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• Desire
  ...] is subjected in the human [[being]]. This prohibition is a structural [[cultural]] [[necessity]], not a [[contingency]], and its [[subjective]] correlate is =====Criticism=====
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• Art
  [[Freud]] valued [[art]] as one of [[human]]ity's great [[culture|cultural]] [[civilization|institutions]], and dedicated many papers to discussing bo ...ll, [[author]]ial [[consciousness|intent]] had been bracketed by [[art|New Criticism]] long before the [[structuralism|structuralists]] appeared on the [[scene]
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• Alain Badiou
  ...Paris]] VIII ([[Vincennes]]-Saint Denis), which was a bastion of counter-[[cultural]] [[thought]]. There he engaged in fierce intellectual debates with fellow ...h, Žižek raises several points of contention. Expanding on his previous criticism of Badiou’s disavowed [[Kantianism]], Žižek criticizes his continued [[
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...e [[horde]]) than studied or [[understood]] as a [[whole]]. The only valid criticism concerns the hypothesis of the phylogenetic transmission of precise [[memor ...ic thought; Anthropology and psychoanalysis; [[Castration]] [[complex]]; [[Cultural]] transmission; [[Darwin]], [[Darwinism]] and psychoanalysis; [[Ethics]]; [
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• Moses and Monotheism
  Freud meets the criticism that situates the exodus one or two centuries after the reign of Akhenaton * [[Cultural transmission]]
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• Psychoanalytic Theory
  ...[[intersubjective]] phenomena (for example, those broadly conceived as "[[cultural]]" or "[[social]]" in [[nature]]), [[religion]], [[law]], or other non-clin ...on closer to departments of [[philosophy]] and [[literature]] (or American cultural studies programs). Psychoanalytic theory heavily influenced the work of [[F
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• Semiotics
  ...closer to some of the [[humanities]] (including [[literary theory]] and [[cultural anthropology]]). ...to be respected. In some countries, its [[role]] is limited to [[literary criticism]] and an appreciation of audio and [[visual]] media, but this narrow focus
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...ka]]), [[film]], [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controv ...state]] of [[psychosexual]] development and awareness. He also turned to [[cultural anthropology|anthropological]] studies of [[totemism]] and argued that tote
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• Critical theory
  ...ries, one originating in [[social theory]] and the [[other]] in [[literary criticism]]. Though until recently these two meanings had little to do with each oth ==Critical theory (literary criticism)==
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• Roland Barthes
  ...'Criticism and [[Truth]]'' ([[1966]]), would accuse the old, [[bourgeois]] criticism of being unconcerned with the finer points of [[language]] and capable of s ...]]''. Throughout the 70s Barthes would continue to develop his [[literary criticism]], pursuing new ideals of [[textualism|textuality]] and novelistic [[neutra
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• Deconstruction
  ...rm of deconstructive reading is the critique of binary oppositions, or the criticism of [[dichotomy|dichotomous]] thought. A central deconstructive argument hol ...hy, which they say is the creation and elucidation of concepts. This deep criticism is a result of a fundamental difference of opinion about the nature of [[ph
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...ed political mobilization and protest, which made him the target of heated criticism by [[student activism|student activists]] at the [[time]] of the book's pub ...War]] and the bulk of the [[20th century]]. Huntington believes that this cultural organization better describes the world than the classical [[notion]] of va
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...t]] the [[social]], but, not surprisingly, they were weighed down by the [[cultural]] baggage of their [[time]]. Freud ‚thought’ his discovery in [[concept ...manization, as a transition from the natural [[register]] of [[life]] to a cultural register of group [[exchange]] and therefore of laws, language and organiza
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rovided perfect descriptions of the [[capitalist]] dynamics, Marx of the [[Cultural]] Studies, who portrayed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our dail ...theory]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign [[universe]] of the Cultural Studies chic.
