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...at which permits the [[subject]] to realize that the [[Other]] is also a [[subject]]. ...er-as-subject must be able to be referred back to my permanent possibility of ''[[being]] seen'' by the Other.<ref>[[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre, Jean-Paul]]

...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->

...anatomical]]) [[body|bodily organ]] and the [[phallus]] as a [[signifier]] of [[sexual difference]]. ...batory jouissance ([[gratification]]). [[Freud]] argues that [[children]] of both [[sexual difference|sexes]] set great [[value]] on the [[phallus|penis

...[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...italist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]").

...[[about]] by the [[foreclosure]] of a primordial [[signifier]], the [[Name-of-the-Father]]. ...s]] on the grounds that the peculiarly invasive and devastating [[nature]] of psychotics' delusional systems and hallucinations indicates major [[structu

...[[affect]] from one [[idea]] to another.<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]''. 1900a: [[SE]] V, 562</ref> This soon became the central [[meaning]] of the term, and is the [[sense]] in which it is usually [[understood]] in [[p

...terpretation of Dreams]] in [[order]] to explain the [[visual]] [[nature]] of [[dreams]]. ...towards the [[system]] of [[perception]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'', 1900a: [[SE]] V, 538-55</ref>

...[[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or attentions). ...nimate things: individuals, parts of the [[body]] and the [[satisfaction]] of [[need]]s can all be [[object]]s.

...gmund Freud|his early work]], and sometimes to denote a specific [[class]] of [[treatment|mental disorders]] (i.e. in opposiiton to [[psychosis]]). ...condition such as hysteria in which somatic [[symptoms]] are an expression of a [[psychical]] [[conflict]] originating in [[childhood]]. Modern [[psycho

...as French or [[English]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]] languages. It is fundamentally the general structure of [[language]] (''[[langage]]''), rather than the differences between particu

...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)

=====Metaphysical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory===== ...ote to his [[discourse]] that distinguishes it from most other [[school]]s of [[psychoanalytic theory]], which refuse to engage with their metaphysical a

...ded]] over the [[role]] allotted to [[countertransference]] in discussions of [[technique]]. ...lyst]]s argued that [[countertransference]] manifestations were the result of incompletely analysed elements in the [[analyst]], and that such manifestat

...[[discussion]] of the "judgement of existence," by which the [[existence]] of an entity is affirmed prior to attributing any quality to it. ...tegrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] fully "[[exist]]s", since "there is no such thing as a prediscursive [[reality]]."<ref>{{S20}} p. 33</ref>

...efer to "[[structure|social structures]]" by which he means a specific set of [[affect]]ive relations between [[family]] members. =====Nature of the Psyche=====

''[[Parole]]'' becomes one of the most important [[terms]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] from the early 1950s on. ...en psychanalyse]]," 1953a, in {{E}} p.237-322. ["[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]]," in {{E}}. p. 30-113]</ref>

[[Lacan]] takes the term "[[signifier]]" from the [[work]] of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]. ...sign]]'''; not the actual sound itself, but the '''[[mental]] [[image]]''' of such a sound.

...ative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a chain reaction. ...he [[Name]]-of-the-[[Father]] signifiers are substituted for the signifier of the desire for the [[mother]]. From then on, [[conscious]] and unconscious

...ar]], thus implying that there is a specific [[unified]], homogeneous kind of [[discourse]] that can be called "[[science|scientific]]". ...in the seventeenth century <ref>{{Ec}} p. 857</ref>, with the inauguration of modern physics.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 855</ref>.

...[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of [[psychoanalysis]]. In 1936, [[Lacan]] presents his paper on the [[mirror stage]] at a conference of the '''[[International Psychoanalytical Association]]''' ([[IPA]]) in [[Mar

What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? ...cious]] ‘i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expelled from itself.

...). Approachable only asymptotically, the real is most often defined by way of paradoxes; it ...o [[madness]]. In all its modes, it successfully resists the intercessions of [[language]]. (Bowie 110)

...rally refer to, but with which it is closely linked. This link may be one of [[physical]] contiguity, but not necessarily. ...[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. "Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disturbances," ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''[[Word]] and Langu

...losure]]'''. By way of [[foreclosure]] of the [[signifier]] of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] it is possible to [[understand]] [[psychosis]] and distinguish ...paternal function]]: the [[paternal function]] is reduced to the [[image]] of the [[father]] (the [[symbolic]] reduced to the [[imaginary]]).

...unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...126). In general, most psychoanalysts would agree. The immediate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that p

...arious forms) and [[treatment]] of mental [[illness]]. Given the advantage of the preliminary medical [[training]] as well as further specialist training ==[[Practice]] of psychiatry==

...a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. The [[subject]] was originally spelled '''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]

...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). ...ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].

...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi

...riette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], learning p ...l for teaching positions, Barthes later professed an intentional avoidance of major degree-awarding universities throughout his career.

...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).

...ught]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to defi ===The problems of definition===

...losely linked both with [[romanticism]] and the revolutionary [[politics]] of the [[Enlightenment]]. The most well-known thinkers in the movement were [[ == Meaning of "Idealism" ==

...s of all [[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...tibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional romance.

...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of

Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is a major [[concept]] of [[psychoanalysis]].

The One Measure of True Love is: You Can Insult the Other ...pact of cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="Net

...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati

...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing

...proclaimed ideals, when you [[encounter]] a person who claims he is cured of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you sho ...fer to the inherited ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, comin

...ion]] is, I [[claim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time a ...d itself to babble [[about]] the so-called disappearing working [[class]]. Of course, it's disappearing from here.

...the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? Is she not also a capricious [[Master]] who wants it ...oman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic o

...it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavour. ..., simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3

...re we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the [[other]] two dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...les" precisely the effort to establish clearly the contours of a new space of symbolic fictions in which we fully participate in the mode [[disavowal]],

...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.

...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth

...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.

...agance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is ...[[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:

...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ous "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:

...standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which move ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals

...ral obligation]], into something we ought to do while we fight the inertia of the [[capitalist]] [[present]]. ...dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battle is open, undecided.

..., positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying non-played "silent" virtual notes or their absence. ...phobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit [[repression]] of homosexuality; it should rather "move the underground," disturb the implici

...clear that we are not covert racists attacking only the [[fundamentalism]] of [[other]] (Muslim) cultures? ...prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a divine [[right]] to the land of [[Israel]]?)

...or. /.../ deceit and veracity already presuppose the absolute authenticity of the face."<ref>[[Levinas]], Emmanuel, ''[[Totality]] and Infinity'', The [[ ...s gesture par excellence? Was He not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?

...en talk on Hitchcock's unique touch, etc., and approach the difficult task of specifying what gives Hitchcock's films their unique flair.<br> ...rely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique Hitchcockian [[dimension

...the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's ...ngerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's

...nce be defended? these [[terms]]. Now that the 10^th anniversary of Mueller's [[death]] is approaching, it is perhaps the [[time]] to revisit t ...better. Or recall the [[treatment]] of disabled individuals: even a couple of decades ago, the special entrances which enable [[them]] the access to rest

...is [[repressed]] and [[displaced]]. And it seems that the very designation of Hamlet as an [[obsessional]] [[neurotic]] points in this direction: in cont ...dge]] in [[order]] to encode insights into fundamental libidinal deadlocks of the [[human]] [[race]]?<br><br>

...re not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...nger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.

...ed 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...lessness of a [[life]]-determining [[contingency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identified]] the gene) choose

<i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by [[Timothy Garton Ash]] ...anything, this is it. The fate of this revolutionary was surely the fate of the [[people]] as a [[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the mil

...tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable one: the direct ethical foundation of politics sooner or later turns into its own comic caricature, adopting the * [[Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism]]. ''[[London]] Review of Books''. Volume 21. [[Number]] 21. October 28, 1999. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/

...pularized and at the same [[time]] one of the most misunderstood [[ideas]] of [[psychoanalysis]]. --> ...site sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex.

...tion]] retains its [[place]] as a necessary element in the [[structuring]] of [[sexuality]] for the [[speaking]] [[being]]. ===The notion of castration in Freud's work===

[[Breton]] was familiar with Freud's work on dreams and developed a technique of 'spontaneous' writing to give free expression to unconscious thoughts and w ...eir [[dreams]], which they saw as more '[[real]]' than the prosaic reality of our everyday world.

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...uctions or hypothetical [[future]] produc- tions. The overarching [[goal]] of his [[psychoanalytical]] reading is not to locate or define the beautiful i

...can be rendered as the difference between the two corresponding verbs, to subject (submit) oneself and to object (to protest, oppose, make an obstacle). ...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary.

