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• Myths
  ...nherited this opposition between [[rational]] [[thought]] and [[mythical]] thought. ...ns that borrow the anonymity of myths and a few contemporary elements of [[content]], bear [[witness]] to the persistence of a [[discourse]] that is both inti
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• Sigmund Freud:Biography
  ...ut found the allure of science too compelling to ignore. Although he was [[content]] to be engaged in [[work]] that might benefit humanity through [[working]] ...himself the residing expert on all matters pertaining to psychoanalytic [[thought]]. He was not tolerant of disagreements, especially those that challenged c
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories In Action
  ...st content, which is the dream as it appears to the dreamer. This manifest content is often disguised in symbols. The therapist's task in dream analysis is to ...herapist may ask the patient to free associate some aspect of the manifest content to help him or her understand latent meanings. As the meaning of the dreams
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• Function of Language
  ...o the same sources as Lacan in [[order]] to support their critiques: the [[thought]] of [[Hegel]] and Heidegger. In Lacan's (phenomenological) view biological ...was undoubtedly the result of a growing [[awareness]] of [[structuralist]] thought, and was marked by a break in the phenomenological [[vocabulary]] of his ea
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...of this [[particular]] collection, but rather because over the years his [[thought]] has led him into deeper and deeper waters. We [[know]] that his [[doctora ...ublished) on which both papers are based. Without these supports we must [[content]] ourselves with a kind of make-do [[coherence]] which is [[forced]] to tak
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...efore represents a corresponding level of [[development]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[thought]]. In fact it complements the former insofar as, for Lacan, the essential f ...that desire" (1977, p. 289/693). But sooner or later the child must be "[[content]] to present to the Other what in [[reality]] he may have that corresponds
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...roclaims, constantly liable to attempts to exorcize it from contemporary [[thought]] by New Age obscurantists, [[postmodern]] deconstructionists, Habermasians ...[body]] may be an illusion, Descartes concludes that at the very least his thought must exist, if it is to be deceived:
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• Philosophy and psychoanalysis
  ...lity]] of any pure [[transparent]] [[knowledge]] of the [[world]] and of [[thought]] to itself. Less negatively, on the [[interpretation]] of art proposed by ...s. Freud did not hesitate to apply such conceptions to Immanuel [[Kant]]'s thought by suggesting, for example, that the [[superego]] is the metapsychological
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• Science and psychoanalysis
  ...h it has developed to varying degrees of probability. The capacity to be [[content]] with these approximations to [[certainty]] and the ability to carry on ...logical option appears constant over the [[development]] of [[Freudian]] [[thought]]: "What characterizes psychoanalysis, as a science, is less the material o
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• Over-interpretation
  ...to [[form]] any conception of the abundance of the unconscious trains of [[thought]], all striving to find expression, which are [[active]] in our minds. Nor ...ravelled and which moreover adds [[nothing]] to our [[knowledge]] of the [[content]] of the dream. This is the [[dream's navel]], the spot where it reaches do
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• Prehistory
  ...ge of its disposition and [[constitution]], but also the transmission of [[content]], that is, the lived [[experience]] of previous generations. This is not a The notion of prehistory attempts to legitimize the systems of [[thought]] of primitive peoples, of [[children]], and of [[adults]] to be compared,
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• Certainty
  ...o the [[idea]] of conviction, which connotes an [[illusory]] or mistaken [[content]] (delusional conviction). However, [[dreams]] are an example of a [[mental ...de]] [[world]] (1901b). This idea was developed in connection with animist thought and later with the [[category]] of [[experience]], which included [[feeling
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• Dream-work
  ...ms that transform the raw [[materials]] of a [[dream]] into its [[manifest content]]. ...or in the dreamer's [[free association]]s) and dream-[[thought]] ([[latent content]]).
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• Love of the 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 Agency of the Letter
  tions between the [[signifier]] and labour. I shall be [[content]], for my little<br> One cannot go further along this line of [[thought]] than to demonstrate<br>
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• An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...n the one hand, some commentators present the [[development]] of Lacan's [[thought]] in terms of dramatic and sudden '[[epistemological]] breaks'; 1953, for e ...its present incomplete and rudimentary state. This dictionary may thus be thought of as a [[resistance]], in the way Lacan defined resistance, a 'the present
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...mes a new thesis generating its own anti-thesis and so on. [[Dialectical]] thought, therefore, foregrounds the contradictory nature of all things, as all phen ...ectatorship. This shift in the use of psychoanalysis from interpreting the content of individual texts to an analysis of how our subjectivity and identity are
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• Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
  ...rimary processes in contrast to the secondary processes of [[conscious]] [[thought]]. By [[mapping]] Jakobson's distinction between metaphor and metonymy on t ...onships, pivot around the shifting position of the letter itself. As the [[content]] remains unknown throughout this process of symbolic exchange, we can also
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• Lacan and the Pre-Socratics
  ...[[other]] than themselves. There is, moreover, the risk of losing one's [[thought]] in a [[latent]] confrontation between Lacan and [[Heidegger]], which has ...ine the [[place]] of psychoanalysis in the strictly Western [[history]] of thought, in which psychoanalysis marks a rupture, and which is not at all constitut
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• Reconceptualizing Freud
  ...was reconceptualized by four [[literary]] theorists who argued that the [[content]] of [[psychic]] [[fantasy]] was relevant to literary study as well as to [ ...e" position. On the [[other]] hand, [[feminist]] adaptations of Kleinian [[thought]] have been questioned. Janice Doane and Devon Hodges describe the evolutio
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