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• Part of no-part
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• Jouissance
  <!-- There is no adequate [[translation]] in [[English]] of the word ''[[jouissance]]''.<ref ...issance]]'', on the other hand, [[pleasure]] and [[pain]] remain distinct; no [[pleasure]] is taken in the [[pain]] itself, but the [[pleasure]] cannot b
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• Phallus
  ...ration, and so now the child is faced with the task of coming to [[terms]] with castration in relation to himself. The further developments are too well kn ...) puts it, this lack confronts the child "with the task of coming to terms with castration in relation to himself" (p. 144).
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• Jacques Lacan
  ...specially the [[analysis]] of the [[case]] of [[Aimée]], makes him famous with the [[Surrealist]]s. BEtween this year and 1939 he takes [[Kojève]]'s cou ...[mother]] of [[Caroline]], [[Thibaut]] and [[Sibylle]]. While in analysis with Rudolph [[Loewenstein]], Lacan becomes a member of the ''[[[Société Psych
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...ssian), and in [[1903]] he led the [[Bolshevik]] faction after a [[split]] with the [[Mensheviks]] that was partly inspired by his pamphlet ''[[What is to ...e not seized. ... The second error was an [[excess]] of magnanimity on the part of the proletariat: it should have exterminated its enemies, but instead it
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• Louis Althusser
  ..., etc.); and so on. By engaging in any material [[social]] [[practice]] or with any material institution, we admit ([[unconsciously]]) that we are the “s ...ver present''. This is what is meant by his [[claim]] that “Ideology has no history” (''ibid.'': 175). We always find ourselves interpellated as subj
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  Confronted with the [[mother]]'s [[lack]] of a [[penis]], the [[fetishism|fetishist]] [[dis ...is unique in that it involves both [[identification]] with [[mother]] and with the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]]; indeed, in [[fetishism]], the [[subject]] os
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• Id
  <blockquote>The ''Es'' with which analysis is concerned is made of the [[signifier]] which is already t ...the verb "to [[speak]]"; the affirmation "I speak " is only a superifical part of the fundamental principle "Man is spoken by it."
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• Transference
  ...transferring [[unconscious]] [[ideas]] onto the doctor.<ref>{{F}} (1895d) With Josef Breuer. ''[[Sigmund Freud|Bibliography|Studies on Hysteria]]''. [[SE] ...bly repeats earlier relationships with other [[figures]] (especially those with the [[parents]]).
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• Object
  No [[distinction]] is made between persons and inanimate things: individuals, ...m, or the act towards which the [[drive]] tends, may be sexual intercourse with that person.
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• Displacement
  ...[[times]] in [[Freud]]'s writings (in Drafts K and M in his correspondence with [[Wilhelm Fliess]], in the "[[Project]] for a [[Scientific]] [[Psychology]] It was introduced in connection with his [[clinical]] [[work]], apropos of the [[analysis]] of [[neurotic]] [[sy
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• Sexual Difference
  ...ominence in the debate between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[feminism]], is not part of [[Freud]]'s or [[Lacan]]'s [[psychoanalytic theory|theoretical]] [[:Cate ...[process]], but a complex one in which [[anatomical]] differences interact with [[social]] and psychical factors.
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• Subject
  ...ytic]] writings,<ref>{{1932}}</ref> and from 1945 on it occupies a central part in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. ...part of [[Freud]]'s [[theoretical]] [[vocabulary]], but is more associated with [[philosophical]], [[legal]] and [[linguistic]] [[discourse]]s.
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• Alienation
  The term "[[alienation]]" does not constitute part of [[Freud]]'s [[theory|theoretical]] [[:category:concepts|vocabulary]]. ...n|alienated]] from himself, and there is no escape from this [[division]], no possibility of "[[wholeness]]" or [[synthesis]].
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• Unconscious
  In this model, no one '''[[agency]]''' is identical to the [[unconscious]], since even the [[ ...is early [[work]] seem particularly strange to those who are more familiar with [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|writings]].
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• Structure
  ...[[subject]] is not some supposed "[[essence]]" but simply his [[position]] with respect to other [[subject]]s and other [[signifier]]s. ...inguistics]], the term "[[structure]]" comes to be increasingly associated with [[Saussure]]'s [[model]] of [[language]].
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• Speech
  ...between ''[[parole]]'' and ''[[langue]]'' is replaced in [[Lacan]]'s work with the opposition between ''[[parole]]'' and ''[[langage]]'' -- and is far mor ...nterpretation]]s are described as "a symbolic [[gift]] of speech, pregnant with a [[secret]] pact."<ref>{{E}} p. 79</ref>
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• Signifying Chain
  ...ain and is therefore unstable" (Evans 185). Whereas the meaning associated with the interaction between the symbolic and [[the imaginary]] (via [[points de ...hat moves ahead with unstoppable fluency" (Bowie 179). So tightly bound up with temporal movement is the signifying chain that any attempt to characterise
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• Punctuation
  ...in a very [[primitive]] kind of [[demand]], namely by screaming. There is no way of [[knowing]] for sure whether a scream articulates hunger, [[pain]], ...y [[repeat]] it in such a way as to bring out the homophony of this phrase with ''tuer ma mère'' ("to kill my mother").<ref>{{E}} p. 269</ref>
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• Resistance
  ...the [[concept]] of [[resistance]] began to play an increasingly important part in [[psychoanalytic theory]] as a result of the decreasing efficacy of [[an ...ognizing his own part in the [[analysand]]'s [[resistance]], for "there is no other [[resistance]] to [[analysis]] than that of the [[analyst]] himself."
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• Sexual relationship
  ===There is No Relation Between the Sexes=== This formula is usually translated into [[English]] as "There is no such [[thing]] as a [[sexual]] [[relationship]]", which is misleading since
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• Pass
  ...not a quasi-mystical, ineffable [[experience]],but must be (in accordance with the basic [[principle]] of [[psychoanalysis]])articulated in [[language]]. ...f the two accounts, whether to award the pass to the candidate. There were no pre-established criteria to [[guide]] the jury, since the pass was based on
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...n]] went on to study '''[[medicine]]'' and specialized in '''psychiatry''' with a [[particular]] interest in '''[[psychosis]]'''. These two encounters were to propel [[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of [[psychoanalysis]].
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• The Subject
  There is no objecitvity at all. All of these developments, along with [[others]], [[help]] to breach the seemingly impervious usbjectivism of the
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• Jacques Lacan Books2
  <b>[[Fetishism]]: The [[Symbolic]], The [[Real]] and The [[Imaginary]]</b> (with W. Granoff), transl. in S. Lorand and M. [[Balint]] (eds.), <i>Perversions: <b>The Seminar, Book III. [[The Psychoses]], Part II</b>, translated by Stuart Schneiderman in <i>[[Lacan]] Study [[Notes]]</
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• Real2
  ...very integrity of the Lacanian [[topology]] insists that it constitutes a part of all of us and must, therefore, be at least obliquely available to intuit ...the opposite terms, aligning the knock with the falling tile and the dream with the unaware passer-by. The [[suggestion]] here is that the passer-by inhabi
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• Seminar VI
  ...e]] the [[object]] and the touchstone of [[desire]]: <i>[[objet a]]</i> ([[part object]]) of [[desire]] and [[phallus]] ([[present]] in Ophelia). The two
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• Seminar X
  ...). He then proceeds to define <i>[[objet a]]</i> which relates [[anxiety]] with [[desire]]. ...e [[mother]]. They are all [[objects]] of [[desire]] for us, and there is no [[anxiety]] for the [[woman]]. In a [[system]] centered on the [[signifier]
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  Praxis, which "places the subject in a [[position]] of dealing with the [[real]] through the [[symbolic]]," produces concepts; four are offered "No [[progress]] has been made that has not deviated whenever one of the terms
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...est]]." Psychoanalyis "is not constructed on the proposition 'to [[sleep]] with the mother' but on the death of the father as [[primal]] jouissance." The [ The novelty in this [[seminar]] is the [[return]] of the [[hysteric]], with [[Dora]] and la Belle Bouche erre - the Beautiful Mouth wanders - an allusi
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...these publications justified their sexual content, and they were received with approbation. Nor did the last of the <i>Three Essays</i>, on "The Transform ...etiology of neurosis that Freud had previously proposed, as early as 1896 with reference to hysteria, was here reasserted and further developed.
