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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...tein]] remarked that Kierkegaard was "by far, the most profound thinker of the nineteenth century" <ref [[name]]="ArisSoc"> ...egaard and his father shared a close bond. Kierkegaard learned to explore the realm of his [[imagination]] through a series of exercises and [[games]] th
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...ething similar) a king, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-[[symbolic]] relations; etc.etc. ...lism]]) are stand-ins for [[the big Other]]. So, what one should answer to the [[conservative]] platitude according to which every honest man has a profou
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> <p><em>The Communist Sacrifice</em></p>
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• You May
  ...ymbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impul ...g there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[a
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...r of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
  ...ble to produce different kinds of laughter. First used for episodes of <i>The Jack Benny Show</i> and <i>I [[Love]] Lucy,</i> today its modernized versio ...[[objective]]ly” pray through it, while my [[mind]] can be occupied with the dirtiest of [[sexual]] [[thoughts]].
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please
  ...ly, I "objectively"pray through it, while my [[mind]] can be occupied with the dirtiest [[sexual]] [[thoughts]]...<br><br> ...most intimate [[feelings]] can be radically externalized, I can literally "laugh and cry through another."<br><br>
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• Liberation Hurts
  ..., etc. Should concerned academics not [[speak]] out against the erosion of the [[separation]] between [[church]] and [[state]], or do you think that they ...most tempted to say, iconoclastic spirituality (which it is no wonder that the central [[representative]] is a [[Jewish]] thinker like Levinas, no?) is a
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  .... Significantly, all [[three]] [[films]] are centered on a lie that allows the threatened [[Jews]] to survive their ordeal.<br><br> ...action and the racist [[hatred]], [[racism]] wins the day and he casts off the girl.<br><br>
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• You May!
  ...ymbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impul ...g there is a code to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[a
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...d of the [[right]] to train students, Lacan was then obliged to break with the [[official]] institution,<ref>Cf. Elisabeth Roudinesco, ''La [[Bataille]] d ...'s diary, conserved in his archives, indicate; quite plausibly they met in the course of a dinner on December 3.''
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  he was simply playing [[games]] with the [[Paris]] [[intellectual]] [[community]] to concerning thought (at the latter's 1968 presentation at MIT), received
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...cure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...from scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...t]], [[Hegel]], and Critique of [[Ideology]] and The Ticklish [[Subject]]: The [[Absent]] Centre of Political [[Ontology]]. ...a's declaration of independence. Since 1979, he has been on the faculty at the [[University of Ljubljana]].
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• Desire, Life and Death
  ...I happened to come across it - the example of [[Oedipus]] finding his end, the beyond of Oedipus.<br></dd></dl></blockquote> ...x]] isn't a coincidence. [[Another]] one could have been chosen, since all the heroes of Greek mythology have some sort of connection with this [[myth]],
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• Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
  ...of [[Dreams]] (1900), a [[text]] already containing a reference to wit in the [[structure]] of dreams. ...s]] is as essential here as it was in Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and The [[Psychopathology]] of Everyday [[Life]] (1901).
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• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  [[Lacan]], Jacques. Introduction to the Names-of-the-[[Father]] [[Seminar]]. Jeffrey Mehlman. ''October''. Vol. 40. [[Televisio I don't intend to engage in anything in the [[order]] of a theatrical ploy. I
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• Stalinism
  ...the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], to doctors taking care of the Leaders; [[three]] documents are crucial here:<br><br> ...go to Switzerland and get there the best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[ideas]] -
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• Articles by Alain Badiou
  *[http://newleftreview.co.uk/Issue35.asp?Article=04 The Adventure of French Philosophy] .../hijab/2004-03/article_04.shtml Behind the Scarfed Law, There is Fear] (On the [[French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools| Fr
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...we have to make up for the Relation that is [[missing]]. [[Eros]] would be the potential of supreme [[Good]], for [[harmony]] uniting men and [[women]], w ...ey do. But which one of us wants to embrace Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms? The [[feeling]] is mutual. Besides, You [[want]] to strangle [[them]], you have
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