Search results

• Kid A In Alphabet Land - About
  '''Holy Merdre! It's... ...A In Alphabet Land'' is intended to bring the set to a wider audience than it otherwise might reach. I've considered linking the in-line graphics to larg
  3 KB (405 words) - 23:35, 25 May 2019
• Gaze
  <blockquote>My fundamental connection with the Other-as-subject must be able to be referred back to my permanent possibility of ''[ ...nce of two ocular globes in my direction. But the look will be given just as well on occasion when there is a rustling of branches, or the sound of a fo
  4 KB (670 words) - 01:18, 3 October 2021
• Voice
  ...the [[body]]. This is just [[another]] example of how a [[conservative]], as if he were afraid of the new medium, has a much better grasp of its [[uncan ...el' or 'Kartoffelstrudel'. And this was an ingenious insight; how voice is like a kind of a spectral ghost. All this became [[apparent]] to those conservat
  2 KB (346 words) - 20:54, 23 May 2019
• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...in theorist of what has come to be called [[Leninism]], which is described as an [[adaptation]] of [[Marxism]] to "the age of [[imperialism]]." ...his radicalized Lenin. His official Soviet biographies have this [[event]] as central to his revolutionary exploits. A famous painting by Belousov, [http
  37 KB (5,562 words) - 00:37, 26 May 2019
• Louis Althusser
  ...] in the European [[Communist]] Parties. Althusser is commonly referred to as a [[Structural Marxism|Structural Marxist]], although his [[relationship]] ...s. This is most [[apparent]] in Žižek’s conception of [[ideology]], as it is at least partially against the backdrop of Althusser’s own conception
  12 KB (1,812 words) - 01:18, 26 May 2019
• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...n the context of the study of "[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. It was Krafft-Ebing who, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, first a
  14 KB (2,087 words) - 13:40, 13 October 2020
• Id
  ...wed the term ''[[das Es]]'' (which the ''[[Standard Edition]]'' translates as "[[the Id]]") from Georg Groddeck, one of the first [[German]] [[psychiatry ...rehended signifier. It is already there, but it is made of the signifier, it is not some kind of primitive and confused property relevant to some kind o
  5 KB (789 words) - 16:13, 17 May 2020
• Ethics
  ...asserts that [[ethics|ethical thought]] "is at the centre of our [[work]] as [[analysts]],"<ref>{{S7}} p. 38</ref> and a [[whole]] year of his [[seminar Simplifying matters somewhat, it could be said that [[ethics|ethical problems]] converge in [[psychoanalytic
  9 KB (1,291 words) - 06:49, 24 May 2019
• Return to Freud
  ...]] in our [[mental]] lives, psychoanalysis had made itself respectable but it had lost its radical edge. In the early 1950s, therefore, Lacan famously de ...]] ([[IPA]]), the organization founded by [[Freud]] which presented itself as the sole legitimate heir to the ''[[Freudian]] legacy''.
  7 KB (954 words) - 22:15, 20 May 2019
• End of analysis
  <blockquote>"Is there such a [[thing]] as a [[natural]] end to an analysis?"<ref>{{F}} ''[[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography ...[[progress|logical process]] with a beginning and an end-point, designated as the "[[end of analysis]]".
  5 KB (757 words) - 06:33, 24 May 2019
• Art
  [[Freud]] valued [[art]] as one of [[human]]ity's great [[culture|cultural]] [[civilization|institution Like [[Freud]], [[Lacan]] devotes most of his attention to [[art|works of litera
  9 KB (1,212 words) - 02:13, 24 May 2019
• Absence
  ...pt upon an assumed foundation of absence. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not [[exist]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref></blockquote> ...e>"There is no absence in [[The Real|the real]]. There is only absence if you [[suggest]] that there may be a presence there where there isn't one."<ref>
  4 KB (504 words) - 17:23, 27 May 2019
• Desire of the analyst
  ...a "'''[[subject supposed to know|subject supposed to desire]]'''" (as well as a "[[subject supposed to know]]"). The task of the [[analyst]] throughout the [[treatment]] is to make it [[impossible]] for the [[analysand]] to be sure that he [[knows]] what the
  4 KB (588 words) - 05:30, 24 May 2019
• Fragmented body
  ...ts own [[body]] (which [[lack]]s [[motor coordination]] at this [[stage]]) as [[division|divided]] and [[fragmentation|fragmented]]. ...[the [[subject]]] is originally an inchoate collection of desires - there you have the [[true]] sense of the expression fragmented body."<ref>{{S3}} p.39
  3 KB (444 words) - 07:50, 24 May 2019
• Truth
  ...losophy]], that [[truth]] is not beautiful<ref>{{S7}} p.217</ref> and that it is not necessarily beneficial to learn the [[truth]].<ref>{{S17}} p.122</re ...truth]]" in the [[singular]], not as a single [[universal]] [[truth]], but as [[particular]] [[truth]], unique to each [[subject]].<ref>{{S7}} p.24</ref>
  5 KB (729 words) - 02:53, 21 May 2019
• Punctuation
  ...]. Before [[punctuation]], there is simply a [[chain]] of [[discourse]]. It is the [[punctuation|listener]]/[[punctuation|receiver]] who [[punctuates]] ...ion]], where "the sender receives his own [[message]] from the receiver." It is illustrated in the "[[graph of desire|elementary cell]]" of the [[graph
  4 KB (560 words) - 21:46, 20 May 2019
• Resistance
  ...began to play an increasingly important part in [[psychoanalytic theory]] as a result of the decreasing efficacy of [[analytic treatment]] in the decade As a consequence of this, [[ego-psychology]] placed increasing importance on o
  7 KB (1,010 words) - 22:12, 20 May 2019
• Shifter
  For example the pronouns "I" and "you", as well as [[words]] like "here" and "now", and the tenses, can only be [[understood]] by reference t ...fines the [[shifter]] as an [[index]]ical [[symbol]], [[Lacan]] defines it as an [[index]]ical [[signifier]].
  4 KB (512 words) - 23:07, 20 May 2019
• Community Portal2
  ...bout|No Subject]] [[right]] now. If you haven't done so already, [[You May|you may]] [[want]] to [[Special:Userlogin|create an account]], which provides a ...t, please see our [[Help:Contents|help pages]] which will explain anything you [[need]] to [[know]].''' For discussions of current operations, policies, t
  5 KB (694 words) - 20:40, 27 May 2019
• Community Portal3
  ...we can build a [[library]] of No [[Subject]] - free and open textbooks. You can help [[No Subject]] by [[Help:Editing|editing]], [[Help:Starting a new ...[w:en:Wiki|wiki]] works. If you [[Special:Userlogin|create an account]], you can track your changes [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|and more]]. To a
  20 KB (2,697 words) - 20:40, 27 May 2019
• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...engthy committee investigation, the [[SFP]] is granted [[IPA]] affiliation as a member [[society]] on condition that [[Lacan]] be removed from the [[list ...lved and the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne]]''' is created to replace it.
  82 KB (12,528 words) - 20:43, 25 May 2019
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
  [[Image:Everything.You.Always.Wanted.To.Know.About.Lacan.jpg|300px|right]] ...most banal [[content]], it is Alfred [[Hitchcock]] (and - useless to deny it - this book partakes unrestrainedly in this [[madness]]).'
  3 KB (378 words) - 06:56, 24 May 2019
• Quick index
  The '''Quick [[index]]''' allows you to look up a topic or article by its first two letters. For topics or artic |[http://www.ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Special:Allpages&from=As As]
  46 KB (8,186 words) - 21:49, 20 May 2019
• The Subject
  What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? ...substantial, [[transparent]] and fully [[self]]-[[conscious]] ‘i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expe
  20 KB (3,293 words) - 02:11, 21 May 2019
• Freud's papers on technique
  .....if the [[subject]] commits himself to searching after [[truth]] as such, it is because he places himself in the [[dimension]] of [[ignorance]], what [[ ...se the subject refuses to recognize it as his, refuses to recognize him in it. Dénégation includes an assertion whose status is difficult to define. Th
  4 KB (529 words) - 08:00, 24 May 2019
• Seminar V
  ...message]]." In this [[lack]] [[substitute]] [[word]]s appear and function like "the [[metonymic]] ruins of the [[object]]." ...The [[subject]] never is, it will have been - either it is not yet here or it is no longer here, since there is only a trace of its [[absence]]."
  13 KB (1,942 words) - 16:23, 30 June 2019
• Seminar IX
  ...i>[[Le transfert]]</i> [[Lacan]] describes [[symbolic]] [[identification]] as [[identification]] with the [[signifier]]. Here, he examines the rapport o # A [[primitive]] [[identification]] with the [[father]] as such based on a single feature: the [[matrix]] of the [[Ideal]]-of-the-Ego,
  12 KB (1,665 words) - 16:21, 30 June 2019
• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  ...e of the unconscious" or a "conjectural science of the subject" - what can it teach us about science? ...‘’Les fondements de la psychanalyse’’, which implies neither that it is a matter of concepts, nor that there are only four of [[them]].