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...n. It changes what is the problem of what ultimately is not a problem of [[cultural]] tolerance, but of power, exploitation, [and] economy, it changes the prob ...ly, good about the old Titoist legacy, the war between the idea of a multi-cultural, tolerant — why not use these terms? — Yugoslavia and the new logic of
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...n a witness role. The Post-Yugoslav war is strictly the result of European cultural dynamics. We don't need this simplistic liberal deploring of 'why don't peo ...Concerning theory, there are a lot of others, the whole domain of cultural criticism in America is basically cinema theory. I was always amazed by the extend to
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• The Cyberspace Real
  Are the [[pessimistic]] [[cultural]] criticists (from Jean [[Baudrillard]] to [[Paul]] Virilio) justified in t ..." our late-[[capitalist]] fantasmatic universe not by way of direct social criticism (depicting the grim [[social reality]] which serves as its actual foundatio
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...], it was possible to speak of "healthy [[symptoms]]," as in the following criticism of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony by the arch-Stalinist composer [[Isaac]] D ...fabricate evidence and invent plots — thereby exposing themselves to the criticism that they are themselves saboteurs, destroying thousands of honest Communis
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...e most harmful [[thing]] here would be haste." Against this insistence on "cultural revolution", Stalin opted for the anti-Leninist notion of "building sociali This doesn't mean, however, that Lenin silently adopted the Menshevik criticism of Bolshevik [[utopianism]], that revolution must follow a preordained cour
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...s, who provided perfect descriptions of [[capitalist]] dynamics, Marx of [[cultural]] studies, who portrayed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our dail ...ical theory]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign [[universe]] of cultural studies chic. With regard to this radical chic, the first gesture toward [[
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...elled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main proponent of this criticism is [[Judith]] [[Butler]], let me focus on her latest book, The [[Psychic]] ...conscious is any less [[structured]] by the power relations that pervade [[cultural]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an att
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...Strauss wants to make is that this example should in no way entice us into cultural relativism, according to which the perception of social space depends on th ...subaltern position it leaves you in, can be effaced by the reassuring and 'cultural' notion that you can fashion your own modernity differently, so that there
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...ean Union]] is getting more and more anti-Semitic, in its blatantly biased criticism of Israel: the very [[concept]] of Europe is tainted with anti-Semitism, wh ...identity at the level of Milner's Four-Fold, i.e., through its founding [[cultural]] [[myths]] and [[rituals]] which are transferred from generation to genera
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...adlock of contemporary subjectivity than a dozen of essays in [[cultural]] criticism. That is to say, it may appear that we are dealing with the well-known spli
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...nly makes them more furious and feeds their resentment. The problem is not cultural [[difference]] (their effort to preserve their identity), but the opposite ...is the obverse of the decadent excessive sensuality - therein resides his criticism of Wagner's <i>Parsifal</i>, and, more generally, of the late Romantic deca
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  Was, however, that what triggered such violent reactions really the cultural gap between the secular West and the Muslim countries, i.e., the fact that ...nly makes them more furious and feeds their resentment. The problem is not cultural difference (their effort to preserve their identity), but the opposite fact
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• Oedipus complex
  ...ted that the Oedipus complex was a universal, trans-historical and trans-[[cultural]] phenomenon: <blockquote>[T]he Oedipus complex is the nuclear complex of [ ...[Freud]]'s, his only originality [[being]] to emphasize its historical and cultural relativity, taking his cue from the anthropological studies by Malinowski a
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• Roger Caillois
  ...[[intellectual]] whose idiosyncratic [[work]] brought together [[literary criticism]], [[sociology]], and [[philosophy]] by focusing on [[subjects]] as diverse ...isciplinary journal funded by [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|UNESCO]], and ''Southern Cross'', a [[translation]] of contemp
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• International Psycho-Analytical Association
  ...ool]] in 1964. From this point on, [[Lacan]] became much more vocal in his criticism of the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association|IPA]], accusing it of ===Lacan's Criticism===
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• Biography of Slavoj Zizek
  [[Slavoj Žižek]] is a Slovenian [[sociologist]], [[philosopher]] and [[cultural]] critic. He grew up in the comparative cultural [[freedom]] of the former Yugoslavia’s [[self]] managing [[socialism]].
