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• The Act
  ...nsibility]]''' is complicated in [[psychoanalysis]] by the discovery that, in addition to his [[conscious]] plans, the '''[[subject]]''' also has '''[[un ...oint of view of the [[conscious]] [[intention]], since they are successful in expressing an '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.<ref>[[{{FB}}|Freud, Sigmund
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• Jouissance
  [[Image:Kida_j.gif |right|frame|[[Kid A In Alphabet Land - Jouissance]]]] ...of [[Lacan]].</ref> "[[Enjoyment]]" does convey the [[sense]], contained in ''[[jouissance]]'', of ''enjoyment of rights'', of ''property'', etc., but
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• Letter
  ...graphic one.<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', 1916. Ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, tran When [[Lacan]] takes up [[Saussure]]'s [[work]] in the 1950s, he adapts it freely to his own purposes. He thus conceives of th
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• Thing
  ...h the [[German]] term ''[[Thing|das Ding]]''. There are two main contexts in which this term operates. ...cious]]-[[conscious]] [[system]], whereas in the [[unconscious|unconscious system]] only [[thing-presentations]] are found.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Fre
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• Phallus
  [[Image:Kida_p.gif |right|frame|'''[[Kid_A_In_Alphabet_Land_-_Phallus|Kid A In Alphabet Land Pacifies Another Pernicious Persona - The Phony Phallus!]]''' ...ic phase]]." The [[phallic phase]] denotes a [[stage]] in [[development]] in which the [[child]] ([[boy]] or [[girl]]) [[knows]] only one [[biology|geni
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• Mirror stage
  ...ibliography|work]], and becomes increasingly [[complex]] as it is reworked in various different contexts. ...zee quickly realizes that the [[image]] is [[illusory]] and loses interest in it.
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...Ulyanova]] ([[1835]]&ndash;[[1916]]). Lenin was of mixed ethnic ancestry. In addition to [[being]] Russian, he also had [[Kalmyk]] ancestry through his ..., at that [[time]] Lenin became interested in [[Marxism]], he got involved in student protests and later that year was arrested. He was then expelled fro
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• Demand
  [[Lacan]] begins to use the term "[[demand]]" in 1958. ..."inserted in a [[synchronic]] [[world]] of cries organized in a symbolic [[system]]."<ref>{{S4}} p. 182, 188</ref>
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...century in the context of the study of "[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...e nineteenth century, [[Marx]] borrowed the term to describe the way that, in [[capitalist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[fo
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• Hysteria
  ...as a female disease caused by the womb wandering throughout the [[body]] (in Greek ''hysteron'' means womb). ...ially in the [[work]] of Jean-Martin Charcot, under whom [[Freud]] studied in 1885-6.
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• Id
  ...f Sigmund Freud|The Ego and the Id]]''. 1923b. [[SE]] XIX. p. 23</ref> and used the term ''[[das Es]]'' to denote these forces. ...the early 1920s, in the context of the second [[model]] of the [[psyche]]; in this model, the [[psyche]] is [[divided]] into [[three]] [[agencies]]: the
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• Psychosis
  In his seminar of 1955-56 ([[Seminar III|Seminar III, ''The Psychoses'']]), La ..., but psychoanalytically [[speaking]] one can see [[three]] broad features in psychotic patients:
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• Regression
  ...27c: [[SE]] XXI, 22-4</ref> and described [[The Interpretation of Dreams]] in [[order]] to explain the [[visual]] [[nature]] of [[dreams]]. ...ng [[thoughts]] to travel regressively through these systems towards the [[system]] of [[perception]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'', 1900a:
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• Object
  The term is employed in [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or The [[notion]] of an [[object]] originates in [[Freud]]'s [[discussion]] of the [[drive]]s, where '[[object]]' is defined
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• Neurosis
  ...mes to denote a specific [[class]] of [[treatment|mental disorders]] (i.e. in opposiiton to [[psychosis]]). ...[[symptoms]] are an expression of a [[psychical]] [[conflict]] originating in [[childhood]]. Modern [[psychoanalysis]] describes [[patients]] presenting
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• Identification
  In [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] the term "[[identification]]" d In his [[Works of Sigmund Freud|later work]], as [[Freud]] developed the [[ide
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• Ego
  From [[Works of Jacques Lacan|very early on in his work]], [[Lacan]] plays on the fact that the [[German]] term which [[Fr ...e I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience]]", trans. [[Alan Sheridan]], in {{E}} pp. 1-7].</ref>
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• Language
  ...nglish]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]] languages. ...n]] in English it is therefore essential to be aware of which term is used in the original French; most of the [[time]] the French term will be ''[[langa
