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• The Act
  ...ch Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling]] to conceive of the Act within a formal [[structure]] of [[paradox]]. “An act accomplishes what, within the given symbolic [[ ...the space of the gap of the minimal [[difference]] “between the set of [[social]] regulations and the void of their absence”. In other words, Bartleby’
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• Father
  ...on'' and the ''prohibitive function''. He also points to the contemporary social decline in the [[paternal metaphor|paternal]] [[imago]] as the [[cause]] of ...es for for the [[mother]]'s [[love]]; he is the [[representative]] of the social order as such, and only by [[identifying]] with the [[father]] in the [[Oed
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• Jouissance
  ...1977). In these early years ''[[jouissance]]'' is not elaborated in any [[structure|structural sense]], the reference being mainly to [[Hegel]] and the [[maste ...ubject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]' that a [[structure|structural]] account of ''jouissance'' is first given in connection with th
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• Symbolic
  ...psychoanalysis]], the "[[symbolic]]" is one of [[three]] [[order]]s that [[structure]] [[human]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[imaginary]] and t ...analyzed]] as exchanges of [[signifier]]s. The emergence of [[symbolic]] [[structure]]s is an essential feature of the human transition from [[nature]] to [[cul
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• Desire
  ...its unconscious determinants in the dreaming subject, Freud unveiled the [[structure]] of both the dream and [[The Subject|the subject]]. Beyond the [[preconsci =====Social Product=====
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• Louis Althusser
  ...away, much like the [[Lacanian]] [[concept]] of the “symbolic”, the [[structure]] of ideology is an ever-[[present]] feature of [[conscious]] [[life]]. His ...cher, or an administrator, etc.); and so on. By engaging in any material [[social]] [[practice]] or with any material institution, we admit ([[unconsciously]
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• Four Discourses
  In this fourfold [[structure]], manipulating the minimal signifying [[chain]], S1fiS2, is both necessary These four different [[social]] bonds constitute what Lacan claims is an essential support for [[communic
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...borrowed the term to describe the way that, in [[capitalist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things (" Like all [[perversion]]s, [[fetishism]] is rooted in the [[preoedipal]] [[structure|triangle]] of [[mother]]-[[child]]-[[phallus]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 84-5, 194</re
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• Hysteria
  ...an "[[imaginary]] [[autonomy]]" which bears no relation to the [[real]] [[structure]] of the nervous [[system]]<ref>{{L}} 1951b. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some ...f> he comes to define [[hysteria]] not as a set of [[symptom]]s but as a [[structure]].
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• Perversion
  ...version]] not as a form of ''[[behaviour]]'' but as a [[structure|clinical structure]]. ...ctive]] finality of the [[sexual]] union. It is something else in its very structure."<ref>{{S1}} p. 221</ref></blockquote>
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• Sublimation
  ...d to be sublimated.<ref>{{S7}} p. 144</ref> It is this dimension of shared social values which allows [[Lacan]] to tie in the concept of [[sublimation]] with ...ly a brute [[natural]] means of discharging the [[libido]], but a highly [[structure]]d relation to the [[drive]]s which are already, in themselves, [[linguisti
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• Repetition
  ...ition]] or [[repetition|reproduction]] of an [[complex|internalized social structure]] which the [[subject]] '''repeatedly''' and '''compulsively''' re-enacts.'
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• Language
  It is fundamentally the general structure of [[language]] (''[[langage]]''), rather than the differences between part [[Language]] is thus seen as [[structure|structuring]] the [[law|social laws of exchange]], as a symbolic pact, etc.
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• Fantasy
  ===Defence and Clinical Structure=== ...st [[castration]], against the [[lack]] in the [[Other]]. Each [[clinical structure]] may thus be distinguished by the [[particular]] way in which it uses a [[
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• Delusion
  ...ent with the information available with the beliefs of the [[subject]]'s [[social]] group. [[Delusion]]s are the central [[clinical]] feature of [[paranoia] ...[delusion]]al phenomena are "clarified in reference to the functions and [[structure]] of [[speech]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 310</ref>
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• Discourse
  =====Social Bond===== ...[[Lacan]] begins to use the term "[[discourse]]" to denote a "[[discourse|social bond]], founded in [[language]]."
