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• The Act
  ...n abyssal Act, and it is psychoanalysis that “confronts us with the zero-level of politics, a pre-political ‘transcendental’ condition of the possibil
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• Jouissance
  ...a deadly reference, a paradoxical pleasure, reaching an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usuall ..., whereby, through [[discharge]], the [[psyche]] seeks the lowest possible level of tension. The [[pleasure principle]] thus functions as a [[limit]] impos
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• Name
  You're An Abominable Erection! You [[Demand]] To Be Raised To The Level Of [[Signifier]], But You [[Need]] To Be Veiled, To Hide What You Haven't G
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• Thing
  ...nd ''[[Thing|Wortvorstellungen]]'' are opposed, in the [[symbolic|symbolic level]] "they go together".
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• Phallus
  ...ealm of anatomical reality or on the level of organs, but precisely on the level of what a lack of the organ might [[represent]] subjectively. ...ation (perceptual reality) is immediately elaborated on the [[subjective]] level as a conception: Freud writes "the lack of a penis is regarded as."
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• Desire
  ...factions that it obtains for need are reduced (''sich erniedrigt'') to the level of being no more than the crushing of the demand for love.
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ar from being dictated by military necessity, Brovkin has argued that this level of terror was highly counterproductive. Alienation of the population behin Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the level of reverence for Lenin in post-Soviet republics has gone down considerably,
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• Graph of desire
  ...gnifier]] to the [[voice]]) is the [[conscious]] [[signifying chain]], the level of the [[statement]]. ...to [[castration]]) is the [[signifying chain]] in the [[unconscious]], the level of the [[enunciation]].
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...mitives act at a social level as if they believe, but at an [[individual]] level they may in fact demur. By contrast, “advanced” [[media]] consumers are ...ess believe in it (and act accordingly)…” Cynical denunciation (at the level of rational [[knowledge]]) is counteracted by a call to “irrational” be
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• Perversion
  ...view of [[development|genetic development]], [[perversion]] is at the same level as [[neurosis]]; both have reached the [[third]] "time" of the [[Oedipus co ...]] argues that [[perversion|perverse subjects]] can be treated at the same level as [[neurosis|neurotics]], although there will of course be different probl
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• Psychosis
  ...interpretable as that of the neurotic leaves the two disorders at the same level and fails to account for the major differences between [[them]], thus the [ ...; "[[nothing]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of the [[imaginary]], since [[the imaginary]] [[mechanism]] is what gives p
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• Ego-ideal
  ...me into [[being]], one must find "a guide beyond [[the imaginary]], on the level of [[the symbolic]] plane. . . . This guide governing [[The Subject|the sub
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• Condensation
  This added intensity indicates at the manifest level that the representation stands for the different latent chains intersecting
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• Sexual Difference
  ...een the [[biological]] aspect of [[sexual difference]] (for example at the level of the chromosomes) which is related to the [[reproductive]] function of se ...ay that the subject can only realize his [[sexuality]] on the [[symbolic]] level.<ref>{{S3}} p.170</ref>
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• Fantasy
  ...{{Ec}} p. 780</ref> and "that by which the subject sustains himself at the level of his vanishing desire."<ref>{{E}} p. 272</ref> ...s [[symbolic]] [[structure]] fully into account, and thus remaining at the level of the [[imaginary]]; "any attempt to reduce [fantasy] to the imagination
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• Being
  ...tainly in the relation to being that the analyst has to find his operating level."<ref>{{E}} p.252</ref>
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• Consciousness
  ...culties which this [[system]] of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theorising."<ref>{{S2}} p.117</ref></blockquote>
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• Dialectic
  ...]] simultaneously annuls, preserves and raises this opposition to a higher level.
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• Fragmented body
  In this way, the [[fragmented body]] is "revealed at the [[organic]] level, in the lines of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as
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• Castration complex
  On a more fundamental level, the term [[castration complex|castration]] may also refer not to an "opera
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• Chance
  It is a knock on the door that interrupts a [[dream]], and on a more painful level it is [[trauma]].
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• Cogito
  On one level, the ''[[cogito]]'' comes to stand for the modern western [[concept]] of th On [[another]] level, [[Lacan]]'s views can be seen not only as a [[subversion]] of the ''[[cogi
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• Optical Model
  ...conceivable insofar as one finds a [[guide]] beyond the imaginary, on the level of the symbolic plane' (Sl, 141). The optical model thus illustrates the pr
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• Phobia
  ...same role which Claude LÈvi-[[Strauss]] assigns to [[myths]], only on the level of the [[individual]] rather than of [[society]]. Thus phobia is not, according to Lacan, a [[clinical structure]] on the same level as hysteria and obsessional neurosis, but a gateway which can lead to eithe
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• Resistance
  ...rase is [[understood]] correctly, in the [[sense]] of "[[knowing]] at what level the answer should be pitched."<ref>{{S2}} p. 43</ref> Therefore there is a certain irreducible level of [[resistance]] which can never be "overcome".