  8 KB (1,250 words) - 02:22, 21 May 2019
• Seminar XVI
  ...the <i>[[trait]] unitaire</i> of <i>L'[[identification]]</i> and <i>a</i> as follows:<br> ...hat <i>jouissance</i> is real but cannot be [[symbolized]], on the Phallus as a [[symbol]] that is [[lacking]] or [[outside]] [[system]], and the [[repet
  11 KB (1,764 words) - 12:35, 2 March 2021
• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...d the [[Name]]-of-the-Father which "is positioned where knowledge [[acts]] as truth. [[Psychoanalysis]] consolidates the law." ...penly into play. [[Castration]] is "the [[deprivation]] of woman," insofar as "she would fulfill herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absen
  22 KB (3,312 words) - 02:25, 21 May 2019
• Seminar I
  ...ubject|the subject]] commits himself to searching after [[truth]] as such, it is because he places himself in the [[dimension]] of [[ignorance]], what [[ ...[subject]] refuses to recognize it as his, refuses to recognize himself in it. ''Dénégation'' includes an assertion whose status is difficult to defin
  13 KB (1,956 words) - 12:33, 2 March 2021
• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...as the driving force of both neuroses (through repression) and perversion. It also included the concepts of [[penis envy]], [[castration anxiety]], and t ...cussed sexuality in infancy and childhood. From a present-day perspective, it is difficult to imagine the vehement reactions provoked by suggesting the e
  21 KB (3,303 words) - 08:35, 10 June 2006
• Future of an Illusion
  ==Religion as an illusion== ...[[impossible]]. The fact that it is grounded in her wishes is what makes it an illusion.
  9 KB (1,299 words) - 08:17, 24 May 2019
• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...s most important and most-read works, though today it is usually read more as a "[[cultural artifact]]" than for its theories. ...]'s quest for [[freedom]] and [[society]]'s [[demand]] for [[conformity]]. As a result, civilization, or its culture, inhibits man's [[instinctual]] [[dr
  11 KB (1,706 words) - 20:22, 27 May 2019
• Seminar XI
  ...[[unconscious]]" or a "conjectural science of the [[subject]]" - what can it teach us about science? ...l study of Freud's [[dream]] about the dead son screaming "[[Father, can't you see I'm burning?]]" The main problem remains that of transference: the [[Na
  16 KB (2,456 words) - 12:15, 2 March 2021
• Sigmund Freud
  ...the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. ...mbolism]] — while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as [[literature]] ([[Kafka]]), [[film]], [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]]
  78 KB (11,491 words) - 23:08, 20 May 2019
• Mathematics
  ...[[linguistics]], using a [[Saussure]]an-inspired [[model]] of [[language]] as a [[system]] of [[signifiers]]. # The second approach is to describe it in terms borrowed from [[mathematics]].
  3 KB (359 words) - 19:16, 20 May 2019
• Deconstruction
  ...], and frameworks that [[form]] the basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion] ...n'' to [[Jacques Derrida|Jacques Derrida's]] ''dé[[construction]]''), and it has been explored by [[others]], including [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]],
  50 KB (7,273 words) - 21:41, 27 May 2019
• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and promote his films as artistic masterworks. Hitchcock was one of the first directors to whom they ...ich had previously been eclipsed by that of the producer. He is seen today as a director who managed to combine art and entertainment in a way very few h
  35 KB (5,516 words) - 17:58, 27 May 2019
• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...between what Kierkegaard truly believed and what he was merely arguing for as part of a pseudo-[[author]]'s [[position]]. [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] remark ...ch wished that he might live a few years longer, and I look upon his death as the last sacrifice which he made to his [[love]] for me; ... he died for me
  46 KB (7,030 words) - 00:20, 21 May 2019
• Multiculturalism
  Isn't it symptomatic that multiculturalism exploded at the very historic [[moment]] ...tation are converted into problems of [[cultural]] [[tolerance]]. And then you have only to make one step further, that of [[Julia Kristeva]] in her essay
  5 KB (790 words) - 19:39, 20 May 2019
• Tolerance
  Isn't it symptomatic that [[multiculturalism]] exploded at the very historic [[momen ...ploitation are converted into problems of [[cultural]] tolerance. And then you have only to make one step further, that of [[Julia Kristeva]] in her essay
  5 KB (776 words) - 02:38, 21 May 2019
• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  In this late phase Lacan continutes to develop masculinity and femininity as structures that are available to both men and women and not related to one' .... In this late phase Lacan continues to develop masculinity and femininity as structures that are available to both men and women and not related to one'
  40 KB (6,616 words) - 20:49, 25 May 2019
• Femininity
  ...a]]. Fink also remains unclear why this Other jouissance should be defined as feminine (2002:40). ...ystics consists in saying that they experience it, but [[know]] nothing of it.<ref>1998 [1975]: 76</ref></blockquote>
  3 KB (472 words) - 07:18, 24 May 2019
• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...rxism]] without any reference to Hegel’s absolute subject, he sees Lacan as trying to [[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] c A few years later, during the May ‚68 uprising, it was felt by many
  68 KB (11,086 words) - 00:02, 26 May 2019
• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...of this [[complex]] in his Introductory Lectures (Twenty-First Lecture): "You all [[know]] the Greek legend of King [[Oedipus]], who was destined by fate ...r the [[death]] of the [[rivalry|rival]], the parent of the same sex, and, as the [[sexual]] [[desire]] for the parent of the opposite sex.
  49 KB (7,855 words) - 20:47, 25 May 2019
• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...hough he also carried over the preceding definitions and functions. Hence, like many of Lacan's concepts, a consideration of the real forces us to reapprai ...conceptualized in opposition to [[the imaginary]] of the [[mirror]] phase. As 'being-in-itself', the real was beyond the realm of [[appearance]] and [[im
  33 KB (5,457 words) - 20:48, 25 May 2019
• Book of Job
  ...be punishing you (even if you are unaware of your sin), God may be testing you and so on. ...sn’t have a deeper meaning, it means we can [[change]] it; fight against it.
  3 KB (479 words) - 02:59, 24 May 2019
• Ethics and Politics
  ...itional injunction and the always [[contingent]] failed interventions that you make. ...alted just as the messianic [[utopian]] dimension inherent to [[language]] as such and so on.
  5 KB (779 words) - 06:50, 24 May 2019
• Liberalism
  ...freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choose your lifestyle. You can even choose your ethnic [[identity]] up to a point. ...comes the [[postmodern]] ideologist: 'Oh, but this is just a new freedom, you can reinvent yourself every two years!'
  2 KB (343 words) - 00:52, 26 May 2019
• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  The One Measure of True Love is: You Can Insult the Other ...cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDum
  36 KB (5,977 words) - 21:58, 21 May 2006
• The passion of the real
  ...s by Ernst Jnger, in which he praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. ...ea]] is: it's only through this [[pain]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel reconnected again. So I think that this tension is the background agai
  1 KB (205 words) - 02:24, 21 May 2019
• Cyberspace
  ...cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]]. ...ally new constellation. It is not private, but also it is also not public. It is not the old exhibitionist gesture.
  1 KB (183 words) - 04:57, 24 May 2019
• Cutter
  ...ea]] is: it's only through this [[pain]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel reconnected again. So I [[think]] that this tension is the background
  707 bytes (107 words) - 21:18, 27 May 2019
• Postmodernity
  ...e seem to live more and more with the [[thing]] deprived of its substance. You get beer without alcohol, meat without fat, coffee without caffeine…and e Virtual [[reality]] to me is the climax of this [[process]]: you now get reality without reality…or a totally regulated reality. But there
  2 KB (347 words) - 21:15, 20 May 2019
• Postmodern Racism
  ...hat every culture is artificially constructed. In [[France]], for example, you have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Ye ...f the mainstream, not an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the
  3 KB (453 words) - 21:15, 20 May 2019
• Clash of Civilizations
  ...hat every culture is artificially constructed. In [[France]], for example, you have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Ye ...f the mainstream, not an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the
  3 KB (468 words) - 20:24, 27 May 2019
• Victimization
  ...of [[violence]], when you say: 'I love you, I [[want]] you.' In no way can you bypass this violent aspect. So I even [[think]] that the [[fear]] of sexual ...ou, how interesting your customs are' — this is inverted [[racism]], and it is disgusting.
  3 KB (445 words) - 03:11, 21 May 2019
• Freedom
  ...freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choose your lifestyle. You can even choose your ethnic [[identity]] up to a point. ...comes the [[postmodern]] ideologist: 'Oh, but this is just a new freedom, you can reinvent yourself every two years!'
  2 KB (349 words) - 07:57, 24 May 2019
• Violence
  ...hy, he says: 'I [[know]] I lost it over there, but it's easier to look for it here.' ...ce never helps?' It is simply a fact that at some point you have to fight. You have to [[return]] violence with violence. The problem is not that for me,
  6 KB (851 words) - 03:12, 21 May 2019
• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...he [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives -, but Lenin, no, you can't be serious! The [[working]] [[class]] movement, revolutionary Party, ...ion the predominant liberal-democratic "post-ideological" consensus — or it means nothing.
  164 KB (26,048 words) - 22:09, 20 May 2019
• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...[[World]] War I, Carl [[Schmitt]] was celebrating the face to face combat as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity resides in th ...the Real, not just with empty plans — the Party is ruthlessly brutal, so it means business…
  52 KB (8,449 words) - 23:27, 23 May 2019
• Self-Deceptions
  ...red of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you should always counter such claims with a simple, yet intricate question: Wh ...d ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, coming from an ethnically
  15 KB (2,369 words) - 22:47, 20 May 2019
• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked even on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is t ...t in [[another]] historical [[moment]], and thus effectively universalizes it.
