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...n abyssal Act, and it is psychoanalysis that “confronts us with the zero-level of politics, a pre-political ‘transcendental’ condition of the possibil

...a deadly reference, a paradoxical pleasure, reaching an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usuall ..., whereby, through [[discharge]], the [[psyche]] seeks the lowest possible level of tension. The [[pleasure principle]] thus functions as a [[limit]] impos

You're An Abominable Erection! You [[Demand]] To Be Raised To The Level Of [[Signifier]], But You [[Need]] To Be Veiled, To Hide What You Haven't G

...nd ''[[Thing|Wortvorstellungen]]'' are opposed, in the [[symbolic|symbolic level]] "they go together".

...ealm of anatomical reality or on the level of organs, but precisely on the level of what a lack of the organ might [[represent]] subjectively. ...ation (perceptual reality) is immediately elaborated on the [[subjective]] level as a conception: Freud writes "the lack of a penis is regarded as."

...factions that it obtains for need are reduced (''sich erniedrigt'') to the level of being no more than the crushing of the demand for love.

...ar from being dictated by military necessity, Brovkin has argued that this level of terror was highly counterproductive. Alienation of the population behin Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the level of reverence for Lenin in post-Soviet republics has gone down considerably,

...gnifier]] to the [[voice]]) is the [[conscious]] [[signifying chain]], the level of the [[statement]]. ...to [[castration]]) is the [[signifying chain]] in the [[unconscious]], the level of the [[enunciation]].

...mitives act at a social level as if they believe, but at an [[individual]] level they may in fact demur. By contrast, “advanced” [[media]] consumers are ...ess believe in it (and act accordingly)…” Cynical denunciation (at the level of rational [[knowledge]]) is counteracted by a call to “irrational” be

...view of [[development|genetic development]], [[perversion]] is at the same level as [[neurosis]]; both have reached the [[third]] "time" of the [[Oedipus co ...]] argues that [[perversion|perverse subjects]] can be treated at the same level as [[neurosis|neurotics]], although there will of course be different probl

...interpretable as that of the neurotic leaves the two disorders at the same level and fails to account for the major differences between [[them]], thus the [ ...; "[[nothing]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of the [[imaginary]], since [[the imaginary]] [[mechanism]] is what gives p

...me into [[being]], one must find "a guide beyond [[the imaginary]], on the level of [[the symbolic]] plane. . . . This guide governing [[The Subject|the sub

This added intensity indicates at the manifest level that the representation stands for the different latent chains intersecting

...een the [[biological]] aspect of [[sexual difference]] (for example at the level of the chromosomes) which is related to the [[reproductive]] function of se ...ay that the subject can only realize his [[sexuality]] on the [[symbolic]] level.<ref>{{S3}} p.170</ref>

...{{Ec}} p. 780</ref> and "that by which the subject sustains himself at the level of his vanishing desire."<ref>{{E}} p. 272</ref> ...s [[symbolic]] [[structure]] fully into account, and thus remaining at the level of the [[imaginary]]; "any attempt to reduce [fantasy] to the imagination

...tainly in the relation to being that the analyst has to find his operating level."<ref>{{E}} p.252</ref>

...culties which this [[system]] of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theorising."<ref>{{S2}} p.117</ref></blockquote>

...]] simultaneously annuls, preserves and raises this opposition to a higher level.

In this way, the [[fragmented body]] is "revealed at the [[organic]] level, in the lines of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as

On a more fundamental level, the term [[castration complex|castration]] may also refer not to an "opera

It is a knock on the door that interrupts a [[dream]], and on a more painful level it is [[trauma]].

On one level, the ''[[cogito]]'' comes to stand for the modern western [[concept]] of th On [[another]] level, [[Lacan]]'s views can be seen not only as a [[subversion]] of the ''[[cogi

...conceivable insofar as one finds a [[guide]] beyond the imaginary, on the level of the symbolic plane' (Sl, 141). The optical model thus illustrates the pr

...same role which Claude LÈvi-[[Strauss]] assigns to [[myths]], only on the level of the [[individual]] rather than of [[society]]. Thus phobia is not, according to Lacan, a [[clinical structure]] on the same level as hysteria and obsessional neurosis, but a gateway which can lead to eithe

...rase is [[understood]] correctly, in the [[sense]] of "[[knowing]] at what level the answer should be pitched."<ref>{{S2}} p. 43</ref> Therefore there is a certain irreducible level of [[resistance]] which can never be "overcome".

...ions he introduces are closely related to developments at the [[clinical]] level as he gradually abandons the therapeutic [[technique]] of [[hypnosis]] and

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...deos]] in different ways, e.g. for clients, technical [[knowledge]], skill level etc.

...is there. But there is no sexual rapport because speech functions on that level that [[analytic discourse]] reveals to be specific to speaking human beings

<blockquote>"The [[anal]] level is the locus of metaphor - one object for another, gives the faeces in [[pl

"The [[mirror stage]] is based on the rapport between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as disconnected and, on the other, a un

...: "[[nothing]] is to be expected from the way psychosis is explored at the level of [[the imaginary]], since the imaginary [[mechanism]] is what gives psych ...er from which the increasing disaster of the imaginary proceeds, until the level is reached at which signifier and signified are stabilized in the delusiona

...l, it allows for "the reshaping of [[the imaginary]]," on the theorethical level for an intersubjective [[logic]] to be constructed. Thus, [[analysis]] is d

...l, it allows for "the reshaping of the [[imaginary]]," on the theorethical level for an intersubjective [[logic]] to be constructed. Thus, [[analysis]] is

...mand, but of [[desire,]] of the desire of the Other; it is the same at the level of the [[invocatory]] drive, which is the closest to the [[experience]] of

...urbes [[The Subject|the subject]]'s [[fundamental fantasy]], unhinging the level that is even more fundamental than basic symbolic identifications. For Laca

...>a</i> is the <i>[[plus-de-jouir]]</i>, surplus-<i>jouissance</i>.* At the level of the [[enunciation]], [[perversion]] reveals "surplus-<i>jouissance</i> i

...zaton of dicourse," which the [[analyst]] introduces at the [[structural]] level. This leaves untouched [[hysteria]] as attributed to [[woman]] - the only d

...d makes a [[distinction]] between the ‘‘[[manifest]],’’ or surface-level, dream [[content]] and the ‘‘[[latent]],’’ or unconscious, ‘‘dr

...nd]], but of [[desire,]] of the desire of the Other; it is the same at the level of the [[invocatory]] drive, which is the closest to the [[experience]] of

...e]] is based on the rapport [relationship] between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as [[disconnected]] and, on the other,

...iche in the [[world]] (see [[Semiosis]]). Semiotics theorises at a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in ...rganizing the text) and on the level of [[narrative]] syntax; the semantic level (the content elements of the text); and the pragmatic or communicative cont

...[[lack]]) is always attempting to cover over its constitutive lack on the level of [[representation]], through continuous [[identification]] [[acts]].

