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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...lations to his [[image]], in so far as it is the <i>Urbild </i>[original [[form]]] of the ego. Now, this mirror-stage, which no one can deny, has an [[opti ...it rather that we have acquired the habit of placing a too hastily drawn [[distinction]] between the objective and the subjective in our little [[thought]]-tank?
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...r attracted anyone's attention, even though it was used again in another [[form]] in Freud's quasi last [[work]], the <i>[[Outline]] of [[Psycho]]-analysis ...[[apparatus]] with which we are here concerned is also known to us in the form of an [[anatomical]] preparation, and I shall carefully avoid the temptatio
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  speaks. So we have the distinction between <i>la langue</i> and <i> la presented in succession; they form a chain. This feature becomes<br>
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• Hatred
  ...ely what is endangered by the [[encounter]] with the object. The love/hate distinction that forms in the genital stage allows them to be linked together, bringing
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• Anaclisis
  The expression '[[anaclitic]] oject-[[choice]]' refers to a [[form]] of object-choice in which the [[love]]-object is selected because it in s ...problematical, and since Freud did not set an example by [[thinking]] the matter through, things were simply [[left]] fallow.
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• Change
  ...of [[fantasy]], and the introduction of the [[concept]] of change in the [[form]] of [[libidinal]] development. Here we have an indication of the importanc ...iate the resistances of [[The Id|the id]], the ego, and the superego—a [[distinction]] made possible by the new [[structural]] model but also strengthened the c
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• Overview
  ...idealism, and Zizek wishes to make "actual" one of those possibilities in distinction to the way it is currently realized. ...t works its way out to the latter and throws off its husk, revealing a new form in ots stead. Commenting Fredric Jameson's "Syntax of Theory" (The Ideologi
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• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
  ...A final chapter sharpens the [[distinction]] between ego and ego ideal, a distinction that provides an opening for psychoanalytic investigation of the [[narcissi ...dividual]] psychology in which the ego ideal does not appear in weakened [[form]] is that of the poet telling the totemic clan the lie that explains their
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• Function of Language
  ...t to [[remember]] that they are not entities. They are [[categories]] of [[distinction]], not bags to put things in. They neither describe an isolable thing; they ...my is slightly [[metaphorical]] and any metaphor has a metonymic tint. The distinction has great relevance in [[aesthetics]]. It enabled Jakobson, for [[instance]
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...rms of the mother's presumably having been deprived of the phallusfor that matter, the [[whole]] raison d'etre of the "[[phallic]] [[stage]]" in the sexual d ...ost significant aspect of Freud's "discovery." This implies not only the [[distinction]] between signifier and [[signified]] but the conception "that the signifie
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...argues that he could not be [[deceived]] if he did not [[exist]] in some [[form]]. Given that his [[body]] may be an illusion, Descartes concludes that at ...to) the dominant [[ideologies]] and histories of the day. In its bleakest form, therefore, the decentred subject is little more than a puppet of overwhelm
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• Saussure's Concept of the Sign
  speaks. So we have the [[distinction]] between <i>la [[langue]]</i> and <i> la presented in succession; they [[form]] a [[chain]]. This feature becomes<br>
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• The Agency of the Letter
  But I shall not make of this [[distinction]] either a point or a point of de-<br> is not found in exactly this [[form]] in any of the numerous schemas, which<br>
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• Working
  Her [[desire]] for the [[phallus]] remains [[unsatisfied]], not matter how many [[children]] she has. ...]] leads to the return of [[castration]] in the [[real]], such as in the [[form]] of [[hallucinations]] of dismemberment or even self-mutilation of the rea
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• Linguistics and Language
  ...sibilities of the altered or introduced element. Further, the [[material]] form of a language could stabilize while distinctions expressed with those forms ...e language. To cite another of Saussure’s binary oppositions, there is a distinction to be made between [[langue]], speakers’ shared knowledge of the language
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• Wit
  ...er widely separated [[categories]] of the [[psychological]] [[system]]. No matter how concealed, the dream is still a [[wish]], while wit is a developed play ...eason, and which must be overcome in each individual case. But a radical [[distinction]] between wit and dreams is shown in the manner in which the witwork solves
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• Introduction: Real
  ...]] and functionsunconsciously, intruding into our symbolic reality in the form of need. The real is a kind of ubiquitous undifferentiated mass from which ...]] or need. The concept continues to retain its [[association]] with brute matter, but its predominant [[meaning]] in Lacan at this time is as that which is
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...nd clemency - the just and severe punishment of the enemies IS the highest form of clemency, so that, in it, rigor and charity coincide: ...lence is ''fiat iustitia, pereat mundus'': it is JUSTICE, the point of non-distinction between justice and vengeance, in which "people" (the anonymous part of no-
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...ging to the sphere of the "Asiatic mode of production," seeing it as a new form of "Oriental despotism" - the irony being that, for traditional Russians, t ...ronts its central antagonism ("contradiction") at its purest, in its naked form? And is it enough to add the "subjective" aspect and to emphasize that the
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...alization and its agents," the [[enemy]] is externalized (usually in the [[form]] of vulgar anti-Americanism). From this perspective, where the main task t ...m]] of the so-called new (digital) industries is thus: how to maintain the form of (private) property, within which only the logic of profit can be maintai
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