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...reveals a deadlock or [[inconsistency]] at the core of the socio-symbolic order; it exposes how reality is [[split]] from within. Or, in Žižek’s [[word

...]] [[screen]]; just as the [[film]] may be stopped at a certain point in [[order]] to avoid showing a [[trauma]]tic [[scene]] which follows, so also the [[f ...fantasy provides the idea of a privileged object that desire fixates on in order to provide the subject with its [[position]] in relation to it. This privil

The [[symbolic]] [[order]] is what substitutes for the [[loss]] of the immediacy of the world, and i “in order to posit itself as an actual free entity disengaged from blind [[necessity]

...combined in the brain with the "signified," or [[the thing]] itself, in [[order]] to form a meaning-imbued "sign." Saussure believed that [[dismantling]] s ...d anaphora, the functions of theater language and actors’ discourse—in order to furnish us with a base on which to establish the specificity of discours

...ility of anchoring [[particular]] signifiers to particular signifieds in [[order]] to form linguistic signs. In Lacan’s view, on the other hand, meaning e by hallucinating. But after a certain time, in order for us to survive, the reality principle comes into play. The ego intervene

...50s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The imaginary phallus is what the child assumes someone must have in order for [[them]] to be the object of the mother's desire and, as her desire is

...reality'. The real is the unknown that [[exists]] at the [[limit]] of this socio-symbolic [[universe]] and is in constant tension with it. The real is also a very pa ...as focused on elaborating the role of the [[signifier]] and the [[symbolic order]]. In this period the real performed an important function within his [[sys

...and read in the [[media]] that immigrants are 'flooding' the country in [[order]] to feeload on the [[welfare]] of the state. At the same [[time]], these ...[[threat]] to the state, but more importantly that the socio-[[symbolic]] order itself - the new Aryan state - could not be fully realized without that pro

...and read in the [[media]] that immigrants are 'flooding' the country in [[order]] to feeload on the [[welfare]] of the state. At the same [[time]], these ...[[threat]] to the state, but more importantly that the socio-[[symbolic]] order itself - the new Aryan state - could not be fully realized without that pro

...more, from the perspective firmly rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights — therein resides the lesson pa ...ngaging in political projects that aim to seriously challenge the existing order, the answer is immediately: "Benevolent as it is, this will necessarily end

...[Lacanian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...[[sublime]] "indivisible [[remainder]]," the paragon of the New. It is in order to conceal the fact that there is nothing beyond that, in a strictly [[perv

...s very alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity? ...ports, they even considered putting some telescopes on the Sylt islands in order to observe America)?

...[[speaking]] subject displaces his belief onto the [[big Other]] qua the [[order]] of pure [[semblance]], so that the subject never "really believed in it"; ...how should he prove this to the culprit. This [[reversal]] of the "normal" order has clear theological connotations: the same as in true [[religion]] where

...maintaining social order-and `the part with no-part' which unsettles this order on account of the empty [[principle]] of universality, of what Etienne [[Ba ...c]] [[experience]] was a shock when, as a [[child]], she witnessed how, in order to honour the emperor, one of her relatives scraped the toilet used by the

...aim at? Joyce's famous [[statement]] that he wrote [[Finnegans Wake]] in [[order]] to keep [[literary]] historians busy for the next 400 years has to be rea ...agon is your [[father]] and the dream expresses your desire to kill him in order to [[return]] to the safe haven of the [[maternal]] castle…". Lacan's wag

...old [[joke]] [[about]] the borrowed kettle which [[Freud]] [[quotes]] in [[order]] to render the strange [[logic]] of [[dreams]], namely the enumeration of ...sustains pop culture, stupid TV amusement, mindless consumption, etc., in order to turn Slovenes into an easily manipulated crowd unable of serious [[refle

...ition]]. And if one does effectively break up the chains of the [[symbolic order]], one is expelled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main propo ...be simply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by unconscious "passionate attachments," attachm

...in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]] ...ves the [[orders]] is the 'top', the one who obeys is the 'bottom' and, in order for the "top" to be attained, an arduous apprenticeship has to be completed

...itzgerald tried to improve it by rearranging the material in chronological order: now, the novel begins in 1919 Zurich, with Dick as a young doctor called b ...l to Dick, part of his immanent subjective identity - he leads his life in order to satisfy this gaze. What this implies, furthermore, is that Dick's fate c

...ncludes [[self]]-differentiation into the One – its lesson is that, in [[order]] to have truly a One, you [[need]] THREE.<br><br> ...acknowledged violent founding gesture that haunts the [[public]] [[legal]] order as its spectral [[supplement]], enabled the Jews to persist and survive for

...iolence: organizations run by direct non-political [[authority]] - by an [[order]] of command that is not politically grounded authority ([[Army]], [[Church ...are their last recourse, then somebody else has to inherit their rights in order to enact them in their place. This is what is called the "right to humanit

...was thus quickly replaced by the "official" neutral stance, corrected in [[order]] not to hurt anyone. This shift is the best exemplification of what is wro ...to get rid of the strong state which taxes the hard-working population in order to finance its regulatory interventions - the minimal economic program is t

