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  • Translation
    * [[derivative of the unconscious]]: ''rejeton de l'[[inconscient]]'': ''Abkömmling des Unbewußten'' * [[return of the repressed]]: ''retour du refoulé''
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  • About
    [[Image:Borromean.Knot.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Borromean knot|The Borromean knot]]]] The information is organized in the [[form]] of a hypertext, a cross-referential database with non-linear navig
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  • The Act
    ...man'' act]], "since to our [[knowledge]] there is no [[other]] [[act]] but the [[human]] one."<ref>{{S11}} p. 50</ref> The "[[act]]" is an '''[[ethics|ethical concept]]''' insofar as the '''[[subject]]''' can be held '''[[responsibility|responsible]]''' for it.
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  • Jouissance
    ...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".) -->
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  • Letter
    ...mere secondhand [[representation]] of [[speech|spoken]] [[language]], and the [[signifier]] is conceived of as purely an acoustic [[image]] and not as a ...of the [[letter]], not as a mere graphic representation of a sound, but as the [[materialism|material basis]] of [[language]] itself.
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  • Thing
    ...re he uses the [[French]] term ''[[Thing|la chose]]'' interchangeably with the [[German]] term ''[[Thing|das Ding]]''. There are two main contexts in whi ...[[thing-presentations]] are found.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Unconscious]]", 19l5e. [[SE]] XIV, 161</ref>
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  • Other
    The "[[other]]" is perhaps the most [[complex]] term in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. {{Top}}[[autre]]]]'', ''[[A ...the term, it is not very salient, and refers simply to "other [[people]]." The term seems to be borrowed from [[Hegel]], to whose work [[Lacan]] was intro
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  • Phallus
    ...and_-_Phallus|Kid A In Alphabet Land Pacifies Another Pernicious Persona - The Phony Phallus!]]''']] ...ween the [[penis]] as an actual ([[anatomical]]) [[body|bodily organ]] and the [[phallus]] as a [[signifier]] of [[sexual difference]].
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  • Symbolic
    ...]] [[human]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[imaginary]] and the [[real]]. ...e for psychoanalysis; [[psychoanalysts]] are essentially 'practitioners of the symbolic function'.<ref>{{E}} p. 72</ref>
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  • Desire
    ...an has examined in an original way the [[relationship]] between desire and the [[law]], and its implications for [[treatment|psychoanalytic praxis]]. <!-- he concept of [[desire]] is the central concern of [[psychoanalytic theory]]. -->
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  • Jacques Lacan
    ...Freudian]], featuring the [[unconscious]], the [[castration]] [[complex]], the ego, [[identification]], and [[language]] as [[subjective]] [[perception]]. ...s, to a [[family]] of solid [[Catholic]] [[tradition]]. He is educated at the collège Stanislas, a Jesuit school. After his ''baccalauréat'' he studie
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  • Four Discourses
    ...urse were: the [[Master]]'s, the [[University]]'s, the [[Hysteric]]'s, and the [[Analyst]]'s. ...represent four different values or functions: the [[agent]], the [[other, the]] production, and [[truth]].
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  • Graph of desire
    The [[graph of desire]] is a [[topology|topological model]] of the [[structure]] of [[desire]]. ...[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]." [[Ecrits: A Selection]]. Trans. Alan [[Sheridan]]. [[Bruce Fink]]. [[Lo
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  • Id
    ...e term from [[Nietzche]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Ego and the Id]]''. 1923b. [[SE]] XIX. p. 23</ref> ...mund Freud|The Ego and the Id]]''. 1923b. [[SE]] XIX. p. 23</ref> and used the term ''[[das Es]]'' to denote these forces.
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  • Psychosis
    ...bout]] by the [[foreclosure]] of a primordial [[signifier]], the [[Name-of-the-Father]]. ...e is a [[defense mechanism]] specific to [[psychosis]] on the grounds that the peculiarly invasive and devastating [[nature]] of psychotics' delusional sy
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  • Transference
    ...[[displacement]] of [[affect]] from one [[idea]] to another.<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]''. 1900a: [[SE]] V, 562</ref> ...to the [[patient]]'s [[relationship]] to the [[analyst]] as it develops in the [[treatment]].
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  • Object
    ...is employed in [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or attentions). ...tween persons and inanimate things: individuals, parts of the [[body]] and the [[satisfaction]] of [[need]]s can all be [[object]]s.
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  • Melancholia
    ...bed [[sleep]] patterns, and an improvement in [[clinical]] [[symptoms]] in the evening. ...haracteristic of melancholia: it can reverse itself spontaneously or under the effect of drug treatments, into a state of manic [[excitation]].
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  • Ego-ideal
    ...]]''), and [[superego]] (''[[Superego|Über-Ich]]''), although neither are the terms simply used interchangeably. [[Lacan]], however, argues that these three "[[ego-ideal|formations of the ego]]" are each quite distinct [[concepts]] which must not be confused with
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  • Ego
    ...]]'') can be translated into [[French]] by two [[words]]: ''[[ego|moi]]'' (the usual term which [[French]] [[psychoanalyst]]s use for [[Freud]]'s ''[[ego| ...in {{Ec}} pp. 93-100 ["[[The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience]]", trans. [[Alan Sheridan]], in
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  • Displacement
    For [[Freud]], [[displacement]] (a [[primary process]]) means the [[transference]] of [[physical]] intensities (1900a, p. 306) along an "asso ...[symptom]]s, in the [[dream work]], in the production of [[joke]]s, and in the [[transference]].
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  • Condensation
    [[Condensation]] is an essential aspect of the workings of the [[unconscious]] and especially of [[Dream Work|dream-work]], as described by [[psychoanal [[Condensation]] is one of the methods by which the [[repression|repressed]] [[return]]s in hidden ways.
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  • Repression
    The [[concept]] of [[repression]] is one of the most basic [[concepts]] in [[psychoanalytic theory]]. =====Unconscious=====
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  • Repetition
    ...''[[Wiederholungszwang]]'') -- is related to the '''[[death drive]]''' and the ''[[desire]] to [[return]] to an inorganic [[state]]''. ...[situation]], although he has [[memory|forgotten]] of [[scene|origins]] of the [[repetition|compulsion]].
