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• Self-Consciousness
  ...of consciousness in the definition of the human [[psyche]]. This sense of identity, this initial [[subjective]] stance, is established gradually, being linked ...the subject from the self-consciousness heretofore upheld by [[Hegelian]] philosophy and the [[solipsism]] of the [[Cartesian]] [[cogito]]. In "The [[Mirror]] [
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• Notes on Metaphor and Metonymy
  ...father represents the [[symbolic order]], represents not in the sense of [[identity]], such that when L speaks of the father he is speaking of the symbolic. R ...fication that says, finally, "It's a mitten" or "That [e.g. Manderley, a [[philosophy]] professor, an advertising producer, a man, a [[woman]]] is me." </p><p>
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• The Agency of the Letter
  to lecture to the [[philosophy]] group of the <i>Fédération des étudiants dès<br> [[identity]] - a fault of habit, but its effect on the [[mind]] is such that the [[tru
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• The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
  ...ade to recall him to the real, but this expresses, in his dream, the quasi-identity of what is happening, the very reality of an overturned candle setting ligh ...as the <i>tuchi </i>brings us back to the same point at which pre-Socratic philosophy sought to motivate the world itsele</p><p>
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...the pursuit of [[happiness]], whether through [[marriage]], the study of [[philosophy]], or the consumption of pornography, merely lead to loneliness and [[frust ...y a man (or vice versa) would not prove anything, because the [[gender]] [[identity]] does not depend on the sequences of [[symbols]], while a successful imita
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...ant to [[understand]] that Lacan drew on a wide range of influences from [[philosophy]] and experimental [[psychology]] in [[order]] to formulate his ideas in th ...or understanding Lacan, however, and especially where he adopts ideas from philosophy, [[anthropology]] and [[linguistics]], is that he always transforms [[conce
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• Lacan and the Pre-Socratics
  ...pture, and which is not at all constituted by but, rather, punctuated by [[philosophy]].<br><br> ...he identity of the Idea. We could say that the Pre-Socratics differentiate identity, while Plato identifies difference. This is perhaps the source of Lacan's p
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• Post-Lacanians
  ...llowed in Žižek’s path, combining psychoanalytic theory and [[social]] philosophy by [[interpreting]] Kant through Lacan, and vice versa, in [[Ethics]] of th ...e in the Symbolic. In Gender Trouble: Feminism and the [[Subversion]] of [[Identity]] (1990)Butler criticizes Lacan’s theoretical [[construction]] of the Sym
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• Film Theory and Criticism
  ...attempt to interrogate and expand the concept of normal by moving beyond [[identity]]-laden quests seeking to uncover what homosexuality (and [[heterosexuality ...s the basis of his work, including Theorizing the Moving Image (1996)and A Philosophy of Mass Art (1998). Carroll is among a significant cluster of film theoreti
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• Linguistics and Language
  ...agmatics and [[discourse]] [[analysis]], studies (inspired by linguistic [[philosophy]]) of [[speech]] [[acts]], speech genres, and [[text]] structure; socioling ...erary terms and models derive from varieties of linguistics and linguistic philosophy.
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• The Freudian terrain
  Freud argued, in short, that sexual [[identity]] is not merely anatomically determined, but psychically constructed. Until ...its [[parents]] as critical for the [[achievement]] of its proper [[sexual identity]]. [[Love]] of the [[mother]] is dominant in the early formative years. Lat
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• Master-Slave
  ...nd Levi-[[Strauss]], a generation which was antagonistic to the academic [[philosophy]] of the 1920s and 1930s. It was a generation that reacted bitterly against The uses of philosophy 33
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• The theory of the four discourses
  The uses of [[philosophy]] 39 The uses of philosophy 41
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• The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I
  ...ee Note 2 below.</ref> It is an experience which leads us to oppose any [[philosophy]] directly issuing from the ''[[Cogito]]''. ...hopaedic -and to the assumption, finally, of the armour of an alienating [[identity]], which will stamp with the rigidity of its structure the [[whole]] of the
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• Introducing Lacan
  ...[[Latin]]. As a teenager, [[Jacques Lacan]] developed a [[passion]] for [[philosophy]], adorning the walls of his bedroom with a plan of the [[structure]] of [[ ...erested here in this [[complex]] relation to [[image]]s and the ideas of [[identity]] to be found in [[paranoia]]. In her subsequent arrest and confinement, s
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• Articles by Slavoj Zizek
  * [https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/troubles-with-identity/ Troubles with Identity] * [https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antisemitic-zionist-jewish-identity-muslim-islamophobia-immigration-migrants-racism-a8022726.html There's a dan
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...Lacan himself pointed the way out of this deadlock by referring to Kant's philosophy as the crucial antecedent of the psychoanalytic ethics. As such, Kantian et ...ia to Holland, in the new spirit of pride at one's cultural and historical identity, the main parties now find it acceptable to stress that the immigrants are
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...and the twentieth century were Westernizers." (Lesley Chamberlain, <i>The Philosophy Steamer</i>, London: Atlantic Books 2006, p. 270) ...reformer and Muslim fundamentalist war leader up to respected professor of philosophy, his entire career marked by the strange admiration for Pierre Bourdieu's t
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• Purpose
  ...thics]], [[subjectivity]], [[sovereignty]], [[violence]], and collective [[identity]]. ...lican traditions (and their critics) to [[critical theory]], continental [[philosophy]], and post-[[Marxist]], post-structuralist, and (Lacanian) [[psychoanalyti
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...s also the domain of political ecology, the ethical field of resistance to identity and predictable paths. It's very troubling and confusing, because it seems ...cial moment, a moment at which there is not any world' /.../ As a result: 'Philosophy has no other legitimate aim except to help find the new names that will bri
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