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The term "[[subject]]" is [[present]] from the very earliest of [[Lacan]]'s [[psychoanalytic]] In [[Lacan]]'s pre-war papers, the term "[[subject]]" seems to mean no more than "human being."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 75</ref>

...k]], for [[Descartes]]'s entire [[philosophy]]. [[Lacan]]'s attitude to [[Cartesian]]ism is extremely [[complex]], and only a few of the most important points ...]]'s discovery by returning to the [[Freud|pre-Freudian]] concept of the [[subject]] as an [[autonomous ego]].<ref>{{S2}} p. l1</ref>

...oubt]] to [[certainty]]) and the [[subversion]] of the [[subject|Cartesian subject]].

of Žižek's essays is his central [[thesis]] that the [[subject]] is the 'monster' the [[Cartesian]] subject. It is a rewarding read but difficult in places.

What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? Descartes’ [[cogito]] is the basis of the subject – not as a substantial, [[transparent]] and fully [[self]]-[[conscious]]

...es of [[natural]] substance à la [[Spinoza]] and the [[transcendental]] [[subject]] ''à la'' [[Kant]] and [[Fichte]] (an agenda sometimes subsumed under the ...tivity, themselves [[interpreted]] as elaborations and extensions of the [[Cartesian]] [[model]].

...[Husserl]], producing both translations of their work (e.g., Husserl's ''[[Cartesian]] Meditations'') and original [[philosophical]] tracts. ...y]] to the point where [[ethical]] [[responsibility]] is integral to the [[subject]]; because of this, an ethics of responsibility precedes any '[[objective]]

...e. My idea is that the subject is inherently political, in the sense that 'subject', to me, denotes a piece of freedom - where you are no longer rooted in som ...h of shifting paradigm. So New Age people tell us that we no longer have a Cartesian, mechanistic individualism, but a new universal mind. In sociology, the the

...e obviously "artificial" rear-projections, not signal that the time of the Cartesian infinite perspective is running out, and that we are returning to a kind of ...and fantasy is an attempt to fill out this lack of the Other, not of the subject, i.e. to (re)constitute the consistency of the big Other. For that reason,

...as the embodiment of his father's symbolic function, but as a vulnerable [[subject]] which is [[disconnected]], disattached from this function. It is in this ...e Holy [[Ghost]]. To use the modern opposition, it is not [[the symbolic]] subject who is reduced the real individual; it is the individual, the person in all

...antian Law is a [[superego]] [[agency]] that sadistically [[enjoys]] the [[subject]]'s deadlock, his inability to meet its inexorable [[demands]], like the pr Lacan's counterargument here is: what if we [[encounter]] a subject (as we do regularly in psychoanalysis), who can only fully [[enjoy]] a nigh

...in something, is that every honest man has a profound need to find another subject who would believe in his place… ==The subject supposed to believe==

...Lacan says [[The Subject|the subject]] of psychoanalysis is the Cartesian subject. JA: Well, the subject relating to the signifier and [[metaphor]] is Cartesian…

...standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which move ...while its second part provides a materialist supplement, reinscribing the subject into its own image in the guise of a stain (the objectivized splinter in it

...when you are killed in reality) is also too short. The catch is: is the [[subject]] WHOLLY immersed into the Matrix-dominated VR or does he know or at least ...ows on the computer the position which is strictly homologous to that of [[Cartesian]] [[evil]] God /genie malin/: since the computer coordinates the [[relation

...This ideology of global victimisation, the [[identification]] of the human subject as 'something that can be hurt', is the perfect fit for today's global capi

...can be rendered as the difference between the two corresponding verbs, to subject (submit) oneself and to object (to protest, oppose, make an obstacle). The subject's elementary, founding, gesture is to subject itself - voluntarily, of course: as both [[Wagner]] and [[Nietzsche]], the

It is the science of the unconscious subject, and this subject first emerged in the seventeenth century with the founder of modern philoso The [[subject]]

...splaced]] belief, what in [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] is referred to as "the [[subject]] supposed to believe," in which literally believe through the Other. It's ...Hegel's theory of [[subjectivity]] to the Lacanian model of the [[barred]] subject and the nonexistence of the [[Big Other]]?<br><br>

...what you call '[[foreclosure]]'- that the real or the articulation of the subject is [[foreclosed]] by the way [[society]] has evolved in recent years. ...Habermas]] and Jacques [[Derrida]] would both agree that the [[Cartesian]] subject had to be deconstructed, or, in the [[case]] of Habermas, embedded in a lar

...e obviously "artificial" rear-projections, not signal that the time of the Cartesian infinite perspective is running out, and that we are returning to a kind of ...- and fantasy is an attempt to fill out this lack of the Other, not of the subject, i.e. to (re)constitute the consistency of the big Other. For that reason,

between the [[subject]] and the [[signifier]], etc. - I remain blind to Schelling's basic thrust Real of the ground and the subject's [[freedom]], while, already in his early [[philosophy]] of

...This problematique also opens up the vaguaries of [[ignorance]] not the [[subject]]'s, but the big [[Other]]'s: "the father is dead, although unaware of it," ...t there is "[[objective]]" [[scientific]] knowledge (in the modern, post-[[Cartesian]] sense of the term) only if the universe of scientific knowledge itself is

...Lacan says [[The Subject|the subject]] of psychoanalysis is the Cartesian subject. JA: Well, the subject relating to the signifier and [[metaphor]] is Cartesian...

