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• Opera's Second Death
  [[Opera]]'s Second [[Death]] is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its mast |width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Opera's Second Death]]'''''. [[London]]: Routledge. November 21, 2001, 1st edition,
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• Freud's papers on technique
  Le séminaire, Livre I: Les écrits techniques de [[Freud]] [[English]]: Book I: Freud's Papers on [[Technique]] (edited by [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]), New York: Nor
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. Le séminaire, Livre II: Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique d
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• Publicity's Secret
  ...[[know]]." In Publicity's [[Secret]], Jodi [[Dean]] claims that the public's [[demands]] for information both coincide with the interests of the media i ...ton]]. The [[author]] claims that the media's [[insistence]] on the public's [[right]] to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and disseminati
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• Zizek's Politics
  ...ded critical introduction to the political thought of one of the [[world]]'s most widely known and eccentric thinkers.
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...at a similar experience gave [[birth]] to [[Leninism]]. Consider [[Lenin]]'s shock when, in the autumn of 1914, every European [[social]] democratic par ...the extraordinary step of dissociating themselves and the Party from Lenin's proposals. Bogdanov characterised the April Theses as "the delirium of a ma
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  In The [[Minority Report]] (2002), Steven [[Spielberg]]'s last [[film]] based on a Phillip Dick short story, criminals are arrested b ...trategy were perfect, it would, on the opposite, endorse the attitude "Let's fight a full conventional war, since we both [[know]] that no side will ris
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...... Is, however, this gesture of "reconciliatory sacrifice" not [[Christ]]'s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of ...locates the gap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]] - Judaism's fundamental ethical task is that of how "to be without being a murderer":
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...sive]] pursuit of contradictory goals-promoting [[democracy]], affirming U.S. [[hegemony]], and ensuring [[stable]] [[energy]] supplies-will produce suc ...mes, starting with [[Iran]] and North Korea, the two other members of Bush's infamous "axis of evil"?
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...he [[dead]] father which appears to Hamlet is the [[projection]] of Hamlet's own [[guilt]] with [[regard]] to his death-[[wish]]; his [[hatred]] of Clau ...reading: does the Hamlet narrative "mean" stars, or do stars "mean" Hamlet's narrative, i.e. did the Ancients use their astronomical [[knowledge]] in [[
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• The Pope's Failures
  ...hen quickly withdrawn by [[Vatican]] officials. A glimpse into the Pope’s spontaneous reaction was thus replaced by the “[[official]],” neutral s
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• Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies
  ...released with the extended ending, the additional short [[scene]] in Midge's apartment, with Scottie and Midge [[listening]] to the radio which announce * [[Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies]]. ‘’[[Lacanian]] Ink’’. Volume 22. Fall 2004
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  SLAVOJ ZIZEK'S THIRD WAY.Rex [[Butler]] and [[Scott Stephens]]. [[lacan]] dot com 2005 This essay, "Slavoj [[Zizek]]'s [[Third]] Way", is the Editors' Introduction to the second volume of his Se
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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  [[Lacan]]'s [[Metaphor]] of the [[Mirror]] [[Stage]]<a></a></b></h2><b> <br> </b><h3 align="center">(From Volume 1 of the [[Seminar]]: <i>[[Freud]]'s Papers on [[Technique]]</i> )<a></a></h3><br>
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  [[Love]] of one's [[neighbor]]<a></a></font><br> ...ch is expressed in our [[civilization]] in the [[form]] of the love of one's neighbor.<br><br>
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• Dream's navel
  #redirect [[Dream's Navel]]
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• Dream's Navel
  ...]] to our [[knowledge]] of the [[content]] of the dream. This is the dream's [[navel]], the spot where it reaches down into the unknown" (p. 525). ...s]] as far as possible. As he later wrote when discussing the [[Wolf Man]]'s dream, "It is always a strict law of [[dream interpretation]] that an expla
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• Irma's Injection, Dream of
  ...[Interpreting]] Dreams," and was [[reinterpreted]] many [[times]] by Freud's successors and biographers.
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• Subject's Desire
  ...ncept]]. For [[Lacan]] as well as for [[Freud]], desire is the [[subject]]'s [[yearning]] for a fundamentally lost [[object]]. Thus for Freud, any [[sea
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• Turning Around Upon the Subject's Own Self
  ...tion]], [[reversal]] into the opposite, or "turning round upon the subject's own self" (p. 126). Freud described this latter process as [[being]] closel ...ire trajectory from sadism to masochism, [[turning around upon the subject's own self]] occurs alongside the transformation of [[activity]] into [[passi
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• Irma's injection
  ...[Interpreting]] Dreams," and was [[reinterpreted]] many [[times]] by Freud's successors and biographers. ...t as he did, in spite of her dress.) .... M said: 'There's no [[doubt]] it's an infection, but no matter; dysentery will supervene and the toxin will be
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• Lacan's Ecrits
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• Books/Lionel Bailly/Lacan: A Beginner's Guide
  |name = Lacan: A Beginner's Guide ...ous detractors, past and present, Bailly guides the reader through Lacan’s canon, from “l'objet petit a” to “The Mirror Stage” and beyond. Inc
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• Books/Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference
  |name = Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference ...ary on sessions 19 to 22 which deal with Lacan’s discussion of Claudel’s Coûfontaine trilogy.
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• Subject's Castration
  ...iety in boys and girls. A boy's anxiety involves castration and a [[girl]]'s the [[good]] [[internal]] functioning of her [[body]]. ...meaning]] effects as a [[whole]]" (p. 275) and "the signifier of the Other's desire" (p. 279). As such, castration is not directly related to the realit
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• Subject's castration
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• Subject's desire
  ...ncept]]. For [[Lacan]] as well as for [[Freud]], desire is the [[subject]]'s [[yearning]] for a fundamentally lost [[object]]. Thus for Freud, any [[sea ...quick, "backward" way, serve as an example of the [[psychical]] apparatus's primary mode of functioning, abandoned because of its inefficacy. [[Censors
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• Turning around upon the subject's own self
  ...wn self</i> refers to the [[process]] that [[substitutes]] the [[subject]]'s own [[self]] in [[place]] of the [[external]] [[object]] of an [[instinct]] ...tion]], [[reversal]] into the opposite, or "turning round upon the subject's own self" (p. 126).
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• Saussure's Concept of the Sign
  difficult to overestimate the [[significance]] of Saussure's idea for [[letter]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[terms]], must be taken into account.]</font></blockquote><p><font size="+
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• Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses
  ...] feeding stuff for the academic [[machine]]. Can the upper level of Lacan's [[formula]] of the university discourse - S2 directed toward a - not also b ...nce]]) its inherent supplement: in impeding oneself, one truly impedes one's external opposite. When cultural studies ignore the real of clinical experi
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• The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis
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• The Seminar. Book I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54
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• The Seminar. Book II. The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-55
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• The Seminar, Book I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
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• Charles S. Peirce
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• Lacan's Baltimore Lecture
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• Children's play
  ...[[external]] [[world]] are transformed in accordance with the [[subject]]'s wishes, so serving the [[internal]] world and augmenting [[pleasure]]. ...[[repeat]] that operated "beyond the [[pleasure principle]]" and the child's tendency to seek immediate pleasure through play were intimately linked. To
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• On Freud's "Trieb" and the Psychoanalyst's Desire
  ...rive—the Freudian drive—has nothing to do with instinct (none of Freud's expressions allows for confusion). Libido, in Freud's work, is an energy that can be subjected to a kind of quantification which
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• The Neurotic's Individual Myth
  ...chose]] this diflicult [[text]] of [[Freud]] and linked it with [[Goethe]]'s Dich/ung und Wahrhei/. Indeed, the juxtaposition of these two [[life]] stor
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• The Dream of Irma's Injection
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• Index of Freud's German Terms
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• Index of Freud's German terms
  #REDIRECT [[Index of Freud's German Terms]]
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• Introduction: Zizek's Politics
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• Actaeon's hounds
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• Žižek's Politics
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• Freud, S.
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• Hysteric's discourse
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• Analyst's discourse
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• On Freud's Trieb & the Psychoanalytic Desire
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• L'insu que sait de l'une-bévue s'aile à mourre
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• Freud's Papers on Technique
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• Children's lies
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• Reply to Jean Hyppolite's commentary on Freud's "Negation"
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• Slavoj Zizek's Third Way
  #REDIRECT [[Slavoj Žižek's Third Way]]
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• L'insu que sait de l'une-bévue s'aile à mourre
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• Sainte-Anne's hospital
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• 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' - Slavoj Zizek interview
  * "[['The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' - Slavoj Zizek interview]]." ''[[Time]] Out''. 6 October ...[understand]] today’s [[world]], we [[need]] [[cinema]]; literally. It’s only in cinema that we get that crucial [[dimension]] which we are not yet
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• The Philosopher's Moan
  * "[[The Philosopher's Moan]]." ''The Guardian''. 4 May 2007. Stephen Moss. <http://film.guard ...He explained the Ring to me - something to do with the frigidity of Wotan's [[love]] - and tried to convince me that Tristan und Isolde was a [[comedy]
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• S
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• The Spectator's Malevolent Neutrality
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• Introduction: Žižek's Politics
  #REDIRECT [[Introduction: Zizek's Politics]]
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• L'insu que sait de l'une-bévue s'aile à mourre
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• On Žižek's Dialectics - Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation
  ...s="book"><div class="book-info"><div class="book-info__title">On Žižek's dialectics : surplus, subtraction, sublimation - Žižek, Slavoj; Žižek, | "On Žižek's dialectics : surplus, subtraction, sublimation"
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• Paul's New Moment - Continental Philosophy And The Future Of Christian Theology
  <div class="book"><div class="book-info"><div class="book-info__title">Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology - J | "Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology"
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• The Art Of The Ridiculous Sublime - On David Lynch's Lost Highway (Occasional Papers (Walter Chapin Simpson Center For The Humanities, 1 -
  ...class="book-info__title">The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (Occasional Papers (Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Human | "The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway (Occasional Papers (Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Human
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• The Art Of The Ridiculous Sublime - On David Lynch's Lost Highway
  ...class="book-info__title">The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway - Slavoj Zizek</div><div class="book-info__lead">Slavoj Zizek< | "The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway "
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• Žižek - A Reader's Guide
  ...><div class="book-info"><div class="book-info__title">Žižek : a reader's guide - Žižek, Slavoj; Wood, Kelsey</div><div class="book-info__lead">Ži | "Žižek : a reader's guide"
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• Zizek's Jokes - Did You Hear the One About Hegel and Negation
  <div class="book"><div class="book-info"><div class="book-info__title">Zizek's Jokes: Did You Hear the One About Hegel and Negation: - Slavoj Zizek</div>< | "Zizek's Jokes: Did You Hear the One About Hegel and Negation:"
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• Zizek's Jokes - Did You Hear The One About Hegel And Negation?
  <div class="book"><div class="book-info"><div class="book-info__title">Zizek's Jokes: Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation? - Slavoj Žižek, Aud | "Zizek's Jokes: Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?"
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• The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Freud's Papers on Technique (Seminar I)
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• The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 Book II
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• Videos/Conference Concept S Hegels Aesthetics/Conference Concept S Hegels Aesthetics
  =CONFERENCE | CONCEPT/S: HEGEL’S AESTHETICS | 11 January 2018 — 14 January 2018 | Video= ...for our own contemporary debates on art. One prominent example is Hegel’s thesis that art became more and more philosophical in the course of its his
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• Videos/Conference Concept S Hegels Aesthetics/Dramaturgy Of The Dialectic By Rebecca Comay
  =‘Dramaturgy of the Dialectic’ by Rebecca Comay | Concept/s: Hegel’s Aesthetics Conference | AUFHEBUNG | 11 January 2018 | Video= '''Concept/s: Hegel’s Aesthetics Conference'''<br /> Ljubljana 11-14 January 2018<br /> Hosted by
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• Videos/Conference Concept S Hegels Aesthetics/The Endgame Of Aesthetics From Hegel To Beckett By Mladen Dolar
  ...Aesthetics: From Hegel to Beckett’ by Mladen Dolar | Concept/s: Hegel’s Aesthetics Conference | AUFHEBUNG | 12 January 2018 | Video= '''Concept/s: Hegel’s Aesthetics Conference'''<br /> Ljubljana 11-14 January 2018<br /> Hosted by
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• Translation
  ==S==
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• Kid A In Alphabet Land - About
  '''Holy Merdre! It's... ...s]]. But, thanks to Kid A In Alphabet Land, I'm able to tell my [[father]]'s [[name]] apart from, say, an [[upholstery button]], and still have time to
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• The Act
  ...us]] plans, the '''[[subject]]''' also has '''[[unconscious]] [[intention]]s'''. Hence someone may well commit an [[act]] which he claims was un[[inten [[Freud]] called these [[act]]s "'''[[parapraxes]]'''," or "'''[[bungled actions]]'''." They are "[[bungled
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• Death drive
  ...f as a tendency towards [[cohesion]] and [[unity]], and the [[death drive]]s, which operate in the opposite direction, [[undoing]] connections and destr <blockquote>"To ignore the [[death instinct]] in his [Freud's] [[doctrine]] is to misunderstand that doctrine entirely."<ref>{{E}} p. 301
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• Father
  ...} p. 73</ref> The [[father]] continues to be a constant theme of [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] thereafter. ...an a mere rival with whom the [[subject]] competes for for the [[mother]]'s [[love]]; he is the [[representative]] of the social order as such, and onl
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• Gaze
  ...in the first year of his [[seminar]], in reference to [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s [[phenomenology|phenomenological analysis]] of "[[gaze|the look]]."<ref>The ...]].<ref>{{S1}} p. 215</ref> [[Lacan]] is especially taken with [[Sartre]]'s view that the [[gaze]] does not necessarily concern the [[organ]] of [[sigh
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• Imaginary
  [[Lacan]]'s use of the term "[[imaginary]]" as a substantive dates back to [[{{Y}}|1936 ...notion]] of the image by highlighting its function: reflecting the subject's discrete behaviors in [[unified]] [[images]]. In the [[mirror]] [[stage]],
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• Jouissance
  Insofar as the [[drive]]s are attempts to break through the [[pleasure principle]] in [[search]] of ' ...slave]] [[dialectic]], where the [[slave]] must facilitate the [[master]]'s ''jouissance'' through his work in producing [[objects]] for the master.
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• Letter
  ...rences to the "[[letter]]" must be seen within the context of [[Saussure]]'s [[discussion]] of [[language]]. In his ''[[Saussure|Course in General Ling When [[Lacan]] takes up [[Saussure]]'s [[work]] in the 1950s, he adapts it freely to his own purposes. He thus con
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• Mirror Stage
  What's In A Name? You [[Think]] Yourself A Tower Of Strength, But In [[Time]], You
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• Thing
  [[Lacan]]'s [[discussion]] of the "[[Thing]]" constitutes one of the central themes in ...[[Thing|Sachvorstellungen]]''). The distinction is prominent in [[Freud]]'s metapsychological writings, in which he argues that the two types of presen
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• Unheimlich
  ...] You [[Dead]], Which Would Surely Be A Means To An End, But Not Yours! It's Déjà Vu All Over Again! Ha! You're Just A Disagreeable Bit Of [[Reality]]
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• Voice
  ...epticism, like Charlie Chaplin (up to a point), and Fritz Lang. Fritz Lang's Das Testament des Dr Mabuse, in a wonderful way, rendered this [[spectral]] In Charlie Chaplain's [[film]] [[The Great Dictator]], he satirises [[Hitler]] as Hinkel. The voi
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• Woman
  [[Freud]]'s account of [[sexual difference]] is based on the view that there are certai ...e [[mother]] in the [[family]] [[complexes]],<ref>{{1938}}</ref> [[Lacan]]'s pre-war writings do not engage with the debate on [[femininity]].
