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...sts take written and then [[oral]] board examinations, each of which has a failure rate that approaches 50%, before becoming board certified. In the [[United ...scholarly journal devoted exclusively to criticism of bio-psychiatry, ''[[Ethical]] Human Psychology and Psychiatry''<ref>http://www.springerpub.com/journal.

It is on the question of the failure of [[the symbolic]] law fully to define the subject’s [[identity]] that B ...] always as an iterative failure, but who is nevertheless attached to that failure. Butler reduces the symbolic law to a series of “performative [[speech]]

...s no ontotheological God there is nonetheless some kind of unconditional [[ethical]] [[injunction]] up to which we cannot ever live. And for Lacan, depoliticized ethics is an ethical [[betrayal]] because you put the blame on the Other.

...ty, and similar zombie-[[concepts]]? Doesn't Lenin stand precisely for the FAILURE to put [[Marxism]] into [[practice]], for the big catastrophe which [[left] ...ualizes Jeremiah [[Bentham]], the father of utilitarianism: the ultimate [[ethical]] criterion is not the dignity ([[rationality]], soul) of man, but the abil

...mpromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[notion]] of a politics which would not have been a seri ...'s success, is in itself a proof of Socialism's utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes - the term "Really Existing

...two radical opposites, i.e. asserting that the [[sublime]] disinterested [[ethical]] attitude is somehow identical to, or overlaps with, the unrestrained indu ...everybody [[know]] what the point of the "with" is-the [[truth]] of Kant's ethical rigorism is the [[sadism]] of the Law, i.e. the Kantian Law is a [[superego

...ld, right wing image of the Samurai code, fighting to death, the absolute, ethical Japan. Then there is the leftist image, from Eisenschtein already: the semi ...ective in our late capitalist society means. Or let's take Lynch's biggest failure, 'Dune.' Did you notice the use of multiple inner monologues? Reality is so

...ard destructive, even murderous, [[dimension]] of strictly adhering to the ethical Ideal, and modern [[totalitarianism]]: the [[terrorism]] of the Jacobins in ...the opposition movement insisted on its fundamentally 'apolitical', civic-ethical character: they just stood for `simple values' of dignity, freedom, etc.-no

...political use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong. ...at (what Knowledge misperceives as) marginal malfunctionings and points of failure are a [[structural]] [[necessity]]. With [[regard]] to the ancien regime, f

...rmore, the picture that emerges of this period from the late 20ies — the failure of the collectivization of agriculture — to the late 30ies — the sudden ...y the Grace of the insight into the [[necessity]] of [[Communism]], all my ethical integrity will make me no more than an honest small-bourgeois humanitarian

...ty, and similar zombie-[[concepts]]? Doesn't Lenin stand precisely for the failure to put [[Marxism]] into [[practice]], for the big catastrophe that [[left]] ...provides the Darwinian background.<ref>See Peter Singer, Writings on an [[Ethical]] Life (New York, 2000).</ref>

...his great-state-[[nationalism]] is not just a feature [[external]] to the (failure of) the [[present]] opposition; it affects the very way France and Germany ...to an easily manipulated crowd unable of serious [[reflection]] and firm [[ethical]] posture… In short, the underlying motif is that the ruling coalition st

...rature). However, for the novel's second edition (the first printing was a failure), Fitzgerald tried to improve it by rearranging the material in chronologic ...eadlock that pertains to the social content itself. Fitzgerald's narrative failure and oscillation between the two versions tells us something about the socia

...titute the tradition of a [[community]], what Hegel would have called its "ethical substance") and its obscene [[Other, the]] unacknowledgeable "[[spectral]], ...God intervenes precisely at the moments of the suspension, [[withdrawal]], failure, “black-out,” of the [[paternal function]] (when the [[mother]] or the

...nsequent [[materialism]] which is able to sustain a truly ascetic militant ethical stance. ...f [[antagonisms]] which are operative in today's social [[processes]]. The failure of this opposition to function as the key to social [[totality]] does not o

