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• Displacement
  ...in his correspondence with [[Wilhelm Fliess]], in the "[[Project]] for a [[Scientific]] [[Psychology]]" [1950c (1895)], and in [[The Interpretation of Dreams]] [ ...[search]] for a [[model]] of [[psychic]] functioning still informed by the scientific [[thinking]] and medical research of the time, [[Freud]] noted:
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• Psychoanalysis
  # a [[body]] of [[psychological]] data evolving into a new scientific discipline. ...f his new scientific discipline, are also influenced by nineteenth-century theories of evolution and by their attendant eurocentrism; hence the analogy between
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  Freud makes his argument by first reviewing previous [[scientific]] work on dream [[analysis]], which he finds interesting but inadequate. He ...n in collaboration with Josef [[Breuer]] (1895d), or the [[Project]] for a Scientific Psychology (1950c [1895]), The Interpretation of Dreams may be considered t
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• Psychiatry
  ...as been critiqued for being vague, poorly defined and [[lacking]] proper [[scientific]] foundation <ref>http://www.apa.org/books/431668A.html</ref>. ...isorders) is [[arbitrary]], often influenced by beliefs rather than proven scientific observations. And the fact that the brain and mind are one makes the separa
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• Semiotics
  ...]], in his "Semiotics and philosophy of language" has argued that semiotic theories are implicit in the [[work]] of most, perhaps all, major thinkers. ...ory of Language'', a [[formal]] [[development]] of ''glossematics'', his [[scientific]] calculus of language.
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...sis|psychoanalytic school]] of [[psychology]]. Freud is best known for his theories of the [[unconscious mind]], especially involving the [[mechanism]] of [[Ps ..., [[literary criticism]], [[philosophy]], and [[psychology]]. However, his theories remain controversial and widely disputed.
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• Roland Barthes
  ...and capable of selective [[ignorance]] towards challenging [[concepts]] of theories like [[Marxism]]. ...terature could be formalized, he didn’t believe it could become strict [[scientific]] endeavour. In the late [[1960s]], radical movements were taking [[place]
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...of [[scientific]] investigation. Cognitivism has marked a [[return]] to a scientific approach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development] ...specialists have contested the scientific [[value]] of [[psychoanalytic]] theories and, until recently, have had little interest in the area of [[pathology]].
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• Deconstruction
  ...us form of [[nihilism]] that wishes the utter [[destruction]] of Western [[scientific]] and [[ethical]] values. As a rule, deconstruction is ridiculed by members ...ed to in deconstruction as a kind of ''[[violence]]'', the idea being that theories' willful misdescription or simplification of [[reality]] always does violen
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...fter he had proposed, he broke it off on [[11 August]], [[1841]]. Several theories have been offered to explain, but Kierkegaard's motive for ending the engag ...]], [[Albert Camus]], and [[Simone de Beauvoir]]. [[Paul Feyerabend]]'s [[scientific]] anarchism was inspired by Kierkegaard's idea of subjectivity as truth. [
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ght… however, one should treat Lenin in an "[[objective]] critical and [[scientific]] way," not in an attitude of nostalgic idolatry, and, furthermore, from th ...sly questions the existing liberal consensus, one is accused of abandoning scientific objectivity for the outdated ideological positions. This is the point on wh
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ernal ice, with the sun in its center, was one of the favorite Nazi pseudo-scientific fantasies (according to some reports, they even considered putting some tel ...S "knowledge in the Real" — the deadlock resides simply in the fact that scientific knowledge cannot serve as the SYMBOLIC "big Other." The gap between modern
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...rised in the work, the work is a kind of [[preemptive strike]] at possible theories about itself. On that account, it is inappropriate to reproach Joyce for no ...p-sociologists and psychologists. That is to say, there are two main pop-[[scientific]] cliches about the rise of populist demagogues: they feed on the frustrati
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...hics, business ethics, medical ethics and so on) but that [[particular]] [[scientific]] breakthroughs are immediately set against [[humanist]] 'values', leading ...ontingency which determines us - that is, by limiting the possibilities of scientific intervention. This is a new version of the old argument that, if we are to
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• Surrealism
  ...lture]] and remained within established [[psychiatric]] [[categories]] and theories, but at the same time it drew on the alternative resources of the Surrealis Most [[scientific]] explanations for [[animal]] mimicry relate it to adaptive [[behaviour]].
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• Frankfurt School
  ...defined by dogmatic positivism and scientism on the one hand and dogmatic "scientific [[socialism]]" on the other, critical theory meant to rehabilitate through ...s]]. The Institute attempted to reformulate dialectics as a [[concrete]] [[scientific method|method]], continually aware of the specific social roots of thought
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ernal ice, with the sun in its center, was one of the favorite Nazi pseudo-scientific fantasies (according to some reports, they even considered putting some tel ...IS "knowledge in the Real" - the deadlock resides simply in the fact that scientific knowledge cannot serve as the SYMBOLIC "big Other." The gap between modern
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...ern Aristotelian and Medieval knowledge was not yet "objective," rational, scientific precisely because it lacked this excessive element of God qua the subjectiv ...-modern, pagan, sexualized cosmo-[[ontology]]; the growth of "[[conspiracy theories]]" as a [[form]] of popular "cognitive [[mapping]]" seem to counter the ret
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• Anarchy
  ...of society, and his [[belief]] that the anarchist revolution would be a [[scientific]] revolution (Bakunin, 1953, p 76). Thus, the anarchist revolution would in ...tuate it. The discourse of the master encompasses even those revolutionary theories that seek to overthrow it: "What I mean by this is that it embraces everyth
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• Illusion
  In the [[Project]] for a [[Scientific]] [[Psychology]] (1950c [1895]), illusion is confused with [[hallucination] Winnicott's [[ideas]] extended Freudian theories of the "purified pleasure ego" and the "reality [[test]]."
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