...mentioned the deconstructionist version of cyberspace which is this post-[[Cartesian]] one: Each of us can play with his/her identities and so forth. This is th ...sitive [[content]], can one truly see what remains, namely the Cartesian [[subject]].

...ory]] which he returns to [[time]] and again - that the [[subject]] is the subject of a [[void]]. ...warding books as it covers a range of crucial topics from the cause of the subject through the [[role]] of the [[superego]] to the [[impossibility]] of the [[

The [[Cartesian]] cogito—the [[principle]] articulated by [[Descartes]] that "I [[think]] ...ed given the enigmatic status of the [[human]] [[body]], and the Cartesian subject’s confrontation with its modern critics, including [[Althusser]], [[Batai

...]</i> which is a comprehensive and contentious account of the contemporary subject. There will also be a major Reader of his work published in a series alongs ...work has in common an attempt to grapple with the modern or [[postmodern]] subject -you and I, the notion of "an act <i>proper</i>", and an attempt to articul

...ationality]]." While [[Foucault]] and [[Derrida]] dissolve the [[human]] [[subject]] in a sea of discursive indeterminacy and historical [[contingency]], Habe ...sumes that communities are constitutively dysfunctional and that the human subject is always divi ded against itself by contradictory desires and identificati

As Zizek makes clear in <i>The Ticklish Subject</i>, what German idealism accomplishes is a displacement of the usual oppos ...f being - a gap that simultaneously designates the radical autonomy of the subject - and is something that constantly threatens to sabotage or overwhelm the s

...imself appear to the gaze of the West and now it is this appearance of the subject Zizek to us that we will focus on. What you need to know to read Zizek, the ...lways already broken, and this is the baseline of Lacanian accounts of the subject and a reminder to Marxists not to hope for too much. <br><br>

<b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...society, is not ideologically neutral or unquestionably positive, but the subject of various groups attempting to claim it (SO, 98). Each of these attempts n

...ve]]: [[Kant]], [[Hegel]], and Critique of [[Ideology]] and The Ticklish [[Subject]]: The [[Absent]] Centre of Political [[Ontology]]. ...ve: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Duke, 1993); The [[Ticklish Subject]]: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Verso, 1999); [[The Fragile Abs

...a. </i>I did not realize at the [[time]] that I would be developing the [[subject]] of the gaze to such an extent. I was diverted into doing so by the way i ...to which we referred in the [[Cartesian]] <i>[[cogito]], </i>by which the subject appreliends himself as [[thought]]?<br>

...inary aspects. Based on the specular image, the imaginary is rooted in the subject's relationship to the body (the image of the body). THE SUBJECT==

...disclose by rewriting the [[Cartesian]] [[cogito]] in this way is that the subject is irrevocably split, torn asunder by language

The [[subject of enunciation]] is the "[[I]]" who speaks, the [[individual]] doing the [[ The [[subject of the enunciated]] is the "[[I]]" of the [[sentence]].

...ed [[moment]] into a higher [[synthesis]]. Since the basic dynamism of the subject for Lacan arises from [[desire,]] it is not surprising that he focuses atte ...as the role that the phallus plays in a [[dialectical]] assumption by the subject of his own desire now becomes thematized.

[[Bar (separating signifier and sIgnIfied/splitting subject), 162, 175, 191, 192,210,232,244,246,249, 321,327,337,343,347,348,351, 352, ..., 32, 34, 35, 40, 55,61,80,87,136,159,220,235, 243,257,259,276,353,365,383 Cartesian, 34, 178, 179, 357; see also Descartes, R.

=The Subject= [[Slavoj Žižek]] fully endorses the [[model]] of the [[Cartesian subject]].

...thout recalling the [[discourse]] of [[master]] and [[slave]], about the [[subject]] without reference to Descartes, or about the [[thing]] without reference ...unconscious]] is the [[Cartesian]] subject (philosophical discourse), that subject, as conceived by Lacan, has been [[divided]], separated, and [[split]] (psy

[[Self]]-[[consciousness]] is the [[mental]] [[activity]] through which the [[subject]] feels a [[sense]] of [[being]] or existing as a unique and [[total]] [[in ...elationship between subject and world, a pro-nominal [[form]] in which the subject, through [[discourse]], [[identifies]] with what it believes it is or would

