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• Part of no-part
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• Jouissance
  <!-- There is no adequate [[translation]] in [[English]] of the word ''[[jouissance]]''.<ref ...issance]]'', on the other hand, [[pleasure]] and [[pain]] remain distinct; no [[pleasure]] is taken in the [[pain]] itself, but the [[pleasure]] cannot b
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• Phallus
  ...ration, and so now the child is faced with the task of coming to [[terms]] with castration in relation to himself. The further developments are too well kn ...) puts it, this lack confronts the child "with the task of coming to terms with castration in relation to himself" (p. 144).
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• Jacques Lacan
  ...specially the [[analysis]] of the [[case]] of [[Aimée]], makes him famous with the [[Surrealist]]s. BEtween this year and 1939 he takes [[Kojève]]'s cou ...[mother]] of [[Caroline]], [[Thibaut]] and [[Sibylle]]. While in analysis with Rudolph [[Loewenstein]], Lacan becomes a member of the ''[[[Société Psych
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ssian), and in [[1903]] he led the [[Bolshevik]] faction after a [[split]] with the [[Mensheviks]] that was partly inspired by his pamphlet ''[[What is to ...e not seized. ... The second error was an [[excess]] of magnanimity on the part of the proletariat: it should have exterminated its enemies, but instead it
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• Louis Althusser
  ..., etc.); and so on. By engaging in any material [[social]] [[practice]] or with any material institution, we admit ([[unconsciously]]) that we are the “s ...ver present''. This is what is meant by his [[claim]] that “Ideology has no history” (''ibid.'': 175). We always find ourselves interpellated as subj
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  Confronted with the [[mother]]'s [[lack]] of a [[penis]], the [[fetishism|fetishist]] [[dis ...is unique in that it involves both [[identification]] with [[mother]] and with the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]]; indeed, in [[fetishism]], the [[subject]] os
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• Id
  <blockquote>The ''Es'' with which analysis is concerned is made of the [[signifier]] which is already t ...the verb "to [[speak]]"; the affirmation "I speak " is only a superifical part of the fundamental principle "Man is spoken by it."
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• Transference
  ...transferring [[unconscious]] [[ideas]] onto the doctor.<ref>{{F}} (1895d) With Josef Breuer. ''[[Sigmund Freud|Bibliography|Studies on Hysteria]]''. [[SE] ...bly repeats earlier relationships with other [[figures]] (especially those with the [[parents]]).
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• Object
  No [[distinction]] is made between persons and inanimate things: individuals, ...m, or the act towards which the [[drive]] tends, may be sexual intercourse with that person.
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• Displacement
  ...[[times]] in [[Freud]]'s writings (in Drafts K and M in his correspondence with [[Wilhelm Fliess]], in the "[[Project]] for a [[Scientific]] [[Psychology]] It was introduced in connection with his [[clinical]] [[work]], apropos of the [[analysis]] of [[neurotic]] [[sy
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• Sexual Difference
  ...ominence in the debate between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[feminism]], is not part of [[Freud]]'s or [[Lacan]]'s [[psychoanalytic theory|theoretical]] [[:Cate ...[process]], but a complex one in which [[anatomical]] differences interact with [[social]] and psychical factors.
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• Subject
  ...ytic]] writings,<ref>{{1932}}</ref> and from 1945 on it occupies a central part in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. ...part of [[Freud]]'s [[theoretical]] [[vocabulary]], but is more associated with [[philosophical]], [[legal]] and [[linguistic]] [[discourse]]s.
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• Alienation
  The term "[[alienation]]" does not constitute part of [[Freud]]'s [[theory|theoretical]] [[:category:concepts|vocabulary]]. ...n|alienated]] from himself, and there is no escape from this [[division]], no possibility of "[[wholeness]]" or [[synthesis]].
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• Unconscious
  In this model, no one '''[[agency]]''' is identical to the [[unconscious]], since even the [[ ...is early [[work]] seem particularly strange to those who are more familiar with [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|writings]].
