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...eeted Freud's brief volume was primarily due to the second essay, in which he discussed sexuality in infancy and childhood. From a present-day perspectiv ...aberrations links them to unexpected or abnormal events during childhood. He similarly understands puberty as the sum of modifications acting upon infan

...non in the USA. There are two million of them, mostly women, but also men, who cut themselves with razors. Why? It has nothing to do with masochism or sui ...kind of a spectral ghost. All this became apparent to those conservatives who were sensitive for the break of the new.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br clas

...u have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Yes, the lesson of deconstructionism against [[universalism]] is that there are ...an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre

...u have a neo-fascist right that refers to the deconstructionists, saying: 'Yes, the lesson of deconstructionism against [[universalism]] is that there are ...an eccentric freak. Now, their reaction was the same as the Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre

...olitics, the idea to deal with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[liberal]] [[democracy]], there is [[freedom]] of t ...— it will be an act WITHIN the hegemonic ideological coordinates: those who "really want to do something to [[help]] people" get involved in (undoubted

...on]], from the [[Lacanian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...n a kind of Real. [[Recall]] the phenomenon of "cutters" (mostly [[women]] who experience an irresistible urge to cut themselves with razors or otherwise

...dern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked ...ause Jungian theory functioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan rei

.... A man in the late 20ies at my [[right]] was so immersed in the film that he all the [[time]] disturbed [[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, lik ...Carrey playing the small town clerk who gradually discovers the truth that he is the hero of a 24-hours permanent TV show: his hometown is constructed on

...] which provides food and shelter, when he shows respect for his superiors who take care of him in a fatherly way, and so on and so on. And evil occurs wh ...s wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, even his own [[life]], he cannot be my disciple." Here, of course, I claim we are not dealing with a

...inability to meet its inexorable [[demands]], like the proverbial teacher who tortures pupils with [[impossible]] tasks and secretly savors their failing ...bear in [[mind]] is that the focus of Lacan is always Kant, not Sade: what he is interested in are the ultimate consequences and disavowed premises of th

...the discourse gave you the opportunity to [[identify]] yourself as the one who might get rich next. Wealth was [[right]] around the corner…maybe. SZ: Yes, that was enough; it was even proven by [[sociology]] polls. [[People]] act

...[[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spinozist [[dream]], what he called "love of God'' or "perfect [[rational]] knowledge," which is a kind ...It is like with tobacco, the Spinozist doesn't say, "Don't smoke," he/she says "Smoke, but… ." You have this warning, "Nicotine can be dangerous to your

...fectively cutting the throat of his "[[enemy]]"…). Against the theorists who [[fear]] that cyberspace involves the [[regression]] to a kind of psychotic ...subject's past so that his girlfriend would not have [[left]] him, or that he would not have failed the crucial exam; yet whatever we do, the outcome is

...nist dismissal of the alleged Marxist "[[essentialism]]"; on the contrary, he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form ...tuation is the [[Church]]; and its "subject" is the [[corps]] of believers who intervene in their situation on behalf of the Truth-Event, searching for th

...act of supreme irony, his [[confession]] was dated September 30 1976) that he proposed the compromise date in order to disguise the [[existence]] of an u ...s utter seriousness (he is talking about his possible [[suicide]], and why he will not commit it, since it could hurt the Party, but will rather go on wi

...self as serving real needs of real people? The originality of Marx is that he played on both cards simultaneously: the origin of capitalist crises is the ...tual capitalist not function in a homologous way: his "net value" at zero, he directly operates just with the surplus borrowing from the [[future]].

...valent/expression of the power of the [[working]] [[class]], then everyone who opposes me is “objectively” an [[enemy]] of the [[working class]]). Aga ...he notion of the “psychological” [[subject]] endowed with propensities he or she strives to realize. This especially holds today, in the era of what

...husser]]'s [[text]] on [[Machiavelli]], la solitude de Lenine: a time when he stood alone, struggling against the current in his own party. When, in his ...are afraid to take the second step of overcoming the old forms, are those who (in Robespierre's [[words]]) [[want]] a "[[revolution without revolution]]"

...e guest is each [[time]] an ordinary (or, exceptionally, wellknown) person who made a peculiar choice that determined his or her entire lifestyle. For exa ...Lenin's obsessive tirades against formal freedom worth saving today; when he underlines that there is no pure [[democracy]], that we should always ask w

...re Saddam's victims, and they would be really glad to get rid of [[them]]. He was such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in WHATE ...]]" in a patronizing way) an Eastern European from a [[Communist]] country who longs for Western [[liberal]] democracy and some consumerist goods… Howev

"Rule Girls" are heterosexual [[women]] who follow precise rules as to how they let themselves be seduced (accept a dat ...ence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.

