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• The Act
  ...reveals a deadlock or [[inconsistency]] at the core of the socio-symbolic order; it exposes how reality is [[split]] from within. Or, in Žižek’s [[word
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• Louis Althusser
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• Fantasy
  ...]] [[screen]]; just as the [[film]] may be stopped at a certain point in [[order]] to avoid showing a [[trauma]]tic [[scene]] which follows, so also the [[f ...fantasy provides the idea of a privileged object that desire fixates on in order to provide the subject with its [[position]] in relation to it. This privil
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• The Subject
  The [[symbolic]] [[order]] is what substitutes for the [[loss]] of the immediacy of the world, and i “in order to posit itself as an actual free entity disengaged from blind [[necessity]
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• Semiotics
  ...combined in the brain with the "signified," or [[the thing]] itself, in [[order]] to form a meaning-imbued "sign." Saussure believed that [[dismantling]] s ...d anaphora, the functions of theater language and actors’ discourse—in order to furnish us with a base on which to establish the specificity of discours
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...ility of anchoring [[particular]] signifiers to particular signifieds in [[order]] to form linguistic signs. In Lacan’s view, on the other hand, meaning e by hallucinating. But after a certain time, in order for us to survive, the reality principle comes into play. The ego intervene
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...50s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The imaginary phallus is what the child assumes someone must have in order for [[them]] to be the object of the mother's desire and, as her desire is
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...reality'. The real is the unknown that [[exists]] at the [[limit]] of this socio-symbolic [[universe]] and is in constant tension with it. The real is also a very pa ...as focused on elaborating the role of the [[signifier]] and the [[symbolic order]]. In this period the real performed an important function within his [[sys
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• Racism
  ...and read in the [[media]] that immigrants are 'flooding' the country in [[order]] to feeload on the [[welfare]] of the state. At the same [[time]], these ...[[threat]] to the state, but more importantly that the socio-[[symbolic]] order itself - the new Aryan state - could not be fully realized without that pro
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• Anti-Semitism
  ...and read in the [[media]] that immigrants are 'flooding' the country in [[order]] to feeload on the [[welfare]] of the state. At the same [[time]], these ...[[threat]] to the state, but more importantly that the socio-[[symbolic]] order itself - the new Aryan state - could not be fully realized without that pro
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...more, from the perspective firmly rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights — therein resides the lesson pa ...ngaging in political projects that aim to seriously challenge the existing order, the answer is immediately: "Benevolent as it is, this will necessarily end
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...[Lacanian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...[[sublime]] "indivisible [[remainder]]," the paragon of the New. It is in order to conceal the fact that there is nothing beyond that, in a strictly [[perv
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...s very alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity? ...ports, they even considered putting some telescopes on the Sylt islands in order to observe America)?
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...[[speaking]] subject displaces his belief onto the [[big Other]] qua the [[order]] of pure [[semblance]], so that the subject never "really believed in it"; ...how should he prove this to the culprit. This [[reversal]] of the "normal" order has clear theological connotations: the same as in true [[religion]] where
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...maintaining social order-and `the part with no-part' which unsettles this order on account of the empty [[principle]] of universality, of what Etienne [[Ba ...c]] [[experience]] was a shock when, as a [[child]], she witnessed how, in order to honour the emperor, one of her relatives scraped the toilet used by the
  51 KB (7,820 words) - 07:36, 24 May 2019
• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...aim at? Joyce's famous [[statement]] that he wrote [[Finnegans Wake]] in [[order]] to keep [[literary]] historians busy for the next 400 years has to be rea ...agon is your [[father]] and the dream expresses your desire to kill him in order to [[return]] to the safe haven of the [[maternal]] castle…". Lacan's wag
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...old [[joke]] [[about]] the borrowed kettle which [[Freud]] [[quotes]] in [[order]] to render the strange [[logic]] of [[dreams]], namely the enumeration of ...sustains pop culture, stupid TV amusement, mindless consumption, etc., in order to turn Slovenes into an easily manipulated crowd unable of serious [[refle
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...ition]]. And if one does effectively break up the chains of the [[symbolic order]], one is expelled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main propo ...be simply and directly [[identified]] as the [[unconscious]]; the existing order of Power is also supported by unconscious "passionate attachments," attachm
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• You May
  ...in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]] ...ves the [[orders]] is the 'top', the one who obeys is the 'bottom' and, in order for the "top" to be attained, an arduous apprenticeship has to be completed
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...itzgerald tried to improve it by rearranging the material in chronological order: now, the novel begins in 1919 Zurich, with Dick as a young doctor called b ...l to Dick, part of his immanent subjective identity - he leads his life in order to satisfy this gaze. What this implies, furthermore, is that Dick's fate c
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