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• Psychoanalytic Theory
  ...f [[Psychological trauma|trauma]] through [[literary]] studies informed by philosophy, [[psychology]], [[neurology]], and [[Freudian]] and [[Lacanian]] theory).
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• Sigmund Freud
  ..., [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widel ...She presented with symptoms such as paralysis of the limbs, [[Dissociative identity disorder|split personality]] and amnesia; today these symptoms are known as
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...whose [[complete]] works he edited in Italian [[translation]]. Agamben's [[philosophy]] draws from [[Michel Foucault]] as well as from Italian neo-[[marxist]] th ...[[other]] occupied countries was made possible by the photos taken from [[identity cards]] {{ref|Lemonde_2005}}. Furthermore, Agamben's political criticisms o
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• Roland Barthes
  ...arliest work was very much a reaction to the trend of [[existentialist]] [[philosophy]] that was prominent during the [[1940s]], specifically towards the figureh ...quired an avoidance of any labels that might carry an implied meaning or [[identity]] towards a given [[object]]. Even carefully crafted neutral writing could
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• Judith Butler
  ...ade major contributions to [[feminism]], queer [[theory]], [[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of [[Rhe Butler’s ''[[Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity]]'' (1990) is frequently cited as one of the most influential books of the
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...rmation. Included in the term are certain areas of speculative research ([[philosophy]] of [[mind]]), artificial intelligence, semantic, syntactic, and lexical m ...is more [[recent]] (M. C. Hardy-Baylé, 1996) and is based on work in the philosophy of mind and a renewed interest in [[phenomenology]] as well as on expert sy
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• Deconstruction
  ...is used in contemporary [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' that [[meaning]] is constructed and The term ''deconstruction'' in the context of Western philosophy is highly resistant to [[formal]] definition. [[Martin Heidegger]] was perh
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• German Idealism
  '''[[German]] [[Idealism]]''' was a [[philosophy|philosophical]] movement in [[Germany]] in the late [[eighteenth century|ei ...known indirectly. This is the meaning that should be associated with the [[philosophy]] of German Idealism.
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...re received. Lacan's [[insistence]] that all notions of a [[stable]] fixed identity are a [[fiction]] rather than [[biologically]] given were seen to provide f ...ndermines any stable or fixed identity and that includes a stable [[sexual identity]]. For early Lacan, sexual difference is not a question of biology but of [
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...f his work: the relation between self and language; problems of self and [[identity]]; the main theoretical differences between Lacan and Freud; the influence
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...d to the freedom to choose your lifestyle. You can even choose your ethnic identity up to a point.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></ ...xmlns:script="urn:my-script-blocks">Dr Slavoj Žižek</b> is professor of philosophy at University Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is currently a member of the Director
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ..., the [[need]] to constrain abstract [[citizenship]] on behalf of ethnic [[identity]], etc.). However, the hegemonic liberal democracy is using this fact to [[ ...ound familiar? Is this, in the [[Anglo-Saxon]] [[tradition]] of analytical philosophy, not the basic position of [[Karl Popper]], the archetypal anti-[[Hegelian]
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  [[Philosophy]] Today; Celina; 1999; Volume: 43. ...uter network, it is easy to imagine an evil programmer erasing our digital identity and thus depriving us of our social existence, turning us into non-persons.
