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[[Lacan]] thus dismisses all attempts to draw [[science|empirical evidence]] for the sequence of [[development|psychosexual stage]]s by means

...more-or-less independent of [[clinical]] [[practice]] rather than based on empirical [[analysis]] of clinical cases.

...[[links]] [[linguistic]] facts to non-linguistic facts to give a broader [[empirical]] coverage and to offer conclusions that seem more plausible because, intui ...[dismantling]] signs was a real [[science]], for in doing so we come to an empirical [[understanding]] of how humans synthesize [[physical]] stimuli into words

...reating his particular pseudo-science, Freud developed an autocratic, anti-empirical intellectual style which has contributed immeasurably to the intellectual i

...]] critiques of our mode of [[material]] reproduction, nor seek to gain an empirical understanding of capitalism. Instead, his critical reading of the dialectic

...[[Marxist]] [[tradition]] also is highly relevant apropos the topic of the empirical life sciences in relation to [[theoretical]] materialism. Although Žižek ...uld We Do with Our Brain?]]'' (2008) and other texts, Malabou utilizes the empirical fact of [[neuroplasticity]] to initiate a comprehensive philosophical reass

...and has no positive [[content]] - the [[sign]] 'woman' has no positive or empirical [[signified]].

...rms of the postmodern discursive constructionism, but in the terms of very empirical factual analysis: their claims range from the "fact" that there is no writt ...ther focuses on the political, and the domain of economy is reduced to the empirical "servicing of goods," or one focuses on economy, and politics is reduced to

...hers turned out to be secret [[sexual]] perverts is more than a contingent empirical fact. When the infamous Jimmy Swaggart claimed that the fact that he visite

...hat is imposed on him against his interests and/or propensities? Here, the empirical inquiry into "pathological" (in the Kantian sense of the term) motivations

...erative that, since the imperative is empty, Kant has to fill it with some empirical content, thus conferring on contingent [[particular]] content the form of u ...itional injunction and its obverse, the serial universality of indifferent empirical [[objects]] that must be sacrificed in the pursuit of one's Mission.8 (It i

...upon the [[impossibility]] to establish a clear-cut [[difference]] between empirical and [[transcendental]], [[outside]] and [[inside]], [[representation]] and

...ther, noumenal, dimension momentarily 'appears' in (`shines through') some empirical/contingent phenomenon. So, back to Hegel, `the Suprasensible is appearance

...after being deprived of all those "pathological" (in the Kantian sense of empirical, contingent) features that support your identity, thus being reduced to "no

...The [[Communist]] Manifesto is: isn't the [[text]] simply wrong on so many empirical accounts, with [[regard]] to the picture it gives of the [[social]] [[situa

This critique is not only aimed at the secondary empirical details. The main problem with Empire is that the book falls short in its f

...hat is imposed on him against his interests and/or propensities? Here, the empirical inquiry into “pathological” (in the Kantian sense of the term) motivati

...e corner, that the obstacles to this ultra-Hollywood happy ending are just empirical and [[contingent]], local pockets of resistance where the leaders did not y

...cise structure of a Kantian antinomy. On the one hand, there is the brutal empirical realism of the parental seduction: the ultimate cause of later traumas and ...ception which, while displaying a self-reflective unity irreducible to the empirical multitude, nonetheless lacks any substantial positive being, i.e., it is in

...the irreducible finitude of the [[human condition]]: they are not just an empirical obstacle to full incestuous <i>jouissance</i>, but the obstacle "as such,"

...ture, the "[[principle]]" of Jewishness, one has to eliminate, erase, the "empirical" Jews. Furthermore, the problem with those who emphasize how Jews are not s This structure is irreducible: it is not that, while, in our empirical lives, the Third is irreducible, we should maintain as a kind of regulative

...to [[mythical]] entities like the (capitalized) Gaze, entities to which no empirical, observable facts (like the actual cinema viewers and their [[behavior]]) c

...an all to quick jump: of course one cannot ask them to provide a detailed empirical description of the Decision, of the passage to the globalized "absolute dem

...corner, that the obstacles to this ultra-Hollywood happy ending are merely empirical and contingent (local pockets of [[resistance]] where the leaders did not y

...e gets infected by violence, this occurs under the influence of contingent empirical “pathological” circumstances which distort the inherent logic of symbol

...the difference between them consists only in the difference between the [[empirical]] agents which fill their respective structural roles (‘[[Jews]]’ inste

...ulous moment in which eternal Justice momentarily appears in the sphere of empirical reality. An awareness of moments like this is the best antidote to the anti

...]] of the movement, believed that the surrealists' [[search]] for an extra-empirical reality was within the traditions of Western thought, and he consistently d ...g and sculpture became aspects of one single [[activity]]: that of calling empirical 'reality' into question.