  28 KB (4,533 words) - 19:44, 27 May 2019
• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...he all the [[time]] disturbed [[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]!"… I definitely prefer such naiv ...alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?
  64 KB (10,730 words) - 00:53, 21 May 2019
• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Thank you for the kind invitation. ...ney. When we push this button the door closes in exactly the same [[time]] as when we just press the floor button without speeding up the [[process]] by
  95 KB (16,281 words) - 23:43, 24 May 2019
• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...g, as is implied by Pasolini's [[film]] version of Saló, which transposes it into the dark days of Mussolini's Salo republic? Lacan developed this link ...[[subject]]'s deadlock, his inability to meet its inexorable [[demands]], like the proverbial teacher who tortures pupils with [[impossible]] tasks and se
  23 KB (3,654 words) - 23:27, 25 May 2019
• The Interpassive Subject
  ...ture of socio-[[economic]] relations; we do not relate to a certain person as to a "king" because this person is "in himself" (on account of his charisma ...der]] of pure [[semblance]], so that the subject never "really believed in it"; from the very beginning, the subject refers to some decentered other to w
  54 KB (8,829 words) - 00:46, 21 May 2019
• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in thi ...: the semiotic Japan. The empty signs, no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein
  29 KB (5,034 words) - 05:05, 22 May 2006
• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  It Doesn't Have to be a Jew ...ERZA: The contemporary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[mean
  21 KB (3,498 words) - 01:13, 25 May 2019
• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...real]] [[life]]. This prologue sounds like an implicit apology-"sorry, but you will not get the usual comic-thriller stuff here, things are for real, I sh ...est]], one has to take into account the strict [[concept]] of "[[sadism]]" as elaborated by [[Lacan]]. In "[[Kant]] with [[Sade]]," Lacan proposed two sc
  4 KB (588 words) - 00:19, 25 May 2019
• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...ut the [[Master]] signifier — in [[speech]]-act [[theory]] we would call it the "[[order]] of the [[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spin
  19 KB (3,206 words) - 23:30, 24 May 2019
• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...developed" — those to whom [[human]] rights, [[social]] security and the like apply — and the [[others]], the excluded. ...the "developed" is to contain the explosive potential of the rest, even if it means the neglect of elementary democratic principles. This opposition, not
  11 KB (1,769 words) - 06:51, 24 May 2019
• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...ial]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place]] in it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of t ...injustice into the ultimate [[test]] of universality, and, simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political r
  51 KB (7,820 words) - 07:36, 24 May 2019
• The Cyberspace Real
  ...reason]] deprived of our [[freedom]], caught in a demoniac [[compulsion]]. It is thus crucial to establish the rules that engage us, that led us in our i ...l, constrained only by its [[self]]-imposed rules? In this comic universe, as in a perverse [[ritual]], same gestures and scenes are endlessly repeated,
  31 KB (4,862 words) - 00:35, 21 May 2019
• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...in no way diminishes our [[enjoyment]] in the work — quite the contrary, it supplements our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the tr ...minations and should as such be independent of personal idiosyncrasies — as if the very [[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "patholog
  28 KB (4,340 words) - 08:08, 24 May 2019
• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...ociety]] of consumption" in the 1960s? In short, psychoanalysis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[ ...t provide access to the specific [[dimension]] of the political; useful as it is in clarifying the [[libidinal]] foundation of a [[multitude]] of "[[regr
  71 KB (11,371 words) - 21:35, 20 May 2019
• The Lesbian Session
  ...ruling ideological edifice by their very excessive [[identification]] with it. ...ism, what [[Brecht]] was to [[Communism]], Rand is to American capitalism. It was perhaps her Russian origins and upbringing which enabled her to formula
  6 KB (846 words) - 00:50, 21 May 2019
• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...omination: the great purges are put in their context, rendered [[visible]] as the result of the way the top [[nomenklatura]] (mis)perceived their [[situa ...which directly treats ITSELF as an anonymous, [[secret]], hidden [[body]]. As such, the Khmer Rouge [[regime]] was a kind of [[political]] equivalent to
  63 KB (10,138 words) - 03:25, 21 May 2019
• Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash
  ...t of [[satisfied]] calm), that Coke functions as the direct embodiment of "IT," of the pure [[surplus]] of [[enjoyment]] over standard satisfactions, of ...'s it" precisely insofar as that's NEVER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a gap of "I [[want]] MORE!"
  2 KB (262 words) - 00:09, 21 May 2019
• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...bal capitalism in its "postindustrial", digitalized [[form]], that, to put it in [[Hegelian]] [[terms]], really existing capitalism is reaching the level ...ath, its own mad dance, irrespective of the [[real]] needs of real people. It may appear that this [[analysis]] is more than actual today when the tensio
  30 KB (4,559 words) - 23:15, 24 May 2019
• The Leninist Freedom
  ...attacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements."” ...] when the only legitimizing [[reason]] for Socialism was a mere fact that it [[exists]] . . . “
  23 KB (3,562 words) - 00:50, 21 May 2019
• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...ratic party except the Serbs' followed the 'patriotic line'. How difficult it must have been, at a [[time]] when military [[conflict]] had cut the Europe ...tial of The State and [[Revolution]] can't be overestimated: in its pages, as Neil Harding wrote in Leninism (1996), "the [[vocabulary]] and grammar of t
  27 KB (4,181 words) - 22:46, 20 May 2019
• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...at may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is to be and act as a racist is a priori excluded). ...ice-whose [[difference]]-does make a difference. Phenomena like these make it all the more necessary today to reassert [[Lenin]]'s opposition of "[[forma
  75 KB (11,848 words) - 17:15, 27 May 2019
• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...ions for such attacks, it should reserve the right to act independently if it will not get sufficient international support. ...underlying [[message]] is always "we will do it with or without you," i.e. you are free to agree with, but not free to disagree — the old [[paradox]] of
  11 KB (1,789 words) - 08:30, 24 May 2019
• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...ld give inspectors more [[time]], since inspectors are more efficient; (2) it is all really about the control of oil and American hegemony — the [[true ...as a [[child]] with hurt [[feelings]] because of the ingratitude of those it selflessly helped.
  29 KB (4,655 words) - 00:47, 21 May 2019
• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...raints of compulsory [[heterosexuality]] and reduces all [[resistance]] to it to [[imaginary]] [[misrecognition]]. And if one does effectively break up t ...t the site of this resistance cannot be simply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by uncon
  42 KB (6,841 words) - 08:07, 24 May 2019
• You May
  ...se oneself - have now been "colonised" by reflexivity, and are experienced as something to be learned and decided on. ...racy]]. Believing there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is
  27 KB (4,340 words) - 03:40, 21 May 2019
• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...he passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i.e., which does the tickling. But ...t because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>
  214 KB (35,802 words) - 14:38, 12 November 2006
• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ..., contemplated as existent in immediately sensuous mode but is apprehended as the one infinite [[sublime]] [[Power]] beyond all the [[multiplicity]] of t ...tiation into the One - its lesson is that, in [[order]] to have truly One, you [[need]] THREE.
  47 KB (7,917 words) - 23:18, 24 May 2019
• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...ism]]: much more than belonging to the Orient, the location of Islam makes it a fatal obstacle to the [[true]] union of the East and the West – the poi ...more [[Christian]] insofar as we were to mount beyond Christianity itself. It is then that the West has lost its [[chance]] to remain [[woman]]. [[A Glan
  49 KB (8,295 words) - 17:10, 27 May 2019
• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...[global]] capitalism will just go on indefinitely, is [[false]] insofar as it turns revolution into a [[moral obligation]], into something we ought to do ...[Adorno]]'s and [[Horkheimer]]'s "[[dialectic of Enlightenment]]," as well as, today, with [[Agamben]]: the "[[totalitarianism|totalitarian]]" potentials
  25 KB (3,745 words) - 01:55, 21 May 2019
• With or Without Passion
  ...films]], [[Groucho Marx]], when caught in a lie, answers angrily: "Whom do you believe, your eyes or my [[words]]?"<br><br> ...pectfully, since he wears the insignia of a judge, so that when he speaks, it is the Law itself which speaks through him". So, in a way, I effectively b
  23 KB (3,928 words) - 03:32, 21 May 2019
• Move the Underground!
  ...[[fantasy]] [[scene]] was never [[conscious]] and has to be reconstructed as the [[missing]] link between the first and the last scene). Schumann brings ...efore not focus primarily on the explicit [[repression]] of homosexuality; it should rather "move the underground," disturb the implicit homosexual pract
  33 KB (5,457 words) - 19:38, 20 May 2019
• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...t? 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 [[fundamentalism]] ...ical secular Jew who, although he does not believe in Jehova and [[Moses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the la
  31 KB (4,860 words) - 20:35, 20 May 2019
• Opera
  ...emark that what is [[lacking]] in [[German]] [[history]] are more gestures like Siegmund's.<br><br> ...Alberich, the key person of Flimm's staging which presents the <i>Ring</i> as a drama of corrupted [[state]] [[power]] (Udo Bermbach was Flimm's [[offici
  52 KB (8,901 words) - 20:26, 20 May 2019
• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...e scornfully dismisses "slave morality," he is not attacking lower classes as such, but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the ti ...o advocates strong budgetary measures (cutting [[welfare]] expenses, etc.) as a [[necessity]] imposed by his neutral expertise devoid of any [[ideologica
  14 KB (2,208 words) - 23:37, 24 May 2019
• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ..., whose epiphany itself is somehow a [[word]] of honor. Every [[language]] as an [[exchange]] of [[verbal]] [[signs]] refers already to this primordial w ...par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?
