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• The Act
  ...act]], "since to our [[knowledge]] there is no [[other]] [[act]] but the [[human]] one."<ref>{{S11}} p. 50</ref> [[Lacan]] dedicates a year of his [[seminar]] to discussing further the [[nature]] of the [[act|psychoanalytic act]].<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Semi
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• Imaginary
  ...the structure of the imaginary [[order]] and to the [[development]] of the human ego.</i> The basis of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is the [[mirror sta ...means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref>
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• Jouissance
  ...raw substance of enjoyment that reflects the primordial [[character]] of [[human]] drives and obsessions. ...nt against [[Hannah Arendt]] and her conclusion regarding the routinized [[nature]] of the extermination of [[Jews]] as a “banality of evil” ([[Arendt]]
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• Thing
  ...an objection to [[Lacan]]'s theories [[about]] the [[linguistic|linguistic nature]] of the [[unconscious]]. [[Lacan]] counters such objections by pointing o ...as ''[[thing|das Ding]]'' is seen as "the cause of the most fundamental [[human]] [[passion]]."<ref>{{S7}} p. 97</ref> Also, the fact that the [[Thing]] i
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• Mirror stage
  ...ef> It refers to a [[particular]] experiment which can differentiate the [[human]] [[infant]] from his closest [[animal]] relative, the chimpanzee. The six ...h occurs in the development of the child. It illustrates the conflictual [[nature]] of the [[dual]] relationship.<ref>{{S4}} p. 17</ref></blockquote>
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• Symbolic
  ...]], the "[[symbolic]]" is one of [[three]] [[order]]s that [[structure]] [[human]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[imaginary]] and the [[real] ...ic]] [[structure]]s is an essential feature of the human transition from [[nature]] to [[culture]].
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• Desire
  ...the fact of the [[prohibition]] to which [[sexuality]] is subjected in the human [[being]]. This prohibition is a structural [[cultural]] [[necessity]], no ...which is embedded in discourse, is an essential property of human desire. Human desire is the desire of the Other (over and above the [[others]] who are [[
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ses" of the Cheka, it was Lenin who defended it. (Figes p649) However, the nature of these so-called "excesses," as well as Lenin's reasons behind their defe ...itic of these practices, which he saw as a form of deification of a mere [[human]] being who could, and did, make mistakes. [http://www.marxists.org/archive
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• Demand
  ...]] of 1956-7, [[Lacan]] argues that the '''cry''' of the '''[[helplessness|human infant]]''' -- its '''call''' (''l'appel'') to the '''[[mother]]''' -- is n It is the [[symbolic|symbolic nature]] of the infant's screams which forms the kernel of [[Lacan]]'s [[concept]]
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• Perversion
  ...[human]] [[sexuality]], which is characterized by the [[absence]] of any [[nature|pregiven natural order]]. ...ally]] [[perversion|perverse]]; on the contrary, the [[perversion|perverse nature]] of [[perversion|homosexuality]] is entirely a question of its infringemen
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• Object
  ...t of the drive]] is [[contingency|contingent]] and is not defined by any [[nature|natural]] or predetermined [[purpose]]; [[sexual object]]-[[choice]] is det ...her and father clearly play an essential [[role]] in the creation of the [[human]] being's representational [[system]] from the very beginning of life. By c
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• Instinct
  ...vely rigid and invariable, and imply a direct relation to an [[object]], [[human]] [[sexuality]] is a matter of [[drives]], which are very variable and neve ...s earliest works, [[Lacan]] criticizes those who attempt to [[understand]] human [[behavior]] purely in terms of [[instinct]]s, arguing that this is to supp
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• Identification
  =====Human Subjectivity===== ...entification]] eventually came to denote "the operation itself whereby the human subject is constituted."<ref>Laplanche, Jean and Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand. '
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• Drive
  [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of the [[drive]] is central to his [[theory]] of [[human]] [[sexuality]]; it lies at the heart of his theory of [[sexuality]]. For [[Freud]], the distinctive feature of [[human]] [[sexuality]] -- as opposed to the [[sexual]] [[life]] of other animals -
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• Sexual Difference
  ...inition of these [[terms]], [[Freud]] limits himself to describing how a [[human]] [[subject]] comes to acquire [[masculine]] or [[feminine]] psychical char This is not an [[instinct]]ual or [[nature|natural]] [[process]], but a complex one in which [[anatomical]] difference
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• Fantasy
  ...ot imply a [[rejection]] of the fundamentally discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[b ...rly [[understood]] as a way of perceiving that is already stained by the [[human]] subject’s desire. Therefore, reality is already a [[subjective]] [[proc
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• Biology
  ...be misleading and will obliterate the essential [[distinction]] between [[nature]] and [[culture]]. ...re, according to [[Lacan]], the ''primacy'' of the [[symbolic order]] in [[human]] [[existence]]. [[Lacan]] sees this "[[biology|biologism]]" in the [[work]
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• Adaptation
  ...s early [[work]] in the 1930s on, [[Lacan]] opposes any attempt to explain human phenomena in terms of [[adaptation]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.158; {{Ec}} p. 171-2</re ...ntially excessive [[drive]] potential summed up in the [[death drive]]. [[Human]] [[being]]s are essentially [[maladaptive]].
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• Death
  ...[[death]], because "the [[signifier]] already considers him [[dead]], by [[nature]] it immortalizes him."<ref>{{S3}} p. 180</ref> The [[death|first death]] ends one [[human|human life]] but which does not put an end to the cycles of corruption and regene
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• Development
  ...l development]] and takes no account of the [[symbolic]] articulation of [[human]] [[sexuality]], thus ignoring the fundamental differences between [[drive] ...tal]]) are not observable [[biology|biological]] phenomena which develop [[nature|naturally]], such as the [[development|stage]]s of [[development|sensoriomo
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• Specular image
  The [[nature|human]] [[being]] is completely [[captation|captivated]] by the [[specular image]
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• Sexual relationship
  <blockquote>"Between [[male]] and [[female]] [[human]] beings there is no such thing as an instinctive relationship' because all ...it is not possible to define [[perversion]] by reference to a supposedly [[nature|natural form]] of the [[sexual relationship]] (as [[Freud]] did).
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• Science
  ...[science|modern science]] for ignoring the [[symbolic]] [[dimension]] of [[human]] [[existence]] and thus encouraging modern man "to forget his [[subjectivi =====Human And Natural Sciences=====
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• Psychology
  ...y]] is confined to an [[understanding]] of [[nature|animal psychology]] ([[nature|ethology]]): ...[animal]]s, but that it cannot say anything about that which is uniquely [[human]].<ref>Although at one point [[Lacan]] does [[state]] that the [[theory]] o
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...] in the first period of Lacan's work, 1932-48, is the domination of the [[human]] being by the [[image]]. ...f. The [[humiliation]] of our time under the subjugation of the enemies of human kind dissuaded me from [[speaking]] up, and following Fontenelle, I abandon
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• The Subject
  [[Madness]]: the vanishing mediator between [[nature]] and [[culture]] ...affords us a telling insight into how we transform from being immersed in nature (or objectivity) to beings supported by culture (or [[subjectivity]]).
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• Real2
  ...from trying to define the real point directly to its [[nature]] and to the nature of the other two orders against which it is set. Insofar as it is "impossib ...y the real of his own [[mortality]] – it insists on the contingency of [[human]] [[life]], however well ordered it may appear.