...only case in which we could will it to be true. Since we can determine (by empirical observation) that this is not the case, ''C'' results in a "contradiction o

...their work ''The Authoritarian Personality'', which conducted extensive [[empirical research]], using sociological and [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic]] [[cate ...led to a certain systematization of the Institute's entire accumulation of empirical research and theoretical analysis.

...ception which, while displaying a self-reflective unity irreducible to the empirical multitude, nonetheless lacks any substantial positive being, i.e., it is in ...s, one cannot really escape from the drive /<i>Trieb</i>/ to take it as an empirical substance in various contexts. If so, it is possible to say that an ego is

...ucture of a [[Kant]]ian [[antinomy]]. On the one hand, there is the brutal empirical realism of the parental seduction: the ultimate [[cause]] of later [[trauma

...the obstacles to this ultra-Hollywood happy ending are merely [[empiricism|empirical]] and [[contingency|contingent]] (local pockets of [[resistance]] where the

..., as you said, is that we cannot simply arrange this and say it's a simply empirical concept.&nbsp; Why this structure?<br>

...hat is imposed on him against his interests and/or propensities? Here, the empirical inquiry into "pathological" (in the Kantian sense of the term) motivations

...after being deprived of all those "pathological" (in the Kantian sense of empirical, contingent) features that support your identity, thus being reduced to "no

...is not a kind of neutral-universal mould of the [[plurality]] of different empirical [[contents]]; the [[autonomy]] of the Form rather bears witness to the unce

...The [[Communist]] Manifesto is: isn't the [[text]] simply wrong on so many empirical accounts, with [[regard]] to the picture it gives of the [[social]] [[situa

...upon the [[impossibility]] to establish a clear-cut [[difference]] between empirical and [[transcendental]], [[outside]] and [[inside]], [[representation]] and

...ulous moment in which eternal Justice momentarily appears in the sphere of empirical reality. An awareness of moments like this is the best antidote to the anti

...hat is imposed on him against his interests and/or propensities? Here, the empirical inquiry into "pathological" (in the Kantian sense of the term) motivations

This critique is not only aimed at the secondary empirical details. The main problem with Empire is that the book falls short in its f

...ve influenced heavily, [[Karl Marx]]. The term is also associated with the empirical [[social]] [[sciences]] and the [[work]] of [[Franz Boas]].

...ual 'matrix' for theorising class struggle independently of any particular empirical analysis of the ownership of the means of production. In this respect he do

...ginary]] 'fullness' of society that is unable to be taken account of, some empirical 'richness' that is in [[excess]] of any attempt to [[structure]] it (CHU, 2 ...not be rendered [[whole]]. It cannot be rendered whole not because of some empirical excess but because any supposed unity is only able to be guaranteed from so

...hought worthy of the name: the fact that it does not merely lie within the empirical field but is also the 'transcendental' condition of it. And it is this that ...ave already seen, insofar as the statements of these thinkers are not just empirical but also assert the 'transcendental' conditions of their respective fields,

...troduced by the [[German]] Johann Heinrich Lambert as a designation for an empirical description of [[human]] [[experience]] devoid of all metaphysical presuppo

..."#fn5" name="cfn5">⁵</a> This line of argumentation is a simple empirical lie if there ever was one. First, I do not claim that the U.S. got what it ...nd had thus to take the tortuous route of violent revolution. However, the empirical fact that [[Kant]]'s philosophical revolution precedes the French Revolutio

...n the [[visible]] image and the visual image. [[Vision]] exhausts only the empirical [[reality]] of a phenomenon, which can become a [[psychic]] representation,

...f [[Vygotsky]] and [[Piaget]], mentioned above, had established a strong [[empirical]] tradition in the field.