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...rego and Id|the Ego]], and describes Freud's theory of the [[unconscious]] with respect to [[dream interpretation]]. Dreams, in Freud's view, were all form ...f his most important dreams are his own &mdash; his method is inanugerated with an analysis of his dream "[[Irma]]'s injection" &mdash; but many also come
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• Seminar XI
  ...nd the paths of the unconscious." This declaration of allegiance contrasts with Lacan's critical study of Freud's [[dream]] about the dead son screaming "[ ...is, which "places [[The Subject|the subject]] in a [[position]] of dealing with the [[real]] through the [[symbolic]]," produces concepts; four are offered
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• Seminar XX
  ...t, is not a [[sign]] of love." b) "Ultimately, one person's body is just a part of the Other's body." c) Finally,"…it is the Other who ''jouit''."<ref>L ...obstacle of [[choice]] set up by [[psychoanalysis]], namely that "there is no [[sexual relationship]]" and that will be resolved by way of love, made up
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• Psychiatry
  ...be mental health [[medication]] in the [[United States]]<ref>Psychologists with advanced training in [[psychopharmacology]] who practise in [[New Mexico]], ...reatment for any given condition is also variable from patient to patient, with some patients having [[complete]] [[resolution]] of symptoms and [[others]]
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• Semiotics
  ...rstanding|understood]]. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their ...his career, beginning with the triadic relation just described, and ending with a system consisting of 59,049 possible elements and relations. One [[reason
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• Eros
  "In this way the libido of our [[sexual]] [[instincts]] would coincide with the Eros of the poets and [[philosophers]] which holds all [[living]] thing ...e the riddle of life by supposing that these two instincts were struggling with each [[other]] from the very first.<ref>p. 61</ref></blockquote>
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...ogist [[Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke|Ernst von Brücke]] who, in coordination with physicist [[Hermann von Helmholtz]], one of the formulators of the [[first ...907. Jung had much that he wanted to talk about with Freud, and he spoke with intense animation for [[three]] [[whole]] hours. Finally Freud interrupted
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...lini]], in whose ''[[The Gospel According to St. Matthew]]'' he played the part of Philip, [[Italo Calvino]], [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], [[Pierre Klossowski]], ...d to be this or that [[substance theory|substance]], this or that destiny, no [[ethical]] [[experience]] would be possible... This does not mean, however
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...s]] of the [[impossibility]] of [[society]] as such, as [[irreconcilable]] with class antagonism, and yet gives this impossibility a thoroughly [[psychoana ...ourse Analysis]]''”: 249–60). Žižek seems to be broadly in agreement with [[Laclau]] and [[Mouffe]] resignifying the [[concept]] of antagonism as...
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• Roland Barthes
  ...[[sanatorium|sanatoria]]. His repeated [[physical]] breakdowns interfered with the [[progress]] of his academic career, affecting his studies and his abil ..., taking part in a little pre-medical study and continuing to [[struggle]] with his health. In 1948 he returned to purely academic [[work]], gaining numer
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...servations involve the fact that cognitivism, which is primarily concerned with understanding, has often neglected the [[role]] of affects and has not suff For their part cognitive science specialists have contested the scientific [[value]] of [[
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• Deconstruction
  ...ies]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' that [[meaning]] is constructed and [[understood]] by writers, ...zable response to this question. All my essays are attempts to have it out with this formidable question." (Derrida 1985, at 4.) There is a great deal of c
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• German Idealism
  ...mmanuel Kant]] in the [[1780s]] and [[1790s]], and was closely linked both with [[romanticism]] and the revolutionary [[politics]] of the [[Enlightenment]] ...most perfect qualities. This is not the meaning that should be associated with German Idealism.)
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...art of his career, Hitchcock was far more popular with film audiences than with film critics, especially the [[elite]] British and American critics. In the <!--- The following is okay, with more biographical [[material]], some trimming of minor films, and less of a
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...ween what Kierkegaard truly believed and what he was merely arguing for as part of a pseudo-[[author]]'s [[position]]. [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] remarked th ...ium]]'', which today would be designated a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]]. With his family's inheritance, Kierkegaard was able to fund his education, his [
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...here is no such [[thing]] as a sexual [[relationship]]', have been greeted with indignation and outrage as well as prolonged and passionate [[defence]]. La ...in why a girl should give up the father as love object and re-[[identify]] with the mother.
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• Logic of Sexuation
  His sons were deprived of all intercourse with [[them]]. As Lacan pointed out there is no myth in the anlytic [[literature]] like that contained in ''Totem and Taboo
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  It could be said that the [[Marxist]] dialogue with psychoanalysis began in 1963 when Louis [[Althusser]], the leading [[commun reconcile [[existentialism]] and Marxism. A part of existentialism’s popular
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...edipus Rex]]'' has such "gripping [[power]]" because [[being]] in [[love]] with one's [[mother]] and [[jealousy|jealous]] of one's [[father]] is "a [[unive For Freud, the childhood desire to [[sleep]] with the mother and to kill the father.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...t]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A further difficulty with understanding the real is that Lacan's conception of it changed radically t ...[form]] of a [[need]], such as hunger. The real is thus closely associated with the body prior to its symbolization, but it is important to keep in [[mind]
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• Matheme
  ...e Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [[matheme]]s are part of [[algebra|Lacanian algebra]]. ...hematical sign]]". It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->
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• Book of Job
  Job is a devout man and a [[model]] [[citizen]] who is suddenly struck with calamities. ...l [[perception]] of Job is of a [[patient]] man who simpy endures his woes with dignity and remains faithful to God.
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...en she said it was as though eternal human nature had changed. To be a man no longer means the same thing. One should not, for example, underestimate the ...of sound really meant were generally conservatives, those who looked at it with scepticism, like Charlie Chaplin (up to a point), and Fritz Lang. Fritz Lan
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• Postmodern Racism
  ...hese [[people]] can be very [[postmodern]]. They acknowledge that there is no [[natural]] [[tradition]], that every culture is artificially constructed. ...Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre bombings were a [[sign]] that God no longer protects the USA, because the USA had chosen a path of [[evil]], [[h
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• Clash of Civilizations
  ...hese [[people]] can be very [[postmodern]]. They acknowledge that there is no [[natural]] [[tradition]], that every culture is artificially constructed. ...Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre bombings were a [[sign]] that God no longer protects the USA, because the USA had chosen a path of [[evil]], [[h
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• Violence
  ...fact that at some point you have to fight. You have to [[return]] violence with violence. The problem is not that for me, but that this war can never be a ...y wealth in the Calvinist [[logic]] of [[predestination]]: although it has no intrinsic [[value]], it is a [[sign]] of the authenticity of the revolution
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...dictatorship? So, in the contemporary academic politics, the idea to deal with Lenin is accompanied by two qualifications: yes, why not, we live in a [[li ...ot enough to ask how a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with [[regard]] to [[social]] struggles — one should also ask how it effective
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...earing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing with the Real, not just with empty plans — the Party is ruthlessly brutal, so it means business… ...]] the [[subject]]'s inclusion in the ([[virtual]]) [[symbolic]] order — with the cutters, the problem is the opposite one, namely the assertion of reali
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you should always counter such claims with a simple, yet intricate question: What is your gadget, your favorite illusi ...[[associations]]" of a typical educated [[analysand]] consist for the most part of attempts to provide a psychoanalytic explanation of their disturbances,
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...St [[Paul]], who formulated the basic tenets of [[Christianity]], was not part of [[Christ]]'s inner circle, and [[Lacan]] accomplished his "return to [[F ...ave behind old [[ideological]] divisions and to confront new issues, armed with the necessary expert [[knowledge]] and free deliberation that takes into ac
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...[other]] spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]!"… I definitely prefer such naive immersion to the pseudo-sop ...dicament and step out to the surface of the Earth, what they find there is no longer the bright surface illuminated by the rays of the Sun, the supreme G
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  But what is crucial in this tradition is the equation of labor with crime, the [[idea]] that labor, hard work, is originally an indecent crimin ...t]] to, well, Christians themselves. So what I want to do is, in the first part of my talk, to propose a certain [[reading]] of [[Christianity]], aiming to
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...imself from the liberating gesture of saying finally that "the emperor has no clothes". The point is, as Lacan puts it, that the emperor is naked only be ...well what they are doing, but still, they are doing it". Cynical reason is no longer naïve, but is a paradox of an enlightened false consciousness: one
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...[Marx]]'s standard determinations of fetishism that, in it, we are dealing with "relations between things (commodities)" instead of direct "relations betwe ...be maintained is that displacement is original and constitutive: there is no immediate, [[self]]-[[present]] [[living]] [[subjectivity]] to whom the bel
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  InterCommunication No.14 1995. ...emiotic Japan. The empty signs, no Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...t all, i.e., who, herself not bound by any Law, charges her knight-servant with [[arbitrary]] and outrageous ordeals?<br><br> ...or example-as well as in the case of the primordial father, we are dealing with an agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castratio
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  Lusitania, Vol I, no 4, 1994. ...d…maybe next year if I try again and again, I will succeed." To identify with this possibility is enough to succeed. For the possibility itself to bring
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...Eastern Europeans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures?
