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• The Act
  An "[[act]]" is not mere "[[act|behavior]]" -- such as that of all '''[[nature|animals]]''' -- but a uniquely [[act|''human'' act]], "sinc ==Ethics of Psychoanalysis==
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• Jouissance
  ...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...italist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]").
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• Fantasy
  ...an unproblematic given in which there is a single objectively correct way of perceiving, but as something which is itself discursively constructed. ...y discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[being]] reshaped in accordance with [[unc
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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. ...blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language.
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• The Spectre is Still Roaming Around
  Written as the introduction to a 150th commemorative edition of rately. Much of the [[material]] here is a recapitulation of the [[ideas]] in the
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• The Abyss of Freedom
  Žižek, S. and von [[Schelling]], F.W.J. (1975) The Abyss of [[Freedom]] - Ages of the [[World]], Michigan: [[University]] of Michigan Press.
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• Cogito and the Unconscious
  [[Category:Works]] [[Category:Slavoj Žižek]]
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• Revolution at the Gates
  Žižek, S. (ed.) (2002) Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin Continuing with his project to disinter nuggets of political wisdom
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• Gaze and Voice as Love Objects
  This fascinating collection of essays (mainly written by Žižek's co-conspirators in the Slovenian [[school]] of [[Lacan]]) contains two contri-
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• Slavoj Zizek Bibliography
  | Žižek, Slavoj (2006). The Parallax View, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. || [[image:ParallaxVie | Žižek, Slavoj (1989). The Sublime Object of Ideology, London: Verso. || [[image:SublimeObject.jpg|right|thumb]]
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi
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• Capitalism
  ...a system of power relations, is described as a society in which every kind of transactional relation is fundamentally exploitative. (Tong, Rosemarie. [ ...as a secondary labor force is an essential and fundamental characteristic of capitalism." (Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive In
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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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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...euze''' ((January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995), [[French]] [[philosopher]] of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his [[death]], Deleuze wrote many influential works on [[philosophy]], [[literature]], [[film]], and fine art.
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...s of all [[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...tibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional romance.
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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]]. ...Budapest]]) ([[1860]]–[[1917]]). Lukács studied at the universities of Budapest and Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1906.
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• Jacques-Alain Miller
  '''Jacques-[[Alain]] Miller''' - the son-in-law of [[France|French]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] (in 19 ...issolution]] of L'Ecole Française de [[Psychanalyse]], and the foundation of L'École de la [[Cause]] Freudienne.
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• Racism
  The [[unconscious]], psychic, aspects of these [[processes]] are exemplary of superegoic structures. ...learly a [[contradiction]] here - if immigrants are [[living]] a [[life]] of luxury on state benefits then they are not [[working]]; if on the [[other]]
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  The One Measure of True Love is: You Can Insult the Other Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichmann.
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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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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] [2] Slavoj [[Zizek]]. Re:constructions, 09/15/2001. ...peasant barely survive on barren hills, will this not be the ultimate case of the impotent acting out?
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...proclaimed ideals, when you [[encounter]] a person who claims he is cured of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you sho ...fer to the inherited ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, comin
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...en on Wall Street. What these both Marxes have in common is the [[denial]] of politics proper; the reference to Lenin enables us to avoid these two pitfa ...tage]] [[Saussure]]), Lenin violently displaces Marx, tears his theory out of its original context, planting it in [[another]] historical [[moment]], and
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  Slavoj [[Zizek]]: ...ion]] is, I [[claim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time a
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...ical mystification]]. The mask is not simply hiding the [[real]] [[state]] of things; the ideological [[distortion]] is written into its very [[essence]] ...ror is naked only beneath his clothes, so if there is an unmasking gesture of psychoanalysis, it is closer to Alphonse Allais's well-known [[joke]], quot
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...imilar) a king, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-[[symbolic]] relations; etc.etc. ...decentered other to whom he imputes this belief. All [[concrete]] versions of this "subject supposed to believe" (from small [[children]] for whose sake
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema Slavoj Zizek, Interviewed by Geert Lovink.
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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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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Slavoj [[Zizek]], Interviewed by Josefina Ayerza. ...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the act
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
  ...ilm]] which enables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine [[jouissance]]. ...saying that in [[exchange]] for his return she would put up with any trial of her [[faith]]. Soon afterwards, as if in answer to her prayers, Jan effecti
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  ...cks out from the [[totality]] of [[Hitchcock]]'s oeuvre:<ref>Further proof of Hitchcock's personal commitment: he renounced his director's fee for The Wr ...His special attachment to it is attested by the exceptional [[character]] of his cameo-[[appearance]] in the prologue; Hitchcock addresses the viewers d
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...nevertheless how pure desire culminates in the sacrifice of the [[object]] of [[love]]. ...that is not obliged to have recourse to a [[Master signifier]], to a point of order, which is performative.1
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...ints of capitalism. What is effectively at stake in the [[present]] crisis of post-socialist states is the [[struggle]] for one's [[place]]: who will be ...rrent [[ideological]] designation for the capitalist "inside") in the face of oriental barbarism.
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...re we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the [[other]] two dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...les" precisely the effort to establish clearly the contours of a new space of symbolic fictions in which we fully participate in the mode [[disavowal]],
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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  ...in its aseptized, benign form, which forecloses the dimension of the Real of the Other's jouissance. [[Category:Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...ts our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the trademarks of [[true]] modernism. ...[[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[rational]] [[reason]].
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...upposition, like the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, as [[Freud]] empha ...ed, it has never succeeded in becoming [[conscious]]. It is a construction of analysis, but it is no less a [[necessity]] on that account.<ref> [[Sigmund
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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 Lesbian Session
  ...eological]] procedure is not to be underestimated: Rand fits into the line of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by the ...ringing which enabled her to formulate directly the [[fantasmatic]] kernel of American [[capitalist]] [[ideology]].
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...? Isn't [[The Communist Manifesto]], at best, an exaggerated extrapolation of certain tendencies discernible in the 19th century? ...is situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth
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• Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash
  ...he mysterious and elusive X we are all after in our compulsive consumption of merchandise. ...VER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a gap of "I [[want]] MORE!"
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
  ...free trade." Wherefore this pact between Fulani, the far-[[left]] espouser of [[Marxist]]-Leninist politics, and Buchanan, a Reaganite cold warrior and t ...[[working class]]." But what is crucial in this tradition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[idea]] that labor, hard work, is originally an inde
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• Run, Isolde, Run
  ...t we can really grasp the narrative [[logic]] of Dickens's great novels or of Madame Bovary. ...ropriate objective correlative, so that, again, it is only with the advent of cyberspace hypertext that we can effectively grasp what Altman and Kieslows
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• Matinee Idols: Joan Bennett
  ...involved with the wretched [[James]] Mason), confirmed not only the allure of her mature beauty but also the unique way her appeal remains the same wheth ...plus she was very short-sighted, unable to discern more than the contours of the [[people]] around her without glasses or lenses, so maybe even an ugly
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...a polemic against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ..., is in itself a proof of Socialism’s utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes — the term “Really Existing
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ...] of Christ, let us start with Gilles [[Deleuze]]'s exemplary [[analysis]] of Chaplin's late [[films]]: ...g]]," that [[sign]] of age, that small difference of triteness, on account of which the funny clown's [[number]] changes into a tedious [[spectacle]]?<re
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