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• Gaze
  ...at which permits the [[subject]] to realize that the [[Other]] is also a [[subject]]. ...er-as-subject must be able to be referred back to my permanent possibility of ''[[being]] seen'' by the Other.<ref>[[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre, Jean-Paul]]
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• Jouissance
  ...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->
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• Phallus
  ...anatomical]]) [[body|bodily organ]] and the [[phallus]] as a [[signifier]] of [[sexual difference]]. ...batory jouissance ([[gratification]]). [[Freud]] argues that [[children]] of both [[sexual difference|sexes]] set great [[value]] on the [[phallus|penis
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...italist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]").
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• Psychosis
  ...[[about]] by the [[foreclosure]] of a primordial [[signifier]], the [[Name-of-the-Father]]. ...s]] on the grounds that the peculiarly invasive and devastating [[nature]] of psychotics' delusional systems and hallucinations indicates major [[structu
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• Transference
  ...[[affect]] from one [[idea]] to another.<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]''. 1900a: [[SE]] V, 562</ref> This soon became the central [[meaning]] of the term, and is the [[sense]] in which it is usually [[understood]] in [[p
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• Regression
  ...terpretation of Dreams]] in [[order]] to explain the [[visual]] [[nature]] of [[dreams]]. ...towards the [[system]] of [[perception]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'', 1900a: [[SE]] V, 538-55</ref>
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• Object
  ...[[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or attentions). ...nimate things: individuals, parts of the [[body]] and the [[satisfaction]] of [[need]]s can all be [[object]]s.
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• Neurosis
  ...gmund Freud|his early work]], and sometimes to denote a specific [[class]] of [[treatment|mental disorders]] (i.e. in opposiiton to [[psychosis]]). ...condition such as hysteria in which somatic [[symptoms]] are an expression of a [[psychical]] [[conflict]] originating in [[childhood]]. Modern [[psycho
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• Language
  ...as French or [[English]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]] languages. It is fundamentally the general structure of [[language]] (''[[langage]]''), rather than the differences between particu
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• Anxiety
  ...g been recognised in [[psychiatry]] as one of the most common [[symptom]]s of [[mental]] disorder. [[Psychiatric]] descriptions of [[anxiety]] generally refer to both mental phenomena (apprehension, worry)
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• Being
  =====Metaphysical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory===== ...ote to his [[discourse]] that distinguishes it from most other [[school]]s of [[psychoanalytic theory]], which refuse to engage with their metaphysical a
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• Countertransference
  ...ded]] over the [[role]] allotted to [[countertransference]] in discussions of [[technique]]. ...lyst]]s argued that [[countertransference]] manifestations were the result of incompletely analysed elements in the [[analyst]], and that such manifestat
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• Existence
  ...[[discussion]] of the "judgement of existence," by which the [[existence]] of an entity is affirmed prior to attributing any quality to it. ...tegrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] fully "[[exist]]s", since "there is no such thing as a prediscursive [[reality]]."<ref>{{S20}} p. 33</ref>
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• Structure
  ...efer to "[[structure|social structures]]" by which he means a specific set of [[affect]]ive relations between [[family]] members. =====Nature of the Psyche=====
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• Speech
  ''[[Parole]]'' becomes one of the most important [[terms]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] from the early 1950s on. ...en psychanalyse]]," 1953a, in {{E}} p.237-322. ["[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]]," in {{E}}. p. 30-113]</ref>
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• Signifier
  [[Lacan]] takes the term "[[signifier]]" from the [[work]] of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]. ...sign]]'''; not the actual sound itself, but the '''[[mental]] [[image]]''' of such a sound.
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• Signifying Chain
  ...ative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a chain reaction. ...he [[Name]]-of-the-[[Father]] signifiers are substituted for the signifier of the desire for the [[mother]]. From then on, [[conscious]] and unconscious
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• Science
  ...ar]], thus implying that there is a specific [[unified]], homogeneous kind of [[discourse]] that can be called "[[science|scientific]]". ...in the seventeenth century <ref>{{Ec}} p. 857</ref>, with the inauguration of modern physics.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 855</ref>.
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of [[psychoanalysis]]. In 1936, [[Lacan]] presents his paper on the [[mirror stage]] at a conference of the '''[[International Psychoanalytical Association]]''' ([[IPA]]) in [[Mar
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• The Subject
  What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? ...cious]] ‘i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expelled from itself.
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• Real2
  ...). Approachable only asymptotically, the real is most often defined by way of paradoxes; it ...o [[madness]]. In all its modes, it successfully resists the intercessions of [[language]]. (Bowie 110)
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• Metonymy
  ...rally refer to, but with which it is closely linked. This link may be one of [[physical]] contiguity, but not necessarily. ...[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. "Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disturbances," ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''[[Word]] and Langu
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• Seminar III
  ...losure]]'''. By way of [[foreclosure]] of the [[signifier]] of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] it is possible to [[understand]] [[psychosis]] and distinguish ...paternal function]]: the [[paternal function]] is reduced to the [[image]] of the [[father]] (the [[symbolic]] reduced to the [[imaginary]]).