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...the itinerary of Jacques [[Ranciere]] who began as a strict Althusserian (with a contribution to Lire le [[Capital]]) and, then, after a violent gesture o ...'[[proletariat]]' can be read as the subjectivization of the `[[part of no-part]]' elevating its injustice into the ultimate [[test]] of universality, and,
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...er," to rely on a set of marks which clearly designate that we are dealing with a fiction, in the same way in which, in order to let ourselves go and [[enj ...face mortality. Our [[fixation]] on electronic [[games]] and stories is in part an enactment of this denial of death. They offer us the [[chance]] to erase
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...enjoyment]] in the work — quite the contrary, it supplements our reading with a [[surplus]]-enjoyment which is one of the trademarks of [[true]] modernis ...ve precisely the "pathological" fact of liking a [[particular]] person for no particular [[rational]] [[reason]].
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  Today, however, with the [[apparent]] demise of Marxism, the entire [[situation]] has changed: t ...l attention insofar as his "post-Marxism" has [[nothing]] whatsoever to do with the fashionable deconstructionist dismissal of the alleged Marxist "[[essen
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...properly defined place (or which resists its allocated subordinated place) with the universal, is the elementary gesture of [[politicization]], discernable ...eople, with no [[proper place]] in official [[space]] (or, more precisely, with only titles such as "counterrevolutionaries," "hooligans," or, at best, "vi
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...der to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...of the Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia, when there were no [[public]] trials, no ritualized public self-accusations comparable to Stalinist show trials: [[p
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• Il n'y a pas de rapport religieux
  ...lly to appreciate the uniqueness of the [[figure]] of Christ, let us start with Gilles [[Deleuze]]'s exemplary [[analysis]] of Chaplin's late [[films]]: ...the remarks of his interlocutor about his cruel [[treatment]] of the Poles with loud vulgar [[laughter]] and a [[satisfied]] contestation, "So they call me
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...rammar of the Western [[tradition]] of [[politics]] was abruptly dispensed with." ...of a large majority of his party colleagues was either stupor or contempt. No prominent Bolshevik [[leader]] supported his call to revolution, and the ed
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...is [[father]] and [[mother]]. Extravagance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public ...ese choices do not disturb the [[social]] and [[ideological]] [[balance]]. With [[regard]] to C'est mon choix, the truly radical [[thing]] would have been
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• Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
  ...rare cases where one of the three mediums employed by the police disagrees with the [[other]] two [[about]] a crime to be committed)… If one transposes t ...is always "we will do it with or without you," i.e. you are free to agree with, but not free to disagree — the old [[paradox]] of the [[forced]] [[choic
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...should be punished as part of the revenge for 9/11; (2) even if there was no link between Iraqi regime and al Qaeda, they are united in their [[hatred]] ...occupation in WHATEVER [[form]] may seem a much brighter prospect to them with [[regard]] to daily survival and much lower level of [[fear]]. We are not t
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...the predominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use ...[[subject]] can [[exist]]. Significantly, Butler [[identifies]] "subject" with the [[symbolic position]] occupied within this space, while she reserves th
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• You May
  ...er live our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] cal ...ean Union]], Continental Europe is a new version of the Turkish [[Empire]] with Brussels as the new Istanbul - a voracious despotism threatening British fr
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ..."></a><a href="#1x">1</a> The paradox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive ...ialism 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 signa
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...ded into [[universality]] and thereby overcome. Here, God is no longer, as with the Asiatics, contemplated as existent in immediately sensuous mode but is ...roducing an irrreconciliable [[difference]] between those who wanted peace with [[Germany]] and those who did not recognize capitulation and wanted to go o
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...ges as an urge, as an "[[I cannot do it otherwise]]," or it is worthless. With [[regard]] to [[Bernard Williams]]'s [[distinction]] between Ought and Must ...of new [[freedom]]s, but at the same [[time]] of new dangers, and there is no ultimate [[teleology|teleological]] [[guarantee]] of the outcome, the battl
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• With or Without Passion
  What's Wrong with [[Fundamentalism]]? - Part I ..., one simply misses the point. This [[paradox]] is what [[Lacan]] aims at with his <i>[[les non-dupes errent]]</i>: those who do not let themselves be cau
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• Move the Underground!
  What's Wrong with [[Fundamentalism]]? - Part II ...lines, yet this [[time]] the score contains no third absent melodic line, no inner voice - what is absent here is the absent melody, i.e. [[absence]] it
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...eir worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, may ignite anti-Semitic sentiments? More ...repressed]]: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger. (And, incidentally, is this compromise
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• Opera
  ...tell him that she will take him to Walhalla after he will lose the battle with Hunding. Siegmund refuses her offer if Sieglinde cannot join him in Walhall ...y plays with the small [[model]] of a dragon); etc. And Hagen is, together with Wotan and Alberich, the key person of Flimm's staging which presents the <i
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...not attacking lower classes as such, but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's ter ...eneath it, one can easily discern a worried hystericized subject, obsessed with [[anxiety]], addressing the doctor as his Master and asking for reassurance
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...n it was meant: even now, we don't know it - and, maybe, because there was no substantial "message" behind the result at all. This is the sense in which ...one case in which formal democrats themselves (or, at least, a substantial part of them) would tolerate the suspension of democracy: what if the formally f
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  "To seek [[truth]], I have already established a [[relationship]] with a face which can [[guarantee]] itself, whose epiphany itself is somehow a [ ...[[others]]." The ethical asymmetry between me and the other addressing me with the infinite call is the primordial fact, and 'I" should never lose my grou
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...phant return of the body in the sense of the ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defiance of the laws of ordinary physical reality.<br><br> ...formal digital universe of the Matrix itself. when Morpheus confronts Neo with the image of the ruins of Chicago, he simply says "This is the real world!"
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...The CIA has not even acknowledged the [[existence]] of these "black sites" with "[[ghost]] prisoners": to do so could open the U.S. [[government]] to [[leg ...ho can be killed with impunity since, in the eyes of the law, his [[life]] no longer counts.
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ed in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, may ignite anti-Semitic sentiments? More ...y repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger.<br><br>
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...]] that marks the end of century: the overlapping of the [[transgression]] with the norm. Walt Disney, the brand of the [[conservative]] [[family]] values, ...ality]], [[perversion]] is no longer subversive: the shocking excesses are part of the [[system]] itself, the system feeds on [[them]] in order to reproduc
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...d published by Barron's: a "bilingual" edition of [[Shakespeare]]'s plays, with the original archaic [[English]] on the [[left]] page and the [[translation ...tation that she is [[about]] to tell him a lie, and then countered her lie with an illegal act of his own, finding in her small crime the justification for
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...ly seem possible to do the opposite. On the [[other]] hand, I was aware of no motives. You could argue that I was not a free [[agent]], but I am more inc ...ubject]] decides about; it is non-[[psychological]] act, unemotional, with no motives, desires or fears; it is incalculable, not the outcome of strategic
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's ...hreat]], the more they are destroyed, as if the distraction of the greater part of them magically heightens the destructive [[power]] of the [[remainder]]?
