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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...servations involve the fact that cognitivism, which is primarily concerned with understanding, has often neglected the [[role]] of affects and has not suff For their part cognitive science specialists have contested the scientific [[value]] of [[
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• Deconstruction
  ...ies]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' that [[meaning]] is constructed and [[understood]] by writers, ...zable response to this question. All my essays are attempts to have it out with this formidable question." (Derrida 1985, at 4.) There is a great deal of c
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• German Idealism
  ...mmanuel Kant]] in the [[1780s]] and [[1790s]], and was closely linked both with [[romanticism]] and the revolutionary [[politics]] of the [[Enlightenment]] ...most perfect qualities. This is not the meaning that should be associated with German Idealism.)
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...art of his career, Hitchcock was far more popular with film audiences than with film critics, especially the [[elite]] British and American critics. In the <!--- The following is okay, with more biographical [[material]], some trimming of minor films, and less of a
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...ween what Kierkegaard truly believed and what he was merely arguing for as part of a pseudo-[[author]]'s [[position]]. [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] remarked th ...ium]]'', which today would be designated a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]]. With his family's inheritance, Kierkegaard was able to fund his education, his [
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...here is no such [[thing]] as a sexual [[relationship]]', have been greeted with indignation and outrage as well as prolonged and passionate [[defence]]. La ...in why a girl should give up the father as love object and re-[[identify]] with the mother.
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• Logic of Sexuation
  His sons were deprived of all intercourse with [[them]]. As Lacan pointed out there is no myth in the anlytic [[literature]] like that contained in ''Totem and Taboo
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  It could be said that the [[Marxist]] dialogue with psychoanalysis began in 1963 when Louis [[Althusser]], the leading [[commun reconcile [[existentialism]] and Marxism. A part of existentialism’s popular
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...edipus Rex]]'' has such "gripping [[power]]" because [[being]] in [[love]] with one's [[mother]] and [[jealousy|jealous]] of one's [[father]] is "a [[unive For Freud, the childhood desire to [[sleep]] with the mother and to kill the father.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...t]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A further difficulty with understanding the real is that Lacan's conception of it changed radically t ...[form]] of a [[need]], such as hunger. The real is thus closely associated with the body prior to its symbolization, but it is important to keep in [[mind]
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• Matheme
  ...e Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [[matheme]]s are part of [[algebra|Lacanian algebra]]. ...hematical sign]]". It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->
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• Book of Job
  Job is a devout man and a [[model]] [[citizen]] who is suddenly struck with calamities. ...l [[perception]] of Job is of a [[patient]] man who simpy endures his woes with dignity and remains faithful to God.
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...en she said it was as though eternal human nature had changed. To be a man no longer means the same thing. One should not, for example, underestimate the ...of sound really meant were generally conservatives, those who looked at it with scepticism, like Charlie Chaplin (up to a point), and Fritz Lang. Fritz Lan
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• Postmodern Racism
  ...hese [[people]] can be very [[postmodern]]. They acknowledge that there is no [[natural]] [[tradition]], that every culture is artificially constructed. ...Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre bombings were a [[sign]] that God no longer protects the USA, because the USA had chosen a path of [[evil]], [[h
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• Clash of Civilizations
  ...hese [[people]] can be very [[postmodern]]. They acknowledge that there is no [[natural]] [[tradition]], that every culture is artificially constructed. ...Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre bombings were a [[sign]] that God no longer protects the USA, because the USA had chosen a path of [[evil]], [[h
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• Violence
  ...fact that at some point you have to fight. You have to [[return]] violence with violence. The problem is not that for me, but that this war can never be a ...y wealth in the Calvinist [[logic]] of [[predestination]]: although it has no intrinsic [[value]], it is a [[sign]] of the authenticity of the revolution
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...dictatorship? So, in the contemporary academic politics, the idea to deal with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[li ...ot enough to ask how a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with [[regard]] to [[social]] struggles — one should also ask how it effective
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...earing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing with the Real, not just with empty plans — the Party is ruthlessly brutal, so it means business… ...]] the [[subject]]'s inclusion in the ([[virtual]]) [[symbolic]] order — with the cutters, the problem is the opposite one, namely the assertion of reali
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you should always counter such claims with a simple, yet intricate question: What is your gadget, your favorite illusi ...[[associations]]" of a typical educated [[analysand]] consist for the most part of attempts to provide a psychoanalytic explanation of their disturbances,
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...St [[Paul]], who formulated the basic tenets of [[Christianity]], was not part of [[Christ]]'s inner circle, and [[Lacan]] accomplished his "return to [[F ...ave behind old [[ideological]] divisions and to confront new issues, armed with the necessary expert [[knowledge]] and free deliberation that takes into ac
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