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...are not the subject of, that occur in the [[absence]] of, [[consciousness|conscious awareness, thought, attention, perception or control]]. As a ''noun'', the The "'''[[topographical model]]'''" [[divides]] the [[mind]] or [[psyche]] into [[three]] [[separate]] component parts -- or "[[scene|

...the ego is recognized as such by the [[subject]], this image becomes self-conscious. ...is simultaneously non-being and insisting to be, that is what Freud has in mind when he talks about the death instinct as being what is most fundamental: a

...pressed]] to the [[unconscious]] among [[civilized]] peoples are still a [[conscious]] peril to the uncivilized [[people]] in Frazer's studies. ...uation of [[physical]] [[acts]] whereby the [[structural]] conditions of [[mind]] are transposed onto the [[world]]: this overvaluation survives in both pr

...in the [[preconscious]] will not allow it to [[pass]] unaltered into the [[conscious]]. During dreams, the preconscious is more lax in this [[duty]] than in wak ...analysis are in [[literature]], and the book is itself as much a [[self]]-conscious attempt at [[literary]] analysis as it is a psychological study. Freud here

...he ego is recognized as such by the subject, this [[image]] becomes [[self-conscious]]. "The [[mirror stage]] is based on the rapport [relationship] between, o ...imultaneously non-being and insisting to be, that is what [[Freud]] has in mind when he talks about the death instinct as being what is most fundamental: a

...Because it is rare that wishes can actually be immediately gratified, the mind develops the capacity to delay gratification or achieve it through detours. ...the [[structural model]] used as the sole [[psychoanalytic theory]] of the mind.

...[[psychology]]. Freud is best known for his theories of the [[unconscious mind]], especially involving the [[mechanism]] of [[Psychological repression|rep ...ef> This was the starting point for Freud's [[dynamic]] psychology of the mind and its relation to the [[unconscious]].<ref name="Hall" /><ref>[http://www

...see a [[paradox]] in advocating a point of Western metaphysics with self-[[conscious]] irony. Derrida stated, "Deconstruction is not an enclosure in nothingness ...ling ruthlessly for tyranny over the quite useless and dispensable human [[mind]].

...f things-in-themselves cannot be known as being actual, only possible. The mind plays a central [[role]] in influencing the way that the world is experienc ...er [[exists]] other than [[mental]] phenomena, or ideas that appear to the mind, is a [[thing]]-[[in-itself]] and cannot be directly and immediately known.

...with the body prior to its symbolization, but it is important to keep in [[mind]] here that the real is the need that [[drives]] hunger not the object that ...arlier phase of development. A memory, for example, is fixed in a person's mind causing them intense [[mental]] [[disturbance]] and [[suffering]] and no ma

...ith ideology which SEEMS to dominate. More then ever, one should bear in [[mind]] Walter [[Benjamin]]'s reminder that it is not enough to ask how a certain ...he philosophical notion of matter as [[reality]] existing independently of mind precludes any [[intervention]] of [[philosophy]] into [[sciences]], the ver

...ce of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Mind embodied inthe World Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: d ...t inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison of your mind."

...eative rewriting of the [[narrative]] of our past. What John Gray has in [[mind]] is not only the standard cognitive [[therapy]] of changing [[negative]] f ...ch is this grounding of feminism in the pre-Cartesian tradition. I have in mind here the claims that the Cartesian modern-age subject is a [[male]] chauvin

...tivity]] itself: a typical bourgeois [[subject]] is, in [[terms]] of his [[conscious]] attitude, an utilitarian nominalist — it is in his social activity, in ...ess that the Other regulates the process in which I participate, sets my [[mind]] free to roam, since I know I am not involved. The Foucauldian motif of th

...ard of an ordinary west European civilised country . . . We must bear in [[mind]] the semi-Asiatic [[ignorance]] from which we have not yet extricated ours ...the other ex-Yugoslav nations were too provincial to do so. This brings to mind Engels's dismissal of the small [[Balkan]] nations as reactionary relics.