...unable to give an account of ''[[jouissance]]'' and remains merely at the level of deconstructing [[meaning]], it runs the risk of moderating and curtailin

...erms' undecidable, unresolvable complexity, deconstruction requires a high level of comfort with suspended, deferred decision; a deconstructive thinker must ...w that [[people]] in these fields can explain the [[contents]] to me at my level, so that I can gain what ([[partial]]) understanding I may [[want]]. In con

...of states. Order is threatened when the level of mobilization exceeds the level of institutionalization within a [[society]]. Huntington is concerned that,

..., when Lacan talks about [[existence]], he is reerring to something at the level of [[The Symbolic|the symbolic]]. If the woman was to exist she would have to exist at the level of the symbolic and this has a number of implications.

...d be said that by shifting all descriptions from a [[biological]]-anatomic level to a [[symbolic]] one he shows how [[culture]] imposes meaning on [[anatomi ...ee]] of a possible union with the mother. Lacan transforms all this to the level of the symbolic. This is why he writes not of the penis but of the phallus.

Both fathers function psychically at the level of the superego. At a [[psychic]] level, an overly punishing superego and subordiantion to the symbolic law is one

...generally attribute it to the Other. The Other is believed to experience a level of enjoyment beyond our own experience. The important point here is that th

...e level of the Real where 'it is loving it' (ça jouit) rather than at the level where 'it speaks' (ça parle). If the analytical interpretation is that thr

This is the zero level of the critique of ideology – when you don’t read meaning into it.

What Zizek calls the 'conceptual Jew' must be invented and sustained at the level of fantasy for anti-Semitic ideology to work.

What Zizek calls the 'conceptual Jew' must be invented and sustained at the level of fantasy for anti-Semitic ideology to work.

...praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. Or at the level of sex, the archetypal film of the twentieth century would be Nagisa Oshima ...ose to an anonymous public their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today - even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shocked

...to an anonymous [[public]] their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today — even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shock

...g will be the same after 11 September. Certainly, there is change at the level of perception or publicity, but I don't think we can yet speak of some fund

...rrative on the catastrophe caused by the virus? At an even more elementary level, is not one of the commonplaces of the sci-fi theory that the true point of ...Lenin effectively dies, he could count on the support of thousands of mid-level cadres nominated by him to win over the big old names of the Bolshevik "ari

...g to violence as the only [[index]] of his authenticity, and it is as this level that the critics of [[Stalinism]] as a rule misperceive the [[cause]] of th ...s invisible — viruses, poisons which can be anywhere and nowhere. At the level of [[visible]] material reality, nothing happens, no big explosions, and ye

...uropean [[technology]] and [[capitalism]] are triumphing worldwide, at the level of "ideological superstructure," the Judeo-[[Christian]] legacy is threaten

...sexual difference; but the true surprise resides in the fact that, at the level of the imaginary referent, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE (we do not get some graph ...that this One was not defined exclusively by his "real" qualities (at this level, there may well have been more individuals like him, or it may even have be

...war in Chechnya is that you know in Azerbaijan the oil reserves are at the level of the combined Arab reserves. This is what is actually behind this war. I' This is where, I think, at a different level maybe — I hope not too different — you share the same concern when we s

...chment, leaves untouched the fundamental level of ideological fantasy, the level on which ideology [[structures]] the social reality itself.

...ctural]] — [[concept]] of fetishism already at [[work]] in Marx: at this level, "fetishism" designates the short-circuit between the [[formal]]/differenti ...omething that, precisely, cannot be done through the Other? Already at the level of elementary [[psychological]] observation, one can answer to this by reca

...roach would be: who needs this? But a totally ridiculous thing at a deeper level might play a stabilizing function we are not aware of. Everybody laughs at ...e inconsistent fragments. The unity is no longer established at the visual level. I want to connect this with Altman's 'Short Cuts,' with its series of fait

...dreaming, I would surely retreat from it in panic. At an even more complex level (in the case of indulging in sadistic fantasies, for example), the very soo

...go back. There is a crucial thing that is going around now on [[another]] level in Eastern Europe. In [[Russia]] they are also approaching it; it is alread SZ: Yes, but at another, far more dangerous level. The problem with Eastern Europe is that people there expected something el

...ause]] of [[desire]] to the [[split]] subject, is represented in the lower level of the scheme. The sadist as [[aggressive]] Will-to-Enjoyment is but a [[se

SZ: Yes, and even at the level of the organization of production we are returning to this Spinozist form o

...is field of the democratic [[game]] just expresses and/or distorts another level of pre-political socio-economic processes at which `things really happen'), ...ntational political game cum global market [[economy]]). Emblematic to the level of caricature here was the figure of Dan Rather, the American news reporter

"The refusal of closure is always, at some level, a refusal to face mortality. Our [[fixation]] on electronic [[games]] and ...cation]]: we immerse ourselves at the level of "meaningless," "mechanical" level of what, in Foucauldian terms, one is tempted to call "revolutionary discip

...hole]] point of psychoanalytic cure is that it operates exclusively at the level of "knowledge" (words), yet has effects in the Real of bodily symptoms. ...archal space, appears as woman's "[[natural]]" vocation. At a more general level, one can assert that "[[progress]]" does not consist only in reducing the a

...ysteria]]. The obsessional [[neurotic]] lies in the guise of truth. At the level of factual accuracy, his statements are as a rule [[true]], yet he uses fac ...it somehow "depossesses" the subject, reducing her or him to a puppet-like level "beyond dignity and [[freedom]]."

...Truth, we should be careful not to confuse the level of Knowledge with the level of Truth. In [[Marx]] himself, although he mainly used "[[proletariat]]" as ...ion upon his arrival there). Today, any positing of the Truth-Event at the level of the supernatural or the miraculous necessarily entails a [[regression]]

...o historians, this book is an extraordinary [[achievement]] already at the level of [[narrative]] presentation: historical documents (the minutes of the CC <p>[…] subjective autonomy from which one's guilt can be discussed at the level of facts, i.e. in the position which openly proclaims the gap between [[rea

...t it in [[Hegelian]] [[terms]], really existing capitalism is reaching the level of its [[notion]]: perhaps, one should follow again [[Marx]]'s old, antievo

...eal, while bypassing the party [[nomenklatura]], was [[understood]] at the level of revolutionary micropolitics: local committees were set up throughout [[R ...the newly emerging [[global]] [[empire]], they will be reduced to the same level as, say, [[Austria]], Belgium or even Luxembourg. The hostility to American

...storicism]] of the Second International. And only Lenin was the one at the level of this opening, the one to articulate the truth of this catastrophe. Throu ...o put it in [[Hegelian]] terms, really existing capitalism is reaching the level of its notion. Perhaps, one should again follow Marx's old antievolutionist

...brighter prospect to them with [[regard]] to daily survival and much lower level of [[fear]]. We are not talking here of "bringing [[Western democracy]] to ...the newly emerging [[global]] [[Empire]], they will be reduced at the same level as, say, [[Austria]], Belgium or even Luxembourg. The [[refusal]] of "Ameri

...[[language]] of the subject? If we find an attachment to subjection at the level of the unconscious, what kind of resistance is to be wrought from that?<ref Only at this level, assuming that we take into account the Lacanian notions of point de capito