...f a historical context can blur the proper contact with a work of art - in order to properly grasp, say, <i>Parsifal</i>, one should ABSTRACT from such hist ...runes fixating the laws of his rule, plus he pluck out one of his eyes in order to gain insight into inner truth. Evil thus does not come from the Outside

...her" is that of the constitutive alienation of the subject in the symbolic order: the big other pulls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" ...ngs leading a claustrophobic life in a water-filled cradles, kept alive in order to generate the energy (electricity) for the Matrix. So when (some of the)

...old [[joke]] [[about]] the borrowed kettle which [[Freud]] [[quotes]] in [[order]] to render the strange [[logic]] of [[dreams]], namely the enumeration of ...uture is closed: the prospect of a breathtaking terrorist act is evoked in order to justify incessant preemptive strikes now. This closed loop was perfectly

...sky, People's Commisar for [[Enlightenment]], in the spring of 1920: "In [[order]] to acquire a sense of [[self]] the masses must outwardly [[manifest]] the ...it were, wipes the slate clean for the second act, the imposition of a New Order. The tautology "revolution WITH revolution" has thus also another aspect, i

...atagem in order to gain more power, in exactly the same way that today, in order for one's [[voice]] to gain authority, one has to legitimise oneself as bei

===Socio-Symbolic World=== ...he '''[[imaginary]] [[dual relation|relation]]''' with the [[mother]] in [[order]] to enter the [[symbolic|social world]]; failure to do so can result in an

<p> Was it not something of a similar [[order]] that took [[place]] in New <p> What if something of the same order did occur on September 11?

...what Lacan called the “[[big Other]],” the [[virtual]] [[symbolic]] [[order]], the network that [[structures]] reality for us. [[The big Other]] pulls ...eings leading a claustrophobic life in water-filled cradles, kept alive in order to generate electricity. So when (some of) the people “awaken” from the

...the same as with Ireland: not only did [[James]] [[Joyce]] leave home in [[order]] to write [[Ulysses]], his masterpiece [[about]] Dublin; Yeats himself, th ...tion sustains pop culture, stupid TV amusement and mindless consumption in order to turn Slovenes into an easily manipulated crowd, incapable of serious [[r

...ally</i> at any point asked the fundamental question of what kind of new [[order]] they actually wanted? People were first told that they are entering the p

...o get rid of the strong state which taxes the hard-working population in [[order]] to finance its regulatory interventions - the minimal economic program is ...cuit: instead of pointing towards the logic of capitalism itself which, in order to sustain its expanding reproduction, has to create new and new [[demands]

...lar roots, some specific substantial communal [[identity]] - the "global [[order]]" is ultimately [[nothing]] but the very [[frame]] and container of this m

...in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]] ...ves the [[orders]] is the 'top', the one who obeys is the 'bottom' and, in order for the "top" to be attained, an arduous apprenticeship has to be completed

...s very alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br> ...ports, they even considered putting some telescopes on the Sylt islands in order to observe America)?<br><br>

...ican patriotic terrorist who sent a bomb [[letter]] to a US consulate in [[order]] to protest against the American interfering into the local [[politics]]. ...ess [[acts]] as an obstacle to the unbriddled assertion of the [[New World Order]].

...that which always already had to happen the [[moment]] we are within the [[order]] of Culture. If we effectively killed the father, why is the outcome not t ...[[notion]] of a universe as determined and ruled by a unique [[rational]] Order) and the Semitic Moses (Jehovah [Yahve], the jealous God who displays venge

...ition]]. And if one does effectively break up the chains of the [[symbolic order]], one is expelled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main propo ...be simply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by unconscious "passionate attachments," attachm

...l”, “regular” reproduction, the [[moment]] of [[dissolution]] of the socio-symbolic bond, the moment of eruption of the [[Real, the (Lacan)|Real]]: elections.

...chanisms of transgression. It is obvious that, given our [[need]] for an [[order]] in which [[ethics]] would have its proper [[place]], transgression should ...ve possibilities, even when these might [[affect]] an apparently immutable order, if necessary by organizing festivals at which [[people]] can shed their in

...[symptom]], the [[place]] from where the hidden [[truth]] of the New World Order emerges". With regard to the terrorist attacks on the WTC, Zizek rejects th ...t with his analysis of how a [[subject]] is formed within the [[symbolic]] order by means of a certain "[[forced choice]]" as to whether to enter [[society]

...ety of spectacle]]" is thus getting a new twist: [[image]]s are created in order to fill in the [[gap]] that separates the new artificial [[universe]] from ...the universality embodied in the element which sticks out of the existing Order, which, while [[internal]] to it, has no proper place within it (what [[Jac

...of surface appearances which are deceptive, is structured by the symbolic order. It also involves a linguistic dimension: whereas the signifier is the foun ...by means of repetition: "the death drive is only the mask of the symmbolic order." This register is determinant of subjectivity; for Lacan the symbolic is c

...ive [[harmony]] between the two, preserving the realm of the personal in [[order]] that we may exist at all and securing it upon the ground of the impersona ...efore we can construct a [[substitute]] for it in the form of the Symbolic Order. Žižek reads this vanishing mediator as a passage through madness and, by

...nd Guattari, was resonant in the context of a breakdown in the political [[order]] and the family. The disillusionments that followed are well known.

