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• Woman
  ...ritings, and [[drives]] him to ask the famous question, "What does woman [[want]]?"<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|New Introductory Lectures on Psych ...form -- but sets [[about]] enquiring how she comes into [[being]], how a [[woman]] develops out of a [[child]] with a bisexual disposition.<ref>{{F}} ''[[Wo
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...any [[prohibition]] and was as such able fully to [[enjoy]] all [[women]]. Does, however, the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determ ...s cycle of the symbolic order, the void of its origins: what the notion of Woman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of un
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• Kid A In Alphabet Land - Woman
  '''[[Kid A]] In Alphabet Land Wallops [[Another]] Wayward Wench - The Wanton Woman!''' ...Whom The [[Sexual]] [[Relationship]] Is Finally Realized - Not! Hmph! The Woman Doesn't [[Exist]]!
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• Letter from an Unknown Woman
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• Woman in the Window
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• The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality
  ...x Essays on Woman and Causality|The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality (Wo Es War)]]'''''. London; New York: Verso. October 1994, H
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• The Metastases Of Enjoyment - Six Essays On Woman And Causality (Wo Es War
  ..."><div class="book-info__title">The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality (Wo Es War) - Slavoj Zizek</div><div class="book-info__lead"> | "The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality (Wo Es War)"
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• Books/Joan Copjec/Imagine Theres No Woman Ethics And Sublimation
  =‘Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation’ by Joan Copjec= [[Image:imagine-theres-no-woman-803x1024.jpg]]<BR>
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• Jouissance
  ...untranslated in most English editions of [[Lacan]].</ref> "[[Enjoyment]]" does convey the [[sense]], contained in ''[[jouissance]]'', of ''enjoyment of ri ...this limit, [[pleasure]] becomes [[pain]], and this "painful pleasure" is what [[Lacan]] calls ''[[jouissance]]''. "''Jouissance'' is [[suffering]]."<ref>
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• Name
  ...What You Haven't Got! Wouldn't You Like It Both Ways! But By Making The [[Woman]] Rigid, You Make Her Frigid! Humph! You're Only So Much Meat!
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• Woman
  ...ritings, and [[drives]] him to ask the famous question, "What does woman [[want]]?"<ref>{{F}} ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|New Introductory Lectures on Psych ...form -- but sets [[about]] enquiring how she comes into [[being]], how a [[woman]] develops out of a [[child]] with a bisexual disposition.<ref>{{F}} ''[[Wo
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• Other
  ...ythical]] complete [[Other]] (written '''A''' in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]]) does not [[exist]]. In 1957 [[Lacan]] illustrates this incomplete [[Other]] grap ..."the Other sex."<ref>{{S20}} p. 40</ref> The [[Other]] [[sex]] is always [[woman]], for both [[male]] and [[female]] [[subjects]].
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• Phallus
  ...for both sexes, only one genital, namely the male one, comes into account. What is [[present]], therefore, is not a primacy of the genitals, but a primacy ...natomical reality or on the level of organs, but precisely on the level of what a lack of the organ might [[represent]] subjectively.
