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• Sigmund Freud
  ...iatrist]] who co-founded the [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic school]] of [[psychology]]. Freud is best known for his theories of the [[unconscious mind]], especi ...] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widely disputed.
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...do not fall entirely within the field of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example). ...]] and the work of Edward Toman on cognitive [[mapping]] opened the way in psychology long before [[Miller]], Galanter, and Pribram's seminal work, Plans and the
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...s discovery in [[concepts]] borrowed from [[biology]], mechanics and the [[psychology]] of his day. Marx [[thought]] his discovery using [[Hegelian]] notions of existentialism remained within Cartesianism. Its psychology tended to portray the individual as a [[rational]], [[conscious]] actor who
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...I'm tempted to risk the reference to [[Freud]] himself who, in his crowd [[psychology]], provides two examples of crowd [[formation]] as we all know: the [[Churc ...a terrifying [[violence]] at work in this uncoupling, that of the death [[drive]], of the radical wiping the slate clean as the condition of the new beginn
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...s if the first version renders the underlying traumatic core (the "death-[[drive]]" situation of willingly endorsing one's radical self-erasure), and the ot 9. See [[Sigmund Freud]], "A child is being beaten," in Sexuality and the [[Psychology]] of Love, New York: Touchstone 1997, p. 97-122.
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...the same holds for [[psychoanalysis]]: starting from the rise of the ego-[[psychology]] in the 1930s, [[psychoanalysts]] have been losing their nerve, laying dow ...lysis is that humans are not simply alive but are possessed by a strange [[drive]] to enjoy life in excess of the ordinary run of things. "Death" stands sim
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...spectacle]] of the fight) should replace the anonymous non-psychological [[drive]] of the capital: the much more appropriate gesture would have been to [[pr ...al one, "the [[Army]] and the Church" mentioned by Freud in his <i>Crowd [[Psychology]] and the Analysis of the Ego</i>. Today, twenty-five years later, the thre
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ..., that there is deep [[inside]] each one of us a <i>Wissenstrieb</i>, a '[[drive]] to know', there is, in fact, the opposite. Every advance in [[knowledge]] ...so. The problem with self-esteem as it is [[understood]] in American pop [[psychology]] is that it becomes an entitlement, something everyone [[needs]] to have w
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• Seminar VII
  ...[[culture|civilised]] [[morality]] and the essentially amoral [[sexual]] [[drive]]s of the patient. If morality takes the upper hand and the [[drives]] are ...evealed by the way that he formulates the [[goal]] of the [[cure]]. [[Ego-psychology]], for [[instance]], proposes a [[normative]] [[ethics]] in the [[adaptatio
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• Nature
  ...ychology]] is entirely dominated by the [[imaginary]], whereas [[human]] [[psychology]] is complicated by the additional [[dimension]] of the [[symbolic]]. ...s "the [[doctrine]] of a discontinuity between animal psychology and human psychology which is far away from our [[thought]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.484</ref>
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...><a href="#2">2</a> We might say that Zizek is filled with a kind of death drive, a desire for self-extermination, except that what he reveals is that life ...ong-running problem for progressive politics - the specifics of individual psychology with a wider analysis of the social. The fundamental insight of the book -
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• Literature
  ...Yet this does not echo the [[balance]] of forces in the same universities' psychology departments, where the [[situation]] is almost opposite. ...t similarly exploited the [[world]] of fairy tales to illuminate [[child]] psychology, and vice versa. More recently, in the Jungian [[school]], Helen M. Luke in
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• Anna Freud
  ...ego]], her work is one of the starting points for the development of [[ego-psychology]]. ...go and the Mechanisms of [[Defence]]''. It became a founding work of [[ego psychology]] and established Anna’s reputation as a pioneering theoretician.
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• Kant with Sade
  ...l the attraction which preordains the creature to its good, along with the psychology inscribed in various myths of goodwill, we can only credit this to the insi ...of its universal value. Thus its weight only appears by excluding anything-drive or sentiment-which the subject might suffer in his interest for an object,
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...of you must have noticed in the <i>Traumdeutung, </i>in the chapter 'The [[psychology]] of the [[dream]] [[process]]', the famous [[schema]] into which Freud ins ...for the other. <u>He runs through an entire sequence of equations which [[drive]] him out of the space between the doors where he had gone to seek refuge i
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...tored full civil rights to [[perversion]]. We have dubbed it a component [[drive]], thereby employing the idea that it harmonizes with a [[totality]], and a ...the Other, that we call [[Sadistic]], reveals its true connection to the [[psychology]] of the [[obsessional]]? - the obsessional, whose defenses take the form o
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• Cure
  A growing [[awareness]] of the [[death]] [[drive]] and the [[repetition]] [[compulsion]] led Freud to reconsider the seconda * [[Archetype (analytical psychology)]]
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• Defense
  ...es are [[unconscious]] because they stem from a [[conflict]] between the [[drive]] and the ego or between a [[perception]] or [[representation]] ([[memory]] ...pened his [[analysis]] of defense as arising from the conflict between the drive and the ego, the [[conscious]] [[agent]] of repression. Freud considered th
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• Death Instinct
  ...thus deflected to the [[outside]] [[world]] through the musculature in the drive for [[destruction]] and [[mastery]] or the will to [[power]]: this is sadis ...f the [[death drive]] as a [[negative]] term in opposition to the [[life]] drive: "The opposition between the ego or death instincts and the sexual or life
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• Latency Period
  ...e same token, with [[sublimation]], there is a [[change]] of [[goal]] in [[drive]] [[discharge]] toward socially acceptable and valorized activities, togeth ...tself by means of [[symbolization]] and [[displacement]] in order to allow drive discharge through the operation of various mechanisms under the [[control]]
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