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• Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary Father
  ...]] between the actual father and the function of the father in its real, [[symbolic]], and [[imaginary]] instances. In the [[reality]] of the [[child]]'s [[lif ...give up trying to make the child into her phallus, on the [[other]]. This symbolic castration determines the way in which the boy and the [[girl]] will
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• Real, imaginary, and symbolic father
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• Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic Father
  ...]] between the actual father and the function of the father in its real, [[symbolic]], and [[imaginary]] instances. In the [[reality]] of the [[child]]'s [[lif ...up to [[the imaginary]] father, to which they are inevitably compared, the real father also partially represents for the child the [[category]] of the [[im
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• Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic father
  ...]] between the actual father and the function of the father in its real, [[symbolic]], and [[imaginary]] instances. In the [[reality]] of the [[child]]'s [[lif ...give up trying to make the child into her phallus, on the [[other]]. This symbolic castration determines the way in which the boy and the [[girl]] will
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• The Symbolic, Imaginary and Real
  </b>[[Imaginary]], [[symbolic]], [[real]]: [[three]] "[[registers]]", aspects or quasi-functions by which [[speech ...harged with our [[desire,]] may be strongly dominated by submission to the symbolic order. </p><p>
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• Fetishism: The Symbolic, The Real and The Imaginary
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• Fetishism The Symbolic, The Real and The Imaginary
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• Translation
  * [[real]]: ''[[réel]]'' * [[symbolic]]: ''[[symbolique]]''
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• The Act
  ...[structure]] of [[paradox]]. “An act accomplishes what, within the given symbolic [[universe]], appears to be ‘impossible’, yet it changes its [[conditio ...ldings in an act of freedom that illuminated how we are all bound by [[the symbolic]] [[order]]; Sethe in Toni Morrison’s ''[[Beloved]]'' killed her own [[ch
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• Death drive
  ===Symbolic Order=== ...he does not situate the [[death drive]] in the [[imaginary]] but in the [[symbolic]].
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• Father
  ===Symbolic, Imaginary and Real=== ...etween the [[symbolic]] [[father]], the [[imaginary]] [[father]] and the [[real]] [[father]].
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• Imaginary
  ...acques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] of [[Jacques Lacan]], the [[real]], the [[symbolic]], and the [[imaginary]] are a central [[order|set of references]]. The [[i ...acques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] of [[Jacques Lacan]], the [[real]], the [[symbolic]], and the [[imaginary]] are a central [[order|set of references]]. The [[i
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• Jouissance
  The [[symbolic]] [[prohibition]] of [[enjoyment]] in the [[Oedipus complex]] (the [[incest ...'. Although the [[Real]] of the 1960s is not the same as his use of [[the Real]] in the 1980s, the first [[concepts]] emerge in this seminar. Here ''joui
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• Letter
  ...th the [[real]], a [[materialism|material substrate]] that underpins the [[symbolic order]]. The [[concept]] of [[materialism|materiality]] implies, for [[Laca As an element of the [[real]], the [[letter]] is [[meaning]]less in itself. [[Lacan]] illustrates this
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• Real
  The "[[real]]" stands for what is neither [[symbolic]] nor [[imaginary]]. ...in [[Lacan]] who often cites these [[Uncanny]] [[objects]] as reminders of symbolic [[lack]] in the subjects [[identity]] [[formation]].
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• Thing
  ...gen]]'' and ''[[Thing|Wortvorstellungen]]'' are opposed, in the [[symbolic|symbolic level]] "they go together". ...]] in its "dumb [[reality]]",<ref>{{S7}} p.55</ref> the [[thing]] in the [[real]], which is "the beyond-of-the-[[signified]]."<ref>{{S7}} p.54</ref> The [
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• Woman
  <blockquote>"Women in the [[real]] [[order]] serve . . . as objects for the exchanges required by the eleme ...ble, in the fact of being placed in the position of an [[object]] in the [[symbolic order]], to which, on the other hand, she is entirely subjected no less tha
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• Phallus
  ...ques Lacan]] [[chose]] to use the term "phallus" for [[the imaginary]] and symbolic [[representation]] of the penis in order to better distinguish the role of ...[[Lacan]]'s [[register]]s - the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]] - and as his system develops it becomes the one single indivisible [[sign
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• Symbolic
  ...uman]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[imaginary]] and the [[real]]. ...r psychoanalysis; [[psychoanalysts]] are essentially 'practitioners of the symbolic function'.<ref>{{E}} p. 72</ref>
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• Desire
  ...the gap, the original splitting which is constitutive of the subject, is [[real]]; and it is in this gap that the [[object a]], the object [[cause of desir ...ng of the signifiers that support it (albeit never exhausting it) that its real cause can be circumscribed (Lacan, 1977 [1959], pp. 256-77).