...the obvious yet pertinent question about the title of my longest book: "so who or what is tickling the ticklish subject?" The answer, of course, is: the o ...resupposes that my position of enunciation is that of an external observer who can grasp the whole of reality); it rather resides in the reflexive twist b

...nglessness of the fact that a couple hundred of Florida voices will decide who will be the president, the Democratic candidate accepted his defeat. In the ...n, they take recourse to the commonplace wisdom that "a true leader leads, he does not follow" - and this from leaders otherwise obsessed with opinion po

...sacrifice" not [[Christ]]'s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo") ...one who is not afraid to profit from his ethical choices, i.e., as the one who is able to break the [[vicious cycle]] of ethics and sacrifice.<br><br>

...em]]) tries to explain to the still perplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he - he [[links]] it to a failure in the [[structure]] of the [[universe]]: ...e VR controlled by the Matrix (in the same way he is able to stop bullets, he should also have been able to derealize blows that wound his body).

...s a rule, Durband tries to formulate directly, in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] ...] from such a decadent town can be an easy pick?) Although Joseph Stefano, who wrote the scenario, claims<a href="#footnote"><font color="#39bda5" size="-

...this ecstasy. Lewis thus refers to the experience as the "odd [[thing]];" he mentions its common location—"I was going up Headington Hill on the top o ...edom]], and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, 'I am what I do.' Then came the repercussion on the imagina

...t man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br> ...by "Rachel from Scotlandí on the BBC website in September 2003: "We know he had weapons, we sold him some of them." This is the direction a serious inv

...rrative (the son revenges his father against the father's [[evil]] brother who murdered him and took over his throne; the son survives the illegitimate ru ...after her death, he will acknowledge this to himself; at that [[moment]], he will feel [[guilty]] for his [[past]] hatred of her mother, so she is now l

...[[solidarity]] are no less wrong than the US free-[[market]] [[liberals]] who now gleefully returned the blow and pointed out how the very rigidity of st ...doctor who, because of the financial difficulties of the hospital in which he works, was lured into swallowing the bait of the pharmaceutical company.

Do we today have an available bioethics? Yes, we do, a bad one: what the Germans call <i>Bindestrich-Ethik</i>, or 'hyph ...gency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose not to [[know]], an [[ignorance]] that is n

...sing the seemingly invincible Communist regime) has ended up serving those who 'realistically' argue that any real change in today's world is impossible.

...>res cogitans</i>. Here, however, one should be more precise than Karatani who directly identifies the transcendental subject with transcendental illusion Yes, an ego is just an illusion, but functioning there is the transcendental ap

...at differs with earlier timetables cited by Bush administration officials, who estimated that Iran was only five years away from such a weapon. Responding ...morality|moralistic]] [[hypocrisy]]. And indeed, it was Nietzsche himself who, more than a century ago, in <i>Daybreak,</i> provided the best [[analysis]

...German]] <i>herumspringen</i>, to jump around). At 17, their [[children]] (who until then have been subjected to strict [[family]] [[discipline]]) are set ...roblems with the standard [[liberal]] attitude toward [[Muslim]] [[women]] who wear veils: They can do it if it is their free choice and not an option imp

...cy,” i.e., in the rise of “illiberal democracy at home and abroad.” He draws the lesson that democracy can only “catch on” in economically dev ...es and its “willing partners” impose themselves as the ultimate judges who decide if and when a country is ripe for democracy.

