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• Slavoj Žižek
  ...nian]] [[sociologist]], [[postmodern]] [[philosopher]], and [[Lacan]]ian [[cultural critic]]. [http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/index International Journal of Zizek Studies]
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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 ...ed as `Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in [[Hamlet]]'. Yale French Studies 55/56 (1977):11-52. There are unedited transcripts of the [[whole]] seminar
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...merely a clever academic observation confined to the realm of [[cultural]] studies, the [[physical]] and hard-nosed [[economics]] of such cynical disavowal ca
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• The Fright of Real Tears
  ...odels and post-theory. In the background is a wider crisis in [[cultural]] studies, particularly as regards the [[public]] [[role]] of the politically engaged ...t there is "[[another]] Lacan," in reference to whom film theory, cultural studies, and critical [[thought]] as such can be transformed and revitalized. He su
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...ic thought; Anthropology and psychoanalysis; [[Castration]] [[complex]]; [[Cultural]] transmission; [[Darwin]], [[Darwinism]] and psychoanalysis; [[Ethics]]; [ ...are still a [[conscious]] peril to the uncivilized [[people]] in Frazer's studies.
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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 ...rticulated notions of [[Psychological trauma|trauma]] through [[literary]] studies informed by philosophy, [[psychology]], [[neurology]], and [[Freudian]] and
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• Semiotics
  To explain the [[relationship]] between Semiotics and [[Communication Studies]], [[communication]] is defined as the process of transferring data from a ...closer to some of the [[humanities]] (including [[literary theory]] and [[cultural anthropology]]).
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...and awareness. He also turned to [[cultural anthropology|anthropological]] studies of [[totemism]] and argued that totemism reflected a ritualized enactment o ...ts]] would later criticize this point, leading to ethno-[[psychoanalytic]] studies. According to Freud, the father is protective, so his sons love him, but th
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• Critical theory
  ...into broad use only since the 1980s, especially as theory used in literary studies became increasingly influenced by Continental [[philosophy]] and social the ...sse'' (''Knowledge and [[Human]] Interests''), critical theory in literary studies is ultimately a form of [[hermeneutics]], i.e. knowledge via [[interpretati
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• Roland Barthes
  ...wns interfered with the [[progress]] of his academic career, affecting his studies and his ability to take certain qualifying examinations. However, it also ...aculty positions around France, and continuing to produce more full-length studies. Many of his works were discursive to traditional academic views of [[lite
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• Deconstruction
  In the context of religious studies Paul [[Ricoeur]] (1983) defines deconstruction as a way of uncovering the q *[[cultural movement]]
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• Félix Guattari
  ...mation]] of Friendly Male Nurses (Amicales d'infirmiers)(in [[1958]]), the studies on architecture and the projects of [[construction]] of a day hospital of f ...times correspondent in one fashion or [[another]] with sociopolitical and cultural engagements. In 1967, he appeared as one of the founders of OSARLA (Organiz
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...War]] and the bulk of the [[20th century]]. Huntington believes that this cultural organization better describes the world than the classical [[notion]] of va He surmised that to [[understand]] conflict in our age and in the [[future]], cultural rifts must be [[understood]], and culture (instead of the state) must be ac
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...not mean that sexual identity is the sum of [[natural]] (biological) and [[cultural]] (signifying) elements, but rather that it is that which is left out of th ...perfect sexual union between two people. Perhaps one of the most pervasive cultural [[fantasies]] we have today is of finding our perfect partner and of having
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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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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...an clearly see here one reason why Lacanianism might be attractive to film studies. Fantasy is not the [[object of desire]], neither is it the desire for spec ...ion of the concepts of the real and objet a from the field of [[cultural]] studies.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...fect descriptions of the [[capitalist]] dynamics, Marx of the [[Cultural]] Studies, who portrayed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives -, ...are imperceptibly translated into the benign [[universe]] of the Cultural Studies chic.