...disturb the smooth functioning of large bureaucratic corporations). At the level of [[fantasy]], Gates is a small-time, subversive hooligan who has taken ov

...the phenomenal domain in order to be able to assert that, at the noumenal level, we are free autonomous agents: we are only free insofar as our horizon is ...the phenomenal level? In this case, we ARE “really free" at the noumenal level, but our freedom would be meaningless in we were also to have the cognitive

...r after influence in human history. They might have sunk even down to the level of modern well-educated [[society]]. '''For when once people have begun to

...nds itself; the consciousness of the infinite judgment that remains at the level of picture-thinking behaves as urination.[[A Glance into the Archives of Is

From this specific insight, one should make the move to the general level and render problematic the very depoliticized humanitarian [[politics]] of And, at an even more general level, one should problematize the very opposition between the universal (pre-pol

.../i> (AND [[others]]) is experienced as insufficient: in order to be at the level of such phenomena, something much stronger is needed, something akin to the

...lody, i.e. [[absence]] itself. How are we to play these notes when, at the level of what is effectively to be played, they exactly [[repeat]] the previous n ...iatic [[ritual]] went overboard and soldiers or students got hurt beyond a level considered tolerable, [[forced]] to assume a humiliating pose, to perform d

...it precisely the trace of any authentic Christian experience, and, at the level of its cinematic [[texture]], rejoins its official opponents. That is to sa ...]'s cult followers who obediently took poison in their Guyana camp. At the level of [[economic]] [[life]], the same [[thing]] is going on today in Kansas. T

...nd Law" not found in [[Spinoza]], in his notion of the [[third]], highest, level of [[knowing]]? Is the very [[idea]] of modern "[[total]]" political [[rev ...[[global economy]] while, simultaneously, maintaining its identity at the level of Milner's Four-Fold, i.e., through its founding [[cultural]] [[myths]] an

...which will be repeated in Bayreuth till 2006, is strong precisely at this level of intense intimate interplay; his staging is [[full]] of insightful [[idea ...ner's musical dramas - manner of singing, gestures, smells - it is at this level of what [[Deleuze]] would have called pre-[[subjective]] affects that [[ant

...doctor as his Master and asking for reassurance from him. At a more common level, suffice it to [[recall]] the [[market]] expert who advocates strong budget In the University discourse, is not the upper level ($ — <i>a</i>) that of [[biopolitics]] (in the [[sense]] deployed from [[

...s is not [[about]] life, but about something MORE than life. It is at this level that Levinas locates the gap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity] ...achievement]] or in spiritual awakening, one should move to a more radical level: psychoanalysis is today the only [[discourse]] in which you are allowed N

...ultimate strength of the film is nonetheless to be located at a different level. The unique of the film resides not so much in its central thesis (what we ...f state power by the Communists, the crucial break occurred at a different level - in those magic moments when, although normally Communists were still in p

...er have wanted to be cut off from food and water. The case reached the top level of the US government and judicial bodies, with the Supreme Court and Presid

...effectively no longer in a [[position]] to exercise it. At a more general level, one could say that such a "mediatization" of the monarch defines the const

...ion and then finally opted to pursue her, or is it that, at a more refined level, he detected in her hesitation that she is [[about]] to tell him a lie, and ...hesis]] is that this unique dimension is not to be sought primarily at the level of the narrative [[content]] - its original locus is elsewhere - where? Let

...only say, 'I am what I do.' Then came the repercussion on the imaginative level. I felt as if I were a man of snow at long last beginning to melt. The melt ...]] that Job must be somehow [[guilty]]: what is at stake at a more radical level is the [[meaning]](lessness) of Job's suffering. Like [[Oedipus at Colonus]

...sein]] was involved with September the 11th." Finally, there was the third level of justification, that even if there was no proof of a link with al Qaeda,

...u of the 1990s. Can one imagine a utopian point at which this subterranean level of the utopian Other Space would unite with the positive space of "normal" ...society is a [[complex]] network of "sub-systems," which is why a certain level of "alienation" is constitutive of social life, so that a totally self-tran

...enough rainfall, military victory, etc.) The next, already more intricate level is to conceive sacrifice as a gesture which does not directly aim at some p ...heir <i>jouissance</i> in the eyes of the Other. And does, at a different level, the same not hold for the so-called "woman's sacrifice," for the woman ado

..., a vehicle of ideological [[displacement]]. A step further from this zero-level of violence is found in [[Paul]] Schrader's and Martin Scorcese's <i>Taxi [ ...ent of the murder of Wade, he brought corruption to a more "[[civilized]]" level, replacing the outright brutal corruption of his "larger-than-life" predece

...parties were, by definition, not able to find a common denominator at the level of royalism (one cannot be a royalist in general, since one should support ...of the wolves, and that only religion can elevate us to a higher spiritual level. Today, when religion is emerging as the main source of murderous violence

...rather harder for a collection of [[Nazi]] songs. Even at this anecdotal level, the difference between the [[Nazi]] and [[Stalinist]] universes is clear,

At the most elementary level, this will affect our [[sexual]] identity. The ability of [[parents]] to ch ...ess; or it might [[cause]] the obstacle to return at some more fundamental level (in a [[paranoiac]] attitude, perhaps, so that I experience myself as expos

...pitalist]] economy? The question should therefore be put at a more general level than Garton Ash would like: how do we stand with regard to global capitalis ...of the situation.' The singularity of [[human]] [[suffering]] may reach a level at which the easy reference to totality turns into [[cynicism]]. The only a

...tive in explaining how Late Socialism operated at the domestic, day-to-day level. What was important was not that the [[people]] deep down believed in the r

...vorstellungen'' and ''Wortvorstellungen'' are opposed, on the [[symbolic]] level they go together. ''Die Sache'' is the [[representation]] of a [[thing]] i

...o that one loves in love, one's own ego made [[real]] on [[the imaginary]] level."<ref>{{S1}} p. 142</ref> The [[imaginary]] [[nature]] of [[love]] leads [

...actual experience. The [[agent]] of the frustration is the mother, at the level of the symbolic. ...thus to symbolic castration. It is only at [[The Imaginary|the imaginary]] level that he appears not to be castrated in his possession of a penis. The only

...vidual]]. For Breton, as a reader of Freud, it was at the [[preconscious]] level that language and the traces of acoustic and [[visual]] perceptions were un

The [[Other]] is believed to [[experience]] a level of [[enjoyment]] beyond our own experience. The important point here is tha

====Institutional Level==== ====Theoretical Level====

...] [[philosophy]] of his day because he believed it could never surpass the level of hypothetical imperatives. For example, a [[consequentialism|consequenti

...[Jürgen Habermas]] raised the [[epistemological]] [[discussion]] to a new level in his "Knowledge and Human Interests" ([[1968]]), by [[identifying]] criti

...lity]]. Today, something structurally similar is going on at the political level. We have a weird pact between [[postmodern]] global [[capitalism]] and prem

A high level of [[paranoia]] is present throughout the film with the [[visual]] manifest

...istory]] of humankind?” (OSD: 104). Žižek views Tristan as the “zero-level [[work]], as the per- fect, ultimate, formulation of a certain philosophico