...e [[Saddam]]’s victims, and they would be really glad to be rid of him. He is such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in <i>wha ...“understanding”) an [[Eastern Europe]]an from an ex-communist country who longs for [[West]]ern [[liberal democracy]] and some consumer goods.<br><br

...[[Saddam]]’s victims, and they would be really glad to get rid of him. He was such a catastrophe for his country that an American occupation in whate ...e put it: “I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”

...reedoms is effectively foreign to our [[liberal]]-tolerant sensibility – who, today, would not [[experience]] a shudder apropos his dismissive remarks a ...]] of freedom. Lenin is best remembered for his famous retort “Freedom - yes, but for <em>whom</em>? To do <em>what</em>?” For him, in the above-quote

...s. He can’t let go of his mother; he can’t let go of his girlfriend. He can’t let go of things. It makes you greedy. And when you’re greedy, ...d [[children]], his brothers and sisters — yes even his own [[life]] — he cannot be my disciple." In order for there to be a properly [[unified]] "[

...im their innocence, to have any time [[left]] to [[defend]] the [[guilty]] who proclaim their [[guilt]]." But [[hysterical]] over-reaction against"free-fl ...also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." What he forgot to add was the crucial fourth term: the "unknown knowns", things we

...interactive game is "just a game," he can "show his true self," do things he would never have done in real life interactions - in the guise of a [[ficti ...]] to make the narrative ridiculous a kind of negative gesture of respect: yes, we do show everything, but precisely for that [[reason]] we [[want]] to ma

...y is that the supreme example of the seminal structure of truth event that he tries to articulate, and it doesn't count as a truth-event.<br> ...know the early Heidegger started with the same reference, St. Paul.&nbsp; He (Heidegger) I think used the term <i>formales anzeigen,</i>, formal indicat

...hat we need to [[defend]] [[plurality]] and different lifestyles, but look who is taking! Your policies undermined the family, and you don't have any [[ri ...ie <i>Leap of Faith?</i> It's naïve, and I don't like Steve Martin in it, he's playing a stupid [[role]] politically, but it's a nice movie about a fake

...t man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'" ...by "Rachel from Scotlandí on the BBC website in September 2003: "We know he had weapons, we sold him some of them." This is the direction a serious inv

...t World War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst J?nger, in which he praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. Or at the l ...he USA. There are two million of [[them]], mostly [[women]], but also men, who cut themselves with razors. Why? It has nothing to do with [[masochism]] or

...dern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked ...ause Jungian theory functioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan rei

"Rule Girls" are heterosexual [[women]] who follow precise rules as to how they let themselves be seduced (accept a dat ...ence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.<br>

...diot. A man in the late 20ies at my right was so immersed in the film that he all the time disturbed other spectators with loud exclamations, like "My Go ...Carrey playing the small town clerk who gradually discovers the truth that he is the hero of a 24-hours permanent TV show: his hometown is constructed on

choice, he will never make a beginning at all. <a name="3"></a><a href="#3x">3</a> </f ...ng mediator' is provided by the [[Hegelian]] notion of the historical hero who resolves the deadlock of the passage from

...nist dismissal of the alleged Marxist "[[essentialism]]"; on the contrary, he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form ...tuation is the [[Church]]; and its "subject" is the [[corps]] of believers who intervene in their situation on behalf of the Truth-Event, searching for th

...e]] which stands for the primordial jouisseur: we cannot [[enjoy]] because HE amasses all [[enjoyment]]... ...the leader in the immediacy of his [[personality]] and the symbolic place he occupies, a gap on account of which the father qua effective person is utte

...the discourse gave you the opportunity to [[identify]] yourself as the one who might get rich next. Wealth was [[right]] around the corner...maybe. <br><b SZ: Yes, that was enough; it was even proven by [[sociology]] polls. [[People]] act

...[[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spinozist [[dream]], what he called "love of God'' or "perfect [[rational]] knowledge," which is a kind ...It is like with tobacco, the Spinozist doesn't say, "Don't smoke," he/she says "Smoke, but... ." You have this warning, "Nicotine can be dangerous to your

...dern]] sophists, of the Messianic promise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked ...ause Jungian theory functioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan rei

...self as serving real needs of real people? The originality of Marx is that he played on both cards simultaneously: the origin of capitalist crises is the ...tual capitalist not function in a homologous way: his "net value" at zero, he directly operates just with the surplus borrowing from the [[future]].

...ficiency of the phantasmatic in the new [[media]] was published, currently he is [[writing]] a [[text]] dealing with [[cyberspace]]. After checking the a ...ed]] by North Koreans in the Korean War and brainwashed to become a killer who kills on [[order]], without being aware of it.