  31 KB (5,186 words) - 23:15, 23 May 2019
• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...sible]] for the Sept. 11 attacks, or who posed an imminent [[threat]]; but as the CIA began apprehending more [[people]] whose intelligence [[value]] and ...an [[being]] [[dead]]... This reasoning tells more than it intends to say: it puts the prisoner almost literally into the [[position]] of [[living]] dead
  13 KB (2,039 words) - 02:52, 24 May 2019
• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...Is such an unambiguous attack not a <i>sine qua non</i> if we want to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the fundamentalism of < ...s that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is merely repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets
  18 KB (3,007 words) - 20:51, 7 June 2006
• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...al]]) directly taking over, colonizing our inner [[life]] itself, using us as the source of [[energy]]; New Agers see in the source of speculations on ho ...alization of this enclosure, where each of us is effectively just a foetus-like organism, immersed in the pre-natal fluid...
  10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:54, 21 May 2019
• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...the standard remakes of [[Hitchcock]]'s [[films]] are precisely something like HITCHCOCK MADE EASY: although the [[narrative]] is the same, the "substance ...his own, finding in her small crime the justification for his own? (Or is it rather that, upon hearing that she is from LA, he thinks that the [[girl]]
  62 KB (10,491 words) - 01:09, 25 May 2019
• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...qualifications like "in a sense," "what now appears," "or, if you like," "you could argue that... but I am more inclined to [[think]]...," "perhaps," "I ...am what I do.' Then came the repercussion on the imaginative level. I felt as if I were a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melting was sta
  32 KB (5,435 words) - 00:30, 21 May 2019
• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...tish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br> ...aid President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br>
  52 KB (8,632 words) - 00:48, 21 May 2019
• Iraq's False Promises
  If you [[want]] to [[understand]] why the [[Bush]] administration invaded [[Iraq]] ...t arguments, of course, confirms precisely what it endeavors to deny: that you, in fact, did borrow and break the kettle.
  18 KB (2,898 words) - 01:02, 25 May 2019
• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...also [[other]] [[good]] reasons to topple a brutal dictator and aggressor like [[Saddam]]. ...[[hegemony]]; (3) the [[control]] of the Iraqi oil reserves. And it seems as if these three "[[real]]" reasons are the "[[truth]]" of the three [[offici
  9 KB (1,549 words) - 00:47, 21 May 2019
• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on The [[case]] against Mueller seems clear.<br><br> ...was the situation of [[women]] progressively perceived as unjust, although it was "objectively" getting better. Or recall the [[treatment]] of disabled i
  55 KB (8,847 words) - 23:21, 24 May 2019
• Death's Merciless Love
  ...ssed]] and [[displaced]]. And it seems that the very designation of Hamlet as an [[obsessional]] [[neurotic]] points in this direction: in contrast to [[ ...th no [[libidinal]] resonance, so why did [[people]] translate-metaphorize it in the guise of precisely such a family narrative which generates a tremend
  63 KB (10,767 words) - 21:37, 27 May 2019
• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...listic alternative, or at least a meaningful utopian [[project]], but only as a meaningless outburst, not the strongest indictment of our predicament? Wh ...ly way to articulate their dissatisfaction... As Stalin would have put it, it is meaningless to debate which reaction is worse: they are BOTH worse, incl
  74 KB (12,129 words) - 10:19, 1 June 2019
• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...hammed caricatures is on the wane. The time has come to look back (as well as into the future, of course) and draw a balance. ...at getting rid of this disturbing intruder – or, as Peter Sloterdijk put it: “More communication means at first above all more conflict.”<ref>Peter
  43 KB (7,118 words) - 14:37, 12 November 2006
• Lenin Shot at Finland Station
  ...lethargy – one of the scourges of our day – should be banished, since it means that in [[human]] affairs anything is possible.’ ...]] insisted on [[predestination]]: why then did [[Protestantism]] function as the [[ideology]] of early [[capitalism]]? Why did [[people]]’s [[belief]
  10 KB (1,507 words) - 00:38, 26 May 2019
• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ..., as the [[official]] slogan puts it, ‘[[another]] world is possible.’ It seems, however, that the Porto Alegre reunions have somehow lost their impe ...t we can have the global capitalist cake (thrive as entrepreneurs) and eat it (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecolo
  12 KB (1,880 words) - 10:20, 1 June 2019
• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...le, but even the red star. This proposal should not be dismissed lightly: it suggests a deep change in [[Europe]]’s [[ideological]] [[identity]]. ...to any [[rational]] man, no matter how depraved, everyone must be regarded as responsible for his crimes. But for the [[Nazi]]s the [[guilt]] of the [[J
  11 KB (1,613 words) - 14:42, 12 November 2006
• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...an [[object]] of manipulation, it is evidence of what Heidegger perceived as the '[[danger]]' inherent in modern [[technology]]. By reducing a human bei ...e not to [[know]], an [[ignorance]] that is not simply [[negative]], since it allows us to fantasise.
  19 KB (3,145 words) - 19:38, 27 May 2019
• Knee-Deep
  ...it. The fate of this revolutionary was surely the fate of the [[people]] as a [[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the millions who overthre ...consider him worth [[reading]] for his wealth of precise observations, and as a reliable source on the vicissitudes of the disintegration of [[Eastern Eu
  20 KB (3,312 words) - 23:43, 25 May 2019
• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the very [[cynicism]] it originally opposed.
  35 KB (5,668 words) - 18:54, 27 May 2019
• Are We in a War
  ...[[psychological]] [[humiliation]]: Palestinians are treated, essentially, as [[evil]] [[children]] who have to be brought back to an honest life by ster ...e receiving end of humanitarian aid (Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghans), as well as to the Sans Papiers in France and the inhabitants of the favelas in [[Brazi
  25 KB (3,969 words) - 18:46, 27 May 2019
• Seminar VII
  ...e of the access to [[desire]]," a [[desire]] that is only valid insofar as it is [[desire]] to [[know]]. [[Lacan]] lauds [[Oedipus]] at Colonus who call ...d of the [[Thing]]. As for disbelief, by rejecting the [[Thing]] it makes it reappear in the [[Real]], which is the [[Lacan]]ian definition of [[psychos
  24 KB (3,720 words) - 16:19, 30 June 2019
• Mother
  ...', the [[mother]] is the first '''[[love]] [[object]]''' of the [[child]]; it is only the [[intervention]] of the '''[[father]]''', via the [[threat]] of ...|mother-child]] '''[[dual relation|relation]]'''; the latter was described as a [[sadistic]] relation in which the [[development|child]] makes (in [[fant
  8 KB (1,239 words) - 19:37, 20 May 2019
• Oedipus complex
  ...t]] in [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic theory. is considered by [[Freud]] as one of the "cornerstones" of [[psychoanalysis]].<ref>{{F}} (1923a) "[[Sigmu <!-- The [[Oedipus complex]] was defined by [[Freud]] as an [[unconscious]] set of loving and hostile [[desire]]s which the [[subjec
  28 KB (4,345 words) - 20:18, 20 May 2019
• Love
  ...one descends into imbecility.<ref>{{S20}} p. 17</ref> Given these views, it might seem surprising that [[Lacan]] himself dedicates a great deal of his ...love]] leads [[Lacan]] to oppose all those [[analyst]]s who posit [[love]] as an [[ideal]] in [[psychoanalytic treatment]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 8</ref>
  5 KB (803 words) - 01:18, 26 May 2019
• Lure
  As Alan [[Sheridan]] points out in the short [[glossary]] he provides to his [ However, [[Lacan]] argues that it is important to distinguish between [[lure|animal lure]]s and [[lure|human
  3 KB (469 words) - 01:25, 26 May 2019
• Ex-sistence
  ...but, rather, 'Isn't there something else you could do, something different you could try?'
  1 KB (159 words) - 06:57, 24 May 2019
• Love beyond Law
  coordinates of Jacques [[Lacan]]'s [[conceptual]] network; it also proposes original solutions to ...ce these two points run against the predominant <i>doxa</i> on Lacan (love as a
  15 KB (2,496 words) - 01:19, 26 May 2019
• Categorical Imperative
  ...oduced the concept in his ''[[Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]]''. It is outlined here according to the arguments found in this [[work]]. ...all circumstances, and is both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation:
  21 KB (3,428 words) - 19:56, 27 May 2019
• Carl Gustav Jung
  ...vs. Western philosophy, [[alchemy]], [[astrology]], [[sociology]], as well as [[literature]] and the [[arts]]. Jung also emphasized the importance of [[ ...and ending shortly before World War I in May [[1914]], when Jung resigned as the chairman of the International [[Psychoanalytical]] Association.
