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• Signifying Chain
  ...pressed through the associative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a chain reaction. ...cious]] and unconscious signifiers are woven together through [[metonymy]] and [[metaphor]], the two functions that generate signifieds.
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• Obsessional neurosis
  ...to perform actions which seem absurd and/or abhorrent to the [[subject]], and "[[rituals]]" (compulsively repeated actions such as checking or washing). ...[[subject]] may well exhibit none of the typical obsessional [[symptom]]s and yet still be diagnosed as an [[obsessional neurotic]] by a [[Lacan]]ian [[a
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• Quaternary
  ...[[quaternary]] first comes to the fore in Lacan's work in the early 1950s, and is perhaps due to the influence of Claude LÈvi-[[Strauss]], whose work on ...s within the neurotic a quartet [[situation]],"<ref>{{L}} 1953b: 231</ref> and adds that this quartet can demonstrate the particularities of each [[case]]
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• Psychoanalysis
  [[Freud]] describes [[psychoanalysis]] as comprising: # a therapeutic method for the treatment of [[neurotic]] disorders; and
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• Sadism/Masochism
  ...ears in a [[French]] [[dictionary]] in 1834, just twenty years after the [[death]] of De [[Sade]]. Krafft-Ebing used the [[terms]] in a very specific [[sen ...[[sadism]] and [[masochism]], arguing that they are simply the [[active]] and [[passive]] aspects of a single [[perversion]].
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• Preoedipal phase
  ...]] was usually represented as a '''[[dual relation]]''' between [[mother]] and [[child]] existing prior to any [[third]] term which could mediate it. How ...ively with [[structure]], which requires a minimum of [[three]] [[terms]], and thus a [[preoedipal phase]] which is represented as a purely [[dual relatio
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• Alain Badiou
  ...in 1964. In 1967 he joined a study group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew increasingly influenced by [[Jacques Lacan]]. ...mber]] of [[other]] institutions, such as the [[European Graduate School]] and the [[Collège International de Philosophie]]. He is now a member of "L'Org
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...anislas'''.<ref>An ambitious student, he excelled in [[religious]] studies and [[Latin]].</ref> [[Lacan]] went on to study '''[[medicine]]'' and specialized in '''psychiatry''' with a [[particular]] interest in '''[[psyc
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• Real2
  ...ously preserved. The real is an uncrossable threshold for the [[subject]], and not one that can be sidestepped in the [[analytic]] [[encounter]]" (Bowie 1 ...he real is inward and outward at once, and belongs indifferently to sanity and to [[madness]]. In all its modes, it successfully resists the intercessions
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. ...e [[analysis of the ego]], both in relation to [[psychoanalytical theory]] and [[practice]].
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• Seminar VI
  ...eminar VI|Le désir et son interprétation]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar VI|Desire and its Interpretation]]</big> [[Desire]] has to be placed at the heart of [[analysis|analytic]] [[theory]] and [[practice]]: the title of the [[seminar]] does not indicate a mere juxtapo
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• Seminar VIII
  ...o]]'s <i>[[The Symposium]]</i> to illustrate the rapport between analysand and analyst: [[Alcibiades]] compares [[Socrates]] to a box enclosing a precious ...] presented [[countertransference]] as a [[resistance]] of the [[analyst]] and raised the problem of the [[analyst]]'s [[desire]]. Here, [[subjective]] d
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  Book XI: The Four Fundamental [[Concepts]] of Psychoanalysis ...udience, [[Lacan]] talks [[about]] the [[censorship]] of his [[teachings]] and his [[excommunication]] from [[official]] [[psychoanalytical]] circles.
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...]]-of-the-Father which "is positioned where knowledge [[acts]] as truth. [[Psychoanalysis]] consolidates the law." ...crits]]: A Selection). [[Three]] questions: the rapport between jouissance and the [[desire]] for unfulfilled desire; the hysteric who makes man - fait l'
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• Seminar I
  ...]], but onto the paths by which access to this [[knowledge]] is gained. [[Psychoanalysis]] is a [[dialectic]]s, an [[art]] of conversation."''</span> ...n]], ''Verwerfung'', a term that [[Lacan]] will replace with 'withdrawal', and finally with "[[foreclosure]]" (''forclusion''), the former being related t
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...terpretation]] of religion's origins, [[development]], [[psychoanalysis]], and its future. ...nt wishes of mankind" (Ch. 6 pg. 30). To differentiate between an illusion and an error, he lists [[scientific]] beliefs such as "''[[Aristotle]]'s belief
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...ptian [[monotheism|monotheist]]. The book was written in [[three]] parts, and was a departure from the rest of Freud's [[work]] on [[psychoanalytic theor ...events claiming that Moses only led his close followers into [[freedom]], and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion either to his strong [[fai
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• The Seminar
  ...dings of some of [[Freud]]'s [[case histories]]: [[Dora]], the [[Rat Man]] and the [[Wolf Man]]. ...hen the wife of the [[philosopher]] and writer George Bataille (1897-1962) and shortly to become Lacan's second wife).
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• Seminar XI
  ...la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar XI|The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...same time, address the non-analyst by raising the following questions: Is psychoanalysis a [[science]]? If so, under what [[conditions]]? If it is - the "science of
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• Seminar II
  ...]''<BR><big>[[Seminar II|The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...<i>[[Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego]]</i>; and <i>[[The Ego and the Id]]</i>.</span>
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