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• Structure
  {{Top}}structures|structure{{Bottom}} =====Social Structure=====
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• Suggestion
  ...o any conception of [[psychoanalysis]] as a [[normative]] [[process]] of [[social]] influence. ...] recognizes that a certain residue of [[resistance]] is inherent in the [[structure]] of the [[treatment]].
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• Law
  ===Social Relations=== ...e]] possible, ''the [[structure]]s that govern all forms of [[anthropology|social exchange]]'', whether [[anthropology|gift-giving]], [[anthropology|kinship
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  [[Lacan]] [[identifies]] four viables types of [[social]] bond which regulate [[intersubjective]] relations. Articulations of the [ ...il. This discourse masks the division of the subject, it illustrates the [[structure]] of the [[dialectic]] of the master and the slave. The master, S1, is the
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• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...ilt]] disrupt the framework of this essay . . . This may have spoilt the [[structure]] of my paper; but it corresponds faithfully to my intention to [[represent ...ontogenesis of the moral conscience and superego from the [[primitive]] [[social]] [[anxiety]] of the child—loss of the [[parents]]' love—to the erectio
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• Semiotics
  ...humans [[understand]] that one can only [[interpret]] ''language'' in a [[social]] context (sometimes termed the [[semiosphere]]). Pure linguistics dismantl ...ual]] media, but this narrow focus can inhibit a more general study of the social and [[political]] forces shaping how different media are used and their [[d
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...le are not subjectively aware. The dynamic unconscious, a more specific [[social construct|construct]], referred to mental [[processes]] and contents which ===Social psychology===
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• Linguistics
  ...ude Lévi-Strauss]] who, in the 1940s, had begun to apply the methods of [[structure|structural]] [[linguistics]] to non-linguistic [[cultural]] data ([[myth]], ...tics]] would provide a paradigm of [[science|scientificity]] for all the [[social]] [[sciences]]:
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• Critical theory
  ...nt [[meanings]] with different origins and histories, one originating in [[social theory]] and the [[other]] in [[literary criticism]]. Though until recentl ==Critical theory (social theory)==
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• Complex
  ...s the [[internalization]] of the [[subject]]'s earliest [[structure|social structure]]s (i.e. the relationships between the various actors in his [[family]] [[e ...crisis, without [[doubt]] the first whose solution has a [[dialectic]]al [[structure]]."<ref>{{1938}} p.27</ref></blockquote>
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• Political
  ## Alienation in the [[symbolic]]: "the subject takes a [[structure]] from the [[signifier]]" # The Lacanian [[Object]]: Dialectics of [[social]] impossibility
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...ar as a public thinker in Foucauldian [[tradition]] who is interested in [[social]] conflicts on a [[global]] scale. ...ally existed since the beginnings of sovereignty in the West, since this [[structure]] of ''ex-ception'' is essential to the core concept of sovereignty.
