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• The Act
  ...act]], "since to our [[knowledge]] there is no [[other]] [[act]] but the [[human]] one."<ref>{{S11}} p. 50</ref> [[Lacan]] dedicates a year of his [[seminar]] to discussing further the [[nature]] of the [[act|psychoanalytic act]].<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Semi
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• Imaginary
  ...the structure of the imaginary [[order]] and to the [[development]] of the human ego.</i> The basis of the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] is the [[mirror sta ...means that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated [from the realm of nature]."<ref>{{S2}} p. 210</ref>
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• Jouissance
  ...raw substance of enjoyment that reflects the primordial [[character]] of [[human]] drives and obsessions. ...nt against [[Hannah Arendt]] and her conclusion regarding the routinized [[nature]] of the extermination of [[Jews]] as a “banality of evil” ([[Arendt]]
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• Thing
  ...an objection to [[Lacan]]'s theories [[about]] the [[linguistic|linguistic nature]] of the [[unconscious]]. [[Lacan]] counters such objections by pointing o ...as ''[[thing|das Ding]]'' is seen as "the cause of the most fundamental [[human]] [[passion]]."<ref>{{S7}} p. 97</ref> Also, the fact that the [[Thing]] i
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• Mirror stage
  ...ef> It refers to a [[particular]] experiment which can differentiate the [[human]] [[infant]] from his closest [[animal]] relative, the chimpanzee. The six ...h occurs in the development of the child. It illustrates the conflictual [[nature]] of the [[dual]] relationship.<ref>{{S4}} p. 17</ref></blockquote>
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• Symbolic
  ...]], the "[[symbolic]]" is one of [[three]] [[order]]s that [[structure]] [[human]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[imaginary]] and the [[real] ...ic]] [[structure]]s is an essential feature of the human transition from [[nature]] to [[culture]].
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• Desire
  ...the fact of the [[prohibition]] to which [[sexuality]] is subjected in the human [[being]]. This prohibition is a structural [[cultural]] [[necessity]], no ...which is embedded in discourse, is an essential property of human desire. Human desire is the desire of the Other (over and above the [[others]] who are [[
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ses" of the Cheka, it was Lenin who defended it. (Figes p649) However, the nature of these so-called "excesses," as well as Lenin's reasons behind their defe ...itic of these practices, which he saw as a form of deification of a mere [[human]] being who could, and did, make mistakes. [http://www.marxists.org/archive
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• Demand
  ...]] of 1956-7, [[Lacan]] argues that the '''cry''' of the '''[[helplessness|human infant]]''' -- its '''call''' (''l'appel'') to the '''[[mother]]''' -- is n It is the [[symbolic|symbolic nature]] of the infant's screams which forms the kernel of [[Lacan]]'s [[concept]]
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• Perversion
  ...[human]] [[sexuality]], which is characterized by the [[absence]] of any [[nature|pregiven natural order]]. ...ally]] [[perversion|perverse]]; on the contrary, the [[perversion|perverse nature]] of [[perversion|homosexuality]] is entirely a question of its infringemen
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• Object
  ...t of the drive]] is [[contingency|contingent]] and is not defined by any [[nature|natural]] or predetermined [[purpose]]; [[sexual object]]-[[choice]] is det ...her and father clearly play an essential [[role]] in the creation of the [[human]] being's representational [[system]] from the very beginning of life. By c
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• Instinct
  ...vely rigid and invariable, and imply a direct relation to an [[object]], [[human]] [[sexuality]] is a matter of [[drives]], which are very variable and neve ...s earliest works, [[Lacan]] criticizes those who attempt to [[understand]] human [[behavior]] purely in terms of [[instinct]]s, arguing that this is to supp
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• Identification
  =====Human Subjectivity===== ...entification]] eventually came to denote "the operation itself whereby the human subject is constituted."<ref>Laplanche, Jean and Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand. '
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• Drive
  [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of the [[drive]] is central to his [[theory]] of [[human]] [[sexuality]]; it lies at the heart of his theory of [[sexuality]]. For [[Freud]], the distinctive feature of [[human]] [[sexuality]] -- as opposed to the [[sexual]] [[life]] of other animals -
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• Sexual Difference
  ...inition of these [[terms]], [[Freud]] limits himself to describing how a [[human]] [[subject]] comes to acquire [[masculine]] or [[feminine]] psychical char This is not an [[instinct]]ual or [[nature|natural]] [[process]], but a complex one in which [[anatomical]] difference
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• Fantasy
  ...ot imply a [[rejection]] of the fundamentally discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[b ...rly [[understood]] as a way of perceiving that is already stained by the [[human]] subject’s desire. Therefore, reality is already a [[subjective]] [[proc
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• Biology
  ...be misleading and will obliterate the essential [[distinction]] between [[nature]] and [[culture]]. ...re, according to [[Lacan]], the ''primacy'' of the [[symbolic order]] in [[human]] [[existence]]. [[Lacan]] sees this "[[biology|biologism]]" in the [[work]
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• Adaptation
  ...s early [[work]] in the 1930s on, [[Lacan]] opposes any attempt to explain human phenomena in terms of [[adaptation]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.158; {{Ec}} p. 171-2</re ...ntially excessive [[drive]] potential summed up in the [[death drive]]. [[Human]] [[being]]s are essentially [[maladaptive]].
