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• The Act
  ...n abyssal Act, and it is psychoanalysis that “confronts us with the zero-level of politics, a pre-political ‘transcendental’ condition of the possibil
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• Jouissance
  ...a deadly reference, a paradoxical pleasure, reaching an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usuall ..., whereby, through [[discharge]], the [[psyche]] seeks the lowest possible level of tension. The [[pleasure principle]] thus functions as a [[limit]] impos
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• Name
  You're An Abominable Erection! You [[Demand]] To Be Raised To The Level Of [[Signifier]], But You [[Need]] To Be Veiled, To Hide What You Haven't G
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• Thing
  ...nd ''[[Thing|Wortvorstellungen]]'' are opposed, in the [[symbolic|symbolic level]] "they go together".
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• Phallus
  ...ealm of anatomical reality or on the level of organs, but precisely on the level of what a lack of the organ might [[represent]] subjectively. ...ation (perceptual reality) is immediately elaborated on the [[subjective]] level as a conception: Freud writes "the lack of a penis is regarded as."
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• Desire
  ...factions that it obtains for need are reduced (''sich erniedrigt'') to the level of being no more than the crushing of the demand for love.
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ar from being dictated by military necessity, Brovkin has argued that this level of terror was highly counterproductive. Alienation of the population behin Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the level of reverence for Lenin in post-Soviet republics has gone down considerably,
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• Graph of desire
  ...gnifier]] to the [[voice]]) is the [[conscious]] [[signifying chain]], the level of the [[statement]]. ...to [[castration]]) is the [[signifying chain]] in the [[unconscious]], the level of the [[enunciation]].
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...mitives act at a social level as if they believe, but at an [[individual]] level they may in fact demur. By contrast, “advanced” [[media]] consumers are ...ess believe in it (and act accordingly)…” Cynical denunciation (at the level of rational [[knowledge]]) is counteracted by a call to “irrational” be
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• Perversion
  ...view of [[development|genetic development]], [[perversion]] is at the same level as [[neurosis]]; both have reached the [[third]] "time" of the [[Oedipus co ...]] argues that [[perversion|perverse subjects]] can be treated at the same level as [[neurosis|neurotics]], although there will of course be different probl
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• Psychosis
  ...interpretable as that of the neurotic leaves the two disorders at the same level and fails to account for the major differences between [[them]], thus the [ ...; "[[nothing]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of the [[imaginary]], since [[the imaginary]] [[mechanism]] is what gives p
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• Ego-ideal
  ...me into [[being]], one must find "a guide beyond [[the imaginary]], on the level of [[the symbolic]] plane. . . . This guide governing [[The Subject|the sub
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• Condensation
  This added intensity indicates at the manifest level that the representation stands for the different latent chains intersecting
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• Sexual Difference
  ...een the [[biological]] aspect of [[sexual difference]] (for example at the level of the chromosomes) which is related to the [[reproductive]] function of se ...ay that the subject can only realize his [[sexuality]] on the [[symbolic]] level.<ref>{{S3}} p.170</ref>
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• Fantasy
  ...{{Ec}} p. 780</ref> and "that by which the subject sustains himself at the level of his vanishing desire."<ref>{{E}} p. 272</ref> ...s [[symbolic]] [[structure]] fully into account, and thus remaining at the level of the [[imaginary]]; "any attempt to reduce [fantasy] to the imagination
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• Being
  ...tainly in the relation to being that the analyst has to find his operating level."<ref>{{E}} p.252</ref>
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• Consciousness
  ...culties which this [[system]] of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theorising."<ref>{{S2}} p.117</ref></blockquote>
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• Dialectic
  ...]] simultaneously annuls, preserves and raises this opposition to a higher level.
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• Fragmented body
  In this way, the [[fragmented body]] is "revealed at the [[organic]] level, in the lines of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as
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• Castration complex
  On a more fundamental level, the term [[castration complex|castration]] may also refer not to an "opera
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• Chance
  It is a knock on the door that interrupts a [[dream]], and on a more painful level it is [[trauma]].