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• Yew
  ...ciple, And Will Not Take Your [[Discipline]]! If I've Imposed Upon You, It's Only Because You're An Impostor - You [[Know]] [[Nothing]]! You Cannot [[Se
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• Other
  The "[[other]]" is perhaps the most [[complex]] term in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. {{Top}}[[autre]]]]'', ''[[Autre{{Bottom}} ...conceiving of the [[Other]] as a [[place]], [[Lacan]] alludes to [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of [[psychical locality]], in which the [[unconscious]] is desc
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• Phallus
  ...e [[phallus|penis]], and that their discovery that some [[human]] [[being]]s do not possess a [[phallus|penis]] leads to important [[psyche|psychical]] ...in in the [[phase]] of phallic primacy is also taken into account. [ Freud's italics] [p. 144]</blockquote>
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• Z-man
  ...ciple, And Will Not Take Your [[Discipline]]! If I've Imposed Upon You, It's Only Because You're An Impostor - You [[Know]] [[Nothing]]! You Cannot [[Se
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• Mirror stage
  ...1936]]. The concept is a constant point of reference throughout [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]], and becomes increasingly [[complex]] a [[Lacan]]'s concept of the [[mirror stage]] represents a fundamental aspect of the [[st
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• Symbolic
  ...n]]ian [[psychoanalysis]], the "[[symbolic]]" is one of [[three]] [[order]]s that [[structure]] [[human]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[ ...e of the three [[orders]] that remain central throughout the rest of Lacan's [[work]]. Of these three orders, the symbolic is the most crucial one for p
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• Desire
  This article is currently undergoing major editing. It's a mess [[right]] now, but will be fixed soon. ...]], [[ethical]] and [[clinical]] point of reference. Theoretically, Lacan's elaboration of the [[concept]] is supported by, yet goes beyond, its [[Freu
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• Jacques Lacan
  ...ng yearly [[seminars]] in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially the post-[[structurali ...hronology|Click here for a more complete chronology of '''Jacques Lacan''''s life]].''</blockquote>
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• Name-of-the-Father
  ...Name-of-the-Father|the name of the father]]" first appeared in [[Lacan]]’s [[work]], in the early 1950s, it is without [[capital]] letters and refers ...the [[father]]'s "'''no'''" ('''''le "non" du père''''') to the [[child]]'s [[incest]]uous '''[[desire]]''' for its '''[[mother]]'''. (the '''[[law|leg
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  |'''[[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars]]''' ...enskoye]] in [[Siberia]]. [[Image:Lenin-1895-mugshot.jpg|right|thumb|Lenin's [[mug shot]], Dec. 1895]]
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• Demand
  In other [[words]], the [[infant]]'s screams become organized in a [[linguistic]] [[structure]] long before the ...bolic nature]] of the infant's screams which forms the kernel of [[Lacan]]'s [[concept]] of [[demand]], which Lacan introduces in 1958 in the context of
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• Four Discourses
  ...[Master]]'s, the [[University]]'s, the [[Hysteric]]'s, and the [[Analyst]]'s. ...the master [[signifier]]; S2, knowledge; a, [[surplus]] [[enjoyment]]; and S̷, the [[subject]]. Their positions above and below the bar on either side
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• Graph of desire
  ...ef> The [[graph of desire]] reappears in some of the following [[seminar]]s in various forms, although the most well known [[form]] of it appears in "[ ...hain]]; the horseshoe-shaped line represents the vector of the [[subject]]'s [[intention]]ality.
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• Between the two deaths
  ...al, insistent [[demand]], like the demand from the [[ghost]] of [[Hamlet]]'s father insisting that he be revenged. ...ymbolic]] [[order]] and the [[destruction]] of our [[subject]] [[position]]s.
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• Cathexis
  [[James]] Strachey's rendering of [[Freud]]'s term ''Besetzung'', and now a standard term in the [[psychoanalytic]] [[voc ...valent ''investissement'', ''Besetzung'' is in common usage, and [[Freud]]'s [[choice]] of terminology reflects his usual reluctance to use a highly tec
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...an almost exclusively [[male]] [[perversion]]) originates in the [[child]]'s [[horror]] of [[female]] [[castration]]. ...[object]] (the [[fetish]]) as a [[symbolic]] [[substitute]] for the mother's [[lack|missing]] [[penis]].<ref>{{F}}. "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Fetishism]
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• Hysteria
  It was in the course of treating [[hysterical]] [[patient]]s in the 1890s that [[Freud]] developed the [[psychoanalytical]] method of [[ [[Freud]]'s first properly [[psychoanalytic]] [[case]] [[history]] concerns the treatme
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• Id
  The term first appears in [[Freud]]'s [[work]] in the early 1920s, in the context of the second [[model]] of the ...trollable forces" in question are not [[primitive]] [[biological]] [[need]]s or wild [[instinct]]ual forces of [[nature]], but must be conceived of in [
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• Narcissism
  The term "[[narcissism]]" first appears in [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] in 1910, but it is not until his [[work]] " ...es it to [[object]]-[[love]], in which [[libido]] is invested in [[object]]s.
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• Perversion
  However, this defmition is problematized by [[Freud]]'s own notions of the [[perversion|polymorphous perversity]] of all [[human]] ...ion|perverse subject]] may never actually engage in such [[perversion|act]]s.
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• Psychosis
  ...orientation in [[time]] and [[space]], [[hallucination]]s, and [[delusion]]s. Types of [[psychosis]] include [[paranoia]], [[manic depression]], [[mega ...just as [[dreams]] can. Freud's [[analysis]] of the psychotic [[Schreber]]'s memoirs thus broke with contemporary approaches to psychosis, which regarde
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• Sublimation
  ...n]] and all [[neurosis]]. However, many points remain unclear in [[Freud]]'s account of [[sublimation]]. ...tion]] is central to the concept, since it is only insofar as the [[drive]]s are diverted towards this [[dimension]] of shared social values that they c
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• Superego
  The term "[[superego]]" does not appear until quite late in [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]], [[being]] first introduced in ''[[The ...l agency]] which judges and censures the [[ego]] can be found in [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]] long before he locates these functions
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• Transference
  The term "[[transference]]" first emerged in [[Freud]]'s [[work]] as simply [[another]] term for the [[displacement]] of [[affect]] Later on, however, it came to refer to the [[patient]]'s [[relationship]] to the [[analyst]] as it develops in the [[treatment]].
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• Object
  ...alysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or attentions). ...of the [[body]] and the [[satisfaction]] of [[need]]s can all be [[object]]s.
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• Neurosis
  ...of [[treatment|nervous disorders]] defined by a wide variety of [[symptom]]s. [[Freud]] uses the term in a [[number]] of ways, sometimes as a general t ...dition and a neurosis can, unlike a psychosis, be treated with the patient's consent. Neurosis is normally [[understood]] as a condition such as hyster
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• Melancholia
  ...[[sadistic]] [[satisfaction]], as reflected in the melancholic individual's suicidal desires. Such desires result in hatred of the object being redirec
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• Libido
  ...-- energy associated with [[instinct]]ual [[biology|biological]] [[drive]]s. ..., plastic and adhesive, and can be attached to or withdrawn from [[object]]s thanks to the [[mechanism]] of [[cathexis]].
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• Instinct
  ...]] and belongs to the study of [[animal]] [[ethology]]. Whereas [[animal]]s are driven by [[instincts]], which are relatively rigid and invariable, and ...ttempt to [[understand]] human [[behavior]] purely in terms of [[instinct]]s, arguing that this is to suppose a [[harmonious]] relation between man and
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• Identification
  In [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] the term "[[identification]]" denotes a [[p ...[[superego]] are constructed on the basis of a series of [[identification]]s, the [[concept]] of [[identification]] eventually came to denote "the opera
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• Ideal-Ego
  ...see one's life as vain and useless. The effect, then, is to [[invert]] one's "normal" life, to see it as suddenly repulsive.
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• Ego-ideal
  In [[Freud]]'s writings, it is difficult to discern any systematic [[distinction]] between ...Lacan]] argues that they [[represent]] different aspects of the [[father]]'s [[dual]] [[role]].
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• Reality Principle
  ...iscovers that [[hallucination|hallucinating]] does not relieve his [[need]]s, and is thus [[forced]] "to [[form]] a conception of the [[real]] circumsta ...of the [[reality principle]] is still the [[satisfaction]] of the [[drive]]s, it can be said that "the [[substitution]] of the reality principle for the
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• Ego
  ...]]'' (the usual term which [[French]] [[psychoanalyst]]s use for [[Freud]]'s ''[[ego|Ich]]'') and ''[[ego|je]]''. It was the publication of [[Jakobson]]'s paper on [[shifter]]s in 1957 that allowed [[Lacan]] to theorise the distinction more clearly; th
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• Drive
  [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of the [[drive]] is central to his [[theory]] of [[human]] [[se ...to an [[object]] -- but by the [[drive]]s -- which differ from [[instinct]]s in that they are extremely variable, and develop in ways which are [[contin
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• Displacement
  ...sional]] [[symptom]]s, in the [[dream work]], in the production of [[joke]]s, and in the [[transference]]. ...02 the [[concept]] of displacement appeared several [[times]] in [[Freud]]'s writings (in Drafts K and M in his correspondence with [[Wilhelm Fliess]],
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• Condensation
  ...on]] is one of the methods by which the [[repression|repressed]] [[return]]s in hidden ways. ...malgamated into a single element of the [[manifest]] dream (e.g. [[symbol]]s).
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• Repression
  It denotes the [[process]] by which certain [[thought]]s or [[memory|memories]] are expelled from [[consciousness]] and confined to ...h his investigation into the amnesia of [[hysteria|hysterical]] [[patient]]s.
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• Repetition
  [[Lacan]] expands upon [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of the "[[repetition|compulsion to repeat]]" in various ways. ...tition|automatisme de répétition]]'''" as a [[translation]] of [[Freud]]'s ''[[Wiederholungszwang]]'' is a reminder of how much he owes to the [[Frenc
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• Sexual Difference
  ...psychoanalysis]] and [[feminism]], is not part of [[Freud]]'s or [[Lacan]]'s [[psychoanalytic theory|theoretical]] [[:Category:Terms|vocabulary]]. ...it constitutes an important focus for [[feminist]] approaches to [[Lacan]]'s [[Lacan|work]].
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• Language
  These two words have quite different [[meanings]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]: ''[[langue]]'' usually refers to a specific [[language]], such as ...'), rather than the differences between particular languages ('''[[langue]]s'') that interests [[Lacan]].
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• Ethics
  ...ulation of [[ethics]] and [[psychoanalysis ]].<ref>{{L}} ''[[Seminar VI|Le Séminaire. Livre VI. L'éthique de la psychanalyse, 1959-60]]''. Ed. [[Jacqu ...lized morality]]" and the essentially [[moral|amoral]] [[sexual]] [[drive]]s of the [[subject]].
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• Master-Signifier
  ...to ''itself'' instead of other [[signifiers]]. Žižek refers to [[Marx]]'s conception of [[commodity]] [[fetishism]] as an example of a master-signifi Just as money in Marx's conception of [[commodity fetishism]] is [[in-itself]] devoid of value, the
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• Fantasy
  ...xual]] abuse. This crucial [[moment]] in the [[development]] of [[Freud]]'s [[thought]] (which is often simplistically dubbed "the abandonment of the s ...in accordance with [[unconscious]] [[desire]]s, so much so that [[symptom]]s originate not in any supposed "[[objective]] facts" but in a [[complex]] [[
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• Return to Freud
  The [[whole]] of [[Lacan]]'s work can only be [[understood]] within the context of the [[intellectual]] ...dually began to develop a radical critique of the way that most [[analyst]]s in the [[IPA]] had [[interpretation|interpreted]] [[Freud]].
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• Registers
  ...to [[present]] in a [[structured]], set-[[theory]] fashion, as [[matheme]]s. The [[Imaginary]], or non-[[linguistic]] aspect of the [[psyche]], formula
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• Subject
  ...ef>{{1932}}</ref> and from 1945 on it occupies a central part in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. ...sociated with [[philosophical]], [[legal]] and [[linguistic]] [[discourse]]s.
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• Disavowal
  ...o denote "a specific mode of [[defence]] which consists in the [[subject]]'s refusing to recognize the reality of a [[traumatic]] [[perception]]."<ref>L ...[[reality]]), since it is "rarely or perhaps never" possible for "the ego's detachment from reality to be carried through completely."<ref>{{F}} ''[[Wo
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• End of analysis
  [[Lacan]]'s answer is that [[psychoanalytic treatment]] is a [[progress|logical process ...[subject]] of his [[history]]" -- that is, as coming to [[terms]] with one's own [[death|mortality]].<ref>{{E}} p. 88</ref>
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• Aggressivity
  ...the reformer.<ref>{{E}} p. 7</ref> [[Lacan]] is simply restating [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of [[ambivalence]] -- the interdependence of [[love]] and [[hat ...analyst]], it will be accompanied by "a marked decrease in the [[patient]]'s deepest [[resistances]].<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some Reflectio
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• Art
  [[Freud]] valued [[art]] as one of [[human]]ity's great [[culture|cultural]] [[civilization|institutions]], and dedicated man ...ich implies that [[art|creative writers]] can intuit directly the [[truth]]s which [[psychoanalysts]] only discover later by more laborious means.
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• Biology
  [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]] is [[full]] of references to [[biology] ...ho have confused [[desire]] with [[need]], and [[drives]] with [[instinct]]s, [[:category:concepts|concepts]] which he insists on distinguishing.
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• Absence
  As [[Roman Jakobson]] showed with his [[analysis]] of [[phoneme]]s, all [[linguistic]] phenomena may be entirely characterized in [[terms]] of ...inciple]]'', as a [[primitive]] phonemic opposition representing the child's entry into the [[symbolic order]]. The two sounds made by the [[developmen
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• Affect
  ...ne of the oldest themes in [[philosophy]], and made its way into [[Freud]]'s [[vocabulary]] via [[German]] [[psychology]]. ...ctualisation can be [[resistance]]s to [[analysis]], [[imaginary]] [[lure]]s of the [[ego]]. [[Anxiety]] is the only [[affect]] that is not [[truth|dec
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• Alienation
  The term "[[alienation]]" does not constitute part of [[Freud]]'s [[theory|theoretical]] [[:category:concepts|vocabulary]]. In [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] the term implies both [[psychiatric]] a
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• Analysand
  ...ed]]" by the [[analyst]]; it is the [[analysand]] who [[treatment|analyze]]s and the task of the [[analyst]] is to [[help]] him to [[treatment|analyze]]
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• Anxiety
  ...ong been recognised in [[psychiatry]] as one of the most common [[symptom]]s of [[mental]] disorder. [[Psychiatrist]]s also distinguish between generalised [[anxiety]] states, when "free-[[float
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• Bar
  ...introduced in the context of a [[discussion]] of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]'s [[concept]] of the [[sign]].<ref>{{E}} p.149</ref>In this context, the [[ba ...'''S''' designates the [[subject]] (e.g. in [[schema L]]), from 1957 on '''S''' designates the [[signifier]] and [[Image:StrikeS.gif]] designates the ([
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• Adaptation
  ...[[biology|biological]] [[:category:concepts|concept]]; [[biology|organism]]s are supposed to be driven to [[adapt]] themselves to fit the [[biology|envi ...dapt]] to [[reality]]. [[Ego-psychology]] explain [[neurotic]] [[symptom]]s in terms of maladaptive [[behaviour]]. [[Ego-psychology]] argues that the a
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• Algebra
  In 1955, [[Lacan]] begins to use [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s -- in an attempt to [[formalize]] [[psychoanalysis]]. ...[[symbol]]s used by [[Lacan]], which appear principally in the [[matheme]]s, [[schema l]] and the [[graph of desire]], are [[List of Algebraic Symbols|
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• Aphanisis
  [[Lacan]] takes up Jones's term, but modifies it substantially. For [[Lacan]], ''[[aphanisis]]'' does ...s shown by the fact that the [[subject]] is [[bar]]red in these [[matheme]]s.
