Search results

• 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,
  10 KB (1,527 words) - 22:13, 10 April 2022
• Ethics
  ...]. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1986 [''[[Seminar VI|The Seminar. Book VI. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60]]''. Trans. Dennis Porter. [[London]]: Routledge, 1 * the side of the [[analysand]] and
  9 KB (1,291 words) - 06:49, 24 May 2019
• Dialectic
  ==Philosophy== ...beginning most dialogues by first reducing his interlocutor to a [[state]] of confusion and [[helplessness]].
  5 KB (737 words) - 22:06, 27 May 2019
• Psychoanalysis
  # a [[discipline]] founded on a procedure for the investigation of [[mental]] [[processes]] that are otherwise inaccessible because they are [ # a therapeutic method for the treatment of [[neurotic]] disorders; and
  9 KB (1,284 words) - 21:33, 20 May 2019
• 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
  82 KB (12,528 words) - 20:43, 25 May 2019
• 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>
  19 KB (2,949 words) - 21:03, 25 May 2019
• Eros
  ...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). ...ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].
  13 KB (1,919 words) - 06:44, 24 May 2019
• 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
  78 KB (11,491 words) - 23:08, 20 May 2019
• 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==
  11 KB (1,701 words) - 23:24, 25 May 2019
• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...Lacanian psychoanalysis]] involves the conceptualization of [[feminine]] [[sexuality]]. Lacan's [[thinking]] on [[feminine sexuality]] is distinguished by two main phases.
  40 KB (6,616 words) - 20:49, 25 May 2019
• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of
  68 KB (11,086 words) - 00:02, 26 May 2019
• 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
  164 KB (26,048 words) - 22:09, 20 May 2019
• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  The [[Matrix]], or two sides of [[Perversion]] [[Philosophy]] Today; Celina; 1999; Volume: 43.
  64 KB (10,730 words) - 00:53, 21 May 2019
• 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
  32 KB (5,329 words) - 03:33, 21 May 2019
• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the act ...hat this is an [[illusion]], only a few of us might get rich; the majority of us won't get rich. But they missed the point, because the [[identification]
  21 KB (3,498 words) - 01:13, 25 May 2019
• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavour. ..., simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3
  51 KB (7,820 words) - 07:36, 24 May 2019
• 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.
  71 KB (11,371 words) - 21:35, 20 May 2019
• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...agance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is ...[[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:
  75 KB (11,848 words) - 17:15, 27 May 2019
• 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
  214 KB (35,802 words) - 14:38, 12 November 2006
• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...ral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.
  25 KB (3,745 words) - 01:55, 21 May 2019
• Ethics and the Real
  ...1960 is characterized by a tension centering around the [[ethical]] status of [[desire]]. What is the ethical status of desire?
  10 KB (1,597 words) - 06:51, 24 May 2019
• 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
  24 KB (3,720 words) - 16:19, 30 June 2019
• 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
  15 KB (2,496 words) - 01:19, 26 May 2019
• No Subject - Articles
  ...lysis|Psychoanalysis]] -- [[:Category:Real|Real]] -- [[:Category:Sexuality|Sexuality]] -- [[Seminars|The Seminars]] -- [[:Category:Symbolic|Symbolic]] -- [[:Cat :[[Death Drive]] -- [[Desire]] -- [[Jouissance]] -- [[Name of the Father]] -- [[Objet petit a]] -- [[Oedipus Complex]] -- [[Pleasure Prin
  2 KB (360 words) - 10:19, 1 June 2019
• 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.
  36 KB (5,976 words) - 07:29, 12 October 2006
• Seduction
  ...on" connotes attempts at seduction, [[real]] or fantasied, in the [[form]] of advances, incitations, manipulations, or suggestions that are actively init ...minently instructive from an [[epistemological]] as from a heuristic point of view, and is worth reviewing.
  10 KB (1,504 words) - 22:45, 20 May 2019
• Foucault
  The [[History]] of [[Madness]] 257 The History of [[Sexuality]] 252-4
  412 bytes (45 words) - 07:46, 24 May 2019
• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...ižek: 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love]]". ''Journal of Philosophy and Scripture''. Volume 1, Issue 2. Spring 2004. Joshua Delpech-Ramey. <h ...;&nbsp; Or are the particularities of Christianity somehow, of the essence of this gesture?<br><br>
  27 KB (4,921 words) - 19:37, 14 June 2007
• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice.
  71 KB (11,385 words) - 21:34, 20 May 2019
• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...of [[desire]], its inherent [[impossibility]], is to locate the [[cause]] of its inaccessibility into a despotic [[figure]] which stands for the primord ...he Great Man, which can only assure his Fame, resides the ultimate mystery of [[Power]].