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• Death
  ...[[death]], because "the [[signifier]] already considers him [[dead]], by [[nature]] it immortalizes him."<ref>{{S3}} p. 180</ref> The [[death|first death]] ends one [[human|human life]] but which does not put an end to the cycles of corruption and regene
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• Development
  ...l development]] and takes no account of the [[symbolic]] articulation of [[human]] [[sexuality]], thus ignoring the fundamental differences between [[drive] ...tal]]) are not observable [[biology|biological]] phenomena which develop [[nature|naturally]], such as the [[development|stage]]s of [[development|sensoriomo
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• Specular image
  The [[nature|human]] [[being]] is completely [[captation|captivated]] by the [[specular image]
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• Sexual relationship
  <blockquote>"Between [[male]] and [[female]] [[human]] beings there is no such thing as an instinctive relationship' because all ...it is not possible to define [[perversion]] by reference to a supposedly [[nature|natural form]] of the [[sexual relationship]] (as [[Freud]] did).
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• Science
  ...[science|modern science]] for ignoring the [[symbolic]] [[dimension]] of [[human]] [[existence]] and thus encouraging modern man "to forget his [[subjectivi =====Human And Natural Sciences=====
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• Psychology
  ...y]] is confined to an [[understanding]] of [[nature|animal psychology]] ([[nature|ethology]]): ...[animal]]s, but that it cannot say anything about that which is uniquely [[human]].<ref>Although at one point [[Lacan]] does [[state]] that the [[theory]] o
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...] in the first period of Lacan's work, 1932-48, is the domination of the [[human]] being by the [[image]]. ...f. The [[humiliation]] of our time under the subjugation of the enemies of human kind dissuaded me from [[speaking]] up, and following Fontenelle, I abandon
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• The Subject
  [[Madness]]: the vanishing mediator between [[nature]] and [[culture]] ...affords us a telling insight into how we transform from being immersed in nature (or objectivity) to beings supported by culture (or [[subjectivity]]).
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• Real2
  ...from trying to define the real point directly to its [[nature]] and to the nature of the other two orders against which it is set. Insofar as it is "impossib ...y the real of his own [[mortality]] – it insists on the contingency of [[human]] [[life]], however well ordered it may appear.