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• Beautiful Soul
  ...treated as an [[object]] of [[exchange]] by the men around her, [[Freud]]'s first [[intervention]] is to confront her with her own complicity in this e <ref>Phenomenology, SS 632-71. THis is one of [[Zizek]]'s most frequently cited [[Hegelian]] themes.</ref>
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• Being
  ...note to his [[discourse]] that distinguishes it from most other [[school]]s of [[psychoanalytic theory]], which refuse to engage with their metaphysica ...[[analyst]] intervenes his [[action]] "goes to the heart of [the analysand's] being," and this also affects his own [[being]], since he cannot "remain a
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• Consciousness
  ...h the [[unconscious]] and the [[preconscious]]. [[Lacan]] finds [[Freud]]'s remarks on [[consciousness]] far weaker than his formulations on the [[unco ...]."<ref>{{S2}} p.117</ref></blockquote> According to [[Lacan]], [[Freud]]'s problems with discussing [[consciousness]] [[return]] again and again to ha
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• Counterpart
  The term "[[counterpart]]" plays an important part in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]] from the 1930s on, and designates other [[p ...n the [[child]] first realizes that he has siblings, that other [[subject]]s ''like him'' participate in the [[family]] [[structure]].
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• Countertransference
  ...d]] coined the term "[[countertransference]]" to designate the [[analyst]]'s "[[countertransference|unconscious feelings]]" towards the [[patient]]. In [[particular]], [[analyst]]s soon [[divided]] over the [[role]] allotted to [[countertransference]] in d
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• Death
  The term "[[death]]" occurs in various contexts in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. * beauty - "It is the function of beauty to reveal man's [[relationship]] to his own death."<ref>{{S7}} p. 260, 299</ref>
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• Delusion
  ..., and can range from single [[ideas]] to [[complex]] networks of [[belief]]s. ...ot the "[[illness]]" of [[paranoia]] itself, but rather, the [[paranoiac]]'s attempt to heal himself, to pull himself out of the breakdown of the [[symb
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• Desire of the analyst
  ...lyst]]" is ambiguous, and oscillates between two [[meanings]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]]. In this way the [[analyst]]'s supposed [[desire]] becomes the [[treatment|driving force]] of the [[analyt
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• Development
  ...emphasis placed on the [[time|temporal]] [[development]] of the [[child]]'s [[sexuality]]. ...]] for the [[three]] "[[family]] [[complex]]es" and for [[ego]] [[defence]]s.<ref>{{E}} p. 5</ref>
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• Dialectic
  ...alyst]] forces the [[analysand]] to confront the contradictions and [[gap]]s in his [[narrative]]. ...eds to draw out the [[truth]] from the [[analysand]]'s [[free association]]s.<ref>{{S8}} p. 140</ref>
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• Discourse
  [[Image:Letdis.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Algebra]]ic [[symbol]]s from the [[Four Discourses]]]] ...y an [[matheme|algorithm]] which contains ''four'' [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s.
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• Dual relation
  The [[dual relation]] is always characterized by [[illusion]]s of similarity, symmetry and reciprocity. ...inary]] [[order]], the [[symbolic]] [[order]] is characterised by [[triad]]s.
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• Enunciation
  =====Translator's Note===== ...f, irrespective of the [[content]] of the utterance, anticipates [[Lacan]]'s attention to the [[dimension]] of the [[enunciation]].
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• Existence
  ...nse]] of [[existence]] is to be [[understood]] in the context of [[Freud]]'s [[discussion]] of the "judgement of existence," by which the [[existence]] Only what is integrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] fully "[[exist]]s", since "there is no such thing as a prediscursive [[reality]]."<ref>{{S20}
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• Fragmented body
  ...body]] is one of the earliest original [[concepts]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], and is closely linked to the [[concept]] o ...causes, by contrast, the [[perception]] of its own [[body]] (which [[lack]]s [[motor coordination]] at this [[stage]]) as [[division|divided]] and [[fra
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• Cartel
  ...ch is of interest to [[them]], and it is then registered in the [[school]]'s [[list]] of [[cartels]].
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• Castration complex
  ...]] [[being]] has a [[penis]] -- is replaced by a new one -- that [[female]]s have been [[castrated]]. The consequences of this new [[castration complex| ...] is aware of both the [[male]] and the [[female]] [[biology|sexual organ]]s.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Infantile Genital Organization]]."
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• Cause
  ...of [[causality]] forms an important thread that runs throughout [[Lacan]]'s entire [[work]]. ...of the [[cause]] of [[psychosis]], which is a central concern of [[Lacan]]'s doctoral [[thesis]] <ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|De la psychose pa
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• Chance
  In the [[seminar]] of 1964, [[Lacan]] uses [[Aristotle]]'s [[distinction]] between two kinds of [[chance]] to illustrate this distinct
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• Code
  [[Lacan]] borrows the term "[[code]]" from [[Roman Jakobson]]'s [[theory]] of [[communication]]. ...his opposition "[[code]] vs [[message]]" as an equivalent of [[Saussure]]'s ''[[langue]]'' vs ''[[parole]]''.
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• Cogito
  ...[Lacan]]'s [[work]], for [[Descartes]]'s entire [[philosophy]]. [[Lacan]]'s attitude to [[Cartesian]]ism is extremely [[complex]], and only a few of th ...d [[object-relations theory]] is that these [[school]]s betrayed [[Freud]]'s discovery by returning to the [[Freud|pre-Freudian]] concept of the [[subje
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• Communication
  # Secondly, the [[speaker]]'s [[message]] is seen to be not merely directed at another but also at himsel ...ing these two points together, it can be said that the part of the speaker's [[message]] which is addressed to himself is the [[unconscious]] [[intentio
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• Truth
  ...s one of the most central, and yet most [[complex]] [[terms]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[discourse]]. From [[Lacan]]'s earliest writings, the term "[[truth]]" has metaphysical, even mystical, n
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• Unconscious
  [[Image:Freudpsyche.gif|thumb|300px|right|[[Unconscious|Freud's Model of the Unconscious]]]] [[Freud]]'s second [[model]] of the [[mind]] or [[psyche]] -- the "'''[[Structural theo
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• Time
  ...the most distinctive features of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]] is [[Lacan]]'s approach to questions of [[time]]. Broadly [[speaking]], [[Lacan]]'s approach is characterized by two important innovations: the [[concept]] of
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• Subject supposed to know
  ...[subject]] but is, in fact, [[intersubjective]].<ref>{{L}} [[Seminar IX|Le Séminaire. Livre IX. L'identification, 1961-62]]'', unpublished. [[Seminar]] It is the [[analysand]]'s ''supposition'' of a subject who [[knows]] that initiates the [[analytic]]
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• Split
  ...[symbolization|symbolised]] by the [[bar]] which strikes through the <i>'''S'''</i> to produce the [[bar]]red [[subject]], [[Image:StrikeS.gif]].<ref>{{
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• Structure
  ...his [[position]] with respect to other [[subject]]s and other [[signifier]]s. ...s on the [[symbolic order]] as the realm of [[structure]] which [[analyst]]s have ignored in favour of the [[imaginary]]; "[[social]] structures are [[s
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• Speech
  ''[[Parole]]'' becomes one of the most important [[terms]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] from the early 1950s on. ...osition between ''[[parole]]'' and ''[[langue]]'' is replaced in [[Lacan]]'s work with the opposition between ''[[parole]]'' and ''[[langage]]'' -- and
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• Specular image
  The [[specular image]] refers to the ''[[reflection]]'' of one's own [[fragmented body|body]] in the [[mirror stage|mirror]], the [[specular
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• Sinthome
  ...inuing elaboration of his [[topology]], extending the previous [[seminar]]'s focus on the [[borromean knot]], and an exploration of the writings of [[Ja Before the [[appearance]] of [[sinthome]], divergent currents in [[Lacan]]'s [[thinking]] lead to different inflections of the [[concept]] of the [[symp
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• Signifier
  In [[Saussure]]'s [[terms]], the [[signifier]] is the "'''acoustic image'''" which signifies It is these [[meaning]]less indestructible [[signifier]]s which determine the [[subject]]; the effects of the [[signifier]] on the [[
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• Signifying Chain
  ...ired by the [[notion]] of [[facilitation]], which was central to [[Freud]]'s description of the functioning of the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]], Jacques [[ ...us it constitutes the [[design]] and the weave of the [[speaking]] subject's psychic fabric. More generally, it is involved in all psychic [[causality]]
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• Signified
  ...argues that the [[signified]] is a mere effect of the play of [[signifier]]s, an effect of the [[process]] of [[signification]] produced by [[metaphor]] [[Lacan]]'s view is thus opposed to an expressionist view of [[language]], according to
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• Suggestion
  ...[[state]] of hypnosis, the doctor would "[[suggest]]" that the [[symptom]]s would [[disappear]]. ...eim, [[Freud]] began using [[suggestion]] to treat [[neurotic]] [[patient]]s in the 1880s.
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• Topology
  ...ating from 1900 and the second from 1923), [[Freud]] resorted to [[schema]]s to [[represent]] the various parts of the [[psychic apparatus]] and their i ...yche in ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'', where he cites G. T. Fechner's [[idea]] that the [[scene]] of [[action]] of [[dreams]] is different from t
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• Torus
  [[Lacan]]'s first reference to the [[torus]] dates from 1953,<ref>{{E}} p. 105</ref> bu
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• Treatment
  ...een the [[analyst]] and the [[analysand]] which includes the [[analysand]]'s agreement to abide by the [[Fundamental Rule]]. ...]] (the couch is not used in the [[treatment]] of [[psychotic]] [[patient]]s).
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• Training
  ...to by the [[analysand]] for the [[purpose]] of treating certain [[symptom]]s, whereas the term "'''training analysis'''" refers exclusively to a course ...raining|training analysis]] before being allowed to practice as [[analyst]]s.
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• Obsessional neurosis
  ...e Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1973 [1967]: 281-2</ref> These [[symptom]]s include obsessions (recurrent [[ideas]]), impulses to perform actions which ...he [[subject]] may well exhibit none of the typical obsessional [[symptom]]s and yet still be diagnosed as an [[obsessional neurotic]] by a [[Lacan]]ian
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• Optical Model
  ...en from Sl, 124), and is taken up later in 'A remark on [[Daniel Lagache]]'s report' (1958b), in the [[seminar]] on the [[transference]] (1960-1), and e
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• Philosophy
  ...f [[psychoanalysis]].<ref>{{S20}} p. 33</ref> On the other hand, [[Lacan]]'s work is [[full]] of philosophical references; indeed, this is often regarde ...cratic dialogue. He also refers specifically to a [[number]] of [[Plato]]'s works, especially ''[[The Symposium]]'', to which he dedicates a large part
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• Phobia
  These avoidance strategies may become so elaborate that the [[subject]]'s [[life]] is severely restricted. [[Freud]]'s most important contribution to the study of phobias concerned a young boy w
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• Punctuation
  ...baby]] who has not yet acquired [[speech]] can only articulate his [[need]]s in a very [[primitive]] kind of [[demand]], namely by screaming. There is ...[[discourse]] simply by [[repetition|repeating]] part of the [[analysand]]'s [[speech]] back to him (perhaps with a different intonation or in a differe
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• Quaternary
  Although [[Lacan]]'s [[rejection]] of dualistic schemas in favour of an emphasis on the [[triang The emphasis on the [[quaternary]] first comes to the fore in Lacan's work in the early 1950s, and is perhaps due to the influence of Claude LÈv
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• Resistance
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• Semblance
  Running throughout [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] is the [[idea]] that appearances are deceptive, an idea that is cl ...[[lure]]s, while the [[symbolic]] is the realm of underlying [[structure]]s which cannot be observed but which must be deduced.
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• Sexual relationship
  ...''il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel'' in 1970,<ref>{{L}} ''[[Seminar XVII|Le Séminaire. Livre XVII. L'envers de la psychanalyse, 1969-70]]''. Ed. [[Jacqu The formula thus condenses a [[number]] of points in [[Lacan]]'s approach to the question of [[sexual difference]]:
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• Sign
  ...modifications. During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways. ...[[Lacan]], a [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s.
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• Passage to the Act
  ...characterizing such an [[act]] is directed at the [[self]] or at [[other]]s, it is generally considered [[psychopathology|psychopathological]]. ...ssible]] for the young [[Woman]]. Confronted with her father's [[desire]], she was consumed with an uncontrollable anxiety and rea
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• Privation
  [[Privation]] is [[Lacan]]'s attempt to theorize more rigorously [[Freud]]'s [[concept]] of [[female]] [[castration]] and [[penis envy]]. [[Privation]], then, refers to the [[female]]'s [[lack]] of a [[penis]], which is clearly a [[lack]] in the [[Real]].
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• Psychoanalysis
  <!-- [[Freud]]'s [[third]] and broadest [[category]] comprises his [[work]] on [[culture]] ( ...t [[Freud]]'s descriptions of the workings of the [[unconscious]], with it s flows of energy, and of [[libido]] and its mechanisms of [[discharge]], owe
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• Recollection
  ...reliving [[past]] [[experience]] and [[feeling]] once again the [[emotion]]s associated with that experience. ...the [[treatment]] involves the [[patient]] tracing the [[master signifier]]s of his [[life]].
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• Schema L
  The various "[[schemata]]" that begin to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] in the 1950s are all attempts to [[formalize]] by means of [[diagr ...vectors how the [[structure|structural relations]] between these [[symbol]]s.
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• School
  ...at some kind of institutional framework was necessary for [[psychoanalyst]]s. Thus [[Lacan]] is just as sceptical of those [[analyst]]s who reject all institutions as he is of those who turn the institution into
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• Science
  [[Freud]] regarded [[science]] as one of [[civilization]]'s highest achievements, and opposed it to the reactionary forces of [[religio [[Lacan]]'s attitude to [[science]] is more ambiguous.
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• Signification
  In [[Lacan]]'s pre-1950s writings, the term "[[signification]]" is used in a general way t It is from 1957 on that [[Lacan]]'s use of the term takes on a direct reference to the [[Saussurean]] [[concept
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• Scene
  ...n of Dreams]]'', [[stating]] that "the [[scene]] of [[action]] of [[dream]]s is different from that of waking ideational [[life]]."<ref>{{F}} ''[[The In [[Lacan]] makes repeated reference to Fechner's expression in his [[work]];<ref>{{E}} p. 193</ref> the "other scene" is, in
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• Order
  ...t he speaks of these as [[three]] "[[order]]s" or three "[[order|register]]s.") From that [[moment]] on they come to be the fundamental classification [ ...[tripartite]] classification system has shed invaluable light on [[Freud]]'s [[work]]:
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• Paranoia
  [[Freud]]'s [[experience]] of [[treatment|treating]] [[paranoiacs]] was limited. [[Freud]]'s most extensive [[work]] on [[paranoia]] is an [[analysis]] of the written m
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• Pass
  ...tify to the end of their analysis. The main [[idea]] behind this was Lacan's argument that the END OF ANALYSIs is not a quasi-mystical, ineffable [[expe ...ide]] the jury, since the pass was based on the principle that each person's analysis is unique. If the the candidate was uccessful, he was accorded the
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• Psychology
  ...he ethological, that is the [[whole]] of the [[biological]] [[individual]]'s [[behaviour]] in relation to his [[natural]] [[environment]]."<ref>{{S3}} p ...anything [[about]] [[human]] [[being]]s, for [[human]]s are also [[animal]]s, but that it cannot say anything about that which is uniquely [[human]].<re
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• Preoedipal phase
  The term emerges very late in [[Freud]]'s [[work]], in the context of his [[discussion]] of [[female sexuality]].<ref ...e [[mother]] is not completely [[satisfied]] with him alone, but [[desire]]s something else (the [[phallus]]). The [[child]] then seeks to be the [[pha
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• To-Do List
  This is a public version of our todo list, so you know what's on our roadmap.
