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• Psychiatry
  ...sts take written and then [[oral]] board examinations, each of which has a failure rate that approaches 50%, before becoming board certified. In the [[United ...scholarly journal devoted exclusively to criticism of bio-psychiatry, ''[[Ethical]] Human Psychology and Psychiatry''<ref>http://www.springerpub.com/journal.
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• Judith Butler
  It is on the question of the failure of [[the symbolic]] law fully to define the subject’s [[identity]] that B ...] always as an iterative failure, but who is nevertheless attached to that failure. Butler reduces the symbolic law to a series of “performative [[speech]]
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• Ethics and Politics
  ...s no ontotheological God there is nonetheless some kind of unconditional [[ethical]] [[injunction]] up to which we cannot ever live. And for Lacan, depoliticized ethics is an ethical [[betrayal]] because you put the blame on the Other.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ty, and similar zombie-[[concepts]]? Doesn't Lenin stand precisely for the FAILURE to put [[Marxism]] into [[practice]], for the big catastrophe which [[left] ...ualizes Jeremiah [[Bentham]], the father of utilitarianism: the ultimate [[ethical]] criterion is not the dignity ([[rationality]], soul) of man, but the abil
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...mpromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[notion]] of a politics which would not have been a seri ...'s success, is in itself a proof of Socialism's utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes - the term "Really Existing
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...two radical opposites, i.e. asserting that the [[sublime]] disinterested [[ethical]] attitude is somehow identical to, or overlaps with, the unrestrained indu ...everybody [[know]] what the point of the "with" is-the [[truth]] of Kant's ethical rigorism is the [[sadism]] of the Law, i.e. the Kantian Law is a [[superego
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...ld, right wing image of the Samurai code, fighting to death, the absolute, ethical Japan. Then there is the leftist image, from Eisenschtein already: the semi ...ective in our late capitalist society means. Or let's take Lynch's biggest failure, 'Dune.' Did you notice the use of multiple inner monologues? Reality is so
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...ard destructive, even murderous, [[dimension]] of strictly adhering to the ethical Ideal, and modern [[totalitarianism]]: the [[terrorism]] of the Jacobins in ...the opposition movement insisted on its fundamentally 'apolitical', civic-ethical character: they just stood for `simple values' of dignity, freedom, etc.-no
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...political use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong. ...at (what Knowledge misperceives as) marginal malfunctionings and points of failure are a [[structural]] [[necessity]]. With [[regard]] to the ancien regime, f
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...rmore, the picture that emerges of this period from the late 20ies — the failure of the collectivization of agriculture — to the late 30ies — the sudden ...y the Grace of the insight into the [[necessity]] of [[Communism]], all my ethical integrity will make me no more than an honest small-bourgeois humanitarian
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...ty, and similar zombie-[[concepts]]? Doesn't Lenin stand precisely for the failure to put [[Marxism]] into [[practice]], for the big catastrophe that [[left]] ...provides the Darwinian background.<ref>See Peter Singer, Writings on an [[Ethical]] Life (New York, 2000).</ref>
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...his great-state-[[nationalism]] is not just a feature [[external]] to the (failure of) the [[present]] opposition; it affects the very way France and Germany ...to an easily manipulated crowd unable of serious [[reflection]] and firm [[ethical]] posture… In short, the underlying motif is that the ruling coalition st
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...rature). However, for the novel's second edition (the first printing was a failure), Fitzgerald tried to improve it by rearranging the material in chronologic ...eadlock that pertains to the social content itself. Fitzgerald's narrative failure and oscillation between the two versions tells us something about the socia
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...titute the tradition of a [[community]], what Hegel would have called its "ethical substance") and its obscene [[Other, the]] unacknowledgeable "[[spectral]], ...God intervenes precisely at the moments of the suspension, [[withdrawal]], failure, “black-out,” of the [[paternal function]] (when the [[mother]] or the
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...nsequent [[materialism]] which is able to sustain a truly ascetic militant ethical stance. ...f [[antagonisms]] which are operative in today's social [[processes]]. The failure of this opposition to function as the key to social [[totality]] does not o
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• Opera
  ...[existence]], of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[l ...of the end of the world is ultimately Wotan's own guilt, the result of his ethical fiasco - in Hegelese, external opposition is the effect of inner contradict
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...uilty]] in front of everyone, but I am that more than all [[others]]." The ethical asymmetry between me and the other addressing me with the infinite call is ...ap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]] - Judaism's fundamental ethical task is that of how "to be without being a murderer":
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...A David Lynch [[Film]]," provides what is perhaps the best resume of the [[ethical]] [[paradox]] that marks the end of century: the overlapping of the [[trans ...previous films? What if, in our postmodern [[world]] in which the radical ethical commitment is perceived as ridiculously out of time, he is the true outcast
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...he basic discursive strategies of legitimizing suffering: Job's properly [[ethical]] dignity resides in the way he persistently detects the notion that his su ...constitute the tradition of a community, what Hegel would have called its "ethical substance") and its obscene [[Other, the]] unacknowledgeable "[[spectral]],
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...mentalism]], then one is forced to conclude that the attack was not only a failure, but even strengthened the very [[cause]] it tried to fight. The Saddam Hus ...t rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: how can, of all the people, YOU behave like th
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