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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...n of the universe, would be the ultimate irrefutable proof that the tested theory is true, since it would suck all matter into a black hole and then bring ab ...forrests - the problem is now a too large increasee of wood... Where this theory of risk society is too short is in emphasizing the irrational predicament i
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...binary signifier without the [[Master]] signifier — in [[speech]]-act [[theory]] we would call it the "[[order]] of the [[performative]]." I think this wa JA: Would this involve Lacan's Theory of [[drive]]?
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...nstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use - is that [[Lacan]] e According to standard [[feminist]] [[cinema]] theory, in the classical noir, the <i>femme fatale</i> is punished at the level of
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  Slavoj [[Zizek]] is engaged in the [[psychoanalytical]] [[theory]] of [[film]] and pop [[culture]], covering a broad area from [[Hitchcock]] ...f current [[left]]-wing [[politics]] which has been inspired by [[gender]] theory, which proposes the [[transgressive]] and therefore subversive potential of
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• Democracy
  ...cacy of radical democracy is rooted in his wider [[Lacanian]] premises and theory of political power. According to this [[position]], subjects’ commitments ...he complains, [[the cultural turn]] in much Western “[[postmodern]]” [[theory]] has insulated [[economics]] from critical and political concern every bit
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• Anarchy
  ...] between [[freedom]], [[transgression]] and [[authority]], as well as his theory of the four [[discourses]], in [[order]] to rethink the anti-authoritarian ...n particular, his theory of the [[four discourses]] - to radical political theory and [[practice]]. Despite the seeming difficulties of this application, the
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...every [[identity]]. Central to this enterprise is the examination of the [[theory]] which he returns to [[time]] and again - that the [[subject]] is the subj ...es that bother what he [[terms]] 'common [[knowledge]]' [[about]] Lacanian theory as well as his own work. As a [[form]] of self-interrogation is the element
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  For many, Jacques [[Lacan]] represents [[postmodern]] [[theory]] at its height--that ...[[work]] of Slavoj [[Zizek]], whose frenetic endorsements of [[Lacanian]] theory
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...hin the order of signification. As with Einstein's "general" and "special" theory of relativity, the imaginary may be regarded as a special case of significa ...f possibility for dimensionality as such. Or, if we take Luhmann's systems theory, the Real is present in terms of the constitutive paradox whereby a system
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• Wilhelm Reich
  Reich developed a [[theory]] that the ability to feel [[sexual]] [[love]] depended on a physical abili ...e of a healthy [[Human sexual behavior|sex life]] to overall well-being, a theory compatible with Freud's views.
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...appear. The usual strategy is [[displaced]] belief, what in [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] is referred to as "the subject supposed to believe," in which we literall ...ck a typical liberal reaction against [[fascism]]. You don't really have a theory of fascism, so what you do is look a little bit into history, [[encounter]]
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• Electra complex
  ...m patriarchal cultures and [[family]] systems. In later [[life]], so the [[theory]] goes, the girl will grow into the [[character]] type that her mother has ==Feminist objections to penis envy theory behind Electra complex==
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• Remembering
  ...rt of their cathartic [[therapy]] and Freud's initially [[trauma]]-based [[theory]] of [[hysteria]]. Freud stressed that simple [[recollection]] of [[memorie
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• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  The entirety of [[analytic]] [[theory]] and praxis appear to us at present to have the Scriptures on which, in theory, your [[faith]] is based, As for that angel, here he is
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...ope]]an [[constitution]] was a clear-cut [[case]] of what in the "[[French theory]]" is referred to as a <i>[[floating signifier]]</i>: a NO of confused, [[i ...]] stands out as one of the today's great (and, unfortunately for [[social theory]], rare) examples of true conceptual stringency, one should note a couple o
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• Resources for Alain Badiou
  [[Category:Political theory]] [[Category:Marxist theory]]
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• Splits in psychoanalysis
  ..., propositions that were once judged to be inconsistent with the general [[theory]] of [[psychoanalysis]] are later reincorporated into it. ...Zurich in 1977, and often emotional, like the divisions over [[Kleinian]] theory in the Argentinean Societies. In the end, they are too numerous for a compr
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• Kantianism
  ...ough the first reference serves only to legitimate and anticipate Freudian theory, the other two references situate Freud's metapsychological reflections in
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• Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses
  ...sis would no longer be needed. [[Psychoanalytic theory]] is ultimately the theory of why its clinical [[practice]] is doomed to fail. ...involves implicit reference to some [[Psychoanalytic Theory|psychoanalytic theory]]. The unfortunate result of this global reflexivization of interpretation
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• Heredity of Acquired Characters
  ...[[mental]] pathologies. It must also be said that in this [[domain]] the [[theory]] of degeneration was well established. It is not surprising that Freud initially stood by the theory. In 1888 he wrote, in agreement with Jean Martin Charcot, that "the aetiolo
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