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• Master-Signifier
  ...re not [[other]] words. Imagine [[looking]] for a definition of a [[word]] in a [[dictionary]]. When one finds the definition it consists of only other w ...refers to [[value]] as such, and all other commodities are [[thought]] of in terms of how much money one can get for [[them]]. That is, money as a commo
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• Algebra
  In 1955, [[Lacan]] begins to use [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s -- in an attempt to [[formalize]] [[psychoanalysis]]. :Just as [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] uses quasi-[[mathematical]] [[formulae]] in an attempt to set [[anthropology]] on a more [[scientific]] footing, [[Laca
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• Consciousness
  In the so-called "[[topographical model]]", [[Freud]] isolates [[consciousness <blockquote>"The difficulties which this [[system]] of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theoris
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• Development
  ...s]] (the [[development|oral]] and [[development|anal stages]]) to maturity in the [[genital|genital stage]]. ...seems to accept this [[development]]al [[reading]] of [[Freud]], at least in the matter of a [[development|genetic order]] for the [[three]] "[[family]]
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• Fragmented body
  ...[[fragmented body]] is one of the earliest original [[concepts]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], and is closely linked to the [ In the [[mirror stage]] the [[infant]] sees its [[reflection]] in the [[mirror]] as a [[whole]]/[[synthesis]], and this [[perception]] causes
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• Unconscious
  ...]'' designates one of the ''[[psychical]] systems'' described by [[Freud]] in his [[topology|topographical model]] of the [[psyche]], his first [[theory] ...[repression]] and thus cannot enter the [[conscious|conscious-preconscious system]] without [[distortion]].
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• Structure
  In his [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|early work]], [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[s ...profoundly than the [[adult]], and [[introjection|internalizes]] [[them]] in the [[complex]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.89</ref>.
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• Signifier
  ...ied]].<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wad ...of all a [[meaning]]less [[material]] element in a ''closed differential [[system]]''; this "'''signifier without the signified'''" is called by [[Lacan]] th
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• Passage to the Act
  ...ts against anxiety, the subject who [[acts]] something out still remains in the SCENE, whereas a passage to the act involves an exit from In "passage to the act" it is the idea of "passage" that is important, for it
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• Order
  ...n [[concepts]] which, according to [[Lacan]], had previously been confused in [[psychoanalytic theory]]. ...] [[father]]. Thus [[Lacan]] claims that his [[tripartite]] classification system has shed invaluable light on [[Freud]]'s [[work]]:
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• Main Page2
  Welcome to the [[official]] '''TYPO3 [[Content]] Management [[System]]''' [[wiki]]!<br> Currently we have [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles (in different [[languages]]) online. Choose one of the following sections to fi
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• Alain Badiou
  ...ation]] of [[Algeria]]. He wrote his first novel, [[Almagestes]], in 1964. In 1967 he joined a study group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew incr ...ation Politique" which he founded with some comrades from the Maoist UCFML in 1985.
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• Extimacy
  ...ich may be rendered "[[extimacy]] in [[English]], neatly expresses the way in which [[psychoanalysis]] problematizes the opposition between "[[inside]]" ...]]. The [[unconscious]] is not a purely [[inside|interior]] [[psychic]] [[system]] but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[structure]] -- "the uncons
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• Forclusion
  forclusion (a term in use in the [[French]] [[legal]] [[system]]; in [[English]], '[[foreclosure]] ) ...In 1954, when Lacan first turns to the Freudian concept of Verwerfung in his
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. ...minar between [[discourse analysis]] and the [[analysis of the ego]], both in relation to [[psychoanalytical theory]] and [[practice]].
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• Seminar IX
  ...ier]]. In the [[three]] types of [[identification]] isolated by [[Freud]] in <i>[[Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego]]</i> (1921, S.E. XVIII), # A [[regressive]] [[identification]] in [[love]] relations: the [[object]] refuses itself, therefore the [[subject]
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• Seminar X
  ...ing point is the <i>[[fantasme]]</i> elaborated in the [[Graph of Desire]] in <i>[[Les formations de l'inconscient]]</i>: [[Image:lacansem1b1.gif|12px]] ...ems to be the irreducible [[Real]], "a lack which the symbol does not fill in," a "real [[deprivation]]."
