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• Desire
  ...ept of ''[[désir]]'' and which make it "a [[category]] far wider and more abstract than any employed by [[Freud]] himself." --> ...]] and constructions in analysis — and his rationale for [[them]]. This model is inseparable from the [[form]] of [[discourse]] that Freud created: the r
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• Semiotics
  ...g]] of how humans synthesize [[physical]] stimuli into words and [[other]] abstract concepts. ...contributions to the field bear on [[interpretation]], encyclopedia, and [[model]] reader.
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• Eros
  ...love among mankind in general," "devotion to [[concrete]] [[objects]] and abstract [[ideas]]," and [[partial]] sexual [[drives]] (component instincts). This e ...symptoms but can also become the means for their relief. The theoretical [[model]] of Eros as healer is beautifully illustrated in <i>[[Delusions]] and Drea
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• Violence
  ...attitude — violence never stops violence, give peace a [[chance]] — is abstract and doesn't [[work]] here. First, because this is not a [[universal]] rule. ...hese two fundamental groups of instincts. His [[choice]] of a synchronic [[model]] of conflict prevented Freud from better integrating into his [[psychodyna
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...silently count on the long-term [[stability]] of the American capitalist [[model]], with the secure tenured [[position]] as their ultimate professional [[go ...s (the [[partial]] justification of [[Fascism]], the [[need]] to constrain abstract [[citizenship]] on behalf of ethnic [[identity]], etc.). However, the hegem
  164 KB (26,048 words) - 22:09, 20 May 2019
• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ense]] and [[understanding]]."), were these statements, taken in a literal-abstract, decontextualized, sense, not quite appropriate? Today, more than ever, one ...of quite genuine ordinary people heroism (like the passengers who, in a [[model]] of [[rational]] ethical act, overtook the kidnappers and provokes the ear
  52 KB (8,449 words) - 23:27, 23 May 2019
• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...timately exclusionary, prone to annihilate the other. Of course this is an abstract proposition; empirically the line can be blurred. We often have the militan ...t find [[satisfaction]] in the moderate changes within the system into the abstract, excessively rigid, moralizing stance. So, to conclude, that's the problem
  95 KB (16,281 words) - 23:43, 24 May 2019
• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...ind of ethics developed in the last two books of Foucault, proposed as a [[model]] (The Care of the [[Self]], The Uses of [[Pleasure]]]. I [[think]] Foucaul ...tial here, a very serious possibility; I don't think it is an [[illusory]] abstract possibility. This first democratic enthusiasm is now over, and people are r
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...s society of consumption. If God in the traditional sense as a universal [[model]] does not exist, then everything is allowed. You can get whatever you want ...tradition is ultimately something contingent, against the background of an abstract empty Cartesian subject. My ultimate [[theoretical]] point is that Lacan is
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...[[concrete]] organization of the scientific [[apparatus]], up to its most abstract [[conceptual]] schemas, is socially "mediated," but the [[whole]] [[game]] ...tomatically gave rise to love. John Ruskin's formula, which followed the [[model]] of old Greek and Roman statues, led to a tragicomic disappointment when,
  15 KB (2,267 words) - 21:57, 27 May 2019
• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...survive. Against this temptation, one should rather follow the unsurpassed model of [[Pascal]] and ask the difficult question: how are we to remain faithful ...e will [[retroactively]] redeem our present horrible acts); neither do any abstract-universal ethical norms." The only criteria is the absolutely inherent one:
  75 KB (11,848 words) - 17:15, 27 May 2019
• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...eat Japan in 1945," to bring democracy to Iraq, which will then serve as [[model]] for the entire Arab world, enabling people to get rid of the corrupt regi Where, then, do we stand with reasons pro et contra? Abstract pacifism is intellectually stupid and morally wrong — one has to stand up
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...painter has to rely more and more on a vulgar couple of the cheap Cockney model Miss Churm and the lithe Italian Oronte, whose imitation of the high-class ...the fiction, North Korea has built in front of this theater a pure fake, a model village with beautiful houses; in the evening, the lights in all the houses
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• Opera
  ...for his [[future]] combat with Siegfrid (Hagen-boy plays with the small [[model]] of a dragon); etc. And Hagen is, together with Wotan and Alberich, the ke ...work of art - in order to properly grasp, say, <i>Parsifal</i>, one should ABSTRACT from such historical trivia, one should DECONTEXTUALIZE the work, tear it o
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...a prohibition of asserting the particular identity of White Men (as the [[model]] of oppression of others), although it presents itself as the admission of ...show respect for the face in front of me, to be open for its depth, but to abstract from it and refocus onto the faceless Thirds in the background. It is only
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...mean that the split between the "official" [[texts]] of the Law with their abstract legal asexual character (Torah—the Old Testament, Mishna—the formulatio ...t the [[model]] of a pathological community, but the very (unacknowledged) model of our "normal" social reality, like in Freud's [[dream]] about [[Irma]]'s
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...ce [[German]] unification and the simple direct transposition of the BRD [[model]] on the DDR. What distinguishes Mueller is that he went much further than ...n a revolution proper, such a display of what [[Hegel]] would have called "abstract negativity" merely, as it were, wipes the slate clean for the second act, t
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...topoietic" [[process]] which, without any imposed centralizing agency (a [[model]] which, incidentally, is explicitly based on the parallel with today's "de ...best apprehended by means of the good old [[Hegelian]] distinction between abstract and determinate [[negation]]: although Negri and Hardt are even more anti-H
  28 KB (4,350 words) - 20:13, 20 May 2019
• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...Orleans to emphasize the advantage of the European [[welfare]] [[state]] [[model]] over the US wild [[capitalism]] - now we [[know]] it can happen here also ...ailure as the result of social injustice. Rawls thus proposes a terrifying model of a society in which hierarchy is directly legitimized in natural properti
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  So why should we, as Badiou proposes, <i>abstract</i> from the holocaust when we judge the Israeli politics towards Palestini ...to its pressure; and, in Europe, against Denmark, part of the Scandinavian model of tolerance. It is as if the more you tolerate Islam, the stronger its pre
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