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[[Lacan]] was raised, grew up, in a comfortable middle-[[class]] [[Catholic]] [[family]] in '''Montparnasse, [[ He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the '''Collège Stanislas'''.<ref>An ambitious

...nvestigation. Cognitivism has marked a [[return]] to a scientific approach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cog The term refers to those sciences that study systems for representing [[understanding]] and th

...omplex]]', that is, around whether or not someone 'has' or 'does not have' a [[penis]]. For Lacan, on the other hand, castration is a [[symbolic]] [[process]] that invovles the cutting off, not of one's penis,

...t we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr ...ht; how voice is like a kind of a spectral ghost. All this became apparent to those conservatives who were sensitive for the break of the new.<br class="

...with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], there is [[freedom]] of thought… however, one

...ost-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politicians to press such buttons. But some things are excluded. What is excluded from thi ...ndonesian assembly lines. In their invisibility the West can afford itself to babble [[about]] the so-called disappearing working [[class]]. Of course, i

GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? ...semiotic Japan. The empty signs, no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for

...legitimate [[place]] in it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavour. ...imultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3

...In order to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...g else… This is probably "totalitarianism" at its unsurpassed purest — how did this take [[place]]?</p>

...y the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...more money-this speculative [[madness]] can not go on indefinitely; it has to explode in ever stronger crises. The ultimate root of the crisis is for him

...the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is to be and act as a racist is a priori excluded). ...ke a difference. Phenomena like these make it all the more necessary today to reassert [[Lenin]]'s opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom. Let u

...e active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i.e. ...not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>

...pears," "or, if you like," "you could argue that... but I am more inclined to [[think]]...," "perhaps," "I rather disliked the [[feeling]]"): ...maginative level. I felt as if I were a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melting was starting in my back—drip-drip and presently trickle

...ards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br> ...ffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br>

...the one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost exclusively directed against one's own - the cars ...ing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.

<i>Vaclav [[Havel]]: A [[Political]] [[Tragedy]] in Six [[Acts]]</i> by John Keane · Bloomsbury, ...nce, but is inherent in it. The ultimate lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner

appeared originally in <i>electronic book review</i><br><br> ...than they are willing to admit" and it would be hypocritical for [[them]] to do so?<br><br>

...ards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'" ...ffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"

...e]] of freedom today. Our freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choose your lifestyle. ...: Has 11 September thrown new light on your diagnosis of what is happening to the [[world]]?

...mention, of course, the Israeli regime - all voiced 'dismay' and announced a diplomatic quarantine of Austria until the plague should disappear. Establi ...al Left. Therein resides the ultimate rationale of the Third Way: that is, a social democracy purged of its minimal subversive sting, extinguishing even

...while igniting fire all around Serbia - finally, his last letter returned to him. Let us hope that the result of the NATO [[intervention]] will be that ...ion or some [[form]] of radical decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.

Geert Lovink: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country ...pan. The empty [[signs]], no Western [[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein

<p><a href="#bio"><i>Geert Lovink</i></a>

...y the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...more money-this speculative [[madness]] can not go on indefinitely; it has to explode in ever stronger crises. The ultimate root of the crisis is for him

...(IPA). Stripped of the [[right]] to train students, Lacan was then obliged to break with the [[official]] institution,<ref>Cf. Elisabeth Roudinesco, ''La ...erved in his archives, indicate; quite plausibly they met in the course of a dinner on December 3.''

is, at its worst. Lacan, so say his detractors, made a career out said. Noam [[Chomsky]] once indicated such a hypothesis when he explained

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...[Blackmail]]" and "[[Iraq]] - Where is the [[True]] [[Danger]]?", referred to here. ...lls from both sides of politics for [[swift]] retaliation, they both urged a kind of caution or delay. Baudrillard, for his part, wrote in <i>The Spirit

...lhelm Reich''' ([[March 24]], [[1897]]&ndash;[[November 3]], [[1957]]) was a [[Jewish]]-[[Austria]]n [[psychiatrist]], [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]], ...instruments to detect and harness this energy, which he said could be used to treat illnesses like [[cancer]] or [[control]] the weather. His views were

...sign of a dangerous and defective "authoritarian personality." In addition to ridiculing patriotism and racial [[identity]], the Frankfurt [[school]] glo ...Slovenia]] in [[France]] in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif"

...and popular [[culture]] in such books as [[Looking]] Awry: An Introduction to [[Jacques Lacan]] Through Popular Culture and [[Enjoy]] the [[Symptom]]! Ja ...ten over two-dozen books ranging from Lacan, Kant, Hegel, and [[Deleuze]], to [[Hitchcock]], [[David Lynch]], and Krzystof [[Kieslowski]]. [[Born]] in 19

[[Lacan]]'s [[Metaphor]] of the [[Mirror]] [[Stage]]<a></a></b></h2><b> <br> ...ume 1 of the [[Seminar]]: <i>[[Freud]]'s Papers on [[Technique]]</i> )<a></a></h3><br>