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• Demand
  ...l]] but is "inserted in a [[synchronic]] [[world]] of cries organized in a symbolic [[system]]."<ref>{{S4}} p. 182, 188</ref> It is the [[symbolic|symbolic nature]] of the infant's screams which forms the kernel of [[Lacan]]'s [[co
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• Between the two deaths
  The [[space]] of pure [[death drive]] without [[desire]], between [[symbolic]] death and actual death. This is [[death]] in the [[real]], of our [[material]] [[self]].
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...[[disavow]]s this [[lack]] and finds an [[object]] (the [[fetish]]) as a [[symbolic]] [[substitute]] for the mother's [[lack|missing]] [[penis]].<ref>{{F}}. "[ ...s]], the [[phobia|phobic]] [[object]] is an [[imaginary]] substitute for [[symbolic]] [[castration]].
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• Id
  ...is concerned is made of the [[signifier]] which is already there in the [[real]], the uncomprehended signifier. It is already there, but it is made of th ...conceives of the [[id]] as the [[unconscious]] origin of [[speech]], the [[symbolic]] "it" beyond the [[imaginary]] [[ego]].
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• Psychosis
  ...[[paternal function]] is reduced to the [[image]] of the [[father]] (the [[symbolic]] is reduced to the [[imaginary]]). ...[[the Imaginary]] and Real Orders, in parallel with an alteration in [[the Symbolic]] Order).
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• Transference
  ...work; he consistently locates the [[essence]] of [[transference]] in the [[symbolic]] and not in the [[imaginary]], although it clearly has powerful imaginary ...and [[full]] manner, there is, in the [[true]] sense, [[transference]], [[symbolic]] [[transference]] - something which takes [[place]] which changes the natu
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• Regression
  ...' view of [[regression]], according to which [[regression]] is seen as a [[real]] phenomenon, in which [[adults]] "actually regress, return to the [[state] ...rgence of something anterior," but in the sense of "the reduction of the [[symbolic]] to the [[imaginary]]."<ref>{{S4}} p. 242</ref>
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• Object
  ...opposing view, with his [[structural theory]] of the contribution of the [[symbolic]] [[register]] and of [[language]] as an organizer of the psychic; for him, ...stituted as a [[speaking]] being; it cannot be assimilated because it is [[Real]]" (Marks, Glowinski, and Murphy 2001, 125). [End Page 69]That is to say, w
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• Identification
  =====Imaginary and Symbolic===== ...s between [[identification|imaginary identification]] and [[identification|symbolic identification]].
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• Reality Principle
  ...e his [[need]]s, and is thus [[forced]] "to [[form]] a conception of the [[real]] circumstances in the [[external]] [[world]]."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund] [[Category:Real]]
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• Drive
  ...satisfaction]], but to [[return]] to its circular path, and [[The Real|the real]] source of [[enjoyment]] is the [[repetition|repetitive movement]] of this ====Drive as Cultural and Symbolic Construct====
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• Fantasy
  ...duction]] are sometimes the product of [[fantasy]] rather than traces of [[real]] [[sexual]] abuse. This crucial [[moment]] in the [[development]] of [[Fr ===Image and Symbolic Structure===
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• Registers
  ...lways present but continually mediated through [[the imaginary]] and [[the symbolic]]. ...]]. What becomes [[the Subject]] proper is made through inception into the Symbolic [[order]], which is when the [[infant]] acquires the ability to use [[langu
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• Aggressivity
  ...aggressivity|aggressive tension]] between the [[specular image]] and the [[real]] [[body]], since the [[wholeness]] of the [[image]] seems to threaten the ...in [[Lacan]]ian [[terms]], situated not in the [[imaginary]] but in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]). [[Aggressivity]] is also related by [[Lacan]] to the [[Hegel]
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• Absence
  ==Symbolic== The [[symbolic order]] is characterized by a binary opposition between [[absence]] and [[a
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• Anxiety
  ==Real== ...comes increasingly to articulate [[anxiety]] with his [[concept]] of the [[real]], a [[trauma]]tic element which remains [[external]] to [[symbolisation]],
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• Being
  =====Symbolic Order===== [[Being]] belongs to the [[symbolic order]], since it is "the relation to the Other in which being finds its st
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• Death
  ===Symbolic Death=== [[Death]] is constitutive of the [[symbolic]] [[order]], because the [[symbol]], by standing in [[place]] of the [[thin
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• Dual relation
  ==Symbolic Order== In contrast to the [[duality]] of the [[imaginary]] [[order]], the [[symbolic]] [[order]] is characterised by [[triad]]s.
