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...st]] [[Jacques Lacan]] argued that there were '''four''' fundamental types of '''discourse'''. ...[[master signifier]], [[knowledge]] and [[objet petit a]]. The four types of discourse were: the [[Master]]'s, the [[University]]'s, the [[Hysteric]]'s,

...]. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1986 [''[[Seminar VI|The Seminar. Book VI. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60]]''. Trans. Dennis Porter. [[London]]: Routledge, 1 * the side of the [[analysand]] and

==Philosophy== ...beginning most dialogues by first reducing his interlocutor to a [[state]] of confusion and [[helplessness]].

# a [[discipline]] founded on a procedure for the investigation of [[mental]] [[processes]] that are otherwise inaccessible because they are [ # a therapeutic method for the treatment of [[neurotic]] disorders; and

...[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of [[psychoanalysis]]. In 1936, [[Lacan]] presents his paper on the [[mirror stage]] at a conference of the '''[[International Psychoanalytical Association]]''' ([[IPA]]) in [[Mar

...e]]</b> and <a href="papin.htm"><b>[[Motives of Paranoiac Crime: The Crime of the Papin Sisters]]</b></a>, transl. by Jon Anderson in <i>Critical [[Texts ...l. by B. Fink and M. Silver in Ellie Ragland-Sullivan (ed.), <i>Newsletter of the [[Freudian]] Field</i>, vol.2, 1988.<br>&nbsp;</font>

...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). ...ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].

...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. ..., [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[feminist]] theories, [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widel

...ments of [[Rhetoric]] and Comparative [[Literature]] at the [[University]] of California, Berkeley. She also has a professorial appointment at the Europe ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek==

...Lacanian psychoanalysis]] involves the conceptualization of [[feminine]] [[sexuality]]. Lacan's [[thinking]] on [[feminine sexuality]] is distinguished by two main phases.

...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of

...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati

The [[Matrix]], or two sides of [[Perversion]] [[Philosophy]] Today; Celina; 1999; Volume: 43.

...the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? Is she not also a capricious [[Master]] who wants it ...oman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic o

...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the act ...hat this is an [[illusion]], only a few of us might get rich; the majority of us won't get rich. But they missed the point, because the [[identification]

...it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavour. ..., simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3

...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.

...agance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is ...[[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:

...ox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined b ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals

...ral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.

...1960 is characterized by a tension centering around the [[ethical]] status of [[desire]]. What is the ethical status of desire?

...nar VII|L'éthique de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar VII|The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...ist]], but "there is no [[other]] good than the one that can pay the price of the access to [[desire]]," a [[desire]] that is only valid insofar as it is

coordinates of Jacques [[Lacan]]'s [[conceptual]] network; it also proposes original solut (or at least clarifications of) some of the crucial dilemmas [[left]] open by Lacan's [[work]]. The

...lysis|Psychoanalysis]] -- [[:Category:Real|Real]] -- [[:Category:Sexuality|Sexuality]] -- [[Seminars|The Seminars]] -- [[:Category:Symbolic|Symbolic]] -- [[:Cat :[[Death Drive]] -- [[Desire]] -- [[Jouissance]] -- [[Name of the Father]] -- [[Objet petit a]] -- [[Oedipus Complex]] -- [[Pleasure Prin

...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary. ...at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things.

...on" connotes attempts at seduction, [[real]] or fantasied, in the [[form]] of advances, incitations, manipulations, or suggestions that are actively init ...minently instructive from an [[epistemological]] as from a heuristic point of view, and is worth reviewing.

The [[History]] of [[Madness]] 257 The History of [[Sexuality]] 252-4

...ižek: 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love]]". ''Journal of Philosophy and Scripture''. Volume 1, Issue 2. Spring 2004. Joshua Delpech-Ramey. <h ...;&nbsp; Or are the particularities of Christianity somehow, of the essence of this gesture?<br><br>

The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice.

...of [[desire]], its inherent [[impossibility]], is to locate the [[cause]] of its inaccessibility into a despotic [[figure]] which stands for the primord ...he Great Man, which can only assure his Fame, resides the ultimate mystery of [[Power]].

