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...h appears as a stand-in for the Universal, destabilizing the '[[natural]]' functional order of relations in the social [[body]]. The political [[conflict]] resid ...arance of Another Dimension, which interrupts the standard normal order of phenomena.

...cannot but recall a [[whole]] series of real life, [[media]] and cultural phenomena. The first [[association]], of course, is that of the TV reports from [[Thi ...aris: Editions Galilée, 1997.</ref> proposed the notion of excessive, non-functional [[cruelty]] as a feature of contemporary life: a cruelty whose [[figures]]

* [[Functional phenomena]]

Functional phenomenon Transitional phenomena

<blockquote>All phenomena of symptom-formation can be fairly described as "the [[return]] of the [[re ...tom—the production, that is to say, of a "[[sign]]" or "indication" of a functional [[disturbance]].

...nology, especially in the United States, but (Western European) structural-functional syntactic studies, known to literary critics in the United States as "text ...so Jakobson, "Closing" 353–57). For Jakobson, such (system-[[internal]]) functional needs motivate linguistic evolution, [[external]] in origin for Saussure (J

...ted into the forebear's genotype. Such modifications may be morphological, functional, or even behavioral (acquired through learning). This [[idea]], which was c ...urse to the [[notion]] of degeneration as an explanation of [[hysterical]] phenomena, and restated the complementary [[nature]] of constitutional and accidental

...ion" within a personal mental sphere of [[illusion]] where [[objects]] and phenomena in the [[external]] [[world]] are transformed in accordance with the [[subj ...een mother and infant was occupied by "transitional phenomena"—groups of functional experiences, as for example thumb-sucking, the holding and sucking of the e

...vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose [[particularity]] in our [[work]] would remain the essential [[thing] ...to the extinction of the fires of [[love]]'s feasts. The signifier is not functional. And the mobilization of the elegant [[society]] whose frolics we are follo

...along with its correlate "pathological narcissism"; exceptional borderline phenomena were given an independent theoretical consistency which, at the diagnostic ...tter which) scientifically legitimate procedures. In connection with these phenomena, we usually speak of a void, and of the loneliness, alienation and artifici