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• Seminar XII
  ...n the surface of the [[Klein]] bottle. These [[figure]] though constructed in a simple and [[combinatory]] way, are nevertheless complicated to comment.< [[Image:Crucial-problems-for-psychoanalysis-lacan-in-ireland.jpg|border|350px|right]]
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• Seminar XVI
  ...be articulated as a [[knowledge]] and taught as such, it has no [[place]] in Academia, where it is only a matter of knowledge." He rejects nonconceptual ...zed]], on the Phallus as a [[symbol]] that is [[lacking]] or [[outside]] [[system]], and the [[repetition]] of the [[Graphs]] of [[Desire]].<br>
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...e two is related to the [[horror]] of [[incest]] that Freud [[identified]] in savages by analyzing totemic systems as laws of exogamy. ...e rest of us based on the intensity of [[emotion]], and provides the first in-depth investigation of this conception of emotion.
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...this is unlikely, it is not [[impossible]]. The fact that it is grounded in her wishes is what makes it an illusion. ...vitability; and the individuals composing [[them]] support one [[another]] in giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...en]], an ancient Egyptian [[monotheism|monotheist]]. The book was written in [[three]] parts, and was a departure from the rest of Freud's [[work]] on [ ...close followers into [[freedom]], and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion either to his strong [[faith]] or to circumcision. Freud explains
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• Seminar II
  ...sychanalyse</small>]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar II|The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...tween [[discourse]] [[analysis]] and the [[analysis]] of the [[ego]], both in relation to psychoanalytical theory and practice. He claims that "[[analys
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• Psychiatry
  ...ouisiana]], [[Guam]] or the military may also prescribe medication.</ref>. In some countries, mental health medication may only be prescribed by medical ...even the strongest measures. The majority of patients will fall somewhere in between.
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• Semiotics
  ...udy of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. ...'''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]]&ndash;[[1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...erapeutic techniques, especially his [[understanding]] of [[transference]] in the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s a ...o the [[University]] in [[Vienna]] because of the strong [[anti-Semitism]] in [[Austria]] at the [[time]], at which time his grades plummeted.
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• Linguistics
  ...theory]], and not until 1957 that he begins to engage with [[linguistics]] in any detail. ...[[anthropology|anthropological]] [[work]] of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] who, in the 1940s, had begun to apply the methods of [[structure|structural]] [[lin
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• Mathematics
  In his attempt to theorize the [[category]] of the [[symbolic]], [[Lacan]] ado ...istics]], using a [[Saussure]]an-inspired [[model]] of [[language]] as a [[system]] of [[signifiers]].
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...tional de Philosophie]] in [[Paris]] and at the [[University of Macerata]] in Italy, and has held visiting appointments at several American universities. ...without as yet inflecting [[them]] in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the [[Warburg Institute]], where he wrote ''St
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• Roland Barthes
  ...His [[mother]], Henriette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[cu ...s period, [[suffering]] from [[tuberculosis]] that often had to be treated in the [[isolation]] of [[sanatorium|sanatoria]]. His repeated [[physical]] b
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• Judith Butler
  ...[[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of [[Rhetoric]] and Comparative [[Literature]] at the [[Uni ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek==
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• Capitalism
  ...ism, when viewed as a system of power relations, is described as a society in which every kind of transactional relation is fundamentally exploitative. Capitalism is a system that depends on the exploitation of underclass groups for its survival. (h
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...rn]] to a scientific approach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...representing [[understanding]] and the processing of information. Included in the term are certain areas of speculative research ([[philosophy]] of [[min
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• Deconstruction
  ...he basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]] ==The difficulty in defining deconstruction==
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• Gilles Deleuze
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...Žižek this mode of repetition indicates Deleuze’s similarity to Hegel, in that both stress becoming through repetition. By becoming-[[other]] to Hege
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• Félix Guattari
  ...rincipal anchoring -- a [[refusal]] to be anchored! -- until his [[death]] in [[1992]]. ...well as the [[formation]] of Friendly Male Nurses (Amicales d'infirmiers)(in [[1958]]), the studies on architecture and the projects of [[construction]]
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• Jürgen Habermas
  ...[German]] [[philosopher]], [[political]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theory]]. ...[capitalist]] industrial [[society]] and of [[democracy]], the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary (especially German
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...] and [[social]] [[progress]] would bring [[about]] [[stable]] democracies in recently [[Decolonization|decolonized]] countries. ===''Political Order in Changing Societies''===
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...s mother, Anne Sørensdatter Lund Kierkegaard, is not directly referred to in his books, although she too affected his later writings. Despite his fathe ...he last sacrifice which he made to his [[love]] for me; ... he died for me in [[order]] that, if possible, I might still turn into something. Of all tha
