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• Jouissance
  [[Lacan]] makes an important [[distinction]] between ''[[jouissance]]'' and ''[[plaisir]]'' ([[pleasure]]). [[Pleasure ...t]], [[object a]], there is a plus (+), a little [[compensation]] in the [[form]] of what is allowed of ''jouissance'', a compensation for the minus of the
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• Phallus
  Freud ( 1923) makes the same radical [[distinction]] by linking castration to the phallic [[order]] and not to the penis. ...semantic [[slip]]page has led some commentators to argue that the supposed distinction between the [[phallus]] and the [[phallus|penis]] is in fact highly unstabl
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• Transference
  In this [[distinction]] between the [[symbolic]] and [[imaginary]] aspects of [[transference]], [ ...s come to be seen as [[Lacan]]'s most [[complete]] attempt to theorise the matter.
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• Object
  No [[distinction]] is made between persons and inanimate things: individuals, parts of the [ ...s of the object (incorporation, [[introjection]], and beyond this, every [[form]] of [[internalization]] and identification), it transforms the status of t
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• Semiotics
  ...anding|understood]]. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their semioti ...that may be the [[individual]] sounds or letters that [[humans]] use to [[form]] [[words]], the [[body]] movements they make to show attitude or [[emotion
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...]] on his [[neurotic]] [[patients]] for a long period, he abandoned this [[form]] of [[treatment]], in favor of a better treatment, where the [[patient]] t In the early 1890s Freud used a form of treatment based on the one that Breuer had described to him, modified by
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• Deconstruction
  ...nd unspoken and implicit — assumptions, [[ideas]], and frameworks that [[form]] the basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meani ...contrast to [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] demolition), although the form we recognize in [[English]] is an element in a series of translations (from
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...]] and functionsunconsciously, intruding into our symbolic reality in the form of need. The real is a kind of ubiquitous undifferentiated mass from which ...]] or need. The concept continues to retain its [[association]] with brute matter, but its predominant [[meaning]] in Lacan at this time is as that which is
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...] against the conservatives, or should one adopt the stance of "it doesn't matter, we shouldn't get involved in these fights — in a way, it is even better ...ic notion of matter, according to which, since the philosophical notion of matter as [[reality]] existing independently of mind precludes any [[intervention]
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ation, a ([[self]])destructive fury within which the only way to trace the distinction between the [[semblance]] and the Real is, precisely, to STAGE it in a fake ...]], all-present, although with no clear territorial base? Are they not the form in which nationalist and/or [[religious]] "[[fundamentalism]]" accommodated
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...r place within the global order. For that reason, [[Buddha]]'s followers [[form]] a [[community]] of [[people]] who in one way or [[another]] have broken w ...or me. Anything goes basically. The basic wisdom is that differences don't matter, what was up comes down, this eternal [[circulation]] of fortune, and so on
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...elief, embodied in things, displaced onto things, is nothing but a reified form of direct human belief: the task of the [[phenomenological]] reconstitution ...belief embodied in things, displaced onto things, is nothing but a reified form of a direct human belief, in which [[case]] the task of the phenomenologica
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...se the sting of the formulas of sexuation by way of introducing a semantic distinction between the two meanings of the quantifier "all": according to this misread ...és about women, features imposed on women in the patriarchal society? The matter is undecidable, so that the only possible answer is, both at the same time.
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...edge (it is this knowledge which enables meta-politics to draw a line of [[distinction]] between those immersed in politicoideological illusions and the Party whi ...s, equality, freedom and democracy, is just a necessary, but [[illusory]], form of expression of its [[concrete]] social [[content]], the universe of explo
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou ...nscends, precisely, the "infinite complexity" of its context. A homologous distinction can be drawn between [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicis
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...] against the conservatives, or should one adopt the stance of "It doesn't matter, we shouldn't get involved in these fights-in a way, it is even better if t ...tate, which means the state as such, and to invent a new communal social [[form]] without a standing [[army]], police, or [[bureaucracy]], in which all cou
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...lls a transcendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely ...ndefinite judgment opens up a third domain which undermines the underlying distinction: the “undead" are neither alive nor dead, they are precisely the monstrou
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...hich have not yet reached the [[full]] actualization of their historical [[form]]. Even in his much-maligned philosophy of [[nature]], he concedes his own ...its "reification" in ritualized practices which are indifferent to this [[distinction]]. It is an interesting fact of historical dialectic that Buddhism which,
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...of the [[Freudian]] figure of Moses, [[Eric Santner]] introduces the key [[distinction]] between [[symbolic]] [[history]] (the set of explicit mythical narratives A further key distinction between Judaism (together with its Christian continuation) and Islam is tha
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...xplicably withdrew. How often does it happen that, when peace seems just a matter of finding a proper formulation for some minor statements, everything sudde ...agent]] on whom the [[role]] of the modernizer, of moving to a political [[form]] beyond [[ethnic identity]], is imposed: the only true long-term solution
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