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• Return to Freud
  ...oject]] of close reading, and in the process would reconstitute the theory of psychoanalysis. [[Lacan]] presented a distinctive [[interpretation|reading]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
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• Anxiety
  ...g been recognised in [[psychiatry]] as one of the most common [[symptom]]s of [[mental]] disorder. [[Psychiatric]] descriptions of [[anxiety]] generally refer to both mental phenomena (apprehension, worry)
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• Countertransference
  ...e the [[analyst]]'s "[[countertransference|unconscious feelings]]" towards the [[patient]]. Although [[Freud]] only used the term very rarely, it became much more widely used in [[psychoanalytic theor
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• Death
  The term "[[death]]" occurs in various contexts in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. ...ng]] which it [[symbolization|symbolizes]], is equivalent to the [[death]] of that [[thing]]:
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• Delusion
  ...[[paranoia]], and can range from single [[ideas]] to [[complex]] networks of [[belief]]s. ==Name-of-the-Father==
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• Dual relation
  [[Duality]] and [[dual relations]] are essential characteristics of the [[imaginary order]]. ...ular image]] (''a'' ''a''') which [[Lacan]] analyzes in his [[concept]] of the [[mirror stage]].
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• Castration complex
  ...which positions the subject as not lacking which props up the ego as being of central importance. ...[[female]] [[biology|sexual organ]]s.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Infantile Genital Organization]]." 1923. [[SE]] XIX. p. 141</ref>
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• Sinthome
  The term [[sinthome]] is, as [[Lacan]] points out, an archaic way of writing what has more recently been spelt [[symptôme]]. ...ar]]'s focus on the [[borromean knot]], and an exploration of the writings of [[James Joyce]].
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• Signifying Chain
  ...ative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a chain reaction. ...cious signifiers are woven together through [[metonymy]] and [[metaphor]], the two functions that generate signifieds.
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• Obsessional neurosis
  ...deas]]), impulses to perform actions which seem absurd and/or abhorrent to the [[subject]], and "[[rituals]]" (compulsively repeated actions such as check ...pically associated with it. Thus the [[subject]] may well exhibit none of the typical obsessional [[symptom]]s and yet still be diagnosed as an [[obsessi
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• Phobia
  ...t]] (such as an [[animal]]) or a particular [[situation]] (such as leaving the home). ...nce]] [[Anxiety]] if they [[encounter]] the phobic object or are placed in the feared situation, and develop 'avoidance strategies' so as to prevent this
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• Quaternary
  ...e of triadic schemes in his [[work]], Lacan also insists on the importance of fourfold schemes: ...duction of the [[unconscious]], always been required in the con- struction of a [[subjective]] ordering.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 774</ref></blockquote>
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• Passage to the Act
  ...clinical psychiatry]] and [[criminology]]) refers to a [[particular]] kind of [[action]] defined by its [[aggressivity|aggressive]] and [[violence|violen ...thus an exit from the [[Symbolic]] network, a [[dissolution]] of the [[social]] bond.
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• Privation
  {{Top}}lack of object|privation{{Bottom}} ===Lack of Object===
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• Signification
  In [[Lacan]]'s pre-1950s writings, the term "[[signification]]" is used in a general way to connote both [[meaning ...]] criticizes [[organicist]] [[psychiatry]] for ignoring "the significance of [[madness]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 167, 153-4</ref>
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• Order
  ===The Three Orders=== ..." or three "[[order|register]]s.") From that [[moment]] on they come to be the fundamental classification [[system]] around which all his theorizing turns
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• Preoedipal phase
  ...he [[stage]] of [[psychosexual development]] prior to the [[formation]] of the [[Oedipus complex]]. ...context of his [[discussion]] of [[female sexuality]].<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Female Sexuality]]," 1931b. [[SE]] XXI, 223.</ref>
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the '''Collège Stanislas'''.<ref>An ambitious student, he excelled in [[religi ...[[Lacan]] begins his [[treatment|clincial training]] in [[psychiatry]] at the [[Sainte-Anne hospital]], where he would later teach.
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• For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor
  ...upts in those black holes in our [[symbolic]] [[universe]] that escape the Father's [[prohibition]]. ...e]] [[nationalism]] and [[racism]]. With the lid of [[repression]] lifted, the desires that have emerged are from from democratic. To explain this [[appar
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• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)
  ...] whose [[name]] epitomises this interpretive [[pleasure]] of 'estranging' the most banal [[content]], it is Alfred [[Hitchcock]] (and - useless to deny i ...ning. Timely, provocative and original, this is sure to become a landmark of Hitchcock studies.
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