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..., there are nevertheless in the [[neurotic]] [[subject]] certain points of attachment between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] where the [[slip]]page is temporari ...version as [[Lacan]] is concerned with creating the formal bases for his [[theory]] before addressing the problems of the [[treatment]] of [[psychosis]]. The

...hat are major building blocks of the [[personality]]. [[Object relations]] theory was pioneered in the 1940's and 50's by British psychologists [[Ronald Fair ...ic locus. The central [[thesis]] in [[Melanie Klein]]'s [[object relations theory]] was that objects play a decisive [[role]] in the [[development]] of a [[s

...]].<ref name="Bowlby">{{cite book | last = Bowlby | first = John | title = Attachment and Loss: Vol I, 2nd Ed. | publisher = Basic Books | pages = 13-23| year = ...uential in two related but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a [[theory]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how h

...[[French]] [[literary critic]], [[literary theory|literary]] and [[social theory|social theorist]], [[philosopher]], and [[Semiotics|semiotician]]. ...ed to [[Paris]] and it was there that he would grow to manhood (though his attachment to his provincial roots would remain strong throughout his [[life]]).

...[[philosopher]] and has made major contributions to [[feminism]], queer [[theory]], [[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot profess ...theorist well known for her early [[role]] in shaping the field of [[queer theory]] and for defining the anti-identitarian turn in [[feminist]] [[thought]].

of [[choice]] and [[individual]] [[responsibility]]. But as a [[theory]] of the self ...questions of self-expression, [[desire]] and [[sexuality]], and Lacan’s theory offered a way of [[thinking]] about the social and the [[linguistic]] [[con

...alues of autonomy, competitiveness, etc., the feminine values of intimacy, attachment, interdependence, care and concern, responsibility and self-sacrifice, etc.

...always included in, is a part of, the framed [[content]]: in modernism, [[theory]] [[about]] the work is comprised in the work, the work is a kind of [[pree ...cknowledged attachment to an ethnic (or religious) Thing — the more this attachment is disavowed, the more violent its sudden eruption… We should always bear

...ts side and place his bets on the winner; the engaged view permeates his [[theory]] from the very outset. Within the Marxist tradition, this notion that part ...in order to be able to open oneself up to the true life of Eternity, one's attachment to "this" life must be suspended for entry into the domain of ate, the doma

...ipatory potential. The [[true]] difficulty — and the task of authentic [[theory]] — is to link together this explosion and its [[tragic]] outcome. ...ives best. This is Lenin's ultimate lesson: it is only by throwing off our attachment to liberal democracy, which cannot survive without private property, that w

...nstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use - is that [[Lacan]] e ...al]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an attachment to subjection at the level of the unconscious, what kind of resistance is t

...customs in today's 'risk [[society]]'. According to the [[risk society]] [[theory]] of Anthony [[Giddens]], Ulrich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our ...Lacanian - they don't [[exist]] without reference to some [[psychoanalytic theory]]. The unfortunate result of this reflexivisation is that the [[analyst]]'s

...e contrary, the reference to Hegel enable us to discern a flaw in Laclau's theory itself? The philosophical/notional limitation of Laclau's couple of two log ...is why the standard deconstructionist criticism according to which Lacan's theory of sexual difference falls into the trap of "binary logic" totally misses t

...s]] and distortions of the explicit symbolic tradition. Judaism's stubborn attachment to the unacknowledged violent founding gesture that haunts the [[public]] [ ...God”(320). This was the problem with Islam for Freud, since his entire [[theory]] of religion is based on the parallel of God with father. More importantly

...]], a [[refusal]] to come to terms with its [[loss]], it is the [[Jewish]] attachment to their land and Jerusalem, the _(See you) next year in Jerusalem!í. And, ...t, even more, formulating their critique as based on their very passionate attachment to Jewishness, on what they see as worth saving in the Jewish legacy.<a nam