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• Structure
  ...[[subject]] is not some supposed "[[essence]]" but simply his [[position]] with respect to other [[subject]]s and other [[signifier]]s. ...inguistics]], the term "[[structure]]" comes to be increasingly associated with [[Saussure]]'s [[model]] of [[language]].
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• Speech
  ...between ''[[parole]]'' and ''[[langue]]'' is replaced in [[Lacan]]'s work with the opposition between ''[[parole]]'' and ''[[langage]]'' -- and is far mor ...nterpretation]]s are described as "a symbolic [[gift]] of speech, pregnant with a [[secret]] pact."<ref>{{E}} p. 79</ref>
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• Signifying Chain
  ...ain and is therefore unstable" (Evans 185). Whereas the meaning associated with the interaction between the symbolic and [[the imaginary]] (via [[points de ...hat moves ahead with unstoppable fluency" (Bowie 179). So tightly bound up with temporal movement is the signifying chain that any attempt to characterise
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• Punctuation
  ...in a very [[primitive]] kind of [[demand]], namely by screaming. There is no way of [[knowing]] for sure whether a scream articulates hunger, [[pain]], ...y [[repeat]] it in such a way as to bring out the homophony of this phrase with ''tuer ma mère'' ("to kill my mother").<ref>{{E}} p. 269</ref>
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• Resistance
  ...the [[concept]] of [[resistance]] began to play an increasingly important part in [[psychoanalytic theory]] as a result of the decreasing efficacy of [[an ...ognizing his own part in the [[analysand]]'s [[resistance]], for "there is no other [[resistance]] to [[analysis]] than that of the [[analyst]] himself."
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• Sexual relationship
  ===There is No Relation Between the Sexes=== This formula is usually translated into [[English]] as "There is no such [[thing]] as a [[sexual]] [[relationship]]", which is misleading since
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• Pass
  ...not a quasi-mystical, ineffable [[experience]],but must be (in accordance with the basic [[principle]] of [[psychoanalysis]])articulated in [[language]]. ...f the two accounts, whether to award the pass to the candidate. There were no pre-established criteria to [[guide]] the jury, since the pass was based on
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...n]] went on to study '''[[medicine]]'' and specialized in '''psychiatry''' with a [[particular]] interest in '''[[psychosis]]'''. These two encounters were to propel [[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of [[psychoanalysis]].
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• The Subject
  There is no objecitvity at all. All of these developments, along with [[others]], [[help]] to breach the seemingly impervious usbjectivism of the
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• Jacques Lacan Books2
  <b>[[Fetishism]]: The [[Symbolic]], The [[Real]] and The [[Imaginary]]</b> (with W. Granoff), transl. in S. Lorand and M. [[Balint]] (eds.), <i>Perversions: <b>The Seminar, Book III. [[The Psychoses]], Part II</b>, translated by Stuart Schneiderman in <i>[[Lacan]] Study [[Notes]]</
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• Real2
  ...very integrity of the Lacanian [[topology]] insists that it constitutes a part of all of us and must, therefore, be at least obliquely available to intuit ...the opposite terms, aligning the knock with the falling tile and the dream with the unaware passer-by. The [[suggestion]] here is that the passer-by inhabi
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• Seminar VI
  ...e]] the [[object]] and the touchstone of [[desire]]: <i>[[objet a]]</i> ([[part object]]) of [[desire]] and [[phallus]] ([[present]] in Ophelia). The two
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• Seminar X
  ...). He then proceeds to define <i>[[objet a]]</i> which relates [[anxiety]] with [[desire]]. ...e [[mother]]. They are all [[objects]] of [[desire]] for us, and there is no [[anxiety]] for the [[woman]]. In a [[system]] centered on the [[signifier]
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  Praxis, which "places the subject in a [[position]] of dealing with the [[real]] through the [[symbolic]]," produces concepts; four are offered "No [[progress]] has been made that has not deviated whenever one of the terms
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...est]]." Psychoanalyis "is not constructed on the proposition 'to [[sleep]] with the mother' but on the death of the father as [[primal]] jouissance." The [ The novelty in this [[seminar]] is the [[return]] of the [[hysteric]], with [[Dora]] and la Belle Bouche erre - the Beautiful Mouth wanders - an allusi
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...these publications justified their sexual content, and they were received with approbation. Nor did the last of the <i>Three Essays</i>, on "The Transform ...etiology of neurosis that Freud had previously proposed, as early as 1896 with reference to hysteria, was here reasserted and further developed.
