]] indicated, the [[lack]] of the [[tragedy]] proper in the modern condition <p><em>The Stalinist [[jouissance]]</em></p>
  63 KB (10,138 words) - 03:25, 21 May 2019
• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...[[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use - is that [[Lacan]] elevates the [[symbolic]] into a kind of [[transcendental]] [[position]] Butler's, as well as Lacan's, starting point is the old [[Leftist]] one -- how is it possible not only
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• You May
  ...here is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. A ...s its symbolic efficacy and leaves the [[symptom]] intact in its idiotic [[jouissance]]. It's as though a neo-[[Nazi]] skinhead, pressed to give reasons for his
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...[superego]] figure of “obscure gods who [[demand]] continuous blood”([[Lacan]]-XI). Islam seems to oscillate between these two extremes, with the obscen ...: “castration” means that the direct access to Truth is impossible- as Lacan put it, <i>la verite surgit de la meprise</i>, the way to Spirit is only th
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• Move the Underground!
  ...healthy and permitted - in a masterful use of the [[reversal]] called by [[Lacan]] <i>point-de-capiton</i>, they first insisted that the confessed sin of a ...aster]] who dares to confront face to face [[the Real]] of terrifying <i>[[jouissance]]</i> - is presented not as a [[remainder]] of some barbaric [[past]], but
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  <font de0031="" color="" face="courier" size="1">[[lacan]].com 2004</font> ...he absolute [[theoretical]] and [[practical]] anti-[[Judaism]]. To follow Lacan beyond what he explicitly stated, the foundations of a new [[religion]] are
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• Opera
  ...e in the stage illusion. And, this is how one should also locate Jacques [[Lacan]]'s <i>c'est moi, la vérité, qui parle</i> from his <i>La [[Chose]] freud ...longer the semantics of the soul, but the underlying noumenal flux of <i>[[jouissance]]</i> beyond the [[linguistic]] meaningfulness. This noumenal dimension is
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...ideological and social predicament. What, then, is the Matrix? Simply what Lacan called the "big other," the virtual symbolic order, the network that struct ...at about, say, individuals sabotaging the Matrix by refusing to secrete <i>jouissance</i>?<br><br>
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...[body]], in its [[repetitive]] pattern, to some elementary [[matrix]] of [[jouissance]], of excessive [[enjoyment]] - although sinthoms do not have [[sense]], th ...to [[identify]] this "spiritual corporeality" as materialized jouissance, "jouissance which turned into flesh." Hitchcock's sinthoms are thus not mere formal pat
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...e [[fantasmatic]] [[supplement]] of the [[male]] masturbatory phallic <i>[[jouissance]]</i>. Significantly, while there is only one man (Adam), the [[femininity] ...atic" Lacanians are actually in their [[texts]] much more critical towards Lacan than the standard deconstructionist is against [[Derrida]]? This, of course
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...he [[truth]] of the first version (as [[Lacan]] put it, the permitted <i>[[jouissance]]</i> inexorably turned into a prescribed one). The only correct way is thu ...ic]]: the Real of a drive whose injunction cannot be avoided (which is why Lacan says that the status of a drive is ethical); the Ought as a symbolic [[idea
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