...wage with inclinations and in which, after some defeats, moral strength of mind may be gradually won, God and eternity in their awful majesty would stand u ...l's starting point is the fact that the fundamental structure of the human mind is self-reflective: a human being does not simply act, it (can) act(s) upon

...s [[being]] beaten," in which the middle [[fantasy]] [[scene]] was never [[conscious]] and has to be reconstructed as the [[missing]] link between the first and ...atrical staging, a kind of tableau vivant, which cannot but bring to our [[mind]] the [[whole]] scope of American performance art and "theatre of [[cruelty

...As Bice Benvenuto has remarked, surrealism's overturning of the place of [[conscious]] [[reason]], its questioning of the reality of the [[object]], its cultiva ...the liberation, in art and in life, of the resources of the unconscious [[mind]]. The surrealists' spiritual ancestors were de [[Sade]], Baudelaire, Rimba

...exist, is necessarily true, everytime I express it or conceive of it in my mind. (1968 [1642]: 103) ...ous mind. He famously used the image of an iceberg to illustrate the human mind, in the sense that only a fraction of an iceberg is immediately visible and

...w Agers see how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web. Or the series is a baroque illustration o ...ld. You don’t know what it is. But it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad.” Yet toward the end of the first film, Smith, the [[agen

...ce of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Mind embodied inthe World Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: d ...t inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison of your mind."<br><br>

is the spirit [[unconscious]] of itself and spirit nature [[conscious]] of itself. The ultimate motif 'synthetic' [[activity]] of the conscious ego; 'unconscious' in its most radical [[dimension]] is

...h the forms of stoicism, skepticism, and finally phrenology, for which the mind's [[being]] in the [[world]] is literally a bone (the phrenologist Franz Jo ...er of his pupils) was, at heart, Kantian and held that the [[contents]] of conscious thought are shaped by rule-governed judgments that engage the subject with

...<i>the self-destruction of [[reason]]</i>. The only [[thing]] to bear in [[mind]] is that this new barbarism is a strictly [[postmodern]] phenomenon, the o ...on. Hegel's point is <i>not</i> that, in contrast to the vulgar empiricist mind that sees only urination, the proper speculative attitude has to choose ins

</p></dd><dd>Is this work a form of [[witness]]? A [[conscious]] or unconscious witness? Don't think in [[terms]] of the [[psychoanalytic] </p></dd><dd>It takes a crude [[mind]] to assume that the treatises are simply there to make the [[erotic]] pass

...se pregenital erogenous zones remains [[present]] in the body and in the [[mind]] and they tend to be reactivated on the occasion of later sexual experienc ...e attachments of infantile sexuality can, depending on the case, result in conscious formations (daydreaming, for example) or, on the contrary, formations that

...ess without this necessarily implying that what has been repressed becomes conscious: The repressed returns, but often remains unrecognizable. Such returns of t ...by pathological [[processes]] which overtake the [[other]] part [of the [[mind]]], what we call the ego, or by a different distribution of the cathectic e

...and [[thinking]]. "Symbolic power" transcends and permeates through all [[conscious]] thinking. ...cal life; he characterized it as both the [[totality]] of the personality, conscious and [[unconscious]], and the [[process]] of becoming of the [[whole]] [[per

...ciousness]] and attempting to hold or subdue [[them]] in the [[Unconscious mind|subconscious]]. Since the popularization of [[Sigmund Freud]]'s [[work]] in ...or a [[slip]] of the tongue. In this way, although the [[subject]] is not conscious of the desire and so cannot [[speak]] it out loud, the subject's [[body]] c

...is the important motive for this process. On the contrary, there is the [[conscious]] [[secondary process]], to which strong boundaries are set, and in which t ...sychology)|Displacement]]. An unconscious defense mechanism, whereby the [[mind]] redirects [[emotion]] from a ‘dangerous’ object to a ‘safe’ objec

...rather, only what is actively [[psychological repression|repressed]] from conscious [[thought]]. ...es or desires, [[traumatic]] [[memories]], and painful emotions put out of mind by the [[mechanism]] of [[psychological repression]]. However, the [[conten

...dynamics]] is the study of the interrelationship of various parts of the [[mind]], [[personality]], or [[psyche]] as they relate to [[mental]], emotional, ...er remain buried in the mind or find their way to the surface, i.e. the “conscious” level. This, in the former [[case]], results in [[psychological]] state

...er is [[present]] for the time [[being]] on the surface of the patient's [[mind]]" (p. 147)—though this does not prevent him from deploying metaphors of ...rything in the way of pathogenic instincts that is hidden in the patient's mind" (1914g, p. 154), where everything is accessible to the analyst's [[interpr

...d on an elaboration of [[Freud]]'s [[structure|structural model]] of the [[mind]], which focuses almost entirely on the function of the [[ego]] in mediatin ...cused on ways of strengthening the defence mechanisms of the [[conscious]] mind rather than the [[unconscious]] motivation of our actions, as in classical