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• Community Portal2
  You can pick and choose which areas you [[work]] on, but it's helpful if we try and cover a bit of each!
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• Community Portal3
  ...o Subject:Staff lounge|Staff lounge]] (this is the equivalent of Wikipedia's 'Village Pump'). Also see [[textbook planning|planning]] pages. [[Help:Contents|User's Guide]] &middot;
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• Community Portal4
  * [[w:Wikipedia:Things_to_be_moved_to_Wiktionary|Wikipedia's Move to Wiktionary list]] - long articles that belong here in Wiktionary * Chat with [[Wiktionarian]]s in [[real-time]] on '''[[Wiktionary:IRC channel|our IRC channel]]'''
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• Alain Badiou
  ...[[1968]] politicized many [[intellectual]]s, it served to reinforce Badiou's commitment to the [[far left]], and he continued to organize [[communist]] ...e of Lost Causes]]'', both of which include detailed responses to Badiou’s ''[[Logics of Worlds]]'' (2006).
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  * 25 December - Lacan's brother Raymond is born (who dies two years later). * 25 December - Lacan's sister Madeleine(-Marie) is born.
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• For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor
  ...those black holes in our [[symbolic]] [[universe]] that escape the Father's [[prohibition]]. ...[[Lacan]] to these [[political]] and ideological deadlocks. The [[author]]'s own enjoyment of “popular culture” makes this an engaging and lucid exp
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• The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
  ...d character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling’s ''Weltalter'' drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attemp ...s of finitude, contingency and temporality. His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion o
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• The Plague of Fantasies
  ...Plague of [[Fantasies]] will be a welcome reminder of why they enjoy Zizek's writing so much. For new readers, it will be the beginning of a long and me
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• The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For
  Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts for the first time in human h ...st to counter this massive onslaught of obscurantism? The wager of Zizek’s The Fragile Absolute is that Christianity and Marxism should fight together
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• The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime
  ...t Highway, based on the premises of [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis]]. Lynch's unique [[universe]] of the "ridiculous sublime" is [[interpreted]] as a sim ...d [[culture]]. He offers provocative readings of [[Casablanca]], Schindler's [[List]], and [[Life]] Is Beautiful in the [[process]] of examining topics
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• The Spectre is Still Roaming Around
  Žižek, S. (2000) The [[Spectre]] is Still Roaming Around, Zagreb: Arkzin. [[Marx]]'s The [[Communist]] Manifesto, this small book/essay is now sold sepa-
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• The Abyss of Freedom
  Žižek, S. and von [[Schelling]], F.W.J. (1975) The Abyss of [[Freedom]] - Ages [[Remainder]], this book combines Žižek's essay on Schelling's Ages of the
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• Opera's Second Death
  [[Opera]]'s Second [[Death]] is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its mast |width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Opera's Second Death]]'''''. [[London]]: Routledge. November 21, 2001, 1st edition,
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• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
  Hitchcock is placed on the [[analyst]]'s couch in this extraordinary volume of [[case]] studies, as its contributors
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• Mapping Ideology
  ...st important contemporary [[writing]] on the [[subject]]. Slavoj [[Zizek]]'s introductory essay surveys the [[development]] of the [[concept]] from [[Ma
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• Cogito and the Unconscious
  Žižek, S. (ed.) (1998) [[Cogito]] and the [[Unconscious]], Durham: Duke of Žižek's essays is his central [[thesis]] that the [[subject]] is the 'monster'
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• Revolution at the Gates
  Žižek, S. (ed.) (2002) Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin vigorated in an era of multinational capitalism. In terms of Žižek's work
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• Gaze and Voice as Love Objects
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• TOC
  == Who are Žižek's influences and how do they affect his work? == === Žižek's influences: philosophy, politics and psychoanalysis ===
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• The Subject
  ...terpreting]] the cogito – the post-[[structuralist]] version and zizek’s version. ...ield of psychoanlaysis at the beginning the the twentieth century, freud’s disclosure of the [[unconscious]] demosntrated that much of our [[psychic]]
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• Jacques Lacan Books
  * 1977-79: L'insu que sait de l'une bévue s'aile a mourre. Sem. XXIV (1955-56), Ornicar? no. 12-18 * 1988: [[The Seminar]] Book I: [[Freud's Papers on Technique]] 1953-1954. Ed. Jacques-[[Alain]] Miller, Trans. John
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• Jacques Lacan Books2
  <b>The [[Neurotic]]'s [[Individual]] [[Myth]]</b>, transl. by Martha Noel Evans in <i>Psychoanaly ...r=1-36/ref=sc_b_12/102-7784753-2486567">The [[Seminar]], Book I. [[Freud]]'s Papers on [[Technique]], 1953-1954</a></b>, edited by Jacques-[[Alain]] [[M
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• Méconnaissance
  ...recognize", or "misconstruction". The [[concept]] is central to [[Lacan]]'s [[thinking]], since, for him, [[knowledge]] (''conaissance'') is inextricab
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• Metaphor
  However, [[Lacan]]'s use of the term owes little to this definition and much to the [[work]] of [[Metaphor]] thus corresponds to [[Saussure]]'s paradigmatic relations (which hold ''in absentia'') and [[metonymy]] to [[s
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• Metonymy
  However, [[Lacan]]'s use of the term owes little to this definition apart from the [[notion]] of [[Metonymy]] thus concerns the ways in which [[signifier]]s can be combined / linked in a single [[signifying chain]] ("horizontal" rel
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• Law
  ...]] principles which make social [[existence]] possible, ''the [[structure]]s that govern all forms of [[anthropology|social exchange]]'', whether [[anth ...[[sexual relationship|sexual relations]] that are, among [[nature|animal]]s, unregulated:
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• Forclusion
  ...and the concept of Verwerfung). This formula remains at the heart of Lacan's
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• Jacques Lacan:Seminars
  || [[Seminar I|'''<u><big>Freud's technical writings</big></u>''']]<BR> ''[[Seminar I|Les écrits techniques || [[Seminar II|'''<u><big>The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis</big></u>''']]<BR> ''[[Semina
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• Freud's papers on technique
  Le séminaire, Livre I: Les écrits techniques de [[Freud]] [[English]]: Book I: Freud's Papers on [[Technique]] (edited by [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]), New York: Nor
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. Le séminaire, Livre II: Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique d
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• Seminar III
  '''[[Foreclosure]]''' corresponds to [[Lacan]]'s [[translation]] of ''[[Verwerfung]]'' ([[repudiaton]]). The [[Name-of-the- ...[[Schreber case]] (as related by [[Freud]]). He argues that [[Schreber]]'s [[psychosis]] was activated by both his failure to produce a [[child]] and
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• Seminar V
  ...etween [[code]] and [[message]]." In this [[lack]] [[substitute]] [[word]]s appear and function like "the [[metonymic]] ruins of the [[object]]." ...d [[Lacan]]'s [[dialectic]] of [[desire]] is quite distinct from [[Hegel]]'s. The Graph of Desire will serve as a [[topology]] of the different steps c
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• Seminar VI
  ...he [[cure]], based on [[speech]], must make clear beyond the [[analysand]]'s [[demand]]. [[Lacan]] even asserts that "[[desire]] is its own [[interpret ...lity to [[act]]: he cannot kill Claudius - his father's killer, his mother's lover, and the usurper) - he cannot [[love]] Ophelia, "he cannot [[want]]."
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• Seminar:Transference
  1960-1961 Le séminaire, Livre VIII: Le [[transfert]] (dans sa disparité [[subjective]]). ...([[love]] and [[hate]]) it [[acts]] as a [[resistance]]. He uses [[Plato]]'s The [[Symposium]] to illustrate the rapport between [[analysand]] and [[ana
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• Seminar IX
  ...[Freud]] in <i>[[Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego]]</i> (1921, S.E. XVIII), he finds: ...of the [[Ideal]]-of-the-Ego, a symbolic [[introjection]] of the [[father]]'s mark, "An [[identity]] of body [[links]] the [[Father]] of all [[times]] to
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• Seminar VIII
  ...[[love]] and [[hate]]) it [[acts]] as a [[resistance]]. He uses [[Plato]]'s <i>[[The Symposium]]</i> to illustrate the rapport between analysand and an ...[resistance]] of the [[analyst]] and raised the problem of the [[analyst]]'s [[desire]]. Here, [[subjective]] disparity becomes the rule establishing d
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• Seminar X
  ...of the [[subject]], is not [[repressed]] but adrift; only the [[signifier]]s that anchor it are [[repressed]]. For [[Lacan]] [[anxiety]], <i>[[angoisse ...importance granted to [[symbolic]] [[castration]] in front of "the father's opaque and ungraspable desire," a [[castration]] at the origin of the [[law
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  He wants to train [[analyst]]s and, at the same [[time]], address the non-analyst by raising the following
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• Seminar XII
  <!-- <b>Le séminaire, Livre XII: Problèmes cruciaux pour la [[psychanalyse]].</b><br> ...s of the [[hole]], the [[torus]] or ring, the [[cross-cap]], and [[Euler]]'s circles as the maze of the torus or of the spiral of the demand on the surf
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• Seminar XIII
  ...it looks at me,' while the eye is made not to see..." Georges [[Bataille]]'s <i>Histoire de l'oeil</i> is quoted as a [[text]] that establishes a connec ...]]</i>, where Norman Bates' house is rendered [[uncanny]] because Hitchcok's viewpoint switches from the house coming closer (as seen by the approaching
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• The psychoanalytic act
  '''Le séminaire, Livre XV: L'[[acte]] psychanalytique.''' ...] between Saint John's "In the beginning was the [[Word]]," and [[Goethe]]'s "In the beginning was the action."
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• Seminar XVI
  ...plus-value. In the [[matheme]] of [[fantasy]], <font face="LACAN" size="3">S</font>&lt;&gt;<i>a</i>, "the [[being]] of <i>a</i> is the <i>[[plus-de-joui ...l be Done!" However, this [[sentence]] is uttered to a faceless Other. God's will, for not being our will, comes to [[lack]]; then, for lack of God, we
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  1969-1970 Le séminaire, Livre XVII: L'envers de la [[psychanalyse]]. ...iful Mouth wanders - an allusion to the [[dream]] of the beautiful butcher's wife [[analyzed]] by [[Freud]] and carried on in "The direction of the [[tr
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• Société Française de Psychanalyse
  ...ing]] [[analysts]] within the organization. The [[IPA]] demanded [[Lacan]]'s [[expulsion]]. [[Lacan]] was expelled, finally excommunicated by the [[IPA The members of the [[S.F.P]]. disbanded in 1963 and announced the group's [[dissolution]] in 1964.
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• Seminar I
  [[Seminar I|<big>Freud's Papers on Technique</big>]] |English = Freud's Papers on Technique
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• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
  Sigmund [[Freud]]'s lively book, ''The [[Psychopathology]] of Everyday [[Life]]'', has some uni
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...considered, after <i>The Interpretation of Dreams</i>, to be Sigmund Freud's "most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge" (Freud, 1905 ...ntentious reputation was not due, in all likelihood, to the first of Freud's three essays, which concerned perversions. Havelock Ellis had discussed sex
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• Totem and Taboo
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• On Narcissism
  ...4 book by [[Sigmund Freud]] widely considered an introduction to [[Freud]]'s theories of [[narcissism]].
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...igmund Freud]] is a book that describes his [[interpretation]] of religion's origins, [[development]], [[psychoanalysis]], and its future. ...ion and an error, he lists [[scientific]] beliefs such as "''[[Aristotle]]'s belief that vermin are developed out of dung''" as errors, but "''the asser
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• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...("The Uneasiness in [[Culture]]") and is considered to be one of [[Freud]]'s most important and most-read works, though today it is usually read more as ...or [[conformity]]. As a result, civilization, or its culture, inhibits man's [[instinctual]] [[drives]], which can (and perhaps must) result in [[guilt]
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...[[psychoanalytic theory]]. The book does contain [[discussion]] of Freud's [[psychoanalytic]] [[thinking]], but was intended as a work of [[history]]. Begun in 1934, and rewritten in 1936, Freud's Moses and Monotheism appeared in an abridged [[form]] in the review [[Imago
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• Studies on Hysteria
  ...[hysteria|hysterics]]". It included one of their most famous cases, Breuer's [[Anna O.]], which introduced the [[technique]] of [[psychoanalysis]] as a
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...[[unconscious]] with respect to [[dream interpretation]]. Dreams, in Freud's view, were all forms of "[[wish]]-fulfillment" &mdash; attempts by the unco ...mdash; but many also come from [[patient]] [[case]] studies. Much of Freud's sources for analysis are in [[literature]], and the book is itself as much
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• The Seminar
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• Seminar XI
  ...from official psychoanalytical circles. These political problems in Lacan's own life naturally raise theoretical problems around psychoanalytic legitim ...gacy of the Father is sin, and the original sin of psychoanalysis is Freud's [[desire]] that was not [[analyzed]].
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• Seminar II
  ...nique de la psychanalyse</small>]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar II|The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...heory and practice. He claims that "[[analysis]] deals with [[resistance]]s." He reviews three works by [[Freud]]: <i>[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]
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• Object Relations
  ...o the [[individual]]'s interaction with the [[object]]s and [[part-object]]s that constitute his or her [[environment]]. [[Object relations]] [[theory]] attempts to avoid [[Freud]]'s tendency to [[speak]] of the [[subject]] in [[isolation]] and to introduce
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• Seminar XX
  ...ain and again, but the issue unfolds in the [[dimension]] that rules Lacan's teaching at least since ''Seminar'' XVI ''D'un [[Autre]] à l'autre''— ...]] of love." b) "Ultimately, one person's body is just a part of the Other's body." c) Finally,"…it is the Other who ''jouit''."<ref>Lacan J., Encore
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• Seminar XV
  ...] between Saint John's "In the beginning was the [[Word]]," and [[Goethe]]'s "In the beginning was the action." Lacan then asserts "the [[irreducibility ...the [[analytic]] act itself." Besides, the analysand who experiences <i>désêtre</i> discovers, when becoming an analyst, that he is [[forced]] to rest
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• Psychoanalytic Theory
  ...mes taken as heir [[apparent]] to Lacan because of his editorship of Lacan's [[seminars]], his interest in analysis is even more [[philosophical]] than ...the implications for these is exemplary in their [[dispersion]]; [[Fanon]]'s interests were in racial and colonial [[identity]], whereas [[Marcuse]] and
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• Psychiatry
  ...lth care, such as [[psychologists]], [[nurse practitioner]]s, [[counselor]]s, [[physician assistants]], and [[social workers]]. In general only doctors, ...certain areas of interest such as [[psychopharmacology]], [[mood disorder]]s, [[neuropsychiatry]], eating disorders, psychiatric rehabilitation, crisis
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• Ego Psychology
  ...nalist]] version of the ego. They put much effort into theorizing the ego's various functions and how they can be impaired in [[psychopathology]]. Much ...and synthetic functioning. An important [[conceptual]] revision to Freud's [[structural]] [[theory]] was made when [[Heinz Hartmann]] argued that the
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• Semiotics
  ...nguage]]. But that word can transmit that meaning only within the language's [[grammatical]] [[structures]] and [[codes]] (see [[syntax]] and [[semantic ...ubjects. Philosophy of language pays more attention to [[natural language]]s or to [[languages]] in general, while semiotics is deeply concerned about n
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• Object Relations Theory
  ...sonality]]. [[Object relations]] theory was pioneered in the 1940's and 50's by British psychologists [[Ronald Fairbairn]], [[Winnicott|D.W. Winnicott]] ...[[whole]] person (a mother). Consequently both a mother or just the mother's breast can be the locus of [[satisfaction]] for a [[drive]]. Furthermore, a
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• Eros
  ...made [[Eros]] a fundamental [[concept]] referring to the [[life instinct]]s ([[narcissism]] and [[object libido]]), whose goals were the [[preservation Yet Freud's [[theoretical]] innovation is more than the pure speculations of [[philosop
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• Imago
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• Carl Schmitt
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• Eric Santner
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• Jodi Dean
  .... She is the [[author]] or editor of 5 previous books including [[Empire]]'s New Clothes: [[Reading]] Hardt and Negri (Routledge 2003). [http://jdeanicite.typepad.com I Cite] - Jodi Dean's weblog
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• City Lights
  In ''City Lights'', one of [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s absolute masterpieces, there is a memorable [[scene]] (commented on by [[Le
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• Publicity's Secret
  ...[[know]]." In Publicity's [[Secret]], Jodi [[Dean]] claims that the public's [[demands]] for information both coincide with the interests of the media i ...ton]]. The [[author]] claims that the media's [[insistence]] on the public's [[right]] to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and disseminati
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• Zizek's Politics
  ...ded critical introduction to the political thought of one of the [[world]]'s most widely known and eccentric thinkers.