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• The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
  ...e will find them, there HAVE to be some WMD in Iraq; (3) even if there are no WMD in Iraq, this was not the only [[reason]] we went to war, there are als ...raq's WMD is evoked to justify the brutal need to assert the US hegemony), with the last term in each of the two series [[being]] the same - oil (in each o
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• What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
  ...—they simply admitted the crimes only when (and because) they were faced with their disclosure in the [[media]]. The immediate reaction of the U.S. milit ...the prisoners, was an integral part of the [[process]], in stark contrast with the secrecy of the Saddam tortures. The very positions and costumes of the
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...ori legitimacy of free elections themselves, proposing a risked comparison with 1933 ("free elections also brought [[Hitler]] to [[power]]"). What this jus The first [[thing]] one can reproach him with is that he succumbed to the temptation of catastrophism, of perceiving the
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...m Antiquity to [[Modernity]]: in the case of Oedipus, we are still dealing with incest, while in Hamlet, the incestuous wish is [[repressed]] and [[displac ...involvement? In other [[words]], the question of "what means what?" is in no way decided by this reading: does the Hamlet narrative "mean" stars, or do
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...ned and the [[schools]] torched were not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters origi ...is not more social help, but discipline and hard work... Leftist liberals, no less predictably, stuck to their old mantra about neglected social programs
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...nstrate had never even SEEN the Danish caricatures. This fact confronts us with another, less attractive, aspect of globalization: the “global informatio ...not to get too close to others; I move in a social space where I interact with others obeying certain external “mechanical” rules, without sharing the
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• Lenin Shot at Finland Station
  ...mutually exclusive’. ‘If,’ he continues, ‘we accept that there is no such [[thing]] as historical inevitability and that [[nothing]] is preordai ...history is abandoned in favour of political propaganda masked as satire). No wonder Roberts refers approvingly to Kingsley Amis’s novel <em>Russian Hi
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...causes of [[social]] [[responsibility]], ecological concern etc). There is no [[need]] for Porto Alegre: instead, Davos can become Porto Davos. ...uthority]], [[order]] and parochial patriotism, but also the old [[left]], with its war against [[capitalism]]: both fight their shadow-theatre battles in
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...of the [[Jew]]s was a fact of their [[biological]] constitution: there was no need to prove they were [[guilty]], since they were [[guilty]] by virtue of ...s]] and [[Brecht]] and others be pardoned for their much longer engagement with [[Stalinism]]? This position reduces [[Nazism]] to a reaction to, and [[re
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...belief]] that we possess an inherited 'human nature', that we are [[born]] with an unfathomable [[dimension]] of ourselves.* ...tation with the meaninglessness of a [[life]]-determining [[contingency]]. No wonder the majority of [[people]] (including the [[scientist]] who [[identi
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• Knee-Deep
  ...ter, so that the shit floats in it, [[visible]], but not to be inspected. No wonder that in the famous [[discussion]] of [[Europe]]an toilets at the beg ...recently undergone a strange [[displacement]]: the French are preoccupied with [[culture]] (how to save theirs from vulgar Americanisation), the English a
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...the Third Way brings us back to the first and only way. Global capitalism with a human face.</p><p>This, then, is Havel's tragedy: his authentic ethical s
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• Are We in a War
  ...be killed with impunity and whose [[death]] had, for the same [[reason]], no sacrificial [[value]]. Today, as a term denoting [[exclusion]], it can be s ...h the [[enemy]] is criminalised if he [[defends]] himself and returns fire with fire. Which brings me back to the 'unlawful combatant', who is neither enem
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• Ethics and the Real
  ..., with the [[ideal]] of the [[human]] subject’s assuming his desire? Or with [[Antigone]], who is willing to bo beyond the [[satisfaction]] of desire in
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• Oedipus complex
  ...rent of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex. ...s a term developed by [[Sigmund Freud]] to designate the attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostilit
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• Love
  ...ef>{{S11}} p. 200</ref> [[Love]] is an [[illusory]] [[fantasy]] of fusion with the [[beloved]] which makes up for the [[absence]] of any [[sexual relation ...really saying: "I am what is [[lacking]] in you, with my devotion to you, with my sacrifice for you, I will fill you out, I will [[complete]] you." The o
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• Dream
  ...hat dreams were the product of a "[[dream work]]." In both cases there was no weakening of psychic activity but quite the opposite, an intense activity d ...[[self]]-[[analysis]] that gave [[birth]] to psychoanalysis. For the most part, that [[self-analysis]] drew on Freud's own dreams (Anzieu, 1975/1984), and
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• Trauma
  ...ce for the retiology of the [[neuroses]], are called traumata.<ref>{{M&M}} Part III, Section I</ref></blockquote> ...man]] on whom he can be dependent, who will feed and keep him.<ref>{{M&M}} Part III, Section I</ref></blockquote>
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• Castration
  ...iation]] is necessary for all [[cultural]] [[achievement]], associating it with the [[Oedipus]] [[complex]] and its [[resolution]]. This deferred [[action]] now comes into effect with the [[fear]] of castration, a powerful influence in all his subsequent [[de
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• Surrealism
  ...analysis]] and during his medical studies Lacan developed strong [[links]] with the movement. [[Breton]] was familiar with Freud's work on dreams and developed a technique of 'spontaneous' writing t
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• Penis-envy
  ...]] of early [[childhood]] is that the [[female]] [[organ]] as yet plays no part in it-the [[child]] has not yet discovered it. All the accent falls on the ...etrate deeply into the [[neuroses]] of [[women]], we not infrequently meet with the [[repressed]] [[wish]] to possess a [[penis]]. We call this [[infantile
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• Categorical Imperative
  He expressed extreme [[dissatisfaction]] with the [[moral]] [[philosophy]] of his day because he believed it could never ...] as a rationally [[autonomy|autonomous]] [[self]]-[[conscious]] [[being]] with [[full]] [[freedom]] of action and self-determination. For a will to be con
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• Frankfurt School
  ...furt School" is an informal term used to designate the thinkers affiliated with the Institute for [[Social]] Research or influenced by [[them]]: it is not ...nuscripts]]'' and ''[[The German Ideology]]'', which showed the continuity with [[Hegelianism]] that underlay Marx's thought: [[Marcuse]] was one of the fi
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• Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves
  ...[[meaning]] of wearing a veil changes completely. For [[liberals]], it is no longer a [[sign]] of their belonging to the Muslim community, but an expres ...ot the consequence of multicultural “[[tolerance]].” It effectively is part of capital’s strategy to hold in check the [[demands]] of workers!)
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• Parallax View
  The paradox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive ...object from itself - that this difference "as such" immediately coincides with an unfathomable object: in contrast to a mere difference between objects, t
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• Supplement
  ...au, who argues in his essay on the origins of [[language]] that writing is no more than a [[supplement]] to, or parasite on, a [[natural]] spoken languag ...s not, that is, originate in a natural [[state]] of completion as there is no extra-[[linguistic]] point of origin, but merely the 'originary lack'.
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• Francis Scott Fitzgerald
  ...al]] in [[chronological]] [[order]]: now, the novel begins in 1919 Zurich, with Dick as a young doctor called by a friend psychiatrist to take over the dif ...the [[myth]] of "primordial accumulation." 4 In other [[words]], there is no direct immanent line of [[development]] from the prehistory to the glitzy s
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...] of urgency, emphasized by the ticking of a digital clock and accentuated with hand-held camera shots and [[split]]-screens showing the concurrent actions ...only treat terrorist suspects in this way — after all, they are dealing with the “[[ticking bomb]]” [[situation]] evoked by [[Alan Dershowitz]] to j
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...cade away from producing a [[nuclear weapon]] - an assessment that differs with earlier timetables cited by Bush administration officials, who estimated th ...nvisible threat]] that sustains it changed. Existing power [[structures]] no longer relied on their own [[fantasy|fantasmatic]] [[projection]] of a pote
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• Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
  ...[[meaning]] of wearing a veil changes completely. For [[liberals]], it is no longer a [[sign]] of their belonging to the [[Muslim]] [[community]], but a ...of [[multiculturalsim|multicultural]] "[[tolerance]]." It effectively is part of [[capital]]'s strategy to hold in check the [[demands]] of workers!)