...a. </i>I did not realize at the [[time]] that I would be developing the [[subject]] of [[The Gaze|the gaze]] to such an extent. I was diverted into doing so ...eferred in the [[Cartesian]] <i>[[cogito]], </i>by which [[The Subject|the subject]] appreliends himself as [[thought]]?<br>

...Écrits]]: A Selection</i>) as the first [[topology]] of [[The Subject|the subject]].<br> ...an mentions the [[fascination]] of the fantasy in which "[[The Subject|the subject]] becomes [[The Cut|the cut]] that makes shine in its inexpressible oscilla

(This is the [[subject]]'s first [[perception]] that the [[Other]] is not [[complete]] but [[lacki The [[subject]] gives up a certain ''[[jouissance]]'' which is never regained despite all

...at reacted bitterly against the domination of neo-[[Kantianism]] and the [[Cartesian]] [[tradition]]. This was a tradition that excluded Hegel from serious cons ...who contemplates is 'absorbed' by what he contemplates; the [[knowing]] [[subject]] loses himself in the [[object]] that is known. The man who is 'absorbed'

and [[Descartes]]. Lacan's new view of the [[subject]] challenges the European [[philosophical]] [[tradition]], often personifie the importance of thought, of the [[conscious]]. The [[Cartesian]] subject

...reticence apropos “[[dialectical]] materialism” and turn around the [[subject]]-predicate [[relationship]] between the two opposites: “materialist demo ...to which materialist dialectics adds: “''Insofar as there is a truth, a subject subtracts itself to all [[community]] and destroys all individuation''.”

...nt?" His answer is well-known: they want corruption - another name for the subject's defeat.<ref>Alain Badiou, ''Logiques des mondes'', Paris: Seuil 2006, p. ...uth of its negation, the truth of the assertion of the independence of the subject with regard to the empirical individuals qua living being? Is this independ

[[Image:The.Ticklish.Subject.gif|200px|thumb|Book Cover]] ...provocative question: What if there is a subversive core of the Cartesian subject to be unearthed, a core that provides the indispensable philosophical point

[[orders]]) of the [[subject]], the imaginary is the first to enter on stage ...s captivated by a Gestalt. Typical for animal behaviour is that the animal subject is completely identical to the [[image]] governing the release of a specifi

...cess should effectively be conceived "not only as Substance, but also as [[Subject]]." This is why, when confronted with [[singular]] catastrophic prospects ( ...the good old [[Marxist]] determination of the proletarian [[revolutionary subject]]: they are "free" in the [[double]] [[meaning]] of the word even more than

...The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology|The Ticklish Subject]]''. ...lls, does not will, and which also imagines and senses” (ibid.: 26). The Cartesian ''[[cogito]]'' is not to be equated with the machinery of the limbs, or wit

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...ed given the enigmatic status of the [[human]] [[body]], and the Cartesian subject's confrontation with its modern critics, including [[Althusser]], [[Bataill

=‘The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology’ by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:slavoj-zizek-the-ticklish-subject.jpg|frame|right|300px]]

...jét'') of all knowledge, but it nevertheless claimed to establish for the subject a certain anchoring in being. ...nd where he subverts, through de-localization, the pure coincidence of the subject with itself, its reflexive transparency.

...but the addi­tional pleas­ure provided by the very formal detours in the subject's effort to attain pleas­ure. Think about Brecht's ''Me-Ti'' which, in i ...cted by its place of enun­ci­ation. We can already see the link with the Cartesian ''cogito'': is the "empty" enun­ci­ator of sci­en­ti­fic state­ments

...f we do it? – is the subject itself. And, again, this does not mean that subject is a kind of user's illusion which persists only insofar as it doesn't know ...et a'' (as the stand-in for a lack) is the objectal correlate of the empty subject, that which causes anxiety. Back to ''Winterreise'' : ''objet a'' of the na

...message is that one cannot but "go on" as an immortal bodiless drive, as a subject without subjectivity: "No, no souls, or bodies, or birth, or life, or death ...ed of body) – undead. Texts are a comical attempt to resubjectivize this subject – among other things, to provide him with a body, to travel back the road

...aw, i.e. the Kantian Law is a superego agency that sadistically enjoys the subject's deadlock, his inability to meet its inexorable demands, like the proverbi ...s answer may be."3 Lacan's counterargument here is: what if we encounter a subject (as we do regularly in psychoanalysis), who can only fully enjoy a night of

...tiest, because it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge.<u>1</u> ...ossible") character of the Real that forever resists symbolization, on the subject's unsurpassable separation from the cause of its desire? Is not the best de

...sively "spectralized" (the "Protean Self" replacing the old self-identical Subject, the elusive fluidity of its experiences superseding the stability of owned ...erent forms of its actual existence (money―commodity), it appears as the subject "endowed with a motion of its own, passing through a life-process of its ow

# the ''Heideggerian ''notion of Cartesian subjectivity as the radical step in metaphysical nihilism which finds its f # the ''ecological ''rejection of Cartesian dualism as opening up the way to ruthless exploitation of nature – here i