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• The Act
  ...n abyssal Act, and it is psychoanalysis that “confronts us with the zero-level of politics, a pre-political ‘transcendental’ condition of the possibil
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• Jouissance
  ...a deadly reference, a paradoxical pleasure, reaching an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usuall ..., whereby, through [[discharge]], the [[psyche]] seeks the lowest possible level of tension. The [[pleasure principle]] thus functions as a [[limit]] impos
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• Name
  You're An Abominable Erection! You [[Demand]] To Be Raised To The Level Of [[Signifier]], But You [[Need]] To Be Veiled, To Hide What You Haven't G
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• Thing
  ...nd ''[[Thing|Wortvorstellungen]]'' are opposed, in the [[symbolic|symbolic level]] "they go together".
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• Phallus
  ...ealm of anatomical reality or on the level of organs, but precisely on the level of what a lack of the organ might [[represent]] subjectively. ...ation (perceptual reality) is immediately elaborated on the [[subjective]] level as a conception: Freud writes "the lack of a penis is regarded as."
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• Desire
  ...factions that it obtains for need are reduced (''sich erniedrigt'') to the level of being no more than the crushing of the demand for love.
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ar from being dictated by military necessity, Brovkin has argued that this level of terror was highly counterproductive. Alienation of the population behin Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the level of reverence for Lenin in post-Soviet republics has gone down considerably,
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• Graph of desire
  ...gnifier]] to the [[voice]]) is the [[conscious]] [[signifying chain]], the level of the [[statement]]. ...to [[castration]]) is the [[signifying chain]] in the [[unconscious]], the level of the [[enunciation]].
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...mitives act at a social level as if they believe, but at an [[individual]] level they may in fact demur. By contrast, “advanced” [[media]] consumers are ...ess believe in it (and act accordingly)…” Cynical denunciation (at the level of rational [[knowledge]]) is counteracted by a call to “irrational” be
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• Perversion
  ...view of [[development|genetic development]], [[perversion]] is at the same level as [[neurosis]]; both have reached the [[third]] "time" of the [[Oedipus co ...]] argues that [[perversion|perverse subjects]] can be treated at the same level as [[neurosis|neurotics]], although there will of course be different probl
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• Psychosis
  ...interpretable as that of the neurotic leaves the two disorders at the same level and fails to account for the major differences between [[them]], thus the [ ...; "[[nothing]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of the [[imaginary]], since [[the imaginary]] [[mechanism]] is what gives p
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• Ego-ideal
  ...me into [[being]], one must find "a guide beyond [[the imaginary]], on the level of [[the symbolic]] plane. . . . This guide governing [[The Subject|the sub
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• Condensation
  This added intensity indicates at the manifest level that the representation stands for the different latent chains intersecting
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• Sexual Difference
  ...een the [[biological]] aspect of [[sexual difference]] (for example at the level of the chromosomes) which is related to the [[reproductive]] function of se ...ay that the subject can only realize his [[sexuality]] on the [[symbolic]] level.<ref>{{S3}} p.170</ref>
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• Fantasy
  ...{{Ec}} p. 780</ref> and "that by which the subject sustains himself at the level of his vanishing desire."<ref>{{E}} p. 272</ref> ...s [[symbolic]] [[structure]] fully into account, and thus remaining at the level of the [[imaginary]]; "any attempt to reduce [fantasy] to the imagination
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• Being
  ...tainly in the relation to being that the analyst has to find his operating level."<ref>{{E}} p.252</ref>
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• Consciousness
  ...culties which this [[system]] of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theorising."<ref>{{S2}} p.117</ref></blockquote>
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• Dialectic
  ...]] simultaneously annuls, preserves and raises this opposition to a higher level.
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• Fragmented body
  In this way, the [[fragmented body]] is "revealed at the [[organic]] level, in the lines of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as
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• Castration complex
  On a more fundamental level, the term [[castration complex|castration]] may also refer not to an "opera
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• Chance
  It is a knock on the door that interrupts a [[dream]], and on a more painful level it is [[trauma]].
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• Cogito
  On one level, the ''[[cogito]]'' comes to stand for the modern western [[concept]] of th On [[another]] level, [[Lacan]]'s views can be seen not only as a [[subversion]] of the ''[[cogi
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• Optical Model
  ...conceivable insofar as one finds a [[guide]] beyond the imaginary, on the level of the symbolic plane' (Sl, 141). The optical model thus illustrates the pr
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• Phobia
  ...same role which Claude LÈvi-[[Strauss]] assigns to [[myths]], only on the level of the [[individual]] rather than of [[society]]. Thus phobia is not, according to Lacan, a [[clinical structure]] on the same level as hysteria and obsessional neurosis, but a gateway which can lead to eithe
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• Resistance
  ...rase is [[understood]] correctly, in the [[sense]] of "[[knowing]] at what level the answer should be pitched."<ref>{{S2}} p. 43</ref> Therefore there is a certain irreducible level of [[resistance]] which can never be "overcome".
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• Psychoanalysis
  ...ions he introduces are closely related to developments at the [[clinical]] level as he gradually abandons the therapeutic [[technique]] of [[hypnosis]] and
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• Community Portal3
  *[[:Category:Policies - Wiktionary Top Level|Wiktionary Policies]]- a [[list]] of all policy documents. Both established
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• Community Portal4
  *[[:Category:Policies - Wiktionary Top Level|Wiktionary Policies]]- a [[list]] of all policy documents. Both established
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• Main Page2
  ...deos]] in different ways, e.g. for clients, technical [[knowledge]], skill level etc.