[[University]] of Illinois at Chicago, September 29, 2003<br> ...ces, etc. Should concerned academics not [[speak]] out against the erosion of the [[separation]] between [[church]] and [[state]], or do you think that t

...the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's ...ngerous... Now that none were found, we reached the last line of the story of MacGuffin: "'Well,' said President [[Bush]] in September 2003, 'then that's

...le, a majority. In this [[sense]], we do not have an actual [[experience]] of freedom today. Our freedoms are increasingly reduced to the freedom to choo Question: Has 11 September thrown new light on your diagnosis of what is happening to the [[world]]?

...alyze the way the motif of the Thing appears within the diegetic [[space]] of cinematic [[narrative]] - in short, to [[speak]] about [[films]] whose narr ...s at the root of the metaphysical question "Why is there something instead of nothing?"

...on]] will be that Milosevic will be proclaimed the [[political]] blunderer of the year. ...decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.

...r Dews' basic criticism of my [[reading]] of [[Schelling]] is that, by way of asserting the between the [[subject]] and the [[signifier]], etc. - I remain blind to Schelling's basic thrust

The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice.

...of [[desire]], its inherent [[impossibility]], is to locate the [[cause]] of its inaccessibility into a despotic [[figure]] which stands for the primord ...he Great Man, which can only assure his Fame, resides the ultimate mystery of [[Power]].

...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ous "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:

...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.

...exoticising readings of the net - the predominant [[psychic]] [[economy]] of electronic networks is a [[hysterical]] one. ...o correspond with the general trend towards a more or less predominant use of [[conspiracy theories]] to [[interpret]] the modern [[world]]...

...that seeks to avoid the [[discourse]] of the Master through an [[ethics]] of [[contingency]], and discusses the contemporary anti-[[globalization]] move ...the pitfalls of utopian [[fantasy]]; and the contingency and indeterminacy of the political field.

...lludere) by the [[nature]] of evidence or the [[seductive]] [[appearance]] of something that deceives. ...e senses), or even an [[ontological]] [[structure]] (the Platonic [[myth]] of the cave).

...is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesmerising whirlwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary ...th Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of an [[ideological]] [[statement]]. He'll tell a [[joke]] or every now and ag

of obscurantism, and may not even have believed very much of what he As if to condense the aura of contrariness and enigma he cultivated in

<b>The constitutive madness of being</b><br><br> ...lf" and the "night of the world" respectively. The point is that, in each of these cases, there is an increasing emphasis on negativity as the fundament

...caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Lacan and the Political</i>, Athens, Greece). <br><br></tt></font></div> ...of Zizek is to go back and start again from scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>

...narrative was itself a part and which must ultimately be explained because of the '[[Jewish]] conspiracy' (TS, 179).<br><br> ...um through which they are organized. It is the struggle not only to be one of those free-[[floating]] ideological [[signifiers]] whose meaning is 'quilte

<b>The subject of philosophy</b><br><br> ...e that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, would observe:</font></p>

...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in ...errida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:

...itique of [[Ideology]] and The Ticklish [[Subject]]: The [[Absent]] Centre of Political [[Ontology]]. ...f independence. Since 1979, he has been on the faculty at the [[University of Ljubljana]].

'''Of Children in Swaddling Clothes'''<BR> ...e; and you will only be able to give vent to your griefs and sense of loss of liberty by making tearful complaints, and sighs, and lamentations one to an

[[Lacan]]'s [[Metaphor]] of the [[Mirror]] [[Stage]]<a></a></b></h2><b> <br> </b><h3 align="center">(From Volume 1 of the [[Seminar]]: <i>[[Freud]]'s Papers on [[Technique]]</i> )<a></a></h3><b

...neuroses]], precisely because of the electively [[symbolic]] [[character]] of the crucial fantasm.<br><br> ...t]]? -- if not this, which is truly one of the most fundamental [[images]] of the [[human]] relation to the [[world]], the [[veil]], the curtain.<br><br>

...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>

</p><h3 align="center">The topic of the [[imaginary]]</h3><br> INTRODUCTION OF THE INVERTED BOUQUET<br>

[[Love]] of one's [[neighbor]]<a></a></font><br> ...serve up again what I had to say in Brussels; I didn't tell [[them]] half of what I told you.<br>