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...nism”, which refers to the impossibility of achieving a [[harmonious]] [[social]] organization of class relations through a [[translation]] of Lacan’s we ...arbours an essentialist [[ontology]] as it subordinates the effects of all social [[antagonisms]] to the mediating determination of class antagonism. At the
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• Roland Barthes
  ...ch]] [[literary critic]], [[literary theory|literary]] and [[social theory|social theorist]], [[philosopher]], and [[Semiotics|semiotician]]. ...nd the same time as his debates with Picard, making the investigation of [[structure]] one intended to reveal the importance of language in writing he felt was
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• Capitalism
  ...consistency”, provides the systematic background against which shared [[social]] life operates. ...ofitability with blessed indifference to how its movements will [[affect]] social [[reality]]. Therein lies the fundamental systematic [[violence]] of capita
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...ciplines do not fall entirely within the field of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example). ...g before [[Miller]], Galanter, and Pribram's seminal work, Plans and the [[Structure]] of [[Behavior]] (1960). The term "artificial intelligence" was coined dur
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• Deconstruction
  ...es Derrida]] in the 1960s and is used in contemporary [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' t ...ation that for all the perdurability of the text, [[experience]] of this [[structure]] is impossible and inconceivable outside of the realm of the unique instan
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...Fearing the [[terror]] of singular totalitarianism, which threatens the [[social]] edifice, one might institute a shared, regulatory legal [[economy]] that ...t respect the purity of the absolute Other by renouncing any determinate [[structure]] involving real [[people]] in real circumstances and embracing a “primor
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...e conventional view of [[modernization]] theorists that [[economic]] and [[social]] [[progress]] would bring [[about]] [[stable]] democracies in recently [[D ...lam. However, Huntington has also argued that this shift in geopolitical [[structure]] requires the West to strengthen itself internally, abandoning democratic
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• Ideology
  ...(the Symbolic) to account fully for the Real. While this [[model]] of the structure of reality does not allow us a position from which to assume an [[objective
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• Georg Lukács
  ...ands upon Marxist theories such as [[ideology#Ideology as an instrument of social reproduction|ideology]], [[false consciousness]], [[reification]] and [[cla ...also writes: "It is only when the core of [[being]] has showed itself as [[social]] becoming, that the being itself can appear as a product, so far [[unconsc
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...to one's [[biology]], but what now determines a [[masculine]] and feminine structure si the type of ''jouissance'' one is able to attain - what LAcan called [[p ...related to one's biology, but what now determines a masculine and feminine structure is the type of jouissance one is able to attain - what Lacan called [[phall
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[knowledge]]. They both defined a new way of [[knowing]] [[about]] the [[social]], but, not surprisingly, they were weighed down by the [[cultural]] baggag ...ere is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is language that constitutes
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  [[Jacques Lacan]] reformulated the [[Oedipus complex]] as a [[symbolic]] [[structure]]. ...] that organizes our [[social]]-symbolic and [[unconscious]] relations (of social [[meanings]]).
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...o a very paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A ...t is through the process of cancelling out, of symbolizing the real, that 'social reality' is created. In short, the real does not exist, as [[existence]] is
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• Racism
  Racism and [[anti-Semitism]] are both [[social]] and [[psychic]] [[structures]]. ...erego, the father and fantasy - is a necessary and constituive part of all social roders and essential to their proper funcitoning.
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• Anti-Semitism
  [[Racism]] and anti-Semitism are both [[social]] and [[psychic]] [[structures]]. ...ego]], the father and fantasy - is a necessary and constituive part of all social roders and essential to their proper funcitoning.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with [[regard]] to [[social]] struggles — one should also ask how it effectively functions IN these v ...ent, all belittling of the role of 'the conscious element,' of the role of Social-Democracy, means, quite independently of whether he who belittles that role
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...[relationship]] towards Leninist Communists: liberal Leftists reject the [[Social]] Democratic "compromise," they [[want]] a true [[revolution]], yet they sh ...the reasons for obedience into the subject's [[internal]] psychological [[structure]]. So the paradox is that "liberal" [[subjects]] are in a way those least f
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...trix the extrapolated embodiment of Kulturindustrie, the alienated-reified social Substance (of the Capital) directly taking over, colonizing our inner life ...rtia of materiality — in the late capitalist consummerist society, "real social life" itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neigh
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...n he or she [[acts]] in accordance with his/her special place within the [[social edifice]], when he respects [[nature]] which provides food and shelter, whe ...jealous god. [[Family]] relations stand here metaphorically for the entire social network, for any particular ethnic substance that determines my place in th
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ==Fetish between structure and humanism== ...ney, but results from the structural place of money within the [[complex]] structure of socio-[[economic]] relations; we do not relate to a certain person as to