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• Frankfurt School
  ...ment to the end of the tradition of the individual subject as the locus of criticism. Without a revolutionary working class, the Frankfurt School had no one to ...scendental theory of emancipatory knowledge that is the self-reflection of cultural evolution. The simultaneously empirical and transcendental nature of emanc
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
  ...erefore turn around one of the commonplaces of [[conservative]] [[cultural criticism]]: In contrast to the notion that new [[media]] turn us into [[passive]] [[
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please
  ...e turn around one of the commonplaces of the [[conservative]] [[cultural]] criticism: in contrast to the [[notion]] that the new media turn us into passive cons
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...[[witness]] role. The Post-Yugoslav war is strictly the result of European cultural dynamics. We don't need this simplistic liberal deploring of 'why don't peo ...erning theory, there are a lot of others, the whole [[domain]] of cultural criticism in America is basically cinema theory. I was always amazed by the extend to
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  multi-[[cultural]], neutral, liberal attitude, which only sees nationalistic madness strictly the result of European cultural dynamics. We don't [[need]] this simplistic
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...elled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main proponent of this criticism is [[Judith]] [[Butler]], let me focus on her latest book, <i>The [[Psychic ...conscious is any less [[structured]] by the power relations that pervade [[cultural]] [[signifiers]] than is the [[language]] of the subject? If we find an att
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• Democracy
  ...cs]]”, aiming to reinstate by authoritarian means a sense of symbolic, [[cultural]] boundaries. ...]. (“[[Democracy is the Enemy]]”)</blockquote>Yet, he complains, [[the cultural turn]] in much Western “[[postmodern]]” [[theory]] has insulated [[econ
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• Anarchy
  ...in a contingent way during the struggle itself. Having moved beyond the [[cultural]] and [[sexual]] identity wars of the 1980s and 1990s - the PC litany of vi ...e way in which logos have become the universal [[signifiers]] of corporate cultural domination: "Logos, by the force of ubiquity, have become the closest [[thi
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...s to combine unrestrained global capitalism with a more [[conservative]] [[cultural]] politics.</p> ...the facts. I disagree with this. And the second point is that with all his criticism of the U.S., Chomsky retains a certain commitment to what is the most eleme
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  [[psychoanalytic]] [[defense]] of the [[Enlightenment]] draws criticism from ambiguous political profile--<i>marxisant</i> cultural critic on
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ....c. imaginary - a kind of hegemonization of the very terrain (the politico-cultural conditions of possibility) that produces and predisposes the contemporary l ...particular difference "except" itself and to tolerate everything "except" criticism.<br>
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ion of texts and situates the reader in the center of layered contemporary cultural and theoretical arguments.' (Teresa L. Ebert, author of <i>Ludic Feminism a ...udies, assuming that 'whatever analysis is made of particular uses made of cultural texts in determinate situations, the problem of textuality remains in any c
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...unds this very horizon' (CHU, 108). And this leads to Zizek's second major criticism of Laclau and Mouffe: that for all of their emphasis on the [[openness]] an ...l stand in for. And it is in this sense - it is just this that we see in [[cultural]] studies-style [[analyses]] of such [[objects]] as <i>Jaws</i> - that each
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...ite? Our doubts, however, are soon overcome when we consider the Slovenian cultural analyst Slavoj Zizek. For what can we say about him that he does not alread ...id not appear to take its own ideology seriously, and incorporated its own criticism in advance (IR, 3). It is exactly the same problem of private cynicism and
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• Literature
  ...source or exemplar for [[psychoanalytic]] conceptions themselves. Literary criticism has sought to use [[psychoanalytic theory]] to explain literature, and even Affinities between literature and psychoanalysis are both [[cultural]] and [[structural]]. Culturally, it is not a coincidence that the two grea
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• Taboo
  ...ersalist perspective Freud invoked, the concept of taboo became subject to criticism. The [[structuralist]] viewpoint [[interpreted]] all taboos for <i>each</i> ...m) or replacement of taboo words. Marvin Harris, a leading [[figure]] in [[cultural]] [[materialism]], endeavoured to explain taboos as a consequence of the ec
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• Germany
  ...resisted psychoanalysis, [[recognition]] took [[place]] through various [[cultural]] movements ([[sexual]] liberation, the emancipation of women, judicial ref ...sis" by their underground presence, they faced considerable skepticism and criticism from colleagues [[living]] abroad. On October 16, 1945, the DPG was reestab
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• Stalinism
  ...o fabricate evidence and invent plots - thereby exposing themselves to the criticism that they are themselves saboteurs, destroying thousands of honest Communis
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• History
  ...oach) for the reductionist tendency of some authors to overlook factors ([[cultural]], [[economic]], [[social]], etc.) operating [[outside]] of individual [[ps
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• United States
  ...]]. But they were only the forerunners of what would become some of the "[[cultural]]" or "applied" psychoanalyses and psychotherapies which subsequently flood ...nt Greenberg who, themselves, enriched the studies of literature, art, and criticism by responding to the challenges posed by psychoanalysis. They warmly welcom
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