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...his involves an effort to link in a [[chain]], the isolated, persecuting [[signifiers]] in order to initiate a place for the subject outside the ''jouissance'' o ...alysis is that while enjoyment is experienced as Real, it is ultimately an empty [[spectre]], a kind of anamorphic effect of symbolic circumscription. Again

...rgues that the [[unconscious]] is, like [[language]], a [[structure]] of [[signifiers]], which also allows [[Lacan]] to formulate the [[category]] of the [[symbo ...attend to the [[formal]] features of the [[analysand]]'s [[speech]] (the [[signifiers]]), and not be sidetracked into an empathic attitude baseed on an [[imagina

...myth]], the discovery of fixed relations between loci which are themselves empty.<ref>[[Lévi-Strauss]] 1955</ref>

[[Signification]] is [[imaginary]] and is the province of [[speech|empty speech]]; [[meaning]] is [[symbolic]] and is the province of [[speech|full

...aspect ([[repetition]]) it helps the cure [[progress]] by revealing the [[signifiers]] of the [[subject]]'s [[history]]. He argues that in its [[imaginary]] asp ...ead of making love, in the end desire, which has been purified, is but the empty [[place]] where the [[barred]] subject accesses desire. We should note that

...aking [[love]], in the end [[desire]], which has been purified, is but the empty [[place]] where the [[barred]] [[subject]] accesses [[desire]]. We should ...s, the [[phallus]], the [[symbol]] of [[desire]]." [[Desire]] is only its empty place.

Just as the [[phallus]] is an 'empty' signifier - it is a signifier of lack and has no positive [[content]] - th ...both subject to the imposition of the symbolic order and the networks of [[signifiers]].

...[[missing]] from the symbolic and all other representations, images and [[signifiers]] are no more than attempts to fill this gap. In [[seminar VII]] Lacan [[id ...ing]] subjects. The [[space]] of fantasy, writes Žižek, 'functions as an empty surface, as a kind of [[screen]] for the [[projection]] of desires' (1992:8

...by the signifiers, i.e. on whose behalf signifiers "act," who acts through signifiers… ...re void with no positive substantial content. The Lacanian subject is thus empty in the radical sense of being deprived of even the minimal phenomenological

...ucture of the situation must be redoubled in [[the symbolic]] network of [[signifiers]].) When a situation is thus "counted as One," [[identified]] by its symbol ...e emancipated society, etc.). The denomination of the Truth-Event is thus "empty" precisely insofar as it refers to the "fullness" yet to come.

...a purely formal function which is neither noumenal nor phenomenal - it is empty, no phenomenal intuition corresponds to it, since, if it were to appear to ...n is that of a simple frame: all that has to intervene into the Real is an empty frame, so that the same things we saw before "directly" are now seen throug

...they just relate in a kind of pre-symbolic cross-resonance. They are not [[signifiers]], neither the famous Hitchcockian stains, but elements of what, a decade o ...re mean? The Hitcocockian answer is: nothing - yet this nothing was not an empty nothing, but the fullness of libidinal investment, a tick which gave body t

...ucture of the situation must be redoubled in [[the symbolic]] network of [[signifiers]].) When a situation is thus "counted as One," [[identified]] by its symbol ...e emancipated society, etc.). The denomination of the Truth-Event is thus "empty" precisely insofar as it refers to the "fullness" yet to come.

...ch there is always a gap between the universal and particular, between the empty place of the universal and the particular identity that attempts, ultimatel ...rtsmanship and athleticism (Klein, 2001, p 56) - thus creating a series of signifiers that we are expected to conform to, and through which we come to understand

...s the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signifiers]] whose meaning is 'quilted' or determined by another but also that signifi ...nifier aspires to a kind of [[ideal]] emptiness, as it makes more and more signifiers equivalent to it; but in the end it is unable to escape the original contex

...s unrealizable 'democracy', in which the locus of power must always remain empty (TK, 267-70), to an admiration for such figures as Lenin, who were willing ...'contraction' of the primordial void in Schelling (IR, 22-7). It is that 'empty' speech that for Lacan precedes and makes possible 'full' or authentic spee

of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty,<br> to visual signifiers (nautical signals, etc.) which can offer simul-<br>

...e]] to [[Left]]ist [[workers]]' opposition) recognized themselves in the [[empty signifier]] "Solidarnosc." ...[[equivalences]] which they totalize a large [[number]] of "[[floating]]" signifiers. Laclau mobilizes this [[gap]] between the "[[ontological]]" need for a po

...hat might exile it from there." If the symbolic is a set of differentiated signifiers, the real is in itself undifferentiated: "it is without fissure". The symbo ...s in complete command of its destiny, Zizek proposes that the cogito is an empty space, what is left when the rest of the world is expelled from itself. The

...age and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]]. ...ta. To put this in [[another]] way: biological 'facts' become [[signifiers|signifiers.]] Language, even for the non-[[speaking]] [[infant]], is already there in

Empty word, see Speech [[Signifiers, 2, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16,22,76, 84-86,113-115,126,128-130,133, 138, 139, 143,

...essay "Othello" (1969), which runs through all the series in the play. The empty square is the [[guarantor]] and [[representative]] of the [[third]] party, * [[Parade of signifiers]]

of the [[symbol]] is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty,<br> to [[visual]] [[signifiers]] (nautical signals, etc.) which can offer simul-<br>

...nd [[signified]] are separated by a bar, which he calls "the phallus". The signifiers can slide over the top of this bar, with the signified elements beneath. Th Lacan aligns desire with [[metonymy]] and the slide of signifiers above the bar. This produces a situation in which desire is never satisfied

...[[missing]] from the symbolic and all other representations, images and [[signifiers]] are no more than attempts to fill this gap. In [[seminar VII]] Lacan [[id ...ing]] subjects. The [[space]] of fantasy, writes Žižek, 'functions as an empty surface, as a kind of [[screen]] for the [[projection]] of desires' (1992:8

...rection would be Kant's well-known thesis that Reason without intuition is empty, while Intuition without reason is blind: is not its political counterpart ...me that I should accomplish my duty, and so leaves the space open for the empty voluntarism (whatever I decide to be my duty is my duty). However, far from

...point in eclipse in the interval of the multiple that, under the name of "signifiers," guarantees material presence? ...is between a structural recurrence, which thinks the subject-effect as the empty set, so exposed in he uniform network of experience, and a hypothesis of th

..., voice and gaze, are "transfinite": in both cases, we are dealing with an empty object that frames the "bad infinity" of the field of the visible and/or au ...here again reminds him of "that": how much volume is needed to fill out an empty cylinder? how much energy is discharged when two bodies collide?). This uni

...ect of desire from its "impossible" object-cause whose place has to remain empty? And is not what Lacan calls "symbolic castration" this very gap which rend ...re of themselves," which should be inverted into: Take care of the sounds (signifiers), and the sense (signified) will take care of itself. Lacan aims at the her

...s true destination which is the big Other, the sym­bolic system of 'other signifiers'. One of the direct material­izations of this excess is the symptom: a cyp ...signifier for another signifier (for the chain or the field of 'ordinary' signifiers); the remainder – the 'bone in the throat' – which resists this symboli

...line patient, even though he may be a fortified castle, is nevertheless an empty castle" [''P,'' p. 49]), but the opposite also holds. Every attempt to esca ...e identity and meaning of a signifier depends on its difference from other signifiers, not on its resemblance to its signified). What we are dealing with in the