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...] [[penis]] may itself become a [[fetishism|fetish]] by substituting the [[woman]]'s [[absent]] [[symbolic]] [[phallus]]. ...example, obsessive longing for a shoe displaces appreciation of the whole woman. The standard [[understanding]] of the fetish has come to be dominated by c
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• Hysteria
  ...ychoanalytic]] [[case]] [[history]] concerns the treatment of a hysterical woman known as "[[Dora]]."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. "[[Works of Sigmund Freu However, although [[Lacan]] does discuss the [[symptom]]atology of [[hysteria]], linking it to the [[imago]]
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• Perversion
  <blockquote>"What is perversion? It is not simply an aberration in relation to [[social]] cri ...ion]]; while social disapproval and the infraction of "good morals" may be what determines whether a [[particular]] [[perversion|act]] is [[perversion|perv
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• Psychosis
  ...led simply ''[[Seminar III|The Psychoses]]''. It is here that he expounds what come to be the main tenets of the [[Lacan]]ian approach to [[madness]]. ...lack|hole]] in the [[symbolic order]] is not to say that the [[psychotic]] does not have an [[unconscious]]; on the contrary, in [[psychosis]] "the unconsc
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• Object
  ...nder the aegis of genitality and orientates it definitively towards others does not therefore occur until [[puberty]]. ...he very beginning of [[psychic]] life, the external world, the object, and what is hated are identical (the object emerges in hatred). When, following the
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• Neurosis
  ...e questions that have precisely no solution in the [[signifier]]. This is what gives neurotics this existential [[value]]."<ref>{{S3}} p.190</ref>
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• Ego-ideal
  ...stablish a distinction between the [[ego-ideal]] and the [[superego]], and does not refer to the [[ideal ego]]. ...ect]] to take up a [[sexual difference|sexual position]] as a [[man]] or [[woman]].<ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Les complexes familiaux dans la for
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• Sexual Difference
  "[[Man]]" and "[[woman]]" are [[signifier]]s that stand for these two [[subjective position]]s.<re <blockquote>It is insofar as the function of man and woman is [[symbolized]], it is insofar as it's literally uprooted from the [[doma
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• Bar
  ...t]], [[castration|uncastrated]] [[Other]], an [[un-barred]] '''A''', which does not [[existence|exist]]. =="Woman Does Not Exist"==
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• Countertransference
  [[Lacan]] refers to two of [[Freud]]'s [[case]] studies to illustrate what he means. ===Young Homosexual Woman===
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• Existence
  Only what is integrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] fully "[[exist]]s", since "ther ==="Woman Does Not Exist"===
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• Castration complex
  ...more often [[about]] "[[castration]]" than the "[[castration complex]]" -- does not discuss the [[castration complex]] very much in his early [[work]]. He ...[[lack]] of an [[imaginary]] [[object]]; [[castration complex|castration]] does not bear on the [[penis]] as a [[real]] [[biology|organ]], but on the [[ima
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• Obsessional neurosis
  ...ion concerns the [[subject]]'s [[sexual position]] ("Am I a [[man]] or a [[woman]]?"), the [[obsessional neurotic]] repudiates this question, refusing both ..., [[Lacan]] remarks that the [[Obsessional neurosis|obsessional neurotic]] does not only transform his shit into gifts and his gifts into shit, but also tr
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• Sexual relationship
  ...etrical; there is no corresponding [[signifier]] which could [[signify]] [[Woman]] in the same way that the [[sexual difference|male]] [[sex]] is [[symboliz ...es the [[matheme]] of [[fantasy]] (SOa); in other [[words]], the [[Woman]] does not [[exist]] for the man as a [[real]] [[subject]], but only as a [[fantas
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• Passage to the Act
  ...not, according to Lacan, necessarily imply an underlying [[Psychosis]], it does entail a dissolution of the subject; for a [[moment]], the subject becomes What the [[word]] "passage" denoted was the sudden lurch from a fantasied act to
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• Privation
  ..., [[biologically]] [[speaking]], the vagina is not incomplete without one; what is [[lacking]] is a [[symbolic]] object, the [[symbolic]] [[phallus]]. ...]] (since the [[father]] has failed to provide her with a [[child]], the [[woman]] turns to [[another]] [[man]] instead).
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• Schema L
  ...ld be. If he enters into the coupling of the [[resistance]], which is just what he is taught not to do, then he speaks from a' and he will see himself in t ...tions between the various people in the case of the young [[homosexual]] [[Woman]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 124-33</ref>.