...t]] he suggested that Sigmund [[Freud]]'s work (which he characterizes as "empirical"), in his estimation, represents a provisional formulation, subject to crit ...ial psychoanalysis, while on a [[practical]] level it is more successful. "Empirical psychoanalysis, to the extent that its method is better than its principles

...many of these organizations, but the Central Insurance Institute remains. Empirical follow-up work on outpatients by Franz Baumeyer and Annemarie Dührssen mad

“...But if say, an empirical theory is purported to be about ‘women’ and in fact is only about

...le the emptiness of the [[place of power]] is a distance which makes every empirical bearer of power 'deficient,' contingent and temporary. ...the formal notion of [[Real]] as [[antagonism]] and the more "[[empiricism|empirical]]" notion of the Real as that which cannot be reduced to a formal oppositio

...t America got what it had coming."5 This line of argumentation is a simple empirical lie if there ever was one. First, I do not [[claim]] that the U.S. got what ...nd had thus to take the tortuous route of violent revolution. However, the empirical fact that [[Kant]]'s philosophical revolution precedes the French Revolutio

..., rather, a general term I share with everyone else. In order to do so, my empirical reality must be annihilated or, as Lacan avers, "the symbol manifests itsel

...ther, a general term I share with everyone else. In [[order]] to do so, my empirical [[reality]] must be annihilated or, as [[Lacan]] avers, "the [[symbol]] man

...ther, a general term I share with everyone else. In [[order]] to do so, my empirical [[reality]] must be annihilated or, as [[Lacan]] avers, "the [[symbol]] man

...ons, some fear that psychoanalysis will never be subjected to the rigorous empirical testing that would enhance its credibility in a therapeutic environment tha ...econd, while psychoanalysis does not seek to validate their concepts using empirical methods, it does use a holistic method of viewing the entire person as a si

...e the Aryan [[race]]. You could not, argues Žižek, [[present]] them with empirical evidence proving that the Jews were really not like that because, like the

...ngs]] of the [[philosopher]] Franz von Brentano (<i>[[Psychology]] from an Empirical Standpoint</i>, 1874/1973). However, his first [[model]] can justifiably be

...llucination]], the image of an irretrievably [[lost object]]. This is the "empirical" failure of [[hallucinatory]] satisfaction that leads to thought—which, F

...sis is a [[natural]] [[science]] with a specific [[object]]. For it has an empirical [[content]] that is experienced in everyday [[psychic]] phenomena and in [[

...cesses are represented by means of the concepts of neurophysiology and the empirical data of [[clinical]] research; described, ordered, and reconstructed accord

...llucination]], the image of an irretrievably [[lost object]]. This is the "empirical" failure of [[hallucinatory]] satisfaction that leads to thought—which, F

...e permanent confusion between the [[outline]] of substantialized types and empirical experience gives his statements [[about]] women a shocking character—"The

...an empirical fact and it is impossible to deduce the act of counting from empirical data alone. [[Hume]] tried but Frege demonstrated perfectly the ineptitude

...nship]], the natural form of commodity B (its [[use value]], its positive, empirical properties) functions as a form of value of commodity A; in other [[words]]

...cal material for its further advances and development. The accumulation of empirical data upon which we base our theories can be obtained in no other way . . . ...peutic techniques such as those of [[cognitive behavior therapy]]{{fact}}. Empirical research on the efficacy of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy

...en the sexes and the difference between the generations. Starting out from empirical observations, such as those in the case history of "Little Hans," Freud's t

...fic positivism, the "condition of determination" became associated with an empirical or descriptive principle of causality based on the primacy of observation,

...ský, noted in 1937 that "structure . . . is a phenomenological and not an empirical reality; it is not the work itself, but a set of functional relationships w

...potential in himself, but he also betrays woman, because he disregards her empirical actuality, subjecting her to an Imaginary idealism.

...to go the limits of our potential, rather than to judge what exists by non-empirical, transcendent standards. Modern society still suppresses difference and al

...doublet", of the link that forever attaches the transcendental ego to the empirical ego, so that the annihilation of the latter by definition leads to the [[di ...uth of the assertion of the independence of the subject with regard to the empirical individuas ''qua'' living being? Is this independence not demonstrated in t

...ganizations and symbolic laws, not on the side of the body and of lived or empirical experi�ences. Here he was in total agreement with Levi-Strauss's principl

...by a tendency toward clinically based theorizations and is generally less empirical than the work of Anglo-American authors. In particular, Lacanian psychoanal

...e sphere of the economy should be grasped as “not just that of a limited empirical sphere, but [as] a kind of socio-transcendental ''[[a priori]]'', the [[mat

...in the wake of its defeat in World War 1. Nazism treated this unity as an empirical social fact, one that could be identified and restored. Differently put, Na ...pects of Stalinism. A plausible reconstruction, which would require strong empirical evidence, might consider the specificities of Soviet medical science and pu

...rete elements, arranged <i>partes extra partes</i>, within an unacceptable empirical system.