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• Law
  ===Human=== ..., by regulating [[sexual relationship|sexual relations]] that are, among [[nature|animal]]s, unregulated:
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...s</i>, to be Sigmund Freud's "most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge" (Freud, 1905d, p. 126). In general, most psychoanalysts would ag ...f the anatomo-physiologic and psychic bisexuality that characterizes every human being, a hypothesis that Freud explicitly attributed to Wilhelm Fliess. Fre
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...ud concludes that the taboos are not set up for a totally '[[practical]] [[nature]]' and thus must have some [[psychoanalytical]] justification. ...Freud located the beginnings of the [[Oedipus complex]] at the origins of human [[society]], and postulated that all religion was in effect an extended and
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...ly, "''what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from [[human]] wishes''." (pg. 31) He adds, however, that, "Illusions [[need]] not neces ...giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human nature, he claims, that "''it is only through the influence of individuals who can
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...his doubts and [[hesitation]], his concern regarding the [[scientific]] [[nature]] of the information he... ...s thought, his doubts and hesitation, his concern regarding the scientific nature of the information he provides, and his fears concerning the way the [[text
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• Semiotics
  ...r [[John Locke]] ([[1632]]&ndash;[[1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the term "semeiotike" from the Gr ...nts, analysing usage in slow-[[time]], whereas, in the [[real]] world of [[human]] semiotic interaction there is an often chaotic blur of language and [[sig
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• Eros
  ...' is the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[word]] for (especially) romantic or "[[Human sexual behavior|sexual love]]". The term ''[[erotic]]'' is derived from ''e ...e who considers sex as something mortifying and humiliating to [[human]] [[nature]] is at liberty to make use of the more genteel expressions 'Eros' and 'ero
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...d's Psycho Dynamic Theory and Thermodynamics] [1873-1923] - Institute of [[Human]] Thermodynamics</ref> The origins of Freud’s basic [[model]], based on t ...]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how human [[behavior]] both [[conditions]] and results from this [[particular]] [[the
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• Complex
  ...ly [[cultural]] products, rather than on [[natural]] [[instinct]]s, that [[human]] [[behaviour]] cannot be explained by reference to [[biological]] givens. ...e up for the [[instinct]]ual inadequacy (''insuffisance vitale'') of the [[human]] [[infant]], and argues that the [[complex]]es are propped on [[biological
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...al]] [[experience]] would be possible... This does not mean, however, that human are not, and do not have to be, something, that they are simply consigned t ...[[figure]] of [[Roman law]] that poses some fundamental questions to the [[nature]] of [[law]] and [[power (sociology)|power]] in general. Under the Roman [[
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• Hannah Arendt
  Arendt's work deals with the [[nature]] of [[Power (sociology)|power]], and the [[subjects]] of [[politics]], [[a Arguably, her most influential work was [[The Human Condition (book)|''The Human Condition'']] (1958) in which she distinguishes labor, work, and action, an
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• Capitalism
  ...socialist feminists agree that there can be no [[understanding]] of the [[nature]] of contemporary capitalist society without placing the oppression of wome ...mits of capitalism; it is only the “part of no part” of the excluded [[human]] [[surplus]] that adds the “subversive” (''LC'': 430) edge to those ot
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...semantic, syntactic, and lexical models ([[linguistics]]), the study of [[human]] activities ([[psychology]]), and the neuronal basis of those activities ( Slavoj Žižek’s engagements with life-scientific treatments of human mindedness should be [[understood]], straightforwardly enough, as fundament
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• Deconstruction
  ...ning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstructed" [[concepts]] ...eep criticism is a result of a fundamental difference of opinion about the nature of [[philosophy]], and is unlikely to be resolved simply.
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...re are two Deleuzes. The more accepted Deleuze champions the multitudinous nature of becoming in ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]''. However, the second Deleuze is much mo ...as a [[quasi-cause]], revolutionary becoming and the notion of the [[post-human]].
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...actions of characters within the story, but whose specific identity and [[nature]] is unimportant to the [[spectator]] of the film. In ''[[Vertigo (film)|Ve ...erally avoided points of view that were physically [[impossible]] from a [[human]] perspective. For example, he would never place the camera [[looking]] out
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...h]]. Much of his [[work]] deals with [[religious]] problems such as the [[nature]] of faith, the institution of the [[Christian Church]], [[Christian]] [[et ...ique of the story, Kierkegaard made several insightful observations on the nature of the [[present]] age and its passionless attitude towards life. One of h
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• Georg Lukács
  ...hat the being itself can appear as a product, so far [[unconscious]], of [[human]] [[activity]], and this activity, in turn, as the decisive element of the ...he [[category]] of ''[[reification]]'' whereby, due to the [[commodity]] [[nature]] of [[capitalist]] [[society]], social relations become objectified, precl
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  Freud's speculations on the female Oedipus complex led him to explore the [[nature]] of feminine sexuality but resulted only in a series of unanswered questio ...at its status in the development of [[human]] sexuality is something which nature cannot account for' (1996a: 63). The phallus is the signifier of lack. The
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...ciety]]. For Lacan there is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is la ...c assumptions. Lacan’s view is that biology is always interpreted by the human subject, refracted through language; that there is no such [[thing]] as...
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  The [[Oedipus complex]] is central to [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of [[human]] [[development]]. ...’[[Civilization and its Discontents]]’’ (1930), the transition from nature to culture.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...'[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[world]] or the [[human]] [[body]] or even '[[reality]]'. For Lacan, our reality consists of [[symb ...]] [[about]] [[traumatic]] events such as train crashes, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr>< ...udes this aspect, a fear of a too violent, too open encounter with another human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr><
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• Cyberspace
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]].
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights — therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[exp ...pic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophe, violations of [[human rights]], sexism, [[homophobia]], antifeminism, the growing [[violence]] no
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ..., but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it's in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe ...of themselves, accepting what was IMPOSED on them as originating in their "nature" - they are even no longer AWARE of their subordination.
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...s, the death of Christ is the death of the God in himself, not only of his human embodiment) — which is why, for Lacan, who follows here Hegel, the Thing ...the time reduced to the survival-machines, there is the One who maintained human dignity). In a way homologous to the canned laughter, we have here somethin
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...g to demonstrate how Christianity effectively provides the foundation to [[human rights]] and freedoms. ...th his/her special place within the [[social edifice]], when he respects [[nature]] which provides food and shelter, when he shows respect for his superiors
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...[organ]] which provides pleasure, ignoring him/her as the [[Whole]] of a [[human]] Person?), the crucial clue that allows us to discern the contours of "Sad ...n]] (because of man's hurt pride, due to the "radical [[Evil]]" of human [[nature]]); for Lacan, this Kantian privileging of pain as the only a priori sentim
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...his [[notion]] relies on the [[humanist]] [[ideological]] opposition of "[[human]] persons" versus "things." Is it not one of [[Marx]]'s standard determinat ...n of the genesis of "[[reification]]," is then to demonstrate how original human belief was transposed onto things… The paradox to be maintained is that d
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ional wink to his son, letting him know that, after all, he is also merely human ...) We are dealing here with the same short-circuit as that found in The H ...ne has to assert that there is no substantial guarantee of the progressive nature of women or of the working class-the situation is irreducibly antagonistic
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...s Saddam, releasing petroleum in the water and killing wildlife, killing [[nature]]? ...ope was not [[socialism]] with a [[human]] face, but rather fascism with a human face. This is very dangerous. Anti-Semitism arises at such moments. Now the
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...f the [[signifier]]'s game running its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So, again, does not our experience of cyberspace perfectly fi ...[[Machine]] ([[Blade Runner]]), the animal is a male ape copulating with a human woman and fully [[satisfying]] her. Does this not materialize two standard
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...erts his hold upon us in the unconscious. On the other hand, insofar as "[[human]] being" implies the infinite freedom of [[subjectivity]], an element of fa
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...vices has run ahead of our faculty to lead a meaningful existence, to make human use of this immense power." Thus, the properly modern [[ethics]] of "follow ...[[whole]] [[game]] of discerning a patriarchal, Eurocentric, mechanistic, nature-exploiting bias to modern science does not really concern science, the driv
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...in order to counteract, and thus conceal, the basic vileness of your true nature… ^{<a href="#4">4</a>}</p> ...otally "objective" laws, strictly comparable to the laws of [[material]] [[Nature]]. Do we not [[encounter]] another version of this same objectivization in
