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• Specular image
  The [[nature|human]] [[being]] is completely [[captation|captivated]] by the [[specular image]
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• Sexual relationship
  <blockquote>"Between [[male]] and [[female]] [[human]] beings there is no such thing as an instinctive relationship' because all ...it is not possible to define [[perversion]] by reference to a supposedly [[nature|natural form]] of the [[sexual relationship]] (as [[Freud]] did).
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• Science
  ...[science|modern science]] for ignoring the [[symbolic]] [[dimension]] of [[human]] [[existence]] and thus encouraging modern man "to forget his [[subjectivi =====Human And Natural Sciences=====
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• Psychology
  ...y]] is confined to an [[understanding]] of [[nature|animal psychology]] ([[nature|ethology]]): ...[animal]]s, but that it cannot say anything about that which is uniquely [[human]].<ref>Although at one point [[Lacan]] does [[state]] that the [[theory]] o
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...] in the first period of Lacan's work, 1932-48, is the domination of the [[human]] being by the [[image]]. ...f. The [[humiliation]] of our time under the subjugation of the enemies of human kind dissuaded me from [[speaking]] up, and following Fontenelle, I abandon
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• The Subject
  [[Madness]]: the vanishing mediator between [[nature]] and [[culture]] ...affords us a telling insight into how we transform from being immersed in nature (or objectivity) to beings supported by culture (or [[subjectivity]]).
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• Real2
  ...from trying to define the real point directly to its [[nature]] and to the nature of the other two orders against which it is set. Insofar as it is "impossib ...y the real of his own [[mortality]] – it insists on the contingency of [[human]] [[life]], however well ordered it may appear.
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• Law
  ===Human=== ..., by regulating [[sexual relationship|sexual relations]] that are, among [[nature|animal]]s, unregulated:
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...s</i>, to be Sigmund Freud's "most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge" (Freud, 1905d, p. 126). In general, most psychoanalysts would ag ...f the anatomo-physiologic and psychic bisexuality that characterizes every human being, a hypothesis that Freud explicitly attributed to Wilhelm Fliess. Fre
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...ud concludes that the taboos are not set up for a totally '[[practical]] [[nature]]' and thus must have some [[psychoanalytical]] justification. ...Freud located the beginnings of the [[Oedipus complex]] at the origins of human [[society]], and postulated that all religion was in effect an extended and
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...ly, "''what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from [[human]] wishes''." (pg. 31) He adds, however, that, "Illusions [[need]] not neces ...giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human nature, he claims, that "''it is only through the influence of individuals who can
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...his doubts and [[hesitation]], his concern regarding the [[scientific]] [[nature]] of the information he... ...s thought, his doubts and hesitation, his concern regarding the scientific nature of the information he provides, and his fears concerning the way the [[text
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• Semiotics
  ...r [[John Locke]] ([[1632]]&ndash;[[1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the term "semeiotike" from the Gr ...nts, analysing usage in slow-[[time]], whereas, in the [[real]] world of [[human]] semiotic interaction there is an often chaotic blur of language and [[sig
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• Eros
  ...' is the [[Greek language|Greek]] [[word]] for (especially) romantic or "[[Human sexual behavior|sexual love]]". The term ''[[erotic]]'' is derived from ''e ...e who considers sex as something mortifying and humiliating to [[human]] [[nature]] is at liberty to make use of the more genteel expressions 'Eros' and 'ero
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...d's Psycho Dynamic Theory and Thermodynamics] [1873-1923] - Institute of [[Human]] Thermodynamics</ref> The origins of Freud’s basic [[model]], based on t ...]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how human [[behavior]] both [[conditions]] and results from this [[particular]] [[the
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• Complex
  ...ly [[cultural]] products, rather than on [[natural]] [[instinct]]s, that [[human]] [[behaviour]] cannot be explained by reference to [[biological]] givens. ...e up for the [[instinct]]ual inadequacy (''insuffisance vitale'') of the [[human]] [[infant]], and argues that the [[complex]]es are propped on [[biological
