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...hat Lenin had [[analyzed]] the [[Paris Commune]] and had concluded that it failed due to "excessive generosity-it should have exterminated its enemies." (The After a failed workers' rising in July, Lenin fled to Finland for safety. He returned in O

...ourse, and in the [[desire]] to have a [[child]] (since the [[father]] has failed to provide her with a [[child]], the [[woman]] turns to [[another]] [[man]]

:This probably won't be that helpful, but if you failed [[English]] [[class]], this is for you.

...tion: that of Clérambault. It was because of their differences that Lacan failed his ''agrégation''. At that [[time]] Lacan declares that in his thesis he

While he saw himself as a [[scientist]], yet failed to employ any aspect of the scientific method, he greatly admired [[Theodor

..., they say, meaning and authorial intent exist, but Western philosophy has failed to locate them outside the realm of texts. If one tries through metaphysics ...of knowledge is possible, but that Western philosophy and metaphysics have failed to prove a reliable source of it. All Western writers have done is to point

...rked Hitchcock's first film as a producer as well as director. As Selznick failed to see [[The Subject|the subject]]'s potential, he allowed Hitchcock to mak

...a transvestite. Repulsed, Fergus pushes her away and throws up. After this failed sexual [[encounter]] their relationship is reversed and Dil becomes obsessi

...ept the gap between unconditional injunction and the always [[contingent]] failed interventions that you make.

...nin himself." To repeat Lenin is to repeat not what Lenin DID, but what he FAILED TO DO, his MISSED opportunities. Today, Lenin appears as a figure from a di

Another way in which the Left miserably failed is that, in the weeks after the bombing, it reverted to the old mantra "Giv

...ioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan reinscribe the original teachin ...ion - in a way, it would "do the [[impossible]]." No wonder, than, that it failed: its failure - perhaps the only significant, although [[negative]], [[event

...ut it in this way: Of course the system couldn't fulfill its promises, but failed on its own terms in the sense that it raised certain promises by presenting

...re, go there, use this fragment, that story or scene. My books are already failed CD-ROMs, as someone told me. But because of copyright, it is extremely diff

...ic colonization. Perhaps, however, this double disappointment, this double failed [[encounter]] between ex-Communist [[dissidents]] and Western liberal [[dem

...that his girlfriend would not have [[left]] him, or that he would not have failed the crucial exam; yet whatever we do, the outcome is the same, so even God

...ace, the soldier began to masturbate in front of all of us but, of course, failed to produce an erection; the doctor then took one of the postcards of half-n

...authentic solidarity-a negative gesture that counted more than its later, failed positivization did.

...sm and Communism is that Communism was perceived as an [[Idea]] which then failed in its realization, while capitalism functioned "spontaneously". There is n

...enin himself." To repeat Lenin is to repeat not what Lenin did but what he failed to do, his missed opportunities.

...in a way, it would “do the [[impossible]].” No wonder, then, that it failed: its failure — perhaps the only significant, although [[negative]], [[eve

...tive [[role]] as general secretary, dismissing him as a mere manager: they failed to appreciate the power that went with the post. When, in 1922, Lenin submi

...is to accept that Lenin is dead, that his particular solution failed, even failed monstrously, but that there was a utopian spark in it worth saving. To repe To repeat Lenin is to repeat not what Lenin did, but what he failed to do, his missed opportunities. Today, Lenin appears as a figure from a di

...his or her allotted symbolic [[place]] - is always ultimately incomplete, failed. "Does such resistance do anything," asks Butler, "to alter or expand the d ...ject, but not in the sense that because of that [[division]] act is always failed or displaced. On the contrary, act as traumatic tuche is that which [[divid

...s radicality, as the priority of the inherent antagonism over the multiple/failed reflection of the transcendent/impossible Thing.<br><br> ...class antagonism of a society? All particular forms of State are so many (failed) attempts to propose a solution for this problem.<br><br>

...ng to an old [[Marxist]] insight, every rise of [[Fascism]] is a sign of a failed [[revolution]] - no wonder, then, that Kansas is also the state of [[John B

...Jews in Palestina to outnumber the Arabs as fast as possible. (The visit failed because, due to some violent unrests, the British blocked the access to Pal