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...gri thus deserve much praise for enlightening us about the contradictory [[nature]] of today's "turbocapitalism" and attempting to [[identify]] to identify t ...all for three [[demands]] formulated in the terminology of [[universal]] [[human]] rights. The problem with these demands is that they fluctuate between [[f
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...e Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries preach express their [[true]] [[nature]]: “The [[revolution]] has gone too far What you are saying now we have b ...but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it’s in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...e Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries preach express their [[true]] [[nature]]: "The [[revolution]] has gone too far. What you are saying now we have be ...rmly rooted in the democratic political [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights. Therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the experien
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...l gestures and innuendoes he or she is witnessing. Crucial for "becoming-[[human]]" is the overlapping of the two levels, the implicit "sexualization" of th ...ever buy anything [[sight]] unseen," she says, and later rejects any "warm human contact" with him.<ref>I rely here on Kate Stables, British Film Institute,
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• You May
  ...rich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accep ...human rights!" It is [[impossible]] for the Power to prevent a 'misuse' of human rights without at the same time impinging on their proper application. Laca
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...nizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation ("finitude") of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and pas ...imal, the traumatic core of animality, that can only emerge "as such" in a human which became animal.) <a name="15"></a><a href="#15x">15</a><br><br>
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...lenty that cannot be comprehended yet."<ref>G.W.F. Hegel, <i>Philosophy of Nature</i>, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970, p. 62.</ref> In all these cases, it is ...d]] - what is unthinkable within this space is Heidegger's notion of the [[human]] being as <i>Da-[[Sein]]</i>, as the "being-there" of the Being itself, as
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...same conjunction of the high and the low which, in the living [[being]], [[Nature]] naively expresses when it combines the organ of its highest fulfillment, ...ncerity is that he himself was the first to [[doubt]] radically the divine nature of his visions, dismissing them as [[hallucinatory]] [[signs]] of [[madness
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• With or Without Passion
  ...h an assertion of belief (in the essential goodness of Man; in the truly [[human]] [[character]] of the Soviet [[regime]]) sublime, is the very gap between ...voluntarily constrained his [[power]] in order to leave the space open for human [[freedom]]); (3) finally, the self-limitation is externalized, the two mom
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...cutting himself, the sculptor displaying decaying [[animal]] corpses or [[human]] excrements), or to the parallel injunction to engage in more and more "da ...to the original plan would rather directly display the [[self]]-refuting [[nature]] of Gibson's [[project]]. That is to say, let us imagine the film without
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")? ...all the nourishment, air and sun, a being that is fully justified in its [[nature]] and its being? What is an individual, if not a usurper? What is [[signifi
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...co-dependence of the two aspects: the total artificiality (the constructed nature) of reality, and the triumphant return of the body in the sense of the ball ...and the horror of the situation is that, while the rebels feel like normal human beings freely walking around in reality, they know that, at the Other Scene
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ically cutting himself, the sculptor displaying decaying animal corpses or human excrements), or to the parallel injunction to engage in more and more "dari ...will. Clearly, a direct link to God justifies our violation of any "merely human" constraints and considerations (as in Stalinism, where the reference to th
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...tematically omitted what was undoubtedly his greatest crime (in terms of [[human]] [[suffering]] and of violating international justice): the [[aggression]] The ultimate proof of this secular [[nature]] is the ironic fact that, in the Iraqi elections of October 2002 in which
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...ries criticized in the U.S. State Department's annual Country Reports on [[Human]] Rights Practices) who can coerce [[confessions]] without worrying about [ ...What is "unknown" (disavowed, ignored) is not primarily the problematic [[nature]] of those reasons as such (say, the fact that in spreading democracy, the
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...e simply have much higher standards of what constitutes the violation of [[human rights]], etc. The fact that the situation appears catastrophic is thus in ...left]] alone, they would effectively give [[birth]] to a "socialism with a human face," to an authentic alternative to both [[Real]] Socialism and Real Capi
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...[[order]] to encode insights into fundamental libidinal deadlocks of the [[human]] [[race]]?<br><br> ...gbox. This is the culmination of the [[fetish]] character of the object in human desire. /.../ The opaque character of the [[object a]] in [[the imaginary]]
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...the [[idea]], developed most systematically by [[Donald Davidson]], that [[human]] [[acts]] are rationally-intentional, accountable in the [[terms]] of beli ...e Other desires - envy and resentment are thus a constitutive component of human [[desire,]] as already Saint Augustin knew it so well - [[recall]] the pass
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...get rid of, than with the object they try to reach, </i>they change their nature and become irascible and hateful. This is how amour de soi, which is a nobl ...ce, clearly, a direct link to God justifies our violation of any “merely human” constraints and considerations. The “godless” Stalinist Communists a
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...re was no one in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] who advocated ‘[[Nazism]] with a [[human face]]’. Herein lies the flaw (and the bias) of all attempts, such as th ...[class struggle]] onto racial struggle and in doing so obfuscates its true nature. What changes in the passage from Communism to Nazism is a matter of form,
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...] of humanity relies on the [[belief]] that we possess an inherited 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...give rise to asymmetrical relations between those who are 'spontaneously' human and those whose characters have been manipulated: some individuals will be
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...ird Way brings us back to the first and only way. Global capitalism with a human face.</p><p>This, then, is Havel's tragedy: his authentic ethical stance ha
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• Oedipus complex
  ...hough the [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central to Freud's theory of [[human]] development, no one paper is devoted to it. --> ...l negotiation of the Oedipal triangle is a precondition for entry into the human symbolic order.
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• Ambivalence
  For [[Freud]], [[ambivalence]] stems from the basic [[bisexuality]] of [[human]] beings and from the [[structures]] of the [[oedipus complex]], which mean ...the relation to the object along two lines: the [[partial]] or [[total]] [[nature]] of the investment in the object, and ambivalence. The precocious [[oral]]
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• Master
  ...ter]] and the [[master|slave]] is the inevitable result of the fact that [[human]] [[desire]] is the [[desire]] for [[recognition]]. In [[order]] to achiev ...[slave]]". In fact, [[human]] [[society]] is only possible because some [[human]] [[being]]s accept being [[slaves]] instead of fighting to the [[death]];
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• Nature
  {{Top}}natural|nature{{Bottom}} ==Human Beings and Animals==
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• Surrealism
  ...nvestigation of poetic [[images]] and [[language]], their sources, their [[nature]], and specific features, surrealism is a movement of [[ideas]], of artisti ...ical]] and [[external]], the other exploring the deepest recesses of the [[human]] mind and unfolding its truths in the work of art.
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• Need
  ...an]] for maintaining his theses [[about]] the radical divergence between [[human]] [[desire]] and all [[natural]] or [[biological]] [[categories]]. * [[Nature]]
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• Categorical Imperative
  ==Nature of the concept== The [[nature]] of a moral proposition ("It is wrong to commit murder") must necessarily
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• Frankfurt School
  ...r contributions in two areas relating to the possibility of [[rational]] [[human]] [[subject]]s, i.e. individuals who could act rationally to take charge of The nature of Marxism itself formed the second focus of the Institute, and in this con
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• Administered World
  ...the wildest [[utopian]] [[dream]] of the Enlightenment of all: an end to [[human]] [[suffering]]. "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in
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• Antigone (Lacan)
  ...ts on the [[tragedy]] of [[Antigone]], in a play which clearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to the [[death|dead]].
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• Blade Runner
  ...rk]] in Earth's "off-[[world]] colonies." Built to be 'more [[human]] than human', they appear physically identical to [[humans]] — although they have sup ...y Rachael (Sean Young) is an experimental replicant (who believes she is a human) with implanted [[memories]] from Tyrell's niece, which provide a cushion f
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• Richard Wagner
  ...d. What is “Spirit” at its most elementary? It is the “wound” of [[nature]]: the [[subject]] is the immense – absolute – [[power]] of negativity, ...t a love appears which says “Yes” to all passing but no less sublime [[human]] achievements. (“Brunhilde’s Act”: 30)</blockquote>Žižek character
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• Carl Gustav Jung
  ...ile they contain some remarks on the dissenting view of Jung [[about]] the nature of libido, if you read [[them]] today you'll be surprised to find largely a ...very positive role: the engine of the collective unconscious essential to human [[society]] and [[culture]].