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...al]] [[experience]] would be possible... This does not mean, however, that human are not, and do not have to be, something, that they are simply consigned t ...[[figure]] of [[Roman law]] that poses some fundamental questions to the [[nature]] of [[law]] and [[power (sociology)|power]] in general. Under the Roman [[
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• Hannah Arendt
  Arendt's work deals with the [[nature]] of [[Power (sociology)|power]], and the [[subjects]] of [[politics]], [[a Arguably, her most influential work was [[The Human Condition (book)|''The Human Condition'']] (1958) in which she distinguishes labor, work, and action, an
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• Capitalism
  ...socialist feminists agree that there can be no [[understanding]] of the [[nature]] of contemporary capitalist society without placing the oppression of wome ...mits of capitalism; it is only the “part of no part” of the excluded [[human]] [[surplus]] that adds the “subversive” (''LC'': 430) edge to those ot
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...semantic, syntactic, and lexical models ([[linguistics]]), the study of [[human]] activities ([[psychology]]), and the neuronal basis of those activities ( Slavoj Žižek’s engagements with life-scientific treatments of human mindedness should be [[understood]], straightforwardly enough, as fundament
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• Deconstruction
  ...ning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstructed" [[concepts]] ...eep criticism is a result of a fundamental difference of opinion about the nature of [[philosophy]], and is unlikely to be resolved simply.
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...re are two Deleuzes. The more accepted Deleuze champions the multitudinous nature of becoming in ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]''. However, the second Deleuze is much mo ...as a [[quasi-cause]], revolutionary becoming and the notion of the [[post-human]].
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...actions of characters within the story, but whose specific identity and [[nature]] is unimportant to the [[spectator]] of the film. In ''[[Vertigo (film)|Ve ...erally avoided points of view that were physically [[impossible]] from a [[human]] perspective. For example, he would never place the camera [[looking]] out
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...h]]. Much of his [[work]] deals with [[religious]] problems such as the [[nature]] of faith, the institution of the [[Christian Church]], [[Christian]] [[et ...ique of the story, Kierkegaard made several insightful observations on the nature of the [[present]] age and its passionless attitude towards life. One of h
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• Georg Lukács
  ...hat the being itself can appear as a product, so far [[unconscious]], of [[human]] [[activity]], and this activity, in turn, as the decisive element of the ...he [[category]] of ''[[reification]]'' whereby, due to the [[commodity]] [[nature]] of [[capitalist]] [[society]], social relations become objectified, precl
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  Freud's speculations on the female Oedipus complex led him to explore the [[nature]] of feminine sexuality but resulted only in a series of unanswered questio ...at its status in the development of [[human]] sexuality is something which nature cannot account for' (1996a: 63). The phallus is the signifier of lack. The
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...ciety]]. For Lacan there is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is la ...c assumptions. Lacan’s view is that biology is always interpreted by the human subject, refracted through language; that there is no such [[thing]] as...
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  The [[Oedipus complex]] is central to [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of [[human]] [[development]]. ...’[[Civilization and its Discontents]]’’ (1930), the transition from nature to culture.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...'[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[world]] or the [[human]] [[body]] or even '[[reality]]'. For Lacan, our reality consists of [[symb ...]] [[about]] [[traumatic]] events such as train crashes, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr>< ...udes this aspect, a fear of a too violent, too open encounter with another human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr><
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• Cyberspace
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]].
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights — therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[exp ...pic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophe, violations of [[human rights]], sexism, [[homophobia]], antifeminism, the growing [[violence]] no
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ..., but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it's in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe ...of themselves, accepting what was IMPOSED on them as originating in their "nature" - they are even no longer AWARE of their subordination.