  12 KB (1,772 words) - 19:49, 27 May 2019
• Parallax View
  The difference between [[subject]] and [[object]] can be rendered as the difference between the two corresponding verbs, to subject (submit) one ...ementary, founding, gesture is to subject itself - voluntarily, of course: as both [[Wagner]] and [[Nietzsche]], the two great opponents, were well aware
  36 KB (5,976 words) - 07:29, 12 October 2006
• Materialism
  These two trends often converge in his writings in an uneasy alliance, as in the following [[sentence]]: [[Lacan]] too presents himself as a [[materialism|materialist]]; in 1936 he criticizes associationist [[psych
  4 KB (596 words) - 19:14, 20 May 2019
• Gap
  It is also a [[scientific]] term used in [[medicine]] to denote the opening of ...the fact that "in man, [[the imaginary]] relation has deviated, in so far as that is where the gap is produced whereby [[death]] makes itself felt."<ref
  3 KB (491 words) - 08:21, 24 May 2019
• Seduction
  ...his [[whole]] episode is eminently instructive from an [[epistemological]] as from a heuristic point of view, and is worth reviewing. ...duction of the sexual substance; the relevant events become effective only as memories" (1895c, p. 127). On May 30, 1896, he distinguished the periods of
  10 KB (1,504 words) - 22:45, 20 May 2019
• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...st]] globalization is not our fate, that, as their [[official]] slogan has it, “[[another]] [[world]] is possible.” Lately, however, the Porto Alegre ...ve the global capitalist cake (thrive as profitable entrepreneurs) and eat it too (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of social [[responsibility]], ecolo
  10 KB (1,545 words) - 00:51, 21 May 2019
• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...s the workday of the fictitious L.A.-based Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. (In season ...eal time of the [[spectator]], that even commercial breaks cannot interupt it.
  10 KB (1,673 words) - 01:14, 25 May 2019
• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...al peace and security? To answer the question properly, one has to locate it in its [[:category:politics|political]] and [[:category:ideology|ideologica ...afford to wait for it to come. Rather, one must strike in advance, before it is too late. In other [[words]], the omni-present <i>invisible</i> threat
  11 KB (1,747 words) - 08:37, 24 May 2019
• The Pope's Failures
  ...was thus replaced by the “[[official]],” neutral stance, corrected so as not to hurt anyone. This [[withdrawal]], and its nod toward [[liberal]] se ...ut violence,” a sort of permanent (re)negotiation of ethical [[norms]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unexpectedly meets the lowe
  12 KB (1,766 words) - 20:54, 23 May 2019
• Ideology Reloaded
  ...ou look at it—practically every orientation seems to recognize itself in it.<br><br> ...</i>, directly taking over, colonizing our inner [[life]] itself, using us as the source of [[energy]]. New Agers see how our [[world]] is just a mirage
  14 KB (2,355 words) - 00:06, 25 May 2019
• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...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 [[fundamentalis ...o be blamed for the [[Crucifixion]]. The problem of such a stance is that it merely [[repress]]es [[aggressive]] [[religious]] [[passion]], which remain
  10 KB (1,358 words) - 20:48, 20 May 2019
• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...attacking us, then you will have only yourselves to blame if we treat you as the worst and most pernicious white guard elements.’” ...ion of “formal” and “actual” freedom, but as even ;eftist liberals like Claude [[Lefort]] emphasize again and again, freedom is in its very notion
  13 KB (2,129 words) - 03:23, 21 May 2019
• Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
  ...zed in the guise of a keyboard [[machine]]; by pressing on different keys, it was possible to produce different kinds of laughter. First used for episod ...prays for me — or, more precisely, I “[[objective]]ly” pray through it, while my [[mind]] can be occupied with the dirtiest of [[sexual]] [[though
  9 KB (1,428 words) - 03:29, 21 May 2019
• Catastrophes Real and Imagined
  ...re of the [[Bush]] (or, rather, Cheney) [[doctrine]] now publicly declared as the [[official]] U.S. “philosophy” of international [[politics]]?<br><b ...nited States should seek ad hoc international coalitions for such attacks, it reserves the right to act independently without international support.<br><
  9 KB (1,454 words) - 19:56, 27 May 2019
• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...recisely to <i>presuppose</i> his [[existence]], i.e. to <i>believe</i> in it, either in the guise of the [[primitive]] [[Other]] or in the guise of the ...Convention Center: "The tourists are [[walking]] around there, and as soon as these individuals see them, they're [[being]] preyed upon. They are beatin
  12 KB (1,940 words) - 02:12, 21 May 2019
• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...ge]] of the “good” Anakin Skywalker into the “bad” Darth Vader — it aims to draw parallels between our personal and [[political]] decisions. ...ou’re greedy, you are on the path to the dark side, because you [[fear]] you’re going to lose things."
  14 KB (2,179 words) - 22:16, 20 May 2019
• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...ll progressive forces": "[[workers]], peasants and honest intellectuals" - as if intellectuals are, by their very [[nature]], suspicious, all too free-[[ ...splay a no less breathtaking ability to discover emancipatory potential in it.
  9 KB (1,339 words) - 00:38, 21 May 2019
• A Cup of Decaf Reality
  ...It is easy to see why, in contrast to the triumph of the TV reality shows, it failed: the attempt to "let [[life]] itself write the story" ended up in a ...creen]] [[identity]] of a [[sadistic]] murderer and irresistible seducer - it is all too simple to say that this identity is just an [[imaginary]] [[supp
  7 KB (1,142 words) - 01:34, 21 May 2019
• Jews, Christians and other Monsters
  ...should [[renounce]] the very striving for one's own (spiritual) salvation as the highest [[form]] of egotism — according to Leon Brunschvicg, therein ...e torn by the religious [[life]]. As long as you [[think]] only salvation, you turn your back on God. God is God, only for the person who overcomes the te
  3 KB (438 words) - 01:56, 25 May 2019
• Will You Laugh for Me, Please
  ...so that it prays for me - or, more precisely, I "objectively"pray through it, while my [[mind]] can be occupied with the dirtiest [[sexual]] [[thoughts] ...ith [[time]], one grows accustomed to it and the phenomenon is experienced as "natural.") This is what is so unsettling about the "canned laughter": my m
  6 KB (1,063 words) - 03:29, 21 May 2019
• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...e lessons be separated out, as form from content, from their particularity as aspects of the history of Christianity, itself?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or are the part ...structure of truth event that he tries to articulate, and it doesn't count as a truth-event.<br>
  27 KB (4,921 words) - 19:37, 14 June 2007
• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...t in the southern Swedish town of Ystad, with the inspector Kurt Wallander as their hero, is the exemplary [[case]] of the fate of the detective novel in ...s with the Chinese police inspector exiled there for [[political]] reasons as a hero). [[History]] also poses no limitations: the "golden" 1880's of the
  13 KB (2,091 words) - 23:23, 24 May 2019
• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ct 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 fundamentalism of o ...s that, in this way, the aggressive religious passion is merely repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets
  18 KB (2,954 words) - 14:47, 12 November 2006
• Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
  ...ung man asking one of the staff: 'I just finished <i>Mrs de Winter</i>. Is it [[true]] dangerously close to the ridiculous-after [[reading]] one of her books, it is difficult to avoid
  22 KB (3,529 words) - 18:45, 27 May 2019
• Liberation Hurts
  ...that they "secretly believe much more than they are willing to admit" and it would be hypocritical for [[them]] to do so?<br><br> ...t is no wonder that the central [[representative]] is a [[Jewish]] thinker like Levinas, no?) is a kind of spiritual commitment which shouldn't be positivi
  64 KB (10,850 words) - 00:53, 26 May 2019
• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...tish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'" ...aid President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"
  50 KB (8,234 words) - 00:48, 21 May 2019
• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...e scornfully dismisses "slave morality," he is not attacking lower classes as such, but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the ti ...o advocates strong budgetary measures (cutting [[welfare]] expenses, etc.) as a [[necessity]] imposed by his neutral expertise devoid of any [[ideologica
  15 KB (2,294 words) - 23:38, 24 May 2019
• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...[social]] [[development]] are discussed or brought about involving as many as possible, a majority. In this [[sense]], we do not have an actual [[experie ...e seem to live more and more with the [[thing]] deprived of its substance. You get beer without alcohol, meat without fat, coffee without caffeine...and e
  26 KB (4,482 words) - 01:56, 21 May 2019
• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked even on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is t ...t in [[another]] historical [[moment]], and thus effectively universalizes it.
  28 KB (4,521 words) - 19:45, 27 May 2019
• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...r. Establishment commentators naturally hailed this demonstrative reaction as evidence that the anti-fascist consensus of post-war European democracy hol ...raced them all and told his audience: 'They are no less French than I am - it is the representatives of big multinational capital, ignoring their duty to
  22 KB (3,584 words) - 14:56, 12 November 2006
• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...the extermination camp, organize a fake train with [[Nazi]] guards, board it and, of course, insteads of the camp, take the ride to [[freedom]]. Signifi ...ortal [[fear]]: while she attracts him sexually, he finds her unacceptable as his [[love]] [[object]] due to her Jewish origins. In this battle between t
  22 KB (3,679 words) - 00:14, 26 May 2019
• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...bout [[films]] whose narrative deals with some impossible/traumatic Thing, like the [[Alien]] Thing in [[science]]-[[fiction]] [[horror]] films.<br> ...ame]] of [[screen]]-[[reality]]. The object-Thing is thus clearly rendered as a part of ourselves that we eject into reality... This intrusion of the mas
  61 KB (9,960 words) - 02:15, 21 May 2019
• You May!