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• Cogito
  On one level, the ''[[cogito]]'' comes to stand for the modern western [[concept]] of th On [[another]] level, [[Lacan]]'s views can be seen not only as a [[subversion]] of the ''[[cogi
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• Optical Model
  ...conceivable insofar as one finds a [[guide]] beyond the imaginary, on the level of the symbolic plane' (Sl, 141). The optical model thus illustrates the pr
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• Phobia
  ...same role which Claude LÈvi-[[Strauss]] assigns to [[myths]], only on the level of the [[individual]] rather than of [[society]]. Thus phobia is not, according to Lacan, a [[clinical structure]] on the same level as hysteria and obsessional neurosis, but a gateway which can lead to eithe
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• Resistance
  ...rase is [[understood]] correctly, in the [[sense]] of "[[knowing]] at what level the answer should be pitched."<ref>{{S2}} p. 43</ref> Therefore there is a certain irreducible level of [[resistance]] which can never be "overcome".
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• Psychoanalysis
  ...ions he introduces are closely related to developments at the [[clinical]] level as he gradually abandons the therapeutic [[technique]] of [[hypnosis]] and
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• Community Portal3
  *[[:Category:Policies - Wiktionary Top Level|Wiktionary Policies]]- a [[list]] of all policy documents. Both established
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• Community Portal4
  *[[:Category:Policies - Wiktionary Top Level|Wiktionary Policies]]- a [[list]] of all policy documents. Both established
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• Main Page2
  ...deos]] in different ways, e.g. for clients, technical [[knowledge]], skill level etc.
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...is there. But there is no sexual rapport because speech functions on that level that [[analytic discourse]] reveals to be specific to speaking human beings
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• Metaphor
  <blockquote>"The [[anal]] level is the locus of metaphor - one object for another, gives the faeces in [[pl
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  "The [[mirror stage]] is based on the rapport between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as disconnected and, on the other, a un
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• Seminar III
  ...: "[[nothing]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of [[the imaginary]], since the imaginary [[mechanism]] is what gives psych ...er from which the increasing disaster of the imaginary proceeds, until the level is reached at which signifier and signified are stabilized in the delusiona
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• Seminar:Transference
  ...l, it allows for "the reshaping of [[the imaginary]]," on the theorethical level for an intersubjective [[logic]] to be constructed. Thus, [[analysis]] is d
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• Seminar VIII
  ...l, it allows for "the reshaping of the [[imaginary]]," on the theorethical level for an intersubjective [[logic]] to be constructed. Thus, [[analysis]] is
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  ...mand, but of [[desire,]] of the desire of the Other; it is the same at the level of the [[invocatory]] drive, which is the closest to the [[experience]] of
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• Seminar XII
  ...urbes [[The Subject|the subject]]'s [[fundamental fantasy]], unhinging the level that is even more fundamental than basic symbolic identifications. For Laca
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• Seminar XVI
  ...>a</i> is the <i>[[plus-de-jouir]]</i>, surplus-<i>jouissance</i>.* At the level of the [[enunciation]], [[perversion]] reveals "surplus-<i>jouissance</i> i
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...zaton of dicourse," which the [[analyst]] introduces at the [[structural]] level. This leaves untouched [[hysteria]] as attributed to [[woman]] - the only d
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...d makes a [[distinction]] between the ‘‘[[manifest]],’’ or surface-level, dream [[content]] and the ‘‘[[latent]],’’ or unconscious, ‘‘dr
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• Seminar XI
  ...nd]], but of [[desire,]] of the desire of the Other; it is the same at the level of the [[invocatory]] drive, which is the closest to the [[experience]] of
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• Seminar II
  ...e]] is based on the rapport [relationship] between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as [[disconnected]] and, on the other,
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• Semiotics
  ...iche in the [[world]] (see [[Semiosis]]). Semiotics theorises at a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in ...rganizing the text) and on the level of [[narrative]] syntax; the semantic level (the content elements of the text); and the pragmatic or communicative cont
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• Political:Politics of the Subject
  ...[[lack]]) is always attempting to cover over its constitutive lack on the level of [[representation]], through continuous [[identification]] [[acts]].
