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• Phallus
  ...mbolic [[exchange]], and such incompleteness frees up in [[The Subject|the subject]] her own jouissance. --> ...</ref> Both [[sexual difference|male]] and [[sexual difference|female]] [[subject]]s assume their [[sexual difference|sex]] via the [[phallus|symbolic phallu
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...]." He furthermore insisted that a member of the government should be paid no more than the salary of an average worker. ...War, No Peace", calling for a peace treaty only on the [[conditions]] that no territorial gains on either side be consolidated. After the negotiations co
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• Object
  No [[distinction]] is made between persons and inanimate things: individuals, ...into the part-object; the [[total]], [[narcissistic]], [[internal]], and [[external]] objects; the [[self]]-object; the object [[relationship]]; object choice;
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• Anxiety
  ...gst]]'') can have the [[psychiatric]] [[sense]] described above, but is by no means an exclusively technical term, [[being]] also in common use in ordina ...n]] relates [[anxiety]] to the [[threat]] of [[fragmentation]] which the [[subject]] confronts in the [[mirror stage]].
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• Signifier
  =====[[The Subject]] and the Unconscious===== ...which determine the [[subject]]; the effects of the [[signifier]] on the [[subject]] constitute the [[unconscious]], and hence also constitute the [[whole]] o
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• Signifying Chain
  ...y]] of [[desire]] is expressed through the associative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a cha ...nces. Thus it constitutes the [[design]] and the weave of the [[speaking]] subject's psychic fabric. More generally, it is involved in all psychic [[causality
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• The Subject
  What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? Descartes’ [[cogito]] is the basis of the subject – not as a substantial, [[transparent]] and fully [[self]]-[[conscious]]
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...central theme of the book. Freud's discussion of adult sexual aberrations links them to unexpected or abnormal events during childhood. He similarly unders ...y in infancy and childhood. Freud pointed to the lack of knowledge on this subject while noting, at the same time, that it would be sufficient to carefully ob
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• Psychiatry
  <!-- The following [[sentence]] has been the [[subject]] to extended debate. Do not make changes to it without first obtaining con ...ut for some conditions the [[etiology]] and [[pathogenesis]] are still the subject of intense research.
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• Semiotics
  ...rstanding|understood]]. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their The [[subject]] was originally spelled '''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...tablishing psychotherapy was his destiny, he told his wife that they could no longer engage in [[sexual relations]]. Indeed from about the age of forty u ...ake me when my time comes. Now it is [[nothing]] but [[torture]] and makes no [[sense]] any more." Schur administered three doses of morphine over many h
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• Roland Barthes
  ...outside]] of the actual work itself could never work. But since there are no [[symbols]] of constant and universal [[significance]], the entire premise ...h for a transcendental signified. He [[notes]] that in [[Japan]] there is no emphasis on a great focus point by which to judge all [[other]] standards,
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• Deconstruction
  ...nctly. When asked what deconstruction is, [[Derrida]] once stated, "I have no simple and formalizable response to this question. All my essays are attemp *While there is no doubting that principal [[figures]] associated with deconstruction in [[Fra
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...re of [[Existential despair|despair]] is one of the best accounts on the [[subject]] and has been emulated in subsequent philosophies, such as [[Martin Heideg ...onception of Christianity was in man's interest, rather than God's, and in no way was Mynster's life comparable to that of a 'truth-witness.'