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• Existence
  ==Symbolic== Only what is integrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] fully "[[exist]]s", since "there is no such thing as a prediscu
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• Castration complex
  ===Symbolic Lack of an Imaginary Object=== ...]; [[castration complex|castration]] does not bear on the [[penis]] as a [[real]] [[biology|organ]], but on the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 21
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• Cause
  ==Symbolic and Real== ...plies "a mediation between the [[chain]] of [[symbols]] and [[The Real|the real]]."<ref>{{S2}} p.192</ref>.
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• Chance
  Indeed, [[Freud]] wrote, "I believe in [[external]] (real) chance, it is [[true]], but not in [[internal]] ([[psychical]]) accidental ...], in the [[sense]] of pure [[time|contingency]], only [[exists]] in the [[real]].
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• Truth
  <blockquote>"[[Truth]] hollows its way into the [[real]] thanks to the dimension of [[speech]]. There is neither [[true]] nor [[fa ==The Real==
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• Sinthome
  =====Kernel of Enjoyment Beyond the Symbolic===== ...nd [[analysis]], a kernel of [[enjoyment]] immune to the efficacy of the [[symbolic]].
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• Signifier
  <blockquote>"Every [[real]] signifier is, as such, a signifier that signifies [[nothing]]. The more t =====Symbolic Order=====
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• Signifying Chain
  ...vans 185). Whereas the meaning associated with the interaction between the symbolic and [[the imaginary]] (via [[points de capiton]]) is only a provisional, [[ ...haunted by absence, a feature which is perpetually highlighted through the symbolic order’s insistence on supplying a signifier that (however arbitrarily) ma
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• Signified
  ...ignified]] is the [[conceptual]] element of the [[sign]]. It is not the [[real]] [[object]] denoted by a [[sign]] -- the [[referent]] -- but a [[psycholog [[Category:Symbolic]]
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• Optical Model
  ...f a plane [[mirror]] and a concave mirror. The concave mirror produces a [[real]] [[image]] of an inverted flower-pot, hidden from view by a box, which is ...ts. Two of the most important points are the [[structuring]] role of the [[symbolic]] [[order]] and the function of the EGO-IDEAL.
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• Phobia
  Lacan argues that Hans develops the horse phobia because his [[Real]] father fails to intervene as the [[agent]] of [[castration]], which is hi ...tion]] of the [[Real]] father would have saved Hans from this anxiety by [[Symbolic]]ally [[castrating]] him, but in the [[absence]] of this intervention Hans
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• Quaternary
  ...schemas in favour of an emphasis on the [[triangular]] structure of the [[symbolic]] involves a predominance of triadic schemes in his [[work]], Lacan also in ...ngs in the [[borromean knot]] (the three [[orders]] of the [[real]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[imaginary]]) from becoming separated.
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• Semblance
  The very [[distinction]] between the [[imaginary]] and the [[symbolic]] implies this opposition between [[appearance]] and [[essence]]. ...] is the realm of observable phenomena which act as [[lure]]s, while the [[symbolic]] is the realm of underlying [[structure]]s which cannot be observed but wh
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• Sexual relationship
  ...nce|male]] and [[sexual difference|female sexual positions]] because the [[symbolic order]] is fundamentally asymmetrical; there is no corresponding [[signifie ...); in other [[words]], the [[Woman]] does not [[exist]] for the man as a [[real]] [[subject]], but only as a [[fantasy]] [[object]], the [[cause]] of his [
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• Passage to the Act
  ...nsion]] of the [[Real]]. The passage to the act is thus an exit from the [[Symbolic]] network, a [[dissolution]] of the [[social]] bond. ...[[word]] "passage" denoted was the sudden lurch from a fantasied act to a real act, a shift that would normally be inhibited by [[defense]] mechanisms.