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• Paranoia
  ...].<ref>{{1932}}</ref> In this work, [[Lacan]] discusses a [[psychotic]] [[woman]] whom he calls "[[Aimée]]", whom he diagnoses as [[suffering]] from "[[pa
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...in Paris, where [[Marie Bonaparte]] organizes a party in his honour. Lacan does not attend. ...âce, the military hospital in Paris. During the [[German]] Occupation, he does not partake in any official [[activity]]. "For several years I have kept my
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• The Metastases of Enjoyment
  #redirect [[The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality]]
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• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
  ...nd ''sinthom''/the [[structure]] of the Borromean [[knot]]/the fact that [[Woman]] is one of the Names-of-the-[[Father]] ... you've totally missed the point
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• Gaze and Voice as Love Objects
  relationship between man and [[woman]]. Love is the [[lure]] or mirage which
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• TOC
  == What is a subject and why is it so important? == == What is so terrible about postmodernity ==
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• Jacques Lacan Books2
  <b>God and the [[Jouissance]] of the [[Woman]]</b> from <i>Encore — Seminar XX</i>, transl. by J. Rose in J. Mitchell <b>A Man and a Woman...</b>, transl. by Carolyn Jane Henshaw in <i>Papers of the Freudian School
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• Seminar VI
  ...on the [[signifier]]s which constitute the [[structure]] proper. This is what the [[cure]], based on [[speech]], must make clear beyond the [[analysand]] ...other's lover, and the usurper) - he cannot [[love]] Ophelia, "he cannot [[want]]." When, at the end, he discovers his desire - by fighting Laertes in the
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• Seminar:Transference
  ...] analysis does not put the analyst beyond [[passion]]; to believe that it does would mean that all passions stem from the [[unconscious]], a [[notion]] th ...at he is [[lacking]] and, by the [[nature]] of transference, he will learn what he is lacking insofar as he [[loves]]: I am not here for his [[Good]], but
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• Seminar VIII
  ...ysis]] does not put the [[analyst]] beyond [[passion]]; to believe that it does would mean that all passions stem from the [[unconscious]], a [[notion]] th ...e is [[lacking]] and, by the [[nature]] of [[transference]], he will learn what he is lacking insofar as he [[loves]]: I am not here for his [[Good]], but
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• Seminar X
  ...jet a]]</i> seems to be the irreducible [[Real]], "a lack which the symbol does not fill in," a "real [[deprivation]]." ...ther]]-[[God]]: "<i>Jouis!</i>" For [[instance]], what or whose apparition does for the sudden gap of an opening window (<i>The [[Wolf Man]]</i>)? An [[un
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• Seminar XIII
  ...e his [[theory]] of the painting as "a trap for the gaze," a gaze in which what falls is <i>objet a</i>. The little [[girl]] is the slit in the perspective ...the house coming closer (as seen by the approaching [[woman]]) to the same woman coming closer (as seen from the house), giving the anxious impression that
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• Seminar XVI
  ...various forms: "I ask myself what you [[want]]," then "I ask you what you want," which leads to "Thy Will be Done!" However, this [[sentence]] is uttered ...nk Coke, the more you are thirsty; the more profit you have , the more you want; the more you obey the supergo command, the more you are [[guilty]]. In all
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...an," insofar as "she would fulfill herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absent]] from the field of the signifier. ...sire. This discourse [[being]] the reverse of the discourse of the master, does it make psychoanalysis an essentially subversive [[practice]] which undermi
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...gratification, is pleasurable in itself, and is autoerotic inasmuch as it does not require any other object than the infant itself. He writes that the inf ...f the penis, is the site of masturbatory pleasure for little girls. In the woman, the clitoris may be viewed as the organ of forepleasure that transmits exc
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• Seminar XX
  ...introduced early in its opposition to the functional: "''Jouissance'' is what is useless." The [[superego]], the [[concept]] of [[Freud]]'s second [[topo ...]" and that will be resolved by way of love, made up for its [[absence]]. "What makes up the [[Sexual Relationship|sexual relationship]] is, quite precisel
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...d with all of his patients. He started to hear her mumble [[words]] during what he called states of [[absence]]. Eventually Breuer started to recognize so ...f treatment based on the one that Breuer had described to him, modified by what he called his "pressure technique". The traditional story, based on Freud's
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• Linguistics
  ...he early 1930s, when he [[analyzed]] the [[writing]]s of a [[psychotic]] [[woman]] in his [[doctoral dissertation]], it is only in the early 1950s that he b
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• Hannah Arendt
  ...turalized [[citizen]] of the United States, and in 1959 became the first [[woman]] appointed a [[full]] professorship at Princeton. She also taught at The N
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• Roland Barthes
  ...kinds of theory being developed in his work. In [[1970]] Barthes produced what many consider to be his most prodigious work, the dense critical [[reading] ...the same year that his mother would [[pass]] away. The [[loss]] of the [[woman]] who had raised and cared for him was a terrible blow to Barthes. He had
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• Judith Butler
  ...tion that “[[the Woman does not exist]]”, arguing that positioning the Woman as the always already “lost referent” is to preclude the possibility of ...possibility’ that opens up the terrain of the hegemonic [[struggle]] for what ‘[[Sexual Difference|sexual difference]]’ will mean” (''CHU'': 111).
