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• Jacques Lacan
  [[Image:Jacques-lacan-4.jpg|thumb|250px|right]] | name = Jacques Lacan
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• Return to Freud
  [[Psychoanalysis]] was founded by [[Sigmund Freud]] ...of Freud himself and to a close [[reading]] and [[understanding]] of those texts. For the next 26 years he would engage in this [[project]] of close reading
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• Art
  He explained [[art|artistic creation]] by reference to the [[concept]] of [[sublimation]], a process in which [[sexua ...ntuit directly the [[truth]]s which [[psychoanalysts]] only discover later by more laborious means.
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• Sinthome
  The term [[sinthome]] is, as [[Lacan]] points out, an archaic way of writing what has more recently been spelt [ =====Jacques Lacan=====
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• Alain Badiou
  ...nized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew increasingly influenced by [[Jacques Lacan]]. ...of more main-line [[Marxism]]. In 1988 he published what is now considered by many to be his major [[statement]], ''L'être et l'événement''. He took u
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  [[Lacan]] was raised, grew up, in a comfortable middle-[[class]] [[Catholic]] [[fam [[Lacan]] went on to study '''[[medicine]]'' and specialized in '''psychiatry''' wi
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• Mapping Ideology
  ...erview with Eagleton. Further readings of the [[ideological]] are explored by [[Richard Rorty]] and Michèle Barrett. Finally Fredric [[Jameson]] supplie
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• Jacques Lacan Books2
  ...e of the Papin Sisters]]</b></a>, transl. by Jon Anderson in <i>Critical [[Texts]]</i>, vol.5, 3, 1988. ...y Carolyn Asp in <i>Critical Texts</i>, vol.5, issue 3, 1988. Also transl. by Andrea Kahn in <i>Semiotext</i> 10, vol. 4, 1, 1981. In <i>Autres [[Écrits
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  ...rauss]], [[Althusser]], [[Fernand Braudel]]) and a new younger audience, [[Lacan]] talks [[about]] the [[censorship]] of his [[teachings]] and his [[excommu ...s to train [[analyst]]s and, at the same [[time]], address the non-analyst by raising the following questions: Is [[psychoanalysis]] a [[science]]? If so
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• Seminar XI
  ...psychoanalytic training – and, at the same time, address the non-analyst by raising the following questions: Is psychoanalysis a [[science]]? If so, un ...e paths of the unconscious." This declaration of allegiance contrasts with Lacan's critical study of Freud's [[dream]] about the dead son screaming "[[Fathe
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• Semiotics
  ...ification]] first and communication second. A more extreme view is offered by [[Jean-Jacques Nattiez]] (1987; trans. 1990: 16) who, as a [[musicology|mus ...cs attempts to [[analyse]] and so [[identify]] the systemic rules accepted by all the participants.
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• Eros
  ...f inorganic substance. These speculations seek to solve the riddle of life by supposing that these two instincts were struggling with each [[other]] from ..., [[biology]], or [[physics]]. Revision of his [[concepts]] was called for by his [[experience]] in [[psychoanalytic]] [[practice]]. He posited within th
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• Critical theory
  ...orm]] of [[Marxian]] theory both from the [[model]] of science put forward by [[logical positivism]] and from what he and his colleagues perceived as the ...[[knowledge]], especially through taking stock of the limitations imposed by the fundamental, irreducible [[concepts]] in use in that knowledge. His no
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• Capitalism
  ...[[Marriage]] of [[Marxism]] and [[Feminism]]." from The Second Wave edited by Linda Nicholson, 1997, p. 99.) ...ame time it is also the first mode of economy which is unable to [[exist]] by itself, which [[needs]] other [[economic]] systems as a medium and a soil."