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• Psychoanalysis
  ...ions he introduces are closely related to developments at the [[clinical]] level as he gradually abandons the therapeutic [[technique]] of [[hypnosis]] and
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• Community Portal3
  *[[:Category:Policies - Wiktionary Top Level|Wiktionary Policies]]- a [[list]] of all policy documents. Both established
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• Community Portal4
  *[[:Category:Policies - Wiktionary Top Level|Wiktionary Policies]]- a [[list]] of all policy documents. Both established
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• Main Page2
  ...deos]] in different ways, e.g. for clients, technical [[knowledge]], skill level etc.
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...is there. But there is no sexual rapport because speech functions on that level that [[analytic discourse]] reveals to be specific to speaking human beings
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• Metaphor
  <blockquote>"The [[anal]] level is the locus of metaphor - one object for another, gives the faeces in [[pl
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  "The [[mirror stage]] is based on the rapport between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as disconnected and, on the other, a un
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• Seminar III
  ...: "[[nothing]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of [[the imaginary]], since the imaginary [[mechanism]] is what gives psych ...er from which the increasing disaster of the imaginary proceeds, until the level is reached at which signifier and signified are stabilized in the delusiona
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• Seminar:Transference
  ...l, it allows for "the reshaping of [[the imaginary]]," on the theorethical level for an intersubjective [[logic]] to be constructed. Thus, [[analysis]] is d
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• Seminar VIII
  ...l, it allows for "the reshaping of the [[imaginary]]," on the theorethical level for an intersubjective [[logic]] to be constructed. Thus, [[analysis]] is
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  ...mand, but of [[desire,]] of the desire of the Other; it is the same at the level of the [[invocatory]] drive, which is the closest to the [[experience]] of
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• Seminar XII
  ...urbes [[The Subject|the subject]]'s [[fundamental fantasy]], unhinging the level that is even more fundamental than basic symbolic identifications. For Laca
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• Seminar XVI
  ...>a</i> is the <i>[[plus-de-jouir]]</i>, surplus-<i>jouissance</i>.* At the level of the [[enunciation]], [[perversion]] reveals "surplus-<i>jouissance</i> i
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...zaton of dicourse," which the [[analyst]] introduces at the [[structural]] level. This leaves untouched [[hysteria]] as attributed to [[woman]] - the only d
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...d makes a [[distinction]] between the ‘‘[[manifest]],’’ or surface-level, dream [[content]] and the ‘‘[[latent]],’’ or unconscious, ‘‘dr
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• Seminar XI
  ...nd]], but of [[desire,]] of the desire of the Other; it is the same at the level of the [[invocatory]] drive, which is the closest to the [[experience]] of
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• Seminar II
  ...e]] is based on the rapport [relationship] between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as [[disconnected]] and, on the other,
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• Semiotics
  ...iche in the [[world]] (see [[Semiosis]]). Semiotics theorises at a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in ...rganizing the text) and on the level of [[narrative]] syntax; the semantic level (the content elements of the text); and the pragmatic or communicative cont
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• Political:Politics of the Subject
  ...[[lack]]) is always attempting to cover over its constitutive lack on the level of [[representation]], through continuous [[identification]] [[acts]].
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...unable to give an account of ''[[jouissance]]'' and remains merely at the level of deconstructing [[meaning]], it runs the risk of moderating and curtailin
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• Deconstruction
  ...erms' undecidable, unresolvable complexity, deconstruction requires a high level of comfort with suspended, deferred decision; a deconstructive thinker must ...w that [[people]] in these fields can explain the [[contents]] to me at my level, so that I can gain what ([[partial]]) understanding I may [[want]]. In con
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...of states. Order is threatened when the level of mobilization exceeds the level of institutionalization within a [[society]]. Huntington is concerned that,
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ..., when Lacan talks about [[existence]], he is reerring to something at the level of [[The Symbolic|the symbolic]]. If the woman was to exist she would have to exist at the level of the symbolic and this has a number of implications.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...d be said that by shifting all descriptions from a [[biological]]-anatomic level to a [[symbolic]] one he shows how [[culture]] imposes meaning on [[anatomi ...ee]] of a possible union with the mother. Lacan transforms all this to the level of the symbolic. This is why he writes not of the penis but of the phallus.
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Both fathers function psychically at the level of the superego. At a [[psychic]] level, an overly punishing superego and subordiantion to the symbolic law is one
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