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...combine the dynamic of capitalism, while maintaining some firm traditional structure of authority. And again, it can work both ways. What I like about fantasies ...c party did was a miracle. Five years ago we were the remainder of the new social movements, like feminist and ecological groups. At that time everybody thou
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...recognize in the fascinating presence of God the filler of the gaps in the structure of our knowledge, i.e., the element in the guise of which the lack in our p ...the old orthodox Marxist claim: the working class is, as to its objective social position, progressive. So that when workers engage in the anti-Semitic, rig
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...s outsiders, between the "developed" — those to whom [[human]] rights, [[social]] security and the like apply — and the [[others]], the excluded. ...factor of the Yugoslav [[tragedy]] is the survival of the old [[power]] [[structure]] (the [[communist]] [[bureaucracy]], the Federal Army) in Serbia and Monte
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...es, to effectuate the [[change]] in the [[global]] [[perception]] of the [[social]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place]] in it. ...e calls politics as police in the most elementary [[sense]] of maintaining social order-and `the part with no-part' which unsettles this order on account of
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...we to escape this [[false]] alternative? Janet Murray refers to the story structure of the "[[violence]]-hub", similar to the famous [[Rashomon]] predicament: ...e the postmodern stories; instead, they combine a clear [[sense]] of story structure with a [[multiplicity]] of meaningful plots. The navigation of the labyrint
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...l [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the structure of society is re-presented/redoubled.) This symbolic reduplicatio already i This, then, is the structure of Being. From [[time]] to time, however, in a wholly [[contingent]], unpre
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...many empirical accounts, with [[regard]] to the picture it gives of the [[social]] [[situation]], as well as with regard to the revolutionary perspective it ...]]. And, in this situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...tandards of historical research, but also enables us to grasp the unique [[social]] dynamics that culminated in the great purges of the 30s: J. Arch Getty's ...by the obscene invisible network of apparatuses, we have the public power structure which directly treats ITSELF as an anonymous, [[secret]], hidden [[body]].
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...logical catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...he reasons for obedience into the subject’s [[internal]] psychological [[structure]]. So the paradox is that “liberal” [[subjects]] are in a way those lea ...reedom involved wild privatization, the dismantling of the [[system]] of [[social]] security, etc. etc. — they still have the freedom to choose, so if they
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...inventing ourselves," on condition that these choices do not disturb the [[social]] and [[ideological]] [[balance]]. With [[regard]] to C'est mon choix, the ...k how a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with regard to social struggles. One should also ask how it effectively functions in these very s
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...accounted for in the standard [[notion]] of the "[[internalization]]" of [[social]] norms into psychic prohibitions. The second problem with the quick identi ...n reduces resistance to [[the imaginary]] misrecognition of the symbolic [[structure]]. Such a resistance, although it thwarts the [[full]] symbolic realization
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• You May
  ...ctions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impulses, from [[sexual]] orientation to ethnic belong ...what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  Nowhere is this structure clearer than in the case of Lacan's <i>objet petit a</i>, the object-cause ...ide of traumas and psychic breakdowns beneath the surface of the glamorous social life. At this point, the story moves back into how Dick encountered Nicole,
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...him from this unbearable uncertainty, as well as from the [[role]] of a [[social]] outcast, a village idiot, and the first believer in his message, the firs ...of the fake one. In this precise sense, the feminine masquerade has the [[structure]] of [[mimicry]], since, for Lacan, in mimicry, I do not imitate the image
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• Move the Underground!
  ...f conspiracies"? And is the [[present]] US [[politics]], in its inherent [[structure]], not a kind of [[political]] equivalent to the Catholic paedophilia? The ...[psychoanalytic]] term, this killng would clearly display the [[temporal]] structure of [[masochist]] [[perversion]]: the succession is inverted, you are first
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...[[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[cohesion]], we get the [[matrix]] of the passages from one to [[another]] ...]] is not intrusive, insofar as the Other is not really Other… A similar structure is clearly [[present]] in how we relate to [[capitalist]] profiteering: it
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...sality, of the universality as [[struggle]] which cuts across the entire [[social]] [[body]], of universality as a [[partial]] engaged position.<br><br> ...sion is at hand that, precisely in order to isolate and assert this formal structure, the "[[principle]]" of Jewishness, one has to eliminate, erase, the "empir
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...lls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" by the symbolic structure. The paradox, the "infinite judgment" of <i>The Matrix</i> is the co-depend ...film's moment of truth they signal the antagonisms of our late-capitalist social experience, antagonisms concerning basic ontological couples like reality a
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...he extrapolated embodiment of Kulturindustrie, the [[alienated]]-reified [[social]] Substance (of the [[Capital]]) directly taking over, colonizing our inner ...rplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he - he [[links]] it to a failure in the [[structure]] of the [[universe]]:
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...MD, so give us more time and we will definitely find them!") is that its [[structure]] is the same as that of a judge who first punishes the accused and then, w ...s, [[envy]], thrift, and [[melancholy]], is inscribed into the very formal structure of [[desire]]: a melancholic is unable to sustain desire in the presence of
