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• Symbolic
  ...[[word]] as a substantive, and it rapidly becomes the cornerstone of his [[theory]]: the [[subject]]'s [[relationship]] with the [[symbolic]] is the heart of ...nd perpetuation of social [[stability]]. The application of [[Saussure]]'s theory of the [[sign]] allows these structures and exchanges to be [[analyzed]] as
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• Id
  ...r wild [[instinct]]ual forces of [[nature]], but must be conceived of in [[linguistic]] [[terms]]:
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• Psychosis
  ...om [[Lacan]] calls [[Aimée]] that first led [[Lacan]] to [[psychoanalytic theory]].<ref>{{1932}}</ref> It is common to compare [[Lacan]]'s tortured and at ...arguing that while [[psychosis]] is of great interest for [[psychoanalytic theory]], it is [[outside]] the field of the classical method of [[psychoanalytic
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• Drive
  ...to his [[theory]] of [[human]] [[sexuality]]; it lies at the heart of his theory of [[sexuality]]. Whereas [[instinct]] denotes a [[mythical]] [[linguistic|pre-linguistic]] [[need]], the [[drive]] is completely removed from the realm of [[biology
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• Language
  ...time do not contain any references to a specific [[linguistics|linguistic theory]], and instead are dominated by [[philosophy|philosophical allusions]], mai [[Lacan]] takes up [[Saussure]]'s [[theory]] that [[language]] is a [[structure]] composed of differential elements, b
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• Registers
  ...[human]] primitive [[self-knowledge]] while the [[Symbolic]], his term for linguistic collaboration, generates a [[community]]-wide [[reflection]] of [[primitive
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• Enunciation
  In [[linguistics|linguistic theory]] in [[Europe]], one important distinction is that between the [[enunciatio
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• Unconscious
  ...d]] in his [[topology|topographical model]] of the [[psyche]], his first [[theory]] of [[psyche|mental]] [[structure]]. ...]'s second [[model]] of the [[mind]] or [[psyche]] -- the "'''[[Structural theory]]'''" -- consisted of three "'''[[agencies]]'''":
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• Structure
  ...uss]], who used the [[structure|structural phonemic model]] to analyze non-linguistic [[cultural]] data such as [[anthropology|kinship relations]] and [[myth]]. ...cept of [[structure]] to [[mathematics]], principally to [[mathematics|set theory]] and [[topology]].
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• Sinthome
  ...coincidentia oppositorum'' -- bringing together [[mathematics|mathematical theory]] and the intricate weave of the [[James Joyce|Joycean]] [[text]] -- [[Laca ...cal transformation of Lacan's [[thought]] implicit in his shift from the [[linguistic]] definition of the [[symptom]] - as a [[signifier]] - to his [[statement]]
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• Science
  ...is what lies behind [[Lacan]]'s attempts to [[formalize]] [[psychoanalytic theory]] in [[terms]] of various [[mathematical]] [[algebra|formulae]]. ...from the "[[science]]s of subjectivity," and by aligning [[psychoanalytic theory]] with these rather than with the [[science|natural sciences]].
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• Psychology
  ...y [[human]].<ref>Although at one point [[Lacan]] does [[state]] that the [[theory]] of the [[ego]] and of [[narcissism]] 'extend' modern ethological research ...ic]] phenomena. Only [[psychoanalysis]], which uncovers the [[linguistics|linguistic basis]] of [[human]] [[subjectivity]], is adequate to explain those psychic
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...hat in his thesis he was against "[[mental automatism]]," Clérambault's [[theory]]. ...rnational [[Psychoanalytic]] Association (IPA) on the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] theory which remains unpublished (the version included in ''Escits'' dates from 19
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• Semiotics
  ...start from the same point, semiotics [[links]] [[linguistic]] facts to non-linguistic facts to give a broader [[empirical]] coverage and to offer conclusions tha ...le semiotics is closer to some of the [[humanities]] (including [[literary theory]] and [[cultural anthropology]]).
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• Linguistics
  ...[[language]] in [[terms]] derived from a specific [[linguistics|linguistic theory]], and not until 1957 that he begins to engage with [[linguistics]] in any ...un to apply the methods of [[structure|structural]] [[linguistics]] to non-linguistic [[cultural]] data ([[myth]], kinship relations, etc.), thus giving brith to
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• Mathematics
  ...y]], although there are also incursions into set [[theory]] and [[number]] theory.<ref>{{E}} pp. 316-18</ref> ...[[psychoanalytic theory]], in keeping with his view that [[psychoanalytic theory]] should aspire to the [[formalization]] proper to [[science]].
