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• The Act
  ...act]], "since to our [[knowledge]] there is no [[other]] [[act]] but the [[human]] one."<ref>{{S11}} p. 50</ref> [[Lacan]] dedicates a year of his [[seminar]] to discussing further the [[nature]] of the [[act|psychoanalytic act]].<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Semi
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• Imaginary
  ...the structure of the imaginary [[order]] and to the [[development]] of the human ego.</i> The basis of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is the [[mirror sta ...means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref>
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• Jouissance
  ...raw substance of enjoyment that reflects the primordial [[character]] of [[human]] drives and obsessions. ...nt against [[Hannah Arendt]] and her conclusion regarding the routinized [[nature]] of the extermination of [[Jews]] as a “banality of evil” ([[Arendt]]
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• Thing
  ...an objection to [[Lacan]]'s theories [[about]] the [[linguistic|linguistic nature]] of the [[unconscious]]. [[Lacan]] counters such objections by pointing o ...as ''[[thing|das Ding]]'' is seen as "the cause of the most fundamental [[human]] [[passion]]."<ref>{{S7}} p. 97</ref> Also, the fact that the [[Thing]] i
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• Mirror stage
  ...ef> It refers to a [[particular]] experiment which can differentiate the [[human]] [[infant]] from his closest [[animal]] relative, the chimpanzee. The six ...h occurs in the development of the child. It illustrates the conflictual [[nature]] of the [[dual]] relationship.<ref>{{S4}} p. 17</ref></blockquote>
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• Symbolic
  ...]], the "[[symbolic]]" is one of [[three]] [[order]]s that [[structure]] [[human]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[imaginary]] and the [[real] ...ic]] [[structure]]s is an essential feature of the human transition from [[nature]] to [[culture]].
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• Desire
  ...the fact of the [[prohibition]] to which [[sexuality]] is subjected in the human [[being]]. This prohibition is a structural [[cultural]] [[necessity]], no ...which is embedded in discourse, is an essential property of human desire. Human desire is the desire of the Other (over and above the [[others]] who are [[
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ses" of the Cheka, it was Lenin who defended it. (Figes p649) However, the nature of these so-called "excesses," as well as Lenin's reasons behind their defe ...itic of these practices, which he saw as a form of deification of a mere [[human]] being who could, and did, make mistakes. [http://www.marxists.org/archive
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• Demand
  ...]] of 1956-7, [[Lacan]] argues that the '''cry''' of the '''[[helplessness|human infant]]''' -- its '''call''' (''l'appel'') to the '''[[mother]]''' -- is n It is the [[symbolic|symbolic nature]] of the infant's screams which forms the kernel of [[Lacan]]'s [[concept]]
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• Perversion
  ...[human]] [[sexuality]], which is characterized by the [[absence]] of any [[nature|pregiven natural order]]. ...ally]] [[perversion|perverse]]; on the contrary, the [[perversion|perverse nature]] of [[perversion|homosexuality]] is entirely a question of its infringemen
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• Object
  ...t of the drive]] is [[contingency|contingent]] and is not defined by any [[nature|natural]] or predetermined [[purpose]]; [[sexual object]]-[[choice]] is det ...her and father clearly play an essential [[role]] in the creation of the [[human]] being's representational [[system]] from the very beginning of life. By c
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• Instinct
  ...vely rigid and invariable, and imply a direct relation to an [[object]], [[human]] [[sexuality]] is a matter of [[drives]], which are very variable and neve ...s earliest works, [[Lacan]] criticizes those who attempt to [[understand]] human [[behavior]] purely in terms of [[instinct]]s, arguing that this is to supp
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• Identification
  =====Human Subjectivity===== ...entification]] eventually came to denote "the operation itself whereby the human subject is constituted."<ref>Laplanche, Jean and Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand. '
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• Drive
  [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of the [[drive]] is central to his [[theory]] of [[human]] [[sexuality]]; it lies at the heart of his theory of [[sexuality]]. For [[Freud]], the distinctive feature of [[human]] [[sexuality]] -- as opposed to the [[sexual]] [[life]] of other animals -
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• Sexual Difference
  ...inition of these [[terms]], [[Freud]] limits himself to describing how a [[human]] [[subject]] comes to acquire [[masculine]] or [[feminine]] psychical char This is not an [[instinct]]ual or [[nature|natural]] [[process]], but a complex one in which [[anatomical]] difference
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• Fantasy
  ...ot imply a [[rejection]] of the fundamentally discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[b ...rly [[understood]] as a way of perceiving that is already stained by the [[human]] subject’s desire. Therefore, reality is already a [[subjective]] [[proc
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• Biology
  ...be misleading and will obliterate the essential [[distinction]] between [[nature]] and [[culture]]. ...re, according to [[Lacan]], the ''primacy'' of the [[symbolic order]] in [[human]] [[existence]]. [[Lacan]] sees this "[[biology|biologism]]" in the [[work]
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• Adaptation
  ...s early [[work]] in the 1930s on, [[Lacan]] opposes any attempt to explain human phenomena in terms of [[adaptation]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.158; {{Ec}} p. 171-2</re ...ntially excessive [[drive]] potential summed up in the [[death drive]]. [[Human]] [[being]]s are essentially [[maladaptive]].