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...rego and Id|the Ego]], and describes Freud's theory of the [[unconscious]] with respect to [[dream interpretation]]. Dreams, in Freud's view, were all form ...f his most important dreams are his own &mdash; his method is inanugerated with an analysis of his dream "[[Irma]]'s injection" &mdash; but many also come
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• Seminar XI
  ...nd the paths of the unconscious." This declaration of allegiance contrasts with Lacan's critical study of Freud's [[dream]] about the dead son screaming "[ ...is, which "places [[The Subject|the subject]] in a [[position]] of dealing with the [[real]] through the [[symbolic]]," produces concepts; four are offered
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• Seminar XX
  ...t, is not a [[sign]] of love." b) "Ultimately, one person's body is just a part of the Other's body." c) Finally,"…it is the Other who ''jouit''."<ref>L ...obstacle of [[choice]] set up by [[psychoanalysis]], namely that "there is no [[sexual relationship]]" and that will be resolved by way of love, made up
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• Psychiatry
  ...be mental health [[medication]] in the [[United States]]<ref>Psychologists with advanced training in [[psychopharmacology]] who practise in [[New Mexico]], ...reatment for any given condition is also variable from patient to patient, with some patients having [[complete]] [[resolution]] of symptoms and [[others]]
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• Semiotics
  ...rstanding|understood]]. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their ...his career, beginning with the triadic relation just described, and ending with a system consisting of 59,049 possible elements and relations. One [[reason
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• Eros
  "In this way the libido of our [[sexual]] [[instincts]] would coincide with the Eros of the poets and [[philosophers]] which holds all [[living]] thing ...e the riddle of life by supposing that these two instincts were struggling with each [[other]] from the very first.<ref>p. 61</ref></blockquote>
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...ogist [[Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke|Ernst von Brücke]] who, in coordination with physicist [[Hermann von Helmholtz]], one of the formulators of the [[first ...907. Jung had much that he wanted to talk about with Freud, and he spoke with intense animation for [[three]] [[whole]] hours. Finally Freud interrupted
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...lini]], in whose ''[[The Gospel According to St. Matthew]]'' he played the part of Philip, [[Italo Calvino]], [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], [[Pierre Klossowski]], ...d to be this or that [[substance theory|substance]], this or that destiny, no [[ethical]] [[experience]] would be possible... This does not mean, however
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...s]] of the [[impossibility]] of [[society]] as such, as [[irreconcilable]] with class antagonism, and yet gives this impossibility a thoroughly [[psychoana ...ourse Analysis]]''”: 249–60). Žižek seems to be broadly in agreement with [[Laclau]] and [[Mouffe]] resignifying the [[concept]] of antagonism as...
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• Roland Barthes
  ...[[sanatorium|sanatoria]]. His repeated [[physical]] breakdowns interfered with the [[progress]] of his academic career, affecting his studies and his abil ..., taking part in a little pre-medical study and continuing to [[struggle]] with his health. In 1948 he returned to purely academic [[work]], gaining numer
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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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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]!"… I definitely prefer such naive immersion to the pseudo-sop ...dicament and step out to the surface of the Earth, what they find there is no longer the bright surface illuminated by the rays of the Sun, the supreme G
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  But what is crucial in this tradition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[idea]] that labor, hard work, is originally an indecent crimin ...t]] to, well, Christians themselves. So what I want to do is, in the first part of my talk, to propose a certain [[reading]] of [[Christianity]], aiming to
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...imself from the liberating gesture of saying finally that "the emperor has no clothes". The point is, as Lacan puts it, that the emperor is naked only be ...well what they are doing, but still, they are doing it". Cynical reason is no longer naïve, but is a paradox of an enlightened false consciousness: one
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...[Marx]]'s standard determinations of fetishism that, in it, we are dealing with "relations between things (commodities)" instead of direct "relations betwe ...be maintained is that displacement is original and constitutive: there is no immediate, [[self]]-[[present]] [[living]] [[subjectivity]] to whom the bel
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  InterCommunication No.14 1995. ...emiotic Japan. The empty signs, no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...t all, i.e., who, herself not bound by any Law, charges her knight-servant with [[arbitrary]] and outrageous ordeals?<br><br> ...or example-as well as in the case of the primordial father, we are dealing with an agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castratio
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Lusitania, Vol I, no 4, 1994. ...d…maybe next year if I try again and again, I will succeed." To identify with this possibility is enough to succeed. For the possibility itself to bring
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...Eastern Europeans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures?
