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• René Descartes
  According to Lacan, psychoanalysis is a science. ...ld only do this scientifically if we rejected everything that we had cause to doubt and then saw what remained with certainty as true.
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...titious L.A.-based Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. (In season four, they stopped a st ...f the break in our, the spectators’, real [[time]] is exactly equivalent to the [[temporal]] gap in the on-screen [[narrative]], as if the events nonet
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...assion]] even before its release seem unassailable: Are they not justified to worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] known for occasiona ...it then not the [[duty]] of every [[West]]ern [[secularist]] to reject it, to make it clear that we are not covert [[racist]]s attacking only the [[funda
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...[dead]]? His insensitivity toward personal freedoms is effectively foreign to our [[liberal]]-tolerant sensibility – who, today, would not [[experience ...hite guards were directly attacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...to reject it? Is such an unambiguous attack not a sine qua non if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamental ...down and contextualize it to make it clear that Jews are collectively not to be blamed for the Crucifixion... The problem of such a stance is that, in t
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...than they are willing to admit" and it would be hypocritical for [[them]] to do so?<br><br> ...t is as if the [[form]] of spirituality, the ultimate, I am almost tempted to say, iconoclastic spirituality (which it is no wonder that the central [[re
  64 KB (10,850 words) - 00:53, 26 May 2019
• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...tic Third Way to the Christian conservatives, from Chirac to Clinton - not to mention, of course, the Israeli regime - all voiced 'dismay' and announced ...s the Rightist scare the better to hegemonize the 'democratic' field, i.e. to define the terrain and discipline its real adversary, the radical Left. The
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...pears within the diegetic [[space]] of cinematic [[narrative]] - in short, to [[speak]] about [[films]] whose narrative deals with some impossible/trauma ...es that we eject into reality... This intrusion of the massive Thing seems to bring relief, canceling the <i>horror vacui</i> of staring at the infinite
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  ...simply playing [[games]] with the [[Paris]] [[intellectual]] [[community]] to Even Lacanians might find it in their hearts to forgive Chomsky
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ly conclusion will be that Western academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</ ...rrently in circulation. A good way of starting this assessment of Zizek is to go back and start again from scratch, now from the position of those who ar
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...h other theorist, for example, would allow himself the following one-liner to illustrate the psychoanalytic concept of the phallus: 'What is the lightest ...th the basin full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible but not to be inspected? (PF, 4)</font></p>
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...and popular [[culture]] in such books as [[Looking]] Awry: An Introduction to [[Jacques Lacan]] Through Popular Culture and [[Enjoy]] the [[Symptom]]! Ja ...ten over two-dozen books ranging from Lacan, Kant, Hegel, and [[Deleuze]], to [[Hitchcock]], [[David Lynch]], and Krzystof [[Kieslowski]]. [[Born]] in 19
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...title 'The topic of [[the imaginary]]'. Such a [[subject]] is quite enough to fill up several years of teaching, but since several questions concerning t ...interplay of those [[three]] grand [[terms]] we have already had occasion to make much of- the imaginary, [[the symbolic]], and the [[real]].<br>
  56 KB (10,016 words) - 02:16, 21 May 2019
• Bejahung
  ...81-99.</ref> [[Lacan]] uses [[Freud]]'s [[German]] term, ''[[Bejahung]]'' to denote this primordial [[affirmation]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 387</ref> ...evel of ''[[Bejahung]]'') can the [[value]] of [[existence]] be attributed to it or not (''[[negation]]'').
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• Frustration
  ...ft in emphasis from the [[Oedipus complex|Oedipal]] [[structure|triangle]] to the [[mother]]-[[child]] [[dual relation|relation]]. ...[[frustrate]] a [[child]] in this way was [[thought]] by some [[analyst]]s to be a major factor in the aetiology of [[neurosis]].
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• Stalinism
  ...a detailed account of how the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], to doctors taking care of the Leaders; [[three]] documents are crucial here:<b ...ccumbed to this deviation because of his bad nerves, and advises him to go to Switzerland and get there the best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the let
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...liberalism]], to [[Chirac]] and the [[present]] [[French]] [[government]], to the influx of the [[immigrant]] [[workers]] from [[Poland]] who lower the [ ...ed]] to mobilize [[people]] in the guise of [[civil society]] initiatives, to engage them more in a [[political]] [[process]]. However, when people awak
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• Function of Language
  ...philosophy]], I have often alluded to language. In this chapter I [[want]] to focus on [[Lacan]]'s constantly changing (and [[complex]]) view of language ...but instead as sources of meaning. The facts of [[desire]] are as [[real]] to the [[subject]] as the facts of [[nature]] viewed by positive [[science]].
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• Kurt Robert Eissler
  ...ns to the study of <i>[[Hamlet]]</i> (1953, [[1968]]) and Freud's approach to [[literature]] (1968). He wrote [[about]] ageing and [[death]], and his boo ...ined the Viennese Psychoanalytic [[Society]]. There he became an assistant to August Aichhorn, a pioneer in the study and [[treatment]] of adolescent del
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• Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses
  ...ole]] of heredity in the etiology of the [[neuroses]]. The article goes on to provide a [[complete]] exposition of Freud's [[thoughts]] on the [[sexual]] ...ded on to us by our teacher" (1896a, 143). Heredity is only a "condition," to borrow the term used in the distinction already made the year before (1895f
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