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• Endorsement
  ...But, thanks to [[Kid A]] In Alphabet Land, I'm able to tell my [[father]]'s [[name]] apart from, say, an [[upholstery button]], and still have [[time]]
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• Kid A Intro
  '''Holy Merdre! It's...
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...in the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. ...ng such notions as the unconscious, [[defence mechanism|defense mechanism]]s, [[Freudian slips]] and [[dream symbolism]] — while also making a long-la
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• Linguistics
  ...can be traced back to the early 1930s, when he [[analyzed]] the [[writing]]s of a [[psychotic]] [[woman]] in his [[doctoral dissertation]], it is only i [[Lacan]]'s "linguistic turn" was inspired by the [[anthropology|anthropological]] [[wo
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• Mathematics
  Although there is a general shift in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] from the [[linguistic]] approach which predominates in the 1950s t [[Lacan]]'s use of [[mathematics]] represents an attempt to [[formalize]] [[psychoanaly
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• Critical theory
  ...'' (''[[Capital]]'') as "the critique of political [[economy]]". For Kant's [[transcendental idealism]], "critique" means examining and establishing th ...jh/chap20.htm] This notion of criticism ultimately goes back to Aristotle's ''Poetics'' as a theory of literature.
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• Complex
  The term "[[complex]]" occupies an important [[place]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]] before 1950, where it is closely related to ...ernalization]] of the [[subject]]'s earliest [[structure|social structure]]s (i.e. the relationships between the various actors in his [[family]] [[envi
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...an universities. He became famous for his investigations on the [[concept]]s of [[state of emergency|state of exception]] and ''[[Homo sacer]]''. ...thought]] of [[Simone Weil]]. Agamben participated in [[Martin Heidegger]]'s Le Thor [[seminars]] (on [[Heraclitus]] and [[Hegel]]) in 1966 and [[1968]]
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• Hannah Arendt
  Arendt's work deals with the [[nature]] of [[Power (sociology)|power]], and the [[su ...n townships, the Paris Commune, and the civil rights movements of the 1960's (among [[others]]) to illustrate this conception of freedom.
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• Roland Barthes
  ...rought Barthes under) for being obscure and disrespectful to the culture’s literary roots. Barthes' rebuttal in ''Criticism and [[Truth]]'' ([[1966]] ...ense critical [[reading]] of [[Balzac]]’s ''[[Sarrasine]]'' entitled ''[[S/Z]]''. Throughout the 70s Barthes would continue to develop his [[literary
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• Judith Butler
  ...e anti-identitarian turn in [[feminist]] [[thought]]. Butler and Žižek’s [[intellectual]] conversation spans nearly two decades, and includes their ...he repeated citation of a set of [[symbolic]] norms. Drawing on Foucault’s assertion that [[power]] produces its own [[resistances]], Butler stresses
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• Capitalism
  ...s a [[commodity]] or market [[society]] in which everything, including one's labor [[power]], has a price and all transactions are fundamentally exchang If much of Žižek’s [[philosophical]] endeavour entails unveiling and intertwining the enigmas
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...opened the way in psychology long before [[Miller]], Galanter, and Pribram's seminal work, Plans and the [[Structure]] of [[Behavior]] (1960). The term In fact it is easy to show that Sigmund [[Freud]]'s early work clearly makes use of a cognitive approach (H. K. Pribram, M. Gil
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• Deconstruction
  ...ger]]'s ''Abbau'' and ''Destruktion'' to [[Jacques Derrida|Jacques Derrida's]] ''dé[[construction]]''), and it has been explored by [[others]], includi ...s a member of the National Socialist [[German]] [[Workers]] Party ([[Nazi]]s), while de Man worked, during the German occupation of Belgium, as a writer
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• Jacques Derrida
  : [[Abraham]]'s sacrifice 321-2 : [[Descartes]]'s [[withdrawal]]-into-[[self]] 34
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• Frantz Fanon
  ...d [[literature]], drama and [[philosophy]]. He attended [[Merleau-Ponty]]'s lectures and studied psychiatry under the radical Catalan, Francois de Tosq ...on the black [[psyche]]. This book was a very personal account of Fanon’s [[experience]] being black: as a man, an intellectual, and a party to a Fre
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• Francis Fukuyama
  <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• German Idealism
  ...orld is experienced. It is this [[notion]] that was taken to heart by Kant's philosophical successors. ...oung Hegelians]], a [[number]] of [[philosophers]] who developed [[Hegel]]'s work in various directions, were in some cases idealists. On the other hand
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• Félix Guattari
  ...psychology]], ethnology, and [[social work]]. La Borde was Félix Guattari's principal anchoring -- a [[refusal]] to be anchored! -- until his [[death]] ...] keeps enforcing [[neurosis]] as a way of maintaining normality. Guattari's post-[[Marxist]] [[vision]] of capitalism provides a new definition not onl
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...common theme is the basic incompatibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional romance. ...are strangled and the new lodger ([[Ivor Novello]]) in the Bunting family's upstairs apartment falls under heavy suspicion. This is the first truly "Hi
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...the [[21st century]] will be [[civilization]]s rather than [[nation-state]]s. More recently, he garnered widespread attention for his analysis of [[thre ...readings for most [[graduate student]]s in [[political science]] in the U.S.
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• Ideology
  ...rates belief in that ideology, most potently in the guise of [[Althusser]]'s State Apparatuses. [[Third]], ideology assumes an almost spontaneous [[exis ...exists we must ne able to subject it to critique. This is the aim of Zizek's [[theory]] of ideology, namely an attempt to keep the [[project]] of ideolo
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...believed and what he was merely arguing for as part of a pseudo-[[author]]'s [[position]]. [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] remarked that Kierkegaard was "by fa ...s books, although she too affected his later writings. Despite his father's occasional religious [[melancholy]], Kierkegaard and his father shared a cl
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• Ernesto Laclau
  Laclau's most important book is ''[[Hegemony and Socialist Strategy]]'', which he co <blockquote><ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• Claude Lefort
  ...[text]] "L'Expérience prolétarienne" was important in shifting the group's focus towards forms of [[self]]-organisation. ...atter journal ended after a published debate during 1952-4 over [[Sartre]]'s article "The Communists and Peace".
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• Emmanuel Lévinas
  ...and [[Husserl]], producing both translations of their work (e.g., Husserl's ''[[Cartesian]] Meditations'') and original [[philosophical]] tracts. ...cognized as a teacher. Ultimately, [[morality]] is recognized through one's relation to the Other.
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• Georg Lukács
  ...about the [[novel]] as a [[literary genre]]. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of [[Culture]] following the [[1956 Hungarian Revolution]]. Lukács's [[full]] [[name]], in [[German (language)|German]], was '''Georg Bernhard L
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• Jacques-Alain Miller
  ...alysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] (in 1967 he [[married]] [[Lacan]]'s daughter [[Jacques-Alain Miller|Judith Miller]]) - is a prominent [[Lacania ...r as the sole editor of his Seminars, an endeavor that will require Miller's entire [[life]].
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• Chantal Mouffe
  ...ass]] and new social movements (notably second-wave [[feminism]] in Mouffe's [[case]]). They rejected [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[economic determinism]] and t
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• Multiculturalism
  ...don't even [[know]] whether the [[working class]] still [[exists]], so let's talk [[about]] exploitation of [[others]]. ...ress sexual harassment for a moment. Of course I am opposed to it, but let's be frank. Say I am passionately attached, in [[love]], or whatever, to anot
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• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
  <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Figh
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• Alenka Zupančič
  If [[Zupancic]]'s book does not become a classic [[work]] of reference, the only conclusion w [[Kant]], sober [[Enlightenment]] thinker and [[philosopher]]'s philosopher, seems the very antithesis of [[Lacan]], the "wild theorist" of
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• Tolerance
  ...don't even [[know]] whether the [[working class]] still [[exists]], so let's talk [[about]] exploitation of [[others]]. ...ress sexual harassment for a moment. Of course I am opposed to it, but let's be frank. Say I am passionately attached, in [[love]], or whatever, to anot
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• Agency
  =====Translator's Note===== [[Lacan]]'s use of the term "[[agency|instance]]" goes well beyond [[Freud]]'s "[[Agency|Instanz]]".
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• Orders
  ...der of the [[subject]], and its effects are radical: the subject, in Lacan's sense, is himself an effect of the symbolic. ...of kinship and its use of Jakobson's binarism provided the basis for Lacan's conception of the symbolic - a conception, however, that goes well beyond i
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  Lacan's [[thinking]] on [[feminine sexuality]] is distinguished by two main phases. ...[[process]] that invovles the cutting off, not of one's penis, but of one's ''jouissance'' and the [[recognition]] of [[lack]].
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• Logic of Sexuation
  If Freud's story in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' was a [[myth]], Lacan tries to extract a [ ...is that once the [[castration complex]] has established a [[lack]] in one's [[life]], this lack itself can take on a [[libidinal]] [[value]].
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• Femininity
  ...'our enjoyment as the Other' (2002:38). All are possible readings of Lacan's [[formula]]. Fink also remains unclear why this Other jouissance should be ...e statue by Bernini to immediately [[understand]] that she's coming. There's no [[doubt]] about it. What is she getting off on? It is clear that the ess
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...thusser, is trying to rethink [[Marxism]] without any reference to Hegel’s absolute subject, he sees Lacan as trying to [[think]] psychoanalysis witho reconcile [[existentialism]] and Marxism. A part of existentialism’s popular
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [ ...[being]] in [[love]] with one's [[mother]] and [[jealousy|jealous]] of one's [[father]] is "a [[universal]] [[event]] in early [[childhood]]."
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• Jacques Lacan:The Subject of the Unconscious
  That the unconscious is [[structured]] like a language is Lacan's central [[thesis]] and probably his most influential contribution to [[psyc the unconscious is constituted through the [[subject]]'s articulation in [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Lacanian]] unconscious is
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• Guide/The Drive
  [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of the [[drive]] was revised extensively throughout his career. By pressure Freud means the drive's motor factor, that is to say, the amount of force or meaasure of the [[dema
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...ed over the preceding definitions and functions. Hence, like many of Lacan's concepts, a consideration of the real forces us to reappraise and reformula From the 1950s until the early 1960s Lacan's creative [[energy]] was focused on elaborating the role of the [[signifier]
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• Main Page5
  : May 11: Sesame's [[Music]] Coordinator: '''[[Danny Epstein]]''' : May 10: Kermit's alma mater: '''[[Danhurst College]]'''
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• École Freudienne de Paris
  In 1969, a group disputing the [[EFP]]'s accreditation [[process]] broke away to [[form]] the [[Organisation psychan
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• Matheme
  ...[Claude Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [[matheme]]s are part of [[algebra|Lacanian algebra]]. ...It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->
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• Ethics and Politics
  The Lacanian politicization of ethics, in terms of the [[subject]]'s [[full]] [[responsibility]] for the act, would also seem to imply that ethi The [[sexual]] act as Real would mean that it's never fully the Real tThing.
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• Racism
  ...ation with a specific [[form]] of [[transgression]] of the Law, of the Law's suspension'' (in [[psychoanalytic]] [[terms]], with a specific form of ''en ...to operate as a specific form of theft for the subject - the theft of one's own enjoyment.
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• Anti-Semitism
  ...ation with a specific [[form]] of [[transgression]] of the Law, of the Law's suspension'' (in [[psychoanalytic]] [[terms]], with a specific form of ''en ...to operate as a specific form of theft for the subject - the theft of one's own enjoyment.
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• Politics
  Like [[Hegel]]'s "[[Beautiful Soul]]", liberals wring their hands over the current [[state]] [[Cynicism]] is one of Žižek's most consistent targets throughout his [[writing]].
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...ich Nietzsche - if there is a definition that really fits, it is Nietzsche's old opposition between active and passive nihilism. Active nihilism, in the ...</tr><tr><td class="bodyp">Let me return to my example. In Charlie Chaplin's film <i xmlns:script="urn:my-script-blocks">The Great Dictator</i>, he sati
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• The passion of the real
  .... It's simply that they don't feel real as persons and the [[idea]] is: it's only through this [[pain]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel recon
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• Last Man
  ...Nietzsche]] — if there is a definition that really fits, it is Nietzsche's old opposition between [[active]] and [[passive]] [[nihilism]]. Active nihi
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• Cutter
  ...'s simply that they don't feel [[real]] as persons and the [[idea]] is: it's only through this [[pain]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel recon
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• Blaise Pascal
  <blockquote>Here I would refer to Blaise Pascal. Pascal's problem was also confrontation with [[modernity]] and modern [[science]]. H
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• Postmodern Racism
  Today's [[racism]] is precisely this racism of [[cultural]] [[difference]]. It no l
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• Clash of Civilizations
  Today's [[racism]] is precisely this racism of [[cultural]] [[difference]]. It no l
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• Victimization
  ...exual]] harassment for a [[moment]]. Of course I am opposed to it, but let's be frank. Say I am passionately attached, in [[love]], or whatever, to [[an ...dirty jokes, with a member of a different [[race]] and we both [[know]] it's not meant in a racist way. If, on the [[other]] hand, we play this politica
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• Violence
  ...e light. When asked why, he says: 'I [[know]] I lost it over there, but it's easier to look for it here.' ...fective [[decolonization]]. One should [[recall]] here [[Fredric Jameso]]n's idea that violence plays in a revolutionary process the same [[role]] as wo
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• War
  ...e light. When asked why, he says: 'I [[know]] I lost it over there, but it's easier to look for it here.'
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• September 11
  ...mit that it is not special, but simply and truly part of this world.' That's the big choice.