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...ected the [[films]], are not [[philosophers]], but just two guys who flirt with and exploit, in an often confused way, some “postmodern” and New Age no ...ther]] spectators with loud exclamations like: “My God, wow, so there is no [[reality]]! So we are all puppets!”<br><br>
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• Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
  ...[mapping]] of a devolution, progressing toward a dark conclusion. It began with the early “mountain films” of the 1920s that she starred in and later b ...ality]]? It seems that the [[fear]] of those who are fascinated by Leni is no longer “When will she die?” but “Will she <i>ever</i> die?” Althoug
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• Passion: Regular or Decaf?
  ...s]] [[passion]], which remains smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger. ...” or [[lifestyle]] phenomenon, not as a substantial way of [[life]]. We no longer “really believe,” we just follow (some of) the [[religious]] [[r
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  Slovene [[culture]] is obsessed with the [[notion]] that, although a small [[nation]], we are a [[cultural]] sup ...or some [[time]], [[living]] in [[Vienna]] or [[Paris]]. It is the same as with Ireland: not only did [[James]] [[Joyce]] leave home in [[order]] to write
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
  ...I “[[objective]]ly” pray through it, while my [[mind]] can be occupied with the dirtiest of [[sexual]] [[thoughts]]. ...xists]] only in mediated [[form]] as part of the TV show itself. However, with [[time]], one grows accustomed to this disembodied laughter, and the phenom
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• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  ...nge twists of today's conservative [[politics]], it is ''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' by Thomas Frank. ...e this with the unheard-of explosion the state apparatuses under [[Bush]]? No wonder large corporations are delighted to accept such evangelical attacks
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  * "[[On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love|An Interview with Slavoj Žižek: 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love]]". ''Jo ...er that the best example, it's religious!&nbsp; But paradoxically there is no place for religion.&nbsp; You know the irony is that the supreme example of
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• Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
  ...]] series of police procedurals set in the southern Swedish town of Ystad, with the inspector Kurt Wallander as their hero, is the exemplary [[case]] of th ...e settings clearly had the status of eccentric exceptions, this status was part of their appeal which relied on the distance towards the paradigmatic locat
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ed in their worry that the film, made by a fanatic Catholic traditionalist with occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, may ignite anti-Semitic sentiments? More ...y repressed: it remains there, smoldering beneath the surface and, finding no release, gets stronger and stronger.
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• Liberation Hurts
  An Interview with Slavoj [[Zizek]]<br> ...is that "in our politically correct times, it is always advisable to start with the set of unwritten prohibitions that define the positions one is allowed
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• Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies
  ...the extended ending, the additional short [[scene]] in Midge's apartment, with Scottie and Midge [[listening]] to the radio which announces that Elster wa ...hich observes me from the outside, which, precisely, means that my gaze is no longer mine, that it is stolen from me. [...]
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' says the second, 'then that's ...hreat]], the more they are destroyed, as if the distraction of the greater part of them magically heightens the destructive [[power]] of the [[remainder]]?
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...not attacking lower classes as such, but, rather, the new masters who are no longer ready to assume the title of the Master - "slave" is Nietzsche's ter ...eneath it, one can easily discern a worried hystericized subject, obsessed with [[anxiety]], addressing the doctor as his Master and asking for reassurance
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• The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
  ...r traditional one. At all levels of our life we seem to live more and more with the [[thing]] deprived of its substance. You get beer without alcohol, meat ...e archetypal [[film]] of the twentieth century would be Nagisa Oshima's Ai No Corrida where the [[idea]] again is that you become truly radical, and go t
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
  ...St [[Paul]], who formulated the basic tenets of [[Christianity]], was not part of [[Christ]]'s inner circle, and [[Lacan]] accomplished his "return to [[F ...ave behind old [[ideological]] divisions and to confront new issues, armed with the necessary expert [[knowledge]] and free deliberation that takes into ac
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...lan to transport [[them]] to the extermination camp, organize a fake train with [[Nazi]] guards, board it and, of course, insteads of the camp, take the ri ...ractive; I can do with my prisoners whatever I [[want]], so I can rape her with impunity. However, I am also impregnated by the racist [[ideology]] which t
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...narrative]] - in short, to [[speak]] about [[films]] whose narrative deals with some impossible/traumatic Thing, like the [[Alien]] Thing in [[science]]-[[ ...of [[screen]]-[[reality]]. The object-Thing is thus clearly rendered as a part of ourselves that we eject into reality... This intrusion of the massive Th
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• You May!
  ...er live our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] cal ...ean Union]], Continental Europe is a new version of the Turkish [[Empire]] with Brussels as the new Istanbul - a voracious despotism threatening British fr
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ed other spectators with loud exclamations, like "My God, wow, so there is no reality!"... I definitely prefer such naive immersion to the pseudo-sophist ...dicament and step out to the surface of the Earth, what they find there is no longer the bright surface illuminated by the rays of the Sun, the supreme G
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...days the Serbian satellite [[state]] TV which targets foreign [[public]]: no reports on atrocities in Kosovo, refugees are mentioned only as [[people]] ...ting]] in the air, and falling down only when it becomes aware that it has no ground under its feet... From Milosevic's seizure of power in Serbia onward
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  ...[[Freudian]] view, it is meaningless to [[supplement]] [[psychoanalysis]] with struggling with, the point of failure of the [[three]] consecutive drafts of <i>Weltalter</
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  Today, however, with the [[apparent]] demise of Marxism, the entire [[situation]] has changed: t ...l attention insofar as his "post-Marxism" has [[nothing]] whatsoever to do with the fashionable deconstructionist dismissal of the alleged Marxist "[[essen
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...with the father who, intervening as the [[Third]], prevents direct contact with the incestuous [[object]] (thus sustaining the [[illusion]] that his annihi ...person is utterly impotent and ridiculous (King Lear, confronted violently with this betrayal and the ensuing unmasking of his [[impotence]], and deprived
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  interview with Geert Lovink, InterCommunication 14, February 27 1995 ...n. The empty [[signs]], no Western [[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...000000" face="Courier,Helvetica,Arial,Times Roman"><tt> (Lusitania, Vol I, no 4, 1994)</tt></font></td></tr> ...d...maybe next year if I try again and again, I will succeed." To identify with this possibility is enough to succeed. For the possibility itself to bring
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  presidency of the republic of Slovenia, then part of [[Yugoslavia]], in 1990.</i> with [[politics]]. Even now, this is partly the [[case]]. In [[Western Europe]]
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...Eastern Europeans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? ...tells us directly, "You must eat this, you must not eat this." It is like with tobacco, the Spinozist doesn't say, "Don't smoke," he/she says "Smoke, but.
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...the predominant deconstructionist doxa according to which the main problem with [[Lacanian]] [[theory]] - which allegedly also limits its [[political]] use ...[[subject]] can [[exist]]. Significantly, Butler [[identifies]] "subject" with the [[symbolic position]] occupied within this space, while she reserves th
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...be killed with impunity and whose [[death]] had, for the same [[reason]], no sacrificial [[value]]. Today, as a term denoting [[exclusion]], it can be s ...h the [[enemy]] is criminalised if he [[defends]] himself and returns fire with fire. Which brings me back to the 'unlawful combatant', who is neither enem
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• Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
  ...St [[Paul]], who formulated the basic tenets of [[Christianity]], was not part of [[Christ]]'s inner circle, and [[Lacan]] accomplished his "return to [[F ...ave behind old [[ideological]] divisions and to confront new issues, armed with the necessary expert [[knowledge]] and free deliberation that takes into ac
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• Democracy
  ...st to [[claim]] that, in democracy, the will and the interests (the two in no way automatically coincide) of the large majority determine [[state]] decis Slavoj Žižek’s [[thinking]] with [[regard]] to political democracy is ambivalent, or nuanced, in several way
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• Anarchy
  ...ect - which had been in a [[state]] of crisis for some [[time]] - but also with radical [[left-wing]] politics generally. The subsequent [[hegemony]] of ne ...cally. Anarchism thus exposed the limitations of Marxist theory in dealing with the problem of power and authority. Blinded as it was by its economic deter
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• Transgression
  ...of [[Dreams]] (1900a, ch. 3), the [[idea]] of transgression is contrasted with that of an [[unsatisfied]] [[desire]] able to reach [[satisfaction]] in spi ...ious disciplines, including within the [[psychoanalytical]] [[community]], with the focus on [[ethical]] debates.
