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• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...between <em>shoah</em> and its meaning breaks down, (3) the divine mystery theory (facts like <em>shoah</em> bear witness to the unfathomable abyss of divine ...eness of the utter meaningless of our social links, the dissolution of our attachment to reality itself - all of a sudden, other people are derealized, reality i
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• Books/Jacques Lacan/Interface Fantasy A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
  ...erapy, and Internet addiction in the context of established psychoanalytic theory. The virtual identities we assume in virtual worlds, exemplified best by av
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• Books/Louis Althusser/On The Reproduction Of Capitalism
  ...e state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau an ...e in Althusser’s oeuvre and the relevance of his ideas for contemporary theory. ''On the Reproduction of Capitalism'' develops Althusser’s conception
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  Furthermore, gender theory slides into ideology when it conceives the fact that gender role is not bio ...sexual."[#_edn7 [7]] From this premise, Tim Dean deploys his impersonalist theory of desire according to which we have sex not with others but with the Other
  107 KB (17,648 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-with-lacan.html
  ...postmodern deconstructionist to show the violent streak even in Habermas's theory of communicative action which stresses the symmetry of the partners in a di ...ng the proper scansion of what was told. And, as we know from the Freudian theory, the analyst is here not the one who already knows the truth and just wisel
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/kant-avec-althusser.html
  ...ernal material apparatuses and practices that sustain that experience. The theory distinguishes two levels of the ideological process: external (following th ...y assume my knowledge. It is this ''immanent'' gap that eludes Althusser's theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs). According to Althusser, what d
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/lacan-as-a-reader-of-hegel.html
  ...lian Cunning of Reason in its standard sense. In his early, Maoist-phase ''Theory of Contradiction'', Badiou wrote: "To the nothing-new-under-the-sun, the th ...particular being). Once we enter Spirit proper, however, this dialectic of attachment and detachment which characterizes the life of a species radically changes:
  150 KB (25,356 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/pathological-narcissus.html
  ...act moral idea but an accurate notion with a precisely defined role in the theory of psychoanalysis. Lasch takes from Otto Kernberg's standard work Borderlin ..., the fundamental "impossible encounter", at the very outset of borderline theory: the well-established classification or axis was shattered and violated, th
  71 KB (11,547 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/plato-descartes-hegel-three-philosophers-of-event.html
  ...in a condition of "as if"; everything pales with regard to our passionate attachment. In this sense, falling in love is like the blinding light that struck Saul ...primeval Peace, the primordial "pathological" choice of the unconditional attachment to some singular object (like falling in love with a singular person which,
  86 KB (13,956 words) - 02:55, 20 July 2019
• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/ugly-creepy-disgusting-and-other-modes-of-abjection.html
  ...autiful arises—the reading proposed by Theodor Adorno in his ''Aesthetic Theory: ''"If there is any causal connection at all between the beautiful and the ...The predominant form of appearance of this weird "savagery" is passion, an attachment to a particular choice so strong that it sus­pends rational comparison wit
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