...the phenomenal domain in order to be able to assert that, at the noumenal level, we are free autonomous agents: we are only free insofar as our horizon is ...the phenomenal level? In this case, we ARE “really free" at the noumenal level, but our freedom would be meaningless in we were also to have the cognitive

...hat he is (perceived as) the ex-hacker who made it. At the [[fantasmatic]] level, the underlying [[notion]] here is that Gates is a subversive marginal hool

...ity]]. Today, something structurally similar is going on at the political level. We have a weird pact between [[postmodern]] global [[capitalism]] and pre

That said, however, was John [[Paul]] really up to the level of this task? Consider that the [[Catholic Church]] has its own “white m

...ull]] deployment). But the ultimate strength of the film is on a different level. The unique impact of the film resides not so much in its central [[thesis] ...state]] power by the Communists, the crucial break occurred at a different level—in those [[magic]] moments when, although formally Communists were still

...of perplexed fury! And a similar [[thing]] is going on at the [[economic]] level: While pressuring [[Poland]] to open its agriculture to [[market]] competit ...Is not something structurally similar going on today at the [[political]] level, the weird pact between the [[postmodern]] global capitalism and the premod

The question should therefore be put at a more general level: Where do we stand regarding [[global capitalism]]? Are these troubling sp

...02 <i>[[Time]]</i> magazine interview, George Lucas explained the personal level through a type of pop-[[Buddhism]]: "He turns into Darth Vader because he g ...Western [[technology]] and [[capitalism]] are triumphing worldwide, at the level of "ideological superstructure," the [[Judeo-Christian]] legacy is threaten

...]'s cult followers who obediently took poison in their Guyana camp. At the level of [[economic]] [[life]], the same [[thing]] is going on today in Kansas -

...ego. Is not something structurally similar going on today at the political level: the weird pact between the postmodern global capitalism and the premodern

...th, the idea that these are two narrative events, this is at the narrative level of what Hegel would have called <i>vorstellungen</i>, representations.&nbsp ...ly different if you read it closely:&nbsp; already at the most superficial level, after Christ's death what you get is Holy Spirit, which is something total

...with, say, a DNA profile of Christ. [Chuckles] But at the more fundamental level, intelligent theologians like [[Kierkegaard]] knew that belief should not b ...aying "You didn't tell me to pass the salt." There's a certain paradoxical level of [[thought]], you cannot but call it sincere lying. If I ask you, "how ar

...doctor as his Master and asking for reassurance from him. At a more common level, suffice it to [[recall]] the [[market]] expert who advocates strong budget In the University discourse, is not the upper level ($ — <i>a</i>) that of [[biopolitics]] (in the [[sense]] deployed from [[

...really is such a substantial [[change]]. Certainly, there is change at the level of [[perception]] or publicity, but I don't [[think]] we can yet [[speak]] ...praises this eye-to-eye combat experience as the authentic one. Or at the level of sex, the archetypal [[film]] of the twentieth century would be Nagisa Os

...we just displace the shield of the protective appearance onto a different level? In today's [[times]], obsessed with "unmasking the false appearances" (fro ...atire is suspended and we are confronted with the "serious" [[message]] or level. So the question is: WHICH is this point? In Chaplin's <i>The Great Dictato

...s not composed of atoms like normal human beings - beneath a certain micro-level, there is nothing, just void. Finally, Kelvin grasps that Harey is a materi ...you even think of them. In <i>Stalker</i>, you never arrive at, reach, the level of pure, innocent wish/belief, while in <i>Solaris</i>, your dreams/fantasi

...disturb the smooth functioning of large bureaucratic corporations). At the level of [[fantasy]], Gates is a small-time, subversive hooligan who has taken ov

...sexual difference; but the true surprise resides in the fact that, at the level of the imaginary referent, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE (we do not get some graph ...that this One was not defined exclusively by his "real" qualities (at this level, there may well have been more individuals like him, or it may even have be

...Truth, we should be careful not to confuse the level of Knowledge with the level of Truth. In [[Marx]] himself, although he mainly used "[[proletariat]]" as ...ion upon his arrival there). Today, any positing of the Truth-Event at the level of the supernatural or the miraculous necessarily entails a [[regression]]

One can see, now, why, at the level of [[individual]] [[libidinal]] [[economy]], Lacan calls this prohibiting G ...ng]] the symbolic order, the order of symbolic fictions which operate at a level different from direct [[material]] [[causality]]. (In this sense, the only

...teria]]. The obsessional [[neurotic]] "lies in the guise of truth." At the level of factual accuracy, his statements are as a rule [[true]], yet he uses fac ...it somehow "depossesses" the subject, reducing her or him to a puppet-like level "beyond dignity and [[freedom]]."

...uld be: who [[needs]] this? But a totally ridiculous [[thing]] at a deeper level might play a stabilizing function we are not aware of. Everybody laughs at ...enjoying voice always gets controlled. What interests me at the political level is how the [[discourse]] machinery, in order to function, has to rely on th

...go back. There is a crucial thing that is going around now on [[another]] level in Eastern Europe. In [[Russia]] they are also approaching it; it is alread SZ: Yes, but at another, far more dangerous level. The problem with Eastern Europe is that people there expected something el

...istent fragments. The [[unity]] is no longer established at the [[visual]] level. interests me at the political level is how the [[discourse]] machinery, in order to

...n to the existing establishment, any art which today wants to be up to the level of its assignment must be a state art in the service of a still-non-existen

SZ: Yes, and even at the level of the organization of production we are returning to this Spinozist form o

...ause]] of [[desire]] to the [[split]] subject, is represented in the lower level of the scheme. The sadist as [[aggressive]] Will-to-Enjoyment is but a [[se

...[[language]] of the subject? If we find an attachment to subjection at the level of the unconscious, what kind of resistance is to be wrought from that? (88 Only at this level, assuming that we take into account the Lacanian notions of point de capito

...t it in [[Hegelian]] [[terms]], really existing capitalism is reaching the level of its [[notion]]: perhaps, one should follow again [[Marx]]'s old, antievo

...[[death]], an undead life, which is even true at the most banal, everyday level.

...[[individual]] intrapsychic level and the more or less specific collective level that makes the performance of [[forbidden]] actions possible within certain ...psychoanalytical sense essentially lie on the individual and intrapsychic level. But Freud saw how important this sector of the [[structural]] conflict of

...n a certain proscientific militancy, while Winnicott situates himself at a level that is both more metaphysical and more affective.