...ce|scientific]] breakthroughs seem to bring further [[humiliation]]: the [[mind]] is merely a [[machine]] for data-processing, our [[sense]] of [[freedom]] ...ism|cognitivist]]-[[neurobiology|neurobiologist]] model of the [[human]] [[mind]] has superseded the [[Freudian]] [[model]]; it is outdated in the [[psychi

...hat the articulation of psychic or [[mental]] [[content]] implicates the [[conscious]] subject and that the deterministic or [[biologically]] driven Freudian un ...port associationist holism into this, then we see that the contents of the mind are radically subject to revision as long as they can be accessed in a suff

In [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]'s [[theory]] of the [[mind]], the [[mind|psychical apparatus]] was differentiated into a [[number]] of systems of "[ ...phy]]" - distinguishes between the [[unconscious]], [[preconscious]] and [[conscious]], while the "[[second topography]]", dating from [[{{Y}}|1923]], different

...ists": the self-destruction of [[reason]]. The only [[thing]] to bear in [[mind]] is that this new barbarism is a strictly [[postmodern]] phenomenon, the o ...urination. Hegel's point is not that, in contrast to the vulgar empiricist mind that sees only urination, the proper speculative attitude has to choose ins

...er is [[present]] for the time [[being]] on the surface of the patient's [[mind]]" (p. 147)—though this does not prevent him from deploying metaphors of ...rything in the way of pathogenic instincts that is hidden in the patient's mind" (1914g, p. 154), where everything is accessible to the analyst's [[interpr

...[[society]] in which they are used. They are not disguised, and they serve conscious [[communication]]. ...sed by and from the [[individual]] who uses [[them]] and may not serve any conscious or intended [[internal]] or [[external]] communication. The [[meanings]] of

...ences, and [[feelings]] that can't or won't easily move into the conscious mind. Items may come to this repository because of [[trauma]] or for any number ...inaccessible. Though small in comparison to the unconscious, the conscious mind is still essential and important for adaptive functioning.

...iceberg to visualize the contrast between the conscious and unconscious [[mind]].

...hts, wishes, fantasies, conflicts, and motivations held in the unconscious mind can flow into consciousness without censorship. Free association often lead ...to internal conflicts such as this case also led him to determine that the mind was divided into three conflicting, now known as id, ego, and superego. So,

...he [[idea]] that communication is a transferral of [[concepts]] from one [[mind]] to another, an [[exchange]] of tokens which already have their meaning cl ...influence of the pleasure [[principle]], to make false connections.4 The (conscious) ego is associated with distortion and gloss ('to extenuate, to give a favo

..."Copernican [[revolution]]" that still left man conceiving of himself as a conscious subject, i.e., in the [[sense]] of the [[Cartesian]] [[cogito]]. ...nd insists on interfering in the breaks offered it by the effective [i.e., conscious] [[discourse]] and the cogitation that it informs" (1977, p. 297/799). Here

[[conscious]] in the subject's speech is to gain some appreciation of the fundamental [ ground chains of signifiers that operate on the level of conscious

...ruled by [[knowledge]] and [[perversion]], its petty heart and massive "[[mind]]" (sublime [[memory]]), is occupied by a [[subject]]-[[essence]], [[objet] ...of this that the communist regime was so vulnerable. I'm even changing my mind [[retroactively]] and beginning, in a way, to appreciate this obsession wit

With this in [[mind]], it is perhaps less surprising that Žižek expends most of his labour on ...In other words, as Žižek deftly phrases it: 'God himself was "out of his mind"' (TAOF: 11). He has to risk madness before He can exist. It is this lunacy

...ts and lends [[them]] artistic expression instead of suppressing them by [[conscious]] criticism. Thus he experiences from himself what we [[[psychoanalysts]]]

...ed gradually, being linked with the general [[development]] of the human [[mind]] in its [[relationship]] to itself and the [[outside]] [[world]]. ...[Descartes]]'s [[insistence]] on the primacy of consciousness in the human mind. In the nineteenth century, after Georg Wilhelm Friedrich [[Hegel]]'s [[wor

...nd thus the task of making [[conscious]] the most hidden recesses of the [[mind]] is one which it is quite possible to accomplish" (1905e, p. 78). ...is unusual. According to Freud: "the therapeutic effect depends on making conscious what is repressed, in the widest [[sense]] of the [[word]], in the id" (193

