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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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