Since the [[agent]] who helps the [[child]] to overcome the primary attachment to the [[mother]] is the [[father]], these peculiarities may also be said t ...of [[Lacan]]'s work is aimed at shifting the emphasis in [[psychoanalytic theory]] from the [[mother|mother-child]] relation (the [[preoedipal]], the protot

...he period 1895-1897, based on these clinical observations, he worked out a theory designed to explain the [[repression]] of [[infantile]] [[sexuality]]. On S ...ate clearly that Freud was becoming increasingly dubious. In "Draft L," an attachment to this last-cited letter, he went on: "The aim seems to be to arrive [back

...]], a [[refusal]] to come to terms with its [[loss]], it is the [[Jewish]] attachment to their land and Jerusalem, the _(See you) next year in Jerusalem!í. And, ...t, even more, formulating their critique as based on their very passionate attachment to Jewishness, on what they see as worth saving in the Jewish legacy.12 Is,

...es, lifestyles, religions, sexual orientations. The reply of a materialist theory is to show that this very One already relies on certain exclusions: the com ...n perhaps resides the ultimate cause of Ostalgie, a continuing sentimental attachment to the defunct 'real Socialism' of the former GDR - the sense that, in spit

...therein resides the point of the [[notion]] of [[suture]] in [[cinema]] [[theory]]. What I propose to do is something much more naive and abrupt: to analyze ...utter meaningless of our [[social]] [[links]], the [[dissolution]] of our attachment to reality itself - all of a sudden, other people are derealized, reality i

...customs in today's 'risk [[society]]'. According to the [[risk society]] [[theory]] of Anthony [[Giddens]], Ulrich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our ...Lacanian - they don't [[exist]] without reference to some [[psychoanalytic theory]]. The unfortunate result of this reflexivisation is that the [[analyst]]'s

...ts side and place his bets on the winner; the engaged view permeates his [[theory]] from the very outset. Within the Marxist tradition, this notion that part ...in order to be able to open oneself up to the true life of Eternity, one's attachment to "this" life must be suspended for entry into the domain of ate, the doma

...nstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use - is that [[Lacan]] e ...al]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an attachment to subjection at the level of the unconscious, what kind of resistance is t

For many, Jacques [[Lacan]] represents [[postmodern]] [[theory]] at its height--that ...[[work]] of Slavoj [[Zizek]], whose frenetic endorsements of [[Lacanian]] theory

...t]] coexcitation, which was nevertheless not devoid of [[aggressiveness]]. Attachment and hostility toward the mother were differently inflected depending on whe ...for incorporating his own phallocratic and bourgeois prejudices into his [[theory]]. But it must not be forgotten that Freud's theorizing here addresses the

...Freud thus initiated a series of developments in thinking on mother-child attachment and interaction that has continued to this day. ...reaction; Object; Object, [[change]] of/choice of; [[Object relations]] [[theory]]; [[Oceanic feeling]]; [[Oedipus complex]]; Parenthoood; [[Perversion]]; ;

...[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' (1899), and his ''[[Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality]]'' (1905). ...lent motion. In addition, Freud knew that Pankejeff had possessed a strong attachment to his father as a child, possibly wanting to be the sole object of his fat

...geared largely toward the [[nature]] of [[symbolism]] and the effects of [[attachment]] upon the ability of [[people]] to live their lives in [[ignorance]] of th ...pursued deeply structural views, along the lines of [[systemics|complexity theory]] in [[mathematics]], and some have tried to [[work]] with Jung's ideas in

== Theory == ...tualism]] (and its heir, the Development in Context or Human [[Ecology]] [[theory]] of [[Urie Bronfenbrenner]]), and especially the [[information processing]

...ck excessive Mother, it cuts the daughter's link with her, her "passionate attachment" to her mother, and thus enables her to enter the "normal" heterosexual rel ...annibal is an object of intense libidinal investment, of a true passionate attachment -- from The Silence of the Lambs, we (and, in the couple of Hannibal and Cl

...made its [[appearance]] in the first edition of [[Three]] Essays on the [[Theory]] of Sexuality (1905d), and was further explicated in later revisions of th ...al—"the [[woman]] who feeds" or "the man who protects." This "anaclitic (attachment) type of object-choice" is contrasted, in "On [[Narcissism]]: An Introducti

Attachment General [[theory]] of [[seduction]]

[[Freudian]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[theory]] did not long remain the only method of explaining the [[human]] [[persona ...fe]]. This deterministic presupposition is in large part what made Freud's theory so intriguing and controversial.