...ared in his writings with an [[anal]] connotation whenever it brought to [[mind]] "foul [[words]], those secrets we all [[know]], knowledge of which we for ...s in [[Legal]] Proceedings," (1906c), Freud distinguished the criminal's [[conscious]] secret from the [[unconscious]] secret of the [[hysteric]]. In "[[Infanti

...nd thus the task of making [[conscious]] the most hidden recesses of the [[mind]] is one which it is quite possible to accomplish" (1905e, p. 78). ...is unusual. According to Freud: "the therapeutic effect depends on making conscious what is repressed, in the widest [[sense]] of the [[word]], in the id" (193

...In his view, the "archaic heritage forms the nucleus of the unconscious [[mind]]" (1919e, p. 204), the equivalent of [[instincts]] in animals in that it i ...otional logic (Isaacs). At this level, there is no differentiation between mind and [[body]], since overall primitive experience and the corporeal [[schema

...] suspected of [[being]], at least in part, [[illusory]]. The fact is that conscious memories or recollections may conceal [[unconscious]] ones, even if the ego ...onscious memory strives to become conscious once more, for ontically it is conscious. The notion of unconscious memories prefigures that of the unconscious, as

...y conversation, reject the incidental [[thoughts]] that cross his or her [[mind]]. The [[idea]] is to lift the [[censorship]] so that the products of [[unc ...e was subsequently pared down by Freud to: "Say whatever goes through your mind" (1913c, p. 135). Thus, the patient's "[[choice]]" of a topic was no longer

...includes within itself the smaller circle of the [[conscious]]; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may st ...orm]] a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in [[mind]] what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the sou

# ideas that are held back from consciousness are [[about]] to become [[conscious]]--i.e., [[preconscious]] vicissitude of affect, which include the followin ...Freud’s work concerns the unconscious [[mind]], which is the part of our mind which we are not aware of. Freud believed that the unconscious contains unr

...bance]], a shortcoming, and give in to the [[associations]] that come to [[mind]]. ...mories]], [[ideas]], and [[words]] similar to the name. These bring to his mind [[other]] paintings with the sensory acuity typical of a [[screen]] memory

...with an image of the self. According to Freud's second [[model]] of the [[mind]] - what is usually referred to as the '[[topographical]]' model (see Thurs ...go. As we saw above, Freud defined the ego as the reasoning faculty of the mind, mediating between unconscious passions and [[external reality]]. By extend

...'', or "the I." One of the [[three]] [[structures]] (components) of the [[mind]] ([[psyche]]) as conceived by psychoanalysis. Obeys the "[[reality]] [[pri ...[[das Es]]'', or "the It." One of the three structures (components) of the mind (psyche) in psychoanalysis, it is [[responsible]] for [[instinctual]] urges

...e [[wish]] which lies at its origin, without offending the [[conscious]] [[mind]]. Representations in dreams are constructed in the two phases of this tran

...is most [[recent]] work he calls for reader-response criticism to become [[conscious]] of such unacknowledged presuppositions by learning from questions raised ...Norman O. Brown, Apocalypse: The [[Place]] of Mystery in the Life of the [[Mind]] Harper’s May, (1961); Norman O. Brown, Closing Time, (1973); Norman O.

...nition]] of the promise as such, is often not at issue (Austin 117). The [[conscious]] and unconscious intentions and effects that attend illocutionary acts are ...95; Ellen Spolsky, Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind, (1993); Jurij Striedter, Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value: Russian

...[[symptoms]] all provided [[material]] for [[Freud]]'s [[model]] of the [[mind]]. It was on this seemingly trivial foundation - that the [[unconscious]] c ...dream is presented in the form of a [[verbal]] account. The [[conscious]] mind prefers to put the [[irrational]] dream-sequence into recognisable and fami

...eory]]. I will discuss the different ways Freud considered the [[human]] [[mind]], the [[concept]] of [[repression]], the [[Oedipus]] [[complex]]; [[dreams ...ects of the whole. All three are evidence of Freud's attempt to derive the mind from the [[body]].3

the importance of thought, of the [[conscious]]. The [[Cartesian]] subject ...s finds (in one [[place]] or [[another]]) a fixed point, which gives the [[mind]] repose and makes [[truth]] into a [[stable]] [[relationship]]: with the k

.... The [[fear]] of a wild or domestic [[animal]] appears in the conscious [[mind]] as the repercussion of a [[traumatic]] [[event]], associated with a [[con Desexualization can thus be viewed as a conscious mental [[process]] that leaves [[repressed]] sexualization intact in the un

...e [[wish]] which lies at its origin, without offending the [[conscious]] [[mind]]. Representations in dreams are constructed in the two phases of this tran

...ts and lends [[them]] artistic expression instead of suppressing them by [[conscious]] criticism. Thus he experiences from himself what we [[[psychoanalysts]]]

...e to express what she preferred to avoid talking [[about]] when normally [[conscious]]. Later on, Anna O. began inventing stories around a [[word]] or [[words]] ...aterial]], but asked only that they verbalize what spontaneously came to [[mind]].

