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...is]] of "[[gaze|the look]]."<ref>The fact that the [[English]] translators of [[Sartre]] and [[Lacan]] have used different [[terms]] obscures the fact th ...er-as-subject must be able to be referred back to my permanent possibility of ''[[being]] seen'' by the Other.<ref>[[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre, Jean-Paul]]

...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->

...anatomical]]) [[body|bodily organ]] and the [[phallus]] as a [[signifier]] of [[sexual difference]]. ...batory jouissance ([[gratification]]). [[Freud]] argues that [[children]] of both [[sexual difference|sexes]] set great [[value]] on the [[phallus|penis

...[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...italist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]").

...[process]] of [[art|artistic creation]] in general and certain [[art|works of art]] in [[particular]]. He explained [[art|artistic creation]] by reference to the [[concept]] of [[sublimation]], a process in which [[sexual]] [[libido]] is redirected tow

...[[paranoia]], and can range from single [[ideas]] to [[complex]] networks of [[belief]]s. ==Name-of-the-Father==

...efer to "[[structure|social structures]]" by which he means a specific set of [[affect]]ive relations between [[family]] members. =====Nature of the Psyche=====

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...unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...126). In general, most psychoanalysts would agree. The immediate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that p

...a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. ==Clarification of terms==

...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi

...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).

...ught]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to defi ===The problems of definition===

[[Zizek]] distinguishes [[three]] moments in the [[narrative]] of an ideology. ...eories of an ideology, i.e. [[liberalism]] partly developed from the ideas of John Locke.

...enstein]] remarked that Kierkegaard was "by far, the most profound thinker of the nineteenth century" <ref [[name]]="ArisSoc"> ...e=Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein | work=University of Hertfordshire| url=http://www.herts.ac.uk/philosophy/Aris_Soc.html | access

If [[Zupancic]]'s book does not become a classic [[work]] of reference, the only conclusion will be that our academia is caught in an obscure [[de ...] it makes on us. Moreover, both are thinkers of [[desire,]] of the ethics of desire and the desire for ethics.

...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of

Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is a major [[concept]] of [[psychoanalysis]].

...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati

The [[Matrix]], or two sides of [[Perversion]] ...had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the [[ideal]] [[spectator]] of the [[film]] - namely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my [[right]]

...it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavour. ..., simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3

...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth

...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.

...agance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is ...[[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:

...ox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined b ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals

...er offer if Sieglinde cannot join him in Walhalla, preferring the [[love]] of a miserable mortal [[woman]] to Walhall's <i>sproeden Wonnen</i>. The shatt ...of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[lacking]]

...atistas. So their theoretical limitation is simultaneously the limitation of the actual movement.<br><br> ...the One, of the sovereign state [[power]]; "absolute democracy" ("the rule of everyone by everyone, a democracy without qualifiers, without ifs or buts,"

...pularized and at the same [[time]] one of the most misunderstood [[ideas]] of [[psychoanalysis]]. --> ...site sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex.

...tion]] retains its [[place]] as a necessary element in the [[structuring]] of [[sexuality]] for the [[speaking]] [[being]]. ===The notion of castration in Freud's work===

[[Breton]] was familiar with Freud's work on dreams and developed a technique of 'spontaneous' writing to give free expression to unconscious thoughts and w ...eir [[dreams]], which they saw as more '[[real]]' than the prosaic reality of our everyday world.

overheard a young man asking one of the staff: 'I just finished <i>Mrs de Winter</i>. Is it [[true]] illiteracy of the younger generation-how can anyone not [[know]] [[about]] <i>Rebecca</i>

...enia, I had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the ideal spectator of the film - namely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my right was so ...he virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br>

...r Dews' basic criticism of my [[reading]] of [[Schelling]] is that, by way of asserting the ...r affinity between spirit and [[nature]], and thus towards the possibility of

...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.

...of the achievements and regulations which distinguish our lives from those of our [[animal]] ancestors and which serve two purposes—namely to protect m ...Future of an Illusion]]</i> [[Freud]] provided a more extended definition of [[civilization]]:

'''Historicism''' is a term which applies to a [[number]] of theories of [[culture]] or historical [[development]] which [[place]] the greatest weig # that there is an [[organic]] succession of developments,

The [[Sublime]] [[Object]] of [[Ideology]], New York: Verso, 1989. ...ich he returns to [[time]] and again - that the [[subject]] is the subject of a [[void]].