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...is there. But there is no sexual rapport because speech functions on that level that [[analytic discourse]] reveals to be specific to speaking human beings
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• Metaphor
  <blockquote>"The [[anal]] level is the locus of metaphor - one object for another, gives the faeces in [[pl
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  "The [[mirror stage]] is based on the rapport between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as disconnected and, on the other, a un
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• Seminar III
  ...: "[[nothing]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of [[the imaginary]], since the imaginary [[mechanism]] is what gives psych ...er from which the increasing disaster of the imaginary proceeds, until the level is reached at which signifier and signified are stabilized in the delusiona
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• Seminar:Transference
  ...l, it allows for "the reshaping of [[the imaginary]]," on the theorethical level for an intersubjective [[logic]] to be constructed. Thus, [[analysis]] is d
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• Seminar VIII
  ...l, it allows for "the reshaping of the [[imaginary]]," on the theorethical level for an intersubjective [[logic]] to be constructed. Thus, [[analysis]] is
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  ...mand, but of [[desire,]] of the desire of the Other; it is the same at the level of the [[invocatory]] drive, which is the closest to the [[experience]] of
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• Seminar XII
  ...urbes [[The Subject|the subject]]'s [[fundamental fantasy]], unhinging the level that is even more fundamental than basic symbolic identifications. For Laca
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• Seminar XVI
  ...>a</i> is the <i>[[plus-de-jouir]]</i>, surplus-<i>jouissance</i>.* At the level of the [[enunciation]], [[perversion]] reveals "surplus-<i>jouissance</i> i
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...zaton of dicourse," which the [[analyst]] introduces at the [[structural]] level. This leaves untouched [[hysteria]] as attributed to [[woman]] - the only d
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...d makes a [[distinction]] between the ‘‘[[manifest]],’’ or surface-level, dream [[content]] and the ‘‘[[latent]],’’ or unconscious, ‘‘dr
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• Seminar XI
  ...nd]], but of [[desire,]] of the desire of the Other; it is the same at the level of the [[invocatory]] drive, which is the closest to the [[experience]] of
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• Seminar II
  ...e]] is based on the rapport [relationship] between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as [[disconnected]] and, on the other,
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• Semiotics
  ...iche in the [[world]] (see [[Semiosis]]). Semiotics theorises at a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in ...rganizing the text) and on the level of [[narrative]] syntax; the semantic level (the content elements of the text); and the pragmatic or communicative cont
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• Political:Politics of the Subject
  ...[[lack]]) is always attempting to cover over its constitutive lack on the level of [[representation]], through continuous [[identification]] [[acts]].
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...unable to give an account of ''[[jouissance]]'' and remains merely at the level of deconstructing [[meaning]], it runs the risk of moderating and curtailin
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• Deconstruction
  ...erms' undecidable, unresolvable complexity, deconstruction requires a high level of comfort with suspended, deferred decision; a deconstructive thinker must ...w that [[people]] in these fields can explain the [[contents]] to me at my level, so that I can gain what ([[partial]]) understanding I may [[want]]. In con
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...of states. Order is threatened when the level of mobilization exceeds the level of institutionalization within a [[society]]. Huntington is concerned that,
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ..., when Lacan talks about [[existence]], he is reerring to something at the level of [[The Symbolic|the symbolic]]. If the woman was to exist she would have to exist at the level of the symbolic and this has a number of implications.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...d be said that by shifting all descriptions from a [[biological]]-anatomic level to a [[symbolic]] one he shows how [[culture]] imposes meaning on [[anatomi ...ee]] of a possible union with the mother. Lacan transforms all this to the level of the symbolic. This is why he writes not of the penis but of the phallus.
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Both fathers function psychically at the level of the superego. At a [[psychic]] level, an overly punishing superego and subordiantion to the symbolic law is one
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...generally attribute it to the Other. The Other is believed to experience a level of enjoyment beyond our own experience. The important point here is that th
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• Matheme
  ...e level of the Real where 'it is loving it' (ça jouit) rather than at the level where 'it speaks' (ça parle). If the analytical interpretation is that thr
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• Book of Job
  This is the zero level of the critique of ideology – when you don’t read meaning into it.
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• Racism
  What Zizek calls the 'conceptual Jew' must be invented and sustained at the level of fantasy for anti-Semitic ideology to work.
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• Anti-Semitism
  What Zizek calls the 'conceptual Jew' must be invented and sustained at the level of fantasy for anti-Semitic ideology to work.
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. Or at the level of sex, the archetypal film of the twentieth century would be Nagisa Oshima ...ose to an anonymous public their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today - even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shocked
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• Cyberspace
  ...to an anonymous [[public]] their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today — even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shock
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• September 11
  ...g will be the same after 11 September. Certainly, there is change at the level of perception or publicity, but I don't think we can yet speak of some fund
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rrative on the catastrophe caused by the virus? At an even more elementary level, is not one of the commonplaces of the sci-fi theory that the true point of ...Lenin effectively dies, he could count on the support of thousands of mid-level cadres nominated by him to win over the big old names of the Bolshevik "ari
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...g to violence as the only [[index]] of his authenticity, and it is as this level that the critics of [[Stalinism]] as a rule misperceive the [[cause]] of th ...s invisible — viruses, poisons which can be anywhere and nowhere. At the level of [[visible]] material reality, nothing happens, no big explosions, and ye
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...uropean [[technology]] and [[capitalism]] are triumphing worldwide, at the level of "ideological superstructure," the Judeo-[[Christian]] legacy is threaten
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...sexual difference; but the true surprise resides in the fact that, at the level of the imaginary referent, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE (we do not get some graph ...that this One was not defined exclusively by his "real" qualities (at this level, there may well have been more individuals like him, or it may even have be
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...war in Chechnya is that you know in Azerbaijan the oil reserves are at the level of the combined Arab reserves. This is what is actually behind this war. I' This is where, I think, at a different level maybe — I hope not too different — you share the same concern when we s
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...chment, leaves untouched the fundamental level of ideological fantasy, the level on which ideology [[structures]] the social reality itself.