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• Václav Havel
  ...rs in the West, while using the idealised [[Other]] (Cuba, Nicaragua, Tito's [[Yugoslavia]]) as the stuff of their [[ideological]] [[dreams]]: they [[dr <blockquote><ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  [[Lenin]]'s [[Choice]] ...round of a fundamental Denkverbot, the [[prohibition]] to [[think]]. Today's liberal-democratic [[hegemony]] is sustained by a kind of unwritten Denkver
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...of [[Stalinism]] as a rule misperceive the [[cause]] of the [[Communist]]'s attachment to the Party. Say, when, in 1939-1941 pro-Soviet Communists twic ...me kind of normalcy, at avoiding a total [[psychotic]] breakdown. On today's [[market]], we find a [[whole]] series of products deprived of their malign
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  ...ermanently. Among its predecessors, it is worth mentioning [[Philip Dick]]'s [[Time]] Out of Joint (1959), in which a hero living a modest daily [[life] ...cience]]-[[fiction]] [[films]] like Zardoz or Logan's Run forecasted today's [[postmodern]] predicament by extending this fantasy to the [[community]] i
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...interpretation, the Unconscious interprets itself) is that the [[analyst]]'s interpretation itself loses its [[performative]] "[[symbolic]] efficiency" ...t passions, or as conflicts based on the fanatic [[identification]] to one's ethnic roots (and what is "the ethnic" here if not again a codeword for nat
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...ise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked even on Wall Street. What these bot ...he original teaching into a different context (St Paul reinterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stag
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...es goes back to Plato's Republic: does The Matrix not repeat exactly Plato's dispositif of the cave (ordinary humans as prisoners, tied firmly to their ...a gigantic studio set, with cameras following him permanently. Sloterdijk's "sphere" is here literally realized, as the gigantic metal sphere that enve
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...bble [[about]] the so-called disappearing working [[class]]. Of course, it's disappearing from here. ...either the drug processing or putting together of some lethal weapon. That's the only place where you see the production process. Of course, the functio
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...definition of [[ideology]] is probably the well-known phrase from [[Marx]]'s [[Capital]]: "Sie wissen das nicht, aber sie tun es" ("they do not [[know]] ...is an unmasking gesture of psychoanalysis, it is closer to Alphonse Allais's well-known [[joke]], quoted by Lacan: somebody points at a [[woman]] and ut
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...lm]] version of Saló, which transposes it into the dark days of Mussolini's Salo republic? Lacan developed this link first in his [[Seminar]] on The Et ...is a [[superego]] [[agency]] that sadistically [[enjoys]] the [[subject]]'s deadlock, his inability to meet its inexorable [[demands]], like the prover
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...position of "[[human]] persons" versus "things." Is it not one of [[Marx]]'s standard determinations of fetishism that, in it, we are dealing with "rela ...ace of us"? The point worth [[repeating]] again and again is that, in Marx's notion of fetishism, the place of the fetishist [[inversion]] is not in wha
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? ...he semiotic Japan. The empty signs, no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein fo
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...sp of the [[phallic function]]. Such a [[reading]] completely misses Lacan's point, which is that this very position of the [[Woman]] as exception-say, .../ref> In the case of Woman-the mythical She, the Queen from Rider Haggard's novel of the same name for example-as well as in the case of the primordial
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...h. But they missed the point, because the [[identification]] that Thatcher's discourse gave you was not that you would actually become rich, but, rather ...satisfaction, so that you don't [[need]] to [[pass]] into [[action]]. Let's say that the [[conditions]] of possibility are related to the field.
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
  ...s (BW), a [[film]] which enables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine [[jouissance]]. ...Naked Miracles," Interview with Lars von Trier.</ref> is set during the 70's in a small Presbyterian [[community]] on the West Coast of Scotland. Bess,
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin is Writ Large
  What's wrong with [[The Wrong Man]]? ...urther proof of Hitchcock's personal commitment: he renounced his director's fee for The Wrong Man.</ref>
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...signifier]], Spinozism produces detachment from [[human]] [[desire]]. Kant's [[practical]] [[reason]], sustained by [[moral]] law, brings out desire at .... It was a kind of [[false]] leap, but if your question implies that today's [[world]] is paradoxically closer to the neo-Spinozist universality of the
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...he [[present]] crisis of post-socialist states is the [[struggle]] for one's [[place]]: who will be admitted — integrated into the developed [[capital ...[[James]] Baker, Douglas Hurd, [[Hans]]-Dietrich Genscher et al, are today's version of the New Zealand expedition. They act and react in the same way,
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• Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination?
  ...vity, this Derridean reaction to the famous closing [[statement]] of Lacan's "[[Seminar]] on 'The [[Purloined Letter]]' (2) rather exhibits what we coul 6. Jacques Lacan, "[[Intervention]] on [[Transference]]" in In [[Dora]]'s [[Case]], ed. by Charles Bernheimer and Claire Cahan, London: Virago Press,
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place]] in it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavou ...bate between multiple interests, but, simultaneously, the struggle for one's [[voice]] to be heard and recognized as the voice of a legitimate partner:
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...a kind of psychotic incestuous immersion, one should thus discern in today's often clumsy and ambiguous improvisations [[about]] "cyberspace rules" prec ...universe is the universe of pure [[symbolic order]], of the [[signifier]]'s game running its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So
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• Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism
  ...ized, benign form, which forecloses the dimension of the Real of the Other's jouissance.
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...busy for the next 400 years has to be read against the background of Lacan's assertion that, within a [[psychoanalytic]] [[cure]], a symptom is always a ...oks, how beautiful she is, answers: "I personally don't like her, but that's a matter of taste." The [[paradox]] of this answer does not point towards a
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, as [[Freud]] emphasizes, is so rad ...ted. This [[notion]] of "acephalic" knowledge emerges rather late in Lacan's teaching, after the [[relationship]] between knowledge and truth underwent
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  The axis of Badiou's theoretic edifice is, as the title of his main [[work]] indicates, the gap ...ianity]] (perhaps the example of the Truth-Event): the Event is [[Christ]]'s advent and [[death]]; its ultimate Goal is the Last Judgment (the Redemptio
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...Will, seems to offer the best imaginable confirmation of [[Sylvia]] Plath's famous line, "…every [[woman]] adores a Fascist." However, although it is ...as Shrugged constructs a purely fantasmatic scenario: John Galt, the novel's mysterious hero, assembles all prime movers and organizes their strike —
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...nne Balibar, La Criante des Masses: Politique st Philosophie avant et aprés [[Marx]] (Paris, 1997).</ref> Politics proper thus always involves a kind o ...t towards reunification of [[Germany]], which meant rejoining West Germany's [[liberal]]-[[capitalist]] police/political order.</ref>
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  The first, automatic reaction of today's enlightened [[liberal]] reader to The [[Communist]] Manifesto is: isn't the ...uishes two opposite but complementary modes of excessive violence in today's world 3: the "ultra-objective" ("[[structural]]") violence that is inherent
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...minated in the great purges of the 30s: J. Arch Getty's and Oleg V. Naumov's The Road to [[Terror]].^{<a href="#1">1</a>}&nbsp; Based on the arc ...Fiorentino utterly [[evil]] [[femme]] fatale [[character]] from John Dahl's neo-noir The Last [[Seduction]]: "Most people have a dark side… she had [
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• Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash
  ...discern in it the entire ambiguity: "that's it" precisely insofar as that's NEVER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a ga
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
  ...nora Fulani, the Black activist from Harlem, has endorsed Patrick Buchanan's Reform Party presidential candidacy, declaring that she will try to bring h ...eye? The [[tradition]] which goes back to [[Wagner]]'s Rheingold and Lang's Metropolis, the tradition in which the working [[process]] takes place unde
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• Run, Isolde, Run
  ...ard procedures that we can really grasp the narrative [[logic]] of Dickens's great novels or of Madame Bovary. ...], the [[reading]] of the crucial Modern Age century events, from Cromwell's victory over the Stuarts and the American War of Independence to the disint
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• Matinee Idols: Joan Bennett
  ...mme]] fatale, the anxious housewife or the vulnerable bride (in Fritz Lang's [[Secret]] Beyond the Door). ...th her… So when I saw her in her ultimate [[femme fatale]] role, in Lang's The [[Woman]] in the Window, the only question that bothered me was: Did La
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...ing the level of its [[notion]]: perhaps, one should follow again [[Marx]]'s old, antievolutionist motto (incidentally taken verbatim from [[Hegel]]) th ...nce only by magically spinning itself into an excess of itself. Does today's virtual capitalist not function in a homologous way: his "net value" at zer
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...der]] to assert Socialism’s success, is in itself a proof of Socialism’s utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist r ...erhaps the only significant, although [[negative]], [[event]] of Clinton’s presidency bears [[witness]] to the [[material]] force of the ideological n
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ..., let us start with Gilles [[Deleuze]]'s exemplary [[analysis]] of Chaplin's late [[films]]: ...e, that small difference of triteness, on account of which the funny clown's [[number]] changes into a tedious [[spectacle]]?<ref>Deleuze, Gilles, L'[[i
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...at a similar experience gave [[birth]] to [[Leninism]]. Consider [[Lenin]]'s shock when, in the autumn of 1914, every European [[social]] democratic par ...the extraordinary step of dissociating themselves and the Party from Lenin's proposals. Bogdanov characterised the April Theses as "the delirium of a ma
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ==Lenin's Choice== ...the [[notorious]] Big Brother [[reality]] soap, is C'est mon [[choix]] (It's my [[choice]]) on France 3, a talk-show whose guest is each [[time]] an ord
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• Homo Sacer in Afghanistan
  ...trast to the deceiving appearances, brings to light / constructs the enemy's "true face." Schmitt refers here directly to the Kantian [[category]] of Ei
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  In The [[Minority Report]] (2002), Steven [[Spielberg]]'s last [[film]] based on a Phillip Dick short story, criminals are arrested b ...trategy were perfect, it would, on the opposite, endorse the attitude "Let's fight a full conventional war, since we both [[know]] that no side will ris
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...l supplies function as the famous "umbilical cord" of the US justification(s) — almost tempted, since it would perhaps be more reasonable to claim tha ...: one should not forget that the majority of Iraqis effectively are Saddam's victims, and they would be really glad to get rid of [[them]]. He was such
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...]]'s [[name]] for the psychic [[apparatus]] insofar as it resists the soul's domination. That is to say, when, in his well-known definition of the soul ...oth functioning of power mechanisms, that [[interpellation]] - the subject's [[recognition]] in his or her allotted symbolic [[place]] - is always ultim
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• You May
  ...es - an [[instance]] of the 'reflexivisation' of everyday customs in today's 'risk [[society]]'. According to the [[risk society]] [[theory]] of Anthony .... Reverse racism plays a crucial [[role]] in the success of Emir Kusturica's [[films]] in the West.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ty of submitting oneself to the inevitable, the fundamental mode of object's passivity, of its passive presence, is that which moves, annoys, disturbs, ...picture": <a name="2"></a><a href="#2x">2</a> the first part of this Lacan's statement designates subjectivization, the dependence of reality on its sub
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  Here Hegel's [[logic]] of [[triad]]s gets stuck into a deadlock: the triad that offers itself is that of Judaism ...n imposing a unity. How, exactly, are we to understand this? The subject's [[spontaneity]] emerges as a disturbing CUT into the substantial [[reality]
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...the [[lacks]] and distortions of the explicit symbolic tradition. Judaism's stubborn attachment to the unacknowledged violent founding gesture that hau ...and the ensuing [[guilt]] as bringing brothers together – thence Islam’s unexpected actuality.<br><br>
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...ing we cannot but to, since we cannot do it otherwise. Which is why today's worry of the [[Left]]ists that revolution will not occur, that [[global]] c ...s of [[Etienne Balibar]]: [[modernity]] opens up a field of new [[freedom]]s, but at the same [[time]] of new dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleol
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• With or Without Passion
  What's Wrong with [[Fundamentalism]]? - Part I ...e "innocent" the title refers to, was not a naïve believer in her husband's fidelity - she knew well of his passionate [[love]] for Countess Olenska, s
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• Move the Underground!
  What's Wrong with [[Fundamentalism]]? - Part II ...the two melodic lines we effectively hear in [[reality]] (as in [[Freud]]'s "A [[child]] is [[being]] beaten," in which the middle [[fantasy]] [[scene]
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...s of those who, even prior to its release, virulently criticize Mel Gibson's <i>[[Passion]]</i> seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their w ...oday's enlightened anti-Semite who, although he does not believe in Christ's divinity, nonetheless blames Jews for killing our Lord [[Jesus]]? Or as the
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• Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
  ...e cut]] of 39-45."<a name="5x"></a><a href="#5"> 5</a> In this way, today's anti-Semitism can [[present]] itself as anti-anti-Semitism, [[full]] of [[s ...[[another]] temporary embodiment - here are the very last lines of Milner's book:</font></p>
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• Opera
  <b>Walhalla's Frigid Joys</b> ...lhalla, preferring the [[love]] of a miserable mortal [[woman]] to Walhall's <i>sproeden Wonnen</i>. The shattered Brunhilde comments on this [[refusal]
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...e no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's term for a fake master. — How, then, more closely, are we to read the [[u ...reign [[body]] in its very heart. Perhaps the exemplary case of the Master's position which underlies the university discourse is the way in which medic
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...s, in Algeria a couple of years ago, and the situation is similar in today's Pakistan.) In such a case, many a democrat would concede that the people wa ...raditional family order (incidentally, a fact more true today than in Marx's time), as well as expropriating the large majority of the population. In th
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...... Is, however, this gesture of "reconciliatory sacrifice" not [[Christ]]'s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of ...locates the gap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]] - Judaism's fundamental ethical task is that of how "to be without being a murderer":
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...pect with regard to the distinction between the Real and reality: Morpheus's famous "Welcome to the desert of the real!" does not refer to the real worl ...t as simple as that: what, exactly, does Neo offer to humanity at the film's end? Not a direct awakening into the "desert of the Real," but a free float
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...these "black sites" with "[[ghost]] prisoners": to do so could open the U.S. [[government]] to [[legal]] challenges, since the prisoners are there subm ...bout transferring some suspects to our less squeamish allies, even if that's hypocritical. Nobody said this was going to be pretty."<ref>Jonathan Alter,
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...virulently criticize Mel Gibson's new film on the last 12 hours of Christ's life, seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the ...rong with liberal tolerance, with the Politically Correct fear that anyone's specific religious sensibility may be hurt: even if it says in the Bible th
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...splinter in your mind, driving you mad. /.../ The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. /.../ It is the world that has been ...n of humanity announced by Neo in the last [[scene]]. As the result of Neo's [[intervention]], there is a "SYSTEM FAILURE" in the Matrix; at the same ti
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  The very beginning of [[David Lynch]]'s The Straight Story, the [[words]] that introduce the credits, "Walt Disney ...at I see is merely part of the standard maintenance and repair of the city's underground services network.) Here, again, as in the [[domain]] of [[sexua
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ..., etc., and approach the difficult task of specifying what gives Hitchcock's films their unique flair.<br> ...which lie to tell), Norman hesitates as to in which unit to put her (if it's 1, this means that he will be able to observe her secretly through the peep
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...l style, far from the usual pathetic narratives of the mystical rapture. C.S. Lewis' description of the act thus deftly avoids any ecstatic pathos in th ...p-drip and presently trickle-trickle. I rather disliked the feeling.<ref>C.S.Lewis, <i>Surprised by Joy</i>, [[London]]: Fontana Books, 1977, p. 174-5.<
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...o leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br> ...MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"<br><br>
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...sive]] pursuit of contradictory goals-promoting [[democracy]], affirming U.S. [[hegemony]], and ensuring [[stable]] [[energy]] supplies-will produce suc ...mes, starting with [[Iran]] and North Korea, the two other members of Bush's infamous "axis of evil"?