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• Illusion
  To that extent the illusion has much in common with [[dreams]] and dreaming, where the [[philosophers]] of antiquity had situat ...] for a [[Scientific]] [[Psychology]] (1950c [1895]), illusion is confused with [[hallucination]] in the context of perceptual illusion.
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• Historicism
  It can be contrasted with [[reductionism|reductionist]] theories which suppose that all developments ...aid to have influenced heavily, [[Karl Marx]]. The term is also associated with the empirical [[social]] [[sciences]] and the [[work]] of [[Franz Boas]].
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ==No Subject== ...ripped of the [[right]] to train students, Lacan was then obliged to break with the [[official]] institution,<ref>Cf. Elisabeth Roudinesco, ''La [[Bataille
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• Gaze And Voice As Love Objects
  ...mise that “there is no [[sexual]] relationship,” that the sexes are in no way complementary and that love—figured in the gaze and the voice —embo ...he sexes is the site of a larger battle over the destiny of [[modernity]]. With insights into the underlying target of racist and sexist [[violence]], this
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...lwind of [[thought]] to its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary Kay's stance in today's [[politics]]." ...>, with inner conviction, somehow believing it" about his [[relationship]] with Monica Lewinsky and claiming that this is the paradoxical [[structure]] of
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...cene rules that sustain our supposedly [[civilized]] [[social]] practices. With lightning speed , he moves from the decline of British [[culture]] ("They t ...s talking, he seems unable to stop. "You must be much crueler, more brutal with me!" he pleads, even as he speeds his pace to prevent me from cutting him o
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• I am a fighting atheist
  <h1 class="documentFirstHeading">I am a Fighting [[Atheist]]: Interview with Slavoj [[Zizek]]</h1> ...readers. It's one [[thing]] to illuminate contemporary political concerns with the [[help]] of dense [[philosophical]] points; it's another entirely to ma
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  An Interview with Slavoj Zizek he was simply playing [[games]] with the [[Paris]] [[intellectual]] [[community]] to
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...man idealism and psychoanalysis. In both cases, Zizek's central concern is with a certain failure/excess in the order of being. In German idealism this asp ...ubjectivity (where in the Enlightenment tradition the latter is identified with the Light of Reason and as something which affects an ultimate mastery, or
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...luto Press in London in March 2004. The first four chapters deal in detail with the formation and decomposition of Yugoslavia (Chapter 1), how Zizek articu ...asest form of imperial contempt … Democracy, as usual, has nothing to do with it'.<a name="8x"></a><a href="#8">⁸</a> This perceptive response
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...' - a 'crisis' of which the socialist-revolutionary narrative was itself a part and which must ultimately be explained because of the '[[Jewish]] conspirac ...gle]] over which of these elements not only is defined by its relationship with the [[others]] but also allows this relationship, is that medium through wh
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...eak of the private lives of their subjects. After all, what has this to do with their work? How is this to help us understand what they write? Our doubts, ...Anglo-Saxon (English and American) lavatory presents a kind of synthesis, with the basin full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible but not to
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...aliation, they both urged a kind of caution or delay. Baudrillard, for his part, wrote in <i>The Spirit of [[Terrorism]]</i>: While Zizek, for his part, in the essay "Welcome to the Desert of [[the Real]]", stated that any imme
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• Wilhelm Reich
  ...on an injunction against its promotion as a medical [[treatment]]. Charged with contempt of court for violating the injunction, Reich conducted his own [[d ...mother]] committed [[suicide]] after [[being]] discovered having an affair with Reich's tutor. [http://www.wilhelmreichmuseum.org/biography.html]
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• Erich Fromm
  ...psychologist]] and humanistic [[philosophy|philosopher]]. He is associated with what became known as the [[Frankfurt School]] of critical thinkers. ...fgang Goethe Uniersity Frankfurt am Main|University of Frankfurt am Main]] with two semesters of [[jurisprudence]]. During the summer semester of [[1919]]
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...tude<img src="/ucp-entities/mdash.gif" alt="—" align="bottom" border="0">no wonder that, [[reading]] authors like MacDonald, one often cannot decide if ...ernunft</i> from the early 1950s. Wolin bombastically locates me, together with Baudrillard, among those who claimed that the U.S. got what it deserved on
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...books that dealt more with [[moral]] and [[political]] issues are Tarrying With the [[Negative]]: [[Kant]], [[Hegel]], and Critique of [[Ideology]] and The ...nch]], and Krzystof [[Kieslowski]]. [[Born]] in 1949 in [[Slovenia]], then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of [[Yugoslavia]], Zizek was educated at
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  ...the sea, I behold in you your citizens, women as well as men tightly bound with stout bonds around their arms and Iegs by folk who will not understand your ...ossible the kind of tightening up that I like in order to leave the reader no other way out than the way in, which I prefer to be difficult. In that sens
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• Kant with Sade
  ...to recall the attraction which preordains the creature to its good, along with the psychology inscribed in various myths of goodwill, we can only credit t ...he inaugural step of a subversion, of which, however amusing it might seem with respect to the coldness of the man, Kant is the turning point, and never no
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• Tuché and Automaton
  ...no way allows us to accept some such aphorism as <i>life is a dream. </i>No praxis is more orientated towards that which, at the heart of experience, i ...unter, an essential encounter-an appointment to which we are always called with a real that eludes us. That is why I have put on the blackboard a few word
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...comprehensions Mlle Gélinier remarked upon the [[other]] day when dealing with Melanie [[Klein]]'s [[text]]. What matters, when one tries to elaborate upo ...flush with one [[another]]. I have taught you to [[identify]] the symbolic with language - now, isn't it in so far as, say, Melanie Klein speaks, that some
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  <dd>You [[know]] that last [[time]] I picked up my [[discussion]] with you by connecting it to my lecture to the Catholics.<br> ...neralizations [[about]] the [[religious]] function in man. He is concerned with the way in which it manifests itself to us, that is to say, in the commandm
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...e to clear up the misunderstanding that might occur because we are dealing with Sade, and it might be [[thought]] that that constitutes a wholly [[external ...Naturally]], since I am [[speaking]] to you, I try to interest you; that's part of the deal. But that mode of [[communication]] which binds us together isn
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  linguistic meaning prior to Saussure had been historical with thus implied or, in any event, occupies only a subordinate role with respect<br>
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• The Anamorphosis
  ...ion of repetition that this digression on the scopic function is situated -no doubt by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's recently published work, <i>Le</i> <i>Visi ...ttach to this [[formula]]? How is it that it remains, in fact, correlative with that fundamental mode to which we referred in the [[Cartesian]] <i>[[cogito
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• Bon, eh bien, j'espérais
  ne parle et qu'elle ne part que du vrai.</font></font> fait clair dès ce départ, comme la suite d'ailleurs l'a bien
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• Action
  .... These definitions are not [[psychoanalytic]] in themselves, and there is no coherent [[body]] of [[thought]] in [[psychoanalysis]] concerning [[them]], ...in the last part of [[Totem]] and [[Taboo]] (1912-13a), which he concludes with this quote from [[Goethe]]: "In the beginning was the deed."
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• Automaton
  ...coincided with the [[insistence]] of the [[network]] of [[signifier]]s and with [[Freud]]’s [[pleasure principle]]. ...eed a chain. 41 This is the level of the law, at which [[science]] aims, with its preponderant interest for the causa efficiens (efficient [[cause]]), an
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• Death and Psychoanalysis
  ...ogical]] [[statement]], since in the [[absence]] of [[existence]] there is no consciousness, while the first refers to the make-up of the unconscious [[s ...ity of escaping it through superstitious magical activities, is associated with their unconscious [[hatred]] in the [[conflict]] of [[ambivalence]]. The [[
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• Death Instinct
  ...ion]] and [[mastery]] or the will to [[power]]: this is sadism proper; the part that remains "[[inside]]" is primary erogenous masochism. ...tincts would then cease to hold and the [[compulsion]] to [[repeat]] would no longer possess the importance we have ascribed to it" (p. 44).