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...ctural]] — [[concept]] of fetishism already at [[work]] in Marx: at this level, "fetishism" designates the short-circuit between the [[formal]]/differenti ...omething that, precisely, cannot be done through the Other? Already at the level of elementary [[psychological]] observation, one can answer to this by reca
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...roach would be: who needs this? But a totally ridiculous thing at a deeper level might play a stabilizing function we are not aware of. Everybody laughs at ...e inconsistent fragments. The unity is no longer established at the visual level. I want to connect this with Altman's 'Short Cuts,' with its series of fait
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...dreaming, I would surely retreat from it in panic. At an even more complex level (in the case of indulging in sadistic fantasies, for example), the very soo
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...go back. There is a crucial thing that is going around now on [[another]] level in Eastern Europe. In [[Russia]] they are also approaching it; it is alread SZ: Yes, but at another, far more dangerous level. The problem with Eastern Europe is that people there expected something el
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...ause]] of [[desire]] to the [[split]] subject, is represented in the lower level of the scheme. The sadist as [[aggressive]] Will-to-Enjoyment is but a [[se
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  SZ: Yes, and even at the level of the organization of production we are returning to this Spinozist form o
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...is field of the democratic [[game]] just expresses and/or distorts another level of pre-political socio-economic processes at which `things really happen'), ...ntational political game cum global market [[economy]]). Emblematic to the level of caricature here was the figure of Dan Rather, the American news reporter
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• The Cyberspace Real
  "The refusal of closure is always, at some level, a refusal to face mortality. Our [[fixation]] on electronic [[games]] and ...cation]]: we immerse ourselves at the level of "meaningless," "mechanical" level of what, in Foucauldian terms, one is tempted to call "revolutionary discip
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...hole]] point of psychoanalytic cure is that it operates exclusively at the level of "knowledge" (words), yet has effects in the Real of bodily symptoms. ...archal space, appears as woman's "[[natural]]" vocation. At a more general level, one can assert that "[[progress]]" does not consist only in reducing the a
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...ysteria]]. The obsessional [[neurotic]] lies in the guise of truth. At the level of factual accuracy, his statements are as a rule [[true]], yet he uses fac ...it somehow "depossesses" the subject, reducing her or him to a puppet-like level "beyond dignity and [[freedom]]."
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...Truth, we should be careful not to confuse the level of Knowledge with the level of Truth. In [[Marx]] himself, although he mainly used "[[proletariat]]" as ...ion upon his arrival there). Today, any positing of the Truth-Event at the level of the supernatural or the miraculous necessarily entails a [[regression]]
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...o historians, this book is an extraordinary [[achievement]] already at the level of [[narrative]] presentation: historical documents (the minutes of the CC <p>[…] subjective autonomy from which one's guilt can be discussed at the level of facts, i.e. in the position which openly proclaims the gap between [[rea
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...t it in [[Hegelian]] [[terms]], really existing capitalism is reaching the level of its [[notion]]: perhaps, one should follow again [[Marx]]'s old, antievo
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...eal, while bypassing the party [[nomenklatura]], was [[understood]] at the level of revolutionary micropolitics: local committees were set up throughout [[R ...the newly emerging [[global]] [[empire]], they will be reduced to the same level as, say, [[Austria]], Belgium or even Luxembourg. The hostility to American
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...storicism]] of the Second International. And only Lenin was the one at the level of this opening, the one to articulate the truth of this catastrophe. Throu ...o put it in [[Hegelian]] terms, really existing capitalism is reaching the level of its notion. Perhaps, one should again follow Marx's old antievolutionist
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...brighter prospect to them with [[regard]] to daily survival and much lower level of [[fear]]. We are not talking here of "bringing [[Western democracy]] to ...the newly emerging [[global]] [[Empire]], they will be reduced at the same level as, say, [[Austria]], Belgium or even Luxembourg. The [[refusal]] of "Ameri
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...[[language]] of the subject? If we find an attachment to subjection at the level of the unconscious, what kind of resistance is to be wrought from that?<ref Only at this level, assuming that we take into account the Lacanian notions of point de capito
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• You May
  ...disturb the smooth functioning of large bureaucratic corporations). At the level of [[fantasy]], Gates is a small-time, subversive hooligan who has taken ov
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the phenomenal domain in order to be able to assert that, at the noumenal level, we are free autonomous agents: we are only free insofar as our horizon is ...the phenomenal level? In this case, we ARE “really free" at the noumenal level, but our freedom would be meaningless in we were also to have the cognitive
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...r after influence in human history. They might have sunk even down to the level of modern well-educated [[society]]. '''For when once people have begun to
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...nds itself; the consciousness of the infinite judgment that remains at the level of picture-thinking behaves as urination.[[A Glance into the Archives of Is
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  From this specific insight, one should make the move to the general level and render problematic the very depoliticized humanitarian [[politics]] of And, at an even more general level, one should problematize the very opposition between the universal (pre-pol
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• With or Without Passion
  .../i> (AND [[others]]) is experienced as insufficient: in order to be at the level of such phenomena, something much stronger is needed, something akin to the
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• Move the Underground!
  ...lody, i.e. [[absence]] itself. How are we to play these notes when, at the level of what is effectively to be played, they exactly [[repeat]] the previous n ...iatic [[ritual]] went overboard and soldiers or students got hurt beyond a level considered tolerable, [[forced]] to assume a humiliating pose, to perform d
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...it precisely the trace of any authentic Christian experience, and, at the level of its cinematic [[texture]], rejoins its official opponents. That is to sa ...]'s cult followers who obediently took poison in their Guyana camp. At the level of [[economic]] [[life]], the same [[thing]] is going on today in Kansas. T
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...nd Law" not found in [[Spinoza]], in his notion of the [[third]], highest, level of [[knowing]]? Is the very [[idea]] of modern "[[total]]" political [[rev ...[[global economy]] while, simultaneously, maintaining its identity at the level of Milner's Four-Fold, i.e., through its founding [[cultural]] [[myths]] an
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• Opera
  ...which will be repeated in Bayreuth till 2006, is strong precisely at this level of intense intimate interplay; his staging is [[full]] of insightful [[idea ...ner's musical dramas - manner of singing, gestures, smells - it is at this level of what [[Deleuze]] would have called pre-[[subjective]] affects that [[ant