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...materialism also emerges in ''[[The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality|Metastases]]'', where he mentions a problem that is allegedly
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• Félix Guattari
  ...smose'' ([[1992]]), the topic of which is already partially developed in ''What is Philosophy?'' (1991, with [[Deleuze]]), Félix Guattari takes again his ...ars"). Concepts such as "micropolitics," "schizoanalysis," and "becoming-[[woman]]" open up new horizons for political and creative [[resistance]] in the "p
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...cters in the film do not [[know]], and then artfully builds tension around what will happen when the characters finally learn the [[truth]]. ...d (played by [[Raymond Burr]]) confronts Jeffries by saying "What do you [[want]] of me?" Burr might as well have been addressing the audience. In fact, sh
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...ingly difficult to distinguish between what Kierkegaard truly believed and what he was merely arguing for as part of a pseudo-[[author]]'s [[position]]. [ ...vity"; that is, that the self is the ultimate governor of what life is and what life means. He also believed in the infinity of the self, explaining that t
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...astration]] [[complex]]', that is, around whether or not someone 'has' or 'does not have' a [[penis]]. ...d feminine structure si the type of ''jouissance'' one is able to attain - what LAcan called [[phallic]] ''jouissance'' and Other ''jouissance''.
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• Femininity
  ...does not get us very far in an introduction to Lacan, so let us try to say what we can about this [[particular]] [[form]] of [[enjoyment]]. Fink points out ...mediately [[understand]] that she's coming. There's no [[doubt]] about it. What is she getting off on? It is clear that the essential testimony of the myst
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...It is often said that Lacan wants to be [[understood]] only by those who [[want]] to make an effort. I think we should make the effort. Lacan’s [[writing yet become a [[psychoanalyst]]; he was still a [[psychiatrist]]. What is revealing
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  What am I in the Other's desire? The [[Name-of-the-Father]] does not have to be the [[real]] [[father]], or even a [[male]] [[figure]].
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ow things may have been much worse: "Just look around and see for yourself what will happen if we follow your radical notions!" And it is exactly the same ...be an act WITHIN the hegemonic ideological coordinates: those who "really want to do something to [[help]] people" get involved in (undoubtedly honorable)
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...e symbolic order as such? However, what if this very alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condit ...formula of the production of the couple!), that is ideology at its purest? What if ideology resides in the very belief that, outside the closure of the fin
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...asked by politicians to press such buttons. But some things are excluded. What is excluded from this participatory, multi-[[culturalist]], tolerant [[demo But what is crucial in this tradition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[ide
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...: somebody points at a [[woman]] and utters a horrified cry, "Look at her, what a [[shame]], under her clothes, she is totally naked" (Lacan, 1986, p.231). ...ar]] interest hidden behind an ideological [[universality]], but still one does not [[renounce]] it.