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...trying to rethink [[Marxism]] without any reference to Hegel’s absolute subject, he sees Lacan as trying to [[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference ...appropriation of [[language]]; and it is language that constitutes us as a subject. Thus, we should not dichotomize the individual and society. Society inhabi
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ed the [[alienation]] and [[reification]] of our daily lives -, but Lenin, no, you can't be serious! The [[working]] [[class]] movement, revolutionary Pa ...imperceptibly transformed into a pseudo-[[psychoanalytic]] drama of the [[subject]] unable to confront its inner traumas… The [[true]] corruption of the Am
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]!"… I definitely prefer such naive immersion to the pseudo-sop ...dicament and step out to the surface of the Earth, what they find there is no longer the bright surface illuminated by the rays of the Sun, the supreme G
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...nic [[violence]] to the "apolitical" [[passivity]] of the [[postmodern]] [[subject]]), psychoanalysis cannot account for the miraculous emergence of an egalit ...tate-"state of things" versus "State" in the political [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the structure of society is r
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which move ...uch an assertion presupposes that my position of enunciation is that of an external observer who can grasp the whole of reality); it rather resides in the refl
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...eality, this awakening is not the opening into the wide [[space]] of the [[external]] reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each ...tries to explain to the still perplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he - he [[links]] it to a failure in the [[structure]] of the [[universe]]:
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...[[message]] of the notion of the Third Way is that there is no Second Way, no alternative to global capitalism, so that, in a kind of mocking pseudo-[[He
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• Castration
  ...mother or whomever comes to her place, produces a lack which will orient a subject to look elsewhere. In this way desire is inaugurated. ...ex a [[fetish]] is constructed, confirming that the object is lost and the subject is split (1951).
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• Surrealism
  ...[[psychoanalysis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement. During this time, Lacan's links with the Surrealists developed further.
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• The Purloined Letter
  ...was in the Queen’s room, saw the letter, and switched it for a letter of no importance. He has been arrogantly blackmailing the Queen for several month ...is men have examined the tables and chairs with microscopes but have found no [[sign]] of interference.
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• Frankfurt School
  ...tions in two areas relating to the possibility of [[rational]] [[human]] [[subject]]s, i.e. individuals who could act rationally to take charge of their own [ ...nalogous to the [[proletariat]] can be [[identified]] that will enable the subject to [[emancipation|emancipate]] itself. Hence the subtitle of ''Minima Mora
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• Parallax View
  ...can be rendered as the difference between the two corresponding verbs, to subject (submit) oneself and to object (to protest, oppose, make an obstacle). The subject's elementary, founding, gesture is to subject itself - voluntarily, of course: as both [[Wagner]] and [[Nietzsche]], the
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...ther]] spectators with loud exclamations like: “My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]! So we are all puppets!”<br><br> ...he [[name]] for the social Substance, for all that on account of which the subject never fully dominates the effects of his [[acts]]; his [[activity]] is alwa
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...er that the best example, it's religious!&nbsp; But paradoxically there is no place for religion.&nbsp; You know the irony is that the supreme example of ..., in Badiou's reading of St. Paul, the death of Christ, as he puts it, has no inherent meaning whatsoever‹it's just to prepare the site for the event.&
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...ll its [[inconsistency]]. The problem is that, precisely because Harey has no substantial [[identity]] of her own, she acquires the status of the Real th ...f the last vestiges of her substantial identity (as she says in the film: "No, it's not me... It's not me... I'm not Harey. /.../ Tell me... tell me... D
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ed other spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no reality!"... I definitely prefer such naive immersion to the pseudo-sophist ...dicament and step out to the surface of the Earth, what they find there is no longer the bright surface illuminated by the rays of the Sun, the supreme G
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...nic [[violence]] to the "apolitical" [[passivity]] of the [[postmodern]] [[subject]]), psychoanalysis cannot account for the miraculous emergence of an egalit ...tate-"state of things" versus "State" in the political [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the structure of society is r
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• Anarchy
  ...[[other]] words, power and authority were now seen as phenomena that could no longer be reduced to their different class articulations. Rather, they were ...dialectical unfolding of this rational truth, and the overcoming of the [[external]] limitations of political power and authority. Once centralized political
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...ossible the kind of tightening up that I like in order to leave the reader no other way out than the way in, which I prefer to be difficult. In that sens ...because language and its structure exist prior to the moment at which each subject at a certain point in his mental development makes his entry into it.