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...doctor as his Master and asking for reassurance from him. At a more common level, suffice it to [[recall]] the [[market]] expert who advocates strong budget In the University discourse, is not the upper level ($ — <i>a</i>) that of [[biopolitics]] (in the [[sense]] deployed from [[
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...s is not [[about]] life, but about something MORE than life. It is at this level that Levinas locates the gap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity] ...achievement]] or in spiritual awakening, one should move to a more radical level: psychoanalysis is today the only [[discourse]] in which you are allowed N
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...ultimate strength of the film is nonetheless to be located at a different level. The unique of the film resides not so much in its central thesis (what we ...f state power by the Communists, the crucial break occurred at a different level - in those magic moments when, although normally Communists were still in p
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...er have wanted to be cut off from food and water. The case reached the top level of the US government and judicial bodies, with the Supreme Court and Presid
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...effectively no longer in a [[position]] to exercise it. At a more general level, one could say that such a "mediatization" of the monarch defines the const
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...ion and then finally opted to pursue her, or is it that, at a more refined level, he detected in her hesitation that she is [[about]] to tell him a lie, and ...hesis]] is that this unique dimension is not to be sought primarily at the level of the narrative [[content]] - its original locus is elsewhere - where? Let
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...only say, 'I am what I do.' Then came the repercussion on the imaginative level. I felt as if I were a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melt ...]] that Job must be somehow [[guilty]]: what is at stake at a more radical level is the [[meaning]](lessness) of Job's suffering. Like [[Oedipus at Colonus]
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...sein]] was involved with September the 11th." Finally, there was the third level of justification, that even if there was no proof of a link with al Qaeda,
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...u of the 1990s. Can one imagine a utopian point at which this subterranean level of the utopian Other Space would unite with the positive space of "normal" ...society is a [[complex]] network of "sub-systems," which is why a certain level of "alienation" is constitutive of social life, so that a totally self-tran
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...enough rainfall, military victory, etc.) The next, already more intricate level is to conceive sacrifice as a gesture which does not directly aim at some p ...heir <i>jouissance</i> in the eyes of the Other. And does, at a different level, the same not hold for the so-called "woman's sacrifice," for the woman ado
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ..., a vehicle of ideological [[displacement]]. A step further from this zero-level of violence is found in [[Paul]] Schrader's and Martin Scorcese's <i>Taxi [ ...ent of the murder of Wade, he brought corruption to a more "[[civilized]]" level, replacing the outright brutal corruption of his "larger-than-life" predece
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...parties were, by definition, not able to find a common denominator at the level of royalism (one cannot be a royalist in general, since one should support ...of the wolves, and that only religion can elevate us to a higher spiritual level. Today, when religion is emerging as the main source of murderous violence
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...rather harder for a collection of [[Nazi]] songs. Even at this anecdotal level, the difference between the [[Nazi]] and [[Stalinist]] universes is clear,
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  At the most elementary level, this will affect our [[sexual]] identity. The ability of [[parents]] to ch ...ess; or it might [[cause]] the obstacle to return at some more fundamental level (in a [[paranoiac]] attitude, perhaps, so that I experience myself as expos
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• Knee-Deep
  ...pitalist]] economy? The question should therefore be put at a more general level than Garton Ash would like: how do we stand with regard to global capitalis ...of the situation.' The singularity of [[human]] [[suffering]] may reach a level at which the easy reference to totality turns into [[cynicism]]. The only a
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...tive in explaining how Late Socialism operated at the domestic, day-to-day level. What was important was not that the [[people]] deep down believed in the r
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• Seminar VII
  ...vorstellungen'' and ''Wortvorstellungen'' are opposed, on the [[symbolic]] level they go together. ''Die Sache'' is the [[representation]] of a [[thing]] i
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• Love
  ...o that one loves in love, one's own ego made [[real]] on [[the imaginary]] level."<ref>{{S1}} p. 142</ref> The [[imaginary]] [[nature]] of [[love]] leads [
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• Castration
  ...actual experience. The [[agent]] of the frustration is the mother, at the level of the symbolic. ...thus to symbolic castration. It is only at [[The Imaginary|the imaginary]] level that he appears not to be castrated in his possession of a penis. The only
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• Surrealism
  ...vidual]]. For Breton, as a reader of Freud, it was at the [[preconscious]] level that language and the traces of acoustic and [[visual]] perceptions were un
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• Ex-sistence
  The [[Other]] is believed to [[experience]] a level of [[enjoyment]] beyond our own experience. The important point here is tha
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• International Psycho-Analytical Association
  ====Institutional Level==== ====Theoretical Level====
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...] [[philosophy]] of his day because he believed it could never surpass the level of hypothetical imperatives. For example, a [[consequentialism|consequenti
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• Frankfurt School
  ...[Jürgen Habermas]] raised the [[epistemological]] [[discussion]] to a new level in his "Knowledge and Human Interests" ([[1968]]), by [[identifying]] criti
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• Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves
  ...lity]]. Today, something structurally similar is going on at the political level. We have a weird pact between [[postmodern]] global [[capitalism]] and prem
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• Blade Runner
  A high level of [[paranoia]] is present throughout the film with the [[visual]] manifest
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• Richard Wagner
  ...istory]] of humankind?” (OSD: 104). Žižek views Tristan as the “zero-level [[work]], as the per- fect, ultimate, formulation of a certain philosophico
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• Parallax View
  ...the phenomenal domain in order to be able to assert that, at the noumenal level, we are free autonomous agents: we are only free insofar as our horizon is ...the phenomenal level? In this case, we ARE “really free" at the noumenal level, but our freedom would be meaningless in we were also to have the cognitive
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...hat he is (perceived as) the ex-hacker who made it. At the [[fantasmatic]] level, the underlying [[notion]] here is that Gates is a subversive marginal hool
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...ity]]. Today, something structurally similar is going on at the political level. We have a weird pact between [[postmodern]] global [[capitalism]] and pre
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• The Pope's Failures
  That said, however, was John [[Paul]] really up to the level of this task? Consider that the [[Catholic Church]] has its own “white m