...porary [[political]] [[discourse]], changed by events such as the altering of [[communist]] regular patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the ac ...hat this is an [[illusion]], only a few of us might get rich; the majority of us won't get rich. But they missed the point, because the [[identification]

...is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary ...th Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of an [[ideological]] [[statement]]. He'll tell a [[joke]] or every now and ag

...narrative was itself a part and which must ultimately be explained because of the '[[Jewish]] conspiracy' (TS, 179).<br><br> ...um through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signifiers]] whose meaning is 'quilte

[[Jacques Lacan]] is one of the most challenging and controversial contemporary thinkers, as well as th * the [[Oedipus]] [[complex]] and the [[meaning]] of the [[phallus]]

...ure theory|cultural theorist]]. She is best known for her works ''Speculum of the [[Other]] [[Woman]]'' ([[1974]]) and ''This Sex Which Is Not One'' ([[1 ...she received a [[Master]]'s Degree in [[psychology]] from the [[University of Paris]]. In [[1962]] she received a Diploma in [[Psychopathology]]. From 19

...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in ...errida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:

...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>

* [[comedy]] 43 of Christianity, 105-110 * [[fetishism]] 108 of commodities, 58-59, 170,217

...real [[struggle]] is going on now: the struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it int ...ple awaken from their [[apolitical]] slumber, it is as a rule in the guise of a [[right]]ist [[populist]] [[revolt]] - no wonder many [[enlightened techn

...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in Copyright [[University]] of Chicago, acting through its Press Winter 2006

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The functions of [[language]] ...hip]] betweeh language and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]].

...desire,]] it is not surprising that he focuses attention on the "dialectic of desire," nor should it be surprising that [[negation]] and negativity come ...role that the phallus plays in a [[dialectical]] assumption by the subject of his own desire now becomes thematized.

[[Slavoj Žižek]] fully endorses the [[model]] of the [[Cartesian subject]]. ...assertion that 'a [[spectre]] is haunting Western academia…, the spectre of the [[Cartesian]] subject' (TTS: 1). The Cartesian subject, or cogito as it

...and suspicion, and have subordinated it to the [[needs]] and objectives of philosophy, which has allowed [[them]] to contest or reject it. ...nconscious "phenomena" (primary and secondary [[processes]], the processes of the id and the ego) were similar to and yet different from [[conscious]] ph

...d a [[third]] version of the book, which was characterized by the addition of chapters on [[Jews]] and [[women]] and the fact that he extended the metaph ...te that "[[Being]] a [[neurotic]], Weininger was completely under the sway of his [[infantile]] [[complexes]]; and from that standpoint what is common to

...fact that psychoanalysis can be considered an avatar of Kantianism, if not of [[metaphysics]] in general. 1. Freud presents Kant's "categorical imperative" as the "inheritor of the Oedipus complex."

...ic [[reality]]," and from Freud's ongoing attempt to discover the etiology of [[neuroses]], [[psychoses]], and perversions. ...[nature]] are at work" (1896c). In 1898, in "[[Sexuality]] in the Etiology of the Neuroses" (1898a), he referred to "unconscious psychic traces."

...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>

...netically modified asexual humanoids in [[order]] to avoid the deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience]] no passions proper, no intense self-assert ...ollective orgies depicted in Les particules - the constitutive [[impasse]] of the sexual [[relationship]] (Jacques [[Lacan]]'s il n'y a pas de [[rapport

...mself as a [[sociologist]] in the late 1960s and is widely regarded as one of the most significant commentators on [[postmodernity]]. ...of the spectacle]], or as a horrified [[fascination]] with the shallowness of a [[postmodern]]ist [[society]] in which the [[sign]] has become a [[simula

It is always perilous to approach [[Lacan]] from a [[philosophical]] point of view. For he is an anti-[[philosopher]], and no one is entitled to take thi ...nfrontation between Lacan and [[Heidegger]], which has all the attractions of a rhetorical [[impasse]].<br><br>

...istent with the poststructuralist reconception of the "subject," this line of thought eventually led to far-reaching changes in psychoanalytic [[practice ...the areas characterizing his [[discourse]]: the psychoanalytic dimensions of the "subject" ; psychoanalysis as both a [[clinical]] practice and a [[cult

...he huge shift in film theory and criticism that took [[place]] as a result of [[structuralist]]/semiotic debates in the late 1950s and 1960s. ...le on Young Mr. Lincoln (1969). In these essays and elsewhere on the pages of Cahiers, Althusserian [[Marxism]] became the dominant approach to understan

...was speculating [[about]] [[society]] and human [[culture]]).1 At the end of the chapter I will focus on [[Lacan]]'s main interests and the way he has r ...ations,' revolutionised the [[thought]], the lives and the [[imagination]] of an age.2

...pointing toward a link with various specific [[structural]] organizations of the [[psyche]], hypochondria is currently seen as transnosographic, as [[pr ...icited a variety of hypotheses from [[psychoanalysts]], including accounts of pathogenicity that extend to [[delusions]] in the [[subject]].

...[[Shakespeare]], Johann Nestroy, Frank Wedekind, Jacques Offenbach—some of which had been translated and adapted by Kraus. ...of [[Hitler]] that was published only after his [[death]], but a [[poem]] of his clearly indicated his [[position]]. In 1936 he was struck by a cyclist

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...s, bourgeois [[parents]], [[Alfred Lacan]] and [[Emilie Baudry]], a family of solid [[Catholic]] [[tradition]]. ...dry (1876–[[1948]]) (a middle-[[class]] Roman-Catholic family) (a family of solid Catholic tradition). -->

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...in the social [[construction]] of capitalism’s “[[objective]] laws” of economics.

