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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...eeted Freud's brief volume was primarily due to the second essay, in which he discussed sexuality in infancy and childhood. From a present-day perspectiv ...aberrations links them to unexpected or abnormal events during childhood. He similarly understands puberty as the sum of modifications acting upon infan
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...non in the USA. There are two million of them, mostly women, but also men, who cut themselves with razors. Why? It has nothing to do with masochism or sui ...kind of a spectral ghost. All this became apparent to those conservatives who were sensitive for the break of the new.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br clas
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• Postmodern Racism
  ...u have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Yes, the lesson of deconstructionism against [[universalism]] is that there are ...an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre
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• Clash of Civilizations
  ...u have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Yes, the lesson of deconstructionism against [[universalism]] is that there are ...an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...olitics, the idea to deal with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], there is [[freedom]] of t ...— it will be an act WITHIN the hegemonic ideological coordinates: those who "really want to do something to [[help]] people" get involved in (undoubted
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...on]], from the [[Lacanian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...n a kind of Real. [[Recall]] the phenomenon of "cutters" (mostly [[women]] who experience an irresistible urge to cut themselves with razors or otherwise
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...dern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked ...ause Jungian theory functioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan rei
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  .... A man in the late 20ies at my [[right]] was so immersed in the film that he all the [[time]] disturbed [[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, lik ...Carrey playing the small town clerk who gradually discovers the truth that he is the hero of a 24-hours permanent TV show: his hometown is constructed on
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...] which provides food and shelter, when he shows respect for his superiors who take care of him in a fatherly way, and so on and so on. And evil occurs wh ...s wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, even his own [[life]], he cannot be my disciple." Here, of course, I claim we are not dealing with a
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...inability to meet its inexorable [[demands]], like the proverbial teacher who tortures pupils with [[impossible]] tasks and secretly savors their failing ...bear in [[mind]] is that the focus of Lacan is always Kant, not Sade: what he is interested in are the ultimate consequences and disavowed premises of th
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...the discourse gave you the opportunity to [[identify]] yourself as the one who might get rich next. Wealth was [[right]] around the corner…maybe. SZ: Yes, that was enough; it was even proven by [[sociology]] polls. [[People]] act
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...[[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spinozist [[dream]], what he called "love of God'' or "perfect [[rational]] knowledge," which is a kind ...It is like with tobacco, the Spinozist doesn't say, "Don't smoke," he/she says "Smoke, but… ." You have this warning, "Nicotine can be dangerous to your
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...fectively cutting the throat of his "[[enemy]]"…). Against the theorists who [[fear]] that cyberspace involves the [[regression]] to a kind of psychotic ...subject's past so that his girlfriend would not have [[left]] him, or that he would not have failed the crucial exam; yet whatever we do, the outcome is
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...nist dismissal of the alleged Marxist "[[essentialism]]"; on the contrary, he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form ...tuation is the [[Church]]; and its "subject" is the [[corps]] of believers who intervene in their situation on behalf of the Truth-Event, searching for th
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...act of supreme irony, his [[confession]] was dated September 30 1976) that he proposed the compromise date in order to disguise the [[existence]] of an u ...s utter seriousness (he is talking about his possible [[suicide]], and why he will not commit it, since it could hurt the Party, but will rather go on wi
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...self as serving real needs of real people? The originality of Marx is that he played on both cards simultaneously: the origin of capitalist crises is the ...tual capitalist not function in a homologous way: his "net value" at zero, he directly operates just with the surplus borrowing from the [[future]].
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...valent/expression of the power of the [[working]] [[class]], then everyone who opposes me is “objectively” an [[enemy]] of the [[working class]]). Aga ...he notion of the “psychological” [[subject]] endowed with propensities he or she strives to realize. This especially holds today, in the era of what
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...husser]]'s [[text]] on [[Machiavelli]], la solitude de Lenine: a time when he stood alone, struggling against the current in his own party. When, in his ...are afraid to take the second step of overcoming the old forms, are those who (in Robespierre's [[words]]) [[want]] a "[[revolution without revolution]]"
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...e guest is each [[time]] an ordinary (or, exceptionally, wellknown) person who made a peculiar choice that determined his or her entire lifestyle. For exa ...Lenin's obsessive tirades against formal freedom worth saving today; when he underlines that there is no pure [[democracy]], that we should always ask w
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...re Saddam's victims, and they would be really glad to get rid of [[them]]. He was such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in WHATE ...]]" in a patronizing way) an Eastern European from a [[Communist]] country who longs for Western [[liberal]] democracy and some consumerist goods… Howev
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• You May
  "Rule Girls" are heterosexual [[women]] who follow precise rules as to how they let themselves be seduced (accept a dat ...ence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the obvious yet pertinent question about the title of my longest book: "so who or what is tickling the ticklish subject?" The answer, of course, is: the o ...resupposes that my position of enunciation is that of an external observer who can grasp the whole of reality); it rather resides in the reflexive twist b
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...nglessness of the fact that a couple hundred of Florida voices will decide who will be the president, the Democratic candidate accepted his defeat. In the ...n, they take recourse to the commonplace wisdom that "a true leader leads, he does not follow" - and this from leaders otherwise obsessed with opinion po
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...sacrifice" not [[Christ]]'s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo") ...one who is not afraid to profit from his ethical choices, i.e., as the one who is able to break the [[vicious cycle]] of ethics and sacrifice.<br><br>
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...em]]) tries to explain to the still perplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he - he [[links]] it to a failure in the [[structure]] of the [[universe]]: ...e VR controlled by the Matrix (in the same way he is able to stop bullets, he should also have been able to derealize blows that wound his body).