  ...se oneself - have now been "colonised" by reflexivity, and are experienced as something to be learned and decided on.<br> ...racy]]. Believing there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is
  27 KB (4,379 words) - 03:41, 21 May 2019
• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...lm that he all the time disturbed other spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no reality!"... I definitely prefer such naive im ...alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br>
  63 KB (10,769 words) - 14:59, 12 November 2006
• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...e]] in ex-[[Yugoslavia]] that was not touched by the war raging all around it, is not irrationally attacked by the NATO madmen destroying bridges and hos ...[[floating]] in the air, and falling down only when it becomes aware that it has no ground under its feet... From Milosevic's seizure of power in Serbia
  53 KB (8,634 words) - 17:39, 27 May 2019
• Surplus-Enjoyment
  ...'s it" precisely insofar as that's NEVER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a gap of "I [[want]] MORE!"
  2 KB (280 words) - 00:09, 21 May 2019
• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  ...[[capitalist]] globalism and the fundamentalist/particularist reactions to it in the [[terms]] of the Schellingian opposition ...to <i>Radical Philosophy</i>, this [[double]] suspicion or, rather, to put it bluntly, unproven
  33 KB (5,283 words) - 08:09, 24 May 2019
• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...ociety]] of consumption" in the 1960s? In short, psychoanalysis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[ ...t provide access to the specific [[dimension]] of the political; useful as it is in clarifying the [[libidinal]] foundation of a [[multitude]] of "[[regr
  71 KB (11,385 words) - 21:34, 20 May 2019
• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...ch gives rise to [[symbolic]] [[prohibition]] (the [[dead]] father returns as his [[Name]]). And today's much-decried "decline of Oedipus" (of the patern ...ect]]'s, but the big [[Other]]'s: "the father is dead, although unaware of it," i.e., he doesn't [[know]] that his loving followers have (always-already)
  42 KB (6,817 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2019
• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  Geert Lovink: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in ...ic Japan. The empty [[signs]], no Western [[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenscht
  30 KB (5,061 words) - 22:00, 20 May 2019
• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...ass="f" color="#000000" face="Courier,Helvetica,Arial,Times Roman"><tt><b>"IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A JEW..."</b></tt></font></td></tr> ...A: <i>The contemporary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[mea
  22 KB (3,750 words) - 01:12, 25 May 2019
• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  Through Popular [[Culture]]<i>. Zizek also ran as a pro-reform candidate for the phenomenon disappeared and it is hard to see any relationship or even dialogue.
  32 KB (5,235 words) - 20:21, 27 May 2019
• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...ut the [[Master]] signifier — in [[speech]]-act [[theory]] we would call it the "[[order]] of the [[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spin
  20 KB (3,252 words) - 23:29, 24 May 2019
• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large
  ...real]] [[life]]. This prologue sounds like an implicit apology-"sorry, but you will not get the usual comic-thriller stuff here, things are for real, I sh ...est]], one has to take into account the strict [[concept]] of "[[sadism]]" as elaborated by [[Lacan]]. In "[[Kant]] with [[Sade]]," Lacan proposed two sc
  3 KB (526 words) - 00:19, 25 May 2019
• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...raints of compulsory [[heterosexuality]] and reduces all [[resistance]] to it to [[imaginary]] [[misrecognition]]. And if one does effectively break up t ...t the site of this resistance cannot be simply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by uncon
  43 KB (6,928 words) - 08:07, 24 May 2019
• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...e receiving end of humanitarian aid (Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghans), as well as to the Sans Papiers in France and the inhabitants of the favelas in [[Brazi ...' A similar distinction applies to the Enron bankruptcy, which can be seen as an ironic comment on the [[notion]] of a risk [[society]]. Thousands of emp
  24 KB (3,872 words) - 18:46, 27 May 2019
• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked even on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is t ...t in [[another]] historical [[moment]], and thus effectively universalizes it.
  28 KB (4,534 words) - 19:46, 27 May 2019
• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...bal capitalism in its "postindustrial", digitalized [[form]], that, to put it in [[Hegelian]] [[terms]], really existing capitalism is reaching the level ...ath, its own mad dance, irrespective of the [[real]] needs of real people. It may appear that this [[analysis]] is more than actual today when the tensio
  30 KB (4,577 words) - 23:16, 24 May 2019
• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...via the [[idea]] of The Borg in Star Trek. The Borg seems to be something like a cybernetic insect [[state]], combining the old [[image]] of the parasitic ...nother]], let's call it the New Age [[school]] of cyberspace-[[ideology]]. It is this neo-Jungian idea that we live in an age of mechanistic, [[false]] i
  15 KB (2,505 words) - 23:50, 24 May 2019
• Anarchy
  » More Like This - Find similar documents ...tingency]], and discusses the contemporary anti-[[globalization]] movement as an example.
  53 KB (8,167 words) - 18:19, 27 May 2019
• Civilization
  ...tion and Its Discontents]]</i>, [[Sigmund Freud]] defines [[civilization]] as follows: ...civilization—presents, as we [[know]], two aspects to the [[observer]]. It includes, on the one hand, all the [[knowledge]] and capacity that men have
  10 KB (1,463 words) - 20:22, 27 May 2019
• Illusion
  ...ulation that is embodied in the [[Freudian]] approach to illusion, defined as a belief primarily motivated by the realization of a [[desire]]. ...reams]] and dreaming, where the [[philosophers]] of antiquity had situated it.
  11 KB (1,651 words) - 00:09, 25 May 2019
• Historicism
  It can be contrasted with [[reductionism|reductionist]] theories which suppose ...phecy which is [[interpreted]] as [[being]] related to [[church]] history, as opposed to any type of [[interpretation]].
  13 KB (1,919 words) - 20:56, 23 May 2019
• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...and that would not occur, in fact, until the beginning of December 1963, as these letters and Althusser's diary, conserved in his archives, indicate; q ...he would write, at night, his first [[letter]] to Louis Althusser and that it was through Althusser's [[intervention]] that he would make his entry at th
  72 KB (12,262 words) - 21:01, 27 May 2019
• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  This is [[Zizek]]'s first major [[work]] in [[English]] and it remains one of his most accessible books. Mixing [[philosophy]], [[politics ...on the [[other]] hand, you read The [[Sublime Object of Ideology]] first, you will be better able to grasp the subtleties of his arguments concerning det
  13 KB (2,068 words) - 03:38, 21 May 2019
• Slavoj Žižek - Bibliography
  * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Like A Thief In Broad Daylight]]'''''. * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[First As Tragedy, Then As Farce]]'''''.
  34 KB (4,735 words) - 17:13, 12 August 2019
• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...s any utilitarian definition of what is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "w ...]] having lied "<i>sincerely</i>, with inner conviction, somehow believing it" about his [[relationship]] with Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is
  45 KB (7,481 words) - 23:15, 23 May 2019
• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...n, I sink into one of the Lounge's overstuffed leather chairs, [[feeling]] as if I were [[being]] transported back to an earlier, more leisurely era - fa ...tly the way the English do it: clotted cream, cucumber sandwiches, scones. It must be the mo st radically English [[experience]] possible!"<br>
  35 KB (5,651 words) - 23:13, 27 May 2019
• I am a fighting atheist
  ...of Slovenia, first the Austro-Hungarian [[Empire]], and then Yugoslavia. .As this little-known land's leading thinker, Zizek basked in an aura of novelt ...[[philosophy]] helps us, not by "purifying" our [[thought]], but by making it more [[complex]].</p>
  31 KB (5,130 words) - 23:54, 24 May 2019
• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  Even Lacanians might find it in their hearts to forgive Chomsky such a remark, since it was Chomsky who, after asking Lacan a question
  63 KB (10,146 words) - 21:35, 20 May 2019
• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...hat, in each of these cases, there is an increasing emphasis on negativity as the fundamental (and ineradicable) background to all being.<br><br> ...f subjectivity that can only come into being as a passage through madness; as an ongoing attempt to impose a symbolic integrity against the ever-present
  40 KB (6,585 words) - 21:18, 31 July 2012
• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...study is much more than an "important contribution" to the ongoing debate: it redefines its very terms. If this work does not become a standard work of r ...is also precisely what Zizek needed to position himself within and against as specific competing positions in a certain constellation viewed from Ljublja
  95 KB (15,989 words) - 07:54, 12 September 2015
• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...to account for the 'crisis' in [[liberal]]-bourgeois ideology, but because it was able to impose the [[idea]] that there was a 'crisis' - a 'crisis' of w ...allows this relationship, is that medium through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [
  105 KB (18,216 words) - 20:53, 23 May 2019
• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...the phallus: 'What is the lightest object in the world? The penis, because it is the only one that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else ...ind of synthesis, with the basin full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible but not to be inspected? (PF, 4)</font></p>
  87 KB (14,944 words) - 13:51, 12 September 2015
• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...ate and move more quickly than they did. But when they speed up this much, you have to move more slowly-though without allowing yourself to be buried bene ...] have hitherto only [[interpreted]] the world; the point is to [[change]] it"):
  32 KB (5,154 words) - 20:52, 23 May 2019
• Interpellation
  ...commonly used to mean '[[being]] taken in by the police for questioning', it also means the 'questioning' of a minister in parliament. ...vidual]] [[walking]] down the street is hailed by a police officer - 'Hey, you there!' - and turns round to recognize the fact that he is being addressed.