  42 KB (6,817 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2019
• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the ac ...hat this is an [[illusion]], only a few of us might get rich; the majority of us won't get rich. But they missed the point, because the [[identification]
  22 KB (3,750 words) - 01:12, 25 May 2019
• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary ...th Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of an [[ideological]] [[statement]]. He'll tell a [[joke]] or every now and ag
  45 KB (7,481 words) - 23:15, 23 May 2019
• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...narrative was itself a part and which must ultimately be explained because of the '[[Jewish]] conspiracy' (TS, 179).<br><br> ...um through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signifiers]] whose meaning is 'quilte
  105 KB (18,216 words) - 20:53, 23 May 2019
• Introduction To Jacques Lacan
  [[Jacques Lacan]] is one of the most challenging and controversial contemporary thinkers, as well as th * the [[Oedipus]] [[complex]] and the [[meaning]] of the [[phallus]]
  1 KB (163 words) - 00:54, 25 May 2019
• Luce Irigaray
  ...ure theory|cultural theorist]]. She is best known for her works ''Speculum of the [[Other]] [[Woman]]'' ([[1974]]) and ''This Sex Which Is Not One'' ([[1 ...she received a [[Master]]'s Degree in [[psychology]] from the [[University of Paris]]. In [[1962]] she received a Diploma in [[Psychopathology]]. From 19
  4 KB (537 words) - 01:23, 26 May 2019
• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in ...errida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:
  82 KB (13,178 words) - 17:18, 27 May 2019
• Tuché and Automaton
  ...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>
  29 KB (5,119 words) - 02:53, 21 May 2019
• Index:Parallax View
  * [[comedy]] 43 of Christianity, 105-110 * [[fetishism]] 108 of commodities, 58-59, 170,217
  10 KB (810 words) - 00:25, 25 May 2019
• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...real [[struggle]] is going on now: the struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it int ...ple awaken from their [[apolitical]] slumber, it is as a rule in the guise of a [[right]]ist [[populist]] [[revolt]] - no wonder many [[enlightened techn
  72 KB (11,294 words) - 17:41, 27 May 2019
• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in Copyright [[University]] of Chicago, acting through its Press Winter 2006
  67 KB (10,603 words) - 17:16, 27 May 2019
• Outline
  ...re listed alphabetically within each [[category]] or subcategory. For ease of reference, one entry may be listed under several categories. [[Abstinence]]/rule of abstinence
  48 KB (5,452 words) - 20:34, 20 May 2019
• Function of Language
  The functions of [[language]] ...hip]] betweeh language and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]].
  85 KB (14,185 words) - 08:43, 24 August 2022
• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...desire,]] it is not surprising that he focuses attention on the "dialectic of desire," nor should it be surprising that [[negation]] and negativity come ...role that the phallus plays in a [[dialectical]] assumption by the subject of his own desire now becomes thematized.
  45 KB (7,359 words) - 16:48, 24 December 2020
• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  [[Slavoj Žižek]] fully endorses the [[model]] of the [[Cartesian subject]]. ...assertion that 'a [[spectre]] is haunting Western academia…, the spectre of the [[Cartesian]] subject' (TTS: 1). The Cartesian subject, or cogito as it
  73 KB (12,478 words) - 23:06, 24 May 2019
• Philosophy and psychoanalysis
  ...and suspicion, and have subordinated it to the [[needs]] and objectives of philosophy, which has allowed [[them]] to contest or reject it. ...nconscious "phenomena" (primary and secondary [[processes]], the processes of the id and the ego) were similar to and yet different from [[conscious]] ph
  14 KB (1,873 words) - 21:02, 20 May 2019
• Sex and Character
  ...d a [[third]] version of the book, which was characterized by the addition of chapters on [[Jews]] and [[women]] and the fact that he extended the metaph ...te that "[[Being]] a [[neurotic]], Weininger was completely under the sway of his [[infantile]] [[complexes]]; and from that standpoint what is common to
  4 KB (570 words) - 23:01, 20 May 2019
• Kantianism
  ...fact that psychoanalysis can be considered an avatar of Kantianism, if not of [[metaphysics]] in general. 1. Freud presents Kant's "categorical imperative" as the "inheritor of the Oedipus complex."
  5 KB (650 words) - 23:28, 25 May 2019
• Psychic Causality
  ...ic [[reality]]," and from Freud's ongoing attempt to discover the etiology of [[neuroses]], [[psychoses]], and perversions. ...[nature]] are at work" (1896c). In 1898, in "[[Sexuality]] in the Etiology of the Neuroses" (1898a), he referred to "unconscious psychic traces."
  11 KB (1,522 words) - 21:31, 20 May 2019
• The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
  ...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>
  28 KB (5,104 words) - 00:36, 21 May 2019
• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...netically modified asexual humanoids in [[order]] to avoid the deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience]] no passions proper, no intense self-assert ...ollective orgies depicted in Les particules - the constitutive [[impasse]] of the sexual [[relationship]] (Jacques [[Lacan]]'s il n'y a pas de [[rapport
  26 KB (4,137 words) - 23:27, 23 May 2019

View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)