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...t) and the "subject of the [[enunciated]] (statement)" (the [[symbolic]] [[identity]] the subject assumes within and via his statement): Kant does not address Lacan himself pointed the way out of this deadlock by referring to Kant's [[philosophy]] as the crucial antecedent of the [[psychoanalytic]] ethics of the duty "b
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...gh the Other. The gesture of criticism here consists in the assertion of [[identity]]: no, it is YOU who believes through the Other (in the theological whimsie ...olic]] and the Real? In the case of (symbolic) belief, you [[disavow]] the identity (you do not recognize yourself in the belief which is yours); in the case o
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ial, contingent.<ref>See F.W.J. von Schelling, <i>On the History of Modern Philosophy</i>, Cambridge: CUP, 1994.</ref> It is precisely insofar as woman is chara ...as the passage from [[being]] to having? That is to say, in Schelling's [[philosophy]], (what previously was) a Being becomes a predicate of a higher Being; (wh
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...'t see anything very revolutionary in this return to Spinoza. Contemporary philosophy is [[conscious]] of what we were just discussing, that is, of the Spinozist You formulate your [[identity]] on the fantasy that the Other is the one who automatically wants to steal
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...al social body, fixing the rules of political competition, etc. `Political philosophy' is thus, in all its different shapes, a kind of `[[defence]]-[[formation]] ...cized). To put it in Hegel's terms, what is crucial is their speculative [[identity]], i.e. the `infinite judgement', `Humanitarian depoliticized compassion is
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...tuation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysis cannot provide access to the specif ...s not yet well-known in Anglo-American academia, the basic outlines of his philosophy will be rehearsed here prior to offering a [[Lacanian]] response to his dep
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...tterns of interaction, from the forms of sexual partnership up to ethnic [[identity]] itself, have to be renegotiated or reinvented.<ref>See Ulrich Beck, [[Wor ...are to survive we have to change our most fundamental notions of personal identity, society, [[environment]], and so forth. New Age wisdom claims that we are
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...., this external gaze is internal to Dick, part of his immanent subjective identity - he leads his life in order to satisfy this gaze. What this implies, furth ...post-Kantian speculative-historical approach is the highest achievement of philosophy):<br><br>
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...nse]] of the world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], <i>[[Philosophy]] of [[Mind]]</i>, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971, p. 44.</ref> ...in order then to unite." And, again, it is crucial not to confuse this "[[identity of the opposite]]" with the standard pagan motif of a divinity who has two
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...l]] not already on the trace of it with his insight into the speculative [[identity]] of [[Judaism]] and Islam? According to a commonplace, Judaism (like Islam ...- and the speculative reading - the spirit is strong enough to assert its identity with the utmost inert stuff and to "sublate" it, i.e. even the utmost inert
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...e by citizenship and not citizenship by man."<ref>Etienne Balibar, "Is a [[Philosophy]] Of. Human Rights Possible," in <i>South Atlantic Quaterly</i> 2/3, Spring ...ly of" my [[profession]], [[sex]], [[citizenship]], [[religion]], [[ethnic identity]]...).
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...es means, a doctrine now publicly declared as the [[official]] American "[[philosophy]]" of international [[politics]] (in the thirty-one page paper entitled "Th ...]] in the area - legitimizes itself in the terms of its ethnic-religious [[identity]], while the Palestinians - decried as pre-modern "fundamentalists" - legit
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...nted as documentary shots is to be taken as an indication of this deeper [[identity]] of people playing themselves.<br><br> ...the lines." The true, hidden message contained in the "Great Tradition" of philosophy from [[Plato]] to [[Hobbes]] and Locke is that there are no gods, that [[mo
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...ified]] as a powerless [[victim]] of circumstance, deprived of political [[identity]], reduced to bare suffering. As such, she is beyond political recriminatio
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• Religion
  ...[[Jewish]] [[religion]] of his [[parents]] -- though not his [[Jewish]] [[identity]] -- and considered himself an [[atheist]]. [[Freud]] regarded [[monotheis [[Category:Philosophy]]
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...''' is the [[philosophy|philosophical]] [[concept]] central to the [[moral philosophy]] of [[Immanuel Kant]] and to modern [[deontological ethics]]. He introduce He expressed extreme [[dissatisfaction]] with the [[moral]] [[philosophy]] of his day because he believed it could never surpass the level of hypoth
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• Frankfurt School
  ...xism|neo-Marxist]] [[Sociology|social theory]], [[social research]], and [[philosophy]]. The grouping emerged at the [[Institute for Social Research]] (''Institu ...rman]] [[idealism]], principally [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]]'s philosophy, with its emphasis on [[negation]] and [[contradiction]] as inherent proper
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• Administered World
  ...of the Enlightenment of all: an end to [[human]] [[suffering]]. "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in the face of despair is the attempt to [[Category:Philosophy]]
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...arian class struggle is to allow the [[bourgeoisie]] to fully assert its [[identity]] and strivings... In one case, we have a "horizontal" logic of the recogni * [[Somewhere Over the Rainbow]]. ''Melbourne School of Continental [[Philosophy]]''. September 17, 2005. <http://mscp.org.au/>. Also listed at ''[[Lacan.co
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...l too free-[[floating]], [[lacking]] a solid [[social]] and professional [[identity]], so that they can only be accepted at the price of a special qualificatio ...critique suspicious: distrust of intellectuals is ultimately distrust of [[philosophy]] itself.