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...[[truth]]" of the three [[official]] reasons (the [[need]] to destroy Iraq's WMD is evoked to justify the brutal need to assert the US hegemony), with t ...t did the terrorists who destroyed the Twin Towers effectively DO to the U.S. before [[September 11]]? They also did [[nothing]]!'" So, in short: in the
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...haps the [[time]] to revisit this question. My aim here is to take Mueller's stance seriously as a THEORETICO-POLITICAL [[position]], not just as a pseu ...that he just wants to drown himself in alcohol and drugs). A lot of today's claims on how the XXth century was the most catastrophic in the entire [[hu
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...he [[dead]] father which appears to Hamlet is the [[projection]] of Hamlet's own [[guilt]] with [[regard]] to his death-[[wish]]; his [[hatred]] of Clau ...reading: does the Hamlet narrative "mean" stars, or do stars "mean" Hamlet's narrative, i.e. did the Ancients use their astronomical [[knowledge]] in [[
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...ify]] (to [[name]]) "[[democracy]]" as the common denominator of all today's emancipatory movements: "The common currency that runs throughout so many s ...(re)production of the social relations within which it occurs; with today's capitalism, however, the production of social relations is the immediate en
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...tive violence, a violence which is almost exclusively directed against one's own - the cars burned and the [[schools]] torched were not from rich neighb ...[[philosopher]] do here? One should bear in [[mind]] that the philosopher's task is not to propose solutions, but to reformulate the problem itself, to
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...has to be supplemented by the attitude of “getting-out-of-each-other’s-way,” by maintaining an appropriate distance, by a new “code of discret ...full of passionate intensity.” Is this not a good description of today’s split between anemic liberals and impassionate fundamentalists? The best ar
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...] and, if it is positive, find out exactly when we will go mad and die. It's hard to imagine a clearer confrontation with the meaninglessness of a [[lif ...ersion of the old argument that, if we are to retain our moral dignity, it's better not to know certain things. Curtailing [[science]], as Habermas seem
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• Knee-Deep
  ...s of the [[recent]] tensions between the key [[Western Europe]]an [[state]]s and the [[US]]. His aperçus [[about]] the relations between the [[UK]], [ In a famous [[scene]] from [[Buñuel]]'s <i>[[Phantom]] of Liberty</i>, the roles of eating and excreting are invert
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...iginal ethical stance, but is inherent in it. The ultimate lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation
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• Are We in a War
  ...Poland]], '[[Concentration camp|Concentration Camp]]' Erhardt (in Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be) snaps back: 'We do the concentrating, and the Poles do ...k]] about [[Torture]]' (5 November 2001), with the ominous subheading: 'It's a new [[world]], and survival may well require old techniques that seemed o
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• Revolution
  ...fective [[decolonization]]. One should [[recall]] here [[Fredric Jameso]]n's [[idea]] that violence plays in a revolutionary process the same [[role]] a * [[Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy]]
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• Ethics and the Real
  Lacan’s [[thought]] around 1960 is characterized by a tension centering around the The [[goal]] of [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is the analysand’s assumption of his desire.
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• Seminar VII
  ...makes [[three]] statements: one is only guilty of "having given in on one's desire"; "the hero is the one who can be betrayed with impunity"; goods [[e ...ation]] is an attempt to confront the [[Thing]]: [[true]] [[love]] for one's [[neighbor]] consists in recognizing in him, as in oneself, the place and t
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• Mother
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• Oedipus complex
  ...hy|Two Encyclopaedia Articles]]", [[SE]], Vol. 18, p. 247.</ref> [[Freud]]'s conception of the [[Oedipus complex]] is probably one of the most populariz ...ct]] experiences in relation to its [[parents]]; the [[subject]] [[desire]]s one parent, and thus enters into rivalry with the [[other]] parent. In the
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• Ambivalence
  Freud integrated Abraham's contributions in the thirty-second of his New Introductory Lectures on [[Ps
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• Love
  ...ry]] [[nature]] of [[love]] leads [[Lacan]] to oppose all those [[analyst]]s who posit [[love]] as an [[ideal]] in [[psychoanalytic treatment]].<ref>{{S ...ve]], and this is what distinguishes it from the [[order]] of the [[drive]]s, in which there is no reciprocity, only pure [[activity]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 2
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• Master
  ...ing]] of [[Hegel]], which [[Lacan]] encountered when attending [[Kojève]]'s lectures on [[Hegel]] in the [[{{Y}}#1930|1930s]].<ref>[[Alexandre Kojève| ...of himself on an [[other]]. However, since this [[other]] also [[desire]]s [[recognition]], he also must do the same, and hence the [[subject]] is [[f
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• Nature
  ...istinction]] he draws between [[human]] [[being]]s and [[other]] [[animal]]s, or, as [[Lacan]] puts it, between "[[nature|human society]]" and "[[nature ...e]]; [[human]]s have [[language]], whereas [[animal]]s merely have [[code]]s.
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• Religion
  [[Freud]] argued that [[religion]]s were an attempt to protect oneself against [[suffering]] by "a delusional r [[Lacan]]'s [[discourse]] abounds in [[metaphor]]s drawn from [[Christian]] [[theology]]. The most obvious example is surely
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• Dream
  Such, in highly condensed [[form]], is [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] as set forth in the founding [[work]] of [[psychoanalysis]], ''[ ...wishes and psychic [[defense]] mechanisms. The radical [[nature]] of Freud's [[position]] was illuminated by his divergence from Josef [[Breuer]], who s
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• The Ambassadors
  ...t taken advantage of by Flemish masters. What is most "Flemish" of Holbein's use of oils is his use of the medium to render meticulous details that are ...a stairwell, so that a person [[walking]] up the stairs from the painting's right would be startled by the [[appearance]] of the skull.[http://www.worl
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• Castration
  ===The notion of castration in Freud's work=== Freud's argument in the [[case]] of the boy is that his [[wish]] to take his mother
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• Dompte-regard
  ...[split]] between the [[eye]] and the [[gaze]] when he analyzes [[Holbein]]'s [[The Ambassadors]] as a "trap for [[The Gaze|the gaze]]" (''piège à rega ...rt of the organization of [[desire]] through the framework of the [[drive]]s.
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• Roger Caillois
  ...ogy]], and [[philosophy]] by focusing on [[subjects]] as diverse as [[gem]]s and the [[sacred]]. He was also instrumental in introducing [[Latin]] Ameri ...r]] to prepare for examinations for a top spot at [[university]]. Caillois's efforts paid off and he entered the [[École Normale Supérieure]], graduat
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• Lure
  ...notion of 'allurement' and 'enticement.'"<ref>Sheridan, Alan. "Translator's Note", in {{E}} [1977]. p. xi</ref></blockquote> ...[[being]]s are not the only [[animal]]s who are capable of setting [[lure]]s, and this fact is sometimes used to argue in favor of the [[existence]] of
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• Surrealism
  [[Breton]] was familiar with Freud's work on dreams and developed a technique of 'spontaneous' writing to give f ...ame [[time]] he entered [[analysis]] with [[Rudolph Loewenstein]], the SPP's most famous [[training]] [[analyst]] (a recognized [[psychoanalyst]] who is
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• Alexandre Kojève
  ...3-1939 he taught a series of lectures on [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]'s [[work]], ''[[Phenomenology of Spirit]]''. After [[World War II]], Kojève ...]], [[England]] and [[Italy]]. Coming in the heels of [[Alexandre Koyré]]'s [[understanding]] of [[Time]] in Hegel, Kojève helped [[change]] this in F
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• Phallocentrism
  ...]]'s [[biology|biologistic account]] of [[male]] superiority and [[women]]'s [[penis-envy]] to be explained in [[linguistics|linguistic]] and [[symbolic
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• Penis-envy
  ...all girl feels sensitive over tbe [[lack]] of a sex organ equal to the boy's, and holds herself to be inferior on that account; and that this "penis-env
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• Voyeurism
  ...seen [[looking]], in order to respond to what he believes is the [[other]]'s [[desire]] to [[see]]. [[Freud]] continued to emphasize the visual component of the [[perversion]]s, but for him the specificity of [[voyeurism]] is important because of the v
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• Exhibitionism
  ...]] perversion in which [[satisfaction]] is linked to the displaying of one's [[genital]] parts. [[Psychoanalysis]] broadens this [[notion]] by acknowled ...t is a means of constantly insisting upon the integrity of the [[subject]]'s own ([[male]]) genitals and it reiterates his infantile satisfaction at the
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• The Purloined Letter
  '''"The Purloined [[Letter]]"''' is one of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s [[detective story|detective stories]]. It is the [[third]] of the [[three]] ...Queen. The culprit is the unscrupulous Minister D-. He was in the Queen’s room, saw the letter, and switched it for a letter of no importance. He has
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• Ex-sistence
  ...ere. Outside in the [[sense]] that it is not a [[wish]] [[[desire]]], 'Let's do that again!' but, rather, 'Isn't there something else you could do, some
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• Need
  ...er]]) can and may supply the [[object]] which [[satisfies]] the [[infant]]'s [[need]], she is never in a [[position]] to answer the [[demand]] for [[lov
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• International Psycho-Analytical Association
  ...since the [[{{Y}}|1930s]], when most of the [[{{G}}|Viennese]] [[analyst]]s emigrated to the [[{{G}}|United States]]. ...obstacle blocking negotiations. The main bone of contention was [[Lacan]]'s use of [[treatment|sessions of variable duration]], which he continued to p
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• Love beyond Law
  coordinates of Jacques [[Lacan]]'s [[conceptual]] network; it also proposes original solutions to ...ast clarifications of) some of the crucial dilemmas [[left]] open by Lacan's [[work]]. The
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...the [[physical]] details of actions are necessarily bound up with a person's subjective preferences, and could have been brought [[about]] without the a ...it denies the status of a person as an end in himself. One cannot, on Kant's account, ever suppose a right to treat another person as a mere means to an
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• Two Deaths
  ...in]] between the two deaths "precisely in [[order]] to prevent her brother's [[second death]]: to give him a proper funeral that will secure his eternal
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• No Subject - Articles
  ...P]] [[Special:Allpages/Q|Q]] [[Special:Allpages/R|R]] [[Special:Allpages/S|S]] [[Special:Allpages/T|T]] [[Special:Allpages/U|U]] [[Special:Allpages/V|V]
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• Abraham
  ...one has already committed a [[sign]] if one simply covets one's neighbour's wife.)"</blockquote>
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• Judaism
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• Theodor Adorno
  ...ation [[about]] [[Theodor Adorno]] can be found in the following reference(s):
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• Instrumental Reason
  ...o break out of capitalism while retaining its key ingredient.<ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• Frankfurt School
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• Post-Communist
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• Personality
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• Antigone (Lacan)
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• Masculinity
  ...and can never be [[satisfaction|satisfied]]. We are plagued as [[subject]]s by the [[anxiety]] that our ''[[jouissance]]'' - our [[pleasure]] or [[enjo ...canian]] '[[formulae]] of [[sexuation]]" make up a crucial part of Žižek's thinking: one way of characterizing the overall trajectory of his [[work]]
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• Beloved
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• Life is Beautiful
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• Bhaghavad-Gita
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• Blade Runner
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• The Communist Manifesto
  <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• Crowd Psychology
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• Eighteenth Brumaire
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• The End of History
  <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• The Usual Suspects
  <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• Andy Warhol
  <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• Oprah Winfrey
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• Joseph Stalin
  December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] – March 5, 1953) was the [[leader]] of the [[Soviet <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• Star Wars
  <ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth
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• Buddha
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• Carl Gustav Jung
  ...gist]] and practicing clinician for most of his [[life]], much of his life's [[work]] was spent exploring [[other]] realms: Eastern vs. Western philosop ...became familiar with Freud's [[idea]] of the [[unconscious]] through Freud's ''The [[Interpretation]] of Dreams'' ([[1900]]) and a proponent of the new
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• Jesus Christ
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• Kim Yong Il
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• Lionel Jospin
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• Saint Paul
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• Anthony Giddens
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• John Gray
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• The Spirit is a Bone
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• The Night of the World
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• Lacan - ÂŽižek
  <blockquote><ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian]] Legacy is Worth ==Medea and women's acts==
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• Jean-Marie Le Pen
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• Parallax View
  The subject's elementary, founding, gesture is to subject itself - voluntarily, of course ...ty of submitting oneself to the inevitable, the fundamental mode of object's passivity, of its passive presence, is that which moves, annoys, disturbs,
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• Parallax
  ...p. 63. Quoted in [[The Parallax View]].</ref> the first part of this Lacan's [[statement]] designates [[subjectivization]], the [[dependence]] of [[real
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• Materialism
  The questions of whether [[Freud]]'s views can be considered materialistic or not is difficult to answer. ...nn Helmholtz and Ernst Brücke). On the [[other]] hand, he opposed Charcot's attempts to explain all [[hysterical]] [[symptoms]] by reference to lesions
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• Supplement
  ...f [[Derrida]]'s [[deconstruction]] and of his critique of [[logocentrism]]'s neglect of [[writing]], as typified by the Western [[tradition]] from [[Pla ...to be the prior term; at the same [[time]], the [[chain]] of [[supplement]]s or substitutions reveals the [[lack]] within it.
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• Gap
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• Henry James
  <blockquote>In Henry James's "The [[Real]] [[Thing]]," the painter-narrator agrees to hire the impoveris
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• Francis Scott Fitzgerald
  ...the problem of the two versions of Tender Is the Night, see Malcolm Cowley's "Introduction" to the Penguin edition (Harmondsworth [[1948]]).</ref> ...say that the flashback chapter on the [[prehistory]] of Dick's and Nicole's marriage, far from providing a truthful account of the [[reality]] beneath
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• Seduction
  ...ced by contrary evidence but always anchored in clinical experience. Freud's self-[[analysis]], undertaken in the preceding months, following the [[deat ...n, and strange: this was the context of the [[seduction theory]]; in Freud's second clinical doctrine, the child was acknowledged to be the "polymorphou
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• Jean Laplanche
  ...own for his [[work]] on [[psychosexual development]] and [[Sigmund Freud]]'s [[seduction theory]], and has written more than a dozen books on [[psychoan
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...that both the [[United States]] and [[Europe]] have concluded that Iran’s nuclear ambitions pose "a [[threat]] for the entire [[international communi But are nuclear arms in the hands of Iran's rulers really a threat to international peace and security? To answer the
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...im|multicultural]] "[[tolerance]]." It effectively is part of [[capital]]'s strategy to hold in check the [[demands]] of workers!) ...te, a monument to their inability to articulate and translate the people’s longings and dissatisfactions into a political vision. Instead, in their r
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• The Pope's Failures
  ...hen quickly withdrawn by [[Vatican]] officials. A glimpse into the Pope’s spontaneous reaction was thus replaced by the “[[official]],” neutral s
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• Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
  ...ddam]]. To this majority, the caution expressed by [[West]]ern [[liberal]]s cannot but appear deeply hypocritical. Do they really care about how the I ...proached me for betraying the unique chance of maintaining [[Milosevic]]’s [[Yugoslavia]] — to which I always answered that I am not yet ready to le
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• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...e]]s" who supposedly held certain [[superstition|superstitious]] [[belief]]s (that they descend from a fish or from a bird, for example) asked [[them]] ...logical]] condition. Why? Because the causes of all [[social antagonism]]s were projected onto the "Jew" — an [[object]] of [[perversion|perverted]]
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...Empire should be read against the background of [[Hardt]] and [[Negri]]’s <i>[[Empire]]</i> (from [[Nation State]] to the [[Global]] [[Empire]]). ...container of multiple, inconsistent and even mutually exclusive [[meaning]]s. The question "But what does this political myth really mean?" is the wron
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...hing]] is going on today in Kansas - and this is the topic of Thomas Frank's new outstanding book. ...d in the strange twists of today's conservative [[politics]], it is ''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' by Tho
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• The De-Sublimated Object of Post-Ideology
  ...f Negri and Hardt not a kind of unexpected confirmation of this [[Badiou]]'s insight? Following a paradoxical [[necessity]], their very (focusing on) an
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• Anxiety: Kierkegaard with Lacan
  One should bear in [[mind]] [[Lacan]]'s lesson here: accepting [[guilt]] is a manoeuvre which delivers us of [[anxi
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• The Constitution is Dead - Long Live Proper Politics
  ...experience of regulating such a life they quickly run into trouble. There's a backlash that generates unbearable anxiety, so it is a safe bet that afte ...media elite. It is a monument to their inability to articulate the people's longings and dissatisfactions. Instead, in their reaction to the no results
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• Odradek as a Political Category
  This is how one should approach Odradek, one of [[Kafka]]'s key achievements:<ref>[[Franz Kafka]], "The Cares of a [[Family]] Man," The ...with no fixed domicile. The choice underlying Kafka's story is thus Lacan's le père ou pire, "the father or worse": Odradek is "the worst" as an alter
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• The Politics of Jouissance
  The problem with today's [[superego]] [[injunction]] to [[enjoy]] is that, in contrast to previous m
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• The Empty Wheelbarrow
  ...ntellectuals, perhaps best encapsulated by the French poet [[Paul]] Eluard's [[refusal]] to demonstrate support for the victims of Stalinist show trials
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• A Cup of Decaf Reality
  ...ng, but precisely for that [[reason]] we [[want]] to make it clear that it's all a big [[joke]], that the actors are not really engaged?<br><br> ...]? The fight against these dangers is one of the main investments of today's "[[biopolitics]]." Solutions are here desperately sought which would reprod
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• Jews, Christians and other Monsters
  ...drawn from this is that one should [[renounce]] the very striving for one's own (spiritual) salvation as the highest [[form]] of egotism — according
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...lates a general structure of universality.&nbsp; But how separable is Paul's gesture in founding Christianity from the particularities of Christianity i ...of religious interpellation.&nbsp; So no wonder that the best example, it's religious!&nbsp; But paradoxically there is no place for religion.&nbsp; Yo
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• Hooray for Bush!