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• Georg Lukács
  ...[[Marxist theory|theory]], and his [[literary]] criticism was influential in [[thinking]] [[about]] [[realism]] and about the [[novel]] as a [[literary ...an (language)|German]], was '''Georg Bernhard Lukács von Szegedin''', and in [[Hungarian (language)|Hungarian]] was '''Szegedi Lukács György Bernát''
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  .... It is fascinating to read how Althusser sees Lacan as [[being]] involved in a similar [[project]] to his own. Just as he, Althusser, is trying to rethi interest in [[Lacanian]] psychoanalysis - a movement which seemed to
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symboli ...cient Greek]] [[tragedy]] ([[myth]]) by [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus Rex]'', in which Oedipus unwittingly kills his [[father]] and [[marries]] his [[mother
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• Jacques Lacan:The Subject of the Unconscious
  ...s [[experience]] of rupture, between [[perception]] and [[consciousness]], in that [[time|nontemporal locus]]... [[Freud]] calls [[scene|another scene]]. ...g]]". The [[unconscious]] ''is'' precisely this [[gap]] or [[gap|rupture]] in the [[symbolic]] [[signifyin chain|chain]].
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...t a]] and [[jouissance]]. We will look at each of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes] =The real is always in its place=
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• Matheme
  ...ude Lévi-Strauss]] to denote the basic constituents of [[myth]]ological [[system]]s).<ref>[[Claude Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [ ...term is an equivalent to "[[algebra|mathematical sign]]". It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...f nostalgic idolatry, and, furthermore, from the perspective firmly rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rig ...the answer is immediately: "Benevolent as it is, this will necessarily end in a new [[Gulag]]!" The [[ideological]] function of the constant reference to
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...mely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my [[right]] was so immersed in the film that he all the [[time]] disturbed [[other]] spectators with loud ...ing our inner life itself, using us as the source of energy; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...laim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politic ...d]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian assembly lines. In their invisibility the West can afford itself to babble [[about]] the so-ca
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...eality]] that it is distorting, and through this very act dissolve itself. In the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -that developed ...ls which are supposed to hide the naked reality. We can see why [[Lacan]], in his [[Seminar]] on The [[Ethic]] of [[Psychoanalysis]], distances himself f
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? ...en the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...le fully to [[enjoy]] all [[women]]. Does, however, the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? I ...agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castration; in both cases, the role of this fantasmatic agency is to fill out the vicious
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...[[meaning]] to the actual [[signifiers]]. What [[speech]] act is involved in this context? ...values. "Everybody might get rich, including you." Let's take Thatcherism in Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard wo
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...social]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place]] in it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation o ...] between police and politics proper is always blurred and contested; say, in the [[Marxist]] [[tradition]], '[[proletariat]]' can be read as the subject
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...sis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] t ...l use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...ainst the aristocracy and clergy) to the demise of European [[socialism]], in which groups such as the Czech Civic [[Forum]] proclaimed themselves [[repr ...y "scum" of the [[official]] whole of the people, with no [[proper place]] in official [[space]] (or, more precisely, with only titles such as "counterre
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...ty to run a country through the "normal" chains of administrative command. In order to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should star ...[[Seduction]]: "Most people have a dark side… she had [[nothing]] else." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obsce
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...the anatomy of man provides the key for the anatomy of the monkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[form ...he guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ...r views, or, if you insist on expressing your [[political]] views publicly in the [[present]] circumstances, when our position is far more difficult than
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  What is [[tolerance]] today? The most popular TV show of the fall of 2000 in [[France]], with a viewer rating two [[times]] higher than that of the [[no ...e Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...Butler]], The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that which is already caught in some kind of pre-[[subjective]] [[psychic apparatus]].</ref> Butler, of cou
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ect?" The answer, of course, is: the object - however, which object? This, in a nutshell (or, rather, as a nut within the shell), is the topic of the pre ...but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...nd all the [[multiplicity]] of the [[world]]. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest [[sense]] of the world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W ...since it includes self-differentiation into the One - its lesson is that, in [[order]] to have truly One, you [[need]] THREE.
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• Move the Underground!
