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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...votes I have."; "It seems to have been my fate that I never experienced [[real]] love or [[friendship]]." This is what Lacan had in [[mind]] when he claim ...esn't believe in [[words]] (in the "symbolic efficiency"), but only in the real of [[jouissance]] — and is the [[Nation]]-Thing not today's supreme embod
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...us of all. But we may say that in a certain [[sense]] it has never had a [[real]] [[existence]]. It is never remembered, it has never succeeded in becoming ...eal; the knowledge we have of this phase is a "knowledge in [[The Real|the real]]," i.e., it is an "acephalic," non-subjectivized knowledge. Although (or,
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...ic outlines of his philosophy will be rehearsed here prior to offering a [[Lacanian]] response to his depiction of the limits of psychoanalysis. ...and its denomination: Event is the [[traumatic]] [[encounter]] with the [[Real]] (Christ's death, the historic shock of a revolution, etc.), while its den
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  <p>Do we not have here, enacted in [[real]] [[life]], the uncanny logic of Josef K.'s first interrogation in The Tria ...to understand this. But with the same forcefulness with which I confess my real guilt, with that same forcefulness I deny the guilt which is thrust upon me
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...politician of the 20th century — the century of the [[passion]] of the [[real]]. ...join the Communist party — an exemplary [[case]] of [[the passion of the real]]. It wasn't that Brecht supported the military action, but that he perceiv
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...dominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use - is that ...lso to undermine and/or displace the existing socio-symbolic network - the Lacanian "big [[Other]]" - which predetermines the only [[space]] within which the [
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• You May
  We are dealing with an [[imaginary]] cartography, which projects onto the [[real]] landscape its own shadowy [[ideological]] [[antagonisms]], in the same wa ...mptoms, but symptoms which are themselves Annafreudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Lacanian - they don't [[exist]] without reference to some [[psychoanalytic theory]].
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...s for his illustrations of a de luxe book. However, although they are the "real thing," their drawings appear a fake, so the painter has to rely more and m ...</a><a href="#8x">8</a> (Is this not Karatani's way to assert the Lacanian Real as a pure antagonism, as an impossible difference which precedes its terms?
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...different formal mode (in the sense in which [[Spinoza]] claims that the [[real]] dog and the [[idea]] of a dog are substantially one and the same [[thing] ...ains thoroughly in the domain of [[impossible]]-Real: he is the impossible-Real outside father, so that there is a “genealogical desert between man and G
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...reality outside the Matrix after the catastrophe while the "desert of the real" refers to the grayness of the purely formal digital universe which generat ...humanity at the film's end? Not a direct awakening into the "desert of the Real," but a free floating between the multitude of virtual universes: instead o
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...]] called geistige Koerperlichkeit, the spiritual corporeality. From the [[Lacanian]] perspective, it is easy to [[identify]] this "spiritual corporeality" as ...e gaze" and [[regard]] us, the spectators. That is to say, crucial for the Lacanian notion of gaze is that it involves the [[reversal]] of the [[relationship]]
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  What is an act in the strict [[Lacanian]] [[sense]] of the term? [[Recall]] C.S. Lewis' description of his [[religi ...nata Salecl]], ed., <i>[[Sexuation]]</i>, Durham: Duke UP 2000. For my own Lacanian elaboration of this point, see [[Slavoj Zizek]], <i>[[The Fragile Absolute]
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...tinians with no public [[links]] to the PLO / and start talking with our [[real]] partners," the situation changed overnight. Therein resides the effect of ...isting academic [[machine]] with its endless interpretive [[circulation]], Lacanian theory involves the type of collective of engaged [[subjects]] found in rad
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...a human face," to an authentic alternative to both [[Real]] Socialism and Real Capitalism. That is to say, what would have happened if the Warsaw pact for ...munication was effectively an example of successful communication in the [[Lacanian]] [[sense]] of the term? What if each of the two positions received from it
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...e <i>Hamlet</i> [[narrative]], things get complicated. The standard, pre-[[Lacanian]], "naive" [[psychoanalytic]] [[reading]] of Hamlet, of course, focuses on ...oes here a step further: the notion of sacrifice usually associated with [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]] is that of a gesture that enacts the [[disavowal]] of the
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...BOTH worse, inclusive of the warning, formulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTIO ..."narrative" genre of [[them]] all, and imbued it with the inertia of the [[real]], the lack of [[resolution]], the dragging-on of the "empty time," which c
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• Are We in a War
  ...obs and savings were certainly exposed to a risk, but without having any [[real]] [[choice]]: what was risk to those in the [[know]] was blind fate to them ...emergency are in actuality a desperate [[defence]] against [[The Real|the real]] state of emergency.
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• Ethics and the Real
  Ethics and the [[Real]] Now I offer an account of how the real relates to sublimation.
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• Seminar VII
  ...As for disbelief, by rejecting the [[Thing]] it makes it reappear in the [[Real]], which is the [[Lacan]]ian definition of [[psychosis]]. ...Good]], where different goods compete for the position of Supreme Good. [[Lacanian]] [[ethics]] see the [[Good]] as an obstacle in the path of [[desire]], thu
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• Oedipus complex
  In [[Lacanian]] [[terms]], the [[Oedipus complex]] marks the transition from a [[dual]] a ...ings]]. According to [[Lacan]], therefore, we must distinguish between the real people involved and [[the symbolic]] [[structures]] that organize relations
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