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...s, the death of Christ is the death of the God in himself, not only of his human embodiment) — which is why, for Lacan, who follows here Hegel, the Thing ...the time reduced to the survival-machines, there is the One who maintained human dignity). In a way homologous to the canned laughter, we have here somethin
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...g to demonstrate how Christianity effectively provides the foundation to [[human rights]] and freedoms. ...th his/her special place within the [[social edifice]], when he respects [[nature]] which provides food and shelter, when he shows respect for his superiors
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...[organ]] which provides pleasure, ignoring him/her as the [[Whole]] of a [[human]] Person?), the crucial clue that allows us to discern the contours of "Sad ...n]] (because of man's hurt pride, due to the "radical [[Evil]]" of human [[nature]]); for Lacan, this Kantian privileging of pain as the only a priori sentim
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...his [[notion]] relies on the [[humanist]] [[ideological]] opposition of "[[human]] persons" versus "things." Is it not one of [[Marx]]'s standard determinat ...n of the genesis of "[[reification]]," is then to demonstrate how original human belief was transposed onto things… The paradox to be maintained is that d
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...ional wink to his son, letting him know that, after all, he is also merely human ...) We are dealing here with the same short-circuit as that found in The H ...ne has to assert that there is no substantial guarantee of the progressive nature of women or of the working class-the situation is irreducibly antagonistic
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...s Saddam, releasing petroleum in the water and killing wildlife, killing [[nature]]? ...ope was not [[socialism]] with a [[human]] face, but rather fascism with a human face. This is very dangerous. Anti-Semitism arises at such moments. Now the
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...f the [[signifier]]'s game running its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So, again, does not our experience of cyberspace perfectly fi ...[[Machine]] ([[Blade Runner]]), the animal is a male ape copulating with a human woman and fully [[satisfying]] her. Does this not materialize two standard
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...erts his hold upon us in the unconscious. On the other hand, insofar as "[[human]] being" implies the infinite freedom of [[subjectivity]], an element of fa
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...vices has run ahead of our faculty to lead a meaningful existence, to make human use of this immense power." Thus, the properly modern [[ethics]] of "follow ...[[whole]] [[game]] of discerning a patriarchal, Eurocentric, mechanistic, nature-exploiting bias to modern science does not really concern science, the driv
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...in order to counteract, and thus conceal, the basic vileness of your true nature… ^{<a href="#4">4</a>}</p> ...otally "objective" laws, strictly comparable to the laws of [[material]] [[Nature]]. Do we not [[encounter]] another version of this same objectivization in
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...gri thus deserve much praise for enlightening us about the contradictory [[nature]] of today's "turbocapitalism" and attempting to [[identify]] to identify t ...all for three [[demands]] formulated in the terminology of [[universal]] [[human]] rights. The problem with these demands is that they fluctuate between [[f
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...e Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries preach express their [[true]] [[nature]]: “The [[revolution]] has gone too far What you are saying now we have b ...but look deep into yourself and you will discover that it’s in your true nature to do it, you will find it attractive, you will become aware of new, unexpe
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...e Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries preach express their [[true]] [[nature]]: "The [[revolution]] has gone too far. What you are saying now we have be ...rmly rooted in the democratic political [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights. Therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the experien
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...l gestures and innuendoes he or she is witnessing. Crucial for "becoming-[[human]]" is the overlapping of the two levels, the implicit "sexualization" of th ...ever buy anything [[sight]] unseen," she says, and later rejects any "warm human contact" with him.<ref>I rely here on Kate Stables, British Film Institute,
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• You May
  ...rich Beck and [[others]], we no longer live our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accep ...human rights!" It is [[impossible]] for the Power to prevent a 'misuse' of human rights without at the same time impinging on their proper application. Laca
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...nizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation ("finitude") of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and pas ...imal, the traumatic core of animality, that can only emerge "as such" in a human which became animal.) <a name="15"></a><a href="#15x">15</a><br><br>
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...lenty that cannot be comprehended yet."<ref>G.W.F. Hegel, <i>Philosophy of Nature</i>, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970, p. 62.</ref> In all these cases, it is ...d]] - what is unthinkable within this space is Heidegger's notion of the [[human]] being as <i>Da-[[Sein]]</i>, as the "being-there" of the Being itself, as
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