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• Jacques Lacan
  ...pact on [[critical theory]], [[literary theory]], twentieth-century French philosophy, [[sociology]], [[feminist]] theory and [[clinical]] psychoanalysis. <blockquote>''[[Chronology|Click here for a more complete chronology of '''Jacques Lacan''''s life]].''</blockquote>
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• Four Discourses
  ...st]] [[Jacques Lacan]] argued that there were '''four''' fundamental types of '''discourse'''. ...[[master signifier]], [[knowledge]] and [[objet petit a]]. The four types of discourse were: the [[Master]]'s, the [[University]]'s, the [[Hysteric]]'s,
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• Language
  It is important to note that the English word "[[language]]" corresponds to two [[French]] [[words]]: ''[[langue]]'' and ''[[langage] ...ench or [[English]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]] languages.
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• Subject
  The term "[[subject]]" is [[present]] from the very earliest of [[Lacan]]'s [[psychoanalytic]] writings,<ref>{{1932}}</ref> and from 1945 o ...ctive feature of [[Lacan]]'s work, since the term does not constitute part of [[Freud]]'s [[theoretical]] [[vocabulary]], but is more associated with [[p
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• Being
  =====Metaphysical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory===== =====Metaphysics and Philosophy=====
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• Truth
  [[Truth]] is one of the most central, and yet most [[complex]] [[terms]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[disco ...c]] [[treatment]] is to lead the [[analysand]] to articulate the [[truth]] of his or her [[desire]].
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of [[psychoanalysis]]. In 1936, [[Lacan]] presents his paper on the [[mirror stage]] at a conference of the '''[[International Psychoanalytical Association]]''' ([[IPA]]) in [[Mar
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• The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
  ...of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. ...nd compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language.
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• On Belief
  What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are ...eligious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers th
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• Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
  ...egies of the [[Left]] in a globalized [[economy]], and the relative merits of post-structumalism and [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis]] for a critical [[soc ...ony]], [[Universality]]'' benefits additionally from their clear [[sense]] of [[energy]] and [[enjoyment]] in a revealing and often unpredictable [[excha
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• Jacques Lacan Books2
  ...e]]</b> and <a href="papin.htm"><b>[[Motives of Paranoiac Crime: The Crime of the Papin Sisters]]</b></a>, transl. by Jon Anderson in <i>Critical [[Texts ...l. by B. Fink and M. Silver in Ellie Ragland-Sullivan (ed.), <i>Newsletter of the [[Freudian]] Field</i>, vol.2, 1988.<br>&nbsp;</font>
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...]] [[complex]] Lacan only saves the paternal [[metaphor]] and the [[Name]]-of-the-Father which "is positioned where knowledge [[acts]] as truth. [[Psycho ...herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absent]] from the field of the signifier.
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• Seminar I
  ...knowledge]] is gained. [[Psychoanalysis]] is a [[dialectic]]s, an [[art]] of conversation."''</span> ...' instead of ''négation''. The question here deals with how the [[return of the repressed]] operates. According to [[Freud]], the [[repress]]ed is int
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• Semiotics
  ...a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. ==Clarification of terms==
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• Eros
  '''Eros''' is the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[word]] for (especially) romantic or "[[Human sexual behavior|sexu ...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]).
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. ..., [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widel
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• Critical theory
  ...ng an umbrella term for an array of theories within the academic [[world]] of the United Kingdom and the [[United States]]. This article focuses primari ...] science, [[anthropology]], and [[psychology]]. Although this conception of critical theory originated with the Frankfurt [[School]], it also prevails
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• Roland Barthes
  ...riette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], learning p ...l for teaching positions, Barthes later professed an intentional avoidance of major degree-awarding universities throughout his career.
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• Judith Butler
  ...ments of [[Rhetoric]] and Comparative [[Literature]] at the [[University]] of California, Berkeley. She also has a professorial appointment at the Europe ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek==
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).
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• Deconstruction
  ...ught]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to defi ===The problems of definition===
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• German Idealism
  ...losely linked both with [[romanticism]] and the revolutionary [[politics]] of the [[Enlightenment]]. The most well-known thinkers in the movement were [[ == Meaning of "Idealism" ==
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...enstein]] remarked that Kierkegaard was "by far, the most profound thinker of the nineteenth century" <ref [[name]]="ArisSoc"> ...ittgenstein | work=University of Hertfordshire| url=http://www.herts.ac.uk/philosophy/Aris_Soc.html | accessdate=April 23 | accessyear=2006}}</ref><ref name="Cre
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• Georg Lukács
  ...[novel]] as a [[literary genre]]. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of [[Culture]] following the [[1956 Hungarian Revolution]]. ...onal Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] {{IPA|[luk&#593;t&#643;]}} by most [[English (language)|English]] speakers.)
