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• Psychiatry
  * [[Chemical imbalance theory]]
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...<ref>[http://www.humanthermodynamics.com/Freud.html Freud's Psycho Dynamic Theory and Thermodynamics] [1873-1923] - Institute of [[Human]] Thermodynamics</re ...uential in two related but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a [[theory]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how h
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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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• Giorgio Agamben
  :''If [[human]] beings were or had to be this or that [[substance theory|substance]], this or that destiny, no [[ethical]] [[experience]] would be p ..."eternal and unwritten laws" to which even monarchs must abide, as it is a theory of sovereignty (in fact, it is quite the reverse of Antigone's rebellion).
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• Judith Butler
  ...[[philosopher]] and has made major contributions to [[feminism]], queer [[theory]], [[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot profess ...theorist well known for her early [[role]] in shaping the field of [[queer theory]] and for defining the anti-identitarian turn in [[feminist]] [[thought]].
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• Jürgen Habermas
  ...cal]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theory]]. ...been called Neo-[[Marxist]], and focuses on the foundations of [[social]] theory and [[epistemology]], the [[analysis]] of advanced [[capitalist]] industria
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• Postmodern Racism
  [[Category:Postmodern theory]]
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• Self-Deceptions
  ..., i.e. whose reality involves implicit reference to some psychoanalytic [[theory]]. The unfortunate result of this global reflexivization of the interpretat ...and insensitive to reflexive interpretation. So the more today's [[social theory]] proclaims the end of [[Nature]] and/or Tradition and the rise of the "[[r
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...n of the universe, would be the ultimate irrefutable proof that the tested theory is true, since it would suck all matter into a black hole and then bring ab ...orrests — the problem is now a too large increasee of wood… Where this theory of risk society is too short is in emphasizing the irrational predicament i
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...binary signifier without the [[Master]] signifier — in [[speech]]-act [[theory]] we would call it the "[[order]] of the [[performative]]." I think this wa JA: Would this involve Lacan's Theory of [[drive]]?
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...always included in, is a part of, the framed [[content]]: in modernism, [[theory]] [[about]] the work is comprised in the work, the work is a kind of [[pree ...i.e. whose [[reality]] involves implicit reference to some psychoanalytic theory. Today, the "free [[associations]]" of a typical educated [[analysand]] con
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...nstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use - is that [[Lacan]] e According to standard [[feminist]] [[cinema]] theory, in the classical noir, the femme fatale is punished at the level of the [[
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• You May
  ...customs in today's 'risk [[society]]'. According to the [[risk society]] [[theory]] of Anthony [[Giddens]], Ulrich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our ...Lacanian - they don't [[exist]] without reference to some [[psychoanalytic theory]]. The unfortunate result of this reflexivisation is that the [[analyst]]'s
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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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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...] - interesting politically, but far from offering a satisfactory global [[theory]] of the specificity of the Stalinist "[[totalitarianism]]."<br><br>
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ..., which are considered [[contingent]], not merits.<ref>5. John Rawls, <i>A Theory of Justice</i>, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1971 (revised edition 1 In his theory of the [[sublime]] (<i>das Erhabene</i>), Immanuel [[Kant]] [[interpreted]]
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• Lenin Shot at Finland Station
  * [[Marxist theory]]
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• Frankfurt School
  ...[School]]''' is a school of [[neo-Marxism|neo-Marxist]] [[Sociology|social theory]], [[social research]], and [[philosophy]]. The grouping emerged at the [[I ...] and [[Civilization]]''). Their emphasis on the "critical" component of [[theory]] was derived significantly from their attempt to overcome the limits of [[
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...appear. The usual strategy is [[displaced]] belief, what in [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] is referred to as "the [[subject]] supposed to believe," in which literal ...ck a typical liberal reaction against [[fascism]]. You don't really have a theory of fascism. So you look a little bit into history, encounter something whic
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• You May!