...decides to replace itself with genetically modified asexual humanoids in [[order]] to avoid the deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience]] no pa ...clusion. Along the same lines, is it not that, once the socio-[[symbolic]] order is fully established, the very [[dimension]] which introduced the "transcen

...]] to detach itself from the [[imaginary]] relation with the [[mother]] in order to enter the [[social world]]. ...], which is characterized by the [[absence]] of any pregiven [[natural]] [[order]].)

...irruption functions as a break in time, as introducing a totally different order of [[temporality]] (the temporality of the “work of [[love]],” the fide ...nown that somebody (it is not yet known who this was) has defied Creon’s order and performed the funeral [[ritual]] on his [[body]]. It is THIS act which

...he “the ‘economy’ cannot be reduced to a sphere of the positive ‘[[order]] of being’, precisely insofar as it is always political, insofar as poli ...n fact, it is precisely the [[reification]] of the economy into a positive order of [[being]] (“a thing”) that redeems Žižek’s work from the simple

...reality'. The real is the unknown that [[exists]] at the [[limit]] of this socio-symbolic [[universe]] and is in constant tension with it. The real is also a very pa ...as focused on elaborating the role of the [[signifier]] and the [[symbolic order]]. In this period the real performed an important function within his [[sys

...s were quite right to point out that one can achieve the bourgeois law and order also without the terrorist excess, as was the case in Great Britain - altho ...sense of the agency of realistic compromises). Every legal order (or every order of explicit normativity) has to rely on a complex "reflexive" network of in

...e of Judas the traitor, replacing him!), Marx needed Lenin's "betrayal" in order to enact the first Marxist revolution: it is an inner necessity of the "ori ...77, p. 288.</ref> In contrast to the male ambition, a woman wants power in order to promote her own narrow family interests or, even worse, her personal cap

..., on account of its [[lacking]] a determinate [[place]] in the "private" [[order]] of social hierarchy, directly stands for [[universality]]: it is only the ...lways secondary, an attempt to negotiate a "habit" that would restore some order after catastrophic interruptions.

...ent - he merely adds a signifier which all of a sudden turns disorder into order, into "new harmony," as Rimbaud would have put it. Think about anti-Semitis ...d be asserted unconditionally, every Master-Signifier meant to impose some order on it should be "deconstructed," dispersed, "disseminated": "The modern apo

...ileged node: it grabbed all the links, i.e., we have to relate to him in [[order]] to [[communicate]] with other entities. The big structural question is, o

...tined by their [[instincts]]. What this means is that, paradoxically, in [[order]] to be educated into freedom (qua moral [[autonomy]] and self-responsibili ..., Kant emphasized that the human animal [[needs]] disciplinary pressure in order to tame an [[uncanny]] "unruliness" which seems to be inherent to human nat

...itiatic [[rituals]] of [[torture]] and humiliation one has to undergo in [[order]] to be accepted into a closed [[community]]. Do we not see similar photos ...are their last recourse, then somebody else has to inherit their rights in order to enact them in their place. This is what is called the "right to humanita

...its constitutive lack, while drive circulates around a hole, a gap in the order of being. In other words, the circular movement of drive obeys the weird lo

...ican patriotic terrorist who sent a bomb [[letter]] to a US consulate in [[order]] to protest against the American interfering into the local [[politics]]. ...ess [[acts]] as an obstacle to the unbriddled assertion of the [[New World Order]].

...overstep the boundaries of our finite experience, reason (logos, symbolic order) gets necessarily entangled in antinomies, a proof that our reason cannot r ''Objet a'' is what is to be subtracted from the real, not added to it, in order to arrive at reality. If it falls into reality, reality breaks down (say, w

...the madness of the passage to the symbolic itself, of imposing a symbolic order onto the chaos of the Real. If madness is constitutive, then ''every'' sys ...ot the same with our immersion in Virtual Reality? When I raise my hand in order to push an object in virtual space, this object effectively moves―my illu

...om the Soviet Union for two reasons: "First, I fear that, if the socialist order disintegrates, all the blame for the communist crimes will be put on us, th ...singular. Market competition really brings people together, while organic order divides them. The best indication of this shift in the mature Hegel concern

..."over-adjusted" hysteric that exaggeratedly identifies himself with social order, which causes his suppressed instinctive substance to strike back in the fo ...al implications lack a notion of the symbolic and of the need for symbolic order. Briefly, the difference between "normal" and "pathological" narcissism can

...– the initiatic rituals of torture and humiliation one has to undergo in order to be accepted into a closed community. Do we not see similar photos in reg ...are their last recourse, then somebody else has to inherit their rights in order to enact them in their place. This is what is called the "right to humanita

...d the price the subject has to pay in order to gain access to the symbolic order – all the false poetry of "castration," of some primordial act of sacrifi ...e impossibility which is co-substantial with the very fact of the symbolic order – "jouissance is forbidden to him who speaks as such."

* Appendix I: An Outline of the History of the Symbolic Order or the History of Human Wisdom and Knowledge