The <i>[[jouissance]] </i>of [[transgression]]</font><br> </i>THE RESPECT OF THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER<br>

NATURE OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGN<a></a></font><p></p></h3></center><font size="+1"><br> ...e><blockquote><font size="+1">[Saussure introduces the structuralist point of view into

<dl><dd><i>Of the foundation of [[consciousness]] - The privilege of the [[gaze]] as </i>[[objet]] a -<br> </dd><dd><i>The [[optics]] of the blind - The [[phallus]] in the picture</i><p><br>

...choanalytical speech, it is time to put it at the test: the use will slice of its balance. ...against is what decides preponderance of the thought if the feet mark time of discord.

...rather, not yet) speak," and refers to the [[baby]] before the acquisition of [[speech]] that marks the entry into [[childhood]].</p> ...elaborated a [[theory]] of the [[mother]]-[[infant]] relation in [[terms]] of [[discourse]] (with the mother as "[[word]]-bearer").

...maternal]] deprivation caused either by the final or temporary [[absence]] of the [[mother]] or by her difficulty in providing primary care for the infan ...ent]] when the deprivation is produced, its duration, or even the attitude of mother substitutes.

...[[return]] living creatures to the earlier inorganic state is a component of all the [[drives]]. In this combined [[form]], its main impetus is toward [ ...tincts would then cease to hold and the [[compulsion]] to [[repeat]] would no longer possess the importance we have ascribed to it" (p. 44).

...impulses originate from the [[drives]] or the ego, but also as to the type of person associated with these impulses: in fleeing [[The Transference|the tr ...y" (p. 193). Freud also refers to [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]'s [[memories]] of [[being]] beaten, which he goes on to discuss further in "A [[Child]] is Be

=====Role of the Analyst===== The [[role]] of the [[analyst]] in the [[treatment]] is twofold.

...od of [[life]] from the end of the fourth year to the first manifestations of [[puberty]] at [[about]] eleven.<ref>{{C&AE}} Ch. </ref></blockquote> ...[[formation]] of an [[ideal]], while in [[object]] relations [[feelings]] of tenderness (aim-[[inhibition]]) take precedence over [[oedipal]] eroticizat

...between the [[state]] of [[nature]], ultimately unknowable, and the state of [[culture]]. The [[word]] has also been used by some ethnologists to charac ...touch the females in my camp,' which was accompanied by the [[expulsion]] of the adolescent sons."

...her]], [[total]]/partial, [[satisfying]] [[needs]] (mixed with the quality of care dispensed and the sensations procured), [[internal]]/external, protect ...o thus develops and becomes [[autonomous]] through the [[internalization]] of maternal functions (1905d).

...problem solving]] abilities, [[conceptual]] [[understanding]], acquisition of [[language]], [[morality|moral understanding]], and [[identity (social scie ...gradual accumulation of [[knowledge]] or through shifts from one [[stage]] of [[thinking]] to [[another]]; or if children are [[born]] with innate knowl

...conventions of not having sex with unknown persons), then the [[feelings]] of anxiety come to the surface. To reduce these [[negative]] feelings, defense ...tion of our lives. Those two impulse [[drives]] are the motivating factors of our actions.

...ion to [[economic]] principles, including those of resistance and elements of timing such as duration and "tempo." ...nd]]" (p. 147)—though this does not prevent him from deploying metaphors of in-depth work in the same article. The term durcharbeiten thus conveys two

[[Lacan]], Jacques. Introduction to the Names-of-the-[[Father]] [[Seminar]]. Jeffrey Mehlman. ''October''. Vol. 40. [[Telev I don't intend to engage in anything in the [[order]] of a theatrical ploy. I

...uline]]/feminine. He then used these terms in his [[dynamic]] [[analysis]] of ego as [[agency]]. ...epeats an experienced sexual attack on [[another]] infant. This alteration of the sexual attack experienced by the [[child]] from [[passive]] to active c

...how the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], to doctors taking care of the Leaders; [[three]] documents are crucial here:<br><br> ...to go to Switzerland and get there the best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[ideas]] -

...lation of general [[substitution]] where one [[thing]] takes the [[place]] of [[another]]; but unlike the term's conventional [[meaning]], defined by the ...in his [[psychical]] [[life]]. The symbol has in this case taken the place of [[the thing]] entirely" (1950c, p. 349).