...[existence]], of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[l ...of the end of the world is ultimately Wotan's own guilt, the result of his ethical fiasco - in Hegelese, external opposition is the effect of inner contradict

...uilty]] in front of everyone, but I am that more than all [[others]]." The ethical asymmetry between me and the other addressing me with the infinite call is ...ap that separates [[Judaism]] and [[Christianity]] - Judaism's fundamental ethical task is that of how "to be without being a murderer":

...A David Lynch [[Film]]," provides what is perhaps the best resume of the [[ethical]] [[paradox]] that marks the end of century: the overlapping of the [[trans ...previous films? What if, in our postmodern [[world]] in which the radical ethical commitment is perceived as ridiculously out of time, he is the true outcast

...he basic discursive strategies of legitimizing suffering: Job's properly [[ethical]] dignity resides in the way he persistently detects the notion that his su ...constitute the tradition of a community, what Hegel would have called its "ethical substance") and its obscene [[Other, the]] unacknowledgeable "[[spectral]],

...mentalism]], then one is forced to conclude that the attack was not only a failure, but even strengthened the very [[cause]] it tried to fight. The Saddam Hus ...t rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: how can, of all the people, YOU behave like th

...utopian expectations which, among other things, enabled us to measure the failure of the really existing Socialism itself. What the anti-Communist dissidents ...f this necessity when he wrote, "It is a modern folly to alter a corrupt [[ethical]] system, its [[constitution]] and legislation, without changing the [[reli

...situation occurs when a higher [[necessity]] compels me to betray the very ethical substance of my being.<br><br> ...l]] terms, the paradox of the miser is that he unites the two incompatible ethical tradition: the Aristotelian ethics of moderation and the Kantian ethics of

...things here and there, etc.). And it is in these replacement of the big "[[ethical]]" founding crime with small corruption that resides the finesse of the fil ...s, this is all we can do today, in our dark era: to render [[visible]] the failure of all attempts at redemption, the obscene travesty of every gesture of rec

...recise on account of what its critics usually denounce as its weakness and failure, namely the “alienation” of social life.” Alienation means (also) tha ...neral, one can only believe in some God(s) to the detriment of others. The failure of all the efforts to unite religions proves that the only way to be religi

...lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature,

...t not commit murder"). This is the central point of his [[Meta-ethics|meta-ethical]] [[theory]] that establishes Kant as an extreme [[moral objectivism|moral ...ould not possibly have [[knowledge]] of his own freedom, we cannot use our failure to find a proof for freedom as evidence for a [[lack]] of it. The observabl

...ommunist]] or [[Social-Democratic]] parties. Influenced especially by the failure of [[working]]-[[class]] revolutions in Western [[Europe]] after [[World Wa ...[ethics]] as the highest stage in the internal logic of the evolution of [[ethical]] systems, Habermas hints at the source of a new [[politics|political]] pra

....<ref>And, as René Girard pointed out, is the first full assertion of the ethical parallax not the Book of Job, in which the two perspective are confronted ( ...re is nothing "beyond," the "Beyond" is only the void of the impossibility/failure of its own representation - or, as Hegel put it at the end of the chapter o

..., betrayed what was best in the late pope, his <i>intractable</i> [[ethics|ethical]] stance.</p> ...“[[ethics]] without violence,” a sort of permanent (re)negotiation of ethical [[norms]]. It is here where the highest [[cultural critique]] unexpectedly

"The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of [[ethical]] abnegations and professional priests; but [[inside]] that inhuman guard y ...and the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]] - no wonder the novel is a clear failure, contrived and ridiculously pretentious. To add insult to [[injury]], Walla

...dical [[Otherness]] confronting us with the absolute [[responsibility]], [[ethical]] [[injunction]], all that. So, what interests me is precisely this kind of ...lute</i>, but something bothered me. Do I really have to kill my son to be ethical?" I love this [[total]] naïveté. Of course not! My point was to address t