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...ull]] deployment). But the ultimate strength of the film is on a different level. The unique impact of the film resides not so much in its central [[thesis] ...state]] power by the Communists, the crucial break occurred at a different level—in those [[magic]] moments when, although formally Communists were still
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  ...of perplexed fury! And a similar [[thing]] is going on at the [[economic]] level: While pressuring [[Poland]] to open its agriculture to [[market]] competit ...Is not something structurally similar going on today at the [[political]] level, the weird pact between the [[postmodern]] global capitalism and the premod
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  The question should therefore be put at a more general level: Where do we stand regarding [[global capitalism]]? Are these troubling sp
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...02 <i>[[Time]]</i> magazine interview, George Lucas explained the personal level through a type of pop-[[Buddhism]]: "He turns into Darth Vader because he g ...Western [[technology]] and [[capitalism]] are triumphing worldwide, at the level of "ideological superstructure," the [[Judeo-Christian]] legacy is threaten
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...]'s cult followers who obediently took poison in their Guyana camp. At the level of [[economic]] [[life]], the same [[thing]] is going on today in Kansas -
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• The Constitution is Dead - Long Live Proper Politics
  ...ego. Is not something structurally similar going on today at the political level: the weird pact between the postmodern global capitalism and the premodern
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...th, the idea that these are two narrative events, this is at the narrative level of what Hegel would have called <i>vorstellungen</i>, representations.&nbsp ...ly different if you read it closely:&nbsp; already at the most superficial level, after Christ's death what you get is Holy Spirit, which is something total
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...with, say, a DNA profile of Christ. [Chuckles] But at the more fundamental level, intelligent theologians like [[Kierkegaard]] knew that belief should not b ...aying "You didn't tell me to pass the salt." There's a certain paradoxical level of [[thought]], you cannot but call it sincere lying. If I ask you, "how ar
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...doctor as his Master and asking for reassurance from him. At a more common level, suffice it to [[recall]] the [[market]] expert who advocates strong budget In the University discourse, is not the upper level ($ — <i>a</i>) that of [[biopolitics]] (in the [[sense]] deployed from [[
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...really is such a substantial [[change]]. Certainly, there is change at the level of [[perception]] or publicity, but I don't [[think]] we can yet [[speak]] ...praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. Or at the level of sex, the archetypal [[film]] of the twentieth century would be Nagisa Os
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...we just displace the shield of the protective appearance onto a different level? In today's [[times]], obsessed with "unmasking the false appearances" (fro ...atire is suspended and we are confronted with the "serious" [[message]] or level. So the question is: WHICH is this point? In Chaplin's <i>The Great Dictato
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...s not composed of atoms like normal human beings - beneath a certain micro-level, there is nothing, just void. Finally, Kelvin grasps that Harey is a materi ...you even think of them. In <i>Stalker</i>, you never arrive at, reach, the level of pure, innocent wish/belief, while in <i>Solaris</i>, your dreams/fantasi
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• You May!
  ...disturb the smooth functioning of large bureaucratic corporations). At the level of [[fantasy]], Gates is a small-time, subversive hooligan who has taken ov
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...sexual difference; but the true surprise resides in the fact that, at the level of the imaginary referent, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE (we do not get some graph ...that this One was not defined exclusively by his "real" qualities (at this level, there may well have been more individuals like him, or it may even have be
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...Truth, we should be careful not to confuse the level of Knowledge with the level of Truth. In [[Marx]] himself, although he mainly used "[[proletariat]]" as ...ion upon his arrival there). Today, any positing of the Truth-Event at the level of the supernatural or the miraculous necessarily entails a [[regression]]
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  One can see, now, why, at the level of [[individual]] [[libidinal]] [[economy]], Lacan calls this prohibiting G ...ng]] the symbolic order, the order of symbolic fictions which operate at a level different from direct [[material]] [[causality]]. (In this sense, the only
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• Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
  ...teria]]. The obsessional [[neurotic]] "lies in the guise of truth." At the level of factual accuracy, his statements are as a rule [[true]], yet he uses fac ...it somehow "depossesses" the subject, reducing her or him to a puppet-like level "beyond dignity and [[freedom]]."
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...uld be: who [[needs]] this? But a totally ridiculous [[thing]] at a deeper level might play a stabilizing function we are not aware of. Everybody laughs at ...enjoying voice always gets controlled. What interests me at the political level is how the [[discourse]] machinery, in order to function, has to rely on th
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...go back. There is a crucial thing that is going around now on [[another]] level in Eastern Europe. In [[Russia]] they are also approaching it; it is alread SZ: Yes, but at another, far more dangerous level. The problem with Eastern Europe is that people there expected something el
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  ...istent fragments. The [[unity]] is no longer established at the [[visual]] level. interests me at the political level is how the [[discourse]] machinery, in order to
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• Es Gibt Keinen Staat In Europa
  ...n to the existing establishment, any art which today wants to be up to the level of its assignment must be a state art in the service of a still-non-existen
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  SZ: Yes, and even at the level of the organization of production we are returning to this Spinozist form o
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large
  ...ause]] of [[desire]] to the [[split]] subject, is represented in the lower level of the scheme. The sadist as [[aggressive]] Will-to-Enjoyment is but a [[se
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...[[language]] of the subject? If we find an attachment to subjection at the level of the unconscious, what kind of resistance is to be wrought from that? (88 Only at this level, assuming that we take into account the Lacanian notions of point de capito
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...t it in [[Hegelian]] [[terms]], really existing capitalism is reaching the level of its [[notion]]: perhaps, one should follow again [[Marx]]'s old, antievo
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...[[death]], an undead life, which is even true at the most banal, everyday level.
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• Transgression
  ...[[individual]] intrapsychic level and the more or less specific collective level that makes the performance of [[forbidden]] actions possible within certain ...psychoanalytical sense essentially lie on the individual and intrapsychic level. But Freud saw how important this sector of the [[structural]] conflict of
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• Illusion
  ...n a certain proscientific militancy, while Winnicott situates himself at a level that is both more metaphysical and more affective.
