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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...he Bolshevik rule was unstable, out of [[control]], permanently threatened by the centrifugal forces — far more than the gratuitous [[sadistic]] displa ...ap: instead of the usual public-[[symbolic]] [[power structure]] sustained by the obscene invisible network of apparatuses, we have the public power stru
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by [[market]] forces. ...] freedom to choose. In most cases, he will do it, and then rationalize it by way of saying to himself something like: “What I am asked to do IS disgus
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...dimension]] of this eternal stimulus to make free choices is best rendered by the [[situation]] of having to choose a product in online shopping, where o ...against [[thinking]]. Today's liberal-democratic [[hegemony]] is sustained by a kind of unwritten Denkverbot similar to the infamous Berufsverbot in [[Ge
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...]'s [[distinction]] between Ought and Must, an authentic [[revolution]] is by definition performed as a Must - it is not something we "ought to do" as an ...e]] main versions of theorizing these catastrophes: (1) the one epitomized by the name of [[Habermas]]: [[Enlightenment]] is in itself a positive emancip
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...os in the usual style of Saint Theresa, any multiple-orgasmic penetrations by angels or God: it is not that, in the divine mystical [[experience]], we st ...rickle-trickle. I rather disliked the feeling.<ref>C.S.Lewis, <i>Surprised by Joy</i>, [[London]]: Fontana Books, 1977, p. 174-5.</ref></blockquote>
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...rain, and the one is struck by the extraordinary package [[being]] carried by the [[other]]. He asks his companion, 'What is in that unusual package you ...ly heightens the destructive [[power]] of the [[remainder]]? As such, they by definition cannot ever be found, and are therefore all the more dangerous..
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• Death's Merciless Love
  <font 5f5e78="" color="" face="courier" size="1">Slavoj [[Zizek]] &amp; [[lacan]].com 2004</font> ...n other [[words]], the question of "what means what?" is in no way decided by this reading: does the Hamlet narrative "mean" stars, or do stars "mean" Ha
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...the sovereign state [[power]]; "absolute democracy" ("the rule of everyone by everyone, a democracy without qualifiers, without ifs or buts," <tt><b><a n ...s of cooperation and communication, etc., which can no longer be contained by the form of [[private property]]. This, then, far from posing a mortal [[t
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...[[freedom]] of [[choice]], when the only choice is the one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost e ...action is worse: they are BOTH worse, inclusive of the warning, formulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily
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• Surrealism
  [[Surrealism]], however, offered the young Lacan an alternative route to psychoanalysis and the crucial link to his [[clinic ...rrealists fully embraced [[psychoanalysis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement.
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• Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
  Daphne du Maurier: her prose seems marked by a melodramatic [[excess]] that often comes tremendous [[power]] of [[fascination]] exerted by her stories? What if these two features are
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...rain, and the one is struck by the extraordinary package [[being]] carried by the [[other]]. He asks his companion, 'What is in that unusual package you ...ly heightens the destructive [[power]] of the [[remainder]]? As such, they by definition cannot ever be found, and are therefore all the more dangerous..
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...fferent context (St Paul reinterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...fferent context (St Paul reinterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently
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• Anarchy
  Interrogating the [[Master]]: [[Lacan]] and Radical [[Politics]] ...[project]] in non-[[utopian]] and non-essentialist [[terms]]. It concludes by calling for a new [[form]] of radical politics that seeks to avoid the [[di
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• Historicism
  ...s is the source of Hegel's famous [[dialectic]] teaching usually summed up by the slogan "[[thesis]], [[antithesis]], and [[synthesis]]." (Hegel did not ...in a [[tabula rasa]], or blank slate, view, where individuals are defined by their interactions.
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  [[Althusser]], Louis. '''Writings On [[Psychoanalysis]] : [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]]'''. Ed. Corpet, Olivier.; Matheron, Franðcois. ''European Perspectives'' ...2 ([[English]] [[translation]] by Jeffrey Mehlman, [[Jacques lacan|Jacques Lacan]] & Co. [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990]).
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• The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World
  ''An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beauti ...ailable in English, this version finally renders accessible one of the key texts of modern philosophy, a text that is widely debated in philosophical circle
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• Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory
  ...sciences]], and [[cultural]] studies, this set includes a new introduction by the editor and a thorough [[index]]. ...ger. '''''[[Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory|Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (Critical Evaluationsin Cultural T
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...[Marx]], and fuses the [[thinking]] of the notoriously difficult Jacques [[Lacan]] with the founding [[figures]] of [[German]] [[Idealism]] from [[Kant]] to ...989 as <i>The [[Sublime]] [[Object]] of [[Ideology]]</i>, followed closely by For <i>They Know Not What They Do</i>. In between came a small book called
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