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• Deconstruction
  ...shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstru ...ida|Jacques Derrida's]] ''dé[[construction]]''), and it has been explored by [[others]], including [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]], [[Paul de Man]], [[Jo
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  [[Lacan]] and [[psychoanalysis]] ...k [[Marxism]] without any reference to Hegel’s absolute subject, he sees Lacan as trying to [[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...e and reformulate our previous understanding of his work. The real in late Lacan is inseparable from an understanding of the [[role]] of [[fantasy]], the [ ...the real, in his first published papers in the 1930s, but in these early [[texts]] it was essentially a [[philosophical]] concept designating 'absolute [[be
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• Matheme
  ...tics]], presumably by analogy with the term ''[[mytheme]]'' (a term coined by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] to denote the basic constituents of [[myth]]ologic ...sign]]". It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...contemporary academic politics, the idea to deal with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], t ...hird World catastrophes is thus to serve as the support of this Denkverbot by constantly reminding us how things may have been much worse: "Just look aro
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...fferent context (St Paul reinterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...he Bolshevik rule was unstable, out of [[control]], permanently threatened by the centrifugal forces — far more than the gratuitous [[sadistic]] displa ...ap: instead of the usual public-[[symbolic]] [[power structure]] sustained by the obscene invisible network of apparatuses, we have the public power stru
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...the results of my personality, not as the result of me being thrown around by [[market]] forces. ...] freedom to choose. In most cases, he will do it, and then rationalize it by way of saying to himself something like: “What I am asked to do IS disgus
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...dimension]] of this eternal stimulus to make free choices is best rendered by the [[situation]] of having to choose a product in online shopping, where o ...against [[thinking]]. Today's liberal-democratic [[hegemony]] is sustained by a kind of unwritten Denkverbot similar to the infamous Berufsverbot in [[Ge
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...]'s [[distinction]] between Ought and Must, an authentic [[revolution]] is by definition performed as a Must - it is not something we "ought to do" as an ...e]] main versions of theorizing these catastrophes: (1) the one epitomized by the name of [[Habermas]]: [[Enlightenment]] is in itself a positive emancip
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...os in the usual style of Saint Theresa, any multiple-orgasmic penetrations by angels or God: it is not that, in the divine mystical [[experience]], we st ...rickle-trickle. I rather disliked the feeling.<ref>C.S.Lewis, <i>Surprised by Joy</i>, [[London]]: Fontana Books, 1977, p. 174-5.</ref></blockquote>
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...rain, and the one is struck by the extraordinary package [[being]] carried by the [[other]]. He asks his companion, 'What is in that unusual package you ...ly heightens the destructive [[power]] of the [[remainder]]? As such, they by definition cannot ever be found, and are therefore all the more dangerous..
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• Death's Merciless Love
  <font 5f5e78="" color="" face="courier" size="1">Slavoj [[Zizek]] &amp; [[lacan]].com 2004</font> ...n other [[words]], the question of "what means what?" is in no way decided by this reading: does the Hamlet narrative "mean" stars, or do stars "mean" Ha
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...the sovereign state [[power]]; "absolute democracy" ("the rule of everyone by everyone, a democracy without qualifiers, without ifs or buts," <tt><b><a n ...s of cooperation and communication, etc., which can no longer be contained by the form of [[private property]]. This, then, far from posing a mortal [[t
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...[[freedom]] of [[choice]], when the only choice is the one between playing by the rules and ([[self]]-)destructive violence, a violence which is almost e ...action is worse: they are BOTH worse, inclusive of the warning, formulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily
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• Surrealism
  [[Surrealism]], however, offered the young Lacan an alternative route to psychoanalysis and the crucial link to his [[clinic ...rrealists fully embraced [[psychoanalysis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement.
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• Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
  Daphne du Maurier: her prose seems marked by a melodramatic [[excess]] that often comes tremendous [[power]] of [[fascination]] exerted by her stories? What if these two features are
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...rain, and the one is struck by the extraordinary package [[being]] carried by the [[other]]. He asks his companion, 'What is in that unusual package you ...ly heightens the destructive [[power]] of the [[remainder]]? As such, they by definition cannot ever be found, and are therefore all the more dangerous..
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...fferent context (St Paul reinterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...in]] of doxa, of pragmatic considerations and compromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[no ...fferent context (St Paul reinterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently
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• Anarchy
  Interrogating the [[Master]]: [[Lacan]] and Radical [[Politics]] ...[project]] in non-[[utopian]] and non-essentialist [[terms]]. It concludes by calling for a new [[form]] of radical politics that seeks to avoid the [[di
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• Historicism
  ...s is the source of Hegel's famous [[dialectic]] teaching usually summed up by the slogan "[[thesis]], [[antithesis]], and [[synthesis]]." (Hegel did not ...in a [[tabula rasa]], or blank slate, view, where individuals are defined by their interactions.