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...h of the essence of all pedagogy. That those forms remained at a practical level, without being the object of ''[[reflection]]'', is the defining characteri
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...y Department at the Central Ljubljana Hospital. So I would say, mid, upper level positions, yes." His mother survived her husband and died last year of canc
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...of compromise or triangulation, but the big failure is at this ideological level. He didn't leave behind a platform with which the moderate [[liberals]] cou ...lar situation. What Lenin did, we should do today, at an even more radical level.</p>
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  For you, of course, ideological coercion occurs at the libidinal level, at the constitutive level of a subject who "is" a disjunction between
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...he is" for the Other) precisely through a certain arresting fantasy at the level of the imaginary. In this way, the fantasy-imaginary dimension is drawn int Yet it is not simply at the level of cinema and cyberspace that the imaginary Real is experienced. The traged
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...substantive level — of the content of his claims — and at a stylistic level, so that the manner in which he writes mirrors what he writes about. This i
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...things as they are. Any evidence or confirmation would remain only at the level of the Imaginary, always in the form of horoscopes, predictions, self-fulfi ...instinctive conception of identification, we see it as taking place on the level of the Imaginary, in which we identify with the image of the Other. It is a
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...ng year. This book is a withering attack upon the contemporary tendency to level the charge of 'totalitarianism' against any attempt to propose a political
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...rm Zizek wants to see himself as an "engaged" [[intellectual]], but on the level of content he is struck by a kind of [[paralysis]], unable to [[suggest]] a
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• Defenders of the Faith
  ...of wolves; only religion, it is said, can elevate us to a higher spiritual level. Today, when religion is emerging as the wellspring of murderous [[violence
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  .../a><i>,</i> p. 201). As MacDonald puts it, <i>"Viewed at its most abstract level, a fundamental agenda is thus to influence the European-derived peoples of ...a Hollywood movie: "It's so real, it must be fiction!" At the most radical level, one can render the Real of subjective experience only in the guise of a fi
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...-you know, let's do the DNA profile of Christ. But at the more fundamental level, intelligent theologians like [[Kierkegaard]] knew that belief should not b ...ying, "You didn't tell me to pass the salt." There's a certain paradoxical level of [[thought]], you cannot but call it sincere lying. If I ask you, "how ar
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...he context of the series, and which I refer to at all only for the general level of its argument. ...uch an aim only masks the difficulty that, in trying to maintain it at the level at which I ought to present my teaching here, I might push it too far from
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• Kant with Sade
  ...through the forest of the fantasy, which Sade in his work develops on the level of a system.
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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...eology, how could one end up [[thinking]] that one could move, on the same level, from a [[recent]] to a much more ancient layer? It wouldn't be a bad [[thi
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• Tuché and Automaton
  ...alizing his wish to come to the session. Things must not be taken at the level at which the subject puts them-in as much as what we are dealing with is pr The central bad encounter is at the level of the [[sexual]]. This does not mean that the stages assume a sexual tain
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...eology, how could one end up [[thinking]] that one could move, on the same level, from a [[recent]] to a much more ancient layer? It wouldn't be a bad [[thi ...e]], Freud places the different layers which can be distinguished from the level of perception, namely from the instantaneous impression - <i>Mnem', </i>Mne
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• Desire, Life and Death
  ...dism]], the phenomenon of aggressivity isn't to be explained simply on the level of [[imaginary identification]]. What Freud's primary masochism teaches us ...hich we get attuned to the world. If the nameless desire can appear at the level of the desire to sleep, which you mentioned the other day, Valabrega, that'
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  </p></dd><dd>At a certain level of its usage "knave" may be translated into French as <i>valet, </i>but "kn ...about such a pretension. It is a pretension that so easily lands us at the level of a certain knavery. And isn't there also a certain "knavery," a metaphysi
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...isappointment, when one is faced with the [[need]] to approach things at a level, that, it seems, is not that of our [[technique]] on the basis of which a g ...hebung]], </i>i.e., the conservation of something destroyed at a different level - the only commandment is henceforth "Thou shalt [[love]] thy [[neighbor]]
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• Automaton
  ...,' showing how the chain of signifiers is indeed a chain. 41 This is the level of the law, at which [[science]] aims, with its preponderant interest for t ...t, where the law and regularity of the chain are failing. This is also the level of pure causality, where law and predictability fail. 'In short, there is c
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• Bejahung
  ...mbolic universe]]. Only after a [[thing]] has been [[symbolize]]d (at the level of ''[[Bejahung]]'') can the [[value]] of [[existence]] be attributed to it
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• Infans
  ...describe those whose mode of [[communication]] is situated at a preverbal level. In the [[work]] of Jacques [[Lacan]] the term <i>infans</i> took on a furt
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• Deprivation
  ...to a [[situation]] of more or less pronounced [[denial]], depending on the level of [[structuration]] of the [[internal]] object and the duration of separat ...itative deprivation, especially their development on the [[psychosomatic]] level. [[Other]] authors have ascribed important narcissistic pathologies ([[feel
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• Death Instinct
  ...he [[natural]] phenomenon of the instinct in entropy to be taken up at the level of the person, so that it may take on the [[value]] of an oriented instinct
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• Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
  ...[recognition]] and dissemination of [[psychoanalysis]] on an international level. Freud delivered these five lectures in [[German]], without [[notes]], and
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• Helplessness
  ...[[analysis]] the [[subject]] should reach and [[know]] the [[domain]] and level of the [[experience]] of absolute disarray."<ref>{{S7}} p. 304</ref> The [[
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• Interpretation
  ...]] ([[signifier]] produces [[signified]]), [[interpretation]] works at the level of ''s'' to generate S: [[interpretation]] causes "irreducible signifiers"
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• Lay Analysis
  ...two aspects of the problem: training issues and theoretical issues. On the level of training institutes and their policies for the selection of candidates, On the level of theoretical justifications, two conceptions of psychoanalysis were oppos
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• Libidinal Stage
  The idea of libidinal stages (the terms phase and level of organization are more widely used today) has on occasion encouraged simp
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• Narcissistic Injury
  ...creation of this concept to describe the consequences, on the narcissistic level, of a [[trauma]] to the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]] arising from [[internal]]
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• Mastery
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• Myth of Origins
  ...nd of [[culture]] (Kristeva, 1996). In Freud's view, on the [[individual]] level we are all, unbeknownst to ourselves, repositories of this myth of origins,
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• Psychic Reality
  A [[concept]] developed by [[Freud]] to denote the level of [[reality]] specific to [[unconscious]] [[processes]], [[psychic]] reali
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• Psychic Structure
  ...ole]]. It must also be seen as fundamental, registering its influence at a level deeper than what is [[apparent]] in the individual's [[personality]], [[cha
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• Symbolization
  ...ct, the time of having. Beneath these abstractions, at a more [[concrete]] level, we find [[analyses]] of symbolic assimilation (Melanie [[Klein]]), symboli
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• Identity
  ...s [[stages]] of his [[model]] could not be reduced to the [[psychosexual]] level. The ego was not propelled by [[drives]] alone but must confront the challe
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• Fool
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• Catharsis
  ...is hair upon the altar, freed him from his vow and reduced him to the same level of sanctity as ordinary men.
