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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...which function according to the [[logic]] of the "primordial father" from "totalitarian" [[political]] leaders to the paternal [[sexual]] harasser. But why? When t ...om the paternal figure of the [[leader]] is precisely this gap between the leader in the immediacy of his [[personality]] and the symbolic place he occupies,
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  Such paradoxes also provide the key to the way in which the liberal-totalitarian emergency represented by the 'war on terror' relates to the authentic revol ...ic' leader externally imposed on a people. Whenever Afghanistan's 'interim leader' appears in our media, he wears clothes that cannot but appear as an attrac
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• Stalinism
  ...s nothing higher than the title of member of the Party whose founder and [[leader]] was Comrade Lenin. It is not given to everyone to be a member of such a p ..., Anastas Mikoyan flew to Budapest to inform the Hungarian ultra-Stalinist leader Matyas Rakosi of the Moscow's decision to depose him, he told Rakosi: "The
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...spenses us with the boring topic of the alleged "deeper ([[totalitarianism|totalitarian]], of course) [[solidarity]]" between the extreme [[Right]] and the "extrem ...pular movement <i>[[needs]]</i> the identificatory figure of a charismatic leader. The limitation of Chavez lies elsewhere, in the very factor which enables
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• Politics and Psychoanalysis
  ...and the Analysis of the Ego</i> (1921c), which dismantles the concepts of leader, crowd, and power, can be seen as the foundation of all political psychoana ...drives]] and the [[unconscious]], which various [[ideologies]], especially totalitarian, have been able to exploit.
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• Politics and psychoanalysis
  ...he [[Analysis]] of the Ego</i> (1921c), which dismantles the concepts of [[leader]], crowd, and [[power]], can be seen as the foundation of all political psy ...f [[drives]] and the unconscious, which various [[ideologies]], especially totalitarian, have been able to exploit. The triptych of the sexual drive, the [[death]]
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...ry & Alain Renault in France) and other defenders of human rights AGAINST (totalitarian, fundamentalist) terror. Or it can retain the conjunction "humanism AND ter ...eread the rhetorical turn often referred to as the proof of Robespierre's "totalitarian" manipulation of his audience.<ref>See the detailed analysis in Claude Lefo
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...ectual through democratic political reformer and Muslim fundamentalist war leader up to respected professor of philosophy, his entire career marked by the st ...e chief organizing the search for the anarchist leader and this mysterious leader at the end appear to be one and the same person (God himself, incidentally)
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...y the [[ideal]] candidate for hegemonic ideology, since it echoes the anti-totalitarian post-political distrust of large collective acts. This distrust unites reli ...e very attempt by its leading circle to protect the [[ignorance]] of the [[Leader]], to keep his gaze happy.<br /><br /> Is this not what, ultimately, cultur
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• A Letter Which Did Not Reach its Destination (and thereby saved the world)
  ...t my country die for me." It is significant to note that, in spite of the "totalitarian" [[character]] of the Soviet [[regime]], THIS fear was much more predominan ...riarchal, i.e., that it implies the radical disjunction between Father and Leader:
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...en the obligatory applause explodes at the end of the leader's speech, the leader stands up and joins [[others]] in applauding. <ref>The mutual [[fascination ...as well as the notion that the Communist [[project]] is, in its very core, totalitarian. In the [[third]] volume of his supreme biography of Trotsky, [[Isaac]] Deu
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Seven Variations On The Century
  ...ation to sex. The rest is nothing but archaic abstraction, and very likely totalitarian. What is modern    is the generalisation, as Ego-ideals, of the three re ..., to give disparate sequences a unique name, such as the great proletarian leader or the great founder of artistic modernity, names that in fact are taken fr
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/lacan-as-a-reader-of-hegel.html
  ...option of intelligent economic policies. Likewise, for Understanding, the "totalitarian" character of the communist regimes of the twentieth century appears as a r ...eans possible, including the physical removal, murder if necessary, of the totalitarian leadership?" "Yes, so you can see how, if the accused were innocent, they d
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/the-structure-of-domination-today-a-lacanian-view.html
  ...his Other to become aware of how he was experiencing another subject as a Leader only because he was treating him as one. – It should be clear, from this ...ntain the gap between S1 and S2: if this gap gets obliterated, we get the 'totalitarian' bureaucracy as S2.
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/the-superego-and-the-act.html
  ...eel, just go there and behave properly. Do your duty." A modern permissive totalitarian father will tell you something else: "You know how much your grandmother wo ...with the duty to enjoy yourself. Maybe we can in this way distinguish the totalitarian from the liberal-permissive superego. In both cases, the message is "You ma
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