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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...ion of the original relations between the signifier and labour. I shall be content, for my little jab at the general function of ''praxis'' in the genesis of One cannot go further along this line of thought than to demonstrate that no signification can be sustained other than by re
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• Kant with Sade
  ...f the statement, in that each address suscitates him through its equivocal content: since ''jouissance'', by shamelessly confessing itself even as it speaks, ...stion''] "with Sade," that is to say with Sade filling the office, for our thought as in his sadism, of an instrument, confesses to what is plain to see about
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...reads the brightness of [[consciousness]]. His attributes are those of a [[thought]] which regulates the order of the [[real]]. It is Akhenaton's God, the God ...also [[knows]] that, although that love is articulated now and then in the thought of such exceptional men as the famous polisher of lenses who lived in Holla
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...nding that might occur because we are dealing with Sade, and it might be [[thought]] that that constitutes a wholly [[external]] way of [[looking]] upon ourse ...[[Christianity]], through the drama of the [[passion]], gives a [[full]] [[content]] to the naturalness of the [[truth]] we have called the death of God. Inde
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• Latent
  Latent [[dream]] [[thoughts]] (latent [[content]]) are the [[meanings]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[interpretation]] discovers in Latent thoughts (also called by Freud "dream thoughts" or "latent content") are primary; they are the motor of the dream. They are comprised of [[inf
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• Parricide
  ...at served as the foundation and chief precondition of [[psychoanalytic]] [[thought]] and "the main source of the [[sense]] of [[guilt]]" (1928b [1927], p. 183 ...parents]]. In Totem and Taboo (1912-1913a), Freud noted the adventitious [[content]] of the two oedipal crimes—the two prohibitions forming the core of tote
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• Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
  ...that is, to "phantasies, processes of reference, emotional impulses, [and] thought connections" (p. 148). From this point on, memory, a favorite theme of Freu ...sistance, which deprives the analysand's thought of memorable ideational [[content]] and displaces the corresponding quota of [[affect]] onto the act.
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• Overdetermination
  ...ng a web whose linking strands are lines of associated [[thoughts]]. The [[content]] of psychic [[formations]] [[understood]] in this way is determined by the ...ermination suggested a procedure for selecting the components of the dream-content, he proposed the notion of the displacement of [[psychical]] intensity alon
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• Irma's injection
  ...[[about]] one of his [[patients]], whom he called Irma. The [[manifest]] [[content]] of the dream can be summarized as thus: ...wed [[signs]] of recalcitrance, like [[women]] with artificial dentures. I thought to myself that there was really no [[need]] for her to do that. - She then
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• Taboo
  ...t or contagion plays so large a [[role]] in the neurosis and is made the [[content]] of so complicated a [[system]], the answer is that touching, [[physical]] ...the Unconscious, points toward [[animism]], magic, and the omnipotence of thought—in short, to a study of [[narcissism]]. And the analogy, almost the [[ide
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• Freud Lives!
  ...[[Todd Dufresne]] put it, no [[figure]] in the [[history]] of [[human]] [[thought]] was more wrong [[about]] all the fundamentals – with the exception of [ ...onclude, "and probably the syringe had not been clean." So, the '[[latent thought]]' articulated in the dream is neither sexual nor unconscious, but Freud’
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• Stalinism
  ..."[[empty speech]]," the speech whose denotative [[value]] ([[explicit]] [[content]]) is suspended on behalf of its functioning as an [[index]] of [[intersubj ...s proves neither more nor less than that I was mistaken, and that what I [[thought]] to be the general will was not so. If my [[particular]] opinion had carri
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• Association
  Association:: The link between one mental content and another. To Freudian thought itself, for example, some people associate trains going into tunnels.
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• Biopolitics
  ...ubt]], two extreme poles in the [[complex]] [[universe]] of biopolitical [[thought]]. Yet, precisely as ''[[theoretical]]'' positions, they are the most [[rep Considering that, as we have seen, Žižek’s thought is sustained by the conviction that negativity, in its dialectical [[role]]
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• Guarantee
  ...]] in relation to the [[outside]] world. The A.M.E. had to be chosen, he [[thought]], according to what he called "[[good]] [[sense]]", a convention evoking s ...) with the practice of this title by Lacan, or one goes beyond it. Being content is not to make ripples. At the most, this amounts to making it known discre
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• Lie
  A lie, the dissimulation or willful deformation of the [[contents]] of a [[thought]] that the [[subject]] deems to be [[true]], can be practiced only either v ...fact, and if it is not acknowledged, this is because of the unconscious [[content]] it manifests. The "[[impossibility]]" of [[confession]] opens the way for
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...ulticulturalist]] [[openness]], obliterating its [[displaced]] [[class]] [[content]] - benevolent as it wants to be, the mere [[insistence]] on multiculturali ...c]] [[struggle]] between "[[us]]" ([[people]]) and "[[them]]." Again, the content of "us" and "them" is not prescribed in advance but, precisely, the stake o
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  In the last two decades of his [[thought]], Derrida emphasized that, the more radical a deconstruction is, the more ...ot that, mutatis mutandis, Derrida threw away all positive [[ontological]] content of messianism, retaining nothing but the pure form of the messianic promise
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• Overview
  # [[Hegel]] provides Zizek with a dialectical type of thought or methodology that he uses. (In Zizek's reading of Hegel, the dialectic is ..., for what he is trying to do is to contribute to the Marxist tradition of thought, specifically that of a [[critique of ideology]].
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• Work
  ...daily residues, [[bodily]] stimuli, dream-thoughts—into a [[manifest]] [[content]] acceptable to the otherwise vigilant consciousness of the dreamer. In [[J ..., the other toward erotization. It is also worth mentioning the "work of [[thought]]" (Anzieu, 1996; Mijolla-Mellor, 1992). And, lastly, the phenomenon of men
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