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• Critical theory
  ...as been some overlap between these disciplines. This has led to "critical theory" becoming an umbrella term for an array of theories within the academic [[w ==Critical theory (social theory)==
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• Roland Barthes
  ...[[French]] [[literary critic]], [[literary theory|literary]] and [[social theory|social theorist]], [[philosopher]], and [[Semiotics|semiotician]]. ...his works were discursive to traditional academic views of [[literary]] [[theory]] and specific, renowned [[figures]] of [[literature]]. His unorthodox [[t
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...omous]] from bodies yet territorializes [[them]] resembles Lacan’s own [[theory]] of the [[Gaze]]. Subjects erroneously assume that they possess it, but it [[Category:Postmodern theory|Deleuze, Gilles]]
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...artifice, and that an irreducible gap remains between [[event]] and its [[linguistic]] description (Derrida 1976: 158), it was too quickly concluded that Derrid [[Category:Postmodern theory|Derrida, Jacques]]
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  of [[choice]] and [[individual]] [[responsibility]]. But as a [[theory]] of the self ...Lacan’s theory offered a way of [[thinking]] about the social and the [[linguistic]] [[construction]] of the self, of thinking through the problem of the indi
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...e contrary, the reference to Hegel enable us to discern a flaw in Laclau's theory itself? The philosophical/notional limitation of Laclau's couple of two log ...is why the standard deconstructionist criticism according to which Lacan's theory of sexual difference falls into the trap of "binary logic" totally misses t
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• Seminar VII
  ...r [[repression|repressed]]. [[Freud]] further develops this idea in his [[theory]] of an unconscious [[sense]] of [[guilt]] and in his [[concept]] of the su ...ond-of-the-signified." Thing-presentations found in the unconscious are of linguistic nature, as opposed to ''[[das Ding]]'', which is outside language and outsi
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• Surrealism
  ...itly on [[Freudian]] discoveries, which were used to develop an original [[theory]] of language and [[creativity]]. In later years it adopted [[Hegelian]] di ...étiques</i>, which analyzed the creative process and made use of Freudian theory. A number of [[psychoanalysts]] (André Berge, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, Guy
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• Supplement
  ...is, originate in a natural [[state]] of completion as there is no extra-[[linguistic]] point of origin, but merely the 'originary lack'. [[Category:Postmodern theory]]
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• Uncanny
  [[Freud]]'s argument is underpinned by the philological [[theory]] that certain [[primal]] [[words]] have antithetical [[meanings]] and by t [[Freud]] develops this [[concept]] with references to etymology and [[linguistic]] variants, and observations or [[fantasies]] that appear in novels.
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• Word-Presentation
  Upon discovering the unconscious, Freud came to question this nominalist [[theory]] of [[knowledge]], inherited from John Stuart Mill, and embraced the [[ide ...signified relationship, thus introducing a factor ultimately against the [[linguistic]] system itself. When a similarity between [[signifiers]] serves to justify
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• Unconscious mind
  In [[psychoanalytic theory]], the '''[[unconscious]]''' refers to that part of [[mental]] functioning ...eed considered by Freud throughout the evolution of his [[psychoanalytic]] theory a [[sentient]] force of [[will]] influenced by [[human]] [[drive (psychoana
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• Symbol
  ...Theory of Symbolism" (1916), seeks moreover to reinforce the [[Freudian]] theory of "symbolic dream-interpretation"; for Jones all [[true]] symbolism is the ...s. To back up his theory Freud adopted the [[linguist]] [[Hans]] Sperber's theory of a [[primitive]] [[language]] [[[langue]]] parallel to the primitive lang
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• Jean-Claude Milner
  ...es, which Chomsky wanted to give in later publications to its [[language]] theory. Although it holds to the [[formal]] framework, which Chomskys Generative g * Introduction to a science of the language, the Threshold, collection “[[linguistic]] Work”, 1989
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• Overview
  ...ich are deceptive, is structured by the symbolic order. It also involves a linguistic dimension: whereas the signifier is the foundation of the symbolic, the "si Although an essentially linguistic dimension, Lacan does not simply equate the symbolic with language, since t
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• Symbolism
  ...quitous expressions of the [[dynamic]] unconscious [[mind]]. In ordinary [[linguistic]] usage, a flag may [[represent]] a country, and a cross may represent a [[ ...arable to an ancient language, symbolism may be adaptively appropriated in linguistic communication [[inside]] and [[outside]] psychoanalysis (Blum, 1995).