...tters begins at a crucial [[moment]] in the [[life]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]: he had just been stricken from the [[list]] of [[training]] [[analysts]] of th ...963]) an article,'' "[[Philosophie]] et [[sciences]] humaines,"'' in which he praised Lacan. The two men had not yet met—and that would not occur, in f

...ny utilitarian definition of what is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [ ...he's an "old Stalinist", which draws gleeful [[laughter]] from an audience who are mostly in their twenties.

...ould produce such a supple thinker read him now for the simple reason that he is Zizek.</div> ...superstar in the [[world]] of scholarly publishing. Most of the [[people]] who read its products can also write [[them]]. To stand out in a crowd this sma

of obscurantism, and may not even have believed very much of what he said. Noam [[Chomsky]] once indicated such a hypothesis when he explained

...g up [[Laclau]] and [[Mouffe]]'s [[notion]] of 'radical [[democracy]]'. As he admits in his Acknowledgements there, it is their book <i>[[Hegemony]] and ...in <i>[[Sublime Object]]</i> too he takes it up. Traditional [[Marxism]], he writes there, is defined by two presuppositions. The first is that, running

...ause it is the only one that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, would observe ...onfess that, eating in a Chinese restaurant, his greatest fear is not that he will somehow fall into an orgy with his fellow diners but actually end up s

...<a [[name]]="2x"></a><a href="#2">2</a> by Zizek himself (which shows that he is not entirely unaware of its pertinence); <a name="3x"></a><a href="#3">3 ...n [[mind]]?... And if what he has in mind is something entirely different, he has the elementary intellectual and political [[duty]] to let us know what

...p. 194). Although he came later, Derrida followed the same tradition when he wrote: "`The [[idea]] behind [[deconstruction]] is to deconstruct the worki ...0s. Wolin bombastically locates me, together with Baudrillard, among those who claimed that the U.S. got what it deserved on 9/11:

...ews writer Slavoj [[Zizek]] on his works and writings. In his early works, he linked [[Lacan]] and popular [[culture]] in such books as [[Looking]] Awry: ...ce]] in 1991 following Slovenia's declaration of independence. Since 1979, he has been on the faculty at the [[University of Ljubljana]].

...way for science is prepared by rectifying the position of ethics. In this, yes, a ground-clearing occurs which will have to make its way through the depth ...aw of such a good can be enunciated which would define as will the subject who would introduce it into his practice.

...uchi, </i>which we have borrowed, as I told you last time, from Aristotle, who uses it in his search for cause. We have translated it as <i>the encounter ...mber the development, which is so central for us, of the <i>Wolf Man. </i>He applies himself, in a way that can almost be described as anguish, to the q

[[Other]]. He is affected by it in a nondialectizable manner, and it is for that ...pes whoever is receiving such teaching is the obscurantist effect to which he is [[being]] submitted. One [[knows]], however, where it leads: to the incr

...tive: the tragedy of the hundreds of thousands of ordinary German soldiers who found themselves trapped in a foreign land, parts of a meaningless expediti ...Zaitsev is involved in a love affair with a woman-sniper, an American girl who joined the Russians to take revenge on the Germans for killing her family -

A century ago, [[Freud]] included [[psychoanalysis]] as one of what he described as the [[three]] '[[narcissistic illnesses]]'. First, [[Copernic ...[[satisfaction]]: if you are not able to get it, visit an [[analyst]] and he will [[help]] you to lose your [[inhibition]]s. Now that we are bombarded

...st medical [[treatment]]. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[ideas]] - ...[people]] of a special mould. We are made of a special stuff. We are those who [[form]] the [[army]] of the great proletarian strategist, the army of Comr

...struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it into a [[coherency|coherent]] alternate [[p ...ction ON BEHALF OF this very inertia of the privileged Europeans, of those who [[want]] to stick to old [[Welfare]] [[State]] privileges. It was the reac

...p. 194). Although he came later, Derrida followed the same tradition when he wrote: '"The [[idea]] behind [[deconstruction]] is to deconstruct the worki ...0s. Wolin bombastically locates me, together with Baudrillard, among those who claimed that the U.S. got what it deserved on 9/11:

When Slavoj [[Zizek]] says, "There is no [[social]] relation," we react as cynics and Kantian fetishis ...ess]] had better watch his ass, because the sorry [[truth]] is that anyone who seems to be having fun playing with the Thing becomes the target of invidiu

...ating. One has the feeling that he could manipulate you as he wishes, that he knows more than you about the motives of your actions. ...or many, is as mysterious as an analyst. In our [[time]], it is the expert who intimidates. With [[psychology]], even when seen as a [[science]], everyon