...point is reached in <i>Cosi fan tutte</i>, the only Mozart's opera with a failed finale; however, far from condemning this failure, one should perceive it, ...by mercy all the time: if Master has to show mercy, it means that the law failed, that the [[legal]] state machinery is not able to run on its own and [[nee

...ct the Left is desperately looking for. No wonder, then, that it miserably failed - and this failure provides a nice case for a simple Marxist analysis: the

...by Gus van Sant's Psycho which, paradoxically, I am inclined to consider a failed masterpiece, rather than a simple failure. The idea of the exact frame by f

It is here that the Frankfurt [[School]] miserably failed: what cannot but strike the eye is the almost [[total]] [[absence]] of the

...s of wintry Venice when... We have here a crime novel with no murder, just failed attempts at it: there is no clear resolution at the novel's end - except, p

...that a [[present]] [[revolution]]ary [[intervention]] [[repeats]]/redeems failed attempts in the past. These attempts count as ‘[[symptom]]s’, and can <blockquote>[[Symptom]]s [[register]] not only past [[failed]] [[revolutionary]] attempts but, more modestly, past <em>failures to respo

...linism]]. It is, in this respect, a scandal that the [[Frankfurt School]] failed to produce a systematic and thorough analysis of the phenomenon. The excep

...e standard 'pragmatic' solutions to the Middle East crisis have repeatedly failed, so that a [[utopian]] invention of a new [[space]] is the only 'realistic'

...kably go back to one or more strong impressions of this early period. They failed to be disposed of normally, so that one feels inclined to say that if this

...st, grounded in capitalistrelations; and 'actually existing [[Socialism]]' failed because it was ultimately a subspecies of capitalism, an [[ideological]] at

...e experts: Their self-criticism was that of the teacher who admits that he failed to properly educate his pupils.

...s radicality, as the priority of the inherent antagonism over the multiple/failed reflection of the transcendent/impossible Thing.<br><br>

...ency to [[paranoia]] by trying to reinstate the [[memory]] of the scene. I failed in this. . . . She wished not to reminded of it and consequently intentiona

...e experts: Their self-criticism was that of the teacher who admits that he failed to properly educate his pupils.

...e [[Pope]] failed. In spite of his [[public]] pronouncements of worry, he failed to confront the roots and consequences of the pedophilic scandals. Under h

...pragmatic” solutions to the “[[Middle East]] crisis” have repeatedly failed, which suggests that a [[utopian]] invention of a radical new [[space]] may

...in a way, it aimed to “do the [[impossible]].” No wonder then that it failed. Its failure—perhaps the only significant, although [[negative]], [[event

...is easy to see why, in contrast to the triumph of the TV reality shows, it failed: the attempt to "let [[life]] itself write the story" ended up in a mass of

...perty]], setting the way for a kind of radical people's capitalism. But it failed. But maybe this is one option. Another option to pursue. Robin Blackburn pu

...ioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan reinscribe the original teachin ...ion - in a way, it would "do the [[impossible]]." No wonder, than, that it failed: its failure - perhaps the only significant, although [[negative]], [[event

Meanwhile, the failed 'real Socialist' venture has left another legacy in Europe. There, the idea

...g unbearable [[pain]] - is there anything more tragic than such a scene of failed [[self]]-erasure, when we are reduced to the [[obscene]] slime which, again ...dle as the path to his salvation; significantly, at the end, when, after a failed attempt, he does reach the other border of the pool, he collapses in [[deat

...contraction. And my [[interpretation]] focuses on why Schelling repeatedly failed of the impotent God who failed in His [[work]] of creation, i.e., to refer yet again to [[Hegel]],

...authentic solidarity-a negative gesture that counted more than its later, failed positivization did.

...re, go there, use this fragment, that story or scene. My books are already failed CD-ROMs, as someone told me. But because of copyright, it is extremely diff

...sm and Communism is that Communism was perceived as an [[Idea]] which then failed in its realization, while capitalism functioned "spontaneously". There is n

are already failed CD-ROMs, as someone told me. But because of copyright, it is

...his or her allotted symbolic [[place]] - is always ultimately incomplete, failed. "Does such resistance do anything," asks Butler, "to alter or expand the d ...ject, but not in the sense that because of that [[division]] act is always failed or displaced. On the contrary, act as traumatic tuche is that which [[divid