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• Desire, Life and Death
  ...striking down, a tearing apart, a laceration of himself - he is no longer, no longer anything, at all. And it is at that [[moment]] that he says the phra ...things which required that he be hurled towards his destiny, that is that no sooner was he born, he be exposed hung by a foot. It is with this initial a
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• Death Instinct
  ...tincts would then cease to hold and the [[compulsion]] to [[repeat]] would no longer possess the importance we have ascribed to it" (p. 44). ...ciple, the <i>[[reality]]</i> principle, represents the influence of the [[external]] world" (1924c, p. 160). Although Freud recognized the speculative [[natur
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• Developmental psychology
  #Exosystem: [[External]] environmental settings which only indirectly [[affect]] development (such ...l. It is in this stage that the [[vital organs]] are formed, and while the external [[body]] is still extremely dissimilar from an [[adult]] human, some featur
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• Unconscious mind
  ...[unconscious]]''' refers to that part of [[mental]] functioning of which [[subject (philosophy)|subjects]] make themselves unaware. The psychoanalytic uncons ...ginable experimental outcome with his theory of the unconscious mind, then no [[experiment]] can refute his theory.
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• Hatred
  In day-to-day use, hatred is a violent feeling that impels the subject to wish another person ill and to take pleasure in bad things that happen t ...rld]] that is the source of stimuli: "At the very beginning, it seems, the external world, [[objects]], and what is hated are identical" (p. 136). The determin
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  =The Subject= [[Slavoj Žižek]] fully endorses the [[model]] of the [[Cartesian subject]].
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• Oedipus at Colonus
  ...striking down, a tearing apart, a laceration of himself - he is no longer, no longer anything, at all. And it is at that [[moment]] that he says the phra ...things which required that he be hurled towards his destiny, that is that no sooner was he born, he be exposed hung by a foot. It is with this initial a
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience]] no passions proper, no intense self-assertion that can lead to destructive rage. ...e implicit reflexive [[reversal]] of this insight: if there is effectively no one out there, behind the screen, what if the same goes for myself? What if
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• Little Hans
  "Little Hans" was a young boy who was the [[subject]] of an early but extensive study of [[castration anxiety]] and the [[Oedip ...; that 'he had to be presented with [[thoughts]] which he had so far shown no [[signs]] of possessing'; and that 'his attention had to be turned in the d
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...l volume cannot be seen as a deliberate [[exclusion]] by the IPA. There is no known transcript of the 1936 paper and the version included in [[Écrits]] ...stage of his career Lacan was concerned to distinguish the ego from the [[subject]] and to elaborate a conception of [[subjectivity]] as [[divided]] or '[[al
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• Symptom-formation
  ...f neurosis proper: in the "actual neuroses," the [[manifest]] symptoms had no [[psychic]] meaning (Freud, 1916-17a). [[Absent]] the mentalization of fant ...ressure was attributable to [[biology]], to fantasy, to [[reality]], or to external events. The failure of defense in all cases resulted in the first [[instanc
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• Neurotic defenses
  ...ressive]] tendencies. They reveal the complexity and vicissitudes of the [[links]] between [[affect]] and [[representation]]. ...red the essential first line of defense of the obsessive (or [[phobic]]) [[subject]].
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• Slavoj Zizek:Links
  ==External links== *[http://lacan.com/nosex.htm No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human]
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• Introducing Lacan
  ...osition of formal elements beyond the "[[conscious]]" [[control]] of the [[subject]]. ...ts which had been swallowed. The ones which had disguised themselves were no less frequent than their most honest companions. So if evolutionary [[biol
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...ists" claimed decades ago)? This entire topic has to be rejected: there is no opposition here, the Fall is to be inscribed into the very origins. (To put ...phoric expansion of class struggle: "today's predominant class struggle is no longer between capitalists and proletariat in each country, it shifted to t
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• Psychosis (Compendium)
  ...thing to be repressed it has to have been previously acknowledged by the [[subject]], implying prior [[recognition]] within the [[symbolic]] [[register]]. ...t, unlike the [[return of the repressed]], it returns from [[outside]] the subject, as emanating from his [[environment]] in one form or [[another]] – a phe
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...ovement in the last years? Does it not clearly contradict this diagnostic? No: a close look quickly shows how this movement also succumbs to "the temptat ...whether to sink the ship. Two of [[them]] said yes and the [[other]] said no. "A guy named Arkhipov saved the [[world]]," was a bitter comment of a hist
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