...since the mid-1980s. Some in the psychoanalytic community believe that the theory and practice of psychoanalysis are declining due to several key factors. ...ues measurable therapeutic outcomes. Another problem within psychoanalytic theory surrounds the multiple layering of concepts and terms, often making it redu

...e of the topics I will discuss include: Lacan's emendation of Saussure's [[theory]], the importance of [[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]], the [[relationship]] be ...of language. It is on the basis of this argument that Lacan elaborates his theory of the Symbolic, the [[dimension]] of culture into which the child must be

<p>The [[nature]] of Freud's attachment to Shakespeare's [[work]] is also conveyed in his [[association]] of a "spe ...aspects of [[psychoanalytic]] [[theory]] to Shakespeare's [[texts]]: dream theory, the [[structural]] [[model]], [[incest]] [[fantasies]], [[primal]] [[scene

...ian]] perspective. Strongly influenced by Konrad Lorenz and the then-new [[theory]] of cybernetics, he observed and manipulated the "eyes-nose-mouth" stimulu ...ver, felt that these ran counter to Freudian theory, since the [[idea]] of attachment as a primary bond contradicted that of an [[anaclitic]] relationship to dri

...the [[Pleasure]] [[Principle]]" (1920), by establishing the basis for his theory of the [[death]] [[instinct]], played a [[role]] not only in his theorizati ...on, respectively, the [[concept]] of organizers of the ego and attachment theory. An important research trend then developed, mainly in the [[United States]

The twenty-ninth lecture is titled "Revision of the [[Theory]] of [[Dreams]]." It contains few new elements, except for the assertion th ...alysis since the establishing of the second [[topography]] ([[structural]] theory): stress upon the ego, the importance of the superego, the abandonment of t

...xiety; 1929), Imre Hermann described shame as a "social anxiety" linked to attachment. # [[Freud, Sigmund]]. (1905). Three essays on the theory of sexuality. SE, 7: 123-243.

...] have even [[thought]] of it as the "[[primal]] [[form]] of [[affective]] attachment to an object before an [[object relation]]" (Meissner, William W., 1970). L It is evident that the notion of the "father," so essential in all of the [[theory]] and [[practice]] of Freud, has been dropped from the concept of primary i

...otic subject. The neurosis is triggered by [[regression]] to the points of attachment; in the [[case]] of [[psychosis]] and [[perversion]] specific [[defense]] m ...27). Sándor Ferenczi, after attempting to illustrate Freud's phylogenetic theory and the concept of regression (Thalassa, 1924), reaffirmed the reality of s

The [[father]] is the agent who helps the [[child]] to overcome the primary attachment to the [[mother]]. ...of [[Lacan]]'s work is aimed at shifting the emphasis in [[psychoanalytic theory]] from the [[mother]]-[[child]] relation (the [[preoedipal]], the prototype

...ny of the [[theoretical]] statements made in the [[Three]] Essays on the [[Theory]] of Sexuality, which Freud had published in 1905, and which were, at that ...edipal [[conflict]], with which he was struggling. Hans's sexually excited attachment to his mother and his ambivalent [[feelings]] towards his father, whom he l

...ions and color his mood" (1911c [1910], p. 72), until it finds [[another]] attachment. In the [[case]] of paranoia it will hypercathect the ego. In "[[Mourning]] * ——. (1916-17f [1915]). A metapsychological [[supplement]] to the [[theory]] of [[dreams]]. SE, 14: 217-235.