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...126). In general, most psychoanalysts would agree. The immediate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that p
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• Psychiatry
  ...arious forms) and [[treatment]] of mental [[illness]]. Given the advantage of the preliminary medical [[training]] as well as further specialist training ==[[Practice]] of psychiatry==
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• Semiotics
  ...a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. The [[subject]] was originally spelled '''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]
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• Eros
  ...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). ...ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi
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• Roland Barthes
  ...riette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], learning p ...l for teaching positions, Barthes later professed an intentional avoidance of major degree-awarding universities throughout his career.
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).
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• Deconstruction
  ...ught]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to defi ===The problems of definition===
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• German Idealism
  ...losely linked both with [[romanticism]] and the revolutionary [[politics]] of the [[Enlightenment]]. The most well-known thinkers in the movement were [[ == Meaning of "Idealism" ==
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...s of all [[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...tibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional romance.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is a major [[concept]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  The One Measure of True Love is: You Can Insult the Other ...pact of cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="Net
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...proclaimed ideals, when you [[encounter]] a person who claims he is cured of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you sho ...fer to the inherited ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, comin
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...ion]] is, I [[claim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time a ...d itself to babble [[about]] the so-called disappearing working [[class]]. Of course, it's disappearing from here.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? Is she not also a capricious [[Master]] who wants it ...oman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic o
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavour. ..., simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...re we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the [[other]] two dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...les" precisely the effort to establish clearly the contours of a new space of symbolic fictions in which we fully participate in the mode [[disavowal]],
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...agance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is ...[[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ous "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...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 ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...ral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.
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• Move the Underground!
  ..., positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying non-played "silent" virtual notes or their absence. ...phobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit [[repression]] of homosexuality; it should rather "move the underground," disturb the implici
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of [[other]] (Muslim) cultures? ...prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the land of [[Israel]]?)
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...or. /.../ deceit and veracity already presuppose the absolute authenticity of the face."<ref>[[Levinas]], Emmanuel, ''[[Totality]] and Infinity'', The [[ ...s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...en talk on Hitchcock's unique touch, etc., and approach the difficult task of specifying what gives Hitchcock's films their unique flair.<br> ...rely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique Hitchcockian [[dimension
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's ...ngerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...nce be defended? these [[terms]]. Now that the 10^th anniversary of Mueller's [[death]] is approaching, it is perhaps the [[time]] to revisit t ...better. Or recall the [[treatment]] of disabled individuals: even a couple of decades ago, the special entrances which enable [[them]] the access to rest
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...is [[repressed]] and [[displaced]]. And it seems that the very designation of Hamlet as an [[obsessional]] [[neurotic]] points in this direction: in cont ...dge]] in [[order]] to encode insights into fundamental libidinal deadlocks of the [[human]] [[race]]?<br><br>
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...re not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...nger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...ed 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...lessness of a [[life]]-determining [[contingency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose
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• Knee-Deep
  <i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...anything, this is it. The fate of this revolutionary was surely the fate of the [[people]] as a [[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the mil
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]] 21. October 28, 1999. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/
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• Oedipus complex
  ...pularized and at the same [[time]] one of the most misunderstood [[ideas]] of [[psychoanalysis]]. --> ...site sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex.
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• Castration
  ...tion]] retains its [[place]] as a necessary element in the [[structuring]] of [[sexuality]] for the [[speaking]] [[being]]. ===The notion of castration in Freud's work===
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• Surrealism
  [[Breton]] was familiar with Freud's work on dreams and developed a technique of 'spontaneous' writing to give free expression to unconscious thoughts and w ...eir [[dreams]], which they saw as more '[[real]]' than the prosaic reality of our everyday world.
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• Richard Wagner
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...uctions or hypothetical [[future]] produc- tions. The overarching [[goal]] of his [[psychoanalytical]] reading is not to locate or define the beautiful i
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• Parallax View
  ...can be rendered as the difference between the two corresponding verbs, to subject (submit) oneself and to object (to protest, oppose, make an obstacle). ...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary.
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• Liberation Hurts
  [[University]] of Illinois at Chicago, September 29, 2003<br> ...ces, etc. Should concerned academics not [[speak]] out against the erosion of the [[separation]] between [[church]] and [[state]], or do you think that t
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's ...ngerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...le, a majority. In this [[sense]], we do not have an actual [[experience]] of freedom today. Our freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choo Question: Has 11 September thrown new light on your diagnosis of what is happening to the [[world]]?
