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...strous state of ''[[lamella]]'' – that bridges this gap. The subject’s immortality, for Lacan and Žižek after him, can emerge only from [[human]] finitude.

...tisfaction]] of instinctual [[drives]] (sex, wealth, glory, [[happiness]], immortality) moves from "the [[material]] to the [[mental]]." As [[compensation]] for [

...experience and, in this way, to revive the notions of God, free will, and immortality of soul. This was continued later in the century by American [[Transcendent

...he soul, which is immortal; but Kierkegaard was not [[speaking]] about the immortality of the self as much as the depth of the soul, of a person's being. <ref nam

...phantasmic "truth" of the immortality of the soul its exact opposite, the immortality of the body, its ability to sustain endless pain and humiliation? ...ody and soul: what Kant calls "immortality of the soul" is effectively the immortality of the other, ethereal, "undead" body?

...ns (the smooth running of affairs in the domain of Being)-the dimension of Immortality, of Life not encumbered by death. Nevertheless, the problem remains of how ...ectral]] apparitions, which is "immortal" yet not in Badiou's sense of the immortality of participating in Truth, but rather in the sense of what Lacan calls [[la

...shown, effectively amounts to its very opposite, the Sadean fantasy of the immortality of the body.<ref>See Alenka [[Zupancic]], "[[The Subject]] of the Law," SIC

...hical]] consequences. If the Christian opponents of cloning believe in the immortality of the soul and the uniqueness of the [[personality]] - i.e. that I am not

...slips on the proverbial banana peel; on the other hand, there is a strange immortality that pertains to comic figures, homologous to the ability of the Sadean vic ...neral matrix of Kant's solutions where the metaphysical propositions (God, immortality of the soul...) are asserted "under erasure," as postulates? Consequently,

...[[difference]] as the [[index]] of our link to a [[singular]] [[body]], of immortality through cloning, of our transformation from hardware into software, from [[

...r]] to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - ''entre-deux-morts'' - that is immortality.

...ud closely.&nbsp; Death drive is basically, I claim, the Freudian term for immortality.&nbsp; Death drive has nothing to do, as Lacan points out, convincingly, wi

immortality, a life of eternal ecstatic satisfaction exempted from the traumas of our

...the comedy is the triumph of the indestructible life - not of the sublime immortality of the tragic hero, but of the very vulgar, opportunistic, terrestrial life

...hical]] consequences. If the Christian opponents of cloning believe in the immortality of the soul and the uniqueness of the [[personality]] - i.e. that I am not

...ns (the smooth running of affairs in the domain of Being)-the dimension of Immortality, of Life not encumbered by death. Nevertheless, the problem remains of how ...ectral]] apparitions, which is "immortal" yet not in Badiou's sense of the immortality of participating in Truth, but rather in the sense of what Lacan calls [[la

...shown, effectively amounts to its very opposite, the Sadean fantasy of the immortality of the body.<ref>See Alenka [[Zupancic]], "[[The Subject]] of the Law," SIC

The ultimate horror becomes the very 'Unsterblichkeit', this very immortality. In the new text which I'm writing now, I'm trying to establish this [[impo

...tisfaction]] of instinctual [[drives]] (sex, wealth, glory, [[happiness]], immortality) moves from "the [[material]] to the [[mental]]." As [[compensation]] for [

...s therefore that it is [[Freud]]'s name for its very opposite, for the way immortality appears within psychoanalysis, for an [[uncanny]] <i>excess</i> of life, fo

For this reason, the postulates in which the latter culminates: the alibi of immortality where it represses progress, holiness, and even love, anything satisfying w

...imitive]] [[animism]] as a [[narcissistic]] extension and [[guarantee]] of immortality, but which, with the [[withdrawal]] of [[narcissism]], becomes a foreshadow ...os, and Rank [[notes]] the evolution between the narcissistic [[claim]] of immortality and the acceptance of the genetic continuity of [[parents]] through their [

...ve is therefore that it is Freud's name for its very opposite, for the way immortality appears within psychoanalysis, for an uncanny excess of life, for an "undea

...ough his [[dreams]], that fatherhood [[satisfied]] both his [[desire]] for immortality, through his [[children]], as well as his [[ambivalence]] toward his own [[

...to this [[idea]]: fusion, [[self]]-[[love]], [[megalomania]], omnipotence, immortality, and invulnerability.

The key point is that the 'immortality' of which Lacan speaks (that of the 'undead' ''[[lamella]]'', the object th

...s, paradoxically, the [[Freudian]] name for its very opposite, for the way immortality appears within [[psychoanalysis]]: for an [[uncanny]] excess of life, for a

...eligion (collective paradise, overcoming of all suffering, full individual immortality, resurrection of the dead, victory over time and death, conquest of space f

...e" is, paradoxically, the Freudian name for its very opposite, for the way immortality appears within psychoanalysis: for an uncanny excess of life, for an 'undea

...ody and soul: what Kant calls "immortality of the soul" is effectively the immortality of the other, ethereal, "undead" body?<br /> ...e" is therefore that it is Freud's name for its very opposite, for the way immortality appears within psychoanalysis, for an [[uncanny]] EXCESS of life, for an "u

...as the "undead" ("non-castrated") remainder which persists in its obscene immortality. No wonder the Wagnerian heroes want so desperately to die: they want to ge

Immortality as Death in Life

...glimpses into various foreign mentalities haunted by problems of divinity, immortality, creation, [[nature]], and [[desire]], provoking insights that [[invert]] f

...glimpses into various foreign mentalities haunted by problems of divinity, immortality, creation, nature, and desire, provoking insights that invert familiar assu

...­verse of mean­ing. Fur­ther­more, like Badiou, Hegel asserts infinity/immortality, but for him, immor­tal­ity emerges pre­cisely through "tar­ry­ing wit ...ssert the mul­ti­pli­city of immor­tal­it­ies: the Badi­ouian noble immortality/infinity of the deploy­ment of an Event (as opposed to the finitude of a 

...ard's "sickness unto death," where a mortal human being attempts to escape immortality, its unbearable ethical burden/injunction. In this sense, Texts are an opti

...phantasmic "truth" of the immortality of the soul its exact opposite, the immortality of the body, its ability to sustain endless pain and humiliation? ...ody and soul: what Kant calls "immortality of the soul" is effectively the immortality of the other, ethereal, "undead" body?

...ody and soul: what Kant calls "immortality of the soul" is effectively the immortality of the other, ethereal, "undead" body? ...e" is therefore that it is Freud's name for its very opposite, for the way immortality appears within psychoanalysis, for an uncanny EXCESS of life, for an "undea

...with one's death on the symbolic level, to abandon the mirage of symbolic immortality.