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...however, what we [[encounter]] here, in the case of Enigma, is the obverse structure of feigning a loss. Insofar as the Other of [[the symbolic]] Law prohibits ...us ultimately identical to desire itself. - Crucial is here the elementary structure of "[[overdetermination]]," i.e. the fact that there are two reasons the Pr
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...open for "absolute democracy," for the producers directly regulating their social relations without even the detour of democratic [[representation]].<br><br> ...[politicization]]" of production, where production directly produces (new) social relations, [[affect]] the very [[notion]] of politics? Is such an "adminis
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...e depriving the younger generation of immigrants of any clear economic and social prospect, thus leaving them violent outbursts as they only way to articulat ...id not do it because Harry is the richest man in town, nor because he is a social climber, and certainly not because he is [[Catholic]] - and yet all these r
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...rive as entrepreneurs) and eat it (endorse the anti-capitalist causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern etc). There is no [[need]] for Por ...ostmodernised version of Adam Smith’s invisible hand: the [[market]] and social responsibility are not opposites, but can be reunited for mutual benefit. A
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...fference]] and conflict, is absolutely inherent to and constitutive of the social field; [[Fascism]] displaces this essential [[antagonism]]. ...lot – while the [[irrationality]] of [[Stalinism]] pervaded the entire [[social body]]. For that reason, [[Nazi]] [[police]] investigators looked for proo
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• Oedipus complex
  ...maginary]], although, as we will see, the imaginary is never simply a dual structure - there is always a third element involved. The infant's earliest experienc ===Symbolic Structure===
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• Surrealism
  ...n]] dialectics and [[Marxist]]-Leninist historical [[materialism]]. The "[[social]] and martial cataclysm" (Breton, 1934) provoked a [[revolt]] by an entire ...(Arthur Rimbaud) by freeing humanity from the constraints of [[mental]] or social [[censorship]] as well as [[economic]] oppression: "[[Poetry]] is made by e
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• Frankfurt School
  ...al term used to designate the thinkers affiliated with the Institute for [[Social]] Research or influenced by [[them]]: it is not the title of any instituti ...e task of choosing what parts of Marx's [[thought]] might serve to clarify social [[conditions]] which Marx himself had never seen. They drew on [[other]] [[
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• Masculinity
  ...] calls [[phallus|phallic]] [[jouissance]] and defines the [[masculine]] [[structure]]. A [[masculine]] [[structure]] is characterized by turning the [[Other]] into an [[objet a]], and mistak
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• Parallax View
  ...is" of the two dimensions (i.e., the fact that our Reason seems to fit the structure of external reality that affects us)always relies on a certain <i>salto mor ..."real" is here not the actual arrangement, but the traumatic core of some social antagonism which distorts the tribe members' view of the actual arrangement
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...[[mirror]] the difficulties of our breaking out of the constraints of the social Substance.<br><br> ...till perplexed Neo what the Matrix is, he [[links]] it to a failure in the structure of the [[universe]]: “What you [[know]] you can’t explain. But you feel
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• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
  ...cal [[ideology|ideological]] condition. Why? Because the causes of all [[social antagonism]]s were projected onto the "Jew" — an [[object]] of [[perversi ...lution is to tear down the <i>true</i> wall, not the police one, but the [[social]]-economic one: To change society so that people will no longer desperately
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...he dazzling rhythm of technological [[development]] and the accompanying [[social]] change. Before one can become accustomed to the newest invention, [[anot ...inpoche. Sassen and Boot discuss the gigantic scope and power, as well as social and economic effects, of global finance. [[Capital]] markets, now valued a
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...]] organizations are beginning to receive [[government]] funds to manage [[social]] services, etc. Should concerned academics not [[speak]] out against the e ..., but it's an historical fact that the [[Nazis]] took these forms from the Social [[Democrats]]. Originally, these forms were Leftist. The liberal point woul
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...MD, so give us more time and we will definitely find them!") is that its [[structure]] is the same as that of a judge who first punishes the accused and then, w ...s, [[envy]], thrift, and [[melancholy]], is inscribed into the very formal structure of [[desire]]: a melancholic is unable to sustain desire in the presence of
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...[[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[cohesion]], we get the [[matrix]] of the passages from one to [[another]] ...]] is not intrusive, insofar as the Other is not really Other… A similar structure is clearly [[present]] in how we relate to [[capitalist]] profiteering: it
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...[relationship]] towards Leninist Communists: liberal Leftists reject the [[Social]] Democratic "compromise," they [[want]] a true [[revolution]], yet they sh ...the reasons for obedience into the subject's [[internal]] psychological [[structure]]. So the paradox is that "liberal" [[subjects]] are in a way those least f
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...the lord is not imposed on him but is his autonomous [[activity]]. This [[structure]] of double (and thereby self-effacing) disavowal also reveals the patriarc ...this standard, although disavowed, male scenario with a key feature: this structure of woman as a symptom of man can be operative only insofar as the man is co
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• You May!