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  [[Althusser]], Louis. '''Writings On [[Psychoanalysis]] : [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]]'''. Ed. Corpet, Olivier.; Matheron, Franðcois. ''European Perspectives'' ...2 ([[English]] [[translation]] by Jeffrey Mehlman, [[Jacques lacan|Jacques Lacan]] & Co. [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990]).
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• The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World
  ''An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beauti ...ailable in English, this version finally renders accessible one of the key texts of modern philosophy, a text that is widely debated in philosophical circle
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• Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory
  ...sciences]], and [[cultural]] studies, this set includes a new introduction by the editor and a thorough [[index]]. ...ger. '''''[[Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory|Jacques Lacan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (Critical Evaluationsin Cultural T
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...[Marx]], and fuses the [[thinking]] of the notoriously difficult Jacques [[Lacan]] with the founding [[figures]] of [[German]] [[Idealism]] from [[Kant]] to ...989 as <i>The [[Sublime]] [[Object]] of [[Ideology]]</i>, followed closely by For <i>They Know Not What They Do</i>. In between came a small book called
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...e. And it is in the context of the latter that both Freud and (especially) Lacan identify the peculiarly human motivation in regard to <i>jouissance</i>: th ...n "objects of excess" (the ideal experience, lifestyle, possession etc.) - Lacan's <i>objets petit a</i> - that hold the promise of, at least partial, fulfi
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...usly a philosopher from Eastern Germany, whose early years were influenced by the Soviet Union, carries a certain amount of paranoia'. This characterisat
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• Slavoj Zizek: A Primer
  Stavrakakis, Y. (1999), <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, London: Routledge.<br> ...; E. Wright (eds.) (1999), <i>The Zizek Reader</i>, Oxford: Blackwell. For texts that engage with Zizek's perspective see the following:<br>
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...ect in the world? The penis, because it is the only one that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Cl ...usly obscure writings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan... Indeed, Lacan once cruelly quipped of James Joyce that, although what he wrote was almost
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• Literature
  ...ormation]] of the [[psychoanalyst]] - an [[insistence]] that is overlooked by many [[present]]-day [[analysts]]. Yet how can they fail to recognize its i ...ary critics with psychoanalytic theory from [[Sigmund Freud]] to Jacques [[Lacan]] has been far greater than the interests of historians in the same concept
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• Écrits
  ...ences that [[need]] to be unpacked, if we are to begin [[understanding]] [[Lacan]]'s [[ideas]]. "[[The Mirror Stage]]", for example, is only seven pages lon ...d translations will undoubtedly become the standard authoritative texts of Lacan in the coming years but as this is not yet the [[case]] all references in t
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  <dd>You [[know]] that last [[time]] I picked up my [[discussion]] with you by connecting it to my lecture to the Catholics.<br> ...of our [[true]] [[experience]]. For he doesn't attempt to evade the issue by making generalizations [[about]] the [[religious]] function in man. He is c
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• Antigone Between Two Deaths
  ...hough she is to be shut up in a tomb, <u>without a dwelling place, mourned by no friend</u>. Thus <u>her separation is lived as a regret or lamentation f ...number of different forms of the myth - perhaps he was imprisoned; blinded by Dionysos's madness he even killed his own sons whom he mistook for vine sho
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• Text
  ...ize="1">the classification of the [[Texts]] and Références is determined by the first significant [[word]] of the title of the text…</font></p></td> ...e=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;langpair=fr%7Cen&amp;u=http://gaogoa.free.fr/HTML/Lacan/Les%2520Textes.htm%23Roi%2520du%2520mali&amp;prev=/language_tools">With</a>
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• Infans
  ...unication]] is situated at a preverbal level. In the [[work]] of Jacques [[Lacan]] the term <i>infans</i> took on a further [[dimension]] in his [[discussio .../young [[child]]), or <i>infans</i> are used. A [[good]] many of Klein's [[texts]] were originally written in [[German]], and she used the word <i>infans</i
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