...is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary ...th Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of an [[ideological]] [[statement]]. He'll tell a [[joke]] or every now and ag

...caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...of Zizek is to go back and start again from scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>

<b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...e that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, would observe:</font></p>

...with the title "The Oedipus [[Complex]] as an Explanation of the 'Mystery of Hamlet."' It was translated into [[German]] in 1911 in a brochure in the se ...et," which had previously appeared in 1929 in the <i>International Journal of [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]]</i>.

...on against its promotion as a medical [[treatment]]. Charged with contempt of court for violating the injunction, Reich conducted his own [[defense]], wh ...tons of his publications were [[Book burning|burned]] by the FDA. He died of heart failure in jail just over a year later, one day before he was due to

...her]]. He is associated with what became known as the [[Frankfurt School]] of critical thinkers. ...iatry]] in [[1943]], and in [[1945]] the [[William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology]].

...that [[ideas]] become "naturalized" in a [[process]] that informs notions of [[common sense]]. ...lizing its defined "[[heresy|heresies]]", provides a richly-exampled arena of cultural hegemony.

In "[[The Uncanny]]" [[Freud]] seeks to explain the [[feeling]] of uncanniness. ..."The Sandman" describes the [[figure]] of the Sandman who steals the eyes of [[children]].

</p><h3 align="center">The topic of the [[imaginary]]</h3><br> INTRODUCTION OF THE INVERTED BOUQUET<br>

The <i>[[jouissance]] </i>of [[transgression]]</font><br> </i>THE RESPECT OF THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER<br>

...[body]] of [[thought]] in [[psychoanalysis]] concerning [[them]], in spite of the rather fragmentary references found in [[Freud]] and subsequent attempt ..."The initial [[helplessness]] of [[human]] beings is the [[primal]] source of all [[moral]] motives."

...rather, not yet) speak," and refers to the [[baby]] before the acquisition of [[speech]] that marks the entry into [[childhood]].</p> ...elaborated a [[theory]] of the [[mother]]-[[infant]] relation in [[terms]] of [[discourse]] (with the mother as "[[word]]-bearer").

...[[stability]] by avoiding [[anxiety]] and [[unpleasure]]. The [[concept]] of defense was broadened somewhat when Freud attributed an important [[role]] ...of sexuality alone is not enough to [[cause]] repression; the cooperation of defense is necessary" (p. 188).

...00), a [[text]] already containing a reference to wit in the [[structure]] of dreams. ...as it was in Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and The [[Psychopathology]] of Everyday [[Life]] (1901).

...and the resulting [[genital]] organization of the [[adult]] and [[choice]] of [[object]]. ...uch as the [[notion]] of [[dreams]] having a meaning and the [[existence]] of an [[unconscious]] psychic [[life]].

...here, as it is in the [[case]] of mnemic [[symbols]] or in the forgetting of a proper [[name]], although to some degree [[condensation]] may also be [[p ...g, p. 148). Any memory could be a [[screen memory]] inasmuch as one aspect of it screened out something unacceptable to the ego.

The [[visual arts]] make use of nonverbal [[representation]] and therefore require a different [[psychoanal ==The Work of Art==

...problem solving]] abilities, [[conceptual]] [[understanding]], acquisition of [[language]], [[morality|moral understanding]], and [[identity (social scie ...gradual accumulation of [[knowledge]] or through shifts from one [[stage]] of [[thinking]] to [[another]]; or if children are [[born]] with innate knowl

...nscious is similar to but not precisely the same as the popular [[notion]] of the [[subconscious]]. For psychoanalysis, the unconscious does not include all of what is simply not [[conscious]] - it does not include e.g. motor skills -

...]] has been - since its development in the 1930s - the dominant [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]]. ...e function of the [[ego]] in mediating between the conflicting [[demand]]s of the [[instinctual]] [[id]], the [[moralistic]] [[superego]] and [[external]

...uline]]/feminine. He then used these terms in his [[dynamic]] [[analysis]] of ego as [[agency]]. ...epeats an experienced sexual attack on [[another]] infant. This alteration of the sexual attack experienced by the [[child]] from [[passive]] to active c

...e intimate." These [[ideas]] formed the springboard for a radical critique of [[introspection]], self-knowledge, and inner [[life]]. ...All conduct symbolizes and conceals, in various ways, the basic [[choice]] of every [[individual]] subject. Each person must be unveiled and revealed, as

...how the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], to doctors taking care of the Leaders; [[three]] documents are crucial here:<br><br> ...n one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[ideas]] -

...real [[struggle]] is going on now: the struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it int ...ple awaken from their [[apolitical]] slumber, it is as a rule in the guise of a [[right]]ist [[populist]] [[revolt]] - no wonder many [[enlightened techn

...alectical type of thought or methodology that he uses. (In Zizek's reading of Hegel, the dialectic is never finally resolved.) ...ute to the Marxist tradition of thought, specifically that of a [[critique of ideology]].