  2 KB (252 words) - 00:45, 25 May 2019
• Wilhelm Reich
  ...ct and harness this energy, which he said could be used to treat illnesses like [[cancer]] or [[control]] the weather. His views were not accepted by the ...aims about orgone [[therapy]], and won an injunction against its promotion as a medical [[treatment]]. Charged with contempt of court for violating the i
  39 KB (5,735 words) - 03:29, 21 May 2019
• Erich Fromm
  ...nistic [[philosophy|philosopher]]. He is associated with what became known as the [[Frankfurt School]] of critical thinkers. ...sychology]] at [[Michigan State University]] from [[1957]] to [[1961]] and as an adjunct professor of psychology at the graduate [[division]] of [[Arts]]
  12 KB (1,673 words) - 06:42, 24 May 2019
• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...rom patriotism to religion to family-and [[race]]-loyally, is disqualified as a sign of a dangerous and defective "authoritarian personality." In additio ...[[Slovenia]] in [[France]] in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif
  82 KB (13,178 words) - 17:18, 27 May 2019
• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...his early works, he linked [[Lacan]] and popular [[culture]] in such books as [[Looking]] Awry: An Introduction to [[Jacques Lacan]] Through Popular Cult ...presidency of Slovenia in the first democratic election in 1990 and served as the Republic's ambassador of [[science]] in 1991 following Slovenia's decla
  46 KB (7,621 words) - 00:50, 21 May 2019
• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...another; for those who bind you will not understand your language nor will you understand them.'''<BR>LEONARDO DA VINCI ...sert it at a point somewhere between writing (l'&eacute;crit) and speech - it will be half-way between the two.
  31 KB (5,445 words) - 15:21, 20 November 2008
• Kant with Sade
  ...ing to say, which gets repeated endlessly among literary types; the fault, as always, belongs to the specialists. ...schools of ancient philosophy took their name: Academy, Lyceum, Stoa. Here as there, the way for science is prepared by rectifying the position of ethics
  59 KB (10,417 words) - 14:56, 30 July 2019
• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...econceived plan, the rig out of which will, I hope, become [[apparent]] as it is revealed in its entirety, that last [[time]] I brought your attention to </p></dd><dd>Without these three systems to [[guide]] ourselves by, it would be [[impossible]] to [[understand]] anything of the [[Freudian]] tech
  14 KB (2,439 words) - 23:58, 25 May 2019
• From The Function of the Veil
  ...l]]. In this [[regard]], it is almost immediately set on the same footing as every [[other]] [[neurotic]] [[symptom]].<br><br> ...a certain [[value]], but it is necessary to look rather closely to confirm it within the [[structure]], from the [[analytic]] point of view. In [[truth]
  25 KB (4,236 words) - 08:11, 24 May 2019
• Tuché and Automaton
  ...quote><dd><i>[[Psycho]]-[[analysis]] is not an [[idealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness] Today I shall continue the examination of the [[concept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>
  29 KB (5,119 words) - 02:53, 21 May 2019
• The Topic of the Imaginary
  The small talk I will offer you today was announced under the title 'The topic of [[the imaginary]]'. Such ...reconceived plan, the rigour of which will, I hope, become [[apparent]] as it is revealed in its entirety, that last [[time]] I brought your attention to
  56 KB (10,016 words) - 02:16, 21 May 2019
• Desire, Life and Death
  ...you that we had an example, which I took because I happened to come across it - the example of [[Oedipus]] finding his end, the beyond of Oedipus.<br></d ...myth]], they embody it under different guises, reveal [[other]] aspects of it. There was certainly a [[reason]] why [[Freud]] was guided towards this one
  19 KB (3,512 words) - 21:56, 27 May 2019
• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...]] that last [[time]] I picked up my [[discussion]] with you by connecting it to my lecture to the Catholics.<br> ...what I had to say in Brussels; I didn't tell [[them]] half of what I told you.<br>
  40 KB (7,339 words) - 01:20, 26 May 2019
• The Jouissance of Transgression
  </p></dd><dd>It is not without some vexation that I take up the [[subject]] today because o ...s or militants embracing a radical [[position]]. Such a view implies that, as a result of our function or [[profession]], we are destined to embrace extr
  37 KB (6,746 words) - 00:49, 21 May 2019
• Antigone Between Two Deaths
  ...yet dead, she is eliminated from the [[world]] of the [[living]]</u>. And it is from that moment on that her complaint begins, her lamentation on life.< ...dwelling place, mourned by no friend</u>. Thus <u>her separation is lived as a regret or lamentation for everything in life that is refused her.</u> She
  11 KB (1,942 words) - 01:58, 24 May 2019
• The Anamorphosis
  ...><i>Of the foundation of [[consciousness]] - The privilege of the [[gaze]] as </i>[[objet]] a -<br> </dd></dl> You may [[remember]] that, in one of my earlier lectures, I began by quoting th
  27 KB (4,833 words) - 00:32, 21 May 2019
• Italian Note
  ...above. To make the seat of the psychoanalytical speech, it is time to put it at the test: the use will slice of its balance. ...ith its feet”, it is what is with the range to be it speaking as soon as it vagit.
  11 KB (1,875 words) - 05:10, 22 May 2006
• Cure
  ...d that "[[Psycho]]-[[analysis]] was [[born]] out of medical [[necessity]]. It sprang from the [[need]] for bringing [[help]] to [[neurotic]] [[patients]] ...mmon unhappiness. With a mental [[life]] that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness" (1895d, p. 305).
  8 KB (1,195 words) - 21:17, 27 May 2019
• Interpretation
  ...of [[speech|speech act]] -- asking questions, giving instructions, etc. -- it is the offering of [[interpretation]]s which plays the most crucial and dis ...ith your employer, the Director, though perhaps without [[being]] aware of it yourself."<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Neuro-Psychoses of Defen
  12 KB (1,647 words) - 00:45, 25 May 2019
• Law of the Father
  ...and hold up ideals, primarily [[sexual]] ones ("Later you will [[enjoy]], like me, a [[woman]] from [[another]] [[family]]"). Once introjected, this becom ...w ([[perversion]] and [[psychosis]], respectively). Lacan also showed that it is important to differentiate the [[real]] Father, the [[imaginary]] Father
  2 KB (342 words) - 00:17, 26 May 2019
• Wish-Fulfillment
  ...one might even say, motor [[principle]], of [[unconscious]] [[formations]] like [[dreams]], [[hysterical]] [[symptoms]], and [[fantasies]]. In these format ...mann, a nephew of Josef [[Breuer]]), who dreamed he was in the hospital so as not to have to wake up in the morning ([[Letter]] of March 4, 1895, p. 114)
  5 KB (723 words) - 03:31, 21 May 2019
• Weltanschauung
  ...[[meaning]] for [[Freud]], who defined it in the New Introductory Lecture as follows: "A <i>Weltanschauung</i> is an [[intellectual]] [[construction]] w ...on of <i>Weltanschauung</i> usefully supplemented that of [[culture]], for it helped specify culture's different spheres and point up their underlying em
  6 KB (988 words) - 23:28, 23 May 2019
• Fool
  ...refers to the mere [[existence]] of the given [[order]] as an argument for it, and mocks the Left on account of its '[[utopian]]' plans, which necessaril ...ludic procedures destined to 'subvert' the existing order, actually serves as its [[supplement]].
  3 KB (550 words) - 07:34, 24 May 2019
• Irma's injection
  ...interpretation]] and, in a way, [[psychoanalytic]] [[technique]] as well. It is described in the second chapter of The Interpretation of [[Dreams]], "Th ...e called Irma. The [[manifest]] [[content]] of the dream can be summarized as thus:
  3 KB (533 words) - 01:04, 25 May 2019
• Developmental psychology
  ...other]] periods of great [[change]] such as [[adolescence]] and [[aging]], it now encompasses the entire [[life]] span. This field examines change across Developmental psychologists investigate key questions, such as whether children are qualitatively different from [[adults]] or simply [[la
  30 KB (4,341 words) - 22:03, 27 May 2019
• Narcissus
  ...s at Donacon 'Reed-bed' in the territory of the Thespians. Pausanias finds it incredible that someone could not distinguish a [[reflection]] from a [[rea As Pausanias also [[notes]], yet [[another]] tale is that the narcissus flower
  7 KB (1,089 words) - 19:50, 20 May 2019
• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  shall not wait until the eng of this seminar to tell you that this will be the last surprise. It is for the [[others]], outof respect for their [[presence]], that I am maki
  43 KB (7,717 words) - 00:58, 25 May 2019
• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  [[Hallucination]] As [[Ideology]] in [[Cinema]] ...Wolgalied," celebrating this achievement. Let us just recall the two main "as if" scenarios: IF the Germans were to break through to the East of Volga an
  33 KB (5,521 words) - 23:09, 24 May 2019
• Freud Lives!
  ...]] obscurantist searches for hidden [[meaning]]. As [[Todd Dufresne]] put it, no [[figure]] in the [[history]] of [[human]] [[thought]] was more wrong [ ...ury ago, [[Freud]] included [[psychoanalysis]] as one of what he described as the [[three]] '[[narcissistic illnesses]]'. First, [[Copernicus]] demonstr
  14 KB (2,227 words) - 08:01, 24 May 2019
• Communism
  ...ly as a Marxist, but also as a communist. It is his new [[identification]] as a communist, and his own [[recent]] writing on the renewal of [[the communi ...bility]] of ever overcoming actual historical antagonisms can be perceived as equally eternal.
  12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:38, 27 May 2019
• Stalinism
  It would be revealing to engage in a detailed account of how the Bolshevik mov ...there the best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[ideas]] -
  60 KB (9,765 words) - 23:51, 20 May 2019
• Feminist theory
  ...esses]] and [[fantasies]] underlying social and national conflicts as well as [[racism]], sexism and [[homophobia]]. I will [[return]] to and explain all ...[[about]] themselves.” (Lugones and Spelman, “Have We Got a Theory for You!”)