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• Death
  ...[[death]], because "the [[signifier]] already considers him [[dead]], by [[nature]] it immortalizes him."<ref>{{S3}} p. 180</ref> The [[death|first death]] ends one [[human|human life]] but which does not put an end to the cycles of corruption and regene
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• Development
  ...l development]] and takes no account of the [[symbolic]] articulation of [[human]] [[sexuality]], thus ignoring the fundamental differences between [[drive] ...tal]]) are not observable [[biology|biological]] phenomena which develop [[nature|naturally]], such as the [[development|stage]]s of [[development|sensoriomo
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• Specular image
  The [[nature|human]] [[being]] is completely [[captation|captivated]] by the [[specular image]
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• Sexual relationship
  <blockquote>"Between [[male]] and [[female]] [[human]] beings there is no such thing as an instinctive relationship' because all ...it is not possible to define [[perversion]] by reference to a supposedly [[nature|natural form]] of the [[sexual relationship]] (as [[Freud]] did).
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• Science
  ...[science|modern science]] for ignoring the [[symbolic]] [[dimension]] of [[human]] [[existence]] and thus encouraging modern man "to forget his [[subjectivi =====Human And Natural Sciences=====
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• Psychology
  ...y]] is confined to an [[understanding]] of [[nature|animal psychology]] ([[nature|ethology]]): ...[animal]]s, but that it cannot say anything about that which is uniquely [[human]].<ref>Although at one point [[Lacan]] does [[state]] that the [[theory]] o
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...] in the first period of Lacan's work, 1932-48, is the domination of the [[human]] being by the [[image]]. ...f. The [[humiliation]] of our time under the subjugation of the enemies of human kind dissuaded me from [[speaking]] up, and following Fontenelle, I abandon
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• The Subject
  [[Madness]]: the vanishing mediator between [[nature]] and [[culture]] ...affords us a telling insight into how we transform from being immersed in nature (or objectivity) to beings supported by culture (or [[subjectivity]]).
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• Real2
  ...from trying to define the real point directly to its [[nature]] and to the nature of the other two orders against which it is set. Insofar as it is "impossib ...y the real of his own [[mortality]] – it insists on the contingency of [[human]] [[life]], however well ordered it may appear.