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...tend to believe in [[Socialism]]) are stand-ins for [[the big Other]]. So, what one should answer to the [[conservative]] platitude according to which ever ...]], proceeds to gather proofs… And, in a slightly different way, this is what the [[analyst]] qua "subject supposed to know" is about: when the [[analysa
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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? SZ: First I must say that I don't have my own positive theory about Japan. What I do have, as every Western intellectual, are the myths of reference. There
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...any [[prohibition]] and was as such able fully to [[enjoy]] all [[women]]. Does, however, the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determ ...s cycle of the symbolic order, the void of its origins: what the notion of Woman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of un
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...r patterns, should be giving new [[meaning]] to the actual [[signifiers]]. What [[speech]] act is involved in this context? ...ght get rich, including you." Let's take Thatcherism in Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard work you win; luck is arou
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• Femininity between Goodness and Act
  ...[theory]], the [[non-all]] (pas-tout) of [[woman]] means that not all of a woman is caught up in the [[phallic jouissance]]: She is always [[split]] between
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...eans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...the [[performative]]." I think this was the ultimate Spinozist [[dream]], what he called "love of God'' or "perfect [[rational]] knowledge," which is a ki
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...ves go and [[enjoy]] a violent war movie, we somehow have to [[know]] that what we are [[seeing]] is a staged fiction, not real-[[life]] killing (imagine o ...ing its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So, again, does not our experience of cyberspace perfectly fit this perverse universe? Isn'
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...s only able to read with an eye on possible theoretical interpretations of what he is [[reading]], in short, for a literary [[scientist]]: such a "reflecte ...ndent of personal idiosyncrasies — as if the very [[notion]] of marriage does not involve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] pe
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...ller]] has pointed out, the [[concept]] of "constructions in [[analysis]]" does not rely on the (dubious) [[claim]] that the [[analyst]] is always [[right] ...e, i.e., I can only assume my [[fundamental fantasy]] insofar as I undergo what [[Lacan]] calls "[[subjective destitution]]." Or, to put it in yet [[anothe
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...of an egalitarian democratic enthusiasm-of an unconditional [[demand]] for what Etienne [[Balibar]] called egaliberte. For that [[reason]], the political u ...arently re-presents society, but [[acts]] as a violent [[intervention]] in what it re-presents.
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• The Lesbian Session
  ...est imaginable confirmation of [[Sylvia]] Plath's famous line, "…every [[woman]] adores a Fascist." However, although it is easy to dismiss the very menti ...e were to Jansenism, what Kleist was to [[German]] nationalist militarism, what [[Brecht]] was to [[Communism]], Rand is to American capitalism. It was per
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• Matinee Idols: Joan Bennett
  ...So when I saw her in her ultimate [[femme fatale]] role, in Lang's The [[Woman]] in the Window, the only question that bothered me was: Did Lang do it wit
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  Since, as [[Lacan]] claims in his [[Seminar]] XX: [[Encore]], [[Woman]] is one of the names of God, would it not be [[logical]] to conclude that, ...that somehow he "changed." /…/ the burning question of [[Limelight]] is: what is that "[[nothing]]," that [[sign]] of age, that small difference of trite
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  What is [[tolerance]] today? The most popular TV show of the fall of 2000 in [[F ...nvite [[people]] like dedicated racists, whose choice-whose [[difference]]-does make a difference. Phenomena like these make it all the more necessary toda
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...s all [[resistance]] to it to [[imaginary]] [[misrecognition]]. And if one does effectively break up the chains of the [[symbolic order]], one is expelled ...Platonic-[[Christian]] definition of the body as the "prison of the soul," what he calls the "body" is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that whic
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...tal passivity, and it is the object from which movement comes, i.e., which does the tickling. But, again, WHICH is this object? The answer is: the parallax ...for the unknown x, the noumenal core of the object beyond appearances, for what is "in you more than yourself." <i>L'objet petit a</i> can thus be defined
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...anity itself. It is then that the West has lost its [[chance]] to remain [[woman]]. [[A Glance into the Archives of Islam#Notes|1]]</blockquote> ...ty: the male West would have rejoined the feminine East and thus “remain woman,” locate itself within femininity.<br><br>
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• With or Without Passion
  What's Wrong with [[Fundamentalism]]? - Part I ...neself to what one sees, one simply misses the point. This [[paradox]] is what [[Lacan]] aims at with his <i>[[les non-dupes errent]]</i>: those who do no
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...ist to reject it? Is such an unambiguous attack not a sine qua non if we [[want]] to make it clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fund ...killing our Lord [[Jesus]]? Or as the typical secular Jew who, although he does not believe in Jehova and [[Moses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that
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• Opera
  ...nnot join him in Walhalla, preferring the [[love]] of a miserable mortal [[woman]] to Walhall's <i>sproeden Wonnen</i>. The shattered Brunhilde comments on ...[[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[lacking]] in [[German]] [[history]] are more gestures like Siegmund's.