...listed alphabetically within each [[category]] or subcategory. For ease of reference, one entry may be listed under several categories. [[Abstinence]]/rule of abstinence

...offered by a [[number]] of [[other]] theorists, resulting in a splintering of [[psychological]] [[thought]]. Freud's theory of [[psychoanalysis]] was built on the assumption that human beings have an [[

The functions of [[language]] ...hip]] betweeh language and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]].

...with the title "The Oedipus [[Complex]] as an Explanation of the 'Mystery of Hamlet."' It was translated into [[German]] in 1911 in a brochure in the se ...et," which had previously appeared in 1929 in the <i>International Journal of [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]]</i>.

..., showed that man did not have [[control]] over the most important aspects of his own [[mental]] [[processes]] (1917a). ...of the emotional movements,' as Darwin has taught." Consisting "originally of [[acts]] that are well-motivated and appropriate," [[civilization]] has red

..." and can [[identity]] with "projected" characters. And we often [[speak]] of "[[dream]] screens." ...al Killer</i> by J. McNaughton, 1985, released in 1990, <i>The [[Silence]] of the Lambs</i> by Jonathan Demme, 1991, <i>Seven</i> by D. Fincher, 1995, an

...fact that psychoanalysis can be considered an avatar of Kantianism, if not of [[metaphysics]] in general. 1. Freud presents Kant's "categorical imperative" as the "inheritor of the Oedipus complex."

...de possible the discovery of the [[unconscious]]. To avoid [[reification]] of this [[concept]], it is preferable to use the [[word]] only as an adjective ...973); it appeared in [[France]] around 1985 in connection with the notions of inheritance, transmission, and genealogy (Guyotat, Jean, and Fédida, Pierr

...topics, such as Pierre Janet's déjà-vu, or Joseph Capgras's [[illusion]] of the double. ...ar, or [[family]] (heim, or home), which defines and limits the [[notion]] of the uncanny.

...Who is looking? What is seen or evoked? Why are these particular fragments of Eastern religiosity summoned at these moments? How are they placed in the t ...d a significant surreal moment for him, evoking an exotic Tibet still full of magical possibilities.

...("evenly [[suspended attention]]"), for which they are prepared by virtue of what Ferenczi (1928, pp. 88-89) called the second fundamental rule, namely ...[rationality]] for the rule gradually came into question as the complexity of what was involved became [[apparent]].

...eir complexity and idiosyncratic style and "An Introductory [[Dictionary]] of [[Lacanian]] Psychoanalysis" will be invaluable for [[reading]] in every [[ ...an ideas. Each major [[concept]] is traced back to its origins in the work of Freud, [[Saussure]], Hege and otbers.

[[Evans, Dylan]]. [[An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis]]. 2003. New York: Brunner-Routledge. ...es [[Lacan]]'s [[thinking]] revolutionized the [[theory]] and [[practice]] of [[psychoanalysis]] and had a major impact in fields as diverse as [[film]]

...f the [[Oedipus complex]], the [[mother]] is the first [[love]] [[object]] of the [[child]]. THE INTERVENTION OF THE FATHER

...in the case of actual neuroses (pp. 275-76) and [[psychoanalysis]] in that of the defense neuroses. ...omatopsychic [[communication]] was caused by [[particular]] [[conditions]] of [[mental]] functioning and generally led to [[symptoms]].

...]]). His two aims in this piece were to arrive at "a sort of [[economics]] of nerve forces" and "to peel off from [[psychopathology]] a gain for normal p ...delusional" and feeling that it was an excellent start on "the elucidation of the [[neuroses]]"; and if the "quantitative conception" would in fact never

...with the title "The Oedipus [[Complex]] as an Explanation of the 'Mystery of Hamlet."' It was translated into [[German]] in 1911 in a brochure in the se ...amlet," which had previously appeared in 1929 in the International Journal of [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]].