...h of the essence of all pedagogy. That those forms remained at a practical level, without being the object of ''[[reflection]]'', is the defining characteri

...y Department at the Central Ljubljana Hospital. So I would say, mid, upper level positions, yes." His mother survived her husband and died last year of canc

...of compromise or triangulation, but the big failure is at this ideological level. He didn't leave behind a platform with which the moderate [[liberals]] cou ...lar situation. What Lenin did, we should do today, at an even more radical level.</p>

For you, of course, ideological coercion occurs at the libidinal level, at the constitutive level of a subject who "is" a disjunction between

...he is" for the Other) precisely through a certain arresting fantasy at the level of the imaginary. In this way, the fantasy-imaginary dimension is drawn int Yet it is not simply at the level of cinema and cyberspace that the imaginary Real is experienced. The traged

...substantive level — of the content of his claims — and at a stylistic level, so that the manner in which he writes mirrors what he writes about. This i

...things as they are. Any evidence or confirmation would remain only at the level of the Imaginary, always in the form of horoscopes, predictions, self-fulfi ...instinctive conception of identification, we see it as taking place on the level of the Imaginary, in which we identify with the image of the Other. It is a

...ng year. This book is a withering attack upon the contemporary tendency to level the charge of 'totalitarianism' against any attempt to propose a political

...rm Zizek wants to see himself as an "engaged" [[intellectual]], but on the level of content he is struck by a kind of [[paralysis]], unable to [[suggest]] a

...of wolves; only religion, it is said, can elevate us to a higher spiritual level. Today, when religion is emerging as the wellspring of murderous [[violence

.../a><i>,</i> p. 201). As MacDonald puts it, <i>"Viewed at its most abstract level, a fundamental agenda is thus to influence the European-derived peoples of ...a Hollywood movie: "It's so real, it must be fiction!" At the most radical level, one can render the Real of subjective experience only in the guise of a fi

...-you know, let's do the DNA profile of Christ. But at the more fundamental level, intelligent theologians like [[Kierkegaard]] knew that belief should not b ...ying, "You didn't tell me to pass the salt." There's a certain paradoxical level of [[thought]], you cannot but call it sincere lying. If I ask you, "how ar

...he context of the series, and which I refer to at all only for the general level of its argument. ...uch an aim only masks the difficulty that, in trying to maintain it at the level at which I ought to present my teaching here, I might push it too far from

...through the forest of the fantasy, which Sade in his work develops on the level of a system.

...eology, how could one end up [[thinking]] that one could move, on the same level, from a [[recent]] to a much more ancient layer? It wouldn't be a bad [[thi

...alizing his wish to come to the session. Things must not be taken at the level at which the subject puts them-in as much as what we are dealing with is pr The central bad encounter is at the level of the [[sexual]]. This does not mean that the stages assume a sexual tain

...eology, how could one end up [[thinking]] that one could move, on the same level, from a [[recent]] to a much more ancient layer? It wouldn't be a bad [[thi ...e]], Freud places the different layers which can be distinguished from the level of perception, namely from the instantaneous impression - <i>Mnem', </i>Mne

...dism]], the phenomenon of aggressivity isn't to be explained simply on the level of [[imaginary identification]]. What Freud's primary masochism teaches us ...hich we get attuned to the world. If the nameless desire can appear at the level of the desire to sleep, which you mentioned the other day, Valabrega, that'

</p></dd><dd>At a certain level of its usage "knave" may be translated into French as <i>valet, </i>but "kn ...about such a pretension. It is a pretension that so easily lands us at the level of a certain knavery. And isn't there also a certain "knavery," a metaphysi

...isappointment, when one is faced with the [[need]] to approach things at a level, that, it seems, is not that of our [[technique]] on the basis of which a g ...hebung]], </i>i.e., the conservation of something destroyed at a different level - the only commandment is henceforth "Thou shalt [[love]] thy [[neighbor]]

...,' showing how the chain of signifiers is indeed a chain. 41 This is the level of the law, at which [[science]] aims, with its preponderant interest for t ...t, where the law and regularity of the chain are failing. This is also the level of pure causality, where law and predictability fail. 'In short, there is c

...mbolic universe]]. Only after a [[thing]] has been [[symbolize]]d (at the level of ''[[Bejahung]]'') can the [[value]] of [[existence]] be attributed to it

...describe those whose mode of [[communication]] is situated at a preverbal level. In the [[work]] of Jacques [[Lacan]] the term <i>infans</i> took on a furt

...to a [[situation]] of more or less pronounced [[denial]], depending on the level of [[structuration]] of the [[internal]] object and the duration of separat ...itative deprivation, especially their development on the [[psychosomatic]] level. [[Other]] authors have ascribed important narcissistic pathologies ([[feel

...he [[natural]] phenomenon of the instinct in entropy to be taken up at the level of the person, so that it may take on the [[value]] of an oriented instinct

...[recognition]] and dissemination of [[psychoanalysis]] on an international level. Freud delivered these five lectures in [[German]], without [[notes]], and

...[[analysis]] the [[subject]] should reach and [[know]] the [[domain]] and level of the [[experience]] of absolute disarray."<ref>{{S7}} p. 304</ref> The [[

...]] ([[signifier]] produces [[signified]]), [[interpretation]] works at the level of ''s'' to generate S: [[interpretation]] causes "irreducible signifiers"

...two aspects of the problem: training issues and theoretical issues. On the level of training institutes and their policies for the selection of candidates, On the level of theoretical justifications, two conceptions of psychoanalysis were oppos

The idea of libidinal stages (the terms phase and level of organization are more widely used today) has on occasion encouraged simp

...creation of this concept to describe the consequences, on the narcissistic level, of a [[trauma]] to the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]] arising from [[internal]]

On the level of [[fantasy]], an expression of mastery is found in [[fantasmatic]] scenar

...nd of [[culture]] (Kristeva, 1996). In Freud's view, on the [[individual]] level we are all, unbeknownst to ourselves, repositories of this myth of origins,

A [[concept]] developed by [[Freud]] to denote the level of [[reality]] specific to [[unconscious]] [[processes]], [[psychic]] reali

...ole]]. It must also be seen as fundamental, registering its influence at a level deeper than what is [[apparent]] in the individual's [[personality]], [[cha

...ct, the time of having. Beneath these abstractions, at a more [[concrete]] level, we find [[analyses]] of symbolic assimilation (Melanie [[Klein]]), symboli

...s [[stages]] of his [[model]] could not be reduced to the [[psychosexual]] level. The ego was not propelled by [[drives]] alone but must confront the challe

At a certain level of its usage 'knave' may be translated into [[French]] as ''valet'', but 'k

...is hair upon the altar, freed him from his vow and reduced him to the same level of sanctity as ordinary men.

...e level of stimulation an infant requires, we are well aware that a normal level of stimulation is very important, and that a lack of stimulation and affect ...icate preference, and the head-turn preference procedure, in which infants level of interest is measured by the amount of time spent looking in a particular

...al]], emotional, or motivational forces especially at the [[subconscious]] level. Roughly [[speaking]], "[[psycho]]-dynamics" is a blend of [[psychology]] ...ied in the mind or find their way to the surface, i.e. the “conscious” level. This, in the former [[case]], results in [[psychological]] states as [[ne

while, refers only to the [[synchronic]] level- at what time is the subject affected level-more radical than anything hitEerto designated thereby in [[Freud]]'s dis-

...l life-substance. The structure is here that of a double sacrifice: at one level, Aels stands for the untamed wilderness of the life energy that has to be s At another level, of course, the sacrifice is that of Octavia who accomplishes the supreme a

...n of what will become existential psychoanalysis, while on a [[practical]] level it is more successful. "Empirical psychoanalysis, to the extent that its me ...]].? Sartre believed that [[The Gaze|the gaze]] is not located just at the level of the eyes. The eyes may well not appear; they may be masked. The gaze is

...n the [[three]] countries where he practiced, but also on an international level (IPA). Jacques [[Lacan]] underwent an analysis with him—terminated too so

...the war, was "assigned to the war effort." Eventually it was raised to the level of a government institute within the Reich's research council (Reichsinstit

...[[life]] are refined, one's [[psychic]] life and its contents, even at the level of unconscious, is reconfigured.