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  • Sexual Difference
    The phrase "[[sexual difference]]", which has come into prominence in the debate between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[feminism]], is not part of [[Freud] ...ical]] consequences.<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. "The [[Dissolution]] of the Oedipus [[Complex]]." SE XIX, 183. 1925.</ref>
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  • Language
    It is important to note that the English word "[[language]]" corresponds to two [[French]] [[words]]: ''[[la ...nguage]], such as French or [[English]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]]
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  • Ethics
    ...ain Miller]]. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1986 [''[[Seminar VI|The Seminar. Book VI. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60]]''. Trans. Dennis Porter. [[London]]: Ro * the side of the [[analysand]] and
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  • Fantasy
    ...ty]], a purely [[illusory]] product of the [[imagination]] which stands in the way of a correct [[perception]] of reality. However, such a view of [[fant ...of [[past]] events are continually [[being]] reshaped in accordance with [[unconscious]] [[desire]]s, so much so that [[symptom]]s originate not in any supposed "
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  • Return to Freud
    ...n this [[project]] of close reading, and in the process would reconstitute the theory of psychoanalysis. ...ntellectual]] and [[theoretical]] legacy of [[Sigmund Freud]] (1856-1939), the founder [[father]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
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  • Subject
    The term "[[subject]]" is [[present]] from the very earliest of [[Lacan]]'s [[psychoanalytic]] writings,<ref>{{1932}}</ref This is a distinctive feature of [[Lacan]]'s work, since the term does not constitute part of [[Freud]]'s [[theoretical]] [[vocabulary]]
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  • Art
    ...[civilization|institutions]], and dedicated many papers to discussing both the [[process]] of [[art|artistic creation]] in general and certain [[art|works He explained [[art|artistic creation]] by reference to the [[concept]] of [[sublimation]], a process in which [[sexual]] [[libido]] is
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  • Adaptation
    ...gy|environment]]. [[Adaptation]] implies a [[harmonious]] relation between the ''[[Adaptation|Innenwelt]]'' (inner [[world]]) and ''[[adaptation|Umwelt]]' ...ology]] argues that the aim of [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is to help the [[patient]] adapt to [[reality]].
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  • Consciousness
    ...]'s remarks on [[consciousness]] far weaker than his formulations on the [[unconscious]]. ...an give a coherent, balanced account of the majority of [[other]] parts of the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]], when it's a question of consciousness, he always
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  • Countertransference
    ...e the [[analyst]]'s "[[countertransference|unconscious feelings]]" towards the [[patient]]. Although [[Freud]] only used the term very rarely, it became much more widely used in [[psychoanalytic theor
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  • Defence
    From his earliest works, [[Freud]] situated the [[concept]] of [[defence]] at the heart of his [[theory]] of [[neurosis]]. ...]] refers to the reaction of the [[ego]] to certain interior stimuli which the [[ego]] perceives as dangerous.
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  • Dialectic
    ...which an opponent in a debate is questioned in such a way as to bring out the contradictions in his [[discourse]]. This is the tactic which [[Plato]] ascribes to [[Socrates]], who is shown as beginning
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  • Discourse
    =====Discourse of the Other===== ...'[[intersubjectivity|transindividual]]'' [[nature]] of '''[[language]]''', the fact that '''[[speech]]''' always implies [[another]] [[subject]], an inter
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  • Enunciation
    The [[distinction]] between "''énoncé''" and "''énonciation''" is a common o ...tatement]]", refers to the actual [[words]] uttered, "''énonciation''" to the act of uttering [[them]].
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  • Existence
    The term "[[existence]]" is employed by [[Lacan]] in various ways: ...xt of [[Freud]]'s [[discussion]] of the "judgement of existence," by which the [[existence]] of an entity is affirmed prior to attributing any quality to
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  • Castration complex
    ...with a phantasy which positions the subject as not lacking which props up the ego as being of central importance. ...[[female]] [[biology|sexual organ]]s.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Infantile Genital Organization]]." 1923. [[SE]] XIX. p. 141</ref>
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  • Cause
    The [[concept]] of [[causality]] forms an important thread that runs throughout It first appears in the context of the question of the [[cause]] of [[psychosis]], which is a central concern of [[Lacan]]'s docto
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  • Cogito
    ...s attitude to [[Cartesian]]ism is extremely [[complex]], and only a few of the most important points can be summarised here. ...sparency|self-transparency]] of [[consciousness]], and the [[autonomy]] of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p. 6</ref>
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  • Communication
    # Firstly, they usually involve a reference to the [[category]] of intentionality, which is conceived of as coterminuous with ...cted Writings'', vol. II, ''[[Poetry]] of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry'', The [[Hague]]: Mouton, 1981, p. 21</ref>
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  • Unconscious
    ...ystems'' described by [[Freud]] in his [[topology|topographical model]] of the [[psyche]], his first [[theory]] of [[psyche|mental]] [[structure]]. [[Image:Freudpsyche.gif|thumb|300px|right|[[Unconscious|Freud's Model of the Unconscious]]]]
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  • Time
    One of the most distinctive features of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]] is [[Lacan]]'s app ...zed by two important innovations: the [[concept]] of [[logical time]], and the stress on [[retroaction]] and [[anticipation]].
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  • Split
    =====Splitting of the Ego===== ...[[disavowal]].<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence]]." [[SE]] XXIII, 1938. p. 273</ref>
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  • Structure
    In his [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|early work]], [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[structure]]" to refer to "[[structure|social structures]]" by which ...ofoundly than the [[adult]], and [[introjection|internalizes]] [[them]] in the [[complex]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.89</ref>.
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  • Speech
    The [[French]] term ''[[parole]]'' presents considerable difficulty to the [[English]] translator because it does not correspond to any one [[English] In some contexts it corresponds to the [[English]] term "[[speech]]," and in [[others]] is best translated as "[[w
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  • Sinthome
    The term [[sinthome]] is, as [[Lacan]] points out, an archaic way of writing wh ...vious [[seminar]]'s focus on the [[borromean knot]], and an exploration of the writings of [[James Joyce]].
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  • Signifier
    [[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|right|thumb|Saussurean algorithm|The Saussurean algorithm]] [[Lacan]] takes the term "[[signifier]]" from the [[work]] of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]].
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  • Signifying Chain
    ...desire]] is expressed through the associative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a chain reac ...cious signifiers are woven together through [[metonymy]] and [[metaphor]], the two functions that generate signifieds.
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  • Topology
    "[[Topology]]" is a branch of [[mathematics]] which deals with the properties of [[figures]] in [[topology|space]] where are preserved under a The [[notion]] of [[topology|space]] in [[topology]] is one of [[topology|topol
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  • Philosophy
    ...or equating the [[psyche]] with [[consciousness]] and thus excluding the [[unconscious]] on purely ''a priori'' grounds,<ref>{{F}} 1925e [1924]: [[SE]] XIX, 216-1 ...ll]] of philosophical references; indeed, this is often regarded as one of the features that distinguishes [[Lacan]] from other [[psychoanalytic]] thinker
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  • Quaternary
    ...s a predominance of triadic schemes in his [[work]], Lacan also insists on the importance of fourfold schemes: ...as, since the introduction of the [[unconscious]], always been required in the con- struction of a [[subjective]] ordering.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 774</ref></block
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  • Resistance
    [[Freud]] first used the term "[[resistance]]" to designate the unwillingness to [[recall]] [[repressed]] [[memories]] to [[consciousness]] ...tion]], the term soon came to denote all those obstacles that arise during the [[treatment]] and interrupt its [[progress]]:
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  • Sign
    [[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|thumb|200px|right|The Saussurean Sign]] According to [[Saussure]], the [[sign]] is the basic unit of [[language]]
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  • Privation
    ===Lack in the Real of a Symbolic Object=== ...n]] is defined as a [[lack]] in the [[real]] of a [[symbolic]] [[object]] (the [[symbolic]] [[phallus]]).