...mentalism]], then one is forced to conclude that the attack was not only a failure, but even strengthened the very [[cause]] it tried to fight. The Saddam Hus ...t rather, on the contrary - [[secret]] recognition of the special higher [[ethical]] standards of the [[Jews]]: how can, of all the people, YOU behave like th

...mpromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[notion]] of a politics which would not have been a seri ...'s success, is in itself a proof of Socialism's utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes - the term "Really Existing

...around her - it is this predicament that imposes suicide as her ultimate [[ethical]] act: becoming aware of how he suffers on account of her permanent [[prese ...ct was a simple escape from the burden of [[life]], the second is a proper ethical act. In other [[words]], if the first Harey, before her suicide on Earth, w

...e. The second story concerns the other side of the much-praised new global ethical politics in which one is allowed to violate the state sovereignty on behalf ...ATO intervention in Yugoslavia is not simply the result of some particular failure of strategic reasoning, but depends on the fundamental [[inconsistency]] of

struggling with, the point of failure of the [[three]] consecutive drafts of <i>Weltalter</i>, was the our failure to comprehend God is what Hegel called a 'reflexive determination' of the

...political use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong. ...at (what Knowledge misperceives as) marginal malfunctionings and points of failure are a [[structural]] [[necessity]]. With [[regard]] to the ancien regime, f

...the inexistence of the big [[Other, the]] subject blames the Other for its failure and/or impotence, as if the Other is [[guilty]] for the fact that it doesn' ...of their co-existence without any guarantee of some meta-norm [[Kant]]'s [[ethical]] [[philosophy]] was already its exemplary case. In Coldness and [[Cruelty]

...mage]] of the [[Samurai]] [[code]], fighting to [[death]], the absolute, [[ethical]] Japan. Then there is the [[leftist]] image, from Eisenschtein already: th ...ective in our late capitalist society means. Or let's take Lynch's biggest failure, 'Dune.' Did you notice the use of multiple inner monologues? Reality is so

biggest failure, <cite>Dune</cite>. Did you notice the use of multiple inner [[death]], the absolute, [[ethical]] Japan. Then there is the leftist image, from

...mpromises which always and by definition fall short of the unconditional [[ethical]] [[demand]]. The [[notion]] of a politics which would not have been a seri ...'s success, is in itself a proof of Socialism's utter failure, i.e. of the failure of the attempt to legitimize Socialist regimes - the term "Really Existing

...er 14 year old pupil. He's been trying to describe what an authentically [[ethical]] act would be, arguing that no [[objective]] standards would determine it, ...orgivable relish, "that's my answer, when people say, my God, you had your failure in the Seventies, what would you be if you had got that job. I can tell you

...e of reason ultimately rests on a [[vision]] of the [[individual]] as an [[ethical]] actor in a functional [[community]].<br> ...versely, for its success. "The conventional wisdom is that socialism was a failure because, instead of creating a 'New Man,' it produced a country of cynics w

...can say that he left a legacy of compromise or triangulation, but the big failure is at this ideological level. He didn't leave behind a platform with which ...the [[plurality]] of stories with no universal truth value is the ultimate ethical horizon.</p>

...d psychoanalysis. In both cases, Zizek's central concern is with a certain failure/excess in the order of being. In German idealism this aspect is made increa ...rder) that confers human status. Thus what is masked in this projection of failure on to Rachel is the traumatic knowledge that it is us, who cannot resolve t

...'the identity of the subject consists in nothing other than the continual failure of self-reflection'.<a name="27x"></a><a href="#27">²⁷</a> One a ...he issue here is not the critique of Derrida and Levinas — whose liberal ethical and political positions are problematic — but the vantage point from whic

...he entirety of the social; but each group looks for an explanation of this failure to some external and intrusive element, whose removal would restore an imag ...a difference that is not to be grasped directly but only through the very failure of identity (HP, 89-90).<br><br>