...ting]], but only recently has the [[idea]] of communism been raised to the level of an authentic [[project]] in his [[political]] [[philosophy]]. Deemed a d

...a crucial cut here between Lenin and Stalin: while Lenin remained at this level, claiming the access to the "objective meaning" of the events, Stalin made ...concerned with the symmetry of my relations to other [[humans]]; its zero-level rule is "do not do to me what you do not [[want]] me to do to you" <ref>Whi

...erstanding]] of [[sexual]] [[difference]] as constituted at an unconscious level. Finally, in the area of social [[theory]] and international relations [[fi

...choanalysis [[exists]] also, and perhaps above all, at the [[theoretical]] level. Time does not have the same status in the two disciplines. The psychoanaly

...p decline in the 1980s, its efforts on both a theoretical and [[clinical]] level were often held to be of no account. However, one positive outcome of [[ana

...acanian point of view, the space of the political is primarily the “zero-level of politics, a pre-political ‘transcendental’ condition of the possibil ...ble to generate [[change]], or explosions of [[psychotic]] violence at the level of everyday [[reality]] (''PV'': 303). More generally, and also in relation

...one told the chicken?” Žižek writes: “This story, nonsensical at the level of factual reality, where you are either a grain or not, is absolutely sens

...ee’s own [[subjective]] experience, nor to transmission on the epistemic level. And the factual proofs of sufficient training not being regularly collecte

...ce for them," without really inventing something new at the socio-economic level. Money makes him possible to [[practice]] inconsistent politics (populist a ...rizon of demands? The [[revolutionary subject]] no longer operates at the level of demanding something from those in [[power]] - he wants to destroy them..

...igrants'" (CC, p. 201). As MacDonald puts it, "Viewed at its most abstract level, a fundamental agenda is thus to influence the European-derived peoples of ...a Hollywood movie: "It's so real, it must be fiction!" At the most radical level, one can render the Real of [[subjective]] experience only in the guise of

...a [[real]] source of the [[act]] itself. She [[understood]], at a certain level, that ''she was herself the [[object]] of [[punishment]]''.

...recognized by everyone else and determine my socio-economic position. The level at which this takes place is not

...al, [[aggressive]] function of [[the imaginary]] child. On the [[oedipal]] level, for the girl, the child is a product of [[incest]], obtained from the [[fa

...f [[Dreams]] (1900) through his essays on [[metapsychology]] [1915]). This level demonstrates the capacity of the psychic [[apparatus]], by means of its rep ...h motricity and [[affect]], among the forms pertaining to the most primary level of symbolization (forms conveying motion, [[primal]] protofantasies), the v

...zo). However, although paraphrenia did not gain currency, on a nosological level Freud's reasoning, as developed particularly in the [[Schreber]] case, was

...se: the horde, the matriarchy, and the totemic clan. He specified that the level of elaboration allowed to groups excluded the [[thinking]] of [[sexual]] [[ ...[[external]] [[reality]] on groups, the influence of "great men" on their level of [[development]], and finally, an [[economic]] assessment of bonds and th

...is [[infantile]] in the way it manifests and functions on the unconscious level. It [[lacks]] organization and is demanding, insistent, and impulsive. The

" 'higher' level. There is no [[metalanguage]]: !

...[[present]] essay this issue receives a still further refinement on a new level of complexity, insofar as the role that the phallus plays in a [[dialectica ...uld be symbolic castration; perhaps, too, it is an [[anticipation]] on the level of the organism of the "bar between the signifier and signified" in the reg

...year as the preceding one (1958) and therefore represents a corresponding level of [[development]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[thought]]. In fact it complements the f ground chains of signifiers that operate on the level of conscious

...is how all freedoms and I don't mean freedoms on this abstract ideological level, but very [[practical]], everyday freedoms--imply a functioning state appar ...is the mystery: this secrecy was totally nonfunctional. At this ridiculous level, you can see how public space functioned.

...esiring]] a strawberry cake is my own individual concern. Fantasy, at this level, is very specifically mine. At the same [[time]], however, the desire that

On the international level, many Lacanians exist within a flexible organization, Convergence. And the

...dead," is situated at the lower level, that of the statement. At the upper level, that of the enunciation, Lacan placed the sentence, "He did not know it."

On a [[practical]] level she created institutions for young children, the first in [[Vienna]] in 192

...vidual]]. For Breton, as a reader of Freud, it was at the [[preconscious]] level that language and the traces of acoustic and [[visual]] perceptions were un

...hniques of [[infantile]] sexual investigation. Freud raised science to the level of a perfect [[model]] of the [[renunciation]] of the [[pleasure]] [[princi

...," is situated at the lower level, that of the [[statement]]. At the upper level, that of the [[enunciation]], Lacan placed the sentence, "He did not [[know

...two aspects of the problem: training issues and theoretical issues. On the level of training institutes and their policies for the selection of candidates, On the level of theoretical justifications, two conceptions of psychoanalysis were oppos

...th its function in the dream-work. But this is not limited to the semantic level: Figures of speech can be subjected to such a mechanism, the most obvious c

...cide"(1915c, p. 127). It nevertheless remains useful, on a [[theoretical]] level, to distinguish these modalities which is what André Green does, notably,

...put the analyst's [[superego]] to the [[test]], but at a more fundamental level they challenge their relational skills and capacity for [[symbolization]] a

At the [[theoretical]] level, Freud refined the [[concept]] of sublimation by distinguishing it from the

...]] between the Ucs. and the Pcs. Negation is a [[substitute]], at a higher level, for repression" (Freud, 1915e, pp.186-187).

The main observable consequence on the level of the [[counter-transference]] is insight into a cold, hard, unfeeling ker ...old" anxiety, which is linked with losses suffered on the [[narcissistic]] level (negative hallucination, flat [[psychosis]], dull mourning), resulting in t

...alent, at the collective level, to the [[infantile]] at the [[individual]] level. This aspect of Freud's work provides the outlines for fruitful interaction

...ole]]. It must also be seen as fundamental, registering its influence at a level deeper than what is [[apparent]] in the individual's [[personality]], [[cha ...is caused by [[lack]] of structure, unless structure is considered at the level of [[organic]] function, which is no longer exactly a [[mental]] phenomenon

...nd of [[culture]] (Kristeva, 1996). In Freud's view, on the [[individual]] level we are all, unbeknownst to ourselves, repositories of this myth of origins,

...ed on both a historical level (humanity's prehistory) and a [[biological]] level (the transmission of traces). With his [[notion]] of "primal [[fantasies]], ...al [[thought]], and they are governed by emotional logic (Isaacs). At this level, there is no differentiation between mind and [[body]], since overall primi

...ions of the Latin excitare: "to awaken, wake up, push, or stimulate at the level of the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]]." ...[[idea]] of a [[return]] of excitation to its earliest source, the somatic level, in the [[absence]] of successful mentalization. In the view of Pierre Mart

It may be worth adding that an optimum level of tension normally gives life its [[sense]] of vividness and alertness. Re

...ion, or charge. Pleasure and unpleasure probably depend less upon an exact level of tension than upon the rhythm of variation in tension. The principle of p

...tity of [[excitation]] contained in the [[apparatus]] at a low or constant level. This is accomplished through a [[discharge]] of the [[energy]] [[present]] ...]] of the "ego" where energy is bound, [[meaning]] maintained at a certain level in the "psi system."