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  • Psychoanalysis
    ...[mental]] [[processes]] that are otherwise inaccessible because they are [[unconscious]]; # a therapeutic method for the treatment of [[neurotic]] disorders; and
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  • Schema L
    The various "[[schemata]]" that begin to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] in the 1950s are all attempts to [[formalize]] by means of [[diagrams]] certain as The [[schemata]] all consist of a [[number]] of points connected by a number of
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  • Science
    Both [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]] use the term "[[science]]" in the [[singular]], thus implying that there is a specific [[unified]], homogeneo ...ng to [[Lacan]], in the seventeenth century <ref>{{Ec}} p. 857</ref>, with the inauguration of modern physics.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 855</ref>.
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  • Pass
    ...a quasi-mystical, ineffable [[experience]],but must be (in accordance with the basic [[principle]] of [[psychoanalysis]])articulated in [[language]]. ...'s analysis is unique. If the the candidate was uccessful, he was accorded the title of A.E. ([[Analyste]] de L'…cole).
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  • No Subject
    [[Image:Borromean.Knot.Small.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Borromean knot|The Borromean knot]]]] The information is organized in the [[form]] of a hypertext, a cross-referential database with non-linear navig
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  • Jacques Lacan:Chronology
    He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the '''Collège Stanislas'''.<ref>An ambitious student, he excelled in [[religi ...[[Lacan]] begins his [[treatment|clincial training]] in [[psychiatry]] at the [[Sainte-Anne hospital]], where he would later teach.
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  • Cogito and the Unconscious
    Žižek, S. (ed.) (1998) [[Cogito]] and the [[Unconscious]], Durham: Duke of the cogito and of [[transcendental]] [[subjectivity]] generally. At the heart
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  • The Subject
    What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? ...us]] ‘i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expelled from itself.
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  • Jacques Lacan Books2
    ...</b> and <a href="papin.htm"><b>[[Motives of Paranoiac Crime: The Crime of the Papin Sisters]]</b></a>, transl. by Jon Anderson in <i>Critical [[Texts]]</ <b>The [[Family]] [[Complexes]]</b>, transl. by Carolyn Asp in <i>Critical Texts</
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  • Méconnaissance
    ...d]]. The [[sense]] is of a "failure to recognize", or "misconstruction". The [[concept]] is central to [[Lacan]]'s [[thinking]], since, for him, [[knowl ...[Lacan]] into [[English]] in order to show its close [[relationship]] with the term ''[[connaissance]]'' ("[[knowledge]]").
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  • Extimacy
    ...]]'' by applying the prefix ''ex'' -- from ''exterieur'', "exterior" -- to the [[Freud]] [[word]] ''intimité'' -- "intimacy". ...lish]], neatly expresses the way in which [[psychoanalysis]] problematizes the opposition between "[[inside]]" and "[[outside]]"<ref>{{S7}} p. 139</ref>
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  • Forclusion
    forclusion (a term in use in the [[French]] [[legal]] [[system]]; in [[English]], '[[foreclosure]] ) as the best way of translating Verwerfung into French (S3, 321). It is this term
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  • Jacques Lacan:Seminars
    || [[Seminar II|'''<u><big>The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis</big></u>''']]<BR> ''[[Seminar II|Le moi dans l || [[Seminar III|'''<u><big>The Psychoses</big></u>''']]<BR>''[[Seminar III|Les psychoses]]''
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  • Freud's papers on technique
    ...tion. He doesn't have to [[guide]] the subject to [[knowledge]], but on to the paths by which access to this knowledge is gained. Psychoanalysis is a dial ...foreclosure]]" ([[forclusion]]), the former [[being]] related to neurosis, the latter to psychosis.
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  • The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
    Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. ...in his first seminar between [[discourse analysis]] and the [[analysis of the ego]], both in relation to [[psychoanalytical theory]] and [[practice]].
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  • Seminar III
    ...dding-left:10px;"| ''[[Seminar III|Les psychoses]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar III|The Psychoses]]</big> ...ure]]'''. By way of [[foreclosure]] of the [[signifier]] of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] it is possible to [[understand]] [[psychosis]] and distinguish it
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  • Seminar V
    ...formations de l'inconscient]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]]</big> ...ubstitute]] [[word]]s appear and function like "the [[metonymic]] ruins of the [[object]]."
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  • Seminar:Transference
    ...ticulates the [[objet a]] with agalma, the [[object of desire]] we seek in the [[other]]. ...hat it will be stronger than passions. Lacan calls it the desire proper to the analyst.
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  • Seminar IX
    ...ation]] isolated by [[Freud]] in <i>[[Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego]]</i> (1921, S.E. XVIII), he finds: ...ntrojection]] of the [[father]]'s mark, "An [[identity]] of body [[links]] the [[Father]] of all [[times]] to all those who descend from Him."
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  • Seminar VIII
    ...[objet a]]</i> with <i>[[agalma]]</i>, the [[object of desire]] we seek in the [[other]]. ...ill be stronger than passions. [[Lacan]] calls it the [[desire]] proper to the [[analyst]].
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  • The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
    Book XI: The Four Fundamental [[Concepts]] of Psychoanalysis ...[[Fernand Braudel]]) and a new younger audience, [[Lacan]] talks [[about]] the [[censorship]] of his [[teachings]] and his [[excommunication]] from [[offi
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  • Seminar XII
    ...as the maze of the torus or of the spiral of the demand on the surface of the [[Klein]] bottle. These [[figure]] though constructed in a simple and [[com ...ce and [[looking]] for it in the dephts is to miss it. As the two sides of the [[Moebius Strip|Moebius strip]] are continuous, so structure is continuous
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  • Seminar XIII
    ...;"| ''[[Seminar XIII|L'objet de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar XIII|The Object of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...of the subject-supposed-to-[[know]] (the subject of science) who restores the prestige of <i>mé[[connaissance]]</i> by [[thinking]] that he is uniting k
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  • The psychoanalytic act
    ...is not a "[[sexual]] act," [[Lacan]] questions the [[difference]] between the act, ''[[l'acte]]'' and a mere [[action]], ''agir''. ...a [[recognition]], which entail ''[[repetition]]'' and the inscription in the [[Other]].
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  • The reverse of psychoanalysis
    ...itioned where knowledge [[acts]] as truth. [[Psychoanalysis]] consolidates the law." ...self in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absent]] from the field of the signifier.