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of
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• Ethics and Politics
  Although [[Zizek]] tries to isolate a certain emancipatory kenrel of [[religion]], he emphasizes that he is an absolute [[materialist]]. ...that while there is no ontotheological God there is nonetheless some kind of unconditional [[ethical]] [[injunction]] up to which we cannot ever live.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  The [[Matrix]], or two sides of [[Perversion]] [[Philosophy]] Today; Celina; 1999; Volume: 43.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? Is she not also a capricious [[Master]] who wants it ...oman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic o
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined b ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...nce be defended? these [[terms]]. Now that the 10^th anniversary of Mueller's [[death]] is approaching, it is perhaps the [[time]] to revisit t ...better. Or recall the [[treatment]] of disabled individuals: even a couple of decades ago, the special entrances which enable [[them]] the access to rest
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• Ethics and the Real
  ...1960 is characterized by a tension centering around the [[ethical]] status of [[desire]]. What is the ethical status of desire?
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• Seminar VII
  ...nar VII|L'éthique de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar VII|The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...ist]], but "there is no [[other]] good than the one that can pay the price of the access to [[desire]]," a [[desire]] that is only valid insofar as it is
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• Alexandre Kojève
  ...e [[French]] Ministry of [[Economic]] Affairs as one of the chief planners of the [[European Common Market]]. ==Philosophy==
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• Love beyond Law
  coordinates of Jacques [[Lacan]]'s [[conceptual]] network; it also proposes original solut (or at least clarifications of) some of the crucial dilemmas [[left]] open by Lacan's [[work]]. The
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...thics]]. He introduced the concept in his ''[[Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]]''. It is outlined here according to the arguments found in this [ ...nt]] defined an imperative as any proposition that declares a certain kind of [[action]] (or inaction) to be [[Logical possibility|necessary]]. A [[hypo
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• Frankfurt School
  ...y [[them]]: it is not the title of any institution, and the main thinkers of the Frankfurt School did not use the term to describe themselves. ...]] was one of the first to articulate the [[theoretical]] [[significance]] of these [[texts]].
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• Ludwig Wittgenstein
  ...d]]. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential [[philosophers]] of the 20th century. [[Category:Philosophy|Wittgenstein, Ludwig]]
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• Carl Gustav Jung
  ...(July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a Swiss [[psychiatrist]] and founder of analytical [[psychology]]. ...Interestingly, Jungian [[ideas]] are not typically included in curriculum of most major universities' psychology departments, but are occasionally explo
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• Parallax View
  ...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary. ...at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things.
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• Materialism
  By addressing the issues of psychogenesis, the [[mind]]/body problem, etc. [[psychoanalysis]] necessari The questions of whether [[Freud]]'s views can be considered materialistic or not is difficu
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice.
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• Anarchy
  ...that seeks to avoid the [[discourse]] of the Master through an [[ethics]] of [[contingency]], and discusses the contemporary anti-[[globalization]] move ...the pitfalls of utopian [[fantasy]]; and the contingency and indeterminacy of the political field.
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• Historicism
  '''Historicism''' is a term which applies to a [[number]] of theories of [[culture]] or historical [[development]] which [[place]] the greatest weig # that there is an [[organic]] succession of developments,
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...effrey Mehlman, [[Jacques lacan|Jacques Lacan]] & Co. [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990]). </ref> which plunged him into great turmoil, evidence of which can be seen in his first letters.
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• The Sublime Object of Ideology
  [[Image:The.Sublime.Object.Of.Ideology.jpg|200px|thumb|Book Cover]] ...]], Zizek’s acute [[analyses]] explore the [[ideological]] [[fantasies]] of [[wholeness]] and [[exclusion]] that make up human [[society]].
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• Slavoj Žižek - Bibliography
  * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto]]'''''. * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Incontinence of the Void]]'''''.
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• Gaze And Voice As Love Objects
  ...ed in the gaze and the voice —embodies the promise and [[impossibility]] of any relation between [[them]]. ...[[violence]], this book offers surprising revelations into the [[nature]] of an ancient enigma—love.
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• The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World
  ...k, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft'' ...ther, with a commentary of the second draft of Schelling's work ''The Ages of the World'', written in 1813.
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