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• Cruelty
  ...om the [[drives]] or the ego, but also as to the type of person associated with these impulses: in fleeing [[The Transference|the transference]], did Dora ...rted through the "[[apparatus]] for obtaining mastery" (p. 159), connected with the musculature, it is the skin, as the "[[erotogenic]] zone par excellence
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• Female Sexuality
  ...s experienced to begin with as a personal [[punishment]], then accepted as part of a broader [[truth]]: [[women]] do not have [[them]]. ...ation|castrated]], that occasioned the abandonment of the [[relationship]] with the [[mother]] as [[object]].
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• Interpretation
  ...children]], and went on to say; "I believe that really you are in [[love]] with your employer, the Director, though perhaps without [[being]] aware of it y Though only concerned explicitly with [[dreams]], [[Freud]]'s comments on [[interpretation]] in this [[work]] app
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• Latency Period
  ...[discharge]] toward socially acceptable and valorized activities, together with the [[formation]] of an [[ideal]], while in [[object]] relations [[feelings ...in the etiology of [[neuroses]]. He had to mark the connection of neuroses with infantile experiences, the notion of deferred [[action]] and discontinuitie
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• Weltanschauung
  ...rmly on the basis of one overriding hypothesis, which, accordingly, leaves no question unanswered and in which everything that interests us finds its fix ...e broadened the [[notion]], bringing [[science]] too under its aegis; this with the proviso, though, that "the <i>Weltanschauung</i> of science already dep
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• Parricide
  ...icide" when the [[fantasy]] is acted out, when the murder of the father is no longer merely an imagined infraction of one of the two [[oedipal]] injuncti ...p. 185), which inevitably leads to a [[conflict]]-ridden [[relationship]] with the [[parents]]. In Totem and Taboo (1912-1913a), Freud noted the adventiti
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• Marxism and Psychoanalysis
  ...] by bringing [[Freudian]] analysis of psychic processes into articulation with [[Marxist]] analysis of social processes. This line of [[thinking]] has bee ...psychoanalysis and tried their hand at bringing the two theories together with [[regard]] to ideology. Works such as <i>The Authoritarian [[Personality]]<
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• Memory
  ...ong with [[memory]], when the [[subject]] cannot [[recollection|recall]] a part of his [[history]]. It thus no longer designates the [[symbolic]] [[history]] of the [[subject]] which is
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• Myth of Origins
  ...ands of years and has remained operative in generations which can have had no [[knowledge]] of that action" (p. 158). ...eting together of the two is conceptualized in [[terms]] of [[anaclisis]], with [[self]]-preservation serving as a support to the [[libido]]. Also resultin
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• Mourning
  ...middle of the First [[World]] War, when everyone in [[Europe]] was dealing with such losses—for these issues are also mentioned in "[[Thoughts]] for the ...e not of much [[help]] when it comes to reassembling everything associated with the lost object. Finding [[words]] to express the pain, the unimaginable di
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• Primitive Horde
  ...s [[theory]]: "The first [[practice]] was that of the jealous [[Father]]: 'no male can touch the females in my camp,' which was accompanied by the [[expu ...importance he assigned to this is reflected by a [[communication]] he had with Abram Kardiner in which he wrote, "Don't take this too seriously. It's some
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• Return of the Repressed
  ...]], as likewise the irreducible character of [[memory]] traces. If we have no [[memories]] of events during the first years of [[life]], this is because ...y, it is [[true]], after having undergone great [[distortion]] as compared with the unconscious, though often retaining many characteristics which call for
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• Maternal
  ...] or person-[[mother]], [[total]]/partial, [[satisfying]] [[needs]] (mixed with the quality of care dispensed and the sensations procured), [[internal]]/ex Freud isolated an essential component in these dualities: the care associated with the protective shield and intended to [[satisfy]] needs also awakens [[part
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• Fool
  ...'.<ref>In this and subsequent passages, the words 'fool' and 'knave' along with 'foolery' and 'knavery' in quotation marks are in English in the original.< ...furnishes a strictly contemporary term, a term that is used in conjunction with the former, namely, 'knave' - if we have the time, I will show you the [[te
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• Taboo
  ...we no longer possess the [[idea]] which it connotes. It was still current with the ancient Romans: their word "sacer" was the same as the taboo of the Pol ...rize what [[understanding]] we have gained of taboo through its comparison with the compulsive [[prohibition]] of the [[neurotic]]. Taboo is a very [[primi
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• Psychosexual development
  ...turies]]. In the development of his theories, [[Freud]]'s main concern was with [[sexual desire]], defined in [[terms]] of formative [[drives]], [[instinct ...es may result in [[fixation]]. Freud related the resolutions of the stages with [[adult]] personalities and [[personality]] disorders.
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• Developmental psychology
  ...] changes that occur in [[human]] beings as they age. Originally concerned with [[infants]] and [[children]], and later [[other]] periods of great [[change ...one [[stage]] of [[thinking]] to [[another]]; or if children are [[born]] with innate knowledge or [[figure]] things out through [[experience]]; and wheth
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• Defense mechanism
  * When the [[id]] impulses are in [[conflict]] with each [[other]]; * When [[The Id|the id]] impulses conflict with [[superego]] values and beliefs;
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• Unconscious mind
  In [[psychoanalytic theory]], the '''[[unconscious]]''' refers to that part of [[mental]] functioning of which [[subject (philosophy)|subjects]] make t ...of the [[mind]], whereas the subconscious (frequently misused and confused with the unconscious) was that merely [[autonomic function]] of the [[brain]]. T
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• Working-through
  ...e idea of a [[repetition]] that garners small quantities of energy to deal with the [[compulsion]] to [[repeat]] emanating from the id. Working-through is ...sentations that are more [[complex]] than in 1914. Thus working-through is no longer indicated at certain [[times]] during treatment; and sometimes a poo
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• Remembering
  ...ctive [[energy]] [[discharged]] and that remain blocked in a [[split]]-off part of [[consciousness]]. .... The [[analyst]] who maintains that such memories are genuine, even those with the best [[claim]] to [[being]] authentic, is either naive or is laboring u
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• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  ...st]] of [[training]] [[analysts]].</ref> My seminar for today was prepared with the same care as I have always d ed to it, every week, for the last ten years. I don't [[think]] I can do any betted an offer it to you as it is, with my
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...eady been written about the battle for Stalingrad, this battle is invested with so many fantasies and symbolic meanings -- when the German troops reached t ...side is "fairly" attributed its quota of military successes and failures (with a strange symmetry: on both sides, the sagacious generals were fighting not
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• Jean-Paul Sartre
  ...ged [[self]]-[[knowledge]] because, as Sartre writes, "My I, in effect, is no more certain for consciousness than the I of [[other]] men. It is only more ...would attempt to do with Jean Genet (1952) and Gustave Flaubert (1971-72). With this as a starting point, Sartre moves on to discuss the similarities and d
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• Stalinism
  ...]] disease, as it is clear from the subsequent [[letter]] (posted together with the previous one): ...s ("On the [[Death]] of Lenin") delivered on January 26 1924, which begins with:
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• Symbol
  ...e is doing so on account of the [[association]] A-B, and B itself plays no part at all in his [[psychical]] [[life]]. The symbol has in this case taken the ...exual symbolic, in the service of an oneiric representability, corresponds with Freud's [[wish]] to contest [[Jung]]'s theory of symbolism, whose conceptio
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• Autism
  ...he second refers to an [[absence]] of [[development]] of [[communication]] with [[others]] beginning in earliest infancy. ...d the term to describe "early [[infantile]] autism," a syndrome associated with problems of communication and [[social]] [[behavior]], as well as serious [
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• Parapraxis
  ...wer biographical details while providing valuable evidence—indeed, often with comical effect—that offers a popular audience an easy way to grasp [[psyc ...I do not believe that an event in whose occurrence my mental life plays no part can teach me any hidden [[thing]] [[about]] the [[future]] shape of [[reali
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• Bureaucracy
  ...dea]] of bureaucracy is most frequently engaged in Žižek’s [[writing]] with [[regard]] to Hegel’s [[defence]] of a monarchical head of [[state]]. ...arch and bureaucracy have as much to do with their respective functions as with how they come to occupy their roles. Whereas bureaucrats are chosen for the
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• Partial object
  ...lating only to a part of a person rather than the whole. The primordial [[part-object]] is, according to [[Klein]], the [[mother]]'s [[breast]]. As the [ While the term "[[part-object]]" was first introduced by the [[Kleinian]] [[school]] of [[psychoan
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• United States
  ...gious]] purity, and even [[married]] celibacy, were having illicit affairs with "loose" [[women]], which often created "[[mental]] problems." ...tutions and did not [[know]] how to cure neuroses—and clergymen who were no longer able to [[help]] [[people]] by instilling a [[fear]] of God.