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  • Seminar I
    .... He doesn't have to [[guide]] the [[subject]] to [[knowledge]], but onto the paths by which access to this [[knowledge]] is gained. [[Psychoanalysis]] ...foreclosure]]" (''forclusion''), the former being related to [[neurosis]], the latter to [[psychosis]].</span>
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  • Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
    ...the yet-unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that people thought, behaved, and learned about sexuality; this influen
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  • Totem and Taboo
    ...rk presents an analogy between two [[terms]]: on the one hand, savages, on the [[other]], neurotics and [[children]]. ...ing in the first essay where the resemblance between the two is related to the [[horror]] of [[incest]] that Freud [[identified]] in savages by analyzing
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  • Civilization and Its Discontents
    ...[German language|German]] in [[1930]] as ''Das Unbehagen in der Kultur'' ("The Uneasiness in [[Culture]]") and is considered to be one of [[Freud]]'s most ...]'' and the [[idea]] of a [[death instinct]] first developed in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]''.
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  • Moses and Monotheism
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  • The Interpretation of Dreams
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  • Seminar XI
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  • Seminar II
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  • Seminar XV
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  • Psychoanalytic Theory
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  • Ego Psychology
    ...ngthening the ego so it could better cope with the pressures from [[The Id|the id]], [[super-ego]], and [[society]] in general. ...t. According to [[Hartmann]], psychoanalytic [[treatment]] aims to expand the conflict-free sphere of ego functioning. By doing so, Hartmann believed, [
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  • Sigmund Freud
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  • Linguistics
    ...a [[psychotic]] [[woman]] in his [[doctoral dissertation]], it is only in the early 1950s that he begins to articulate his views of [[language]] in [[ter ...[[work]] of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] who, in the 1940s, had begun to apply the methods of [[structure|structural]] [[linguistics]] to non-linguistic [[cul
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  • Judith Butler
    ...sity]] of California, Berkeley. She also has a professorial appointment at the European Graduate [[School]]. ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek==
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  • Cognitivism/Neuroscience
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  • Gilles Deleuze
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  • Georg Lukács
    ...genre]]. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of [[Culture]] following the [[1956 Hungarian Revolution]]. ...|Hungarian]] was '''Szegedi Lukács György Bernát'''; he published under the names Georg or György Lukács. (Lukács is pronounced [[International Phon
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  • Agency
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  • Orders
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  • Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
    ...t controversial and contested area of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]] involves the conceptualization of [[feminine]] [[sexuality]]. ...hinking. For Freud the question of [[sexual differences]] revolved around the '[[castration]] [[complex]]', that is, around whether or not someone 'has'
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  • Femininity
    ...her gets out of us', or 'our enjoyment of the Other', or 'our enjoyment as the Other' (2002:38). All are possible readings of Lacan's [[formula]]. Fink al ...ance from [[seminar]] XX is of the statue 'The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa' by the Italian Baroque sculptor Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). This piece shows St T
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  • Lacanian Psychoanalysis
    ...] of his day. Marx [[thought]] his discovery using [[Hegelian]] notions of the [[subject]]. It is fascinating to read how Althusser sees Lacan as [[being] A few years later, during the May ‚68 uprising, it was felt by many
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  • Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
    ...[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. =The Oedipus Complex=
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  • Jacques Lacan:The Subject of the Unconscious
    THE UNCONSCIOUS AS GAP OR RUPTURE The [[unconscious]] must "be apprehended in its [[experience]] of rupture, between [[percepti
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  • Jacques Lacan:Real
    ...ch of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes]]' exquisite final book Camera Lucida. =The real is always in its place=
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  • Matheme
    ...stem]]s).<ref>[[Claude Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [[matheme]]s are part of [[algebra|Lacanian algebra]]. ...-Strauss]] to denote the basic constituents of mythological systems.</ref> the term is an equivalent to "[[algebra|mathematical sign]]". It is not used i
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  • Racism
    =Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Imperative to Enjoyment!= The [[unconscious]], psychic, aspects of these [[processes]] are exemplary of superegoic stru
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    =Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Imperative to Enjoyment!= The [[unconscious]], psychic, aspects of these [[processes]] are exemplary of superegoic stru
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  • Politics
    ...erals]] are more or less [[satisfied]] with the ''status quo'' and against the radical [[act]].<ref>[[Contingency]] 127-8</ref> Like [[Hegel]]'s "[[Beautiful Soul]]", liberals wring their hands over the current [[state]] of affairs while in fact benefiting under it and passivel
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  • Repeating Lenin (Essay)
    ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...de: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democratic "post-ideological" consensus — or it means
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  • Self-Deceptions
    ...on who claims he is cured of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you should always counter such claims with a simple, yet ...turica, coming from an ethnically mixed Muslim-Serb [[family]], has chosen the Serb identity).
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  • The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
    The [[Matrix]], or two sides of [[Perversion]] ...udo-sophisticated intellectualist readings which [[project]] into the film the refined [[philosophical]] or [[psychoanalytic]] [[conceptual]] distinctions
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  • Human Rights and Its Discontents
    Thank you for the kind invitation. ...pation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politicians to press such buttons. But some things are exclud
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  • Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
    [[Kant]] and [[Sade]]: The [[Ideal]] Couple ...is [[Seminar]] on The Ethics of [[Psychoanalysis]] (1958-59)1, and then in the [[Écrits]] "[[Kant with Sade]]" of 19632.
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  • The Interpassive Subject
    ...ething similar) a king, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-[[symbolic]] relations; etc.etc. ...lism]]) are stand-ins for [[the big Other]]. So, what one should answer to the [[conservative]] platitude according to which every honest man has a profou
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  • Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
    GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? ..., no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Ja
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  • Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
    ...e figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? Is she not also a capricious [[Master]] who wants it all ...ting point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic order.<br><br>
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  • The Cyberspace Real
    ...] two dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...tours of a new space of symbolic fictions in which we fully participate in the mode [[disavowal]], i.e. [[being]] aware that "this is not real life."
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  • From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
    ...y, it supplements our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the trademarks of [[true]] modernism. ...asies — as if the very [[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[r
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  • Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
    ..."A child is being beaten" which, as [[Freud]] emphasizes, is so radically unconscious that it cannot ever be remembered: This second [[phase]] is the most important and the most momentous of all. But we may say that in a certain [[sense]] it has ne
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  • Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
    ...makon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...and]] for what Etienne [[Balibar]] called egaliberte. For that [[reason]], the political use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of f
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  • A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
    ...n, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is to be and act as a racist is a pr ...us then fearlessly evoke Lenin at his worst-say, his [[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in
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  • From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
    ...fe of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...nscious "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:
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  • You May
    ...ymbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impul ...g there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[a
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  • The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
    ==The Parallax View= = ===The Tickling Object===
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  • Move the Underground!
    ...ositive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying non-played "silent" virtual notes or their absence. ...the underground," disturb the implicit homosexual practices which SUSTAIN the explicit homophobia.