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• Privation
  ===Lack in the Real of a Symbolic Object=== ...defined as a [[lack]] in the [[real]] of a [[symbolic]] [[object]] (the [[symbolic]] [[phallus]]).
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• Scene
  ...ubject]] plays out his [[fantasy]], which is built on the edifice of the [[real]] (the [[world]]). ...ay is framed by the proscenium arch in a theatre, whereas the world is a [[real]] space which lies beyond the [[frame]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[Seminar X|Le Sémina
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• Order
  Although [[Lacan]] uses the [[terms]] "[[real]]," "[[symbolic]]" and "[[imaginary]]" from early on in his work, it is not until 1953 that ...etween the [[imaginary]] [[father]], the [[symbolic]] [[father]] and the [[real]] [[father]]. Thus [[Lacan]] claims that his [[tripartite]] classification
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• Preoedipal phase
  ...]] who rightfully claims possession of the [[phallus]] on the basis of a [[symbolic]] [[law]].
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• Alain Badiou
  ...ty” (''ibid''. 2005: 522), or what Žižek in Lacanian terms calls the [[symbolic]] order. When these elements are collected together under a shared term (li ...Event, or in Žižek’s terms the “[[traumatic]] [[encounter]] with the Real”, the Lacanian ''[[Objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]'' (''TS'': 141). The E
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...ses. By 1951 Lacan is writing about the [[Imaginary]], SYmbolic and the [[Real]]. ...here he delivers a lecture on 'the [[symbolic]], [[the imaginary]] and the real'.
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• The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
  ...ing of the world,’ of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos.
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• TOC
  === The Symbolic === === The Real ===
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• The Subject
  The [[symbolic]] [[order]] is what substitutes for the [[loss]] of the immediacy of the wo ...s [[derrida]] argues, merely ‘a “function” of language’, a kind of symbolic [[automaton]] doomed to ventriloquize the discourse of the big other.
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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.
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• Real2
  ...alytic]] [[encounter]]" (Bowie 106). Approachable only asymptotically, the real is most often defined by way of paradoxes; it ...in the [[world]], yet it is phantasmal, shallow and fortuitous. […] The real is inward and outward at once, and belongs indifferently to sanity and to [
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• Extimacy
  For example, the [[real]] is just as much [[inside]] as [[outside]]. The [[unconscious]] is not a * [[Real]]
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• Forclusion
  a hole in the symbolic order which can never be filled; the subject can then be appears in the real, the subject is unable to assimilate it, and the result of
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• Freud's papers on technique
  ...by dint of his [[theory]] on the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]. The focal point of the [[discussion]] is the direction of the [[cure]]. ...aginary]] ego and [[the symbolic]] speech. Lacan gives precedence to [[the Symbolic]] over the Imaginary. The subject who must come to be is "the subject of th
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  However, for a consciousness to perceive another consciousness, the [[symbolic]] [[order]] must intervene on the system determined by the image of the ego ...ction]]" the most tragic moment occurs in the confrontation with the ‘’Real’’.
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• Seminar III
  ...[[paternal function]] is reduced to the [[image]] of the [[father]] (the [[symbolic]] reduced to the [[imaginary]]). == Symbolic Order ==
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• Seminar V
  ...st tangible element in the real of [[sexual]] copulation; it is the most [[symbolic]] in the literal sense," since "it is equivalent to the [[logical]] copula.