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• The Night of the World
  ...just so [[disappears]]. One catches [[sight]] of this night when one looks human beings in the eye - into a night that becomes awful.<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]],
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• Parallax View
  ...nizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation ("finitude") of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and pas ...imal, the traumatic core of animality, that can only emerge "as such" in a human which became animal.)<ref>When Lacan defines himself as anti-philosopher, a
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• Supplement
  It is the [[logic]] of supplementarity that makes [[nature]] or [[speech]] appear to be the prior term; at the same [[time]], the [[ch ...ss]] that sustains all these "non-" or "pre-political" relationships. In [[human]] [[society]], the political is the encompassing [[structuring]] [[principl
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• Gap
  ==Man and Nature== ..., the term comes to refer to the fundamental rupture between [[man]] and [[nature]], which is due to the fact that "in man, [[the imaginary]] relation has de
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...eapon]] from exploding above a major U.S. city.) The “[[real]]-time” [[nature]] of the series confers a strong [[sense]] of urgency, emphasized by the ti ...]-[[instrument]]alization, the CTU agents, especially Jack, remain “warm human beings,” caught in the usual emotional dilemmas of “normal” [[people]
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...of course, are what pose the <i>[[true]]</i> threat to [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] (e.g., the [[London]] police’s [[recent]] execution of the innoc ...tically omitted what was undoubtedly his greatest crime (in [[terms]] of [[human]] [[suffering]] and of violating [[international law]]): the [[aggression]]
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...he performance [[artist]] masturbating on stage, the sculptor displaying [[human]] excrement? Some radical circles in the [[United States]] recently propos ...rue]] for [[democracy]] and [[human rights]]? It is OK to “rethink” [[human rights]] to include [[torture]] and a permanent [[emergency state]], if [[d
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...e Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries preach express their [[true]] [[nature]]: ‘The [[revolution]] has gone too far. What you are saying now we have ...italism as [[human]] as possible, to fight for “global capitalism with a human face” (this is what, ultimately, the [[Third Way]] is—or, rather, <i>wa
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...Rinpoche counters [[them]] with ruminations [[about]] the [[nature]] of [[human]] [[perception]], [[illusion]] and [[enlightenment]]. He tries to throw a ...the illusory nature of reality. What better proof of the non-substantial nature of reality than a gigantic fortune that can dissolve into [[nothing]] in a
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...er. But we must be reminded that the fault is in ourselves, in [[human]] [[nature]] not constrained by external forces. ...which insists in the very core of capitalism, he directly refers to "human nature" which, led to itself, ends up in wanting depravity, and is thus in a [[nee
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...sants and honest intellectuals" - as if intellectuals are, by their very [[nature]], suspicious, all too free-[[floating]], [[lacking]] a solid [[social]] an ...y start by denouncing religion as the force of oppression that threatens [[human]] [[freedom]]; but in fighting religion, they are compelled to forsake free
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ically cutting himself, the sculptor displaying decaying animal corpses or human excrements), or to the parallel injunction to engage in more and more "dari ...will. Clearly, a direct link to God justifies our violation of any "merely human" constraints and considerations (as in Stalinism, where the reference to th
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...t, no fat, no [[sexual]] harassment, no this, no that. Probably never in [[human]] [[history]] did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of perso ...aking me a part of [[nature]]! You are reducing me! What's the opposite of nature? It's culture! You Europeans are culture, then you have horses and us, 'Nat
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...tematically omitted what was undoubtedly his greatest crime (in terms of [[human]] [[suffering]] and of violating international justice): the [[aggression]] The ultimate proof of this secular [[nature]] is the ironic fact that, in the Iraqi elections of October 2002 in which
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]]. ...books that, from this liberal perspective, the basic perception of another human being is always as something that may in some way hurt you.
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ..., but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it's in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe ...of themselves, accepting what was IMPOSED on them as originating in their "nature" - they are even no longer AWARE of their subordination.
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...] of her tissue demonstrates that she is not composed of atoms like normal human beings - beneath a certain micro-level, there is nothing, just void. Finall ...[[patriarchy]] on account of her own autonomous logic ([[women]] are "by [[nature]]" submissive, compassionate, self-sacrificing...). The [[paradox]] not to
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• You May!
  ...rich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accep ...human rights!" It is [[impossible]] for the Power to prevent a 'misuse' of human rights without at the same time impinging on their proper application. Laca
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...s, the death of Christ is the death of the God in himself, not only of his human embodiment) - which is why, for Lacan, who follows here Hegel, the Thing in ...the time reduced to the survival-machines, there is the One who maintained human dignity). In a way homologous to the canned laughter, we have here somethin
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...is allowed to violate the state sovereignty on behalf of the violation of human rights. The first glimpse into this other side is provided by the way the b ...rights, attacking a sovereign country which, in spite of the problematic [[nature]] of its regime, nonetheless [[acts]] as an obstacle to the unbriddled asse
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  towards the deeper affinity between spirit and [[nature]], and thus towards the possibility of ...elling's ultimate [[goal]] is to bring the two together, demonstrating how nature
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...[[writing]]" accessible to those who know how to read the "great book of [[Nature]]," not yet the all-exclusive One of [[subjectivity]] who imposes his uncon ...Willing: the Aristotelian God, directly equal to its own eternal rational Nature, "is" [[nothing]] but the [[logical]] Order of Things. A further paradox is
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• Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
  ...vices has run ahead of our faculty to lead a meaningful existence, to make human use of this immense power." Thus, the properly modern [[ethics]] of "follow ...[[whole]] [[game]] of discerning a patriarchal, Eurocentric, mechanistic, nature-exploiting bias to modern science "does not really concern science", the dr
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...s Saddam, releasing petroleum in the water and killing wildlife, killing [[nature]]? </i> <br><br> ...ope was not [[socialism]] with a [[human]] face, but rather fascism with a human face. This is very dangerous. Anti-Semitism arises at such moments. Now the
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...l gestures and innuendoes he or she is witnessing. Crucial for "becoming-[[human]]" is the overlapping of the two levels, the implicit "sexualization" of th ...ever buy anything [[sight]] unseen," she says, and later rejects any "warm human contact" with him.<ref>I rely here on Kate Stables, British Film Institute,
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ..., but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it's in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe ...of themselves, accepting what was IMPOSED on them as originating in their "nature" - they are even no longer AWARE of their subordination.
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...gri thus deserve much praise for enlightening us about the contradictory [[nature]] of today's "turbocapitalism" and attempting to [[identify]] to identify t ...all for three [[demands]] formulated in the terminology of [[universal]] [[human]] rights. The problem with these demands is that they fluctuate between [[f
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• The Future of an Illusion
  ...ly, "''what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from [[human]] wishes''." (pg. 31) He adds, however, that, "Illusions [[need]] not neces ...giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human nature, he claims, that "''it is only through the influence of individuals who can
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• Anarchy
  ...tical]] relationship between freedom and authority. The possibilities of [[human]] freedom, according to anarchist theory have their basis in an essential [ ...uman [[nature]] and the possibilities of social harmony. [[Freud]] saw the human [[instinct]] as [[naturally]] [[aggressive]] and destructive rather than co
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• Civilization
  ...] ancestors and which serve two purposes—namely to protect men against [[nature]] and to adjust their mutual relations."<ref>1930a, p. 89</ref></blockquote ...]] the forces of nature and extract its wealth for the [[satisfaction]] of human [[needs]] and, on the [[other]] hand, all the regulations necessary in orde
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• Illusion
  Illusion is an error experienced by someone who is misled (illudere) by the [[nature]] of evidence or the [[seductive]] [[appearance]] of something that deceive ...llusion would be the belief in the [[happiness]] and goodness of [[human]] nature.