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• Developmental psychology
  ...e level of stimulation an infant requires, we are well aware that a normal level of stimulation is very important, and that a lack of stimulation and affect ...icate preference, and the head-turn preference procedure, in which infants level of interest is measured by the amount of time spent looking in a particular
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• Psychodynamics
  ...al]], emotional, or motivational forces especially at the [[subconscious]] level. Roughly [[speaking]], "[[psycho]]-dynamics" is a blend of [[psychology]] ...ied in the mind or find their way to the surface, i.e. the “conscious” level. This, in the former [[case]], results in [[psychological]] states as [[ne
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• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  while, refers only to the [[synchronic]] level- at what time is the subject affected level-more radical than anything hitEerto designated thereby in [[Freud]]'s dis-
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...l life-substance. The structure is here that of a double sacrifice: at one level, Aels stands for the untamed wilderness of the life energy that has to be s At another level, of course, the sacrifice is that of Octavia who accomplishes the supreme a
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• Jean-Paul Sartre
  ...n of what will become existential psychoanalysis, while on a [[practical]] level it is more successful. "Empirical psychoanalysis, to the extent that its me ...]].? Sartre believed that [[The Gaze|the gaze]] is not located just at the level of the eyes. The eyes may well not appear; they may be masked. The gaze is
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• Rudolf Loewenstein
  ...n the [[three]] countries where he practiced, but also on an international level (IPA). Jacques [[Lacan]] underwent an analysis with him—terminated too so
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• Germany
  ...the war, was "assigned to the war effort." Eventually it was raised to the level of a government institute within the Reich's research council (Reichsinstit
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• Existentialism
  ...[[life]] are refined, one's [[psychic]] life and its contents, even at the level of unconscious, is reconfigured.
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• Communism
  ...ting]], but only recently has the [[idea]] of communism been raised to the level of an authentic [[project]] in his [[political]] [[philosophy]]. Deemed a d
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• Stalinism
  ...a crucial cut here between Lenin and Stalin: while Lenin remained at this level, claiming the access to the "objective meaning" of the events, Stalin made ...concerned with the symmetry of my relations to other [[humans]]; its zero-level rule is "do not do to me what you do not [[want]] me to do to you" <ref>Whi
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• Feminist theory
  ...erstanding]] of [[sexual]] [[difference]] as constituted at an unconscious level. Finally, in the area of social [[theory]] and international relations [[fi
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• History
  ...choanalysis [[exists]] also, and perhaps above all, at the [[theoretical]] level. Time does not have the same status in the two disciplines. The psychoanaly
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• Schizophrenia
  ...p decline in the 1980s, its efforts on both a theoretical and [[clinical]] level were often held to be of no account. However, one positive outcome of [[ana
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• Biopolitics
  ...acanian point of view, the space of the political is primarily the “zero-level of politics, a pre-political ‘transcendental’ condition of the possibil ...ble to generate [[change]], or explosions of [[psychotic]] violence at the level of everyday [[reality]] (''PV'': 303). More generally, and also in relation
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• Bureaucracy
  ...one told the chicken?” Žižek writes: “This story, nonsensical at the level of factual reality, where you are either a grain or not, is absolutely sens
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• Guarantee
  ...ee’s own [[subjective]] experience, nor to transmission on the epistemic level. And the factual proofs of sufficient training not being regularly collecte
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...ce for them," without really inventing something new at the socio-economic level. Money makes him possible to [[practice]] inconsistent politics (populist a ...rizon of demands? The [[revolutionary subject]] no longer operates at the level of demanding something from those in [[power]] - he wants to destroy them..
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...igrants'" (CC, p. 201). As MacDonald puts it, "Viewed at its most abstract level, a fundamental agenda is thus to influence the European-derived peoples of ...a Hollywood movie: "It's so real, it must be fiction!" At the most radical level, one can render the Real of [[subjective]] experience only in the guise of
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• Le Cas Aimée
  ...a [[real]] source of the [[act]] itself. She [[understood]], at a certain level, that ''she was herself the [[object]] of [[punishment]]''.
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• Overview
  ...recognized by everyone else and determine my socio-economic position. The level at which this takes place is not
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• Wish for a Baby
  ...al, [[aggressive]] function of [[the imaginary]] child. On the [[oedipal]] level, for the girl, the child is a product of [[incest]], obtained from the [[fa
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• Working Over
  ...f [[Dreams]] (1900) through his essays on [[metapsychology]] [1915]). This level demonstrates the capacity of the psychic [[apparatus]], by means of its rep ...h motricity and [[affect]], among the forms pertaining to the most primary level of symbolization (forms conveying motion, [[primal]] protofantasies), the v
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• Paraphrenia
  ...zo). However, although paraphrenia did not gain currency, on a nosological level Freud's reasoning, as developed particularly in the [[Schreber]] case, was
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• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
  ...se: the horde, the matriarchy, and the totemic clan. He specified that the level of elaboration allowed to groups excluded the [[thinking]] of [[sexual]] [[ ...[[external]] [[reality]] on groups, the influence of "great men" on their level of [[development]], and finally, an [[economic]] assessment of bonds and th
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories
  ...is [[infantile]] in the way it manifests and functions on the unconscious level. It [[lacks]] organization and is demanding, insistent, and impulsive. The
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• Function of Language
  " 'higher' level. There is no [[metalanguage]]: !
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...[[present]] essay this issue receives a still further refinement on a new level of complexity, insofar as the role that the phallus plays in a [[dialectica ...uld be symbolic castration; perhaps, too, it is an [[anticipation]] on the level of the organism of the "bar between the signifier and signified" in the reg
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...year as the preceding one (1958) and therefore represents a corresponding level of [[development]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[thought]]. In fact it complements the f ground chains of signifiers that operate on the level of conscious
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...is how all freedoms and I don't mean freedoms on this abstract ideological level, but very [[practical]], everyday freedoms--imply a functioning state appar ...is the mystery: this secrecy was totally nonfunctional. At this ridiculous level, you can see how public space functioned.
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...esiring]] a strawberry cake is my own individual concern. Fantasy, at this level, is very specifically mine. At the same [[time]], however, the desire that
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• Movement lacanien français
  On the international level, many Lacanians exist within a flexible organization, Convergence. And the
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• Desire of the subject
  ...dead," is situated at the lower level, that of the statement. At the upper level, that of the enunciation, Lacan placed the sentence, "He did not know it."