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...alyze the way the motif of the Thing appears within the diegetic [[space]] of cinematic [[narrative]] - in short, to [[speak]] about [[films]] whose narr ...s at the root of the metaphysical question "Why is there something instead of nothing?"
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...on]] will be that Milosevic will be proclaimed the [[political]] blunderer of the year. ...decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  ...r Dews' basic criticism of my [[reading]] of [[Schelling]] is that, by way of asserting the between the [[subject]] and the [[signifier]], etc. - I remain blind to Schelling's basic thrust
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice.
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...of [[desire]], its inherent [[impossibility]], is to locate the [[cause]] of its inaccessibility into a despotic [[figure]] which stands for the primord ...he Great Man, which can only assure his Fame, resides the ultimate mystery of [[Power]].
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ous "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...exoticising readings of the net - the predominant [[psychic]] [[economy]] of electronic networks is a [[hysterical]] one. ...o correspond with the general trend towards a more or less predominant use of [[conspiracy theories]] to [[interpret]] the modern [[world]]...
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• Anarchy
  ...that seeks to avoid the [[discourse]] of the Master through an [[ethics]] of [[contingency]], and discusses the contemporary anti-[[globalization]] move ...the pitfalls of utopian [[fantasy]]; and the contingency and indeterminacy of the political field.
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• Illusion
  ...lludere) by the [[nature]] of evidence or the [[seductive]] [[appearance]] of something that deceives. ...e senses), or even an [[ontological]] [[structure]] (the Platonic [[myth]] of the cave).
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary ...th Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of an [[ideological]] [[statement]]. He'll tell a [[joke]] or every now and ag
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  of obscurantism, and may not even have believed very much of what he As if to condense the aura of contrariness and enigma he cultivated in
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  <b>The constitutive madness of being</b><br><br> ...lf" and the "night of the world" respectively. The point is that, in each of these cases, there is an increasing emphasis on negativity as the fundament
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...of Zizek is to go back and start again from scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...narrative was itself a part and which must ultimately be explained because of the '[[Jewish]] conspiracy' (TS, 179).<br><br> ...um through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signifiers]] whose meaning is 'quilte
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  <b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...e that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, would observe:</font></p>
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in ...errida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...itique of [[Ideology]] and The Ticklish [[Subject]]: The [[Absent]] Centre of Political [[Ontology]]. ...f independence. Since 1979, he has been on the faculty at the [[University of Ljubljana]].
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  '''Of Children in Swaddling Clothes'''<BR> ...e; and you will only be able to give vent to your griefs and sense of loss of liberty by making tearful complaints, and sighs, and lamentations one to an
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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  [[Lacan]]'s [[Metaphor]] of the [[Mirror]] [[Stage]]<a></a></b></h2><b> <br> </b><h3 align="center">(From Volume 1 of the [[Seminar]]: <i>[[Freud]]'s Papers on [[Technique]]</i> )<a></a></h3><b
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• From The Function of the Veil
  ...neuroses]], precisely because of the electively [[symbolic]] [[character]] of the crucial fantasm.<br><br> ...t]]? -- if not this, which is truly one of the most fundamental [[images]] of the [[human]] relation to the [[world]], the [[veil]], the curtain.<br><br>
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• Tuché and Automaton
  ...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  </p><h3 align="center">The topic of the [[imaginary]]</h3><br> INTRODUCTION OF THE INVERTED BOUQUET<br>
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  [[Love]] of one's [[neighbor]]<a></a></font><br> ...serve up again what I had to say in Brussels; I didn't tell [[them]] half of what I told you.<br>
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  The <i>[[jouissance]] </i>of [[transgression]]</font><br> </i>THE RESPECT OF THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER<br>
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  NATURE OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGN<a></a></font><p></p></h3></center><font size="+1"><br> ...e><blockquote><font size="+1">[Saussure introduces the structuralist point of view into
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• The Anamorphosis
  <dl><dd><i>Of the foundation of [[consciousness]] - The privilege of the [[gaze]] as </i>[[objet]] a -<br> </dd><dd><i>The [[optics]] of the blind - The [[phallus]] in the picture</i><p><br>
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• Italian Note
  ...choanalytical speech, it is time to put it at the test: the use will slice of its balance. ...against is what decides preponderance of the thought if the feet mark time of discord.
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• Infans
  ...rather, not yet) speak," and refers to the [[baby]] before the acquisition of [[speech]] that marks the entry into [[childhood]].</p> ...elaborated a [[theory]] of the [[mother]]-[[infant]] relation in [[terms]] of [[discourse]] (with the mother as "[[word]]-bearer").
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• Deprivation
  ...maternal]] deprivation caused either by the final or temporary [[absence]] of the [[mother]] or by her difficulty in providing primary care for the infan ...ent]] when the deprivation is produced, its duration, or even the attitude of mother substitutes.
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