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...the itinerary of Jacques [[Ranciere]] who began as a strict Althusserian (with a contribution to Lire le [[Capital]]) and, then, after a violent gesture o ...'[[proletariat]]' can be read as the subjectivization of the `[[part of no-part]]' elevating its injustice into the ultimate [[test]] of universality, and,
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...er," to rely on a set of marks which clearly designate that we are dealing with a fiction, in the same way in which, in order to let ourselves go and [[enj ...face mortality. Our [[fixation]] on electronic [[games]] and stories is in part an enactment of this denial of death. They offer us the [[chance]] to erase
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...enjoyment]] in the work — quite the contrary, it supplements our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the trademarks of [[true]] modernis ...ve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[rational]] [[reason]].
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  Today, however, with the [[apparent]] demise of Marxism, the entire [[situation]] has changed: t ...l attention insofar as his "post-Marxism" has [[nothing]] whatsoever to do with the fashionable deconstructionist dismissal of the alleged Marxist "[[essen
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...properly defined place (or which resists its allocated subordinated place) with the universal, is the elementary gesture of [[politicization]], discernable ...eople, with no [[proper place]] in official [[space]] (or, more precisely, with only titles such as "counterrevolutionaries," "hooligans," or, at best, "vi
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...der to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...of the Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia, when there were no [[public]] trials, no ritualized public self-accusations comparable to Stalinist show trials: [[p
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ...lly to appreciate the uniqueness of the [[figure]] of Christ, let us start with Gilles [[Deleuze]]'s exemplary [[analysis]] of Chaplin's late [[films]]: ...the remarks of his interlocutor about his cruel [[treatment]] of the Poles with loud vulgar [[laughter]] and a [[satisfied]] contestation, "So they call me
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...rammar of the Western [[tradition]] of [[politics]] was abruptly dispensed with." ...of a large majority of his party colleagues was either stupor or contempt. No prominent Bolshevik [[leader]] supported his call to revolution, and the ed
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...is [[father]] and [[mother]]. Extravagance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public ...ese choices do not disturb the [[social]] and [[ideological]] [[balance]]. With [[regard]] to C'est mon choix, the truly radical [[thing]] would have been
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...rare cases where one of the three mediums employed by the police disagrees with the [[other]] two [[about]] a crime to be committed)… If one transposes t ...is always "we will do it with or without you," i.e. you are free to agree with, but not free to disagree — the old [[paradox]] of the [[forced]] [[choic
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...should be punished as part of the revenge for 9/11; (2) even if there was no link between Iraqi regime and al Qaeda, they are united in their [[hatred]] ...occupation in WHATEVER [[form]] may seem a much brighter prospect to them with [[regard]] to daily survival and much lower level of [[fear]]. We are not t
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...the predominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use ...[[subject]] can [[exist]]. Significantly, Butler [[identifies]] "subject" with the [[symbolic position]] occupied within this space, while she reserves th
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• You May
  ...er live our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] cal ...ean Union]], Continental Europe is a new version of the Turkish [[Empire]] with Brussels as the new Istanbul - a voracious despotism threatening British fr
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ..."></a><a href="#1x">1</a> The paradox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive ...ialism 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 signa
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...ded into [[universality]] and thereby overcome. Here, God is no longer, as with the Asiatics, contemplated as existent in immediately sensuous mode but is ...roducing an irrreconciliable [[difference]] between those who wanted peace with [[Germany]] and those who did not recognize capitulation and wanted to go o
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...ges as an urge, as an "[[I cannot do it otherwise]]," or it is worthless. With [[regard]] to [[Bernard Williams]]'s [[distinction]] between Ought and Must ...of new [[freedom]]s, but at the same [[time]] of new dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battl
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• With or Without Passion
  What's Wrong with [[Fundamentalism]]? - Part I ..., one simply misses the point. This [[paradox]] is what [[Lacan]] aims at with his <i>[[les non-dupes errent]]</i>: those who do not let themselves be cau
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• Move the Underground!
