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• Ernesto Laclau
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• Emmanuel Lévinas
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  yet become a [[psychoanalyst]]; he was still a [[psychiatrist]]. What is revealing ...ious — that of poetry, puns, [[internal]] rhymes. In word play causal [[links]] dissolve and [[associations]] abound.
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• Matheme
  In 1955, [[Lacan]] introduced what could be called his first [[matheme]], the relatively simple "'''[[schema L ...'''[[Saussurean algorithm]]'''".<ref>{{E}} p. 149</ref> The [[matheme]] [[links]] the [[law]]s of the [[unconscious]] discovered by [[Freud]] to the [[law]
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ow things may have been much worse: "Just look around and see for yourself what will happen if we follow your radical notions!" And it is exactly the same ...h then inevitably ends in a cul de sac of debilitating [[impossibility]]: "what can one do against the global [[capital]]?"), but to question the hegemonic
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...e symbolic order as such? However, what if this very alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condit ...: The Matrix just radicalizes it by bringing in virtual reality. The point here is the radical ambiguity of the VR with regard to the problematic of iconoc
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...perate attempt at modernisation [[outside]] the constraints of capitalism. What is effectively at stake in the [[present]] crisis of post-socialist states What then, are these [[notorious]] Balkan passions?
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...of an egalitarian democratic enthusiasm-of an unconditional [[demand]] for what Etienne [[Balibar]] called egaliberte. For that [[reason]], the political u ...-American academia, the basic outlines of his philosophy will be rehearsed here prior to offering a [[Lacanian]] response to his depiction of the limits of
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...of freedom is the display of <i>amor fati</i>, the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary. If, then, the subject's activity is, at its most fu ...and thus causes the multiplicity of symbolic perspectives. The paradox is here a very precise one: it is at the very point at which a pure difference emer
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...umbilical cord that [[links]] it to the feminine.) Islam thus functions as what [[Freud]] called <i>Liebesstoerer</i>: the intruder/obstacle of the harmoni François Regnault defined [[Jews]] as our <i>[[objet]] a</i> - but are here not Muslims this a-sexual “[[partial]] object”? We usually [[speak]] of
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...display the same responsibility for me. Levinas likes to quote Dostoyevsky here: "We are all responsible for everything and [[guilty]] in front of everyone ...is politics at its purest), in short, excluding precisely the dimension of what Carl [[Schmitt]] called political [[theology]]? One is tempted to say that,
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...CIA began apprehending more [[people]] whose intelligence [[value]] and [[links]] to [[terrorism]] were less certain, the original standard for consigning ...g legitimate targets of murderous bombings), so that they are now cases of what Giorgio [[Agamben]] calls <i>[[homo sacer]]</i>, the one who can be killed
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ..., the strength of the film resides not so much in this central [[thesis]] (what we [[experience]] as reality is an artificial virtual reality generated by ...tries to explain to the still perplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he - he [[links]] it to a failure in the [[structure]] of the [[universe]]:
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...ge you are carrying there?' The other man replies, 'That is a MacGuffin.' 'What is a MacGuffin?' asks the first. The second says, 'A MacGuffin is a device ...r proofs of the crime... Not to mention the fact that this, precisely, was what before the war the UN weapons inspectors were asking for - more time - and
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...d to become an active politico-military force capable of defending itself. Here we have the basic paradox of victimisation: the Other to be protected is go
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• Master
  ...he [[master]] is thus an attempt at totalization (which is why [[Lacan ]][[links]] the [[discourse]] of the [[master]] with [[philosophy]] and [[philosophy|
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• The Ambassadors
  ...ntion whose [[technique]] was first taken advantage of by Flemish masters. What is most "Flemish" of Holbein's use of oils is his use of the medium to rend ==External links==
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• Castration
  ...of his discussions on [[sexuality]], [[Freud]] emphasizes [[castration]]. What [[Freud]] learned from his [[clinical]] [[practice]] is that [[sexuality]] The asymmetrical situations of the boy and the girl were what Freud (1951) returned to when he wrote in 1937 of the limits of an [[analyt
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• Surrealism
  ...[[psychoanalysis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement. During this time, Lacan's links with the Surrealists developed further.
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• Alexandre Kojève
  ...nment]]. One of his repeatedly expressed positions in later years was that what had, in Marx's time and afterward, been known as a European [[proletariat]] ==External Links==
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