  2 KB (356 words) - 07:21, 24 May 2019
• Bureaucracy
  The term “bureaucracy” is defined straightforwardly enough by Žižek as “a depoliticized and competent administrative apparatus” (''LC'': 259). ...eaucracy is through the [[difference]] between the role of the bureaucracy as an [[objective]] function of the state that will best serve the interests o
  11 KB (1,615 words) - 19:41, 27 May 2019
• Jean-Claude Milner
  ...” up to its retirement general linguistics to the Université Paris VII. it was a chairman of the Parisian “Collège. ...ritic of the Chomsky linguistics, whose problem he represented une science you [[langage]] (Seuil, 1989) in its book Introduction à. This [[work]] is a w
  5 KB (718 words) - 01:50, 25 May 2019
• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it into a [[coherency|coherent]] alternate [[political]] [[vision]]? ...s]]. However, when people awaken from their [[apolitical]] slumber, it is as a rule in the guise of a [[right]]ist [[populist]] [[revolt]] - no wonder m
  72 KB (11,294 words) - 17:41, 27 May 2019
• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...rom patriotism to religion to family-and [[race]]-loyally, is disqualified as a sign of a dangerous and defective "authoritarian personality." In additio ...[[Slovenia]] in [[France]]-in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]-wrote apropos Jacques [[Derrida]
  67 KB (10,603 words) - 17:16, 27 May 2019
• Overview
  ...face appearances which are deceptive, is structured by the symbolic order. It also involves a linguistic dimension: whereas the signifier is the foundati ...itive existence but are constituted by virtue of their mutual differences. It is the realm of radical alterity: the Other. The unconscious is the discour
  39 KB (6,629 words) - 07:26, 5 June 2006
• Function of Language
  ...ces of meaning. The facts of [[desire]] are as [[real]] to the [[subject]] as the facts of [[nature]] viewed by positive [[science]]. ...ical) view biological facts [[exist]] in psychoanalysis but only in so far as they are mediated through language and speech. Biological facts do not exis
  85 KB (14,185 words) - 08:43, 24 August 2022
• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...prising that he focuses attention on the "dialectic of desire," nor should it be surprising that [[negation]] and negativity come to playa crucial [[role ...receives a still further refinement on a new level of complexity, insofar as the role that the phallus plays in a [[dialectical]] assumption by the subj
  45 KB (7,359 words) - 16:48, 24 December 2020
• SoundCloud
  |description=Allows you to add SoundCloud tracks. This widget allows you to add [http://www.soundcloud.com/ SoundCloud] tracks to your [[wiki]] page
  2 KB (272 words) - 16:55, 27 December 2020
• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...n and Freud are pessimists, [[right]]? For Love is all-inclusive--at least it can't depend on [[exclusion]] and [[hatred]] for its condition! Or else, wi ...ms? The [[feeling]] is mutual. Besides, You [[want]] to strangle [[them]], you have to get up close.
  41 KB (6,846 words) - 02:12, 21 May 2019
• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...is also known, is, he proclaims, constantly liable to attempts to exorcize it from contemporary [[thought]] by New Age obscurantists, [[postmodern]] deco ...sophy]]. Descartes' starting point for the cogito was a cold winter's day. It was so icy that he climbed into a very large stove to keep himself warm and
  73 KB (12,478 words) - 23:06, 24 May 2019
• Unary trait
  ...], the [[unary]] [[trait]] is the elementary [[form]] of the [[signifier]] as pure [[difference]] that supports [[symbolic]] identification. ...is signifier is isolated and is not part of a [[chain]] of [[signifiers]], it is first a [[sign]] or an "insignia of the Other" (cf. Lacan, 1957-58, p. 3
  4 KB (607 words) - 02:57, 21 May 2019
• Splits in psychoanalysis
  ...the general [[theory]] of [[psychoanalysis]] are later reincorporated into it. ...nd their encounters with Freud were for a [[time]] more like those between like-minded individuals. They were not waiting for any kind of illumination, whi
  13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:48, 20 May 2019
• Kurt Robert Eissler
  ...[[jealousy]], [[body]] [[image]] disturbances, and [[suicide]] will serve as more or less typical random examples.</p> ...at autumn, his brother Erik was killed in a [[concentration camp]], though it was only later that Eissler learned of his fate.</p>
  8 KB (1,180 words) - 23:47, 25 May 2019
• Law of the father
  ...and hold up ideals, primarily [[sexual]] ones ("Later you will [[enjoy]], like me, a [[woman]] from [[another]] [[family]]"). Once introjected, this becom ...w ([[perversion]] and [[psychosis]], respectively). Lacan also showed that it is important to differentiate the [[real]] Father, the [[imaginary]] Father
  3 KB (400 words) - 00:17, 26 May 2019
• Optical schema
  ...[[Other]] in constructing both the [[body]] and the [[specular]] [[image]] as the [[model]] for the ego. ...the viewer is properly placed, an image of flowers in the vase is produced as a [[whole]] or a [[unity]].
  6 KB (857 words) - 13:31, 4 August 2020
• New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
  ...face, Freud explained that [[illness]] prevented him from teaching courses as he had done in 1915, but that he had used "an artifice of the [[imagination ...terpreted]], and the attenuation of the former [[understanding]] of dreams as "[[wish]]-fulfillment" by taking into account [[repetition]] in [[traumatic
  8 KB (1,158 words) - 23:25, 23 May 2019
• Reversal Into the Opposite
  ...igure, a dream image, a symptom, an affect, or the like into its opposite. It is a process that affects the fate of the instincts, notably in the transfo ...rents' coitus). Reversals of the dream protagonists' roles may occur, such as the hare chasing the hunter, or the dreamer punishing his father.
  8 KB (1,298 words) - 05:11, 10 June 2006
• Partial drive
  ...ality, and, so far as mental [[life]] is concerned, is only to be regarded as a measure of the [[demand]] made upon the [[mind]] for [[work]]. What disti ...]] and [[oral]] regions and "perhaps the [[whole]] surface of the [[body]] as well" are sexual zones that in infancy "instigate something that is analogo
  8 KB (1,202 words) - 20:45, 20 May 2019
• Word association
  ...o was to "answer as quickly as possible with the first word that occurs to you." The reaction [[time]], [[verbal]] response, and test [[behavior]] were re ...by Freud and Josef [[Breuer]] earlier, it was with Jung's [[meaning]] that it finally entered the psychoanalytic [[vocabulary]].
  4 KB (504 words) - 03:34, 21 May 2019
• Kantianism
  ...gh their underlying theories sometimes [[need]] to be differentiated. Just as important, however, is the fact that psychoanalysis can be considered an av 1. Freud presents Kant's "categorical imperative" as the "inheritor of the Oedipus complex."
  5 KB (650 words) - 23:28, 25 May 2019
• Organic repression
  ...nd [[Taboo]]</i> (1912-13a) had been adopted by him as early as the 1890s, as his correspondence with [[Fliess]] shows. ...which were associated with certain [[infantile]] [[erogenous zones]], such as the mouth, the nose, throat, and anus ([[letter]] to Fliess of November, 14
  8 KB (1,131 words) - 20:30, 20 May 2019
• Zen
  ...of Language in Psychoanalysis, Lacan briefly mentions "the technique known as Zen" during a discussion about the analyst spontaneously deciding to end th ...with some Tibetan Lamas who were staying in the same hotel in Moscow. (2) It marked a significant surreal moment for him, evoking an exotic Tibet still
  23 KB (3,606 words) - 15:06, 10 June 2006
• Word
  ...us is structured as a language]]. What does that mean?<ref>[[Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever]]</ref></b
  2 KB (308 words) - 03:33, 21 May 2019
• Interview with Jacques Lacan
  ...feeling that he could manipulate you as he wishes, that he knows more than you about the motives of your actions. ...naked, uncovered, under a well-informed eye, and without [[knowing]] what you are showing him.
  32 KB (5,422 words) - 00:50, 25 May 2019
• Fundamental Rule
  ...[[patients]] say "whatever comes into their heads, even if they [[think]] it unimportant or irrelevant or nonsensical . . . or embarrassing or distressi ...initial positive [[rationality]] for the rule gradually came into question as the complexity of what was involved became [[apparent]].
  14 KB (2,059 words) - 08:15, 24 May 2019
• Notes on Metaphor and Metonymy
  ...e]] the symbolic is neither miserly nor spiteful in what it makes possible as [[speech]] opens up its signifying [[chain]]. On the [[other]] hand, to sa ...ation to it, the [[social]] [[order]] and the [[individual]]'s relation to it will have this conflictual, "[[dialectical]]," form.</p><p>
  13 KB (2,229 words) - 10:21, 1 June 2019
• Love of the Neighbor
  ...]] that last [[time]] I picked up my [[discussion]] with you by connecting it to my lecture to the Catholics.<br> ...what I had to say in Brussels; I didn't tell [[them]] half of what I told you.<br>
  40 KB (7,304 words) - 01:21, 26 May 2019
• The Game of Fort-Da
  by himself. It was more than a mere fleeting observation, for I<br> lived under the same roof as the child and his [[parents]] for some<br>
  11 KB (1,908 words) - 00:42, 21 May 2019

View (previous 250 | next 250) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)