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• Object
  ...her and father clearly play an essential [[role]] in the creation of the [[human]] being's representational [[system]] from the very beginning of life. By c ...convey a censure to the child in a prelude to the fantasmatic life of the human being, in order to protect the child from the desire of and for the father,
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...ly, "''what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from [[human]] wishes''." (pg. 31) He adds, however, that, "Illusions [[need]] not neces ...]] in giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human nature, he claims, that "''it is only through the influence of individuals
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...]] stance concerning the [[traumatic]] Real and the [[complex]] logic of [[human]] appropriation, which, incidentally, finds allegiance, not opposition, in ...]] exemplified by Creon, whose [[refusal]] to contravene the [[letter]] of human law makes of him “a pragmatic [[state]] politician, mercilessly crushing
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...ssing the audience. In fact, shortly before asking this, Thorwald turns to face the camera directly for the first time — at this point, audiences oft ...erally avoided points of view that were physically [[impossible]] from a [[human]] perspective. For example, he would never place the camera [[looking]] out
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...fe's Way]]'' are about [[thoughts]] and [[feelings]] an [[individual]] may face in life, existential choices and its consequences, and whether or not to em ...Kierkegaard or not. Kierkegaard hoped readers would just read the work at face [[value]], without attributing it to some aspect of his life. Kierkegaard
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• Emmanuel Lévinas
  ...] is to [[murder]] the Other. At the same [[time]], the revelation of the face forces the immediate [[recognition]] of one's inability to do so. One must *The [[Face-to-face]] Relation
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...ciety]]. For Lacan there is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is la ...c assumptions. Lacan’s view is that biology is always interpreted by the human subject, refracted through language; that there is no such [[thing]] as...
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  The [[Oedipus complex]] is central to [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of [[human]] [[development]]. This sense of inadequacy and [[impotence]] in the face of an omnipotent [[maternal]] desire that cannot be placated gives rise to
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...'[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[world]] or the [[human]] [[body]] or even '[[reality]]'. For Lacan, our reality consists of [[symb ...]] [[about]] [[traumatic]] events such as train crashes, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr>< ...udes this aspect, a fear of a too violent, too open encounter with another human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr><
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights — therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[exp ...pic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophe, violations of [[human rights]], sexism, [[homophobia]], antifeminism, the growing [[violence]] no
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...nches of the [[World]] War I, Carl [[Schmitt]] was celebrating the face to face combat as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity res ...o risk his life (recall Colin Powell's notion of a high-tech war with no [[human]] casualties), while the poor Muslim radicals are Masters ready to risk the
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...lism" effectively WAS an attempt to reassert a "Socialism with a [[human]] face," i.e. to reinscribe the [[process]] of industrialization into the constrai ...f a victim of circumstances beyond his control. Every contact with another human being is experienced as a potential [[threat]] - if the other smokes, if he
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...s, the death of Christ is the death of the God in himself, not only of his human embodiment) — which is why, for Lacan, who follows here Hegel, the Thing ...the time reduced to the survival-machines, there is the One who maintained human dignity). In a way homologous to the canned laughter, we have here somethin
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...g to demonstrate how Christianity effectively provides the foundation to [[human rights]] and freedoms. ...ersality]] of [[nirvana]], or the Holy Spirit, or today, of [[Human Rights|human rights]] and freedoms. The idea is that I can participate in this universal
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...s not [[socialism]] with a [[human]] face, but rather fascism with a human face. This is very dangerous. Anti-Semitism arises at such moments. Now they are JA: Fascism generally has a human face.
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...s insiders from its outsiders, between the "developed" — those to whom [[human]] rights, [[social]] security and the like apply — and the [[others]], th ...he current [[ideological]] designation for the capitalist "inside") in the face of oriental barbarism.
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...hus [[split]] into actual individuals (prone to treason and all kinds of [[human]] weaknesses) and the People embodied in the Master. Perhaps, then, these [ ...scernible as a momentary, fleeting appearance, a 'grimace', of an ordinary face. It is this dimension of 'appearance' which transubstantiates a piece of re
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...ddenly see that we are watching a snuff, that the actor engaged in face-to-face combat is effectively cutting the throat of his "[[enemy]]"…). Against th ...f the [[signifier]]'s game running its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So, again, does not our experience of cyberspace perfectly fi
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...erts his hold upon us in the unconscious. On the other hand, insofar as "[[human]] being" implies the infinite freedom of [[subjectivity]], an element of fa ...t an erection, so that we can check it!" Deeply embarrassed and red in the face, the soldier began to masturbate in front of all of us but, of course, fail
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