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• Seminar VI
  ...he transition from pre-[[symbolic]] [[antagonism]] (the [[Real]]) to the [[symbolic order]] where [[signifier]]s are related to meaning takes place by way of t
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• Seminar:Transference
  ...adoxical function of [[transference]] in the analytical [[cure]]. In its [[symbolic]] aspect ([[repetition]]) it helps the cure [[progress]] by revealing the [ ...the [[past]] can be deconstructed in the cure by speech: the cure is "pure symbolic [[experience]]." On the [[individual]] level, it allows for "the reshaping
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• Seminar IX
  In <i>[[Le transfert]]</i> [[Lacan]] describes [[symbolic]] [[identification]] as [[identification]] with the [[signifier]]. Here, h ...h based on a single feature: the [[matrix]] of the [[Ideal]]-of-the-Ego, a symbolic [[introjection]] of the [[father]]'s mark, "An [[identity]] of body [[links
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• Seminar VIII
  ...cal function of [[transference]] in the [[analytic]]al [[cure]]. In its [[symbolic]] aspect ([[repetition]]) it helps the [[cure]] [[progress]] by revealing t ...an be deconstructed in the [[cure]] by [[speech]]: the [[cure]] is "pure [[symbolic]] [[experience]]." On the [[individual]] level, it allows for "the reshapi
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• Seminar X
  ...e the irreducible [[Real]], "a lack which the symbol does not fill in," a "real [[deprivation]]." ...[[fascination]] of the [[part object]]. Hence, the importance granted to [[symbolic]] [[castration]] in front of "the father's opaque and ungraspable desire,"
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• The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis
  ...s the subject in a [[position]] of dealing with the [[real]] through the [[symbolic]]," produces concepts; four are offered here: the [[unconscious]], [[repeti The real source of ‘’[[jouissance]]’’ is the [[repetition| repetitive]] move
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• Seminar XII
  ...Real]] - from the trilogy of the [[Symbolic]], the [[Imaginary]] and the [[Real]] - modifies the [[situation]]. Previously, the crucial issues were the rap ...the [[fantasies]] that obscure the clear [[perception]] of [[The Real|the real]] [[state]] of things or with a reflective act of achieving a critical dist
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• Seminar XVI
  ...ter of knowledge." He rejects nonconceptualization: [[structure]] is the [[real]]. Dealing with the passage from <i>[[objet]] a</i> to the [[Other]] and fr ...biquitousness, of the [[phallus]] that testifies that <i>jouissance</i> is real but cannot be [[symbolized]], on the Phallus as a [[symbol]] that is [[lack
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  ...is not the father of [[biological]] [[reality]], be he who upholds "[[the Real]] as [[impossible]]." From the [[Oedipus]] [[complex]] Lacan only saves the ...impossibility]]' and '[[impotence]]' - impuissance: "the impossible is the real where [[speech]], as objet a, functions like a carrion" and "impotence prot
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• Seminar I
  ...s' of subjective experience: the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]. The focal point of the discussion is the direction of the [[cure]]. Pa ...go]] and the [[symbolic]] [[speech]]. [[Lacan]] gives precedence to the [[Symbolic]] over the [[Imaginary]]. The subject who must come to be is "the [[subjec
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• Beyond the Pleasure Principle
  ...familiarity of the [[symbolic]] into the [[trauma]] and [[void]] of the [[real]].
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ..."Steep inclines, ladders and stairs, and going up or down [[them]], are [[symbolic]] representations of the [[sexual]] act.") These approaches have been large This is always a core of the [[real]] that is [[missing]] from [[the symbolic]] and all [[other]] representations, images and [[signifiers]] are no more
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• Seminar XI
  ...the subject]] in a [[position]] of dealing with the [[real]] through the [[symbolic]]," produces concepts; four are offered here, in the case of analytic praxi ...e side of the drive, where <i>objet a</i> refers to the "[[impossible]]" [[Real]] (that which as such cannot be assimilated).