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...e isolated tower of the [[liberal]] tolerant attitude and the [[Cultural]] Studies focus on textuality. Now, we are forced to strike back, to deal with real e ...opposition between leading a long [[satisfying]] life full of material and cultural wealth, and dedicating one's life to some transcendent Cause. Two [[philoso
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  ...e isolated tower of the [[liberal]] tolerant attitude and the [[Cultural]] Studies focus on textuality. Now, we are [[forced]] to strike back, to deal with re
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  .... Which Marx do we get in these returns? On the one hand, the [[Cultural]] Studies Marx, the Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...ided perfect descriptions of capitalist dynamics; Marx of the [[cultural]] studies who portrayed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives. Bu ...theory]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign universe of cultural studies chic. With regard to this radical chic, the first gesture toward [[Third Wa
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...ided perfect descriptions of [[capitalist]] dynamics, Marx of [[cultural]] studies, who portrayed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives… ...ry]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign [[universe]] of cultural studies chic. With regard to this radical chic, the first gesture toward [[Third Wa
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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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• Oedipus complex
  ...phenomenon' becomes more complicated as he integrates the findings of his studies of the 'sexual theories of [[children]].' --> ...ted that the Oedipus complex was a universal, trans-historical and trans-[[cultural]] phenomenon: <blockquote>[T]he Oedipus complex is the nuclear complex of [
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• Surrealism
  The Surrealists fully embraced [[psychoanalysis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement. ...derived from their common origin in [[childhood]], whether individual or [[cultural]]. 8
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• International Psycho-Analytical Association
  ...emphasis on the [[need]] for instruction in [[literary]] and [[cultural]] studies,<ref>{{Ec}} p. 473</ref>, and for reducing the [[training|training analysis
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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
  ...'), and the realm of [[aesthetics]] and [[popular culture|mass culture]]. Studies saw a common concern here in the ability of [[capitalism]] to destroy the p ...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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• Materialism
  ...axioms of the [[science|scientists]] whom he had most respected during his studies (principally Hermann Helmholtz and Ernst Brücke). On the [[other]] hand, h ...se|causation]] to a crude [[economic]] [[determinism]] which regards all [[cultural]] phenomena (including [[language]]) as a mere superstructure,"<ref>{{E}} p
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• The Desert and the Real
  ...e isolated tower of the [[liberal]] tolerant attitude and the [[Cultural]] Studies focus on textuality. Now, we are [[forced]] to strike back, to deal with re
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  .... Which Marx do we get in these returns? On the one hand, the [[Cultural]] Studies Marx, the Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  .... Which Marx do we get in these returns? On the one hand, the [[Cultural]] Studies Marx, the Marx of the [[postmodern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...ided perfect descriptions of capitalist dynamics; Marx of the [[cultural]] studies who portrayed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives. Bu ...theory]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign universe of cultural studies chic. With regard to this radical chic, the first gesture toward [[Third Wa
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...of fascinating local insights which range across all aspects of political, cultural and [[social]] [[life]]. If parts of the book are very demanding, it does r ...heorists is the dominance of crtain Lacanian concepts in the field of film studies. Zizek's argument here, through the [[reading]] of Kieslowski's flims, is t
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• Gaze And Voice As Love Objects
  ...interested in the uses of [[psychoanalysis]] for philosophy, [[cultural]] studies, and the [[analysis]] of ideology.
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• Cogito and The Unconscious
  ...a strict [[conceptual]] [[analysis]] and an approach to a wide range of [[cultural]] and [[ideological]] phenomena—from the [[sadist]] paradoxes of Kant’s ...l appeal to readers interested in philosophy, [[psychoanalysis]], cultural studies, and theories of [[ideology]].
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• Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory
  ...nd [[practice]], [[philosophy]], [[social]] [[sciences]], and [[cultural]] studies, this set includes a new introduction by the editor and a thorough [[index] ...ues Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (Critical Evaluationsin Cultural Theory)]]'''''. SZ editor. [[London]]: Routledge. December 23, 2002, 1st Ed
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...pacity crowd enraptured while demolishing the platitudes of contemporary [[cultural]] debate. Every now and again he'll digress from his urgently enacted scrip ..., as well as for [[being]] highly accessible. [[Britain]]'s best-selling [[cultural critic]], Terry Eagleton, has written of Zizek's "enviable knack of making
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  When the waiter returns, Zizek finally pauses, studies the menu, and [[orders]] a pot of mint tea and a plate of sugar cookies. Mi ..."the most formidably brilliant exponent of [[psychoanalysis]], indeed of [[cultural]] theory in genera l, to have emerged in [[Europe]] for some decades."<br>
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  ambiguous political profile--<i>marxisant</i> cultural critic on involves a transformation of "politics" into "[[cultural]] politics," where
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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
  ...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 attempt n ...s logic, and in a way even repeats it (just as earlier we saw the cultural studies-style [[rejection]] of competing interpretations of the shark - 'It is not
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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 ...in his work a deliberate inversion of aesthetic categories, an upending of cultural hierarchies. Thus we have the putting together of Stephen King and Sophocle
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• Literature
  ...ties, while psychoanalytic [[concepts]] permeate most branches of literary studies. Within literature departments, interest in psychoanalytic theory eclipses Affinities between literature and psychoanalysis are both [[cultural]] and [[structural]]. Culturally, it is not a coincidence that the two grea
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• Marxism and Psychoanalysis
  ...the influence of [[environment]] and social [[reality]]. Social psychology studies the psychological characteristics shared by members of a group and the grou ...representations, the [[ideal]], or the <i>habitus</i> originated in this [[cultural]] ferment and bears its imprint, although it is more accurate to [[speak]]
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• Taboo
  ...[[Words]]" (1910e), with <i>taboo</i> being one such example. Thus Freud's studies on taboo are limited in scope, inserted into a broader investigation that w ...] taken up by the structuralist movement in psychoanalysis. The renewal of studies into dynamic [[change]] in the exact [[sciences]] may renew interest in Fre
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• Developmental psychology
  #Macrosystem: The larger [[Culture|cultural]] context ([[Eastern culture|Eastern]] vs. [[Western culture]], national [[ ...thesize about the causes of variation observed in their data. Longitudinal studies often require large amounts of time and funding, making them unfeasible in
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• Anthropology
  ...[[religion]]. He also refers to research on [[myths]], tales, and legends, cultural [[history]] and development, [[linguistics]] and ethnology, the history of ...exploit the profound analogy between [[individual]] psychic formations and cultural formations.
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• Stalinism
  ...emlinology not a kind of [[obscene]] [[double]] of Sovietology: the latter studies the Soviet regime objectively, through sociological data, statistics, [[pow ...itrary rule of the local Party bosses (a move similar to the Mao's Great [[Cultural]] Revolution) - their fury at the regime, unable to express itself directly
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• Feminist theory
  ...[[ideas]] have been applied in the field of [[literary]] and [[cultural]] studies.
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