  ...hould thus have the [[savoir]]-faire to play the existing, positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying n ...nner [[jokes]], obscene practices, etc. The truly radical [[intervention]] in to military homophobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...Gibson's <i>[[Passion]]</i> seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalis ...[[Jesus]]? Or as the typical secular Jew who, although he does not believe in Jehova and [[Moses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a di
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...ules of the game"? Why should it not, in some circumstances, at least, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure? ...a couple of years ago, and the situation is similar in today's Pakistan.) In such a case, many a democrat would concede that the people was not yet "mat
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...(the constructed nature) of reality, and the triumphant return of the body in the sense of the ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defian ...universe which generates the false "wealth of experience" of humans caught in the Matrix.)<br><br>
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...ure, where each of us is effectively just a foetus-like organism, immersed in the pre-natal fluid...
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...of the possible definitions of postmodern art as opposed to modernist art: in [[postmodernism]], the [[transgressive]] [[excess]] loses its shocking [[va ...he burglars and footpads are merely placid old cosmic conservatives, happy in the immemorial respectability of apes and wolves. /The police romance/ is b
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] idiom - say, "To be or not to be, that is the ...esitations cannot be purely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique H
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...ITICAL [[position]], not just as a pseudo-radical chic allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on T ...which were going on also in the previous epochs. Recall [[feminism]]: only in the last 200 years was the situation of [[women]] progressively perceived a
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...is sad fact that the opposition to the [[system]] cannot articulate itself in the guise of a realistic alternative, or at least a meaningful utopian [[pr ...ormulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...t routine; [[culture]] and [[knowledge]] as against industrial production; in spontaneous interaction and [[autopoiesis]] as against fixed hierarchy. ...ckers dominate the [[scene]], [[working]] long hours, enjoying free drinks in green surroundings. The underlying [[notion]] here is that Gates is a subve
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...manity but nature itself. In this sense, Francis [[Fukuyama]] is [[right]] in <i>Our Posthuman [[Future]]</i>: the [[notion]] of humanity relies on the [ ...tion mistake: the stuttering [[repetition]] of the nucleotide sequence CAG in the middle of a particular gene. The age at which the disease will appear d
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  <i>Vaclav [[Havel]]: A [[Political]] [[Tragedy]] in Six [[Acts]]</i> by John Keane · Bloomsbury, 532 pp, £25.00 ...versal]] is not a betrayal of his original ethical stance, but is inherent in it. The ultimate lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable
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• Seminar VII
  ...all. Both have rejected the [[right]] to live in [[order]] to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - ''entre-deux-morts'' - that is immortality. ...hing]]. As for disbelief, by rejecting the [[Thing]] it makes it reappear in the [[Real]], which is the [[Lacan]]ian definition of [[psychosis]].
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• Surrealism
  ...te to psychoanalysis and the crucial link to his [[clinical]] [[practice]] in [[psychiatry]]. ...iterary]] and artistic movement that emerged after the First [[World]] War in [[Paris]], its founding [[figure]] the writer and poet [[André Breton]] (1
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...hysic of Morals]]''. It is outlined here according to the arguments found in this [[work]]. ..., and is both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation:
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• Antigone (Lacan)
  ...on the [[logic]] of the [[individual]] [[situation]], Kant merely succeeds in separating pleasurability from the [[notion]] of [[good]]. ...e above [[seminar]] [[Lacan]] comments on the [[tragedy]] of [[Antigone]], in a play which clearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to t
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• Parallax View
  ...therefore minimal difference, a "pure" difference which cannot be grounded in positive substantial properties.<ref><u>[[The Parallax View]].</ref></block ..., and neither is the "truthful" one - the truth resides in their very gap, in the shift of perspective. See René Girard, Job: The Victim and His People,
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...to convince us (and themselves) that globalization is its own best remedy. In the sub-tropical, Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the counter-elite of the ...ronically refers to as “[[liberal]] communists” (that is “liberal” in the pro-[[market]], European [[sense]]) who no longer accept the opposition
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...U) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. (In season four, they stopped a stolen [[nuclear weapon]] from exploding above ...spectators’, real [[time]] is exactly equivalent to the [[temporal]] gap in the on-screen [[narrative]], as if the events nonetheless <i>go on</i> as w
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...ajority determine [[state]] decisions. Democracy—in the way the term is used today—concerns, above all, ‘’’[[formal]] legalism’’’. Its mi ...mal “rules of the game”? Why should it not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’
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