...pared it with the task of the archaeologist who brings to light the strata of a buried [[past]] layer by layer. Although he always maintained his fundame ...d [[Taboo]]</i> (1912-13a) and <i>A Phylogenetic [[Fantasy]]: [[Overview]] of the [[Transference]] [[Neuroses]]</i> (1987 [1915]).

...utside]] [[world]]. The second refers to an [[absence]] of [[development]] of [[communication]] with [[others]] beginning in earliest infancy. ...e between [[Freud]] and [[Jung]]: "Bleuler still misses a clear definition of [[autoerotism]] and its specifically [[psychological]] effects. He has, how

In day-to-day use, hatred is a violent feeling that impels the subject to wish another person ill and to take pleasure in bad things that happen t ...la [[haine]]: Du symptôme au lien [[social]] (Metapsychological portrait of hatred: from [[symptom]] to the social bond; 1995).

...are not initially [[autonomous]], and are supported by the vital functions of nutrition and protection that supple [[them]] with an [[object]] and an aim ...onship]] between the two is most [[apparent]] in the [[oral]] [[activity]] of a [[child]] at the [[breast]]; the [[pleasure]] associated with sucking is

=In the work of Slavoj Žižek= ...“emerges ''ex nihilo'' … it attaches itself precisely to the [[Void]] of every [[situation]], to its inherent [[inconsistency]] and/or excess” (''

THE IMPASSE OF THE GUARANTEE Following the Document on supervision, the [[Action]] Committee of the [[School]] One wants to enlarge the debate on the guarantee.

...truggle]] is going on now: the struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it into a [[co ..., it is as a rule in the guise of a [[right]]ist [[populist]] [[revolt]] - no wonder many [[enlightened technocrats|enlightened technocratic]] [[liberals

...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in Copyright [[University]] of Chicago, acting through its Press Winter 2006

...alectical type of thought or methodology that he uses. (In Zizek's reading of Hegel, the dialectic is never finally resolved.) ...ute to the Marxist tradition of thought, specifically that of a [[critique of ideology]].

...ion to [[economic]] principles, including those of resistance and elements of timing such as duration and "tempo." ...nd]]" (p. 147)—though this does not prevent him from deploying metaphors of in-depth work in the same article. The term durcharbeiten thus conveys two

The functions of [[language]] ...hip]] betweeh language and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]].

...desire,]] it is not surprising that he focuses attention on the "dialectic of desire," nor should it be surprising that [[negation]] and negativity come ...role that the phallus plays in a [[dialectical]] assumption by the subject of his own desire now becomes thematized.

The [[Signification]] of the [[Phallus]] ...ve with that fact, settling for what provisional [[sense]] we can make out of what he actually says.

...! Or else, with a yawn and a wink, we resign ourselves to taking advantage of whatever trust remains in [[human]] [[nature]]. ...]] that we all [[claim]] the [[others]] embody. And they do. But which one of us wants to embrace Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms? The [[feeling]] is mutua

=The Subject= [[Slavoj Žižek]] fully endorses the [[model]] of the [[Cartesian subject]].

...t to the science of language, according to the first article of the bylaws of the Société [[linguistique]] de [[Paris]], composed in 1866. ...of the [[world]] by and for the [[speaking]] [[subject]]. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the [[distinction]] "<i>[[langage]]/langue</i>"—la

...t to the science of language, according to the first article of the bylaws of the Société [[linguistique]] de [[Paris]], composed in 1866. ...of the [[world]] by and for the [[speaking]] [[subject]]. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the [[distinction]] "<i>[[langage]]/langue</i>"—la

...stitute for Psychoanalysis in 1920, there came into [[being]] a [[number]] of organizations designed to provide training based initially on [[individual] ...most intimate aspects of their beings if the experience served as a means of obtaining a [[state]]-authorized degree or certificate?

...between the [[state]] of [[nature]], ultimately unknowable, and the state of [[culture]]. The [[word]] has also been used by some ethnologists to charac ...touch the females in my camp,' which was accompanied by the [[expulsion]] of the adolescent sons."