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• Seminar II
  ...ever, for a [[consciousness]] to perceive [[another]] consciousness, the [[symbolic order]] must intervene on the system determined by the image of the ego, as ...ragic moment occurs in the confrontation with the [[Real]] - the ultimate Real, "something in front of which words stop." "In the [[dream]] the unconscio
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• Semiotics
  ...e into its components, analysing usage in slow-[[time]], whereas, in the [[real]] world of [[human]] semiotic interaction there is an often chaotic blur of ...meaning-imbued "sign." Saussure believed that [[dismantling]] signs was a real [[science]], for in doing so we come to an empirical [[understanding]] of h
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...supposed incidents, using a procedure that was heavily dependent on the [[symbolic]] [[interpretation]] of somatic symptoms. ...sm]], which subscribed to the [[belief]] that [[people]] could ascertain [[real]] [[knowledge]] concerning themselves and their [[environment]] and judicio
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• Political
  ## Alienation in the [[symbolic]]: "the subject takes a [[structure]] from the [[signifier]]" ## From identity to identification: imaginary and symbolic dimensions
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• Summary
  # From the [[Imaginary]] to the [[Symbolic]] # From [[the Symbolic]] to the [[Real]]
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...rst, there is the post-[[Marxist]] [[moment]] of “antagonism”qua the [[Real]] whereby Žižek affirms the [[thesis]] of the [[impossibility]] of [[soci ...ent, permanently disrupts from within the operation of [[imaginary]] and [[symbolic]] identifications, and therefore is [[responsible]] for why (a [[transparen
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• Roland Barthes
  ...apse when personal significance is communicated to others and can have its symbolic logic rationalized. Barthes found the solution to this fine line of person
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• Judith Butler
  ...nition]] for this proliferation of subjectivities that always exceed the [[symbolic law]] of which they are the by-product. ...s the two have engaged in over the status of the subject’s attachment to symbolic norms, [[sexual difference]] and political [[action]].
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• Capitalism
  ...roduction of capital, the co-option of [[desire]] and enjoyment, and the [[Real]] contradictions of [[class struggle]]. === Symbolic limitations ===
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• Gilles Deleuze
  ...t is not unlike the jarring [[moment]] of the [[Real, the (Lacan)|Lacanian Real]]. Deleuze offers an [[Organ]] ''sans'' Body in the form of [[the Gaze]] in ...s concept of flat [[ontology]] to the systemic function of the Lacanian [[Real]]. Both hearken to a concept of [[constitutive excess]]. The [[true]] [[di
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• Jacques Derrida
  ..., Žižek’s charge is the reverse of textual [[narcissism]] (“Th e [[Real]] of [[Sexual]] Diff erence”). Supposedly, in a Levinasian [[about]]-turn ...f clarifying Lacan’s [[ontological]] stance concerning the [[traumatic]] Real and the [[complex]] logic of [[human]] appropriation, which, incidentally,
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• Ideology
  ...pened up by the failure of reality (the Symbolic) to account fully for the Real. While this [[model]] of the structure of reality does not allow us a posit
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• Orders
  [[Imaginary]], [[Symbolic]], [[Real]] ([[imaginaire]], [[symbolique]], [[réel]]) In this respect, 'imaginary' is not simply the opposite of 'real': the [[image]] certainly belongs to [[reality]] and Lacan sought in [[anim
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  For Lacan, on the other hand, castration is a [[symbolic]] [[process]] that invovles the cutting off, not of one's penis, but of one ...or 'does not have' a penis. For Lacan, on the other hand, castration is a symbolic process that involves the cutting off, not of one's penis, but of one's jou
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...t by shifting all descriptions from a [[biological]]-anatomic level to a [[symbolic]] one he shows how [[culture]] imposes meaning on [[anatomical]] parts. La ...standing]] of how language distances us from the lived experience of the [[real]]. The distancing from the lived experience is effected in two stages: the
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...k]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. [[Jacques Lacan]] reformulated the [[Oedipus complex]] as a [[symbolic]] [[structure]].