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...countries _- is a more risky strategy: of not just playing this liberal [[identity]] [[politics]] game for the media. What if we risk, and this doesn't mean v ...s [[philosophy]], and all the rest is a footnote. [Chuckles]. I think that philosophy is something for which [[Spinoza]] laid the ground, but Spinoza's edifice m
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...es means, a doctrine now publicly declared as the [[official]] American "[[philosophy]]" of international [[politics]] (in the thirty-one page paper entitled "Th ...]] in the area - legitimizes itself in the terms of its ethnic-religious [[identity]], while the Palestinians - decried as pre-modern "fundamentalists" - legit
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  ...of the ground and the subject's [[freedom]], while, already in his early [[philosophy]] of [[identity]], Schelling's ultimate [[goal]] is to bring the two together, demonstratin
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...tuation]] has changed: the emerging post-Marxist "radical" [[political]] [[philosophy]] as a rule insists that psychoanalysis cannot provide access to the specif ...s not yet well-known in Anglo-American academia, the basic outlines of his philosophy will be rehearsed here prior to offering a [[Lacanian]] response to his dep
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...t]] of [[modernity]], up to the deconstructionist notion that our sexual [[identity]] is a [[contingent]] socio-symbolic [[formation]]: the moment this prohibi ...ble if one replaces "grain" with some feature which determines my symbolic identity. Look at what occurs in our daily dealings with the bureaucratic hierarchy?
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...'t see anything very revolutionary in this return to Spinoza. Contemporary philosophy is [[conscious]] of what we were just discussing, that is, of the Spinozist You formulate your [[identity]] on the fantasy that the Other is the one who automatically wants to steal
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• Anarchy
  Anarchism is an [[enlightenment]]-based radical political [[philosophy]], at the heart of which is a [[dialectical]] relationship between freedom ...identity]] of the master - the one who is recognized - is dependent on the identity of the slave - the one who recognizes. This introduces into the relationshi
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...which finds that [[contradiction]] is an [[internal]] condition of every [[identity]]. Central to this enterprise is the examination of the [[theory]] which he ...a [[whole]], Zizek also produces his most sustained explanation of Hegel's philosophy here, as well as dissecting the [[cogito]]. As this synopsis suggests, [[Ta
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...it and Zizek devoured it and in [[particular]] the radical deconstructive philosophy of Jacques [[Derrida]] with whom he had contact and still has letters and b ...t towards High School. I already had my own interests." Apart from reading philosophy, Zizek was making [[films]] with friends and developing an obsession with [
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  Zizek talks exactly as he writes, in a nonstop pastiche of [[Hegelian]] [[philosophy]], [[Marxist]] dialectics, and [[Lacanian]] [[jargon]] leavened with refere ...me an economist. Instead, Zizek [[divided]] his atte ntion between reading philosophy and watching movies. Access to Western movies was easy because of a traditi
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...of an [[intellectual]]? As Zizek himself suggests in the interview here, [[philosophy]] helps us, not by "purifying" our [[thought]], but by making it more [[com <p><strong>Zizek:</strong> Martin [[Heidegger]] said that philosophy doesn't make things easier, it makes them harder and more complicated. What
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  Zizek's own polemic against multicultural [[identity]] politics. And talking longer the [[State]] [[philosophy]]. It was some kind of vague [[humanist]] marxism,
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...t cannot find its "name" in the symbolic order or achieve full ontological identity. Using Lacan's expression, the subject always remains as a "bone stuck in t ...tion - and the consequent drive to resolve impossible questions concerning identity, destiny, divinity and so on - that human beings are essentially open to th
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ll focus on the critiques of Zizek concerning politics, psychoanalysis and philosophy, and then turn to the way the particular interweaving of his positions in t ...tique of Zizek's reading of Hegel. Dews targets Zizek's argument that 'the identity of the subject consists in nothing other than the continual failure of self
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...also an attempt to stand in for that [[empty signifier]] from which the [[identity]] of all those others can be seen; and yet, of course, as soon as we do thi ...gnifier. It is the signifier which constitutes the kernel of the object's 'identity'. (SO, 98)</font></p>
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  <b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...od blockbuster, from now-forgotten figures of 18th and 19th century German philosophy to the notoriously obscure writings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lac
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...y [[instance]] is that of early Zizek ally and critic of [[postmodern]] "[[identity]]" politics Ernesto [[Laclau]]. As Laclau writes in the [[exchange]] betwee ...e are confronted with is their [[speculative identity]]. Upon what is this identity founded? Why are all choices within our given ideological co-ordinates fund
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