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• The Subject
  What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? ...cious]] ‘i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expelled from itself.
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• Real2
  ...). Approachable only asymptotically, the real is most often defined by way of paradoxes; it ...o [[madness]]. In all its modes, it successfully resists the intercessions of [[language]]. (Bowie 110)
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• Metonymy
  ...rally refer to, but with which it is closely linked. This link may be one of [[physical]] contiguity, but not necessarily. ...[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. "Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disturbances," ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''[[Word]] and Langu
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• Seminar III
  ...losure]]'''. By way of [[foreclosure]] of the [[signifier]] of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] it is possible to [[understand]] [[psychosis]] and distinguish ...paternal function]]: the [[paternal function]] is reduced to the [[image]] of the [[father]] (the [[symbolic]] reduced to the [[imaginary]]).
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...126). In general, most psychoanalysts would agree. The immediate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that p
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• Psychiatry
  ...arious forms) and [[treatment]] of mental [[illness]]. Given the advantage of the preliminary medical [[training]] as well as further specialist training ==[[Practice]] of psychiatry==
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• Semiotics
  ...a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. The [[subject]] was originally spelled '''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]
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• Eros
  ...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). ...ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi
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• Roland Barthes
  ...riette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], learning p ...l for teaching positions, Barthes later professed an intentional avoidance of major degree-awarding universities throughout his career.
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).
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• Deconstruction
  ...ught]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to defi ===The problems of definition===
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• German Idealism
  ...losely linked both with [[romanticism]] and the revolutionary [[politics]] of the [[Enlightenment]]. The most well-known thinkers in the movement were [[ == Meaning of "Idealism" ==
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...s of all [[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...tibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional romance.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is a major [[concept]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  The One Measure of True Love is: You Can Insult the Other ...pact of cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="Net
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...proclaimed ideals, when you [[encounter]] a person who claims he is cured of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you sho ...fer to the inherited ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, comin
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