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• Function of Language
  ...s out of a [[body]]-based, [[maternal]] relationship into one created by [[social]] exchange, [[culture]] and taboos. These are the concerns of [[Levi-Straus ethics of social relations. I
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...es possible, and indeed necessary (if we are to escape from madness), to [[construct]] a symbolic [[universe]] or a universe of culture. Descartes's withdrawal- ...anized. In other words, we have to 'get rid' of [[the Real]] before we can construct a [[substitute]] for it in the form of the Symbolic Order. Žižek reads th
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• The Family Complexes
  ...tional praise of the "paternalist" family, his vibrant regrets over "the [[social]] decline of the paternal [[image]]" (indeed its "decadence") and over the
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...lf they must first distinguish themselves from [[others]] and from their [[social]] environment. A key process in this emergent sense of self, argued Wallon, ...e, begins a [[dialectical process]] that [[links]] the ego to more complex social situations' (1986:58). To exist one has to be recognized by an-other. But t
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• Post-Lacanians
  ...]] has followed in Žižek’s path, combining psychoanalytic theory and [[social]] philosophy by [[interpreting]] Kant through Lacan, and vice versa, in [[E ...me a negative function, one that would reject whole structures and explode social [[codes]].
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• Film Theory and Criticism
  ...sy]]. Silverman shifts feminist film theory toward a psychoanalysis of the social, thereby expanding the theoretical reach of previous work. ...who uses mental [[schemata]] to [[process]] audiovisual data in order to [[construct]] narrative [[meaning]]. Edward Branigan employs a cognitivist approach beg
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• Reconceptualizing Freud
  ...e on contemporary [[intellectual]] life cite her greater emphasis on the [[social]] and [[ethical]] implications of a [[self]] originally grounded in [[depen ...ity as theme and variation is viewed less epistemologically, more as the [[construct]] of an interpreter and an interpretee.
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• Anthropological Theory and Criticism
  ...]. Finally, the very rhetorical [[authority]] of the modern literary and [[social]] critic was significantly augmented by the breadth of the comparative anth ...nature" (39), appeals to literary criticism’s inexorable urge toward the social and pragmatic in the broadest sense and certainly has generally influenced
  25 KB (3,515 words) - 18:28, 27 May 2019
• Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest
  ...]] other [[people]] into [[neurosis]] and have encouraged [[society]] to [[construct]] its institutions. Whence it is that the [[artist]] derives his creative c The erotism underlying [[social]] relations and the [[repression]] required by the cohabitation of [[human]
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• Introduction: Real
  ...o a very paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A ...t is through the process of cancelling out, of symbolizing the real, that 'social reality' is created. In short, the real does not exist, as [[existence]] is
  33 KB (5,476 words) - 00:53, 25 May 2019
• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...Maoism took place, it cannot but appear as "necessary," i.e., one can (re)construct the "inner necessity" of Maoism as the next "stage" of the development of M ...of politicians, trade unionists, writers and journalists - not to mention social scientists, who had consigned it to historical oblivion." <ref>Luc Boltansk
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...erms: "The general outlines of each revolutionary event can be foretold by social theorists; however, this event can effectively take place only if there is ...vent are: (1) fidelity (Communism, Leninism); (2) reactive re-integration (Social Democracy); (3) outright denial of the evental status (liberalism, Furet);
  68 KB (10,987 words) - 16:54, 12 January 2008
• Shostakovich in Casablanca
  ...t consortes</i>, but in the sense that his music is neutral with regard to social engagement (which is why one has to look for extra-musical signs to pin it ...ral codes, it simultaneously offers to the "sophisticated" enough clues to construct an alternative, sexually much more daring narrative line. This strategy is
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• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  <blockquote>[[Social]] institutions both to nourish and to develop such independence are necessa ...e that it cannot be mad. This change does not concern only [[theory]], but social practice itself: from the Classical Age, madmen were interned, imprisoned i
  42 KB (6,735 words) - 20:31, 27 May 2019
• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  ...be more authentic and truthful than what I really feel in myself. When I [[construct]] a false [[image]] of myself which stands for me in a virtual [[community] ...nner" royalist conviction which was the deceptive front masking their true social role. In short, far from being the hidden truth of their [[public]] republi
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• Against The Double Blackmail (article)
  ...l respect a certain minimum of [[ethical]] (and, hopefully, also health, [[social]], ecological) standards? However, the situation is more [[complex]], and t ...dment will be a recourse to a collective Bakhtinian carnivalization of the social [[life]]... And the Western counterpoint to this [[obscenity]] is the more
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Seven Variations On The Century
  ...'the three relations': the relation to money, the relation to economic and social success, and the relation to sex. The rest is nothing but archaic abstracti ...cal processes of emancipation always take the name of supposedly objective social entities, such as the proletariat, the people or the nation?
  30 KB (4,869 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...elf, sure that it cannot be mad. This change concerns not only theory, but social practice itself: from the Classical Age on, madmen were interned, imprisone ...modern sense is not directly a phenomenon we can observe, but a discursive construct which emerges at a certain historical moment, together with its double, Rea
  85 KB (14,133 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/pathological-narcissus.html
  ...e other is the "maladjusted" psychotic who wilfully excludes himself from (social symbolic) reality. All of a sudden, we are faced with the unbelievable phan ...edge – nevertheless, he gives the impression that his only motivation is social success and that, in reality, he "does not care about it at all"…).
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/the-superego-and-the-act.html
  ...tasy to shield ourselves from it. But perhaps the trauma is the fantasy we construct to protect ourselves from something else. ...uthority whose function is to introduce the childhood into the universe of social reality with its harsh demands. The reality to which the child is exposed w
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