[http://www.londonsociety-nls.org.uk/ The London Society of the New Lacanian School] ...Jacques-[[Alain]] [[Miller]] and is part of the [[World]] [[Association]] of [[Psychoanalysis]]

...e Marie Baudry]]. [[Alfred Lacan]] was the Paris sales [[representative]] of a large provincial firm. The family lived in comfortable [[conditions]] in ...hich would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]].

...k-migrants-elites/ Current trends in self-reproach & guilt serve interests of elites] ...culinity-toxic-universe/ ‘Traditional masculinity toxic?’ New universe of subtle corruption emerges]

The [[Seminar]] of Jacques Lacan , Book 11 The Four Fundamental [[Concepts]] of [[Psychoanalysis]]

...ween goal and aim, if not goal, it should be its ultimate aim, the horizon of all its activity.<br><br> ...sily translate this obscure wisdom in Marxist terms: "The general outlines of each revolutionary event can be foretold by social theorists; however, this

.../her [[natural]] [[development]], but only through the arduous [[process]] of [[maturation]] sustained by harsh [[discipline]] and education which cannot ...his is, in effect, the [[antinomy]] contained within the bourgeois notions of individuality, individual [[responsibility]]... (Pippin – 118-119)

...ast [[threat]] that linked it to civilization. This is why the biggest war of the XXth century, the [[World]] War II, was the war in which Stalinist [[Co ...is bringing-together accounts for the "innocent" tautological [[formulas]] of today's neoracists: [[le Pen]]'s entire program can be summed up in "[[Fran

* [[The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils]]. 8 January 2008. ''[http://www.lacan.com Lacan.com]''. <http://ww ...ot utopia in the more radical sense of enacting what, within the framework of the existing social relations, appears as "impossible" - this second utopia

...nstitute of [[Philosophy]] at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of [[Sciences]] and [[Arts]]. ..., Zupančič is one of the most prominent members of the "Ljubljana school of [[psychoanalysis]]." She is also a renowned [[Nietzsche]] scholar.

* [[Danish Pastry, or, The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason]] | 1. May 2006 * [[The Reflection of Life in Hegel]] | 2009

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...al significance: human sexuality, the unconscious, dreams, and the theory of transference. ...tion of self-consciousness and truthfulness, as well as opening new paths of inquiry for moral psychology and ethics.

...including hospitality, religion, sexuality and the place of the subject in philosophy. Derrida shows us the common thread he perceives running though them: respo

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='Capitalism, The Sole Culprit of the Destructive Exploitation of Nature' by Alain Badiou= ...ptuous digitization, automatic art, the plasticized killer, and the perils of superhuman intelligence.

I. PHILOSOPHY AND THE SEXES ...t is to Plato that Lacan must look for what hold thought has over the love of transference.

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='''Cogito'' in the History of Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...i-philosophical efforts to determine this Other remain indebted to a frame of philosophical categories.

="from socrates onward the function of philosophy is to corrupt youth" by Slavoj Žižek= ...ormalizing" philosophers who try to restore the lost balance and reconcile philosophy with the established order: Aristotle with regard to Plato, Thomas Aquinas

='In Defense of Hegel's Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...el's "madness", the irreducible speculative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel's statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot be explained a

='Lacan as a Reader of Hegel' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ecause it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge.<u>1</u>

='Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ium for expressing such a "prosaic" disenchanted reality, reality deprived of all mystery and transcendence.<u>2</u>

...he last threat that linked it to civilization. This is why the biggest war of the XXth century, the World War II, was the war in which Stalinist Communis ...; this bringing-together accounts for the "innocent" tautological formulas of today's neoracists: le Pen's entire program can be summed up in "France to

...hy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Paris. He is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Marxist so ...ogy|'Identity And Its Vicissitudes: Hegel's 'Logic Of Essence' As A Theory Of Ideology' by Slavoj Žižek]]

* [[Books/Alain Badiou/Saint Paul The Foundation Of Universalism]] * [[Books/Alain Badiou/Second Manifesto For Philosophy]]

|name = Subjectivity In-Between Times: Exploring the Notion of Time in Lacan’s Work ...sks us to rethink much of Lacanian theory, especially the central [[idea]] of [[the Imaginary]], Symbolic and Real, in ways that have important [[theoret

...]] and criticism. Specifically the topics of [[sexuality]], the [[theory]] of the [[subject]], [[history]] and [[historicism]], [[scientific]] [[formaliz ==Table of contents==