  This is not to say, however, that [[Bush]]'s victory was just an accident or a mistake, the result of fraud and manipula ...obal]] vision that presented a viable alternative to Bush's. Besides, Bush's victory is paradoxically better for the [[economic]] prospects of both [[Eu
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• Entretien avec SZ, le nouvel philosophe
  ...ontemporaine la plus pointue, de Giorgio [[Agamben]] à Toni Negri, le très original Zizek ne tardera pas à devenir ici aussi une [[voix]] écoutée. ...nds pas que le [[phallus]] est le [[signifiant]] de la [[castration]]!" Il s'agissait d'un débat entre hommes politiques nationaux, un peu comme si [[B
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• Between Two Deaths
  Does anyone still [[remember]] 'Comical Ali', [[Saddam]]'s information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who, in his daily press confe
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  [[Henning Mankell]]'s [[recent]] series of police procedurals set in the southern Swedish town of ...es taking place in ancient imperial China; even one of [[Agatha Christie]]'s novels - <i>[[Death]] Comes at the End</i> - is set in the ancient Egypt of
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• Over the Rainbow
  ...bortion and [[homosexuality]] on the other: so Thomas Frank argues in What's the Matter with America? The main economic interest of populist conservatis
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• Not a Desire to Have Him, But to Be Like Him
  ...make her home in 'old [[Europe]]'. As Frank Rich put it, she 'made a life's work of her ostracisation from the American mainstream and her own subseque
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...virulently criticize Mel Gibson's new film on the last 12 hours of Christ's life, seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the ...rong with liberal tolerance, with the Politically Correct fear that anyone's specific religious sensibility may be hurt: even if it says in the Bible th
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• Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
  effect of the fact that du Maurier's narratives directly, all too directly, [[stage]] the [[fantasies]] embarrassing, direct staging of fantasies that makes du Maurier's [[writing]] so
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• Paranoid Reflections
  ...quickly (perhaps even by the [[time]] this is published) and if [[Saddam]]'s [[regime]] disintegrates, there will be a general sigh of relief, even amon
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...sing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? Under the [[Bush]] Administration's "faith-based initiatives," for example, fundamentalist [[Christian]] organi ...Hegelian]] [[terms]] - the form of the [[appearance]] of its opposite. Let's be serious: Nobody will convince me that [[people]] like Donald Rumsfeld, J
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• The State of Emergency Called Love
  Because of this overlapping between man's isolation from God and God's isolation FROM HIMSELF, [[Christianity]] is "terribly revolutionary. That a
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• Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies
  ...released with the extended ending, the additional short [[scene]] in Midge's apartment, with Scottie and Midge [[listening]] to the radio which announce * [[Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies]]. ‘’[[Lacanian]] Ink’’. Volume 22. Fall 2004
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...o leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'" ...MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's not a MacGuffin, is it?'"
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...e no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's term for a fake master. — How, then, more closely, are we to read the [[u ...reign [[body]] in its very heart. Perhaps the exemplary case of the Master's position which underlies the university discourse is the way in which medic
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• The Desert and the Real
  ...ermanently. Among its predecessors, it is worth mentioning [[Philip Dick]]'s [[Time]] Out of Joint (1959), in which a hero living a modest daily [[life] ...cience]]-[[fiction]] [[films]] like Zardoz or Logan's Run forecasted today's [[postmodern]] predicament by extending this fantasy to the [[community]] i
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• The Only Good Neighbour is a Dead Neighbour!
  ...ould collapse and [[Germany]] would have won the war; if Erich von Manheim's deft maneuvers were not to prevent the collapse of the entire German front
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...x, the archetypal [[film]] of the twentieth century would be Nagisa Oshima's Ai No Corrida where the [[idea]] again is that you become truly radical, an ...de]]. It's simply that they don't feel real as persons and the idea is: it's only through this [[pain]] and when you feel warm blood that you feel recon
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...ise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked even on Wall Street. What these bot ...he original teaching into a different context (St Paul reinterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stag
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  The entry of Jörg Haider's Freedom Party into a coalition government in Austria has been greeted with ...s as different as Alain Badiou and Fredric Jameson have pointed out, today's multiculturalist celebration of the diversity of lifestyles and thriving of
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• Desert of the Real
  ...nora Fulani, the Black activist from Harlem, has endorsed Patrick Buchanan's Reform Party presidential candidacy, declaring that she will try to bring h ...eye? The [[tradition]] which goes back to [[Wagner]]'s Rheingold and Lang's Metropolis, the tradition in which the working [[process]] takes place unde
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• Femininity Between Goodness And Act
  ...></i>), a [[film]] which enables us to avoid the fatal misreading of Lacan's [[notion]] of feminine <i>[[jouissance]]</i>.</tt></font><p> ...="#adb5bd" size="-0"><tt>¹</tt></font></a> is set during the 70's in a small Presbyterian [[community]] on the West Coast of Scotland. Bess,
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  The success of [[Benigni]]'s <i>[[Life]] Is Beautiful</i> seems to mark the beginning of a new sub-genre ..., although many a critic praised it as the strongest scene in <i>Schindler's [[List]]</i>, containing the "Oscar winning" performance by Ralph Fiennes:
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...g - a [[statement]] which, perhaps, should be read as a variation on Rilke's old [[thesis]] that "Beauty is the last [[veil]] that covers the Horrible" ...directly materialized (or, to put it in the precise [[terms]] of [[Kant]]'s [[transcendental]] [[idealism]], the Zone in which our intuition becomes di
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• You May!
  ...es - an [[instance]] of the 'reflexivisation' of everyday customs in today's 'risk [[society]]'. According to the [[risk society]] [[theory]] of Anthony .... Reverse racism plays a crucial [[role]] in the success of Emir Kusturica's [[films]] in the West.<br>
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...back to Plato's Republic: does <i>The Matrix</i> not repeat exactly Plato's dispositif of the cave (ordinary humans as prisoners, tied firmly to their ...a gigantic studio set, with cameras following him permanently. Sloterdijk's "sphere" is here literally realized, as the gigantic metal sphere that enve
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• NATO, the Left Hand of God? (Essay)
  NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia is over. It is therefore time to ask what the meaning ...se it is acting as the immediate instrument of God's "higher law." If that's not religious fundamentalism, the concept has no meaning.<br>
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...en it becomes aware that it has no ground under its feet... From Milosevic's seizure of power in Serbia onwards, the only actual [[chance]] for Yugoslav ...at [[reason]], desperately wanted to escape his grasp (see [[James]] Baker's public [[endorsement]] of a "limited military intervention" against Slovene
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• Surplus-Enjoyment
  ...discern in it the entire ambiguity: "that's it" precisely insofar as that's NEVER effectively IT, precisely insofar as every satisfaction opens up a ga
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  ...the [[subject]] and the [[signifier]], etc. - I remain blind to Schelling's basic thrust Real of the ground and the subject's [[freedom]], while, already in his early [[philosophy]] of
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  The axis of Badiou's theoretic edifice is, as the title of his main [[work]] indicates, the gap ...ianity]] (perhaps the example of the Truth-Event): the Event is [[Christ]]'s advent and [[death]]; its ultimate Goal is the Last Judgment (the Redemptio
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• Kant And Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...lm]] version of Saló, which transposes it into the dark days of Mussolini's Salo republic? Lacan developed this link first in his [[Seminar]] on The Et ...is a [[superego]] [[agency]] that sadistically [[enjoys]] the [[subject]]'s deadlock, his inability to meet its inexorable [[demands]], like the prover
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...] [[prohibition]] (the [[dead]] father returns as his [[Name]]). And today's much-decried "decline of Oedipus" (of the paternal symbolic [[authority]]) ...he vaguaries of [[ignorance]] not the [[subject]]'s, but the big [[Other]]'s: "the father is dead, although unaware of it," i.e., he doesn't [[know]] th
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• Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
  ...the second [[stage]] (I am being beaten by my [[father]]) of the [[child]]'s fantasy "A child is being beaten" which, as [[Freud]] emphasizes, is so rad ...ted. This [[notion]] of "acephalic" knowledge emerges rather late in Lacan's teaching, after the [[relationship]] between knowledge and truth underwent
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  Geert Lovink: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country? ...Japan. The empty [[signs]], no Western [[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtei
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...h. But they missed the point, because the [[identification]] that Thatcher's discourse gave you was not that you would actually become rich, but, rather ...satisfaction, so that you don't [[need]] to [[pass]] into [[action]]. Let's say that the [[conditions]] of possibility are related to the field. <br><b
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• Human Rights and its Discontents
  ..." align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,Courier" size="3">NATO's bombing of [[Yugoslavia]] is over. It is therefore [[time]] to ask what the ...t is acting as the immediate [[instrument]] of God's "higher law." If that's not [[religious]] [[fundamentalism]], the [[concept]] has no meaning.<br>
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
  The first, automatic reaction of today's enlightened [[liberal]] reader to The [[Communist]] Manifesto is: isn't the ...uishes two opposite but complementary modes of excessive violence in today's world 3: the "ultra-objective" ("[[structural]]") violence that is inherent
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  </p><p><b>CTHEORY:</b> Let's [[speak]] [[about]] the [[role]] of intellectuals. Before 1989, ...seriously. They were always interested in arguing with intellectuals. Let's
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• Es Gibt Keinen Staat In Europa
  Today's [[experience]], summed up in the [[word]] "Bosnia", confronts us with the [
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...signifier]], Spinozism produces detachment from [[human]] [[desire]]. Kant's [[practical]] [[reason]], sustained by [[moral]] law, brings out desire at .... It was a kind of [[false]] leap, but if your question implies that today's [[world]] is paradoxically closer to the neo-Spinozist universality of the
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• In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large
  What's wrong with [[The Wrong Man]]? ...a [[film]] which clearly sticks out from the [[totality]] of [[Hitchcock]]'s oeuvre:1
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• Why Does A Letter Always Arrive At Its Destination?
  ..., this Derridean reaction to the famous closing [[statement]] of [[Lacan]]'s "[[Seminar]] on 'The Purloined [[Letter]]' "2 rather exhibits what we could 6. Jacques Lacan, "[[Intervention]] on [[Transference]]" in In [[Dora]]'s [[Case]], ed. by Charles Bernheimer and Claire Cahan, London: Virago Press,
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...]]'s [[name]] for the psychic [[apparatus]] insofar as it resists the soul's domination. That is to say, when, in his well-known definition of the soul ...oth functioning of power mechanisms, that [[interpellation]] - the subject's [[recognition]] in his or her allotted symbolic [[place]] - is always ultim
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• Revolution Must Strike Twice
  ...wever, is that a similar experience gave birth to Leninism. Consider Lenin's shock when, in the autumn of 1914, every European social democratic party e
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...Poland]], '[[Concentration camp|Concentration Camp]]' Erhardt (in Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be) snaps back: 'We do the concentrating, and the Poles do ...k]] about [[Torture]]' (5 November 2001), with the ominous subheading: 'It's a new [[world]], and survival may well require old techniques that seemed o
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...ise; on the [[other]] hand, the Marx who foretold the [[dynamic]] of today's [[globalization]] and is as such evoked even on Wall Street. What these bot ...he original teaching into a different context (St Paul reinterprets Christ's crucifixion as his triumph; Lacan reads Freud through the [[mirror]]-[[stag
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...ing the level of its [[notion]]: perhaps, one should follow again [[Marx]]'s old, antievolutionist motto (incidentally taken verbatim from [[Hegel]]) th ...nce only by magically spinning itself into an excess of itself. Does today's virtual capitalist not function in a homologous way: his "net value" at zer
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...oucaultian version. But as you probably [[know]] there is [[another]], let's call it the New Age [[school]] of cyberspace-[[ideology]]. It is this neo-J Slavoj Zizek: Yes, that's precisely the idea. We all share one collective mind. What I find so intere
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• Ideological Fraud
  ...rs in the West, while using the idealised [[Other]] (Cuba, Nicaragua, Tito's [[Yugoslavia]]) as the stuff of their [[ideological]] [[dreams]]: they [[dr
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• The Future of an Illusion
  ...nd Freud]] is a book that describes his [[interpretation]] of [[religion]]'s origins, [[development]], [[psychoanalysis]], and its future. ...ion and an error, he lists [[scientific]] beliefs such as "''[[Aristotle]]'s [[belief]] that vermin are developed out of dung''" as errors, but "''the a
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• Anarchy
  [[Author]](s): Saul Newman ...sm as a revolutionary alternative to [[Marxism]], the paper develops Lacan's argument [[about]] the paradoxical [[relationship]] between [[freedom]], [[
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• Knowledge
  The term "[[knowledge]]" has two [[meanings]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]]. [[Lacan]] distinguishes between two ty ...itself. It is the articulation of '''[[signifier]]s''' in the [[subject]]'s [[symbolic|symbolic universe]], the '''[[signifying chain]]''' ([[Image:SS2
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• Civilization
  Freud's conflation of civilization and culture here is surprising, especially when Yet these two perspectives are relatively dissociated in Freud's [[work]] to the extent that his [[ideas]] on civilization, with a few digre
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• Transgression
  ...only a posteriori can its implicit [[presence]] can be discerned in Freud's first writings and in his wish to become an extraordinary hero. As early as ...tion]] chosen, essentially the [[oedipal]] model or that of the [[father]]'s [[murder]]. Or one can focus on a given level—on the oscillation between
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• Illusion
  The deceiver may be personified ([[Descartes]]'s "[[evil]] [[genius]]") or limited to a [[physical]] or [[physiological]] [[
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• Self
  The [[German]] Selbst is sometimes encountered in [[Freud]]'s writings to refer to the person. Beginning in the 1940s, Melanie [[Klein]]
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• Historicism
  ...se these [[terms]], although [[Johann Gottlieb Fichte|Fichte]] did.) Hegel's famous aphorism, "Philosophy is the history of philosophy," describes it bl ...culture of the [[past]] in thousands of half-forgotten frozen [[metaphor]]s. To [[understand]] why a person is the way he is, you must put that person
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• Kid A - Endorsement
  ...But, thanks to [[Kid A]] In Alphabet Land, I'm able to tell my [[father]]'s [[name]] apart from, say, an [[upholstery button]], and still have [[time]]
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• Kid A - Introduction: Endorsement
  ..., thanks to ''[[Kid A]] In Alphabet Land'', I'm able to tell my [[father]]'s [[name]] apart from, say, an [[upholstery button]], and still have [[time]]
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...fact, until the beginning of December 1963, as these letters and Althusser's diary, conserved in his archives, indicate; quite plausibly they met in the ...with a first lecture on "[[excommunication]]."''<ref>Cf. Jacques Lacan, ''Séminaire XI: Les Quatre [[Concepts]] fondamentaux de la psychanalyse'' (Par
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• Links
  * [http://lacan.com/bibliographyzi.htm Slavoj Žižek's Complete Bibliography in English] * [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavojzizek.html Slavoj Žižek's faculty page at European Graduate School]
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ...e sets out in clear, explanatory detail his [[understanding]] of [[Hegel]]'s [[dialectic]], the basic [[thesis]] that underpins all his [[analyses]], an ...[[concepts]] of the [[Real]] and [[jouissance]] (the two aspects of Lacan's work upon which he concentrates here), then some of the analyses will seem
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