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  • Iraq's False Promises
    ...twisted [[logic]] of dreams can explain why the United States thinks that the [[aggressive]] pursuit of contradictory goals-promoting [[democracy]], affi ...ecisely what it endeavors to deny: that you, in fact, did borrow and break the kettle.
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  • What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
    ...n’t even control themselves!” When the scandalous news broke [[about]] the weird things going on in Baghdad’s [[Abu Ghraib]] prison, we got a glimps ...would have done what cops usually do—plant drugs and then “discover” the evidence of crime.)
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  • Death's Merciless Love
    ...the incestuous wish is [[repressed]] and [[displaced]]. And it seems that the very designation of Hamlet as an [[obsessional]] [[neurotic]] points in thi ...]] in [[order]] to encode insights into fundamental libidinal deadlocks of the [[human]] [[race]]?<br><br>
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  • Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
    ...stas. So their theoretical limitation is simultaneously the limitation of the actual movement.<br><br> ...b><a name="4x"></a><a href="#4">4</a></b></tt> only becomes possible when "the multitude is finally able to rule itself." <tt><b><a name="5x"></a><a href=
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  • Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
    ...not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...r of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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  • Lenin Shot at Finland Station
    ...ity and that [[nothing]] is preordained, [[political]] lethargy – one of the scourges of our day – should be banished, since it means that in [[human] ...ion had been decided in advance not only not lead to lethargy, but sustain the most powerful mobilisation of human resources ever experienced?
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  • Seminar VII
    ..."| ''[[Seminar VII|L'éthique de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar VII|The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...in at all. Both have rejected the [[right]] to live in [[order]] to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - ''entre-deux-morts'' - that is immortality.
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  • Oedipus complex
    ...]] is probably one of the most popularized and at the same [[time]] one of the most misunderstood [[ideas]] of [[psychoanalysis]]. --> ...e sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex.
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  • Religion
    ...[[atheist]]. [[Freud]] regarded [[monotheistic]] forms of [[religion]] as the [[sign]] of a highly developed [[state]] of [[civilization]]. [[Freud]] [[ ...longing for a protective [[father]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Future of an Illusion]]''. 1927. [[SE]] XXI, 3.</ref> [[Freud]] described
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  • Dream
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  • Castration
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  • The unconscious is the discourse of the Other
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  • Roger Caillois
    ...d]]. He was also instrumental in introducing [[Latin]] American authors to the French [[public]]. ...le Normale Supérieure]], graduating in [[1933]]. After this he studied at the [[École Pratique des Hautes Études]] where he came into contact with thin
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  • Preconscious
    ...ing unconscious that can easily [[exchange]] the unconscious condition for the [[conscious]] one, is better described as "capable of entering consciousnes ...g]] loosely, or when we have to [[defend]] in general the [[existence]] of unconscious [[processes]] in [[mental]] [[life]].<ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 3</ref></blockquote>
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  • Surrealism
    ...owever, offered the young Lacan an alternative route to psychoanalysis and the crucial link to his [[clinical]] [[practice]] in [[psychiatry]]. ...sis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement.
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  • Penis-envy
    ...art in it-the [[child]] has not yet discovered it. All the accent falls on the [[male]] organ, and all interest is concentrated on whether it is [[present ...]]. We call this [[infantile]] wish "penis-[[envy]]" and include it within the [[castration]] [[complex]]....<ref>{{TIAE}}</ref></blockquote>
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  • Voyeurism
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  • Carl Gustav Jung
    ...]] and would benefit from integrating spirituality and appreciation of the unconscious realm. Interestingly, Jungian [[ideas]] are not typically included in curr * [[Archetype|The Archetype]]
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  • Seduction
    ...]] of seduction" connotes attempts at seduction, [[real]] or fantasied, in the [[form]] of advances, incitations, manipulations, or suggestions that are a ...on these clinical observations, he worked out a theory designed to explain the [[repression]] of [[infantile]] [[sexuality]]. On September 21, 1897, in a
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  • René Descartes
    ...us subject, and this subject first emerged in the seventeenth century with the founder of modern philosophy René Descartes (1596-1650). The [[subject]]
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  • The Pope's Failures
    ...l]], and its nod toward [[liberal]] sensibility, betrayed what was best in the late pope, his <i>intractable</i> [[ethics|ethical]] stance.</p> ...]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unexpectedly meets the lowest [[pop psychology]].
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  • The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
    ...it, either in the guise of the [[primitive]] [[Other]] or in the guise of the impersonal "one" ("one believes...").</p> ...they're [[being]] preyed upon. They are beating, they are raping them in the streets." In an interview just weeks later, he conceded that some of his m
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  • The Empty Wheelbarrow
    ...cial]] and professional [[identity]], so that they can only be accepted at the price of a special qualification. ...dicalism, in [[love]] with paradoxical formulations that flatly contradict the obvious. When faced with fundamental [[liberal]]-democratic tenets, they di
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  • Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
    overheard a young man asking one of the staff: 'I just finished <i>Mrs de Winter</i>. Is it [[true]] ...quel to [[another]] book?' This was for me a depressing [[encounter]] with the
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  • The Thing from Inner Space
    ...[[films]] whose narrative deals with some impossible/traumatic Thing, like the [[Alien]] Thing in [[science]]-[[fiction]] [[horror]] films.<br> ...e [[stain]] of [[the Real]]) instead of Nothing" is perhaps at the root of the metaphysical question "Why is there something instead of nothing?"
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  • You May!
    ...ymbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impul ...g there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[a
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  • The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
    ...pseudo-sophisticated intellectualist readings which project into the film the refined philosophical or psychoanalytic conceptual distinctions.(1)<br> ...is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br>
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  • Against The Double Blackmail
    ...] will be that Milosevic will be proclaimed the [[political]] blunderer of the year. ...or some [[form]] of radical decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.
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  • From Proto-Reality to the Act
    ...criticism of my [[reading]] of [[Schelling]] is that, by way of asserting the [[irreconcilable]] gap in all its guises-the distance that forever separates the radically inert,
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  • Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
    The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] ...makon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice.
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  • The Big Other Doesn't Exist
    ...cause]] of its inaccessibility into a despotic [[figure]] which stands for the primordial jouisseur: we cannot [[enjoy]] because HE amasses all [[enjoymen ...of the Betrayal of the Great Man, which can only assure his Fame, resides the ultimate mystery of [[Power]].
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  • Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
    ..."A child is being beaten" which, as [[Freud]] emphasizes, is so radically unconscious that it cannot ever be remembered: This second [[phase]] is the most important and the most momentous of all. But we may say that in a certain [[sense]] it has ne
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  • Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
    Geert Lovink: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country? ...tern [[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions use
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  • Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
    ...p><i><b>Editors' Note: Slavoj</b> [[Zizek]], a leading [[intellectual]] in the new [[social]] movements of Eastern and Central [[Europe]], is a researcher at the Institute
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  • From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
    ...fe of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...nscious "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:
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  • Hysteria and Cyberspace
    ...sion, that - in contrast to the popular, exoticising readings of the net - the predominant [[psychic]] [[economy]] of electronic networks is a [[hysterica ...a more or less predominant use of [[conspiracy theories]] to [[interpret]] the modern [[world]]...