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...te priority of the other, to start to calculate the incalculable. However, what is important for Levinas is that this kind of [[legal]] relationship, neces ...is politics at its purest), in short, excluding precisely the dimension of what Carl [[Schmitt]] called political [[theology]]? One is tempted to say that,
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...our ideological and social predicament. What, then, is the Matrix? Simply what Lacan called the "big other," the virtual symbolic order, the network that ...e of the ruins of Chicago, he simply says "This is the real world!", i.e., what remained of our reality outside the Matrix after the catastrophe while the
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...chcock's unique touch, etc., and approach the difficult task of specifying what gives Hitchcock's films their unique flair.<br> ...use, furious at her [[deception]], her expression is no longer angiushed - what we perceive is a strange manic smile of a deeply [[perverse]] satisfaction,
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...ge you are carrying there?' The other man replies, 'That is a MacGuffin.' 'What is a MacGuffin?' asks the first. The second says, 'A MacGuffin is a device ...r proofs of the crime... Not to mention the fact that this, precisely, was what before the war the UN weapons inspectors were asking for - more time - and
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ..., the question of "what means what?" is in no way decided by this reading: does the Hamlet narrative "mean" stars, or do stars "mean" Hamlet's narrative, i ...efeat is signalled by the suicidal jump of the Sphynx. (And, incidentally, what if the same goes even for [[Christianity]]: is not Freud's [[thesis]] that
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...[immigrant]] groups are among the most successful). On the [[other]] hand, what strikes the eye with regard to May 68 is the [[total]] [[absence]] of any p ...and way of life; plus there is no excuse for crimes and violent behavior, what the young immigrants need is not more social help, but discipline and hard
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...nd Lebanon and Indonesia and…) are <i>neighboring</i> countries. This is what those who see globalization as the chance for the entire earth as a unified ...n finds it easier to tolerate different ways of life precise on account of what its critics usually denounce as its weakness and failure, namely the “ali
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...educing a human being to a natural object whose properties can be altered, what we lose is not (only) humanity but nature itself. In this sense, Francis [[ ...and [[psychic]] identity: when a biological man experiences himself as a [[woman]] trapped in a man's [[body]], it is reasonable that (s)he be allowed to ch
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...p><p>'You [[know]], I don't care if it's this or that,' Meli said. 'I just want all this to end, and to<br> feel good again, to feel good in my place and m
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• Seminar VII
  ...meets the 70s mantra: "[[There is no such thing as a sexual rapport]]." [[Woman]], who is the other, bears the burden of the curse, although the [[Thing]] ...ht has "developed along the paths of an hedonistic problematic." [[Lacan]] does not take such an approach because [[psychoanalytic]] [[experience]] has rev
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• Mother
  ...y]] of the [[man]]'s [[penis]]. When the [[girl]] first realizes that she does not possess a [[penis]], she feels deprived of something valuable, and seek ...must work out an answer to the question ''[[Che vuoi?]]'' ("What do you [[want]] from me?").