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• Historicism
  ...ught only through [[understanding]] that history. The history of any such human endeavor, moreover, not only builds upon but also reacts against what has g ...e [[concrete]] embodiment of the most important factors that are acting in human history at any given [[time]]. This contrasts with teleological theories of
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...you as [[being]], in the field one is provisionally obliged to call the "[[human]] sciences," the first thinker who has assumed the [[theoretical]] [[respon ...hroat of the pseudo-"psychologists" and [[other]] [[philosophers]] of the "human person" and "[[intersubjectivity]]," as well as the technocrats of "[[struc
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...sm lies. Even though I am quite aware of the contradictory and ambiguous [[nature]] of Marx's [[relationship]] with anarchism, Marx was [[right]] when he dre ...ever. For example, a lot of left-wingers dismissed talk of [[universal]] [[human]] rights as just another tool of American [[imperialism]], to exert pressur
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  [[human]] being?" and so on. I think this split is false. I take here quite [[nature]] of relationships of production, whether political democracy is
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...ea of the savage "pre-human" self and the symbolic universe of "civilized" human subjectivity (where in the Enlightenment tradition the latter is identified ...the latter that both Freud and (especially) Lacan identify the peculiarly human motivation in regard to <i>jouissance</i>: that is, a basic compulsion to,
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...e="26x"></a><a href="#26">²⁶</a> Zizek's specifications for the nature of subjectivity already pre-empt any analysis that might be carried out, or ...lic, this impossibility marks something of the truth of what it is to be a human subject. That is, there is no harmonious resolution of political conflict,
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• Literature
  ...with his [[notion]] that the unconscious is organized on the principles of human language (as these were conceptualized by the structural [[linguistics]] of ..., to a fascination with the [[idea]] of [[desire]] as fundamental to the [[nature]] of literary texts. The Slovenian [[Slavoj Žižek]], who uses Lacan (alon
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• Wilhelm Reich
  ...[[ideas]] developed into a general theory of the importance of a healthy [[Human sexual behavior|sex life]] to overall well-being, a theory compatible with ...od of his work, and were primarily sexological, clinical, or scientific in nature. Reich was one of the first of the European socialists to break ranks compl
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• Paul Ricoeur
  ...e second [[Kluge Prize|John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences]] (shared with [[Jaroslav Pelikan]]). * ''[[Freedom]] and [[Nature]]: The Voluntary and the Involuntary'', trans. Erazim Kohak. Evanston: Nort
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• Erich Fromm
  ...ich recapitulated and complemented the [[theoretical]] principles of human nature found in ''Escape from Freedom'' and ''Man for Himself'', principles which ...is existential dichotomy is found in the [[development]] of one's uniquely human powers of [[love]] and reason. However, Fromm so distinguished his [[conce
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...t, no fat, no [[sexual]] harassment, no this, no that. Probably never in [[human]] [[history]] did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of perso ...in in my books, I don't buy the simplistic, Marxist reductive decoding, "[[human rights]], screw them, they are really just rights for white men of property
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  Although the nature of this contribution was determined by the theme of the third volume of ''L ...could well be reduced to language, or that which essentially distinguishes human society from natural societies.
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• Kant with Sade
  ...less innocent, but perceptible, whose well-foundedness we will show in the nature of the said object. ...th. The assurance which he expects from it against the horrific routine of nature (the one which, to listen to him elsewhere, crime has the function of break
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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...lled <i>[[images]], </i>in contrast to other sciences, which import into [[nature]] a cutting up, a dissection, an anatomy.<p> ...the [[mirror stage]] - the [[sight]] alone of the [[whole]] form of the [[human]] body gives the subject an imaginary mastery over his body, one which is p
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• From The Function of the Veil
  ...f not this, which is truly one of the most fundamental [[images]] of the [[human]] relation to the [[world]], the [[veil]], the curtain.<br><br> ...ain, and it is in this way that it is metonymical, for the story, by its [[nature]], continues. In being stopped there, the chain indicates its henceforth v
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• Tuché and Automaton
  ...sort of acted-out remembering. Repetition is something which, of its true nature, is always veiled in analysis, because of the identification of repetition ...in the child, in his first movement, at the moment when he is formed as a human being, manifesting himself as an insistence that the story should always be
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...onnecting language and world, what emerges then is an enduring agency in [[human]] [[life]].]</b></p><p> ...g called <i>images, </i>in contrast to other sciences, which import into [[nature]] a cutting up, a dissection, an anatomy.<br>
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...l the [[Word]], but also the Son of Man, thereby admitting the [[human]] [[nature]] of the Father.<p> ...<i>Totem and Taboo </i>for what it is, namely, a myth; and he says that in human history the [[recognition]] of the function of the Father is a [[sublimatio
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...er or not this view is ratified in the name of some preconceived view of [[nature]], it is nevertheless true that at the heart of everything Freud taught, on ...i>jouissance </i>of trangression. But we are far from [[knowing]] wLat its nature might be. In this respect our position is ambignous. Everybody [[knows]] th
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• Antigone Between Two Deaths
  ...r us, but it is also that which prevents us from [[seeing]] its [[true]] [[nature]], that which dazzles us and separates us from its true function.</u> The m ...appears as <i>[autonomos] </i>, as a pure and simple relationship of the [[human]] being to that of which he miraculously happens to be the bearer, namely,
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  NATURE OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGN<a></a></font><p></p></h3></center><font size="+1"><b in nature (<i>arbor</i>, for instance, can be considered from either view-<br>
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• Cruelty
  ...towards what is nevertheless the necessary process of civilization, the [[human]] being is always able to display a "cruel [[aggressiveness]]" (1930a, p. 1
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• Helplessness
  ...r coordination]]''. This means that it is more ''dependent'' than other [[nature|animal]]s, and for a longer [[time]], on its [[parents]]. ...ting the importance of the initial ''[[dependence]]'' of the [[development|human infant]] on the '''[[mother]]'''. [[Lacan]]'s originality lies in the way
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• Libidinal Development
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• Parricide
  ...as the transgressor. This, for Freud, was "one of the foundations of the [[human]] penal [[system]]" (p. 72). ...ll, this Freudian myth serves to confirm the relevance and [[universal]] [[nature]] of the finding that Freud summed up in the axiom that where there is proh
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• Mastery
  ...oject]] that attests to the efficacy of mastery: It is constitutive of the nature of [[identification]], which is always being reshaped into new [[formations ...hich the subject must appropriate to [[signify]] their membership in the [[human]] community.
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• Jungian psychology
  ...hoanalytic [[school]]"). Jungian psychology is geared largely toward the [[nature]] of [[symbolism]] and the effects of [[attachment]] upon the ability of [[ ...complex. This is to say, our psychological lives are patterned on common [[human]] experiences. Interestingly, Jung saw the [[Ego]] (which Freud wrote about
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• Catharsis
  Throughout a play we do not expect the [[nature]] of a [[character]] to change significantly, rather pre-existing elements ...n use, another to rid of sanctity and in like manner render suitable for [[human]] use or intercourse.
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• Taboo
  ...ter]] (obsessive acts); there is no [[doubt]] that these acts are in the [[nature]] of penances, expiations, [[defence]] reactions, and purifications. The mo ...still [[exist]] among us. . . . They do not differ in their psychological nature from [[Kant]]'s '[[categorical imperative]],' which operates in a compulsiv
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• Developmental psychology
  ...study of progressive [[psychology|psychological]] changes that occur in [[human]] beings as they age. Originally concerned with [[infants]] and [[children] ...]]'s [[Social Contextualism]] (and its heir, the Development in Context or Human [[Ecology]] [[theory]] of [[Urie Bronfenbrenner]]), and especially the [[in
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• Unconscious mind
  ...are still fundamental disagreements within [[psychology]] [[about]] the [[nature]] of the unconscious mind (if indeed it is considered to [[exist]] at all), ...[[psychoanalytic]] theory a [[sentient]] force of [[will]] influenced by [[human]] [[drive (psychoanalysis)|drive]] and yet operating well below the percept
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• Psychodynamics
  ...amics is an evolving multi-disciplinary field which analyzes and studies [[human]] [[thought]] process, response patterns, and influences. Research in this #Utilizing the communicative [[nature]] of movement and [[primal]] [[physiological]] gestures to [[affect]] and s
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• Seminars:Index
  * [[nature]] 16 37,38 * nature 18 45(et signifiant)
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...a humid nature, river or pool close to some forest, full of the debris of human artifices (old concrete blocks or pieces of rotten metal). The actor's face
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• Index
  [[Lacan]] thus conceives the [[index]] as a "[[nature|natural]]" [[sign]], one in which there is a fixed, bi-univocal corresponde ===Codes (Animal) and Language (Human)===
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• Jean-Paul Sartre
  ...sed on "the fundamental, preontological comprehension which man has of the human person" (p. 568). All conduct symbolizes and conceals, in various ways, the ...milarities, both [[analysis]] and existential psychoanalysis "consider the human being as a perpetual, searching, historization. Rather than uncovering stat
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• Thomas Hobbes
  ...alled political [[science]]. Additionally, Hobbes's account of [[human]] [[nature]] as [[self]]-interested cooperation has proved to be an enduring [[theory]
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• Freud Lives!
