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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...ed elementary [[matrix]] of the "[[dream]] [[work]]," which involves the [[distinction]] between the [[latent]] dream-[[thought]] and the unconscious desire artic ...varice, while the excessive limitless consumption is avarice itself in its form of appearance (oppositional determination).<br><br>
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...hile they pursue (what appears to us) evil goals with evil means, the very FORM of their activity meets the highest standard of the Good. The resolution of ...our allegedly permissive society, this asceticism assumes precisely the [[form]] of its opposite, of the GENERALIZED [[superego]] [[injunction]] "[[Enjoy]
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...onviction of one’s own superiority. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s well-known distinction between <i>amour-de-soi</i> and <i>amour-propre</i> is more than pertinent ...eliefs: a society immobilized by the concern for not hurting the other, no matter how cruel and superstitious this other is, and in which individuals are eng
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...according to which, [[truth]] being accessible to any [[rational]] man, no matter how depraved, everyone must be regarded as responsible for his crimes. But ...]] in [[Auschwitz]] sending [[Hitler]] such a telegram. It is a tasteless distinction, but it supports the contention that under [[Stalin]], the ruling [[ideolog
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• Ethics and the Real
  Lacan’s own account of sublimation is put in [[terms]] of a [[distinction]] between ‘’l’objet’’ (object) and ‘’Chose’’ ([[Thing]]). Because the very [[idea]] of moral goodness implies that morality be a matter of something universally and necessarily [[true]], Kant argues that what ma
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• Surrealism
  ...epresented only one small part. They thought of human experiences in the [[form]] of a pyramid, the narrow peak of which is the limited range of the consci ...the first techniques the surrealists used. This process became for them a form of [[self]]-administered psychoanalysis. Automatic writing consisted of wri
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• Parallax View
  ...lls a transcendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely ...rns us back to reality, but, rather, to the fact that cutting oneself is a form of making a mark: when I make a cut into my arm, the »zero« of the subjec
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...kind of - how should I put it? - disavowed spirituality. It is as if the [[form]] of spirituality, the ultimate, I am almost tempted to say, iconoclastic s ...talism is - to put it in slightly speculative [[Hegelian]] [[terms]] - the form of the [[appearance]] of its opposite. Let's be serious: Nobody will convin
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...xplicably withdrew. How often does it happen that, when peace seems just a matter of finding a proper formulation for some minor statements, everything sudde ...agent]] on whom the [[role]] of the modernizer, of moving to a political [[form]] beyond [[ethnic identity]], is imposed: the only true long-term solution
  50 KB (8,234 words) - 00:48, 21 May 2019
• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...that of an autonomous agent; and the same goes for woman - the ultimate [[form]] of her servitude is to (mis)perceive herself, when she acts in a "[[femin Is the planet around which the story turns, composed of the mysterious matter which seems to [[think]], i.e. which in a way is the direct materialization
  61 KB (9,960 words) - 02:15, 21 May 2019
• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou ...nscends, precisely, the "infinite complexity" of its context. A homologous distinction can be drawn between [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicis
  71 KB (11,385 words) - 21:34, 20 May 2019
• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...[[reversal]] of the Oedipal matrix do we reach the well-known Pascalean [[distinction]] between the God of [[Philosophers]] (God qua the [[universal]] structure ...by the primordial [[Otherness]], the mysterious dark principle of feminine matter. Therein resides the basic paradox of Plato's mysterious "secret teaching":
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...[philosophy]],'' and not of his work: ''[[Capital]]'') its ''theoretical [[form]]'', it was then that I saw myself on the threshold of [[understanding]] yo ...Marx. That is what I wanted to [[communicate]], in advance, in abbreviated form, by speaking of Marx's [[revolution]] ([[rejection]] of ''homo economicus''
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...realm of [[ideas]] [[looking]] for whatever will prove useful. It doesn't matter if his findings come from different intellectual traditions, if they are, i ..."no [[state]] no [[power]]" in [[order]] to realize their goals usually [[form]] their own [[society]] which obeys the most authoritarian rules. My first
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  matter of [[duty]] and not of some spontaneous [[feeling]]; but this answer to the Lacanian [[distinction]] between the gaze and the look. Our later
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...s being-towards-madness, reality is always reality-towards-the-Real. Every form of (symbolic-imaginary) reality exists as an impossible attempt to escape t ...by presenting its outcomes of winning and losing as if they were simply a matter of chance and sound judgement in a neutral marketplace.<br><br>
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ral truth — that crocodile tears about the "Iraqi people" are the basest form of imperial contempt … Democracy, as usual, has nothing to do with it'.<a ...seen by her as fitting all too neatly into this ideological universe as a form of 'metacynicism', 'a cynicism that protects itself from being known as cyn
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...ses Antigone's case, from this other side we can see and live life 'in the form of something already lost' (S7, 280). And perhaps even beyond Antigone - wh ...od as saying that its subjects know nothing of it - they do - but that the form of their behaviour escapes them (SO, 15). They are 'decentred' not because
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...nternet around the world. And yet at the same time what they advise is a [[form]] of inaction, a pause, a time for [[reflection]]. This would, however, not ...plit]] between form and [[content]], might we not say that on the level of form Zizek wants to see himself as an "engaged" [[intellectual]], but on the lev
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  But I shall not make of this distinction either a point or a point of departure, leaving to its own obscurity the qu ...tributed to Ferdinand de Saussure although it is not found in exactly this form in any of the numerous schemas, which none the less express it, to be found
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