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• Gaze
  ...is]] of "[[gaze|the look]]."<ref>The fact that the [[English]] translators of [[Sartre]] and [[Lacan]] have used different [[terms]] obscures the fact th ...er-as-subject must be able to be referred back to my permanent possibility of ''[[being]] seen'' by the Other.<ref>[[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre, Jean-Paul]]
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• Jouissance
  ...ing 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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• Phallus
  ...anatomical]]) [[body|bodily organ]] and the [[phallus]] as a [[signifier]] of [[sexual difference]]. ...batory jouissance ([[gratification]]). [[Freud]] argues that [[children]] of both [[sexual difference|sexes]] set great [[value]] on the [[phallus|penis
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...italist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]").
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• Art
  ...[process]] of [[art|artistic creation]] in general and certain [[art|works of art]] in [[particular]]. He explained [[art|artistic creation]] by reference to the [[concept]] of [[sublimation]], a process in which [[sexual]] [[libido]] is redirected tow
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• Delusion
  ...[[paranoia]], and can range from single [[ideas]] to [[complex]] networks of [[belief]]s. ==Name-of-the-Father==
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• Structure
  ...efer to "[[structure|social structures]]" by which he means a specific set of [[affect]]ive relations between [[family]] members. =====Nature of the Psyche=====
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• Community Portal3
  ...Subject:About|No Subject]] wants you. Together we can build a [[library]] of No [[Subject]] - free and open textbooks. You can help [[No Subject]] by ...visit the [[No Subject:Staff lounge|Staff lounge]] (this is the equivalent of Wikipedia's 'Village Pump'). Also see [[textbook planning|planning]] pages
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...126). In general, most psychoanalysts would agree. The immediate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that p
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• Semiotics
  ...a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. ==Clarification of terms==
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).
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• Deconstruction
  ...ught]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to defi ===The problems of definition===
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• Ideology
  [[Zizek]] distinguishes [[three]] moments in the [[narrative]] of an ideology. ...eories of an ideology, i.e. [[liberalism]] partly developed from the ideas of John Locke.
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...enstein]] remarked that Kierkegaard was "by far, the most profound thinker of the nineteenth century" <ref [[name]]="ArisSoc"> ...e=Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein | work=University of Hertfordshire| url=http://www.herts.ac.uk/philosophy/Aris_Soc.html | access
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• Alenka Zupančič
  If [[Zupancic]]'s book does not become a classic [[work]] of reference, the only conclusion will be that our academia is caught in an obscure [[de ...] it makes on us. Moreover, both are thinkers of [[desire,]] of the ethics of desire and the desire for ethics.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is a major [[concept]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  The [[Matrix]], or two sides of [[Perversion]] ...had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the [[ideal]] [[spectator]] of the [[film]] - namely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my [[right]]
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavour. ..., simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...agance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is ...[[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined b ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals
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• Opera
  ...er offer if Sieglinde cannot join him in Walhalla, preferring the [[love]] of a miserable mortal [[woman]] to Walhall's <i>sproeden Wonnen</i>. The shatt ...of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[lacking]]
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...atistas. So their theoretical limitation is simultaneously the limitation of the actual movement.<br><br> ...the One, of the sovereign state [[power]]; "absolute democracy" ("the rule of everyone by everyone, a democracy without qualifiers, without ifs or buts,"
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• Oedipus complex
  ...pularized and at the same [[time]] one of the most misunderstood [[ideas]] of [[psychoanalysis]]. --> ...site sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex.
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• Castration
  ...tion]] retains its [[place]] as a necessary element in the [[structuring]] of [[sexuality]] for the [[speaking]] [[being]]. ===The notion of castration in Freud's work===
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• Surrealism
  [[Breton]] was familiar with Freud's work on dreams and developed a technique of 'spontaneous' writing to give free expression to unconscious thoughts and w ...eir [[dreams]], which they saw as more '[[real]]' than the prosaic reality of our everyday world.
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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]] illiteracy of the younger generation-how can anyone not [[know]] [[about]] <i>Rebecca</i>
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...enia, I had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the ideal spectator of the film - namely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my right was so ...he virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br>
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  ...r Dews' basic criticism of my [[reading]] of [[Schelling]] is that, by way of asserting the ...r affinity between spirit and [[nature]], and thus towards the possibility of
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• Civilization
  ...of the achievements and regulations which distinguish our lives from those of our [[animal]] ancestors and which serve two purposes—namely to protect m ...Future of an Illusion]]</i> [[Freud]] provided a more extended definition of [[civilization]]:
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• Historicism
  '''Historicism''' is a term which applies to a [[number]] of theories of [[culture]] or historical [[development]] which [[place]] the greatest weig # that there is an [[organic]] succession of developments,
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  The [[Sublime]] [[Object]] of [[Ideology]], New York: Verso, 1989. ...ich he returns to [[time]] and again - that the [[subject]] is the subject of a [[void]].
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary ...th Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of an [[ideological]] [[statement]]. He'll tell a [[joke]] or every now and ag
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...of Zizek is to go back and start again from scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  <b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...e that 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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• Oedipus
  ...with the title "The Oedipus [[Complex]] as an Explanation of the 'Mystery of Hamlet."' It was translated into [[German]] in 1911 in a brochure in the se ...et," which had previously appeared in 1929 in the <i>International Journal of [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]]</i>.
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• Wilhelm Reich
  ...on against its promotion as a medical [[treatment]]. Charged with contempt of court for violating the injunction, Reich conducted his own [[defense]], wh ...tons of his publications were [[Book burning|burned]] by the FDA. He died of heart failure in jail just over a year later, one day before he was due to
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• Erich Fromm
  ...her]]. He is associated with what became known as the [[Frankfurt School]] of critical thinkers. ...iatry]] in [[1943]], and in [[1945]] the [[William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology]].
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• Hegemony
  ...that [[ideas]] become "naturalized" in a [[process]] that informs notions of [[common sense]]. ...lizing its defined "[[heresy|heresies]]", provides a richly-exampled arena of cultural hegemony.
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• Uncanny
  In "[[The Uncanny]]" [[Freud]] seeks to explain the [[feeling]] of uncanniness. ..."The Sandman" describes the [[figure]] of the Sandman who steals the eyes of [[children]].
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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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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  The <i>[[jouissance]] </i>of [[transgression]]</font><br> </i>THE RESPECT OF THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER<br>
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• Action
  ...[body]] of [[thought]] in [[psychoanalysis]] concerning [[them]], in spite of the rather fragmentary references found in [[Freud]] and subsequent attempt ..."The initial [[helplessness]] of [[human]] beings is the [[primal]] source of all [[moral]] motives."
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• Infans
  ...rather, not yet) speak," and refers to the [[baby]] before the acquisition of [[speech]] that marks the entry into [[childhood]].</p> ...elaborated a [[theory]] of the [[mother]]-[[infant]] relation in [[terms]] of [[discourse]] (with the mother as "[[word]]-bearer").
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• Defense
  ...[[stability]] by avoiding [[anxiety]] and [[unpleasure]]. The [[concept]] of defense was broadened somewhat when Freud attributed an important [[role]] ...of sexuality alone is not enough to [[cause]] repression; the cooperation of defense is necessary" (p. 188).
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