..." and can [[identity]] with "projected" characters. And we often [[speak]] of "[[dream]] screens." ...al Killer</i> by J. McNaughton, 1985, released in 1990, <i>The [[Silence]] of the Lambs</i> by Jonathan Demme, 1991, <i>Seven</i> by D. Fincher, 1995, an

...cious]]. To avoid [[reification]] of this [[concept]], it is preferable to use the [[word]] only as an adjective. ...973); it appeared in [[France]] around 1985 in connection with the notions of inheritance, transmission, and genealogy (Guyotat, Jean, and Fédida, Pierr

...in popular [[speech]], indicated that "anxiety is related to a state with no direct allusion to an object, while in fear the person's attention is preci ...d on the [[association]] of anxiety with a state of expectancy and the use of the term <i>fear</i>—"in keeping with current usage"—to [[represent]] t

...Who is looking? What is seen or evoked? Why are these particular fragments of Eastern religiosity summoned at these moments? How are they placed in the t ...d a significant surreal moment for him, evoking an exotic Tibet still full of magical possibilities.

...manipulate you as he wishes, that he knows more than you about the motives of your actions. ...feeling]] of having lost that privilege; that the analyst could be capable of [[seeing]] something quite [[secret]] in what appears to you to be quite cl

...shing aspects of [[being]] [[subject]] to the [[signifier]], "the [[name]]-of-the ...ions as much more [[universal]]. For Lacan, <i>whatever</i> the [[form]] of the symbolic and [[the imaginary]]'s relation to it, the [[social]] [[order

<font size="+1">NATURE OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGN</font><p></p></h3></center><font size="+1"><br> ...quote><font size="+1">[[[Saussure]] introduces the [[structuralist]] point of view into

[[Love]] of one's [[neighbor]]</font><br> ...serve up again what I had to say in Brussels; I didn't tell [[them]] half of what I told you.<br>

[[Freud]]'s Story of the [[Child]]'s [[Game]] of <i>'Fort'-'Da'</i></font><br><br> ...<font size="+2"> At this point I propose to leave the dark and dismal [[subject]]<br>

<h3 align="center"> From The Function of the [[Veil]] (IX in [[Seminar]] 4, The [[Object]] Relation)</h3><p> ...sions and neuroses, precisely because of the electively symbolic character of the crucial fantasm.<br><br>

[ ] [[Work]] on [[The Agency of the Letter]] The [[Agency]] of the [[Letter]] in the [[Unconscious]] or [[Reason]] Since [[Freud]]

<dl><dd><i>Of the foundation of [[consciousness]] - The privilege of the [[gaze]] as </i>[[objet]] a -<br> </dd><dd><i>The [[optics]] of the blind - The [[phallus]] in the picture</i><p><br>

...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>

...deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience]] no passions proper, no intense self-assertion that can lead to destructive rage. ...ollective orgies depicted in Les particules - the constitutive [[impasse]] of the sexual [[relationship]] (Jacques [[Lacan]]'s il n'y a pas de [[rapport

...nar XIV|La logique du fantasme]]</small>''<BR><big>[[Seminar XIV|The Logic of Fantasy]]</big> ...Écrits]]: A Selection</i>) as the first [[topology]] of [[The Subject|the subject]].<br>

...f for the academic [[machine]]. Can the upper level of Lacan's [[formula]] of the university discourse - S2 directed toward a - not also be read as stand ...ld no longer be needed. [[Psychoanalytic theory]] is ultimately the theory of why its clinical [[practice]] is doomed to fail.

...in my relation to the [[psychoanalytic]] [[cause]]- the French [[School]] of [[Psychoanalysis]], whose direction I will personally assume for the next f ...iations and compromises that encumber its [[progress]] while degrading its use.

...n around this paper that has been influential in constructing an [[image]] of Lacan as an outcast - a heroic [[figure]] battling for the [[truth]] agains ...is]]. Thirteen years had elapsed, therefore, between the first formulation of Lacan's [[idea]] and the paper that we now read - 13 years in which Lacan h

...ourse]] came to be seen as the founding document of the new [[school]] and of a new direction in psychoanalysis. ...ter]] as this clearly illustrates what he calls the subject as the subject of the signifier.

...cques]]. [[Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever]]. Talk at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. 1966. <http://www.l ...people present that do not understand English at all; for these my choice of English would be a security, but perhaps I would not wish them to be so sec

of what [[Lacan]] calls '''lamella''', of the monstrous 'undead' [[object]]-libido. The undead-indestructible object, [[Life]] deprived of support in the [[symbolic]] [[order]].