  ...customs in today's 'risk [[society]]'. According to the [[risk society]] [[theory]] of Anthony [[Giddens]], Ulrich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our ...Lacanian - they don't [[exist]] without reference to some [[psychoanalytic theory]]. The unfortunate result of this reflexivisation is that the [[analyst]]'s
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...n of the universe, would be the ultimate irrefutable proof that the tested theory is true, since it would suck all matter into a black hole and then bring ab ...forrests - the problem is now a too large increasee of wood... Where this theory of risk society is too short is in emphasizing the irrational predicament i
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...binary signifier without the [[Master]] signifier — in [[speech]]-act [[theory]] we would call it the "[[order]] of the [[performative]]." I think this wa JA: Would this involve Lacan's Theory of [[drive]]?
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...nstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use - is that [[Lacan]] e According to standard [[feminist]] [[cinema]] theory, in the classical noir, the <i>femme fatale</i> is punished at the level of
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  Slavoj [[Zizek]] is engaged in the [[psychoanalytical]] [[theory]] of [[film]] and pop [[culture]], covering a broad area from [[Hitchcock]] ...f current [[left]]-wing [[politics]] which has been inspired by [[gender]] theory, which proposes the [[transgressive]] and therefore subversive potential of
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• Democracy
  ...cacy of radical democracy is rooted in his wider [[Lacanian]] premises and theory of political power. According to this [[position]], subjects’ commitments ...he complains, [[the cultural turn]] in much Western “[[postmodern]]” [[theory]] has insulated [[economics]] from critical and political concern every bit
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• Anarchy
  ...] between [[freedom]], [[transgression]] and [[authority]], as well as his theory of the four [[discourses]], in [[order]] to rethink the anti-authoritarian ...n particular, his theory of the [[four discourses]] - to radical political theory and [[practice]]. Despite the seeming difficulties of this application, the
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...every [[identity]]. Central to this enterprise is the examination of the [[theory]] which he returns to [[time]] and again - that the [[subject]] is the subj ...es that bother what he [[terms]] 'common [[knowledge]]' [[about]] Lacanian theory as well as his own work. As a [[form]] of self-interrogation is the element
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  For many, Jacques [[Lacan]] represents [[postmodern]] [[theory]] at its height--that ...[[work]] of Slavoj [[Zizek]], whose frenetic endorsements of [[Lacanian]] theory
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...hin the order of signification. As with Einstein's "general" and "special" theory of relativity, the imaginary may be regarded as a special case of significa ...f possibility for dimensionality as such. Or, if we take Luhmann's systems theory, the Real is present in terms of the constitutive paradox whereby a system
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• Wilhelm Reich
  Reich developed a [[theory]] that the ability to feel [[sexual]] [[love]] depended on a physical abili ...e of a healthy [[Human sexual behavior|sex life]] to overall well-being, a theory compatible with Freud's views.
