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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...ori legitimacy of free elections themselves, proposing a risked comparison with 1933 ("free elections also brought [[Hitler]] to [[power]]"). What this jus The first [[thing]] one can reproach him with is that he succumbed to the temptation of catastrophism, of perceiving the
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...m Antiquity to [[Modernity]]: in the case of Oedipus, we are still dealing with incest, while in Hamlet, the incestuous wish is [[repressed]] and [[displac ...involvement? In other [[words]], the question of "what means what?" is in no way decided by this reading: does the Hamlet narrative "mean" stars, or do
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...ned and the [[schools]] torched were not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters origi ...is not more social help, but discipline and hard work... Leftist liberals, no less predictably, stuck to their old mantra about neglected social programs
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...nstrate had never even SEEN the Danish caricatures. This fact confronts us with another, less attractive, aspect of globalization: the “global informatio ...not to get too close to others; I move in a social space where I interact with others obeying certain external “mechanical” rules, without sharing the
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• Lenin Shot at Finland Station
  ...mutually exclusive’. ‘If,’ he continues, ‘we accept that there is no such [[thing]] as historical inevitability and that [[nothing]] is preordai ...history is abandoned in favour of political propaganda masked as satire). No wonder Roberts refers approvingly to Kingsley Amis’s novel <em>Russian Hi
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern etc). There is no [[need]] for Porto Alegre: instead, Davos can become Porto Davos. ...uthority]], [[order]] and parochial patriotism, but also the old [[left]], with its war against [[capitalism]]: both fight their shadow-theatre battles in
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...of the [[Jew]]s was a fact of their [[biological]] constitution: there was no need to prove they were [[guilty]], since they were [[guilty]] by virtue of ...s]] and [[Brecht]] and others be pardoned for their much longer engagement with [[Stalinism]]? This position reduces [[Nazism]] to a reaction to, and [[re
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...belief]] that we possess an inherited 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...tation with the meaninglessness of a [[life]]-determining [[contingency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identi
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• Knee-Deep
  ...ter, so that the shit floats in it, [[visible]], but not to be inspected. No wonder that in the famous [[discussion]] of [[Europe]]an toilets at the beg ...recently undergone a strange [[displacement]]: the French are preoccupied with [[culture]] (how to save theirs from vulgar Americanisation), the English a
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...the Third Way brings us back to the first and only way. Global capitalism with a human face.</p><p>This, then, is Havel's tragedy: his authentic ethical s
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• Are We in a War
  ...be killed with impunity and whose [[death]] had, for the same [[reason]], no sacrificial [[value]]. Today, as a term denoting [[exclusion]], it can be s ...h the [[enemy]] is criminalised if he [[defends]] himself and returns fire with fire. Which brings me back to the 'unlawful combatant', who is neither enem
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• Ethics and the Real
  ..., with the [[ideal]] of the [[human]] subject’s assuming his desire? Or with [[Antigone]], who is willing to bo beyond the [[satisfaction]] of desire in
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• Oedipus complex
  ...rent of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex. ...s a term developed by [[Sigmund Freud]] to designate the attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostilit
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• Love
  ...ef>{{S11}} p. 200</ref> [[Love]] is an [[illusory]] [[fantasy]] of fusion with the [[beloved]] which makes up for the [[absence]] of any [[sexual relation ...really saying: "I am what is [[lacking]] in you, with my devotion to you, with my sacrifice for you, I will fill you out, I will [[complete]] you." The o
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• Dream
  ...hat dreams were the product of a "[[dream work]]." In both cases there was no weakening of psychic activity but quite the opposite, an intense activity d ...[[self]]-[[analysis]] that gave [[birth]] to psychoanalysis. For the most part, that [[self-analysis]] drew on Freud's own dreams (Anzieu, 1975/1984), and
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• Trauma
  ...ce for the retiology of the [[neuroses]], are called traumata.<ref>{{M&M}} Part III, Section I</ref></blockquote> ...man]] on whom he can be dependent, who will feed and keep him.<ref>{{M&M}} Part III, Section I</ref></blockquote>
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• Castration
  ...iation]] is necessary for all [[cultural]] [[achievement]], associating it with the [[Oedipus]] [[complex]] and its [[resolution]]. This deferred [[action]] now comes into effect with the [[fear]] of castration, a powerful influence in all his subsequent [[de
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• Surrealism
  ...analysis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement. [[Breton]] was familiar with Freud's work on dreams and developed a technique of 'spontaneous' writing t
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• Penis-envy
  ...]] of early [[childhood]] is that the [[female]] [[organ]] as yet plays no part in it-the [[child]] has not yet discovered it. All the accent falls on the ...etrate deeply into the [[neuroses]] of [[women]], we not infrequently meet with the [[repressed]] [[wish]] to possess a [[penis]]. We call this [[infantile
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• Categorical Imperative
  He expressed extreme [[dissatisfaction]] with the [[moral]] [[philosophy]] of his day because he believed it could never ...] as a rationally [[autonomy|autonomous]] [[self]]-[[conscious]] [[being]] with [[full]] [[freedom]] of action and self-determination. For a will to be con
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