...as if two stories are crossing paths. As with slips of the tongue, another level of textuality reveals itself. I have found them to offer a valuable and pro ...ptible to such a pragmatic move and Jung cautioned against it. On a deeper level, Lacan invokes Zen as an authoritative voice to support his own conclusions

...en ''langue'' and ''parole'' takes the [[form]] of a [[dialectic]]: at the level of ''parole'' individuals are creative agents whose linguistic innovations

...n, Freud is instead Champollion! The [[Freudian]] experience is not at the level of the organization of [[instincts]] and vital forces. The Freudian experie ...his would be imprecise, a faltering tone, sensed at a level lower than the level of language. And oneself, when one feels ridden by obscure forces that we

[[Anal]] [[Character]]:: One fixed at the anal level of [[psychosexual]] [[development]], when the [[libido]] charges the anus w

...sness]] appear to be relations between <i>detached</i> things are, at the level of the poetics of the [[unconscious]], projected as relations of <i>belongi

</p></dd><dd>At a certain level of its usage "knave" may be translated into French as <i>valet, </i>but "kn ...about such a pretension. It is a pretension that so easily lands us at the level of a certain knavery. And isn't there also a certain "knavery," a metaphysi

...dism]], the phenomenon of aggressivity isn't to be explained simply on the level of [[imaginary identification]]. What Freud's primary masochism teaches us ...hich we get attuned to the world. If the nameless desire can appear at the level of the desire to sleep, which you mentioned the other day, Valabrega, that'

and which I refer to at all only for the general level of its argument.<br> aim only masks the difficulty that, in trying to maintain it at the level at<br>

...alizing his wish to come to the session. Things must not be taken at the level at which the subject puts them-in as much as what we are dealing with is pr The central bad encounter is at the level of the sexual. This does not mean that the stages assume a sexual taint th

...n answer to it is to locate [[freedom]] (of choice) at the [[unconscious]] level: the true [[acts]] of freedom are choices/decisions which we make while una ...another material support (is this not going on all the time at a different level: is the "stuff" our cells are made of not continuously changing?). The [[id

In this way, the [[fragmented body]] is "revealed at the [[organic]] level, in the lines of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as

...> is the [[frame]] of [[The Subject|the subject]], this frame falls at the level of the most fundamental act of [[life]], [[The Act|the act]] in which [[The ...on to the subject of what is called the opposite sex." At [[the symbolic]] level, "[[there is no sexual rapport]]": there is merely (a + 1) and (a - 1), whe

...[[Ideal|IDEAL]] feeding stuff for the academic [[machine]]. Can the upper level of Lacan's [[formula]] of the university discourse - S2 directed toward a - ...ocial link) is that of perversion. That is to say, the fact that the upper level of Lacan's formula of the analyst's discourse is the same as his formula of

...confronted more and more often with philosophical problems at an everyday level. It is not that you withdraw from daily life into a world of philosophical

===Upper Level=== ===Lower Level===

...ority]], such as happens on a micro level with petty crime, and on a macro level with mass demonstrations or revolutions. On a day-to-day basis, though, the

...conceivable insofar as one finds a [[guide]] beyond the imaginary, on the level of [[the symbolic]] plane."<ref>{{S1}} p.141</ref></blockquote>

...then refer the reader to more complex terms, which are pitched at a higher level and which the beginner should not hope to grasp immediately. This will I ho

What predominates at the level of association is diversity. The School One is the [[name]] for what these

...r circular argument in the sense that it presupposed that the infant had a level of individual awareness in the first place in order for it then to become a ...where each idea generates its opposite and the unity of two produces a new level of understanding or analysis. For example, the idea of the individual subje

...of [[meaning]], and [[working]], unlike a [[figure]], at a [[conceptual]] level.

...after these two there is nobody, perhaps a [[child]], but that is another level and to generate three is another affair. When you try to read the theories

...etaphor]] but rather a case of analogy—a direct [[exchange]] between one level and [[another]], as if with pain the body mutates into [[psyche]] and the p

...] [[analysis]] the [[subect]] should reach and [[know]] the [[domain]] and level of the [[experience]] of absolute disarray."<ref>{{S7}} p.304</ref></blockq

...tion of this concept to describe the consequences, on the [[narcissistic]] level, of a [[trauma]] to the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]] arising from [[internal]]

...zaton of dicourse," which the [[analyst]] introduces at the [[structural]] level. This leaves untouched [[hysteria]] as attributed to woman - the only [[dis

...aces referring to the external situation. Interpretation on the subjective level detaches the underlying [[memories]] from their external sources and presen

...ipal]] situation is the starting-point of a [[regression]] to the [[anal]] level of [[fixation]] which will determine the compulsiveness and mental retentiv

...ucer," the [[idea]] of which (or of whom) gives rise to an increase in the level of excitation, and hence of unpleasure (p. 320). The organization of the ap

...alent' appears to belong to it even outside its relation to A, on the same level as its other 'natural' effective properties constituting its use value. To

...chment, leaves untouched the fundamental level of ideological fantasy, the level on which ideology [[structures]] the social reality itself.

...the lack in the Symbolic. Hence the fact that this fundamental lack on the level of the organism is [[reinterpreted]] as a phallic lack in the relation betw

...[regime]] that is "Western culture" ; it is "Oedipus" at this encompassing level that Deleuze and Guattari oppose in their fervor to be "anti-Oedipal."

...nformed to or criticized dominant ideology on a [[formal]] and/or thematic level, an enterprise displayed by the much-cited Cahiers article on Young Mr. Lin

...erful [[instinctual]] [[drives]] expressed in literature at the [[latent]] level. For example, Lesser repudiates Elder Olson’s interpretation of W. B. Yea

...between syntax and semantics. In later models, a semantic component at the level of a [[theoretical]] (or underlying) syntactic "deep structure" constrains ...inguistics and literary criticism—in linguistics, in studies of sentence-level semantics and discourse structure; in literary studies, in accounts of fict

...k his life in a fight for pure prestige, the Slave does not rise above the level of animals. Hence he considers himself as such, and as such is he considere

...a [[real]] source of the [[act]] itself. She [[understood]], at a certain level, that ''she was herself the [[object]] of [[punishment]]''.