...a [[philosophical]] point of view. For he is an anti-[[philosopher]], and no one is entitled to take this designation lightly.<br><br> ...nfrontation between Lacan and [[Heidegger]], which has all the attractions of a rhetorical [[impasse]].<br><br>

...istent with the poststructuralist reconception of the "subject," this line of thought eventually led to far-reaching changes in psychoanalytic [[practice ...as characterizing his [[discourse]]: the psychoanalytic dimensions of the "subject" ; psychoanalysis as both a [[clinical]] practice and a [[cultural]] instit

...was speculating [[about]] [[society]] and human [[culture]]).1 At the end of the chapter I will focus on [[Lacan]]'s main interests and the way he has r ...ations,' revolutionised the [[thought]], the lives and the [[imagination]] of an age.2

...]] [[being]]'s original [[state]] of dependence is a fundamental postulate of [[Freudian]] [[theory]]; it is the [[baby]]'s [[Hilflosigkeit]], or [[helpl ...state of [[infantile]] dependence and the [[affirmation]] of independence of the [[adult]] ego.

...the first to offer [[psychotherapy]], based its treatments on the theories of Janet. ...ared by Havelock Ellis through his encyclopedic writings of the psychology of sex (Hinshel-wood, 1991).

...lysis]], if for no [[other]] [[reason]] than that it is the essential tool of [[analytic]] [[treatment]]. ...[[Unconscious]]" (1915e). These passages point up the critical importance of taking language into account in connection with interpretation and with the

...concomitant, for [[Freud]], with the [[development]] of the general theory of psychoneuroses. ...ms and causes of neurosis, and the two theories also approached the choice of neurosis very differently.

...hat it should remain untranslated, "thus acquiring, as it were, the status of an algebraic sign."<ref>[[Ecrits|Sheridan, Alan]]. "Translator's note." {{E ...denotes the [[little other]], in opposition to the [[capital]] '<b>A</b>' of the [[big Other]]. Unlike the [[big Other]], which represents a radical an

...<i>Ego</i>' translates 'le <i>moi</i>' and is used in the normal [[sense]] of [[psychoanalytic]] [[literature]]. On '<i>je</i>', see Note 2 below.</ref> ...expression of situational apperception, an essential [[moment]] of the act of intelligence.

...d by Badiou, to [[control]] oneself (when Morpheus explains to Neo the lot of ordinary [[people]] totally caught (“plugged”) in [[the Matrix]], he sa ...[[democracy]], but the Plato who was the first to clearly assert the field of [[rationality]] freed from inherited beliefs.

...ough [[language]], what [[Lacan]] calls the [[subject]] as the [[subject]] of the [[signifier]]. ...[[imaginary]] lines the [[human]] organism, in the most intimate recesses of its [[being]], manifests its [[capture]] in a [[symbolic]] [[dimension]].<b

The Works of [[Jacques Lacan]] m ...ia]]-with a lot of general and abstract problems-and it was characteristic of the 60s and 70s.

...s, bourgeois [[parents]], [[Alfred Lacan]] and [[Emilie Baudry]], a family of solid [[Catholic]] [[tradition]]. ...dry (1876–[[1948]]) (a middle-[[class]] Roman-Catholic family) (a family of solid Catholic tradition). -->

...ourse]] came to be seen as the founding document of the new [[school]] and of a new direction in psychoanalysis. ...ter]] as this clearly illustrates what he calls the subject as the subject of the signifier.

...e Marie Baudry]]. [[Alfred Lacan]] was the Paris sales [[representative]] of a large provincial firm. The family lived in comfortable [[conditions]] in ...hich would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]].

...oment: it marked the end of the era which began in 1789, the final failure of the statist-revolutionary model which first entered the scene with the Jaco ...really defend and assert the A.<ref>For a balanced historical description of the Terror, see David Andress, ''The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolu

...to the sphere of the "Asiatic mode of production," seeing it as a new form of "Oriental despotism" - the irony being that, for traditional Russians, the ...get the core of Marx's theory, the "bad" Stalin who spoils the noble plans of the "good" Lenin, etc.).