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• Religion
  ...igion|God]]" as a [[metaphor]] for the [[Other|big Other]], and compares [[woman|feminine]] ''[[jouissance]]'' to the ecstacy experienced by Christian mysti
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• Trauma
  ...nce forgotten "[[mother]]-[[fixation]]," may all his [[life]] seek for a [[woman]] on whom he can be dependent, who will feed and keep him.<ref>{{M&M}} Part <blockquote>Our researches have shown that what we call the phenomena or symptoms of a neurosis are the consequences of cer
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• Castration
  ...of his discussions on [[sexuality]], [[Freud]] emphasizes [[castration]]. What [[Freud]] learned from his [[clinical]] [[practice]] is that [[sexuality]] ...sexual partner, and to wait for a [[time]] when he can take [[another]] [[woman]] as his partner.
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• Love beyond Law
  surrender. <a name="2"></a><a href="#2x">2</a> What one should bear in [[mind]] apropos of this love beyond Law, this direct as is constitutive of the subject. That is, an entity that does not 'cause itself' is precisely not
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• Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves
  ...tic personal choice or opinion. The moment they [[present]] it publicly as what it is for them (a matter of substantial belonging), they are deemed “fund So what does all this have to do with the [[recent]] [[French]] (and then Dutch) vote of
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• Antigone (Lacan)
  ...e, Creon's son Haemon, fiancé of [[Antigone]], also kills himself, and so does Creon's wife, Eurydice. For having declared himself and the state as might ...d; she does not consider the claims of her [[ego]] for [[happiness]]. She does not procrastinate [[about]] something she [[knows]] she must do. [[Antigon
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• Richard Wagner
  ...s itself the wound it tried to heal; that is, the wound is self-inflicted. What is “Spirit” at its most elementary? It is the “wound” of [[nature]]
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• Gap
  ...[[relationship]] between the [[sex]]es; "in the relation between man and [[woman]]... a gap always remains open.<ref>{{S4}} p.374; {{S4}} p.408</ref>
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...ic personal choice or opinion. The moment they [[present]] it publicly as what it is for them (a matter of substantial belonging), they are deemed "[[fund So what does all this have to do with the [[recent]] [[French]] (and then [[Dutch]]) vot
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...d firmly to their seats and compelled to watch the shadowy performance of (what they falsely consider to be) reality—in short, the [[position]] of the [[ ...he effects of his [[acts]]; his [[activity]] is always something else than what he aimed at or anticipated. And the inconsistencies of the film’s [[narra
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• Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
  ...ng eternal force of life itself, what she was searching for all along? And does this not apply also to her [[personality]]? It seems that the [[fear]] of t ...]] <i>Das blaue Licht</i> (“The Blue Light”), the story of a village [[woman]] who is hated for her unusual prowess at climbing a deadly mountain. Is it
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  ...s entry to the [[European Union]], whenever a foreign journalist asked me what new [[dimension]] would [[Slovenia]] contribute to [[Europe]], my answer wa ...recently, not [[being]] allowed to take it for granted; we still [[know]] what [[true]] culture is, not being corrupted by the cheap Americanized mass cul
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• The Not-So-Quiet American
  ..., but instead of hailing the U.S. [[Army]], the ungrateful people do not [[want]] it. They look the proverbial gift horse in the mouth, and America then r ...ephen Schwartz used the phrase “[[capitalist revolution]]” to describe what Americans are now doing: exporting their [[revolution]] around the entire [
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...How did the [[Republic]] turn into the [[Empire]], or, more precisely, how does a [[democracy]] become a [[dictatorship]]? Lucas explained that it isn’t ...nsistent and even mutually exclusive [[meaning]]s. The question "But what does this political myth really mean?" is the wrong question, because its "[[[me
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