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...s a rule, Durband tries to formulate directly, in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] ...] from such a decadent town can be an easy pick?) Although Joseph Stefano, who wrote the scenario, claims<a href="#footnote"><font color="#39bda5" size="-
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...this ecstasy. Lewis thus refers to the experience as the "odd [[thing]];" he mentions its common location—"I was going up Headington Hill on the top o ...edom]], and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, 'I am what I do.' Then came the repercussion on the imagina
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...t man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br> ...by "Rachel from Scotlandí on the BBC website in September 2003: "We know he had weapons, we sold him some of them." This is the direction a serious inv
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...rrative (the son revenges his father against the father's [[evil]] brother who murdered him and took over his throne; the son survives the illegitimate ru ...after her death, he will acknowledge this to himself; at that [[moment]], he will feel [[guilty]] for his [[past]] hatred of her mother, so she is now l
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...[[solidarity]] are no less wrong than the US free-[[market]] [[liberals]] who now gleefully returned the blow and pointed out how the very rigidity of st ...doctor who, because of the financial difficulties of the hospital in which he works, was lured into swallowing the bait of the pharmaceutical company.
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  Do we today have an available bioethics? Yes, we do, a bad one: what the Germans call <i>Bindestrich-Ethik</i>, or 'hyph ...gency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose not to [[know]], an [[ignorance]] that is n
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...sing the seemingly invincible Communist regime) has ended up serving those who 'realistically' argue that any real change in today's world is impossible.
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• Parallax View
  ...>res cogitans</i>. Here, however, one should be more precise than Karatani who directly identifies the transcendental subject with transcendental illusion Yes, an ego is just an illusion, but functioning there is the transcendental ap
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...at differs with earlier timetables cited by Bush administration officials, who estimated that Iran was only five years away from such a weapon. Responding ...morality|moralistic]] [[hypocrisy]]. And indeed, it was Nietzsche himself who, more than a century ago, in <i>Daybreak,</i> provided the best [[analysis]
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...German]] <i>herumspringen</i>, to jump around). At 17, their [[children]] (who until then have been subjected to strict [[family]] [[discipline]]) are set ...roblems with the standard [[liberal]] attitude toward [[Muslim]] [[women]] who wear veils: They can do it if it is their free choice and not an option imp
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...cy,” i.e., in the rise of “illiberal democracy at home and abroad.” He draws the lesson that democracy can only “catch on” in economically dev ...es and its “willing partners” impose themselves as the ultimate judges who decide if and when a country is ripe for democracy.
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• Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
  ...e [[Saddam]]’s victims, and they would be really glad to be rid of him. He is such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in <i>wha ...“understanding”) an [[Eastern Europe]]an from an ex-communist country who longs for [[West]]ern [[liberal democracy]] and some consumer goods.<br><br
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ...[[Saddam]]’s victims, and they would be really glad to get rid of him. He was such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in whate ...e put it: “I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
  ...reedoms is effectively foreign to our [[liberal]]-tolerant sensibility – who, today, would not [[experience]] a shudder apropos his dismissive remarks a ...]] of freedom. Lenin is best remembered for his famous retort “Freedom - yes, but for <em>whom</em>? To do <em>what</em>?” For him, in the above-quote
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...s. He can’t let go of his mother; he can’t let go of his girlfriend. He can’t let go of things. It makes you greedy. And when you’re greedy, ...d [[children]], his brothers and sisters — yes even his own [[life]] — he cannot be my disciple." In order for there to be a properly [[unified]] "[
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...im their innocence, to have any time [[left]] to [[defend]] the [[guilty]] who proclaim their [[guilt]]." But [[hysterical]] over-reaction against"free-fl ...also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." What he forgot to add was the crucial fourth term: the "unknown knowns", things we
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• A Cup of Decaf Reality
  ...interactive game is "just a game," he can "show his true self," do things he would never have done in real life interactions - in the guise of a [[ficti ...]] to make the narrative ridiculous a kind of negative gesture of respect: yes, we do show everything, but precisely for that [[reason]] we [[want]] to ma
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...y is that the supreme example of the seminal structure of truth event that he tries to articulate, and it doesn't count as a truth-event.<br> ...know the early Heidegger started with the same reference, St. Paul.&nbsp; He (Heidegger) I think used the term <i>formales anzeigen,</i>, formal indicat
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...hat we need to [[defend]] [[plurality]] and different lifestyles, but look who is taking! Your policies undermined the family, and you don't have any [[ri ...ie <i>Leap of Faith?</i> It's naïve, and I don't like Steve Martin in it, he's playing a stupid [[role]] politically, but it's a nice movie about a fake
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...t man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'" ...by "Rachel from Scotlandí on the BBC website in September 2003: "We know he had weapons, we sold him some of them." This is the direction a serious inv
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...t World War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst J?nger, in which he praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. Or at the l ...he USA. There are two million of [[them]], mostly [[women]], but also men, who cut themselves with razors. Why? It has nothing to do with [[masochism]] or
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...dern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked ...ause Jungian theory functioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan rei
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• You May!
  "Rule Girls" are heterosexual [[women]] who follow precise rules as to how they let themselves be seduced (accept a dat ...ence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.<br>
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...diot. A man in the late 20ies at my right was so immersed in the film that he all the time disturbed other spectators with loud exclamations, like "My Go ...Carrey playing the small town clerk who gradually discovers the truth that he is the hero of a 24-hours permanent TV show: his hometown is constructed on
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  choice, he will never make a beginning at all. <a name="3"></a><a href="#3x">3</a> </f ...ng mediator' is provided by the [[Hegelian]] notion of the historical hero who resolves the deadlock of the passage from
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