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...appear. The usual strategy is [[displaced]] belief, what in [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] is referred to as "the subject supposed to believe," in which we literall ...ck a typical liberal reaction against [[fascism]]. You don't really have a theory of fascism, so what you do is look a little bit into history, [[encounter]]
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• Electra complex
  ...m patriarchal cultures and [[family]] systems. In later [[life]], so the [[theory]] goes, the girl will grow into the [[character]] type that her mother has ==Feminist objections to penis envy theory behind Electra complex==
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• Remembering
  ...rt of their cathartic [[therapy]] and Freud's initially [[trauma]]-based [[theory]] of [[hysteria]]. Freud stressed that simple [[recollection]] of [[memorie
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• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  The entirety of [[analytic]] [[theory]] and praxis appear to us at present to have the Scriptures on which, in theory, your [[faith]] is based, As for that angel, here he is
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...ope]]an [[constitution]] was a clear-cut [[case]] of what in the "[[French theory]]" is referred to as a <i>[[floating signifier]]</i>: a NO of confused, [[i ...]] stands out as one of the today's great (and, unfortunately for [[social theory]], rare) examples of true conceptual stringency, one should note a couple o
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• Resources for Alain Badiou
  [[Category:Political theory]] [[Category:Marxist theory]]
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• Splits in psychoanalysis
  ..., propositions that were once judged to be inconsistent with the general [[theory]] of [[psychoanalysis]] are later reincorporated into it. ...Zurich in 1977, and often emotional, like the divisions over [[Kleinian]] theory in the Argentinean Societies. In the end, they are too numerous for a compr
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• Kantianism
  ...ough the first reference serves only to legitimate and anticipate Freudian theory, the other two references situate Freud's metapsychological reflections in
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• Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses
  ...sis would no longer be needed. [[Psychoanalytic theory]] is ultimately the theory of why its clinical [[practice]] is doomed to fail. ...involves implicit reference to some [[Psychoanalytic Theory|psychoanalytic theory]]. The unfortunate result of this global reflexivization of interpretation
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• Heredity of Acquired Characters
  ...[[mental]] pathologies. It must also be said that in this [[domain]] the [[theory]] of degeneration was well established. It is not surprising that Freud initially stood by the theory. In 1888 he wrote, in agreement with Jean Martin Charcot, that "the aetiolo
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...ing for the moment when radical change will explode like what the system [[theory]] calls “emergent property”; it is also the patience of losing the batt ...s free persons with [[full]] dignity, creators of their world. However, in theory, we should no less always bear in mind that humanism is an ideology, the wa
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...em as free persons with full dignity, creators of their world. However, in theory, we should no less always bear in mind that humanism is an ideology, the wa ...in Claude Lefort, "The Revolutionary Terror," in ''Democracy and Political Theory'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1988, p. 50-88.</ref> This tu
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ze and Guattari, especially to Thousand Plateaux, using it as "operational theory" - the catchwords used are "Formless Rival Entities", "Fractal Manoeuvre", ...iting for the moment when radical change will explode like what the system theory calls "emergent property"; it is also the patience of losing the battles in
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• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...between <em>shoah</em> and its meaning breaks down, (3) the divine mystery theory (facts like <em>shoah</em> bear witness to the unfathomable abyss of divine
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• Slavoj Žižek/Audio
  * [[Ontological Incompleteness in Painting, Literature and Quantum Theory]] | 2012 * [[Towards a Materialist Theory of Subjectivity]] | 22. May 2014
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• Books/Slavoj Zizek/Contemporary Marxist Theory
  =‘Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader’ by Andrew Pendakis, Jeff Diamanti, Nicholas Brown, Josh Robins [[Image:contemporary-marxist-theory-a-reader-theoryleaks-683x1024.jpg|frame|right|300px]]
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• Books/Adrian Johnston/The History Of Continental Philosophy
  ...hill''<br /> 2. The Origins and Development of the Model of Early Critical Theory in the Work of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, ''John Ab ...'Sara Heinämaa''<br /> 16. Deconstruction and the Yale School of Literary Theory, ''Jeffrey T. Nealon''<br /> 17. Rorty Among the Continentals, ''David R.
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• Books/Catherine Malabou/What Should We Do With Our Brain
  ...ibility”—a term that has become a buzzword in economics and management theory. The plastic brain would thus represent just another style of power, which,
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/lacan-as-a-reader-of-hegel.html
  ...lian Cunning of Reason in its standard sense. In his early, Maoist-phase ''Theory of Contradiction'', Badiou wrote: "To the nothing-new-under-the-sun, the th
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/pathological-narcissus.html
  ...act moral idea but an accurate notion with a precisely defined role in the theory of psychoanalysis. Lasch takes from Otto Kernberg's standard work Borderlin ..., the fundamental "impossible encounter", at the very outset of borderline theory: the well-established classification or axis was shattered and violated, th
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