...ioned in itself as initiatic Wisdom; it was Lacan who succeeded where Jung failed.) So, in the same way [[St Paul]] and Lacan reinscribe the original teachin ...ion - in a way, it would "do the [[impossible]]." No wonder, than, that it failed: its failure - perhaps the only significant, although [[negative]], [[event

...ower and authority. Blinded as it was by its economic determinism, Marxism failed to see power and authority as phenomena that were irreducible to economic f

...then it never arrives. No! You must <i>do</i> it, it is only through these failed precocious attempts that the right [[moment]] arrives." So, significant cha

...ia, titled <em>[[NATO]] as the [[Left]] Hand of God?</em>, Zizek has never failed to stimulate thinking. And what more can we ask of an [[intellectual]]? As ...ey tried to change their [[image]] (to put it in marketing terms) and they failed.</p>

...s at least) around a fundamental fantasy - the crying of the lambs and the failed attempt to rescue one of them. The point is that Starling makes sense of he

...e it its 'definitive contours' (TK, 78), when so many others had tried and failed before him? What is it that he did to ensure that [[Christ]]'s [[Word]] end

...he phenomenon as resulting from thermal [[convection]] currents, though he failed to provide an experimental demonstration of his contention. Einstein concu

...ic studies were interrupted by [[marriage]] and [[children]]. Her marriage failed. Her son died. Her daughter, well-known [[psychoanalyst]] Melitta Schmidebe

...r the contradiction between the "undeconstructible" pure Otherness and its failed actualizations/determinations, but the thoroughly immanent "contradiction" ...lass]] antagonism of a society? All particular forms of state are so many (failed) attempts to propose a solution for this problem. </p>

...perty]], setting the way for a kind of radical people's capitalism. But it failed. But maybe this is one option.

...eological superstructure to their full political rights, has none the less failed to give birth to an ^esperanto in which the relations of language to social

...the believers themselves, who, whether [[Jews]] or Christians, have never failed to [[cause]] Spinoza trouble.<br>

...ck of systematicity - not the failure of a method, but the [[choice]] of a failed method. The so- called [[scientific]] objectivity that is exhibited in book

perience shows us that all such meddlings have failed.<br><br> principle of immutability. This is because I failed to distinguish<br>

..." and "action" appear frequently in his writings, whether he is discussing failed [[acts]], compulsive acts, [[symptoms]], [[repetitive]] acts (1914g), the s

...his starting-point. With this aspect of the real, the meeting is always a failed one, because it contains no signifier. In the course of his teaching, Lacan

...nd his [[life]]." But he did not see this as a new beginning. Moreover, he failed to make use of [[another]] theory that was crucial as far as Freud was conc

...the defensive [[process]] by which a symptom—but also, more generally, a failed act, [[slip]] of the tongue, or drea—is produced. The result of this proc

5. The failed policy of seeking integration into the IPA had been implemented by three

...s brain really DOES NOT SMELL. Therein resides the ultimate lesson of this failed film: that, in spite of the opposite misleading impressions, the Hollywood

...ntified]] during its [[development]]. He thought that an [[analysis]] had failed if it ended with the [[analysand]] [[identification|identifying]] with the

...ical]] [[philosophy]]. Deemed a dissident in ex-Yugoslavia, Žižek nearly failed the [[defence]] of his [[doctoral dissertation]] because it was [[thought]]

...nication" thesis (the French and Dutch NO means that the Enlightened elite failed to [[communicate]] properly with the masses) fail to see is that, on the co

...f [[Žižek]]'s theory, then, the [[spectre]] of [[ideology]] conceals the failed [[Symbolization]] of the [[antagonism]] of [[class struggle]] in the [[Real

...r the contradiction between the "undeconstructible" pure Otherness and its failed actualizations/ determinations, but the thoroughly immanent "contradiction" ...lass]] antagonism of a society? All particular forms of state are so many (failed) attempts to propose a solution for this problem.