...thing to be repressed it has to have been previously acknowledged by the [[subject]], implying prior [[recognition]] within the [[symbolic]] [[register]]. ...t, unlike the [[return of the repressed]], it returns from [[outside]] the subject, as emanating from his [[environment]] in one form or [[another]] – a phe

[[The imaginary]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[theory]] immediately invokes a set of characteristic [[terms]], most of which are already [[present]] in his article on

...get the critique of the imperialist "[[excess]]," with the (silent) notion of mobilizing [[capitalist]] mechanisms within another, more "progressive," [[ .... The only [[true]] question today is: do we endorse this "naturalization" of capitalism, or does today's [[global]] capitalism contain strong enough [[a

...ween goal and aim, if not goal, it should be its ultimate aim, the horizon of all its activity.<br><br> ...volutionary subject." Or, as Badiou would have put it: "Only if there is a subject, an Event can occur within an evental site."<br><br>

...eparation of a [[real]] attack, but as demonstrative posturing which poses no real military [[threat]].<br><br> ...] that the US will not invade Cuba, in [[exchange]] for the [[withdrawal]] of the Soviet missiles from Cuba.)<br><br>

...kegardian called "indirect [[communication]]," by way of practicing a kind of irony, that one can render its horror.</ref><br /> ...ganized the [[terror]], was [[responsible]] for the [[death]] of thousands of innocent Communists...<br /><br />

...ast [[threat]] that linked it to civilization. This is why the biggest war of the XXth century, the [[World]] War II, was the war in which Stalinist [[Co ...is bringing-together accounts for the "innocent" tautological [[formulas]] of today's neoracists: [[le Pen]]'s entire program can be summed up in "[[Fran

...ed as autonomous - God is embattled, there is a counter-force or principle of demoniac Evil active in the world (the dualistic solution).<br /> ...em>A Holocaust Reader</em>, p. 237.</ref> quite literally: the very excess of this suffering over any "normal" human measure makes it divine. Recently, t

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...on]] will be that Milosevic will be proclaimed the [[political]] blunderer of the year. ...decentralization, from a loose confederacy to the [[full]] [[sovereignty]] of its units.

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...nd in emails, cuddle a little. In terms of both sex and sentiment, it goes no further than that. ...and decides to formally accuse the professor first of seduction and second of thwarting the job search (meanwhile, fortunately, the student has found two

In his per­spicu­ous review of the volume [[Books/Slavoj_Zizek/Repeating_Zizek|"Repeat­ing Žižek"], ded ...such, he per­forms the role of the hys­teric to the master's dis­course of a stoic­ally unfazed Badiou."

="Antinomies of Pure Sexuation" by Slavoj Žižek= ...antinomies, but only at the epistemological level, no as immanent features of the unreachable Thing-in-itself, while Hegel transposes epistemological ant

...he Law, the travesty of the Black Mass (or, in Joyce's case, the elevation of Here Comes Everybody into Christ who has to die in order to be reborn as th ...modernist minimalism, of subtracting a minimal difference from the wealth of material.

...he mysterious and elusive X we are all after in our compulsive consumption of mercandise. ...f caffeine-free diet Coke, we almost literally 'drink nothing in the guise of something'?

='In Defense of Hegel's Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...nds Hegel's "madness", the irreducible speculative, non-interpretable core of his philosophy. Hegel's statements have to shock us, and this excess cannot

...ce versa, when he gets caught in his own game, actual belief can arise out of his conviction that he just believes that he acts.[1] ...e my knowledge. It is this ''immanent'' gap that eludes Althusser's theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs). According to Althusser, what dist

='Lacan as a Reader of Hegel' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ecause it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge.<u>1</u>

='Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ium for expressing such a "prosaic" disenchanted reality, reality deprived of all mystery and transcendence.<u>2</u>

="Pathological Narcissus" as a Socially Mandatory Form of Subjectivity by Slavoj Žižek | 1986= ...stand it as a concealed re-affirmation of patriarchy, and by a broad range of the liberal New Left.

='Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:three-philosophers-of-the-event-slavoj-zizek-theoryleaks-1024x770.jpg|400|right]]

...he last threat that linked it to civilization. This is why the biggest war of the XXth century, the World War II, was the war in which Stalinist Communis ...; this bringing-together accounts for the "innocent" tautological formulas of today's neoracists: le Pen's entire program can be summed up in "France to

='The Structure of Domination Today: A Lacanian View' by Slavoj Žižek= ...man who, at the end, gratefully embraced him, crying with joy that she was no longer haunted by her father's despising attitude towards her.)

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