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• Childhood
  On a [[practical]] level she created institutions for young children, the first in [[Vienna]] in 192
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• Surrealism and psychoanalysis
  ...vidual]]. For Breton, as a reader of Freud, it was at the [[preconscious]] level that language and the traces of acoustic and [[visual]] perceptions were un
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• Science and psychoanalysis
  ...hniques of [[infantile]] sexual investigation. Freud raised science to the level of a perfect [[model]] of the [[renunciation]] of the [[pleasure]] [[princi
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• Subject's desire
  ...," is situated at the lower level, that of the [[statement]]. At the upper level, that of the [[enunciation]], Lacan placed the sentence, "He did not [[know
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• Lay analysis
  ...two aspects of the problem: training issues and theoretical issues. On the level of training institutes and their policies for the selection of candidates, On the level of theoretical justifications, two conceptions of psychoanalysis were oppos
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• Reversal Into the Opposite
  ...th its function in the dream-work. But this is not limited to the semantic level: Figures of speech can be subjected to such a mechanism, the most obvious c
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• Turning around
  ...cide"(1915c, p. 127). It nevertheless remains useful, on a [[theoretical]] level, to distinguish these modalities which is what André Green does, notably,
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• Transference love
  ...put the analyst's [[superego]] to the [[test]], but at a more fundamental level they challenge their relational skills and capacity for [[symbolization]] a
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• Friendship
  At the [[theoretical]] level, Freud refined the [[concept]] of sublimation by distinguishing it from the
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• Contradiction
  ...]] between the Ucs. and the Pcs. Negation is a [[substitute]], at a higher level, for repression" (Freud, 1915e, pp.186-187).
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• Dead mother complex
  The main observable consequence on the level of the [[counter-transference]] is insight into a cold, hard, unfeeling ker ...old" anxiety, which is linked with losses suffered on the [[narcissistic]] level (negative hallucination, flat [[psychosis]], dull mourning), resulting in t
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• Primitive
  ...alent, at the collective level, to the [[infantile]] at the [[individual]] level. This aspect of Freud's work provides the outlines for fruitful interaction
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• Psychic structure
  ...ole]]. It must also be seen as fundamental, registering its influence at a level deeper than what is [[apparent]] in the individual's [[personality]], [[cha ...is caused by [[lack]] of structure, unless structure is considered at the level of [[organic]] function, which is no longer exactly a [[mental]] phenomenon
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• Myth of origins
  ...nd of [[culture]] (Kristeva, 1996). In Freud's view, on the [[individual]] level we are all, unbeknownst to ourselves, repositories of this myth of origins,
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• Primal
  ...ed on both a historical level (humanity's prehistory) and a [[biological]] level (the transmission of traces). With his [[notion]] of "primal [[fantasies]], ...al [[thought]], and they are governed by emotional logic (Isaacs). At this level, there is no differentiation between mind and [[body]], since overall primi
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• Excitation
  ...ions of the Latin excitare: "to awaken, wake up, push, or stimulate at the level of the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]]." ...[[idea]] of a [[return]] of excitation to its earliest source, the somatic level, in the [[absence]] of successful mentalization. In the view of Pierre Mart
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• Nirvana
  It may be worth adding that an optimum level of tension normally gives life its [[sense]] of vividness and alertness. Re
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• Discharge
  ...ion, or charge. Pleasure and unpleasure probably depend less upon an exact level of tension than upon the rhythm of variation in tension. The principle of p
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• Principle of Constancy
  ...tity of [[excitation]] contained in the [[apparatus]] at a low or constant level. This is accomplished through a [[discharge]] of the [[energy]] [[present]] ...]] of the "ego" where energy is bound, [[meaning]] maintained at a certain level in the "psi system."
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• Zen
  ...as if two stories are crossing paths. As with slips of the tongue, another level of textuality reveals itself. I have found them to offer a valuable and pro ...ptible to such a pragmatic move and Jung cautioned against it. On a deeper level, Lacan invokes Zen as an authoritative voice to support his own conclusions
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• Langue/Parole
  ...en ''langue'' and ''parole'' takes the [[form]] of a [[dialectic]]: at the level of ''parole'' individuals are creative agents whose linguistic innovations
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• Interview with Jacques Lacan
  ...n, Freud is instead Champollion! The [[Freudian]] experience is not at the level of the organization of [[instincts]] and vital forces. The Freudian experie ...his would be imprecise, a faltering tone, sensed at a level lower than the level of language. And oneself, when one feels ridden by obscure forces that we
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• Anal character
  [[Anal]] [[Character]]:: One fixed at the anal level of [[psychosexual]] [[development]], when the [[libido]] charges the anus w
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• The Symbolic, Imaginary and Real
  ...sness]] appear to be relations between <i>detached</i> things are, at the level of the poetics of the [[unconscious]], projected as relations of <i>belongi
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• Love of the Neighbor
  </p></dd><dd>At a certain level of its usage "knave" may be translated into French as <i>valet, </i>but "kn ...about such a pretension. It is a pretension that so easily lands us at the level of a certain knavery. And isn't there also a certain "knavery," a metaphysi
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• Oedipus at Colonus
  ...dism]], the phenomenon of aggressivity isn't to be explained simply on the level of [[imaginary identification]]. What Freud's primary masochism teaches us ...hich we get attuned to the world. If the nameless desire can appear at the level of the desire to sleep, which you mentioned the other day, Valabrega, that'
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• The Agency of the Letter
  and which I refer to at all only for the general level of its argument.<br> aim only masks the difficulty that, in trying to maintain it at the level at<br>
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• The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
  ...alizing his wish to come to the session. Things must not be taken at the level at which the subject puts them-in as much as what we are dealing with is pr The central bad encounter is at the level of the sexual. This does not mean that the stages assume a sexual taint th
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...n answer to it is to locate [[freedom]] (of choice) at the [[unconscious]] level: the true [[acts]] of freedom are choices/decisions which we make while una ...another material support (is this not going on all the time at a different level: is the "stuff" our cells are made of not continuously changing?). The [[id
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