...uchi, </i>which we have borrowed, as I told you last time, from Aristotle, who uses it in his search for cause. We have translated it as <i>the encounter ...mber the development, which is so central for us, of the <i>Wolf Man. </i>He applies himself, in a way that can almost be described as anguish, to the q

...intense that he couldn’t go out. At the beginning he didn’t reveal he was afraid of [[being]] bitten by a white horse. The [[fear]] came from horses’big [[penis]] and from his [[mother]] who told him once she might cut his sex, which triggered a [[castration comple

...e]] totally caught (“plugged”) in [[the Matrix]], he says: “Everyone who is not unplugged is a potential [[agent]].”). ...er]] of the aristocratic reaction to Athenian [[democracy]], but the Plato who was the first to clearly assert the field of [[rationality]] freed from inh

...onversation to amuse the royal company, whereupon, without flinching once, he seizes the embarrassing letter, making off with it, as the Queen, on whom n ...that-an even more important result than the first-the Queen [[knows]] that he now has it, and by no means innocently.

...''[[Ethics]]'', a [[text]] which would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]]. ...] in the busy [[Paris]]ian world of the writers, artists and intellectuals who made up the [[surrealism|surrealist movement]].

...i line. Even with American tanks only a few hundred yards from his office, he continued to [[claim]] that the televised shots of tanks on the Baghdad str ...ronted with claims that Americans were in [[control]] of parts of Baghdad, he snapped back: “They are not in control of anything — they don’t even

...in [[desire]] to be remembered as the big terrorist mastermind, or because he was ready to confess anything in [[order]] to stop the water boarding and [ ...o be treated with legal procedures (using lawyers and the like), and those who are [[outside]] legality, [[subject]] to military tribunals or seemingly en

...44-sex-modern-world-yes-no/ Sex in the modern world: Can even a 'yes, yes, yes' actually mean 'no?'] ...say that Marx was very often right – but in a much more literal way than he intended]

...rench Revolution; Chou replied: "It is still too early to tell." In a way, he was right: with the disintegration of the "people's democracies" in the lat ...ying without moments of terror. Since, as Saint-Just asked: "What do those who want neither Virtue nor Terror want?" His answer is well-known: they want c

...er the dangers of [[multiculturalism]] and the undiscovered joys of Lenin, who is to Zizek as some remote and exotic island resort is to a contributor to ...of a [[Noam Chomsky]] represents the only possibility for [[resistance]], who wants to critique [[global]] [[capitalism]] without falling back on faded M

...the "bad" Lenin who didn't get the core of Marx's theory, the "bad" Stalin who spoils the noble plans of the "good" Lenin, etc.). ...to directly "empowers" themselves, to the horror of sympathizing liberals who are always ready to support the revolt of the poor and dispossessed, on con

..." the editor asked him if the use of this term is really necessary - could he not replace it by a synonymous one, like "[[economy]]"? What better proof o ...ierce, shouting debate over whether to sink the ship. Two of [[them]] said yes and the [[other]] said no. "A guy named Arkhipov saved the [[world]]," was

...y reason for there are two reasons against, and vice versa, into a simple "Yes" or "No" - we shall attack, we continue to wait... None other John F. Kenne ...ng new at the level of positive content, "nothing is quite the same" after he pronounces his Word...

...on, he was a depersonalized Left deviationist; if he wrote like Prokofiev, he was a mercenary Formalist. Individual, non-individual... there must have se ...new recording of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto by Leila Josefowicz says that she "pays homage to the struggles Shostakovich faced under Stalin's re

...of the entire [[people]] under the Stalinist dictatorship, of the millions who, first, heroically overthrew the ancient [[regime]] in the [[revolution]], ...n’s surprised discovery, in the late 1930, that Yezhov, the head of NKVD who organized the [[terror]], was [[responsible]] for the [[death]] of thousand

...stitute closed in the spring of 1940. Loewenstein fled to the U.S.A. where he settled permanently. Laforgue, originally from Alsace, attempted to collabo ...analytical Society pursued its [[development]], training numerous analysts who have profoundly influenced the course of psychoanalysis in France. Many new

...''[[ex-sistence]]'' of saying. This is what I pointed out in the [[text]] says ''L'?tourdit '' - d, i, t. -, that's what I stressed to say that [[the sym ...hat [[knowledge]] that fills the being. The form [[knows]] no more than it says, it is [[real]], I have just said, in that it holds the being in its cup bu