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• Law
  ===Human=== ..., by regulating [[sexual relationship|sexual relations]] that are, among [[nature|animal]]s, unregulated:
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...s</i>, to be Sigmund Freud's "most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge" (Freud, 1905d, p. 126). In general, most psychoanalysts would ag ...f the anatomo-physiologic and psychic bisexuality that characterizes every human being, a hypothesis that Freud explicitly attributed to Wilhelm Fliess. Fre
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...ud concludes that the taboos are not set up for a totally '[[practical]] [[nature]]' and thus must have some [[psychoanalytical]] justification. ...Freud located the beginnings of the [[Oedipus complex]] at the origins of human [[society]], and postulated that all religion was in effect an extended and
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...ly, "''what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from [[human]] wishes''." (pg. 31) He adds, however, that, "Illusions [[need]] not neces ...giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human nature, he claims, that "''it is only through the influence of individuals who can
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...his doubts and [[hesitation]], his concern regarding the [[scientific]] [[nature]] of the information he... ...s thought, his doubts and hesitation, his concern regarding the scientific nature of the information he provides, and his fears concerning the way the [[text
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• Semiotics
  ...r [[John Locke]] ([[1632]]&ndash;[[1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the term "semeiotike" from the Gr ...nts, analysing usage in slow-[[time]], whereas, in the [[real]] world of [[human]] semiotic interaction there is an often chaotic blur of language and [[sig
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• Eros
  ...' is the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[word]] for (especially) romantic or "[[Human sexual behavior|sexual love]]". The term ''[[erotic]]'' is derived from ''e ...e who considers sex as something mortifying and humiliating to [[human]] [[nature]] is at liberty to make use of the more genteel expressions 'Eros' and 'ero
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...d's Psycho Dynamic Theory and Thermodynamics] [1873-1923] - Institute of [[Human]] Thermodynamics</ref> The origins of Freud’s basic [[model]], based on t ...]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how human [[behavior]] both [[conditions]] and results from this [[particular]] [[the
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• Complex
  ...ly [[cultural]] products, rather than on [[natural]] [[instinct]]s, that [[human]] [[behaviour]] cannot be explained by reference to [[biological]] givens. ...e up for the [[instinct]]ual inadequacy (''insuffisance vitale'') of the [[human]] [[infant]], and argues that the [[complex]]es are propped on [[biological
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...al]] [[experience]] would be possible... This does not mean, however, that human are not, and do not have to be, something, that they are simply consigned t ...[[figure]] of [[Roman law]] that poses some fundamental questions to the [[nature]] of [[law]] and [[power (sociology)|power]] in general. Under the Roman [[
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• Hannah Arendt
  Arendt's work deals with the [[nature]] of [[Power (sociology)|power]], and the [[subjects]] of [[politics]], [[a Arguably, her most influential work was [[The Human Condition (book)|''The Human Condition'']] (1958) in which she distinguishes labor, work, and action, an
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• Capitalism
  ...socialist feminists agree that there can be no [[understanding]] of the [[nature]] of contemporary capitalist society without placing the oppression of wome ...mits of capitalism; it is only the “part of no part” of the excluded [[human]] [[surplus]] that adds the “subversive” (''LC'': 430) edge to those ot
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...semantic, syntactic, and lexical models ([[linguistics]]), the study of [[human]] activities ([[psychology]]), and the neuronal basis of those activities ( Slavoj Žižek’s engagements with life-scientific treatments of human mindedness should be [[understood]], straightforwardly enough, as fundament
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• Deconstruction
  ...ning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstructed" [[concepts]] ...eep criticism is a result of a fundamental difference of opinion about the nature of [[philosophy]], and is unlikely to be resolved simply.
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...re are two Deleuzes. The more accepted Deleuze champions the multitudinous nature of becoming in ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]''. However, the second Deleuze is much mo ...as a [[quasi-cause]], revolutionary becoming and the notion of the [[post-human]].
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...actions of characters within the story, but whose specific identity and [[nature]] is unimportant to the [[spectator]] of the film. In ''[[Vertigo (film)|Ve ...erally avoided points of view that were physically [[impossible]] from a [[human]] perspective. For example, he would never place the camera [[looking]] out
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...h]]. Much of his [[work]] deals with [[religious]] problems such as the [[nature]] of faith, the institution of the [[Christian Church]], [[Christian]] [[et ...ique of the story, Kierkegaard made several insightful observations on the nature of the [[present]] age and its passionless attitude towards life. One of h
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• Georg Lukács
  ...hat the being itself can appear as a product, so far [[unconscious]], of [[human]] [[activity]], and this activity, in turn, as the decisive element of the ...he [[category]] of ''[[reification]]'' whereby, due to the [[commodity]] [[nature]] of [[capitalist]] [[society]], social relations become objectified, precl
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  Freud's speculations on the female Oedipus complex led him to explore the [[nature]] of feminine sexuality but resulted only in a series of unanswered questio ...at its status in the development of [[human]] sexuality is something which nature cannot account for' (1996a: 63). The phallus is the signifier of lack. The
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...ciety]]. For Lacan there is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is la ...c assumptions. Lacan’s view is that biology is always interpreted by the human subject, refracted through language; that there is no such [[thing]] as...