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...unable to give an account of ''[[jouissance]]'' and remains merely at the level of deconstructing [[meaning]], it runs the risk of moderating and curtailin
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• Deconstruction
  ...erms' undecidable, unresolvable complexity, deconstruction requires a high level of comfort with suspended, deferred decision; a deconstructive thinker must ...w that [[people]] in these fields can explain the [[contents]] to me at my level, so that I can gain what ([[partial]]) understanding I may [[want]]. In con
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...of states. Order is threatened when the level of mobilization exceeds the level of institutionalization within a [[society]]. Huntington is concerned that,
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ..., when Lacan talks about [[existence]], he is reerring to something at the level of [[The Symbolic|the symbolic]]. If the woman was to exist she would have to exist at the level of the symbolic and this has a number of implications.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...d be said that by shifting all descriptions from a [[biological]]-anatomic level to a [[symbolic]] one he shows how [[culture]] imposes meaning on [[anatomi ...ee]] of a possible union with the mother. Lacan transforms all this to the level of the symbolic. This is why he writes not of the penis but of the phallus.
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Both fathers function psychically at the level of the superego. At a [[psychic]] level, an overly punishing superego and subordiantion to the symbolic law is one
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...generally attribute it to the Other. The Other is believed to experience a level of enjoyment beyond our own experience. The important point here is that th
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• Matheme
  ...e level of the Real where 'it is loving it' (ça jouit) rather than at the level where 'it speaks' (ça parle). If the analytical interpretation is that thr
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• Book of Job
  This is the zero level of the critique of ideology – when you don’t read meaning into it.
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• Racism
  What Zizek calls the 'conceptual Jew' must be invented and sustained at the level of fantasy for anti-Semitic ideology to work.
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• Anti-Semitism
  What Zizek calls the 'conceptual Jew' must be invented and sustained at the level of fantasy for anti-Semitic ideology to work.
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. Or at the level of sex, the archetypal film of the twentieth century would be Nagisa Oshima ...ose to an anonymous public their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today - even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shocked
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• Cyberspace
  ...to an anonymous [[public]] their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today — even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shock
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• September 11
  ...g will be the same after 11 September. Certainly, there is change at the level of perception or publicity, but I don't think we can yet speak of some fund
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rrative on the catastrophe caused by the virus? At an even more elementary level, is not one of the commonplaces of the sci-fi theory that the true point of ...Lenin effectively dies, he could count on the support of thousands of mid-level cadres nominated by him to win over the big old names of the Bolshevik "ari
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...g to violence as the only [[index]] of his authenticity, and it is as this level that the critics of [[Stalinism]] as a rule misperceive the [[cause]] of th ...s invisible — viruses, poisons which can be anywhere and nowhere. At the level of [[visible]] material reality, nothing happens, no big explosions, and ye
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...uropean [[technology]] and [[capitalism]] are triumphing worldwide, at the level of "ideological superstructure," the Judeo-[[Christian]] legacy is threaten
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...sexual difference; but the true surprise resides in the fact that, at the level of the imaginary referent, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE (we do not get some graph ...that this One was not defined exclusively by his "real" qualities (at this level, there may well have been more individuals like him, or it may even have be
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...war in Chechnya is that you know in Azerbaijan the oil reserves are at the level of the combined Arab reserves. This is what is actually behind this war. I' This is where, I think, at a different level maybe — I hope not too different — you share the same concern when we s
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...chment, leaves untouched the fundamental level of ideological fantasy, the level on which ideology [[structures]] the social reality itself.