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• Guarantee
  ...practitioner to the title of A.M.E. He deduces from this that there can be no definition of the A.M.E. [[other]] than a tautological one: "a member named ...he AME is thus to be seen as the field of action of its Commission charged with selection of members to be nominated to this title, that is, the [[analysts
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...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
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...n]] phenomenon, the obverse of the highly reflexive self-ironical attitude-no wonder that, [[reading]] authors like MacDonald, one often cannot decide if ...er Vernunft from the early 1950s. Wolin bombastically locates me, together with Baudrillard, among those who claimed that the U.S. got what it deserved on
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• Le Cas Aimée
  ...[Aimée]] was in fact striking herself: [[Duflos]] represented a [[woman]] with [[freedom]] and [[culture|social prestige]], exactly the sort of [[woman]] ...d within a [[symbolic|complex social network]]. The actress represented a part of [[Aimée]] herself, indicating how the [[identity]] of a [[human]] [[bei
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• Overview
  # [[Hegel]] provides Zizek with a dialectical type of thought or methodology that he uses. (In Zizek's read # [[Lacan]] provides Zizek with the framework and terminology for his analyses. Of particular importance a
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• Wish for a Baby
  ...]] "breath of [[life]]" (Bydlowski, 1978), and that evolves in conjunction with [[individual]] [[libidinal]] [[development]]. It is marked by the [[Oedipus ...from the [[father]] without the mother's [[knowledge]] and in [[rivalry]] with her.
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• Working-Through
  ...e idea of a [[repetition]] that garners small quantities of energy to deal with the [[compulsion]] to [[repeat]] emanating from the id. Working-through is ...sentations that are more [[complex]] than in 1914. Thus working-through is no longer indicated at certain [[times]] during treatment; and sometimes a poo
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• Sigmund Freud:Biography
  ...of a large [[family]], Freud's father had already been [[married]] twice, with two grown boys from his first [[marriage]] that were now older than Amalie. ...and at [[times]], antagonistic regarding religion. He associated religion with [[superstition]] and was uncompromisingly committed to [[science]] as a mea
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• Sigmund Freud:Historical Context
  ...dore Fechner, who preceded [[Freud]] but had contact with him in the later part of the nineteenth century, also speculated about the unconscious. Fechner c [[Discussion]] of the unconscious was very much a part of the European [[intellectual]] [[community]] during the 1880s when Freud
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• Sigmund Freud:Critical Response
  ...behavior later in [[life]]. This deterministic presupposition is in large part what made Freud's theory so intriguing and controversial. ...oth Alfred Adler and Carl [[Jung]], two names that would become synonymous with Freud as much for their alliance as for their eventual [[split]].
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories In Action
  ..., he did create a number of important techniques that were repeatedly used with his patients and that were adopted by large numbers of followers in subsequ ...s. Following are some of the most important techniques that are associated with psychoanalysis.
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• Fourth Analysis
  ...-[[Language]] [[Psychoanalytical]] Organization), is a new approach to the part of [[analytic]] [[training]] traditionally known in [[psychoanalytic]] soci ...atient, who is only spoken of indirectly, confronts [[three]] [[analysts]] with the partiality (in both senses) of their [[knowledge]]: the novice, who is
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• Function of Language
  ...d on other beings to grow - for an especially long time if you compare him with [[animal]] [[species]]. A [[baby]] cries. From the beginning the [[satisfac ...is characterised by a fundamental elusiveness and unpredictability: since no signifier follows automatically from that which precedes it, in the very ga
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...er 7) and "The [[Signification]] of the Phallus" (Chapter 8), both address with increasing subtlety the problems involved in the [[castration]] [[complex]] ...oth papers are based. Without these supports we must [[content]] ourselves with a kind of make-do [[coherence]] which is [[forced]] to take its bearings fr
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...e seminar can give. But such is Lacan's manner, and we simply have to live with that fact, settling for what provisional [[sense]] we can make out of what -------original lecture was delivered in -[[German]]?). It begins with a reference to the importance of the [[castration]] [[complex]] for traditi
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...t can't depend on [[exclusion]] and [[hatred]] for its condition! Or else, with a yawn and a wink, we resign ourselves to taking advantage of whatever trus ..." we react as cynics and Kantian fetishists: I [[know]] very well there is no social Harmony prepared in heaven, but that is why we must [[work]] it here
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  The Introduction of Žižek's The [[Ticklish Subject]] begins with his assertion that 'a [[spectre]] is haunting Western academia…, the spec ...included among this group but Žižek refutes this and charges [[Derrida]] with consistently misreading Lacan's work.
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• Unary trait
  ...cation described by [[Freud]], the [[subject]] [[identifies]] regressively with a [[love]] [[object]] or rival by adopting a "single trait" of the [[other] ...ifier. Or more precisely, insofar as this signifier is isolated and is not part of a [[chain]] of [[signifiers]], it is first a [[sign]] or an "insignia of
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• Jean Delay
  ...1939 he joined the staff of the [[Sainte-Anne]] Hospital, where he worked with [[Henri Claude]] and Maxime Laignel-Lavastine. After the Germans deported J ...e" (1942), which was influenced by the [[work]] of Pierre Janet, he became part of the great [[tradition]] of [[French]] [[psycho]]-[[pathology]] through s
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• Ernest Jones
  In 1906, with his friend Lewis Trotter, he discovered [[Freud]]'s writings, and this stim ...ned the term "[[rationalization]]," which was accepted by Freud and became part of the technical language of psychoanalysis to indicate a way of trying to
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• Internal/external reality
  ...at is bad, what is [[alien]] to the ego and what is external are, to begin with, identical" (p. 237). According to him, [[external reality]] always remains ...ion on the [[relationship]] between the Ego and the external world," deals with material reality by introducing the [[concept]] of the "reality [[index]],"
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• Subject's Castration
  ...]]. Instead he recommended that masochistic [[pleasure]] also be connected with [[castration anxiety]], which is expressed as a [[desire]] to receive the [ ...that the erectile organ—not as itself, or even as an [[image]], but as a part that is [[missing]] in the desired image—comes to [[symbolize]] the [[pla
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• Psychoses, chronic and delusional
  ...phemism or antiphrasis does not justify this [[claim]]. Moreover, there is no [[primitive]] language as far as [[linguists]] are concerned. Language is a ...ejected the [[notion]] of "primitive" languages, which were languages with no written [[tradition]]. According to de Saussure, a language should be consi
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• Fort-Da
  ...he made his [[image]] "gone." Freud stresses the fact that the <i>fort</i> part of the game was much of the time sufficient unto itself, and was "repeated ..., at thirty months, throws aside a toy and unequivocally [[identifies]] it with his [[absent]] [[father]] who has been "sent to the front" (p. 16).
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• Structuralism and psychoanalysis
  ...perceptible forms ([[gestalts]] and [[figures]] of the [[imagination]]) or with any intelligible [[essence]], must be [[understood]] in [[Louis Althusser]] ...extent nor imaginary extension). Thus, in genetic [[biology]], "genes are part of a structure insofar as they are inseparable from 'loci, ' places capable
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• Fatherhood
  ...of Dreams</i>, and established that the desire of [[Oedipus]] to [[sleep]] with his [[mother]] and kill his father is [[universal]]. ...ered ego, while showing how to overcome ambivalence through identification with the father. Its [[dynamic]] potential is anchored in the father-mother-chil
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• Childhood
  ...rs of [[life]] and childhood but, in a certain [[sense]], we can say along with Donald [[Winnicott]] that "[[Freud]] neglected childhood as a [[state]] in I had no opportunity of direct observations on children.
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• Science and psychoanalysis
  ...which it is concerned are in themselves just as unknowable as those dealt with by other sciences, by [[chemistry]] or [[physics]], for example; but it is ...eveloped to varying degrees of probability. The capacity to be [[content]] with these approximations to [[certainty]] and the ability to carry on
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