  ...ing]]. As [[Todd Dufresne]] put it, no [[figure]] in the [[history]] of [[human]] [[thought]] was more wrong [[about]] all the fundamentals – with the ex ...onstrated that the [[Earth]] moves around the [[Sun]], thereby depriving [[human]]s of their central [[place]] in the [[universe]]. Then [[Darwin]] demonst
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• Communism
  * the commons of [[external]] [[nature]]: the [[threat]] of pollution, ecological damage, exploitation of [[natura ...umanity, creation of new “humanity”, the changing form of “[[human]] nature”, and so on.
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• Anthropology
  ...luding an examination of its [[biological]], [[psychic]], and [[social]] [[nature]], as well as mankind's historical and prehistorical [[development]]. Durin ...ment, [[linguistics]] and ethnology, the history of the development of the human species—in fact, the principal [[subjects]] of anthropology.
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• Stalinism
  ...points is clear: the doctors' crime is not merely to kill their ordinary [[human]] [[patients]], but to kill the sacred bodies of revolutionary cadres.<br>< ...aze]], allegedly a bodily expression of his ruthless mind, deprived of all human warmth and compassion. No wonder, then, that the West received with chilled
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• Index:Parallax View
  * [[human rights]] 339-341 * [[nature]] 93
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• United States
  ...y already had to [[adapt]] to their delegitimation as psychoanalysts and [[human]] beings, to overcome the shock of brutal ostracism. Now, they had to learn ...quick fixes, and to the native optimism about the malleability of human [[nature]]. But they were only the forerunners of what would become some of the "[[c
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...marginal or [[primitive]] [[situation]]; they are inscribed in the very [[nature]] of the political."<ref>Op.cit., p. 98-99.</ref></i> ...a question of how to package and sell one's ideas (or, to put it in more "human" terms, of establishing better [[communication]]). Insofar as he endorses
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• Le Cas Aimée
  ...ented a part of [[Aimée]] herself, indicating how the [[identity]] of a [[human]] [[being]] could include elements well [[outside]] the [[biological]] boun This [[development]] Lacan viewed as evidence of the acute [[nature]] of her paranoia.
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• Overview
  The passage from feudalism to Protestantism is not of the same nature as the passage from Protestantism to bourgeois everyday life with its priva ...) will be entitled to quilt the ideological field ("freedom", "democracy", Human rights" and son on).
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• Anthropology and Psychoanalysis
  ...luding an examination of its [[biological]], [[psychic]], and [[social]] [[nature]], as well as mankind's historical and prehistorical [[development]]. Durin ...ment, [[linguistics]] and ethnology, the history of the development of the human species—in fact, the principal [[subjects]] of anthropology.
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• Sigmund Freud:Biography
  ...e 20 years earlier. Freud's work in Brücke's laboratory showed that the [[human]] and frog spinal neurons cells were of the same type. So, in a small way, ...ysician who was part [[scientist]], part showman. Mesmer believed that the human [[body]] contained a magnetic force that operated like the magnets used by
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• Sigmund Freud:Critical Response
  ...lytic]] [[theory]] did not long remain the only method of explaining the [[human]] [[personality]]. Even during [[Freud]]'s lifetime, alternatives were offe ...ly, is deterministic. Psychoanalysis is a highly deterministic approach to human behavior because it assumes that behavioral patterns established in youth d
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories In Action
  ...n treating patients and more passion for understanding the workings of the human personality. His patients were simply his subjects or the means by which to ...both the social sciences and the "hard" sciences. Recognizing the holistic nature of psychoanalytic ideas and therapy suggests that some kinds of interpretat
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• Function of Language
  ...[[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]], the [[relationship]] betweeh language and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech] ...e facts of [[desire]] are as [[real]] to the [[subject]] as the facts of [[nature]] viewed by positive [[science]].
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...indeed, the aspect most specific to the Freudian discovery, namely, the [[nature]] of the unconscious. For philosophers, dialectic implies movement through ...ructure]]" (1977, p. 292/793), so his fundamental question is: What is the nature of this structure that makes psychoanalysis possible? He chooses for specia
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ..." (1977, p. 281/685)? Are we to admit with [[Freud]] "a [[disturbance]] of human [[sexuality]], not of a [[contingent]], but of an essential kind" (1977, p. ...as the "[[structure]] oflanguage," that is so woven through man's whole [[nature]] as to make it possible for [[speech]] "to resound" in him (1977, p. 284/6
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...ign ourselves to taking advantage of whatever trust remains in [[human]] [[nature]]. ...[[image]]. This substantial core is that "[[being]] of [[semblance]]," the human [[agent]], whose only real consistency is jouissance. At the heart of the s
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...[nature]] and not expect to be held accountable for it. For, in destroying nature, we are effectively sawing away at the branch on which we sit. ...2), proved that [[humans]] are a [[species]] of ape subject to the laws of nature and not a breed apart from other animals. And, in creating the field of [[p
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• Applied psychoanalysis and the interaction of psychoanalysis
  ...fferent modes of expression for the investigation of what it means to be [[human]]. This proximity of culture and psychoanalysis also has the effect of miti ...daydream and the themes of [[literary]] creation. He also questioned the [[nature]] of the reader's [[pleasure]].
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• Shakespeare and psychoanalysis
  <p>The [[nature]] of Freud's attachment to Shakespeare's [[work]] is also conveyed in his [ ...ext. [[Another]] [[position]] responds that a text is the product of the [[human]] psyche, which always uses the unconscious and its desires in [[creativity
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• Ethology and psychoanalysis
  ...ynaptic [[facilitation]], and the behavioral ontogenesis that constructs [[human]] ties buttressed the Freudian concept of [[drives]]. [[Others]], however, ...how the emergence of [[symbols]] and [[signs]] has created a specifically human, historicized world.