...nderlying level and separated from the [[conscious]] one. On the conscious level, the sexualizing [[activity]] of the psyche is not systematically [[apparen

...was on the fact that peripheral points on the [[body]] are grouped at the level of the nerves that [[represent]] the medullary centers of the cortex, Freud This amounted also to placing paralysis on the level representing both [[fantasy]] and [[action]]. By defining the hysterical pa

...character pathologies with three levels of severity, corresponding to the level of development of the drives, the superego or the ego, or the more or less

...ork of a pioneer who sought to raise [[psychoanalytic]] [[thought]] to the level of the modern social [[sciences]]. Although he did not [[renounce]] his ear

...ic conspiracies). Loewenstein also suggested [[another]], more [[oedipal]] level to anti-Semitism, as reflected in [[Freud]]'s [[Moses]] and [[Monotheism]],

You're An Abominable Erection! You [[Demand]] To Be Raised To The Level Of [[Signifier]], But You [[Need]] To Be Veiled, To Hide What You Haven't G

You're An Abominable Erection! You [[Demand]] To Be Raised To The Level Of [[Signifier]], But You [[Need]] To Be Veiled, To Hide What You Haven't G

...generating as many [[signifiers]] as are required to maintain at as low a level as possible the tension that regulates the [[whole]] functioning of the psy

...nith of modern man, but this form is even tangibly revealed at the organic level, in the lines of 'fragilization' which define the anatomy of [[phantasy]],

...ial]] [[reality]] is not all that there is, that there is also [[another]] level of incorporeal truths. ...thoughtless jumping from [[present]] to ever-new present. At the political level, such capitalist impatience must be countered with the discipline of what c

...bolic]] creation of "negation" [la negation] is situ�ated at [[another]] level of the subject than "assertion."

...concerning which we have nevertheless shown that it cannot reach the first level of [[theoretical]] elaboration; namely, intersubjective alternation, withou

...ly. He called these talks a "teaching [[speech]]," "at the most elementary level." Are such [[terms]] degrading? As far as I am con�cerned, I have found a ...is there. But there is no sexual relation because speech functions on that level that [[analytic discourse]] reveals to be specific to [[speaking]] [[human]

...ace]] of [[psychoanalysis]] in the humanities, its conse�quences "on the level of [[science]], [[philosophy]] and more particularly [[Marxism]], indeed [[

...is there. But there is no sexual rapport because speech functions on that level that [[analytic discourse]] reveals to be specific to speaking human beings

...o Laclau, Žižek’s economism results from his positing “a fundamental level on which capitalism proceeds according to its own [[logic]], undisturbed by ...d as a “hidden meta-[[essence]] which then expresses itself within a two-level-distance in a [[cultural]] struggle” (''LC'': 290). Rather, as he describ

...t one must do as a man or as a [[woman]]; the subject to be located at the level of the [[enunciation]] of all [[discourse]], etc.

...gnifier]] to the [[voice]]) is the [[conscious]] [[signifying chain]], the level of the [[statement]]. ...to [[castration]]) is the [[signifying chain]] in the [[unconscious]], the level of the [[enunciation]].

...generally attribute it to the Other. The Other is believed to experience a level of enjoyment beyond our own experience. The important point here is that th

...was a real source of the [[act]] itself. She [[understood]], at a certain level, that ''she was herself the [[object]] of [[punishment]]''. ...al]] [[mastery]] of their motor functions and, at the [[biology|biological level]], they are hardly [[complete]]. The [[infant]] can't pick things up or mo

...al]] [[mastery]] of their motor functions and, at the [[biology|biological level]], they are hardly [[complete]]. The [[infant]] can't pick things up or mo

This authentic revolutionary logic can be discerned already at the level of rhetorical figures, where Robespierre likes to turn around the standard ...he Muselmann, the "living dead" in the concentration camps. At a different level, the same goes for Stalinist Communism. In the standard Stalinist narrative

...power of protective love, turns into obscene frenzy when displayed at the level of public and state affairs... In short, it is OK for a woman to protest th ...others, then they destroy themselves." One should give Mao his due at this level: he goes to the end in this direction, applying this principle not only to

...mirror]] [[stage]] is based on the rapport between, on one hand, a certain level of tendencies which are experienced as [[disconnected]] and, on the [[other

...the Aristotelian notion of the [[subject]] as [[object]] supplies, at the level of the [[intersubjective]], the means of its radical [[decentering]], viz.

...of a suppléance, a [[substitute]], a stand-in, for what is missing at the level of the symbolic. Lacan use an analogy to explain this [[notion]] of a subst

In my sophomore year, I enrolled in a graduate-level [[seminar]] on democratic theory. ...epartment, where I will conduct research and teach (politics) at a college level.

...jective]], expert administration and coordination of interests as the zero-level of politics, the only way to introduce [[passion]] into this field, to acti ...n this way his parents' life is a little bit easier.) Or, at a less vulgar level, recall a parent in a difficult predicament (dying of cancer, in financial

...herein resides the magic of a Master: although there is nothing new at the level of positive content, "nothing is quite the same" after he pronounces his Wo ...nd either/or, i.e., the three terms do not operate at the same ontological level. It is like with Lacans Imaginary/Symbolic/Real or with Freud's ego/supereg

...d]]; in the same way, Christians are non-Jews WHILE REMAINING JEWS (at the level of their pre-evental positive social determination) - they are Jews who, as

...audiences alike." <ref>Maltby, <i>op.cit.</i>, p. 443.</ref> While, at the level of its surface narrative line, the film can be constructed by the spectator ...public symbolic Law, nothing happens, the text is clean, while, at another level, it bombards the spectator with the superego injunction "Enjoy!", i.e. give

...revolutionary more than simply [[tragic]] is a kind of convoluted, second level, "reflexive" [[betrayal]]: first you sacrifice everything for the (Communis ...population, and when the "Jewish question" was "resolved" at the political level by the formal emancipation of the Jews, i.e., by granting Jews the same rig

...all too quickly conceives of this withdrawal as a "[[regression]]" to the level of the "animal soul" still embedded in its natural environs and determined ...were effectively no longer in a position to exercise it. At a more general level, one could say that such a "mediatization" of the monarch defines the const

..." is tolerated, "Goodbye [[Hitler]]" not – why? Already at the anecdotal level, the [[difference]] between the Fascist and the Stalinist [[universe]] is o ...iatic [[ritual]] went overboard and soldiers or students got hurt beyond a level considered tolerable, [[forced]] to assume a humiliating pose, to perform d

...r gulag (AND others) is experienced as insufficient: in order to be at the level of such phenomena, something much stronger is needed, something akin to the ...own shit, with the excremental real that is man – and it is only at this level that the properly Christian notion of divine love can be apprehended, as th

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...a blindness to the productive role of these obstacles. For example, at the level of Understanding, crises appear as obstacles to capitalism's smooth functio ...withdraws from sexual contact with men is a symptom at its purest, a zero-level symptom―a nun, for example, who, in rejecting becoming the symptom of a p

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...of content (describing the extreme states of dissolution) but also at the level of form (fragmented syntax) and others, as if some pre-linguistic rhythm— ...t, supporting Nazis to their very defeat. So what went wrong? At a general level, Kristeva's reply is to avoid both extremes; not only is the to­tal exclus

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