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...ctural]] — [[concept]] of fetishism already at [[work]] in Marx: at this level, "fetishism" designates the short-circuit between the [[formal]]/differenti ...omething that, precisely, cannot be done through the Other? Already at the level of elementary [[psychological]] observation, one can answer to this by reca
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...roach would be: who needs this? But a totally ridiculous thing at a deeper level might play a stabilizing function we are not aware of. Everybody laughs at ...e inconsistent fragments. The unity is no longer established at the visual level. I want to connect this with Altman's 'Short Cuts,' with its series of fait
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...dreaming, I would surely retreat from it in panic. At an even more complex level (in the case of indulging in sadistic fantasies, for example), the very soo
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...go back. There is a crucial thing that is going around now on [[another]] level in Eastern Europe. In [[Russia]] they are also approaching it; it is alread SZ: Yes, but at another, far more dangerous level. The problem with Eastern Europe is that people there expected something el
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...ause]] of [[desire]] to the [[split]] subject, is represented in the lower level of the scheme. The sadist as [[aggressive]] Will-to-Enjoyment is but a [[se
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  SZ: Yes, and even at the level of the organization of production we are returning to this Spinozist form o
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...is field of the democratic [[game]] just expresses and/or distorts another level of pre-political socio-economic processes at which `things really happen'), ...ntational political game cum global market [[economy]]). Emblematic to the level of caricature here was the figure of Dan Rather, the American news reporter
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• The Cyberspace Real
  "The refusal of closure is always, at some level, a refusal to face mortality. Our [[fixation]] on electronic [[games]] and ...cation]]: we immerse ourselves at the level of "meaningless," "mechanical" level of what, in Foucauldian terms, one is tempted to call "revolutionary discip
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...hole]] point of psychoanalytic cure is that it operates exclusively at the level of "knowledge" (words), yet has effects in the Real of bodily symptoms. ...archal space, appears as woman's "[[natural]]" vocation. At a more general level, one can assert that "[[progress]]" does not consist only in reducing the a
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...ysteria]]. The obsessional [[neurotic]] lies in the guise of truth. At the level of factual accuracy, his statements are as a rule [[true]], yet he uses fac ...it somehow "depossesses" the subject, reducing her or him to a puppet-like level "beyond dignity and [[freedom]]."
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...Truth, we should be careful not to confuse the level of Knowledge with the level of Truth. In [[Marx]] himself, although he mainly used "[[proletariat]]" as ...ion upon his arrival there). Today, any positing of the Truth-Event at the level of the supernatural or the miraculous necessarily entails a [[regression]]
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...o historians, this book is an extraordinary [[achievement]] already at the level of [[narrative]] presentation: historical documents (the minutes of the CC <p>[…] subjective autonomy from which one's guilt can be discussed at the level of facts, i.e. in the position which openly proclaims the gap between [[rea
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...t it in [[Hegelian]] [[terms]], really existing capitalism is reaching the level of its [[notion]]: perhaps, one should follow again [[Marx]]'s old, antievo
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...eal, while bypassing the party [[nomenklatura]], was [[understood]] at the level of revolutionary micropolitics: local committees were set up throughout [[R ...the newly emerging [[global]] [[empire]], they will be reduced to the same level as, say, [[Austria]], Belgium or even Luxembourg. The hostility to American
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...storicism]] of the Second International. And only Lenin was the one at the level of this opening, the one to articulate the truth of this catastrophe. Throu ...o put it in [[Hegelian]] terms, really existing capitalism is reaching the level of its notion. Perhaps, one should again follow Marx's old antievolutionist
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...brighter prospect to them with [[regard]] to daily survival and much lower level of [[fear]]. We are not talking here of "bringing [[Western democracy]] to ...the newly emerging [[global]] [[Empire]], they will be reduced at the same level as, say, [[Austria]], Belgium or even Luxembourg. The [[refusal]] of "Ameri
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...[[language]] of the subject? If we find an attachment to subjection at the level of the unconscious, what kind of resistance is to be wrought from that?<ref Only at this level, assuming that we take into account the Lacanian notions of point de capito
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• You May
  ...disturb the smooth functioning of large bureaucratic corporations). At the level of [[fantasy]], Gates is a small-time, subversive hooligan who has taken ov
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the phenomenal domain in order to be able to assert that, at the noumenal level, we are free autonomous agents: we are only free insofar as our horizon is ...the phenomenal level? In this case, we ARE “really free" at the noumenal level, but our freedom would be meaningless in we were also to have the cognitive
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...r after influence in human history. They might have sunk even down to the level of modern well-educated [[society]]. '''For when once people have begun to
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...nds itself; the consciousness of the infinite judgment that remains at the level of picture-thinking behaves as urination.[[A Glance into the Archives of Is
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  From this specific insight, one should make the move to the general level and render problematic the very depoliticized humanitarian [[politics]] of And, at an even more general level, one should problematize the very opposition between the universal (pre-pol
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• With or Without Passion
  .../i> (AND [[others]]) is experienced as insufficient: in order to be at the level of such phenomena, something much stronger is needed, something akin to the
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• Move the Underground!