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• Philosophy and psychoanalysis
  We again face the ambiguity confronted at the start: the [[nature]] of the subject. Here the point of disagreement between philosophy and psy ...ors do not really consider the reality of transference and its paradoxical nature. One thing is certain, however. A dialogue with philosophy and epistemology
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• Hard Science and Psychoanalysis
  ...ollowing [[position]]: "[[Scientific]] [[thinking]] does not differ in its nature from the normal [[activity]] of [[thought]], which all of us, believers and ...nd [[Darwin]], and his own, on the same plane, for having dealt blows to [[human]] [[narcissism]] and [[religious]] convictions. Finally, a [[nostalgia]] fo
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• Dark continent
  ...his explorer's curiosity. He also emphasizes the obscure and incomplete [[nature]] of the [[clinical]] [[material]] on the sexual life of girls and women fo ...the [[paternal function]] and the capacity for [[symbolization]] in all [[human]] beings. These [[ideas]] were further developed by Jacques [[Lacan]] and h
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• Training of psychoanalysts
  ...been added since, such as the arts. For the well-trained analyst, nothing human is foreign. In pursuit of this ideal the well-trained analyst will undergo ...have adequate experience of living and working, and have seen something of human suffering. In the early twenty-first century, the great majority of analyst
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• Darwinism
  ...just by mobilizing [[energy]] but also by aiding adjustment based on the [[nature]] of the [[threat]] ([[signal]] anxiety). However—and this too is taken f ...hild possesses at [[birth]] . . . are the precipitates of the history of [[human]] civilization . . . this instinctive heritage would constitute the core of
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• Sex and Character
  ...that: "In spite of the infinite gradation of the intermediary forms, the [[human]] being is definitively either man or woman," but diverges from the point w
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• Primal fantasies
  ...y]] . . . were once [[real]] occurrences in the primaeval [[times]] of the human [[family]], and that [[children]] in their phantasies are simply filling in ...gmas he or she encounters: the [[difference]] between the [[sexes]], the [[nature]] of [[sexual relations]], and so on. As [[Jean Laplanche]] and J.-B. Ponta
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• Zen
  ...erms of the draining of the Zuider Zee, or his use of the establishment of nature reserves to argue for the necessity of phantasy as a place outside the dema ...ngoing story about the struggle to establish and protect areas of unspoilt nature, green belts and national parks, which was reaching a critical phase in the
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• Case of Aimée
  ...unctions of the personality," maintained meaningful connections with the [[human]] [[community]] (1932, p. 247). In short, they were meaningful—a realizat ...dramatically. This [[development]] Lacan viewed as evidence of the acute [[nature]] of her paranoia. Connecting Aimée's criminal act with this remission, he
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• Mythème
  ...archetypes; and other theorists and mythographers [[reinterpreted]] the [[nature]] of myth. Russian formalists, such as Vladimir [[Propp]], then explored a ...ural]] [[consciousness]], and simultaneously reflect and [[help]] form the human [[mind]]. Whereas Propp concerns himself with the aesthetic form of his [[o
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• Interview with Jacques Lacan
  ...to specify the [[nature]] of these secrets. They are not the secrets of nature, those discovered by [[biological]] and [[physical]] [[sciences]]. If psych Yet, for Freud, as for me, [[human]] language does not spring up for human beings like a fountain . Look at the way that, ordinarily, how a [[child]]
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• Notes on Metaphor and Metonymy
  ...n]] life as we [[know]] it could not [[exist]]. But by the same token the human will not come to life except as each generation reenacts the [[mythical]] [ What is the original and initiatory function, in human life, of the [[existence]] of the symbol qua pure signifier? This question
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• Saussure's Concept of the Sign
  <font size="+1">NATURE OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGN</font><p></p></h3></center><font size="+1"><br> in [[nature]] (<i>arbor</i>, for [[instance]], can be considered from either view-<br>
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• Love of the Neighbor
  ...l the [[Word]], but also the Son of Man, thereby admitting the [[human]] [[nature]] of the Father.<p> ...<i>Totem and Taboo </i>for what it is, namely, a myth; and he says that in human history the [[recognition]] of the function of the Father is a [[sublimatio
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• The Function of the Veil
  ...? -- if not this, which is truly one of the most fundamental images of the human relation to the world, the veil, the curtain.<br><br> ...ain, and it is in this way that it is metonymical, for the story, by its [[nature]], continues. In [[being]] stopped there, the chain indicates its hencefor
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• The Agency of the Letter
  Although the [[nature]] of this contribution was determined by the theme<br> With the result that the ethnographic [[duality]] of nature and culture is<br>
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• The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
  ...sort of acted-out remembering. Repetition is something which, of its true nature, is always veiled in analysis, because of the identification of repetition ...in the child, in his first movement, at the moment when he is formed as a human being, manifesting himself as an insistence that the story should always be
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...Michel invents a solution: a new [[self]]-replicating gene for the post-[[human]] desexualized entity. The novel ends with a prophetic [[vision]]: in 2040, ...iberated from Sex, and one is tempted to [[claim]] that Houellebecq's post-human [[society]] of clones is the realization of the Foucauldian [[dream]] of th
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• Sigmund Freud:Quotes
  ...he main [[thing]]! As far as I can see, my next [[work]] will be called "[[Human]] Bisexuality." It will go to the root of the problem and say the last [[wo ...conjures up the most [[evil]] of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human [[breast]], and seeks to wrestle with [[them]], can expect to come through
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• Little Hans
  In the first [[instance]]--i.e., Three Essays: [[Human]] [[sexual life]] is considered in terms of Hans' widdler. Furthermore ther ...ay lead to the development of anxiety by erecting mental barriers in the [[nature]] of precautions, inhibitions and prohibitions.
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...solid piece of theorizing, a paradigm retaining its [[value]] to explain [[human]] [[self]]-[[consciousness]], [[aggressivity]], [[rivalry]], [[narcissism]] ...e intimately linked to human consciousness. According to phenomenologists, human consciousness is not the [[passive]] recognition of [[material]] phenomena
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• Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
  ...o [[literary]] criticism. Structuralism was seen to be applicable to all [[human]] [[social]] phenomena. The disparate collection of thinkers who are now pl ...entary structures has been widely disputed and disproved, but rather the [[nature]] of the study itself. Lévi-Strauss argued that what was significant in th
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• Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever
  ...] raises for you is a problem that touches the most sensitive point of the nature of [[language]] that is the question of the [[subject]]. The [[subject]] c The question that the nature of the [[unconscious]] puts before us is in a few words, that something alw
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• Master/Slave Dialectic
  ...ath that lead him to capitulate in his battle with the master) by altering nature through the suspension of his desire and the application of his labour. ...of [[mortality]]) lead him to surrender in the primal confrontation – [[human]] [[community]] is [[born]] in the repeated suspension and deferral of desi
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• Working
  ...d by [[Freud]]'s own notions of the '[[polymorphous perversity]]' of all [[human]] [[sexuality]], which is characterized by the [[absence]] of any pregiven ...ages]], but his main interest is in the way the [[gestalt]] functions in [[human]] beings.
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• Genital
  ...development|psychosexual development]] are conceived by [[Lacan]] not as [[nature|natural phases]] of [[biology|biological maturation]] but as forms of [[dem ...s]] is not possible for [[human]] [[being]]s, in [[Lacan]]'s view, since [[human]] [[subjectivity]] is essentially and irremediably [[split|divided]].
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• Lamella
  ..., the object that 'is' [[libido]]) can emerge only within the horizon of [[human]] [[finitude]], as a [[formation]] that stands for and fills the [[ontologi ...[[being]] as pre-[[sexual]], pre-subject substance, that something in the human subject that is not reducible to the pure digitality of [[the symbolic]]. L
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• Post-Lacanians
  Throughout the last thirty years, many of these theorists have debated the [[nature]] of Lacan’s account of [[sexuation]]. However, a group of Lacanian criti ...that "there is no woman but excluded by the nature of things which is the nature of [[words]]" (Séminaire 68) but have objected to what follows: "and it ha
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• Film Theory and Criticism
  ...ay in which cinema mobilizes primary processes that reflect the gendered [[nature]] of narrative and point of view. She asserts that "the unconscious of [[pa ...ways in which "whiteness" has been set up to function as a nonracialized [[human]] norm by interrogating and problematizing white racial imagery.
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• Reconceptualizing Freud
  ...earliest and latest work is in his concern to elaborate some fundamental [[human]] identity in and through the study of literature. ...t with feminist [[discourses]] is his dialogue with Leona Sherman on the [[nature]] of gothic fiction. On the other hand, Elizabeth Flynn and Patrocinio Schw
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• Anthropological Theory and Criticism
  ...ists most strongly advanced their arguments on the primitivist-ritualist [[nature]] of Greek art. Murray and Cornford in [[particular]] emphasized the ritual ...rison) became very significant critical [[terms]] for meditations upon the nature of the modern literary [[artist]]. Finally, the very rhetorical [[authority
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• The Freudian terrain
  ...r with the last phase when Freud was speculating [[about]] [[society]] and human [[culture]]).1 At the end of the chapter I will focus on [[Lacan]]'s main i ...way of [[seeing]] things. He fashioned a new [[image]] of what it is to be human. Freud, by the [[power]] of his writings and by the breadth and audacity of
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• Master-Slave
  ...now give a brief [[summary]] of Kojeve's exposition of the [[nature]] of [[human]] [[desire,]] the struggle for [[recognition]], and the parable of the mast ...s self-[[consciousness]]. He is [[conscious]] of himself, conscious of his human [[reality]] and dignity; and it is in this that he is essentially different
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• Sexual position
  Following [[Freud]], [[Lacan]] also engages with the problem of how the [[human]] [[infant]] becomes a [[sexed subject]]. ...y connected with the [[Oedipus complex]], but they differ on the precise [[nature]] of the connection.
