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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...eans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...the [[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spinozist [[dream]], what he called "love of God'' or "perfect [[rational]] knowledge," which is a ki
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...ves go and [[enjoy]] a violent war movie, we somehow have to [[know]] that what we are [[seeing]] is a staged fiction, not real-[[life]] killing (imagine o ...ing its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So, again, does not our experience of cyberspace perfectly fit this perverse universe? Isn'
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...s only able to read with an eye on possible theoretical interpretations of what he is [[reading]], in short, for a literary [[scientist]]: such a "reflecte ...ndent of personal idiosyncrasies — as if the very [[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] pe
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...ller]] has pointed out, the [[concept]] of "constructions in [[analysis]]" does not rely on the (dubious) [[claim]] that the [[analyst]] is always [[right] ...e, i.e., I can only assume my [[fundamental fantasy]] insofar as I undergo what [[Lacan]] calls "[[subjective destitution]]." Or, to put it in yet [[anothe
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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 ...arently re-presents society, but [[acts]] as a violent [[intervention]] in what it re-presents.
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...est imaginable confirmation of [[Sylvia]] Plath's famous line, "…every [[woman]] adores a Fascist." However, although it is easy to dismiss the very menti ...e were to Jansenism, what Kleist was to [[German]] nationalist militarism, what [[Brecht]] was to [[Communism]], Rand is to American capitalism. It was per
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• Matinee Idols: Joan Bennett
  ...So when I saw her in her ultimate [[femme fatale]] role, in Lang's The [[Woman]] in the Window, the only question that bothered me was: Did Lang do it wit
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  Since, as [[Lacan]] claims in his [[Seminar]] XX: [[Encore]], [[Woman]] is one of the names of God, would it not be [[logical]] to conclude that, ...that somehow he "changed." /…/ the burning question of [[Limelight]] is: what is that "[[nothing]]," that [[sign]] of age, that small difference of trite
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  What is [[tolerance]] today? The most popular TV show of the fall of 2000 in [[F ...nvite [[people]] like dedicated racists, whose choice-whose [[difference]]-does make a difference. Phenomena like these make it all the more necessary toda
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...s all [[resistance]] to it to [[imaginary]] [[misrecognition]]. And if one does effectively break up the chains of the [[symbolic order]], one is expelled ...Platonic-[[Christian]] definition of the body as the "prison of the soul," what he calls the "body" is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that whic
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...tal passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i.e., which does the tickling. But, again, WHICH is this object? The answer is: the parallax ...for the unknown x, the noumenal core of the object beyond appearances, for what is "in you more than yourself." <i>L'objet petit a</i> can thus be defined
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...anity itself. It is then that the West has lost its [[chance]] to remain [[woman]]. [[A Glance into the Archives of Islam#Notes|1]]</blockquote> ...ty: the male West would have rejoined the feminine East and thus “remain woman,” locate itself within femininity.<br><br>
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• With or Without Passion
  What's Wrong with [[Fundamentalism]]? - Part I ...neself to what one sees, one simply misses the point. This [[paradox]] is what [[Lacan]] aims at with his <i>[[les non-dupes errent]]</i>: those who do no
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...ist to reject it? Is such an unambiguous attack not a sine qua non if we [[want]] to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fund ...killing our Lord [[Jesus]]? Or as the typical secular Jew who, although he does not believe in Jehova and [[Moses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that
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• Opera
  ...nnot join him in Walhalla, preferring the [[love]] of a miserable mortal [[woman]] to Walhall's <i>sproeden Wonnen</i>. The shattered Brunhilde comments on ...[[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[lacking]] in [[German]] [[history]] are more gestures like Siegmund's.
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...te priority of the other, to start to calculate the incalculable. However, what is important for Levinas is that this kind of [[legal]] relationship, neces ...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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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...our ideological and social predicament. What, then, is the Matrix? Simply what Lacan called the "big other," the virtual symbolic order, the network that ...e of the ruins of Chicago, he simply says "This is the real world!", i.e., what remained of our reality outside the Matrix after the catastrophe while the
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...chcock's unique touch, etc., and approach the difficult task of specifying what gives Hitchcock's films their unique flair.<br> ...use, furious at her [[deception]], her expression is no longer angiushed - what we perceive is a strange manic smile of a deeply [[perverse]] satisfaction,
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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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• Death's Merciless Love
  ..., the question of "what means what?" is in no way decided by this reading: does the Hamlet narrative "mean" stars, or do stars "mean" Hamlet's narrative, i ...efeat is signalled by the suicidal jump of the Sphynx. (And, incidentally, what if the same goes even for [[Christianity]]: is not Freud's [[thesis]] that
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