...title 'The topic of [[the imaginary]]'. Such a [[subject]] is quite enough to fill up several years of teaching, but since several questions concerning t ...interplay of those [[three]] grand [[terms]] we have already had occasion to make much of- the imaginary, [[the symbolic]], and the [[real]].<br>

[[Lacan]], Jacques. Introduction to the Names-of-the-[[Father]] [[Seminar]]. Jeffrey Mehlman. ''October''. Vol I don't intend to engage in anything in the [[order]] of a theatrical ploy. I

...a detailed account of how the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], to doctors taking care of the Leaders; [[three]] documents are crucial here:<b ...e best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[ideas]] -

...sign of a dangerous and defective "authoritarian personality." In addition to ridiculing patriotism and racial [[identity]], the Frankfurt [[school]] glo ...Slovenia]] in [[France]]-in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]-wrote apropos Jacques [[Derrida]]'

...to the [[needs]] and objectives of philosophy, which has allowed [[them]] to contest or reject it. ...secondary [[processes]], the processes of the id and the ego) were similar to and yet different from [[conscious]] phenomena.

...[psychoanalysis]] and continue to have a major impact in fields as diverse a [[film]] studies, [[literary]] criticism, [[feminist]] [[theory]] and [[phi ...tional background to Lacanian ideas. Each major [[concept]] is traced back to its origins in the work of Freud, [[Saussure]], Hege and otbers.

..." or "objet petit [[autre]]"--an [[object]] which is a little "[[other]]," a small-o other. In throwing it away, the [[child]] recognizes that [[others] ...At the beginning he didn’t reveal he was afraid of [[being]] bitten by a white horse.

...can, Jacques]]. [[Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever]]. Talk at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. 1966. < ...rhaps I would not wish them to be so secure and in this case I shall speak a little French as well.

...the most intimate recesses of its [[being]], manifests its [[capture]] in a [[symbolic]] [[dimension]].<br><br> ...ience, reveal only what in it remains inconsistent unless they are related to [[the symbolic]] chain which binds and orients [[them]].<br><br>

...prosperous, bourgeois [[parents]], [[Alfred Lacan]] and [[Emilie Baudry]], a family of solid [[Catholic]] [[tradition]]. ...milie Baudry (1876–[[1948]]) (a middle-[[class]] Roman-Catholic family) (a family of solid Catholic tradition). -->

[http://www.the-site.org.uk/ The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis] - A UK-based [[psychoanalytic]] [[training]] organisation [http://www.lacan.org.nz/ Centre for Lacanian Analysis] -- A [[forum]] for Lacanian [[practice]] and research in Auckland, New Zealand

...e of the French Revolution flared up again. The liberal revisionists tried to impose the notion that the demise of Communism in 1989 occurred at exactly ...ge to say B - the terror needed to really defend and assert the A.<ref>For a balanced historical description of the Terror, see David Andress, ''The Ter

...d [[left]] journals and academic conference plenaries, Zizek usually seems to be lampooning himself. ...s a calculated bid to one-up a [[French]] academy that had attached itself to Jerry Lewis.

...revolutionary subject." Or, as Badiou would have put it: "Only if there is a subject, an Event can occur within an evental site."<br><br> ...eparated civilization from barbarism. One should not shirk from going even a step further: the thin difference between the Stalinist gulag and the Nazi

...ed, the two moments are posited as autonomous - God is embattled, there is a counter-force or principle of demoniac Evil active in the world (the dualis ...g of God" <ref>David Tracy, "Religious Values after the Holocaust," in <em>A Holocaust Reader</em>, p. 237.</ref> quite literally: the very excess of th

...lays a perverse structure: I practice the fetishist disavowal, clinging to a religious notion of act as the miraculous positivity of pure Real, ignoring ...something - in the clinic, of castration. In fact, Zizek's response seems to come under this description. (130)

...while igniting fire all around Serbia - finally, his last letter returned to him. Let us hope that the result of the NATO [[intervention]] will be that ...ion or some [[form]] of radical decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.

='Am I a Philosopher?' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-am-i-a-philosopher-theoryleaks.jpg|400|right]]<br />'''Delivered at ''Internationa

''From Kant to Hegel, Again'' ...ctical movement enables us to grasp the Whole of reality, i.e., the return to pre-critical general ontology… But what if the actual situation is quite

='Lacan as a Reader of Hegel' by Slavoj Žižek= ...hievable in the satisfaction of all―that is, of all those it involves in a human undertaking. Of all the undertakings that have been proposed in this

...that Coca-cola was first introduced as a medicine. Its strange taste seems to provide no particular satisfaction. It is not directly pleasing, however, i ...o taken away. All that remains is pure semblance, an artificial promise of a substance which never materialized. Is it not that in the case of caffeine-