...e is that of the Kantian SUblime: the overwwhelming infinity of sacrificed empirical/pathological objects brings home in a negative way the enormous, incomprehe

...uth of the assertion of the independence of the subject with regard to the empirical individuals qua living being? Is this independence not demonstrated in the ...resides in the ambiguity of "people": are the people who are trusted the "empirical" individuals or THE People, on behalf of whom one can turn the terror on be

...o-political enemy can do this to you, can elevate you into a concept - the empirical instigator has to be knocked off (Julius Caesar had to be murdered, Thatche

...corner, that the obstacles to this ultra-Hollywood happy ending are merely empirical and [[contingent]] (local pockets of [[resistance]] where the leaders did n ...e from Semprun would fully assert the Platonic [[duality]] of [[temporal]] empirical reality and eternal Idea.

...it is the power to say, when it is confronted with the confusing wealth of empirical features: "All this doesn't really matter! Just tell me if the feature X is

...e thus debased: Reason becomes a mere "intellect," a tool for manipulating empirical objects, a mere pragmatic instrument of the human animal, and religion beco ...proper sense of the term. For both of them, religious statements are quasi-empirical statements of direct knowledge: fundamentalists accept them as such, while

...ion of the factual historical development which purifies the latter of its empirical insignificant contingencies. Insofar as madness de facto presupposes normal

...> in rendering an ideological edifice operative. In hegemony, a particular empirical object is "elevated to the dignity of the Thing," it start to function as t ...rying to put this radical democratic orientation to work in a multitude of empirical contexts."(281) For example: "A group of cooperative workers /Byrne and Hea

...cal philosophy couples transcendental idealism with empirical realism. The empirical realist does not posit a transcendent reality of things-in-themselves [[out

...her of Tragic Dissonance, ''Joseph P. Lawrence''<br /> 7. Schopenhauer on Empirical and Aesthetic Perception and Cognition, ''Bart Vandenabeele''<br /> 8. G.W

...a metapsychology by combining a Freudo-Lacanian approach with contemporary empirical research. Close attention is paid to the processes of identity acquisition

This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analy

...ent, the approach is strictly nominalist: there is no question here of an empirical, biological, or social distribution. ...onflict: "man" is mute and violent, while "woman" gossips and complains. Empirical materials are required for the work of the enquiries of love, in order that

...culation deals with thoughts engendering more thoughts without recourse to empirical reality. Maybe, one can take a risk in making another such parallel and lin ...is also "transfinite", i.e. an empty object that frames the endless set of empirical objects. In this precise sense, Lacan's two exemplary cases of ''objets a''

Beckettology, of course, did its job in discovering the empirical sources of the play's imagery. Beckett himself provided the clue for the "o

...tual historical development which purifies the latter of its insignificant empirical contingencies. Insofar as madness ''de facto'' presupposes normality while

...signifying chain); and its ''temporalization'' (a temporality which is not empirical but logical, inscribed into the very signifying structure). In other words, ...t their notion. Let us take Hegel's classic example, that of the state. No empirical state is a "true state", fully adequate to its notion, and when we realize

...erative that, since the imperative is empty, Kant has to fill it with some empirical content, thus conferring on contingent particular content the form of unive ...itional injunction and its obverse, the serial universality of indifferent empirical objects that must be sacrificed in the pursuit of one's Mission. [8] (It

...e is not just an effect of the gap between the purity of the Ideal and the empirical circumstances which prevent its full actualization, it is ''located in this ...(to lie and cheat, to pretend, to seduce, etc.) are derivative: secondary empirical distortions of the inherent normativity, conditioned by relations of power

...t what Lacan calls "symbolic castration" this very gap which renders every empirical object unsatisfactory? Indeed, in the following paragraphs of the ''Rapport

...the way capitalism is actually experienced by its subjects (they are good empirical nominalists unaware of the "theological niceties") nor the "real state of t

...t exclusively in families where the "father has been absent" (not meaning "empirical absence" but the fact that the father did not perform his paternal "role" a ...ds with its own deficiency. Sublimation is nothing but the fact that some "empirical" positive object is "elevated to the dignity of things", that it experience

...thesis of analytic empiricists is that all truths are either analytic or empirical. ...and corruption, and the "eternal" order of Ideas, that is, the notion that empirical reality can "participate" in an eternal Idea, that an eternal Idea can shin

...the monarch. In other words, the spurious infinity of the idealization of empirical contingency is brought to its end not when it finally succeeds but when tha

...dlock is provided by the possibility of sublimation: when one picks out an empirical, positive, object and "elevates it to the dignity of the Thing," i.e. turns