What Freud failed to emphasize sufficiently, however, was the anesthetic effect of cocaine on

...tions. Also embedded in her disclosures was a homosexual theme which Freud failed to fully appreciate, in large part because he had not yet discovered how ho

...it has identified during its development. He thought that an analysis had failed if it ended with the analysand (I prefer to use this term rath~r than the w

...the scenario of the classic oedipal stereotype on the imaginary level and failed utterly to appreciate the symbolic [[significance]] of castration. In any c

...tion of Lacan anywhere. The author succeeds where almost everyone else has failed. Highly readable and entertaining." |Peter Fonagy||Professor of Psychoanaly

...rpellation is precisely what makes it possible. It is in the place of this failed interpellation that ideological [[fantasies]] emerge, to fill out this gap. ...d of traumatic impossibility? If we recognize our culture as an ultimately failed attempt to symbolize some antagonism, some real deadlock, this allows us to

Žižek interprets this recursive deadlock, this rotary motion, as failed attempts to Begin, as so many false starts. It is a vicious circle in which

...eory]], achieved wide publicity, while Eissler's refutation of the charges failed to be given due weight. Some [[other]] criticisms of Freud sprang from misu

...ith the [[loss]] of an [[object]], it could (therefore) be the result of a failed [[process]] of [[mourning]] . . . The phantom of popular [[belief]] merely

...ening and closing remarks of the president of parliament (1901b). Meringer failed to be amused (1907) by Freud's admiration for the quoted [[text]]. Freud in

...ening and closing remarks of the president of parliament (1901b). Meringer failed to be amused (1907) by Freud's admiration for the quoted [[text]]. Freud in

...nd his [[life]]." But he did not see this as a new beginning. Moreover, he failed to make use of [[another]] theory that was crucial as far as Freud was conc

...al findings. The attempt to create a composite picture of the imposter has failed because of the inaccuracy of the term itself, which is not [[conceptual]],

...conscious [[identification]] ([[Alain]] de Mijolla, Haydée Faimberg), and failed blocked [[mourning]] (Jean Cournut). [[Incorporation]], encryption, [[psych

...o be the origin of the phenomena of day-today [[life]] ([[dreams]], slips, failed [[acts]], creative acts) as well as of [[neurotic]] and [[psychotic]] [[sym

perience shows us that all such meddlings have failed.<br><br> principle of immutability. This is because I failed to distinguish<br>

...the believers themselves, who, whether [[Jews]] or Christians, have never failed to [[cause]] Spinoza trouble.<br>

the less failed to give birth to an ^esperanto in which the relations of lan-<br>

...y, what they did to the Chief-of-Staff of the Dominican [[Army]] after the failed coup in which the dictator Trujillo was killed - sewing his eyes together s

...ropelling productivity liberated from its capitalist form, which is why it failed: [[Stalinism]] was the [[symptom]] of capitalism. Stalinism involved the [[

...a transvestite. Repulsed, Fergus pushes her away and throws up. After this failed [[sexual]] [[encounter]] their relationship is reversed and Dil becomes obs

...reudienne” - rather thanked I by [[them]] to be taught, from where me, I failed - i.e. am muddled to me. This teaching is invaluable for me. I make it prof

...ing itself in the [[desire]] to have a [[child]] (since the [[father]] has failed to provide her with a [[child]], the [[woman]] turns to [[another]] [[man]]

...the defensive [[process]] by which a symptom—but also, more generally, a failed act, [[slip]] of the tongue, or drea—is produced. The result of this proc ...(including [[neurotic]] [[symptoms]], [[dreams]], [[slips of the tongue]], failed actions, and some "normal" behavior), its contiguity with related notions (

...ut—and this is crucial to an [[understanding]] of the changed, so-called failed position of Eastern Europe—when Lacan uses the plus-de-[[jouir]] notion,

...tre' and 'the fixed point'. He declares that the Copernican [[Revolution]] failed to dislodge the prestige of the centre: it shifted from man and the earth t

...ially David Eder, declared their adherence to Jung. For some years, having failed to obtain [[recognition]] in London, Jones had worked in Toronto and was on

...it surface in those furtive gibes the Prefect, in the first conversation, failed to heed, seeing in them only a pretext for hilarity. That it is, as Dupin i

...tion: that of Clérambault. It was because of their differences that Lacan failed his ''agrégation''. At that [[time]] Lacan declares that in his thesis he

...s, interesting hobbies, fantastic vacations. If we do not, we have somehow failed. We are [[guilty]]-inadequate. By attending to the superego supplement of l

...moment]] of the [[subject]]'s [[truth]]. Nevertheless, all of a sudden, it failed. When did Freud go wrong and why? He missed [[feminine]] [[homosexuality]]