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• Function of Language
  ...e of the topics I will discuss include: Lacan's emendation of Saussure's [[theory]], the importance of [[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]], the [[relationship]] be ...ises the claims of structuralism to produce an [[objective]] decoding of [[linguistic]] messages. For Lacan, meaning cannot be objectified; , rather, it is chara
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...nsidered the subject, it is "simply the pure subject of modern [[games]] [[theory]]" (1977, p. 304/ 806). Lacan adds that this Other as "locus of Speech, imp ...focuses directly on the signifier of the Other-as-Iacking. Taking it in [[linguistic]] terms, he tells us: "My definition of a signifier (there is no other) is
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• Books/Peter Mathews/Lacan the Charlatan
  ...psychoanalysis, [[philosophy]], [[sociology]], critical and [[literary]] [[theory]]. * 2. Lacan the Linguistic Charlatan
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...nce of the [[castration]] [[complex]] for traditional [[psychoanalytic]] [[theory]], both in [[terms]] of eventual~ tom [[formation]] and in terms of the unc ...by a Kleinian perspective. Lacan's whole critique of [[object relations]] theory as developed by [[Melanie Klein]] is implicit here and must be [[left]] for
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• Lacan and Language
  [[Linguistic]](s), 7, 8, 10-12, 16, 23, 40, 80, 101, 111, 119, 127, 138, 139, 141,161,16 ...69,248,418 Reconciliation, 173, 181,217,251-253 Redundancy (in information theory), 104, 154
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  It argues that reality is a [[linguistic]] [[text]], and that, as language is also unstable and subject to a constan Žižek's point of reference for this [[theory]] of the genealogy of the subject is the work of the [[German]] philosopher
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• Psychoses, chronic and delusional
  ...2) was more an application of [[Freudian]] [[theory]] than a [[form]] of [[linguistic]] research.Émile Benveniste's rebuttal of Carl Abel's claims [[about]] the ...ionship]] is reversed and hierarchized in Lacan (S/s) with an extreme (non-linguistic) expansion of the signifier.
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• Word-presentation
  Upon discovering the unconscious, Freud came to question this nominalist [[theory]] of [[knowledge]], inherited from John Stuart Mill, and embraced the [[ide ...signified relationship, thus introducing a factor ultimately against the [[linguistic]] system itself. When a similarity between [[signifiers]] serves to justify
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• Linguistics and psychoanalysis
  ...2) was more an application of [[Freudian]] [[theory]] than a [[form]] of [[linguistic]] research.Émile Benveniste's rebuttal of Carl Abel's claims [[about]] the ...ionship]] is reversed and hierarchized in Lacan (S/s) with an extreme (non-linguistic) expansion of the signifier.
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• Feminism and psychoanalysis
  ...impact of these primitive states on [[transference]]. Melanie [[Klein]]'s theory carried on Freud's shift in the emphasis from the father to the mother and ...the numerous writings, from those who accept basic tenets of [[Freudian]] theory to those who, like [[Julia Kristeva]], Helene Cixous, Michele Montrelay, Sa
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• Reversal Into the Opposite
  This play of opposites is found in certain linguistic expressions that, according to context, can take on opposite meanings: Thus ...of opposites" frequently found in Freud's work, culminating in his second theory of the instincts with the oppositional pair Eros/the death instinct.
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• Ideational representation
  ...heless, according to Aulagnier, this libidinal meaning traces an access to linguistic signification "by leading the psyche to accept that this meaning [[exists]]
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• Mythème
  ...the term, it is necessary to [[place]] Lévi-Strauss's [[structuralist]] [[theory]] of the study of myth within the context of the late 19th-century and 20th
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• Interview with Jacques Lacan
  ...ery page of Freud's [[work]]; all the time he gives references, analogies, linguistic parallels. And then, in the end, in psychoanalysis, you only ask one thing ...out it. Indeed, the child will have a much harder time entering into this linguistic discourse that we have submerged him into, than to learn to avoid the hot p
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• Kleinian psychoanalysis
  ...ychoanalysis]] is the [[name]] given to the [[school]] of [[psychoanalytic theory]] that has grown up around the pioneering [[work]] of the Austrian [[psycho ...is]] first began to emerge as a distinctive [[school]] of [[psychoanalytic theory]] during the 1940s in opposition to the group which gathered around [[Anna
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• Formulae of sexuation
  ...70-1]] [[Jacques Lacan]] attempts to [[formalize]] his [[sexual difference|theory of sexual difference]] by means of [[mathemes|formulae]] derived from [[sym ...completely subordinated to the law of language (as is argued by reigning [[linguistic]] constructivists) and [[claim]] that this order is not-all.
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• An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...elds as diverse a [[film]] studies, [[literary]] criticism, [[feminist]] [[theory]] and [[philosophy]]. Lacan's writings are [[notorious]] for their complexi ...guage]]. Such an impression is, however, misleading. Each [[psychoanalytic theory]] articulates these terms in a unique way, as well as introducing new terms
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...ost important early essay to incorporate Lacanian psychoanalysis into film theory was Jean-Louis Baudry's 'Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic A ...[[exists]] between the spectator and image on the screen that apparatus [[theory]] draws most heavily on psychoanalytic ideas. Baudry describes film spectat
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