...act, this exact criticism, often coming from the perspective of a pseudo-[[ethical]], pragmatic <i>Realpolitik</i>, is often made against Zizek. It has been p ...se [[tragic]] [[character]] was that it came to embrace its own inevitable failure. (This is also the [[tragedy]] of a [[figure]] like [[Havel]]: that he wasn

The conclusion drawn was that this failure was due to underestimating the depth of Western [[Christian]] spiritual fou ...nce]] in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom"

...dical [[Otherness]] confronting us with the absolute [[responsibility]], [[ethical]] [[injunction]], all that. So, what interests me is precisely this kind of ...Absolute, but something bothered me. Do I really have to kill my son to be ethical?" I love this [[total]] naivete. Of course not! The problem is: how does a

...n what Lacan is saying and Lyotard's equation of the death of God with the failure of all metanarratives of truth.] </p><p><br> ...n our hands from this adventure, something that changes the bases of the [[ethical]] problem, namely, <i>that jouissance </i>still remains forbidden as it was

...>And if we are to make any progress, this is what the perspective of the [[ethical]] ends of psychoanalysis, whose significance I am trying to demonstrate her ...deserves. It offers amazing examples of a lack of systematicity - not the failure of a method, but the [[choice]] of a failed method. The so- called [[scient

...thologizes" Octavia's sacrificial gesture, reducing a pure "disinterested" ethical act to a "pathological" feminine subterfuge. ...thful to her dead husband. The parallel with the literary tradition of the ethical gesture of renunciation which persists when the obstacle is no longer here

...as the beginning at once of [[social]] organization, of religion, and of [[ethical]] restrictions. Now whether we suppose that such a possibility was a histor

...n universe - far from accepting these rules, it is the [[duty]] of every [[ethical]] subject to fight such a universe with all means possible, including the [ ...to take measure of our acts and pronounce their "true meaning," their true ethical status. Even Jacques [[Derrida]]'s notion of "[[deconstruction]] as justice

The conclusion drawn was that this failure was due to underestimating the depth of Western [[Christian]] spiritual fou ...nce]]-in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]] [[authority]]-wrote apropos Jacques [[Derrida]]'s untimely [[death]], wit

...days off they never went out. One stormy night lightning caused a po«rer failure. When their employers, a woman and her daughter, returned from an evening o ...demand responded to, but its desire [[exists]] only because of the initial failure of satisfaction. Desire persists as an effect of a primordial absence.

...iting exception, but an inconsistent elementary "love without limit," an [[ethical]], impure desire. ...st intellectuals. What we have really witnessed is a true debacle, a total failure of the intellectuals in all these cases. This is a very interesting lesson.

...must be the rule during the treatment. Considerations both technical and [[ethical]] [[prohibit]] the analyst from gratifying the solicitations of transferenc ...ferential [[anxiety]] aroused by the interpersonal situation, as well as a failure to deal with personal [[narcissistic]] shortcomings or masochistic tendenci

...n what Lacan is saying and Lyotard's equation of the death of God with the failure of all metanarratives of truth.] </p><p><br> ...n our hands from this adventure, something that changes the bases of the [[ethical]] problem, namely, <i>that jouissance </i>still remains forbidden as it was

...lligent machine from the intelligent human, then, according to Turing, our failure proves that machines can think. - What is a little bit less known is that i ...human genome was publicly announced, the wave of commentaries about the [[ethical]], medical, etc. consequences of this breakthrough rendered [[manifest]] th

...or not?” (One can also imagine a humanitarian version of such a pseudo-[[ethical]] [[blackmail]]: “OK, enough of this muddle about the neocolonialism, the ...– therein resides the “pedagogy of the revolution“ – in their very failure to achieve their professed [[goal]] create the ([[subjective]]) [[condition