  ...lody, i.e. [[absence]] itself. How are we to play these notes when, at the level of what is effectively to be played, they exactly [[repeat]] the previous n ...iatic [[ritual]] went overboard and soldiers or students got hurt beyond a level considered tolerable, [[forced]] to assume a humiliating pose, to perform d
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...it precisely the trace of any authentic Christian experience, and, at the level of its cinematic [[texture]], rejoins its official opponents. That is to sa ...]'s cult followers who obediently took poison in their Guyana camp. At the level of [[economic]] [[life]], the same [[thing]] is going on today in Kansas. T
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...nd Law" not found in [[Spinoza]], in his notion of the [[third]], highest, level of [[knowing]]? Is the very [[idea]] of modern "[[total]]" political [[rev ...[[global economy]] while, simultaneously, maintaining its identity at the level of Milner's Four-Fold, i.e., through its founding [[cultural]] [[myths]] an
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• Opera
  ...which will be repeated in Bayreuth till 2006, is strong precisely at this level of intense intimate interplay; his staging is [[full]] of insightful [[idea ...ner's musical dramas - manner of singing, gestures, smells - it is at this level of what [[Deleuze]] would have called pre-[[subjective]] affects that [[ant
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...doctor as his Master and asking for reassurance from him. At a more common level, suffice it to [[recall]] the [[market]] expert who advocates strong budget In the University discourse, is not the upper level ($ — <i>a</i>) that of [[biopolitics]] (in the [[sense]] deployed from [[
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...s is not [[about]] life, but about something MORE than life. It is at this level that Levinas locates the gap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity] ...achievement]] or in spiritual awakening, one should move to a more radical level: psychoanalysis is today the only [[discourse]] in which you are allowed N
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...ultimate strength of the film is nonetheless to be located at a different level. The unique of the film resides not so much in its central thesis (what we ...f state power by the Communists, the crucial break occurred at a different level - in those magic moments when, although normally Communists were still in p
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...er have wanted to be cut off from food and water. The case reached the top level of the US government and judicial bodies, with the Supreme Court and Presid
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...effectively no longer in a [[position]] to exercise it. At a more general level, one could say that such a "mediatization" of the monarch defines the const
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...ion and then finally opted to pursue her, or is it that, at a more refined level, he detected in her hesitation that she is [[about]] to tell him a lie, and ...hesis]] is that this unique dimension is not to be sought primarily at the level of the narrative [[content]] - its original locus is elsewhere - where? Let
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...only say, 'I am what I do.' Then came the repercussion on the imaginative level. I felt as if I were a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melt ...]] that Job must be somehow [[guilty]]: what is at stake at a more radical level is the [[meaning]](lessness) of Job's suffering. Like [[Oedipus at Colonus]
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...sein]] was involved with September the 11th." Finally, there was the third level of justification, that even if there was no proof of a link with al Qaeda,
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...u of the 1990s. Can one imagine a utopian point at which this subterranean level of the utopian Other Space would unite with the positive space of "normal" ...society is a [[complex]] network of "sub-systems," which is why a certain level of "alienation" is constitutive of social life, so that a totally self-tran
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