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  • Democracy
    ...[[guarantee]] that [[antagonisms]] are fully absorbed into the “rules of the [[game]].”’’’ ...hy should it not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’’’<ref>[[How Much Democracy
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  • Anarchy
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  • Knowledge
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  • Transgression
    ...gative]] one, in opposition to taboo (a term that was itself borrowed from the Polynesian [[language]]), [[prohibition]], and law. ...nt]] and in conflictual [[unconscious]] functioning, not to mention within the [[psychoanalytic]] [[process]] itself.
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  • Illusion
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  • Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
    ...d of the [[right]] to train students, Lacan was then obliged to break with the [[official]] institution,<ref>Cf. Elisabeth Roudinesco, ''La [[Bataille]] d ...'s diary, conserved in his archives, indicate; quite plausibly they met in the course of a dinner on December 3.''
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  • Works of Slavoj Zizek
    The [[Sublime]] [[Object]] of [[Ideology]], New York: Verso, 1989. ...[theory]] which he returns to [[time]] and again - that the [[subject]] is the subject of a [[void]].
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  • Slavoj Žižek - Bibliography
    * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto]]'''''. * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Incontinence of the Void]]'''''.
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  • Cogito and The Unconscious
    [[Image:Cogito.And.The.Unconscious.jpg|200px|thumb|Book Cover]] ...an render [[visible]] a constitutive [[madness]] within modern philosophy, the point at which "I think, therefore I am" becomes [[obsessional]] [[neurosis
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  • Never Mind the Bollocks
    ...glish]] and astonishing intensity is talking [[about]] Mary Kay Letourneau the 36 year old [[school]] teacher imprisoned in Seattle earlier this year for ...about his [[relationship]] with Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of an [[ideological]] [[statement]]. He'll tell a
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  • Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
    he was simply playing [[games]] with the [[Paris]] [[intellectual]] [[community]] to concerning thought (at the latter's 1968 presentation at MIT), received
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  • Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
    ...cure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...from scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>
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  • Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
    ...rative was itself a part and which must ultimately be explained because of the '[[Jewish]] conspiracy' (TS, 179).<br><br> ...this relationship, is that medium through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signif
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  • Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
    <b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...hat 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>
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  • Introduction To Jacques Lacan
    ...analyst]] since [[Freud]]. [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as [[literature]], * the [[imaginary]] and the [[symbolic]]
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  • Literature
    ...pleasure," and that the [[true]] [[enjoyment]] of literature proceeds from the release of tensions in our minds.<ref>{{RPDD}}</ref></blockquote> ...ch]] alone its [[instrument]], its [[content]], its [[material]], and even the background noise of its uncertainties" (1977, p. 147/494)?
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  • Foreclosure
    ...t of [[identifying]] a specific [[psychical]] cause for [[psychosis]]. In the course of addressing this problem, two themes are constant. ==The Exclusion of the Father==
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  • Seduction theory
    ...by [[Freud]] but is commonly employed to describe his first [[theory]] of the origins of [[neurosis]], which holds that all [[neuroses]] can be traced ba ...implies an improbably high incidence of sexual abuse and of [[incest]] on the part of fathers.
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  • Phenomenology
    ...e the late eighteenth century and in [[psychiatry]] since the beginning of the twentieth. In [[philosophy]], the [[word]] was introduced by the [[German]] Johann Heinrich Lambert as a designation for an empirical descri
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  • Guilt
    ...ulting from [[conflict]] between the aims of the [[superego]] and those of the ego. ...le. Its current definition implies an unconscious [[relationship]] between the ego and superego expressed in [[subjective]] phenomena from which, in extre
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  • Wilhelm Reich
    ...ike [[cancer]] or [[control]] the weather. His views were not accepted by the mainstream [[scientific]] [[community]]. ...he injunction, Reich conducted his own [[defense]], which involved sending the judge all his books to read. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
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  • Christian Metz
    ...Christian]] Metz''' is a [[France|French]] [[film critic]], best known for the application of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]'s theories of [[Semiotics]] to [[f ...mperfect [[reflection]] of [[reality]] and as a method to delve into the [[unconscious]] [[dream]] [[state]].
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  • Anna Freud
    ...in [[Vienna]], she followed the path of her [[father]] and contributed to the newly born field of [[psychoanalysis]]. ...analyst]], youngest daughter of [[Sigmund Freud]] and founder, in 1947, of the Hampstead Child [[Therapy]] [[Clinic]].
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  • Uncanny
    In "[[The Uncanny]]" [[Freud]] seeks to explain the [[feeling]] of uncanniness. [[Freud]] attibutes the feeling to a [[repressed]] [[infantile]] [[complex]] that has been revived.
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  • Écrits
    ...e]]", for example, is only seven pages long, while "[[The Signification of the Phallus]]" is just nine, but each of these papers has generated volumes of ...as this is not yet the [[case]] all references in this introduction are to the Sheridan edition.
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  • The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
    ''O cities of the sea, I behold in you your citizens, women as well as men tightly bound with ...between writing (l'&eacute;crit) and speech - it will be half-way between the two.
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  • The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
    ...age en psychana­lyse]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. Paris: Seuil, 1966: 237-322 ["[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]]." Trans. [[Al ...sychoanalysis|Rome Discourse]] came to be seen as the founding document of the [[SFP]], and of a new direction in [[psychoanalysis]].
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  • Kant with Sade
    ...repeated endlessly among literary types; the fault, as always, belongs to the specialists. ...years for Freud's path to be passable. Count sixty more for someone to say the reason for all of that.
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  • Tuché and Automaton
    ...on]] - God is un</i><i>[[conscious]] - The </i>[[objet]] [[petit a]] <i>in the </i>[[fort-da]]<p> ...ation of the [[concept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>
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  • The Topic of the Imaginary
    </p><h3 align="center">The topic of the [[imaginary]]</h3><br> INTRODUCTION OF THE INVERTED BOUQUET<br>
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  • Desire, Life and Death
    ...I happened to come across it - the example of [[Oedipus]] finding his end, the beyond of Oedipus.<br></dd></dl></blockquote> ...x]] isn't a coincidence. [[Another]] one could have been chosen, since all the heroes of Greek mythology have some sort of connection with this [[myth]],
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  • The Jouissance of Transgression
    The <i>[[jouissance]] </i>of [[transgression]]</font><br> THE BARRIER TO <i>JOUISSANCE<br>
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  • Nature of the Linguistic Sign
    NATURE OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGN<a></a></font><p></p></h3></center><font size="+1"><br> </font><blockquote><blockquote><font size="+1">[Saussure introduces the structuralist point of view into
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  • The Anamorphosis
    <dl><dd><i>Of the foundation of [[consciousness]] - The privilege of the [[gaze]] as </i>[[objet]] a -<br> </dd><dd><i>The [[optics]] of the blind - The [[phallus]] in the picture</i><p><br>
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  • Italian Note
    ...the seat of the psychoanalytical speech, it is time to put it at the test: the use will slice of its balance. That it thinks - “with its feet”, it is what is with the range to be it speaking as soon as it vagit.
