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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience]] no passions proper, no intense self-assertion that can lead to destructive rage. ...e implicit reflexive [[reversal]] of this insight: if there is effectively no one out there, behind the screen, what if the same goes for myself? What if
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• Little Hans
  "Little Hans" was a young boy who was the [[subject]] of an early but extensive study of [[castration anxiety]] and the [[Oedip ...; that 'he had to be presented with [[thoughts]] which he had so far shown no [[signs]] of possessing'; and that 'his attention had to be turned in the d
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...l volume cannot be seen as a deliberate [[exclusion]] by the IPA. There is no known transcript of the 1936 paper and the version included in [[Écrits]] ...stage of his career Lacan was concerned to distinguish the ego from the [[subject]] and to elaborate a conception of [[subjectivity]] as [[divided]] or '[[al
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• Symptom-formation
  ...f neurosis proper: in the "actual neuroses," the [[manifest]] symptoms had no [[psychic]] meaning (Freud, 1916-17a). [[Absent]] the mentalization of fant ...ressure was attributable to [[biology]], to fantasy, to [[reality]], or to external events. The failure of defense in all cases resulted in the first [[instanc
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• Neurotic defenses
  ...ressive]] tendencies. They reveal the complexity and vicissitudes of the [[links]] between [[affect]] and [[representation]]. ...red the essential first line of defense of the obsessive (or [[phobic]]) [[subject]].
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• Slavoj Zizek:Links
  ==External links== *[http://lacan.com/nosex.htm No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human]
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• Introducing Lacan
  ...osition of formal elements beyond the "[[conscious]]" [[control]] of the [[subject]]. ...ts which had been swallowed. The ones which had disguised themselves were no less frequent than their most honest companions. So if evolutionary [[biol
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...ists" claimed decades ago)? This entire topic has to be rejected: there is no opposition here, the Fall is to be inscribed into the very origins. (To put ...phoric expansion of class struggle: "today's predominant class struggle is no longer between capitalists and proletariat in each country, it shifted to t
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• Psychosis (Compendium)
  ...thing to be repressed it has to have been previously acknowledged by the [[subject]], implying prior [[recognition]] within the [[symbolic]] [[register]]. ...t, unlike the [[return of the repressed]], it returns from [[outside]] the subject, as emanating from his [[environment]] in one form or [[another]] – a phe
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...ovement in the last years? Does it not clearly contradict this diagnostic? No: a close look quickly shows how this movement also succumbs to "the temptat ...whether to sink the ship. Two of [[them]] said yes and the [[other]] said no. "A guy named Arkhipov saved the [[world]]," was a bitter comment of a hist
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• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  ...t be experienced by the [[subject]] as imposed on his/her freedom, as an [[external]] coercion: ...d]] as an [[individual]]'s causal [[agency]] this will always look like an external [[necessity]] that we have good reasons to try to avoid. This creates the p
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• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...wrote: "God is a life, not merely a being. But all life has a fate and is subject to suffering and becoming. /.../ Without the concept of a humanly suffering ...is, more than the Jewish tradition, the basic Protestant lesson: there is no direct access to freedom/autonomy; between the master/slave exchange-relati
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• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  ...dom]]: freedom cannot ever become habit(ual), if it becomes a habit, it is no longer [[true]] freedom (which is why Thomas Jefferson wrote that, if [[peo ...humans]], but are really foreign to human [[race]], zombies are humans who no longer look and act like humans; while, in the [[case]] of an [[alien]], we
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  ...rent? True, Kant admits antinomies, but only at the epistemological level, no as immanent features of the unreachable Thing-in-itself, while Hegel transp ...ntal meditation" where the term jut designate a higher spiritual awareness no longer constrained by empirical reality. But there are more interesting cas
  107 KB (17,648 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...s is not only "deconstruct" philosophy, demonstrating its dependence on an external Other; even more so, he "deconstructs" the attempt to locate a sphere outsi ...''malin'' ''génie'') as well as in Kant (his notion of the transcendental subject emerged from the critique of Swedenborg, whose religious dreams stand for m
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/coke-as-objet-petit-a.html
  ...pitalist merchandise and, as such, as surplus-enjoyment personified. It is no surprise that Coke was first introduced as a medicine – its strage taste ...itself; following Nietzsche's path, Lacan emphasized how in anorexia, the subject does not simply 'eat nothing' – rather, she or he actively wants to eat t
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/marx-as-a-reader-of-hegel-hegel-as-a-reader-of-marx.html
  ...en neglected) historical root of his thesis about the "end of art": art is no longer an adequate medium for expressing such a "prosaic" disenchanted real ...its abstract individuality and an objective social order opposing it as an external necessity limiting its freedom, the resources for reconciliation should be
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/plato-descartes-hegel-three-philosophers-of-event.html
  ...contrast to Aristotle's notion of the slave as a "talking tool," there is no place for slaves in Plato's ''Republic''), Plato was the main ideologist of ...cogito'', while appearing gender- neutral, effectively privileges the male subject (only the masculine mind deals with clear and distinct thought, while the f
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/why-lacan-is-not-lacanian.html
  ...storical sedimentations in which his speech act is embedded). However, the subject is fully responsible for the little bit of enjoyment he finds in his aggres ...nerary of his life were utterly contingent and indifferent, that they bear no "deeper message."
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