...right moment: it marked the end of the era which began in 1789, the final failure of the statist-revolutionary model which first entered the scene with the J ...ith his notion of the neighbor as the abyssal point from which the call of ethical responsibility emanates. What Levinas thereby obfuscates is the monstrosity

...nitial either/or. Of course, this "choice of the worst" fails, but in this failure, it undermines the entire field of the alternative and thus enables us to o ...as if this logic of "obstacle as a positive condition" which underlied the failure of the socialist attempts to overcome capitalism, is now returning with a v

...ver the relational field that is also the domain of political ecology, the ethical field of resistance to identity and predictable paths. It's very troubling ...ld-Event functions in the same way as Kierkegaard's triad of the Aesthetic-Ethical-Religious: the choice is always between two terms, and either/or, i.e., the

...s as this very point that God’s suffering enters: what it signals is the failure of any <em>Aufhebung</em> of the raw fact of suffering. What echoes here is ...Christ is "more" than other model figures of religious or philosophical or ethical wisdom, real or mythical (Buddha, Socrates, Moses, Mohammad), "divine" in t

...e. The second story concerns the other side of the much-praised new global ethical politics in which one is allowed to violate the state sovereignty on behalf ...ATO intervention in Yugoslavia is not simply the result of some particular failure of strategic reasoning, but depends on the fundamental [[inconsistency]] of

...Hegel. In the predominant perception, Kant is supposed to openly admit the failure of general ontology which aims at grasping the Whole of reality: when our m ...plores the fact that we cannot ever be certain if our act was a truly free ethical act and not an act contaminated by pathological motivations: again, beneath

...variations on Joyce, the "true" Becket constituted himself through a true ethical act, a CUT, a rejection of the Joycean wealth of enjoy-meant, and the ascet ...where a mortal human being attempts to escape immortality, its unbearable ethical burden/injunction. In this sense, Texts are an optimistic work – their me

...er fully adequate expressions of their content, still subject to error and failure when they are applied to novel particulars. But the way things are in thems ...the ideal of a harmonious hierarchic social body), and the result of this failure was that we had to change this ideal notion itself. So what happens at the

...n the two radical opposites, i.e. asserting that the sublime disinterested ethical attitude is somehow identical to, or overlaps with, the unrestrained indulg ...doesn't everybody know what the point of the "with" is the truth of Kant's ethical rigorism is the sadism of the Law, i.e. the Kantian Law is a superego agenc

...nted by belief? Is it that a belief emerges in order to compensate for the failure of knowledge? We believe in God because we cannot know for sure that He exi ...mean its self-destruction, so that morality has to desire its own ultimate failure as the condition of its infinite self-reproduction. In other words, Hegel's

...ield free for him to deploy his potential, so that his success will be his failure, since the lack of any external obstacle will confront him with the absolut ...ometimes (exemplarily in his reading of ''Antigone''), he conceives of the ethical act as a kind of "forcing," a violent act of transgression which cuts into

...rom outside, but appears as the living unity of "customs," of a collective ethical life in which individuals are "at home," recognizing it as their own substa ...to alienation (the norm is no longer experienced as part of my substantial ethical nature, but as an external force that constrains my freedom), while for the

...comparison with a "normal" individual); less significant problems (social failure, the subject tells jokes that fail to amuse and hears sarcastic remarks abo ...illusions; at the same time, the slightest derision or some other social "failure" drives him to a state of traumatic depression. The Hegelian dialectic of r

...k Saul/Paul on the road to Damascus: a kind of religious suspension of the Ethical, to use Kierkegaard's terms. An Absolute intervenes which derails the balan ...ple but difficult question: is there a true progress in history? (He meant ethical progress in freedom, not just material development.) Kant conceded that act

...common to complain about 'ethical violence', i.e., to submit to criticism ethical injunctions which 'terrorize' us with the brutal imposition of their univer ...self-knowing and self-realization: the pronouncement of the Decalogue is ''ethical violence at its purest''. The Judeo-Christian tradition is thus to be stric