...[[psyche]] understandable, helps us to picture the [[structure]] of the [[mind]] or [[psyche]]. According to the [[Freud]]'s first "[[topographical model]]", the [[mind]] or [[psyche]]

...when an actor forgets his lines and so blurts out anything that comes to [[mind]], there's [[nothing]] [[unconscious|Freudian]] [[about]] it.<small>'''6 Se

...ntention]] to say some [[particular]] [[thing]] had formed itself in the [[mind]] of the person who made the slip. We can infer it with [[certainty]] from ...ts which we did not intend to express, and of whose incitement we became [[conscious]] only through the disturbance. In both modes of origin of the mistake in s

...c behaviors or decisions that may not be acceptable to the [[conscious]] [[mind]].

...with the body prior to its symbolization, but it is important to keep in [[mind]] here that the real is the need that [[drives]] hunger not the object that ...arlier phase of development. A memory, for example, is fixed in a person's mind causing them intense [[mental]] [[disturbance]] and [[suffering]] and no ma

...is]], with its emphasis on the imposition of formal elements beyond the "[[conscious]]" [[control]] of the [[subject]]. ...ated the mistakes of a grandparent. ([[The symbolic]] operates beyond the conscious control or [[understanding]] of the plays involved.)

...simultaneously non-being and insisting to be, that is what Freud has in [[mind]] when he talks [[about]] the [[death instinct]] as being what is most fund

In order to throw some light on this impasse, one should bear in mind that Badiou's triad Being-World-Event functions in the same way as Kierkega ...]The passage from the Two to Three is crucial here, and one should bear in mind all its Platonic, properly meta-physical, thrust in the direction of what,

...[subjectivity]] in its ability to perform intentional [[acts]], to realize conscious goals; then, paradoxically, the human subject is at its most fundamental a ...aiming that every conscious act of mine can be potentially rendered [[self-conscious]]: if I want, I always can turn my attention to what I am doing. This, howe

...of general ontology which aims at grasping the Whole of reality: when our mind tries to do this, it inevitably gets caught into antinomies; Hegel then clo The feature we should bear in mind is that a transcendental number cannot be constructed by means of algebraic

...n a body or vice versa? Since the two causal networks (that of ideas in my mind and that of bodily interconnections) are totally independent, the only solu ...rix'' trilogy: much more than Berkeley's God who sustains the world in his mind, the ''ultimate'' Matrix is Malebranche's occasionalist God.

...straight and bent, the two properties are incompatible; but we can in our mind entertain two incompatible ideas about an object, this is just deontically ...als with entities which exist only insofar as they are not adequately self-conscious or "for themselves": for Freud (at least in the early phase of his work), a

...ror, we should … always begin with a truth."<u>24</u> De Maistre had in mind how even the most cruel sacrificial rituals of pagan religion implicitly ha This, perhaps, is what Nietzsche had in mind when he insisted that the Will was unconditional, a matter of willing it al

...lts into air," acquires a much more literal meaning than the one he had in mind, when our material social reality is not only dominated by the spectral or ...sent, or in the form of a Divinity too sublime to be grasped by our finite mind. In other words, the point of Pippin's rehabilitation of art is not that th

...enthusiasm and sexiness. Nevertheless, behind it all, a cruel and selfish mind can be sensed. As long as he expects narcissistic gain from us, he is full ...gly, the Ego is no longer only a rational element representing reality and conscious control, etc. over the obscure subconscious instincts; it is a very likely

# the ''cognitivist ''rejection of Descartes's privileging of rational mind over emotions (see Antonio Damasio's ''Descartes's Error''), as well as his ...e masculine mind deals with clear and distinct thought, while the feminine mind is under the swell of confused sensual impressions and affects).

...tualized. It is blunt foreclo­sure that voids those acts and objects from conscious representation. ...reats: the catastrophe that is the emergence of subjectivity, of the human mind, out of nature? The exclusion of the Real of ''this ''catastrophe (what Fre