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  • Jacques Lacan:Bibliography
    || [[Le savoir du psychanalyste|The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst]] || [[Seminar XX|The Seminar XX, Encore On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge]]
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  • Action
    ...dy]] of [[thought]] in [[psychoanalysis]] concerning [[them]], in spite of the rather fragmentary references found in [[Freud]] and subsequent attempts to ...ars in the "Project": "The initial [[helplessness]] of [[human]] beings is the [[primal]] source of all [[moral]] motives."
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  • Automaton
    The term <i>'[[automaton]]'</i> is introduced by [[Aristotle]] in the second book of ''[[Physics]]''. [[Lacan]] then employed [[Aristotle]]’s term ''[[automaton]]'' to describe the ‘engine’ of [[repetition]].
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  • Cure
    ...urotic]] [[patients]], who had found no relief through rest-cures, through the [[arts]] of hydropathy or through electricity" (1919g, p. 259). ...doned these techniques. He was more concerned with deeper causes and, from the [[time]] of Studies on [[Hysteria]], he limited his own influence: "[Y]ou w
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  • Infans
    ...and refers to the [[baby]] before the acquisition of [[speech]] that marks the entry into [[childhood]].</p> ...of the [[mother]]-[[infant]] relation in [[terms]] of [[discourse]] (with the mother as "[[word]]-bearer").
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  • Body Image
    ...nous zones]], their representations and importance in the [[formation]] of the body image. The body image is constantly [[being]] created and recreated. Caresses...
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  • Death and Psychoanalysis
    ...e first refers to the make-up of the unconscious [[system]] and especially the fact that it ignores [[time]] and its passage, and more radically, [[negati ...Freud mentions in The [[Interpretation]] of Dreams (1900a) is the dream of the death of loved ones.
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  • Defense
    ...the [[superego]]. Melanie [[Klein]] then formed the more radical view that the defenses [[exist]] within an archaic ego. ...ng, "[[Surplus]] of sexuality alone is not enough to [[cause]] repression; the cooperation of defense is necessary" (p. 188).
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  • Death Instinct
    ...ruction]] and [[mastery]] or the will to [[power]]: this is sadism proper; the part that remains "[[inside]]" is primary erogenous masochism. ...cease to hold and the [[compulsion]] to [[repeat]] would no longer possess the importance we have ascribed to it" (p. 44).
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  • Déjà Vu
    ...time. Sigmund Freud believed the feeling corresponded to the memory of an unconscious daydream. ...''Psychopathology of Everyday Life'' (1901b) as part of the discussion of the superstition that can be associated with this mysterious feeling. Freud quo
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  • Collective Unconscious
    ...not a personal acquisition but is inborn...universal...[and] more or less the same everywhere and in all individuals." ([[Jung]], 1934 [[[1948]]]). The term collective unconscious was first...
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  • Displacement of the Transference
    ...y [[other]] activity and [[relationship]] which may occupy his [[life]] at the [[time]]" (p. 151). ...ion with an archaic [[imago]] that is too threatening), may also interrupt the [[analytic]] [[process]] if it becomes too fixed and impervious to [[interp
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  • Double
    ...narcissistic]] extension and [[guarantee]] of immortality, but which, with the [[withdrawal]] of [[narcissism]], becomes a foreshadowing of [[death]], a s ...an [[image]] of terror, just as, after the collapse of their [[religion]], the gods turned into demons." (1910).
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  • Dream Interpretation
    ...am's functions and of the dreamwork outlined in [[Freud]]'s great [[work]] The Interpretation of [[Dreams]] (1900a). This book was based in large part on ...repressed desires whose satisfaction is forbidden during the waking state. The conflicts involved may be expressed in unpleasant or anxiety-provoking drea
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  • Cocaine
    ...and [[psychoanalysis]] goes back to [[Freud]]'s research in which he used the substance as an ophthalmic anesthetic. [[Freud]] conducted research into the [[physiological]] [[action]] of the drug with a view to using it for therapeutic purposes.
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  • Female Sexuality
    ...ces between the sexes in this [[regard]], and hence too the specificity of the female [[Oedipus]] [[complex]]. [[Penis envy]] and the [[castration complex]] play the major, organizing roles that made access to [[femininity]] possible.
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  • Feminism and Psychoanalysis
    ...ed, [[feminist]] movements have tended to equate what Freud said [[about]] the hysterics and his [[other]] female [[patients]] as prescriptions for patria Feminist movements, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, were hostile...
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  • Interpretation
    =====Role of the Analyst===== The [[role]] of the [[analyst]] in the [[treatment]] is twofold.
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  • Jokes
    ...d to provide pleasure through the simple and disinterested [[activity]] of the psychic [[apparatus]]" (1905c). ...and [[schizophrenia]]), though not in respect to work on [[literature]] or the [[development]] of [[civilization]].
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  • Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
    ...of [[Dreams]] (1900), a [[text]] already containing a reference to wit in the [[structure]] of dreams. ...s]] is as essential here as it was in Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and The [[Psychopathology]] of Everyday [[Life]] (1901).
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  • Incest
    ...ing to custom or [[morality]], and embodied in law. In [[psychoanalysis]], the term is also and especially discussed in [[terms]] of [[fantasy]] and [[psy [[Freud]] mentioned incest for the first [[time]] in his correspondence with Wilhelm [[Fliess]] (Draft N, date
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  • Latent
    ...[[interpretation]] discovers in the [[manifest]] dream (the [[narrative]] the dreamer constructs of his dream). [[Freud]] introduced the contrast between manifest and latent in The Interpretation of [[Dreams]] (1900a), and he never abandoned this [[distinc
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  • Latent Dream Thoughts
    ...[[Freud]]; while the term as a [[whole]] has a very definite [[meaning]], the same cannot be said for "thoughts." ...[[Dreams]] (1900a), and in his [[case]] histories of [[Dora]] (1905e) and the "[[Wolf Man]]" (1918b).
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  • Law of the Father
    ..., their [[suppression]] and [[sublimation]], are the principal outcomes of the [[conflict]] that connects [[them]] structurally to this law. ...ortant to differentiate the [[real]] Father, the [[imaginary]] Father, and the [[symbolic]] Father.
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  • Libidinal Development
    ...], the adolescent [[phase]], and the resulting [[genital]] organization of the [[adult]] and [[choice]] of [[object]]. ...he [[notion]] of [[dreams]] having a meaning and the [[existence]] of an [[unconscious]] psychic [[life]].