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  The [[Oedipus complex]] is central to [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of [[human]] [[development]]. ...’[[Civilization and its Discontents]]’’ (1930), the transition from nature to culture.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...'[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[world]] or the [[human]] [[body]] or even '[[reality]]'. For Lacan, our reality consists of [[symb ...]] [[about]] [[traumatic]] events such as train crashes, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...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><tr>< ...udes this aspect, a fear of a too violent, too open encounter with another human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr><
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• Cyberspace
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]].
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights — therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[exp ...pic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophe, violations of [[human rights]], sexism, [[homophobia]], antifeminism, the growing [[violence]] no
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ..., but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it's in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe ...of themselves, accepting what was IMPOSED on them as originating in their "nature" - they are even no longer AWARE of their subordination.
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...s, the death of Christ is the death of the God in himself, not only of his human embodiment) — which is why, for Lacan, who follows here Hegel, the Thing ...the time reduced to the survival-machines, there is the One who maintained human dignity). In a way homologous to the canned laughter, we have here somethin
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...g to demonstrate how Christianity effectively provides the foundation to [[human rights]] and freedoms. ...th his/her special place within the [[social edifice]], when he respects [[nature]] which provides food and shelter, when he shows respect for his superiors
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...[organ]] which provides pleasure, ignoring him/her as the [[Whole]] of a [[human]] Person?), the crucial clue that allows us to discern the contours of "Sad ...n]] (because of man's hurt pride, due to the "radical [[Evil]]" of human [[nature]]); for Lacan, this Kantian privileging of pain as the only a priori sentim
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...his [[notion]] relies on the [[humanist]] [[ideological]] opposition of "[[human]] persons" versus "things." Is it not one of [[Marx]]'s standard determinat ...n of the genesis of "[[reification]]," is then to demonstrate how original human belief was transposed onto things… The paradox to be maintained is that d
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ional wink to his son, letting him know that, after all, he is also merely human ...) We are dealing here with the same short-circuit as that found in The H ...ne has to assert that there is no substantial guarantee of the progressive nature of women or of the working class-the situation is irreducibly antagonistic
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...s Saddam, releasing petroleum in the water and killing wildlife, killing [[nature]]? ...ope was not [[socialism]] with a [[human]] face, but rather fascism with a human face. This is very dangerous. Anti-Semitism arises at such moments. Now the
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...f the [[signifier]]'s game running its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So, again, does not our experience of cyberspace perfectly fi ...[[Machine]] ([[Blade Runner]]), the animal is a male ape copulating with a human woman and fully [[satisfying]] her. Does this not materialize two standard
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...erts his hold upon us in the unconscious. On the other hand, insofar as "[[human]] being" implies the infinite freedom of [[subjectivity]], an element of fa
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...vices has run ahead of our faculty to lead a meaningful existence, to make human use of this immense power." Thus, the properly modern [[ethics]] of "follow ...[[whole]] [[game]] of discerning a patriarchal, Eurocentric, mechanistic, nature-exploiting bias to modern science does not really concern science, the driv
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...in order to counteract, and thus conceal, the basic vileness of your true nature… ^{<a href="#4">4</a>}</p> ...otally "objective" laws, strictly comparable to the laws of [[material]] [[Nature]]. Do we not [[encounter]] another version of this same objectivization in
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...gri thus deserve much praise for enlightening us about the contradictory [[nature]] of today's "turbocapitalism" and attempting to [[identify]] to identify t ...all for three [[demands]] formulated in the terminology of [[universal]] [[human]] rights. The problem with these demands is that they fluctuate between [[f
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...e Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries preach express their [[true]] [[nature]]: “The [[revolution]] has gone too far What you are saying now we have b ...but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it’s in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...e Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries preach express their [[true]] [[nature]]: "The [[revolution]] has gone too far. What you are saying now we have be ...rmly rooted in the democratic political [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights. Therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the experien
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...l gestures and innuendoes he or she is witnessing. Crucial for "becoming-[[human]]" is the overlapping of the two levels, the implicit "sexualization" of th ...ever buy anything [[sight]] unseen," she says, and later rejects any "warm human contact" with him.<ref>I rely here on Kate Stables, British Film Institute,
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• You May