...make a confrontation not of two to two who make four but from four to one who make five. And so one could say that even what would then be, since here yo

...t>''ex-sistence</font>'' of saying. This is what I pointed out in the text says </font>''L'Étourdit </font>'' - d, i, t. -, that's what I stressed to say ...orm is that knowledge that fills the being. The form knows no more than it says, it is real, I have just said, in that it holds the being in its cup but to

...ll that … keep on … not knowing what … what she was– … what? … who? … no! … she! … SHE! … (Pause) … what she was trying … what to

...intelligible only through the lineage of the Cartesian gesture, and where he subverts, through de-localization, the pure coincidence of the subject with Yes or no – is the empty set the proper name of being as such? Or must we bel

...rket. Nothing is considered as worthy of interest except what the Chinese, who adore lists, would call 'the three relations': the relation to money, the r ...s necessarily measured by its historicity. In other words, it is a subject who resonates, in its composition, with the power of an event. This is one of t

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...ts of philo­sophy, whether in Slov­e­nia, Bri­tain or France. As such, he per­forms the role of the hys­teric to the master's dis­course of a sto ...en ima­gine the Polit­ic­ally Cor­rect out­cry if another thinker – who is, say, a les­bian fem­in­ist – were to be "ana­lyzed" at such a l

...my is a feature of reality itself; against Kant, we should thus grasp what he perceives as an obstacle to our cognition of the thing-in-itself the very f ..., for Freud and Lacan, desire is by definition sexual (in contrast to Jung who asserts a non-sexual general libido, there is no general libido for Freud a

...ss (or, in Joyce's case, the elevation of Here Comes Everybody into Christ who has to die in order to be reborn as the eternal Life-Goddess, from Molly Bl ...art to Joyce is, of course, Samuel Becket: after his early period in which he more or less wrote some variations on Joyce, the "true" Becket constituted

...ilosophy, demonstrating its dependence on an external Other; even more so, he "deconstructs" the attempt to locate a sphere outside philosophy, demonstra ...Descartes does not really confront madness, but rather avoids thinking it: he ''excludes'' madness from the domain of reason. In the Classical Age, Reaso

...he day. Assange claimed political asylum in the embassy in June 2012 after he was accused of rape and sexual assault against women in Sweden. ...n you spy even on our allies?" Obama murmurs with a mockingly evil smile: "Yes, we can."

...all other objects; but since he ignores the immediacy of mediation itself, he concludes that mediation cannot count as the ultimate foundation for the si ...incident ally, is an old reproach to Hegel fomulated already by Schelling (who dismissed Hegel's thought as a "negative philosophy" in need of an immediat

...his inability to meet its inexorable demands, like the proverbial teacher who tortures pupils with impossible tasks and secretly savors their failings? ...uld bear in mind is that the focus of Lacan is always Kant, not Sade: what he is interested in are the ultimate consequences and disavowed premises of th

...ould undoubtedly dismiss as nonsense: namely, to bring together Heidegger (who defines "care" as the fundamental feature of finite ''Dasein'') and Hegel ( ...he immanent critique that measures him by his own standards, analyzing how he realizes his own program; but it can also serve as a means to redeem Hegel,

The big political shift in Hegel's development occurred when he abandoned his early fascination with the Romantic vision of the non-alienat ...has to be accepted, that the organic unity of the polis was forever lost, he nonetheless insisted on the need for some kind of return to a renewed unity

...eries of negations/oppositions of/to his position. It was already Foucault who noted that the entire history of Western philosophy can be defined as the h ...things as simple as that? Plato is the first in the series of philosophers who had bad luck in the twentieth century, being blamed for all our misfortunes

...Gray di­rectly enacted this 'rewriting-the-past experience' with a woman who, at the end, gratefully embraced him, crying with joy that she was no longe ...e? Let us regress to the scene on Mount Sinai and rewrite it: adultery – yes, if it is sincere and serves the goal of your profound self-realization. W

...guilty of stealing, although he didn't effectively steal anything — what he did steal was, again, Nothingness itself. Along the same lines, in the case ...ndmother. If you have a good old-fashioned authoritarian father, what will he tell you? "I don't care how you feel, just go there and behave properly. Do

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