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  • Libidinal Stage
    ...[[excitation]] is centered and around which [[fantasies]] are constructed. The [[notion]] of [[stages]] does not imply any strictly [[chronological]] sequ .... He also saw the [[process]] of [[repression]] as closely associated with the relinquishment of one such zone in favor of [[another]].
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  • Knot
    ...an]] to define the [[relationship]] of the [[symbolic]], the [[real]], and the [[imaginary]]. ...o describe the relations between the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]], and the [[real]].
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  • Wish-Fulfillment
    ...[[imagination]] in a more or less disguised way. From this point of view, the fulfillment in question is neither [[total]] nor definitive, but unique and ...uer]]), who dreamed he was in the hospital so as not to have to wake up in the morning ([[Letter]] of March 4, 1895, p. 114).
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  • Word-Presentation
    ...ssigned a special [[role]] to verbal language in the [[mechanism]] whereby unconscious [[processes]] became conscious. ...not in things prior to the advent of language but rather in thought before the advent of [[words]].
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  • Parricide
    ...murder of the father (or, more generally, of a [[male]] progenitor) and to the murderer. ...ief precondition of [[psychoanalytic]] [[thought]] and "the main source of the [[sense]] of [[guilt]]" (1928b [1927], p. 183).
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  • Process
    ...cess]], in contrast to the [[secondary process]] which regulates events in the preconscious or ego.<ref>{{OoPA}} Ch. 4</ref></blockquote>
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  • Marxism and Psychoanalysis
    ...eings, there are also [[psychological]] conditions that are independent of the former. ...an Marxism," despite its [[heterogeneity]]. Particularly productive during the 1920s and 1930s, this approach was notably illustrated by Wilhelm [[Reich]]
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  • Mastery
    ...my]], and obstinacy. All three are marked by mastery, and they result from the [[sublimation]] of anal erotism. ...demonstrated by Freud makes it possible to see, throughout this [[chain]], the importance of phenomena of mastery in gifts, indebtedness, and exchanges.
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  • Memory
    The term "[[memory]]" is used in two different ways in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of J ...]] is [[understood]] as a phenomenon of the [[symbolic order]], related to the [[signifying chain]].
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  • The Language of Psycho-Analysis
    [[Language]] of [[Psychoanalysis]], The ...ready to track down contradictions. Basing this book almost exclusively on the work of...
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  • Myth of Origins
    ...netic myth—the foundational [[role]] of the [[drives]] as a substrate of the [[psyche]]; and [[primal]] [[fantasies]] and/or fantasies of origins. ...est]]. This [[symbolic]] pact and the rules that result from it constitute the beginnings of society.
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  • Idealization
    ...turns to one's first [[love]]" (1905d, p. 154). This attitude reappears in the subject's passionate [[dependence]] on an idealized object. ...effects in [[reality]], both for the subject and those around the subject. The latter are at [[times]] [[forced]] to conform with an [[alienating]] [[imag
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  • Oceanic Feeling
    ...for personal salvation, etc.—the simple and direct fact of a feeling of 'the eternal' (which may very well not be eternal, but simply without perceptibl ...]: The [[Life]] of Ramakrishna (1929/1931) and The Life of Vivekananda and the [[Universal]] Gospel (1930/1947). He sent these works to Freud, providing h
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  • Primal Repression
    ...mplements the [[work]] of [[rejection]] performed by the [[censorship]] or the ego by way of "repression proper" or "after-pressure" (1915d, p. 148). ...tion and repulsion as directed toward the [[psychical]] representatives of the [[instinct]].
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  • Mourning
    ...le, within a period of time that cannot be shortened, to [[separate]] from the [[lost object]]. ...reness]] of the loss of the object are experienced in sequence. Eventually the mental changes occur that allow attachment to new [[objects]] to develop.
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  • Primitive Horde
    ...tate]] of [[nature]], ultimately unknowable, and the state of [[culture]]. The [[word]] has also been used by some ethnologists to characterize groups tha ...uch the females in my camp,' which was accompanied by the [[expulsion]] of the adolescent sons."
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  • Psychic Reality
    ...]], [[psychic]] reality, from an [[epistemological]] standpoint, refers to the "[[object]]" that [[psychoanalysis]] attempts to characterize, [[understand ...her]] [[words]], seem more "[[real]]" than reality itself. From the outset the
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  • Psychosexual Development
    ...arrival of [[puberty]] and a final [[phase]] of [[libidinal]] development, the [[genital]] phase. ...y]] as [[being]] [[active]] from the beginning of [[life]]. This broadened the [[notion]] of sexuality, giving it a range of extension that is specific to
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  • Psychotic Defenses
    ...o avoid or circumscribe conflicts encountered in his [[relationship]] with the [[external]] [[world]]. ...o at all. But from the [[moment]] at which this has been successfully done the subject is in [[psychosis]]" (p. 58)—to which he added in 1896 that "<i>[
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  • The Question of Lay Analysis
    ...iennese city councilor for [[welfare]], with whom he had in fact discussed the Reik [[case]]. ...ed without any agreement [[being]] reached. Freud wrote a "Postscript" for the occasion, maintaining his [[claim]] that analysis could be practiced by non
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  • Return of the Repressed
    ...the shape of secondary and more or less unrecognizable "derivatives of the unconscious." [[Parapraxes]], [[bungled]] or symptomatic actions, are examples of such ...ies may be said to be retained, their [[recollection]] depending solely on the way in which they are cathected, decathected, or anticathected.
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  • Daniel Paul Schreber
    ...ry]], was [[born]] on July 15, 1842, in Leipzig, and died in April 1911 in the [[state]] [[mental]] asylum at Leipzig-Dösen. ...bout]] thirteen years of his [[life]] in mental institutions, and while at the Sonnenstein Asylum he composed his only book, ''Memoirs of My Nervous [[Ill
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  • Screen Memory
    ...n [[mechanism]] here, as it is in the [[case]] of mnemic [[symbols]] or in the forgetting of a proper [[name]], although to some degree [[condensation]] m ...mory]] inasmuch as one aspect of it screened out something unacceptable to the ego.
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  • Science and Psychoanalysis
    ...([[doctrine]]), capable of accounting for empirically observed phenomena (the [[objects]] of possible experiments) by means of a method that ensures thei
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  • Self-Image
    ...hysiological]], sociological, and [[mental]] [[terms]], envisioned through the prism of each [[individual]] self-evaluation at different [[stages]] of [[d ...ally, as a body that is experienced as [[autonomous]], upon emergence from the period of non-differentiation.
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  • Self-Analysis
    ...[[analysis]] consists of [[interpreting]] one's own [[preconscious]] and [[unconscious]] [[material]] (such as [[dreams]], [[parapraxes]], [[memories]], fleeting ...n the basis of his own. Freud's self-analysis only became systematic after the [[death]] of his [[father]] in October 1896, and that..
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