  ...ctions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big [[Other]]') to [[guide]] us in our [[social]] behaviour. All our impulses, from [[sexual]] orientation to ethnic belong ...what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will give [[structure]] to our chaotic social lives.<br>
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...trix the extrapolated embodiment of Kulturindustrie, the alienated-reified social Substance (of the Capital) directly taking over, colonizing our inner life ...nertia of materiality - in the late capitalist consummerist society, "real social life" itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neigh
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...l [[sense]]; there is no "state of society" without a "State" in which the structure of society is re-presented/redoubled.) This symbolic reduplicatio already i This, then, is the structure of Being. From [[time]] to time, however, in a wholly [[contingent]], unpre
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...God qua the [[universal]] structure of logos, [[identified]] with rational structure of the universe) and the God of Theologists (the God of love and [[hatred]] ...y his people, was the all-inclusive One of logos, the rational substantial structure of the universe, the "[[writing]]" accessible to those who know how to read
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...e [[dynamic]] of [[capitalism]], while maintaining some firm traditional [[structure]] of authority. And again, it can [[work]] both ways. What I like about fan ...y did was a miracle. Five years ago we were the [[remainder]] of the new [[social]] movements, like [[feminist]] and ecological groups. At that time everybod
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
  ...many empirical accounts, with [[regard]] to the picture it gives of the [[social]] [[situation]], as well as with regard to the revolutionary perspective it ...]]. And, in this situation, is not the description in The Manifesto of the social impact of the [[bourgeoisie]] more actual than ever? -
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  [[social]] movements of Eastern and Central [[Europe]], is a researcher at the Insti new social movements, like [[feminist]] and ecological groups. At that time
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...accounted for in the standard [[notion]] of the "[[internalization]]" of [[social]] norms into psychic prohibitions. ...n reduces resistance to [[the imaginary]] misrecognition of the symbolic [[structure]]. Such a resistance, although it thwarts the [[full]] symbolic realization
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...[relationship]] towards Leninist Communists: liberal Leftists reject the [[Social]] Democratic "compromise," they [[want]] a true [[revolution]], yet they sh ...the reasons for obedience into the subject's [[internal]] psychological [[structure]]. So the paradox is that "liberal" [[subjects]] are in a way those least f
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...logical catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...symptom]]. When you have some hysterical symptom it has precisely such a [[structure]]. So my point here would be along the lines you drew, that cyberspace ofte ...ore predominant today, the so called narcissist personality, is a perverse structure. The paternal authority is no longer the [[enemy]] today. So this idea of a
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• Democracy
  ...] at this “[[political correctness]]”, and its [[repression]] of all [[social antagonism]], Žižek suggests, goes a long way to explaining the recent de
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• Anarchy
  ...veloped here. Certain Lacanian [[concepts]], when applied to political and social discourse, allow one to explore a number of dimensions crucial to radical p ...[family]] and patriarchal [[structures]], [[technology]], as well as the [[structure]] and hierarchy of the revolutionary party itself.
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