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• Law
  ===Human=== ..., by regulating [[sexual relationship|sexual relations]] that are, among [[nature|animal]]s, unregulated:
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...s</i>, to be Sigmund Freud's "most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge" (Freud, 1905d, p. 126). In general, most psychoanalysts would ag ...f the anatomo-physiologic and psychic bisexuality that characterizes every human being, a hypothesis that Freud explicitly attributed to Wilhelm Fliess. Fre
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...ud concludes that the taboos are not set up for a totally '[[practical]] [[nature]]' and thus must have some [[psychoanalytical]] justification. ...Freud located the beginnings of the [[Oedipus complex]] at the origins of human [[society]], and postulated that all religion was in effect an extended and
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...ly, "''what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from [[human]] wishes''." (pg. 31) He adds, however, that, "Illusions [[need]] not neces ...giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human nature, he claims, that "''it is only through the influence of individuals who can
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...his doubts and [[hesitation]], his concern regarding the [[scientific]] [[nature]] of the information he... ...s thought, his doubts and hesitation, his concern regarding the scientific nature of the information he provides, and his fears concerning the way the [[text
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• Semiotics
  ...r [[John Locke]] ([[1632]]&ndash;[[1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the term "semeiotike" from the Gr ...nts, analysing usage in slow-[[time]], whereas, in the [[real]] world of [[human]] semiotic interaction there is an often chaotic blur of language and [[sig
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• Eros
  ...' is the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[word]] for (especially) romantic or "[[Human sexual behavior|sexual love]]". The term ''[[erotic]]'' is derived from ''e ...e who considers sex as something mortifying and humiliating to [[human]] [[nature]] is at liberty to make use of the more genteel expressions 'Eros' and 'ero
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...d's Psycho Dynamic Theory and Thermodynamics] [1873-1923] - Institute of [[Human]] Thermodynamics</ref> The origins of Freud’s basic [[model]], based on t ...]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how human [[behavior]] both [[conditions]] and results from this [[particular]] [[the
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• Complex
  ...ly [[cultural]] products, rather than on [[natural]] [[instinct]]s, that [[human]] [[behaviour]] cannot be explained by reference to [[biological]] givens. ...e up for the [[instinct]]ual inadequacy (''insuffisance vitale'') of the [[human]] [[infant]], and argues that the [[complex]]es are propped on [[biological
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...al]] [[experience]] would be possible... This does not mean, however, that human are not, and do not have to be, something, that they are simply consigned t ...[[figure]] of [[Roman law]] that poses some fundamental questions to the [[nature]] of [[law]] and [[power (sociology)|power]] in general. Under the Roman [[
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• Hannah Arendt
  Arendt's work deals with the [[nature]] of [[Power (sociology)|power]], and the [[subjects]] of [[politics]], [[a Arguably, her most influential work was [[The Human Condition (book)|''The Human Condition'']] (1958) in which she distinguishes labor, work, and action, an
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• Capitalism
  ...socialist feminists agree that there can be no [[understanding]] of the [[nature]] of contemporary capitalist society without placing the oppression of wome ...mits of capitalism; it is only the “part of no part” of the excluded [[human]] [[surplus]] that adds the “subversive” (''LC'': 430) edge to those ot
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...semantic, syntactic, and lexical models ([[linguistics]]), the study of [[human]] activities ([[psychology]]), and the neuronal basis of those activities ( Slavoj Žižek’s engagements with life-scientific treatments of human mindedness should be [[understood]], straightforwardly enough, as fundament
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• Deconstruction
  ...ning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstructed" [[concepts]] ...eep criticism is a result of a fundamental difference of opinion about the nature of [[philosophy]], and is unlikely to be resolved simply.
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...re are two Deleuzes. The more accepted Deleuze champions the multitudinous nature of becoming in ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]''. However, the second Deleuze is much mo ...as a [[quasi-cause]], revolutionary becoming and the notion of the [[post-human]].
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...actions of characters within the story, but whose specific identity and [[nature]] is unimportant to the [[spectator]] of the film. In ''[[Vertigo (film)|Ve ...erally avoided points of view that were physically [[impossible]] from a [[human]] perspective. For example, he would never place the camera [[looking]] out
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...h]]. Much of his [[work]] deals with [[religious]] problems such as the [[nature]] of faith, the institution of the [[Christian Church]], [[Christian]] [[et ...ique of the story, Kierkegaard made several insightful observations on the nature of the [[present]] age and its passionless attitude towards life. One of h
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• Georg Lukács
  ...hat the being itself can appear as a product, so far [[unconscious]], of [[human]] [[activity]], and this activity, in turn, as the decisive element of the ...he [[category]] of ''[[reification]]'' whereby, due to the [[commodity]] [[nature]] of [[capitalist]] [[society]], social relations become objectified, precl
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  Freud's speculations on the female Oedipus complex led him to explore the [[nature]] of feminine sexuality but resulted only in a series of unanswered questio ...at its status in the development of [[human]] sexuality is something which nature cannot account for' (1996a: 63). The phallus is the signifier of lack. The
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...ciety]]. For Lacan there is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is la ...c assumptions. Lacan’s view is that biology is always interpreted by the human subject, refracted through language; that there is no such [[thing]] as...
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  The [[Oedipus complex]] is central to [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of [[human]] [[development]]. ...’[[Civilization and its Discontents]]’’ (1930), the transition from nature to culture.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...'[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[world]] or the [[human]] [[body]] or even '[[reality]]'. For Lacan, our reality consists of [[symb ...]] [[about]] [[traumatic]] events such as train crashes, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr>< ...udes this aspect, a fear of a too violent, too open encounter with another human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr><
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