The opposition between the affective and the intellectual is one of the oldest themes in [[philosophy]], and made its way into [[Freud]]'s [[vo 'This opposition is one of the most contrary to [[analytic]] experience and most unenlightening when i

...d by Badiou, to [[control]] oneself (when Morpheus explains to Neo the lot of ordinary [[people]] totally caught (“plugged”) in [[the Matrix]], he sa ...[[democracy]], but the Plato who was the first to clearly assert the field of [[rationality]] freed from inherited beliefs.

...ote>Wit is, so to [[speak]], the contribution to the comic from the sphere of the [[unconscious]].<ref>{{WRU}} Ch. VII </ref></blockquote> ...ulties," and this shows itself in its [[appearance]] as fairly independent of the [[other]] faculties such as intelligence, [[phantasy]], [[memory]], etc

...e Marie Baudry]]. [[Alfred Lacan]] was the Paris sales [[representative]] of a large provincial firm. The family lived in comfortable [[conditions]] in ...hich would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]].

...It is written collaboratively by an [[active]] and growing [[community]] of users. ...acan's [[ideas]]. A [[list]] of further references is provided at the end of each entry.

[[The imaginary]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[theory]] immediately invokes a set of characteristic [[terms]], most of which are already [[present]] in his article on

...ween goal and aim, if not goal, it should be its ultimate aim, the horizon of all its activity.<br><br> ...sily translate this obscure wisdom in Marxist terms: "The general outlines of each revolutionary event can be foretold by social theorists; however, this

.../her [[natural]] [[development]], but only through the arduous [[process]] of [[maturation]] sustained by harsh [[discipline]] and education which cannot ...his is, in effect, the [[antinomy]] contained within the bourgeois notions of individuality, individual [[responsibility]]... (Pippin – 118-119)

...ed as autonomous - God is embattled, there is a counter-force or principle of demoniac Evil active in the world (the dualistic solution).<br /> ...em>A Holocaust Reader</em>, p. 237.</ref> quite literally: the very excess of this suffering over any "normal" human measure makes it divine. Recently, t

...t opposite of the habitual". <ref>[[Catherine Malabou]], <i>The [[Future]] of [[Hegel]]: Plasticity, [[temporality]] and [[Dialectic]]</i>. NYC: Routledg ...eign entity, but the shock of being confronted by the disavowed foundation of our own human-ness.<br />

...of the [[International Psychoanalytical Association]] (I.P.A.) as well as of the [[:fr:Fédération_européenne_de_psychanalyse|European Psychoanalytica ==History: some landmarks in the history of the development of psychoanalysis in France==

...ass="book"><div class="book-info"><div class="book-info__title">The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War) - Slavoj Zizek</div><div class="book-info__lead">Slav | "The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War)"

...linguistic science that includes the invention of semiology, or the theory of the “signifier,”<span class="toShow"> the “signified,” and the... ...on situates Saussure within the history of ideas and describes the history of scholarship that made ''Course in General Linguistics'' legendary. New endn

=‘An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis’ by Dylan Evans= ...tory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis'' is an ideal companion to his ideas for readers in every discipline where his influence is felt. The ''Diction

="Antinomies of Pure Sexuation" by Slavoj Žižek= ...antinomies, but only at the epistemological level, no as immanent features of the unreachable Thing-in-itself, while Hegel transposes epistemological ant

='''Cogito'' in the History of Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...i-philosophical efforts to determine this Other remain indebted to a frame of philosophical categories.

='In Defense of Hegel's Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...nds Hegel's "madness", the irreducible speculative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel's statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot

...ce versa, when he gets caught in his own game, actual belief can arise out of his conviction that he just believes that he acts.[1] ...e my knowledge. It is this ''immanent'' gap that eludes Althusser's theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs). According to Althusser, what dist

='Lacan as a Reader of Hegel' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ecause it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge.<u>1</u>

='Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ium for expressing such a "prosaic" disenchanted reality, reality deprived of all mystery and transcendence.<u>2</u>

="Pathological Narcissus" as a Socially Mandatory Form of Subjectivity by Slavoj Žižek | 1986= ...stand it as a concealed re-affirmation of patriarchy, and by a broad range of the liberal New Left.

='Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:three-philosophers-of-the-event-slavoj-zizek-theoryleaks-1024x770.jpg|400|right]]

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