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• Jouissance
  ...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->
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• Desire
  ...] and [[clinical]] point of reference. Theoretically, Lacan's elaboration of the [[concept]] is supported by, yet goes beyond, its [[Freudian]] origins. <!-- he concept of [[desire]] is the central concern of [[psychoanalytic theory]]. -->
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• Object
  ...[[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or attentions). ...nimate things: individuals, parts of the [[body]] and the [[satisfaction]] of [[need]]s can all be [[object]]s.
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• Melancholia
  ...n psychomotor [[activity]], sometimes leading to stupor. Classic [[signs]] of the [[illness]] are [[anorexia]] and weight [[loss]], insomnia and disturbe ...itself spontaneously or under the effect of drug treatments, into a state of manic [[excitation]].
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• Reality Principle
  ...] via a [[hallucinatory]] [[cathexis]] of a [[memory]] of [[time|prior]] [[satisfaction]]. ...orld]]."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. "Formulations on the Two Principles of [[Mental]] Functioning." SE XII. 215. 1911. p.219.</ref>
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• Fantasy
  ...an unproblematic given in which there is a single objectively correct way of perceiving, but as something which is itself discursively constructed. ...y discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[being]] reshaped in accordance with [[unc
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• Development
  ...ology]], with the emphasis placed on the [[time|temporal]] [[development]] of the [[child]]'s [[sexuality]]. ...pt this [[development]]al [[reading]] of [[Freud]], at least in the matter of a [[development|genetic order]] for the [[three]] "[[family]] [[complex]]es
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• Sadism/Masochism
  ...c [[sense]], to refer to a [[sexual]] [[perversion]] in which [[sexual]] [[satisfaction]] is dependent upon inflicting [[pain]] on [[others]] ([[sadism]]) or upon ...ism]], arguing that they are simply the [[active]] and [[passive]] aspects of a single [[perversion]].
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...]] [[complex]] Lacan only saves the paternal [[metaphor]] and the [[Name]]-of-the-Father which "is positioned where knowledge [[acts]] as truth. [[Psycho ...herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absent]] from the field of the signifier.
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...126). In general, most psychoanalysts would agree. The immediate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that p
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• Eros
  ...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). ...ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...enstein]] remarked that Kierkegaard was "by far, the most profound thinker of the nineteenth century" <ref [[name]]="ArisSoc"> ...e=Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein | work=University of Hertfordshire| url=http://www.herts.ac.uk/philosophy/Aris_Soc.html | access
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...ntested area of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]] involves the conceptualization of [[feminine]] [[sexuality]]. ...ficant innovation regarding [[Freudian]] thinking. For Freud the question of [[sexual differences]] revolved around the '[[castration]] [[complex]]', th
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...each of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes]]' exquisite final book Camera Lucida. ...the [[mirror]] phase. As 'being-in-itself', the real was beyond the realm of [[appearance]] and [[images]].
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• Matheme
  ...vi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [[matheme]]s are part of [[algebra|Lacanian algebra]]. ...ical sign]]". It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] [2] Slavoj [[Zizek]]. Re:constructions, 09/15/2001. ...peasant barely survive on barren hills, will this not be the ultimate case of the impotent acting out?
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...ion]] is, I [[claim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time a ...d itself to babble [[about]] the so-called disappearing working [[class]]. Of course, it's disappearing from here.
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