  ...rich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accep ...human rights!" It is [[impossible]] for the Power to prevent a 'misuse' of human rights without at the same time impinging on their proper application. Laca
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...nizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation ("finitude") of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and pas ...imal, the traumatic core of animality, that can only emerge "as such" in a human which became animal.) <a name="15"></a><a href="#15x">15</a><br><br>
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...lenty that cannot be comprehended yet."<ref>G.W.F. Hegel, <i>Philosophy of Nature</i>, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970, p. 62.</ref> In all these cases, it is ...d]] - what is unthinkable within this space is Heidegger's notion of the [[human]] being as <i>Da-[[Sein]]</i>, as the "being-there" of the Being itself, as
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...same conjunction of the high and the low which, in the living [[being]], [[Nature]] naively expresses when it combines the organ of its highest fulfillment, ...ncerity is that he himself was the first to [[doubt]] radically the divine nature of his visions, dismissing them as [[hallucinatory]] [[signs]] of [[madness
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• With or Without Passion
  ...h an assertion of belief (in the essential goodness of Man; in the truly [[human]] [[character]] of the Soviet [[regime]]) sublime, is the very gap between ...voluntarily constrained his [[power]] in order to leave the space open for human [[freedom]]); (3) finally, the self-limitation is externalized, the two mom
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...cutting himself, the sculptor displaying decaying [[animal]] corpses or [[human]] excrements), or to the parallel injunction to engage in more and more "da ...to the original plan would rather directly display the [[self]]-refuting [[nature]] of Gibson's [[project]]. That is to say, let us imagine the film without
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")? ...all the nourishment, air and sun, a being that is fully justified in its [[nature]] and its being? What is an individual, if not a usurper? What is [[signifi
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...co-dependence of the two aspects: the total artificiality (the constructed nature) of reality, and the triumphant return of the body in the sense of the ball ...and the horror of the situation is that, while the rebels feel like normal human beings freely walking around in reality, they know that, at the Other Scene
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ically cutting himself, the sculptor displaying decaying animal corpses or human excrements), or to the parallel injunction to engage in more and more "dari ...will. Clearly, a direct link to God justifies our violation of any "merely human" constraints and considerations (as in Stalinism, where the reference to th
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...tematically omitted what was undoubtedly his greatest crime (in terms of [[human]] [[suffering]] and of violating international justice): the [[aggression]] The ultimate proof of this secular [[nature]] is the ironic fact that, in the Iraqi elections of October 2002 in which
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...ries criticized in the U.S. State Department's annual Country Reports on [[Human]] Rights Practices) who can coerce [[confessions]] without worrying about [ ...What is "unknown" (disavowed, ignored) is not primarily the problematic [[nature]] of those reasons as such (say, the fact that in spreading democracy, the
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...e simply have much higher standards of what constitutes the violation of [[human rights]], etc. The fact that the situation appears catastrophic is thus in ...left]] alone, they would effectively give [[birth]] to a "socialism with a human face," to an authentic alternative to both [[Real]] Socialism and Real Capi
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...[[order]] to encode insights into fundamental libidinal deadlocks of the [[human]] [[race]]?<br><br> ...gbox. This is the culmination of the [[fetish]] character of the object in human desire. /.../ The opaque character of the [[object a]] in [[the imaginary]]
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...the [[idea]], developed most systematically by [[Donald Davidson]], that [[human]] [[acts]] are rationally-intentional, accountable in the [[terms]] of beli ...e Other desires - envy and resentment are thus a constitutive component of human [[desire,]] as already Saint Augustin knew it so well - [[recall]] the pass
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...get rid of, than with the object they try to reach, </i>they change their nature and become irascible and hateful. This is how amour de soi, which is a nobl ...ce, clearly, a direct link to God justifies our violation of any “merely human” constraints and considerations. The “godless” Stalinist Communists a
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...re was no one in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] who advocated ‘[[Nazism]] with a [[human face]]’. Herein lies the flaw (and the bias) of all attempts, such as th ...[class struggle]] onto racial struggle and in doing so obfuscates its true nature. What changes in the passage from Communism to Nazism is a matter of form,
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...] of humanity relies on the [[belief]] that we possess an inherited 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...give rise to asymmetrical relations between those who are 'spontaneously' human and those whose characters have been manipulated: some individuals will be
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...ird Way brings us back to the first and only way. Global capitalism with a human face.</p><p>This, then, is Havel's tragedy: his authentic ethical stance ha
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• Oedipus complex
  ...hough the [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central to Freud's theory of [[human]] development, no one paper is devoted to it. --> ...l negotiation of the Oedipal triangle is a precondition for entry into the human symbolic order.