  What's Wrong with [[Fundamentalism]]? - Part II ...lines, yet this [[time]] the score contains no third absent melodic line, no inner voice - what is absent here is the absent melody, i.e. [[absence]] it
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...eir worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, may ignite anti-Semitic sentiments? More ...repressed]]: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger. (And, incidentally, is this compromise
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• Opera
  ...tell him that she will take him to Walhalla after he will lose the battle with Hunding. Siegmund refuses her offer if Sieglinde cannot join him in Walhall ...y plays with the small [[model]] of a dragon); etc. And Hagen is, together with Wotan and Alberich, the key person of Flimm's staging which presents the <i
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...not attacking lower classes as such, but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's ter ...eneath it, one can easily discern a worried hystericized subject, obsessed with [[anxiety]], addressing the doctor as his Master and asking for reassurance
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...n it was meant: even now, we don't know it - and, maybe, because there was no substantial "message" behind the result at all. This is the sense in which ...one case in which formal democrats themselves (or, at least, a substantial part of them) would tolerate the suspension of democracy: what if the formally f
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  "To seek [[truth]], I have already established a [[relationship]] with a face which can [[guarantee]] itself, whose epiphany itself is somehow a [ ...[[others]]." The ethical asymmetry between me and the other addressing me with the infinite call is the primordial fact, and 'I" should never lose my grou
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...phant return of the body in the sense of the ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defiance of the laws of ordinary physical reality.<br><br> ...formal digital universe of the Matrix itself. when Morpheus confronts Neo with the image of the ruins of Chicago, he simply says "This is the real world!"
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...The CIA has not even acknowledged the [[existence]] of these "black sites" with "[[ghost]] prisoners": to do so could open the U.S. [[government]] to [[leg ...ho can be killed with impunity since, in the eyes of the law, his [[life]] no longer counts.
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ed in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, may ignite anti-Semitic sentiments? More ...y repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger.<br><br>
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...]] that marks the end of century: the overlapping of the [[transgression]] with the norm. Walt Disney, the brand of the [[conservative]] [[family]] values, ...ality]], [[perversion]] is no longer subversive: the shocking excesses are part of the [[system]] itself, the system feeds on [[them]] in order to reproduc
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...d published by Barron's: a "bilingual" edition of [[Shakespeare]]'s plays, with the original archaic [[English]] on the [[left]] page and the [[translation ...tation that she is [[about]] to tell him a lie, and then countered her lie with an illegal act of his own, finding in her small crime the justification for
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...ly seem possible to do the opposite. On the [[other]] hand, I was aware of no motives. You could argue that I was not a free [[agent]], but I am more inc ...ubject]] decides about; it is non-[[psychological]] act, unemotional, with no motives, desires or fears; it is incalculable, not the outcome of strategic
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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 ...hreat]], the more they are destroyed, as if the distraction of the greater part of them magically heightens the destructive [[power]] of the [[remainder]]?
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...e will find them, there HAVE to be some WMD in Iraq; (3) even if there are no WMD in Iraq, this was not the only [[reason]] we went to war, there are als ...raq's WMD is evoked to justify the brutal need to assert the US hegemony), with the last term in each of the two series [[being]] the same - oil (in each o
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• What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
  ...—they simply admitted the crimes only when (and because) they were faced with their disclosure in the [[media]]. The immediate reaction of the U.S. milit ...the prisoners, was an integral part of the [[process]], in stark contrast with the secrecy of the Saddam tortures. The very positions and costumes of the
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