...nd "[[thing]] representations" in the [[unconscious]]. The first anxiety [[theory]] postulates the accumulation of somatic sexual excitation. Among the psych ...ation is distinct from that of regression, with its points of fixation, or attachment.

...ing for the moment when radical change will explode like what the system [[theory]] calls “emergent property”; it is also the patience of losing the batt ...olutionary orientation towards future the very opposite of the melancholic attachment to the past? What if, however, the future one should be faithful to is ''th

...demonstrates the importance of [[enjoyment]] as a category of political [[theory]]. It contributes to [[thinking]] [[about]] our attachment to and investment in violent, destructive, and authoritarian modes of [[bei

...stand Marx's dialectics, the "bad" Lenin who didn't get the core of Marx's theory, the "bad" Stalin who spoils the noble plans of the "good" Lenin, etc.). ...f the Soviet power to break the inertia of the peasants, their substantial attachment to land, to "proletarize" them and thus fully expose them to the dynamics o

.... In [[particular]], relations with the [[other]] are marked by [[erotic]] attachment and [[aggressive]] [[rivalry]]. Thus, ...boy [[identifies]] with another youth in what looks like a [[homosexual]] attachment but turns out to be a precursor of psychosis. Here there is something that

...ze and Guattari, especially to Thousand Plateaux, using it as "operational theory" - the catchwords used are "Formless Rival Entities", "Fractal Manoeuvre", ...iting for the moment when radical change will explode like what the system theory calls "emergent property"; it is also the patience of losing the battles in

...between <em>shoah</em> and its meaning breaks down, (3) the divine mystery theory (facts like <em>shoah</em> bear witness to the unfathomable abyss of divine ...eness of the utter meaningless of our social links, the dissolution of our attachment to reality itself - all of a sudden, other people are derealized, reality i

...erapy, and Internet addiction in the context of established psychoanalytic theory. The virtual identities we assume in virtual worlds, exemplified best by av

...e state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau an ...e in Althusser’s oeuvre and the relevance of his ideas for contemporary theory. ''On the Reproduction of Capitalism'' develops Althusser’s conception

Furthermore, gender theory slides into ideology when it conceives the fact that gender role is not bio ...sexual."[#_edn7 [7]] From this premise, Tim Dean deploys his impersonalist theory of desire according to which we have sex not with others but with the Other

...postmodern deconstructionist to show the violent streak even in Habermas's theory of communicative action which stresses the symmetry of the partners in a di ...ng the proper scansion of what was told. And, as we know from the Freudian theory, the analyst is here not the one who already knows the truth and just wisel

...ernal material apparatuses and practices that sustain that experience. The theory distinguishes two levels of the ideological process: external (following th ...y assume my knowledge. It is this ''immanent'' gap that eludes Althusser's theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs). According to Althusser, what d

...lian Cunning of Reason in its standard sense. In his early, Maoist-phase ''Theory of Contradiction'', Badiou wrote: "To the nothing-new-under-the-sun, the th ...particular being). Once we enter Spirit proper, however, this dialectic of attachment and detachment which characterizes the life of a species radically changes:

...act moral idea but an accurate notion with a precisely defined role in the theory of psychoanalysis. Lasch takes from Otto Kernberg's standard work Borderlin ..., the fundamental "impossible encounter", at the very outset of borderline theory: the well-established classification or axis was shattered and violated, th

...in a condition of "as if"; everything pales with regard to our passionate attachment. In this sense, falling in love is like the blinding light that struck Saul ...primeval Peace, the primordial "pathological" choice of the unconditional attachment to some singular object (like falling in love with a singular person which,

...autiful arises—the reading proposed by Theodor Adorno in his ''Aesthetic Theory: ''"If there is any causal connection at all between the beautiful and the ...The predominant form of appearance of this weird "savagery" is passion, an attachment to a particular choice so strong that it sus­pends rational comparison wit