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• Ambivalence
  For [[Freud]], [[ambivalence]] stems from the basic [[bisexuality]] of [[human]] beings and from the [[structures]] of the [[oedipus complex]], which mean ...the relation to the object along two lines: the [[partial]] or [[total]] [[nature]] of the investment in the object, and ambivalence. The precocious [[oral]]
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• Master
  ...ter]] and the [[master|slave]] is the inevitable result of the fact that [[human]] [[desire]] is the [[desire]] for [[recognition]]. In [[order]] to achiev ...[slave]]". In fact, [[human]] [[society]] is only possible because some [[human]] [[being]]s accept being [[slaves]] instead of fighting to the [[death]];
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• Nature
  {{Top}}natural|nature{{Bottom}} ==Human Beings and Animals==
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• Surrealism
  ...nvestigation of poetic [[images]] and [[language]], their sources, their [[nature]], and specific features, surrealism is a movement of [[ideas]], of artisti ...ical]] and [[external]], the other exploring the deepest recesses of the [[human]] mind and unfolding its truths in the work of art.
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• Need
  ...an]] for maintaining his theses [[about]] the radical divergence between [[human]] [[desire]] and all [[natural]] or [[biological]] [[categories]]. * [[Nature]]
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• Categorical Imperative
  ==Nature of the concept== The [[nature]] of a moral proposition ("It is wrong to commit murder") must necessarily
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• Frankfurt School
  ...r contributions in two areas relating to the possibility of [[rational]] [[human]] [[subject]]s, i.e. individuals who could act rationally to take charge of The nature of Marxism itself formed the second focus of the Institute, and in this con
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• Administered World
  ...the wildest [[utopian]] [[dream]] of the Enlightenment of all: an end to [[human]] [[suffering]]. "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in
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• Antigone (Lacan)
  ...ts on the [[tragedy]] of [[Antigone]], in a play which clearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to the [[death|dead]].
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• Blade Runner
  ...rk]] in Earth's "off-[[world]] colonies." Built to be 'more [[human]] than human', they appear physically identical to [[humans]] — although they have sup ...y Rachael (Sean Young) is an experimental replicant (who believes she is a human) with implanted [[memories]] from Tyrell's niece, which provide a cushion f
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• Richard Wagner
  ...d. What is “Spirit” at its most elementary? It is the “wound” of [[nature]]: the [[subject]] is the immense – absolute – [[power]] of negativity, ...t a love appears which says “Yes” to all passing but no less sublime [[human]] achievements. (“Brunhilde’s Act”: 30)</blockquote>Žižek character
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• Carl Gustav Jung
  ...ile they contain some remarks on the dissenting view of Jung [[about]] the nature of libido, if you read [[them]] today you'll be surprised to find largely a ...very positive role: the engine of the collective unconscious essential to human [[society]] and [[culture]].
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• The Night of the World
  ...just so [[disappears]]. One catches [[sight]] of this night when one looks human beings in the eye - into a night that becomes awful.<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]],
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• Parallax View
  ...nizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation ("finitude") of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and pas ...imal, the traumatic core of animality, that can only emerge "as such" in a human which became animal.)<ref>When Lacan defines himself as anti-philosopher, a
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