# Those which have been [[left]] uncompleted because our mental powers have failed us, i.e. unsolved problems.

...e critics who claimed that the "[[synthesis]]" of the two arts in 300 is a failed one are thus wrong for the very reason of [[being]] [[right]]: of course th

...ce. Just think about Stephen King's Shining, in which the father, a modest failed writer, gradually turns into a killing beast who, with an evil grin, goes o ...obins and both the Soviet revolution and the Chinese revolution ultimately failed - not for the lack of attempts in this direction, for sure. Jacobins were a

At this point, the Cultural Revolution miserably failed. It is difficult to miss the irony of the fact that Badiou, who adamantly o

<blockquote>/…/ having failed to [[work]] outwards and to expand and being compressed within the [[Soviet ...il war in 1920, to export revolution with military means, the attempt with failed with the defeat of the Red Army in Poland; if anyone, it was Tukhachevsky w

...ween the [[Real]] – the hyperbolic excess – and its (ultimately always failed) [[symbolization]]? The [[matrix]] we thus arrive at is the one of the eter

...ms – from [[scientific]] naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key [[theoretical]] and [[political]] challenges of the modern

A Failed [[Betrayal]]

.... However, nearly a quarter of a century later, the [[European Union]] has failed to produce any coherent [[vision]] that can mobilize [[people]] to [[action

...is that, while it underwent the saturation of these [[three]] schemata, it failed to introduce a new one. Today, this predicament tends to produce a kind of

...]] antagonism of a [[society]]? All particular forms of state are so many (failed) attempts to find a solution to this problem (LN: 782; PV: 34–5; MC: 49).

Seen from [[outside]], 'Lacan's failed attempt to institutionalise [[awareness]] without institutionalising it, is

...forms ? from [[scientific]] naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism ? has failed to meet the key [[theoretical]] and [[political]] challenges of the modern

...ms – from [[scientific]] naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key [[theoretical]] and [[political]] challenges of the modern

...tion. However, nearly a quarter of a century later, the European Union has failed to produce any coherent vision that can mobilize people to action. Until re

...ose is that, while it underwent the saturation of these three schemata, it failed to introduce a new one. Today, this predicament tends to produce a kind of

...hat we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.'''

...performed by an analytic act: the awareness that what we (mis)perceived as failed attempts to perform the ritual are in themselves already a part of the ritu ...d with regard to which it failed. The repetition (of a failed novel in the failed film) thus gives rise to a third, purely virtual, element: the better novel

...the true revolutionary change can take place only in the aftermath of the failed Big Revolution? This is how we can and should act in the Hegelian historica

...tempt to get out of the attitude of disintegration /of the trilogy/ but it failed." [3] The obvious link is that the first line of the first text ("Suddenly, ...ng on. The failure of Texts is thus good news: Texts are failed betrayals, failed attempts to get rid of the ethical injunction. They are a comical supplemen

...sion between the Real―the hyperbolic excess―and its (ultimately always failed) symbolization? The matrix we thus arrive at is that of an eternal oscillat

...namics (movement) is on the cognitive/subjective side: one passes from one failed concept to another more adequate one which will also fail, etc., but this m ...freedoms and rights, it was a failure in its own terms (it systematically failed to realize the ideal of a harmonious hierarchic social body), and the resul

...did not grasp the opportunity), then they really deserve to die for having failed to rid us of Stalin. The true guilt of the accused is thus that, instead of ...r, this can effectively generate an insight―''if'', that is, through our failed paraphrases we have successfully circumscribed the ''place'' of the term to

...italist, grounded in capitalist relations, and "really existing socialism" failed because it was ultimately a subspecies of capitalism, an ideological attemp ...bstance out of which we grew and on which we rely is inconsistent, barred, failed, marked by an impossibility.

...ositive; the anxious "feeling of emptiness" signifies that the subject has failed to unify or "totalise" himself into a homogenous existential being. The thi ...Oedipus as such underlines the borderline and PN problem; the subject has failed to "internalise" paternal law, which is the only path to transformation...

...which it then returns. (Hegel here turns around the standard notion that a failed version of X presupposes this X as their norm [measure]: X is created, its

...ropelling productivity liberated from its capitalist form, which is why it failed: Stalinism was the symptom of capitalism. Stalinism involved the matrix of