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• Semiotics
  ...mine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their semiotic niche in the [[world]] (see [[Semiosis]]). Semi ...es also [[represent]] the [[value (semiotics)|values]] of the [[culture]], and are able to add new shades of [[connotation (semiotics)|connotation]] to ev
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• Object Relations Theory
  ...sts [[Ronald Fairbairn]], [[Winnicott|D.W. Winnicott]], [[Harry Guntrip]], and [[others]]. ...love]] and [[hate]], the [[affective]] effects of the [[libido]] and the [[death drive]].
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• Eros
  ...e [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). In [[ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...[[understanding]] of [[transference]] in the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious ...ilosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widely disputed.
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• Linguistics
  ...]] in [[terms]] derived from a specific [[linguistics|linguistic theory]], and not until 1957 that he begins to engage with [[linguistics]] in any detail. ...d in anthropology," in ''Structural Anthropology'', trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, New York: Basic Books, 1963. p.33</ref></blockquo
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• Critical theory
  ...the [[United States]]. This article focuses primarily on the differences and similarities between [[them]]. ...sser]] and arguably [[Michel Foucault]] and certain [[feminist]] theorists and social scientists.
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...els ([[linguistics]]), the study of [[human]] activities ([[psychology]]), and the neuronal basis of those activities (neuroscience). These disciplines do ...hology long before [[Miller]], Galanter, and Pribram's seminal work, Plans and the [[Structure]] of [[Behavior]] (1960). The term "artificial intelligence
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• Deconstruction
  ...various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to define without depending on "un-de ...]], [[Barbara Johnson]], [[J. Hillis Miller]], [[Jean-François Lyotard]], and [[Geoffrey Bennington]].
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...wrote many influential works on [[philosophy]], [[literature]], [[film]], and fine art. ...es of [[Gilles Deleuze|Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus]] (1972) and [[Gilles Deleuze|A Thousand Plateaus]] (1980), both co-written with [[Féli
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• Frantz Fanon
  ...preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of [[decolonization]] and the [[psychopathology]] of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colon ===Martinique and WWII===
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• Félix Guattari
  ...itutional [[psychotherapy]], as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy. ...tari's principal anchoring -- a [[refusal]] to be anchored! -- until his [[death]] in [[1992]].
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...[[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...r, and magnified. Another common theme is the basic incompatibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional roman
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• Alenka Zupančič
  ...on us. Moreover, both are thinkers of [[desire,]] of the ethics of desire and the desire for ethics. ...within the same animates all of Nietzsche's work, generating its permanent and inherent tension.
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  The most controversial and contested area of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]] involves the conceptualization of [[feminine]] [[sexuality]]. ...erned to distinguish [[sexual]] [[difference]] on the basis of the phallus and here Lacan makes a significant innovation regarding [[Freudian]] thinking.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  [[Lacan]] and [[psychoanalysis]] ...erence to Hegel’s absolute subject, he sees Lacan as trying to [[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego.
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is a major [[concept]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...an understanding of the [[role]] of [[fantasy]], the [[objet]] [[petit a]] and [[jouissance]]. We will look at each of these important concepts in turn be ...ase. As 'being-in-itself', the real was beyond the realm of [[appearance]] and [[images]].
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• Violence
  ...of the well-known [[joke]] [[about]] the idiot who loses a key in the dark and looks for it beneath the light. When asked why, he says: 'I [[know]] I lost ...— violence never stops violence, give peace a [[chance]] — is abstract and doesn't [[work]] here. First, because this is not a [[universal]] rule. I a
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ritical and [[scientific]] way," not in an attitude of nostalgic idolatry, and, furthermore, from the perspective firmly rooted in the democratic [[politi ...the outdated ideological positions. This is the point on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the free
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  [[Kant]] and [[Sade]]: The [[Ideal]] Couple ...k first in his [[Seminar]] on The Ethics of [[Psychoanalysis]] (1958-59)1, and then in the [[Écrits]] "[[Kant with Sade]]" of 19632.
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