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• Structural model
  ...haracteristic of Freud's predominantly [[pessimistic]] view of [[human]] [[nature]] that the so-called ‘pleasure principle’, upon which so much of his [[ <blockquote>The long period of [[childhood]], during which the growing human being lives in [[dependence]] on his [[parents]], leaves behind it as a pre
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• Pas-tout Lacan
  ...ntervention sur l’exposé de M. Bonaparte&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Psyché dans la nature ou les limites de la psychogénèse&nbsp;»] (1 p.) ...ntervention sur l’exposé de L. Goldmann&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Structure&nbsp;: Human Reality and Methodological Concept&nbsp;»] (4 p.)
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• The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I
  ...n]] [[behaviour]] illuminated by a fact of comparative [[psychology]]. The human offspring, at an age when he is for a [[time]], however short, outdone by t ..., or even to stand up, and narrowly confined as he is within some support, human or artificial (what, in [[France]], we call a ''trotte-bébé''), he nevert
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...k is not to see the outside, but to see in the first place (to grasp the [[nature]] of today’s capitalism) – the Marxist wager is that, when we “see” ...actively justified if the society that will emerge from it will be truly [[human]]; today, such a conjunction of terror and humanism is properly unthinkable
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• Introduction aux commentaire de Jean Hyppolite sur la 'Verneinung' de Freud
  ...naissance]] qui soit proprement classificatoire pour l’analyste, et de [[nature]] à satisfaire cette exigence d’orientation préalable que la nouvelle t ...e psychanalyste à la rescousse pour collaborer à la restauration ''d’[[human]] relations'', dans quoi celui-ci, du train dont il mène maintenant les ch
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• Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'
  ...[[psychoanalysis]] that we may grasp along what [[imaginary]] lines the [[human]] organism, in the most intimate recesses of its [[being]], manifests its [ ...everything which warrants such mystery concerning a crime or offense-its [[nature]] and motives, instruments and execution, the procedure used to discover th
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• Le savoir du psychanalyste
  ...e same time at the [[University]] of [[Paris]] at the Pantheon (86). The [[nature]] of his address gave a more direct style to the talks; he [[recalled]] wit ...level that [[analytic discourse]] reveals to be specific to [[speaking]] [[human]] beings, that is, the importance, the preeminence of what makes sex a [[se
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• Jacques Lacan:Archive
  ...h="" | Intervention sur l’exposé de M. Bonaparte : « Psyché dans la [[nature]] ou les limites de la psychogénèse » (1 p.) ...Baltimore : Intervention sur l’exposé de L. Goldmann : « Structure : [[Human]] [[Reality]] and Methodological [[Concept]] » (4 p.)
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• Jacques Lacan:Biography
  ...a in the first period of Lacan's work, 1932-48, is the domination of the [[human]] being by the [[image]]. ...f. The [[humiliation]] of our time under the subjugation of the enemies of human kind dissuaded me from [[speaking]] up, and following Fontenelle, I abandon
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• Lalangue
  ...turned his attention more and more to the [[place]] of ''jouissance'' in [[human]] [[sexuality]], the field he had discussed with such subtety in the late 1 ...[[notion]] that the [[libido]] and ''[[jouissance]]'' were different in [[nature]] from [[linguistic]] elements.
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• Jacques Lacan:Links
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• Introduction: Symbolic
  ...o [[literary]] criticism. Structuralism was seen to be applicable to all [[human]] [[social]] phenomena. The disparate collection of thinkers who are now pl ...entary structures has been widely disputed and disproved, but rather the [[nature]] of the study itself. Lévi-Strauss argued that what was significant in th
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• Introduction: Real
  ...'[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[world]] or the [[human]] [[body]] or even '[[reality]]'. For Lacan, our reality consists of [[symb ...]] [[about]] [[traumatic]] events such as train crashes, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just
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• Introducing Lacan
  ...ented a part of [[Aimée]] herself, indicating how the [[identity]] of a [[human]] [[being]] could include elements well [[outside]] the [[biological]] boun ...er fascinated with the theme of masks, [[games]] and the relation of the [[human]] to the [[animal kingdom]], argued that there was a sort of [[natural]] [[
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• Denying the Facts, Finding the Truth
  ...nited States in the 1980s). The ultimate proof of his regime’s secular [[nature]] is the fact that in the Iraqi elections of October 2002 — in which [[Sa ...atically omitted what was undoubtedly his greatest crime in [[terms]] of [[human]] [[suffering]] and of violating international justice: his invasion of [[I
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• Articles by Slavoj Zizek
  ..., clubs now need to hire consent guardians – clearly we've misunderstood human sexuality] * [https://www.rt.com/op-ed/405138-mice-human-brain-science/ Like mice, humans might soon have their brains controlled ex
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...at Alain Badiou called the "passion of the Real": if you say A - equality, human rights and freedoms - you should not shirk from its consequences and gather ...ore imitate than Salome can imitate the thunderbolts of heaven; but accuse nature of it, accuse the people, which wants it and loves it.
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...e Asiatic in particular?" <ref>Martin Heidegger, ''Schelling's Treatise on Human Freedom'', Athens: Ohio University Press 1985, p. 146.</ref> It is THIS Asi ...should be used to resolve the two types of contradictions which differ in nature - those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people.
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• Imaginary (Compendium)
  [[human]] subject. It also functions as the prime reference in distinguishing betwe the human subject recognizes the [[specular image]] as [[being]] its own,
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• Slavoj Zizek:Video
  *We’re Only Human: Ideology in Hollywood Today [http://www.vimeo.com/7783707 Vimeo] *Ecology without Nature [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0E1800A0D3A53D26 YouTube]
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• Quotes
  ...d by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what [[imaginary]] lines the [[human]] organism, in the most intimate recesses of its [[being]], manifests its [ * For the [[signifier]] is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by [[nature]] [[symbol]] only of an [[absence]].
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...olds that, whatever we do, history will go on. For the first [[time]] in [[human]] history, [[The Act|the act]] of a single socio-political [[agent]] effect ...imself was compelled to admit that the biogenetic interventions into human nature are the most serious [[threat]] to his [[vision]] of the [[End of History]]
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ask is not to see the outside, but to see in the first place (to grasp the nature of today's capitalism) - the Marxist wager is that, when we "see" this, we ...derails the ordinary run of things. This excess inscribes itself into the human body in the guise of a wound which makes the subject "undead," depriving hi
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• Gorgias, Not Plato Was the Archi-Stalinist
  Gorgias's <i>On [[Nature]], or the Non-Existent</i> (the [[text]] survived only in [[summary]] [[for Contrary to [[metaphysics]], dialectics does not [[regard]] nature as an accidental agglomeration of things, of phenomena, unconnected with, i
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...t but take note of apropos the Stalinist [[discourse]] is its contagious [[nature]]: the way (almost) everyone likes to mockingly imitate it, use its [[terms ...the Nazi Germany, there were no [[figures]] who advocated "Nazism with a [[human]] face"… Therein resides the flaw (and the secret bias) of all attempts a
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• Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan
  ...he common good. At its most extreme, this brings Kant to the notion that [[human]] [[history]] itself is a deployment of an inscrutable (?) divine plan, wit ...duction do not directly work on our [[animal]] [[nature]], forging it into human individuality: as Kant points out, animals cannot be properly educated sinc
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• Radical Evil as a Freudian Category
  ...cond thing that such a "fundamentalist" view cannot see is its own split [[nature]], the gap that separates the [[explicit]] ideological [[text]] from its [[ ...e American civilization is not a clash between barbarism and respect for [[human]] dignity, but a clash between anonymous brutal torture and torture as a me
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• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...He voluntarily constrained his power in order to leave the space open for human freedom, so it is us, humans, who are fully responsible for the evil in the .../ref> quite literally: the very excess of this suffering over any "normal" human measure makes it divine. Recently, this paradox was succinctly formulated b
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• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  ...anges from [[organic]] inner rule to something mechanic, the opposite of [[human]] [[freedom]]: freedom cannot ever become habit(ual), if it becomes a habit ..., but the shock of being confronted by the disavowed foundation of our own human-ness.<br />
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