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• Jacques Lacan:The Subject of the Unconscious
  ...[[unconscious]] ''is'' precisely this [[gap]] or [[gap|rupture]] in the [[symbolic]] [[signifyin chain|chain]]. ...unconscious is constituted through the [[subject]]'s articulation in [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Lacanian]] unconscious is not an [[individual]] unconsci
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...f these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes]]' exquisite final book Camera Lucida. =The real is always in its place=
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• Matheme
  ...le in the Real, are likely to be coordinated to this "impossible" from the Real' (p. 35). ...border of language, in its fringe: 'The mathème is a product of the only real which is first recognized in language: the arithmetical [[figure]]' (1973,
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• Ethics and Politics
  ...at ethical [[acts]] are [[Real]] acts insofar as they do not rely on any [[symbolic]] Other. THe Real in ethico-politics is not simply an ultimate blockage that we cannot do any
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• Politics
  ..., liberalism as such denies the represive force of our subjection to the [[symbolic]] in the first [[place]]: "So the [[paradox]] is that 'liberal' [[subjects] [[Real]] freedom of choice comes when we don't select froma pre-given menu of opti
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ft]] its mark on the entire XXth century [[world]] [[politics]], for the [[Real]] Socialist experiment which culminated in an economically inefficient dict ...cal shattering of the (relatively) safe [[life]] [[environment]] of the "[[symbolic]] classes" in the developed Western societies. Their excessive Politically
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ity resides in the act of violent [[transgression]], from the [[Lacanian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City ...ical]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing with the Real, not just with empty plans — the Party is ruthlessly brutal, so it means
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
  Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] [2] Slavoj [[Zizek]]. Re:constructions, 09/15/2001. ...selves Now, we are forced to strike back, to deal with real enemies in the real world… However, WHOM to strike? Whatever the response, it will never hit
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...that the [[analyst]]'s interpretation itself loses its [[performative]] "[[symbolic]] efficiency" and leaves the [[symptom]] intact in the immediacy of its idi ...e of its inefficiency, i.e., by the paradoxical reemergence of the brute [[Real]] of "[[irrational]]" violence, impermeable and insensitive to reflexive in
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...at if this very alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity? ...he "real" reality, with the consequence of undermining the very notion of "real" reality — VR is thus at the same time the most radical assertion of the
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...[[work]] itself — that is to say manual labor as opposed to so-called [[symbolic]] [[activity]] — work, not sex is more and more becoming the site of [[ob .... I hate the dimension of the beloved person's inscription into the social-symbolic structure. I hate him or her on behalf of my very love for him as a unique
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• Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple
  ...rs a statement) and the "subject of the [[enunciated]] (statement)" (the [[symbolic]] [[identity]] the subject assumes within and via his statement): Kant does ...3 to 1987) was perceived by her [[mother]] as an "answer of [[The Real|the real]]," as divine [[punishment]] not only for her promiscuous [[sexual life]],
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...ing, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-[[symbolic]] relations; etc.etc. ...ntrast to the subject supposed to believe as the standard feature of the [[symbolic order]]. So, what is the "subject supposed to know"? In the TV-series Colum
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...his is true. For me what was partially so attractive, so sympathetic about real socialism, despite of being a corrupted, cynical system, was the belief in ...ia, which hegemonized in the name of the national interest. With us it's a real diverse, pluralist scene, open towards foreigners (of course there are some
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic order.<br><br> ...Other that stands for the nonexistence/inconsistency of the Other, of the symbolic order. What one should not fail to notice here is the deep affinity between
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...me]], the journals mocked him, they made the whole [[list]] of-them. The [[real]] mystery is that not only it did not [[affect]] his popularity adversely, SZ: There still is the [[symbolic]] in play, but again, the basic feature of today's ideology, in corresponde
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...ozist: the reduction to a pure bare [[observer]]. This kind of universal [[symbolic]] machine functioning by itself totally relieves you of your [[responsibili ...point isn't even to masturbate, the entire satisfaction is in this purely symbolic exchange and this is an interesting late capitalist tendency.
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...ing learned, where old traumas are being replayed again and again, where [[symbolic]] [[links]] are simultaneously devalued (dozens of cease-fires broken) and ...ian game is over, that the West has finally blamed the true culprit. The [[real]] [[desire]] of the West is nevertheless discernible in innumerable telltal
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...ween 'Us' and 'Them', our [[Enemy]], where there is no common ground for [[symbolic]] conflict ([[Schmitt]] et al.5). ...ates the positive person of the Master from the place he occupies in [[the symbolic]] network. With the `democratic invention', the place of Power is posited a
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...o dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...ticipate in the mode [[disavowal]], i.e. [[being]] aware that "this is not real life."
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...age]] appears as an act which belongs to the [[domain]] of [[universal]] [[symbolic]] determinations and should as such be independent of personal idiosyncrasi ...or rather the doing is original, and that the "doer" behind the doing is a symbolic [[fiction]], a metaphysical hypostasis, etc, etc.
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...us of all. But we may say that in a certain [[sense]] it has never had a [[real]] [[existence]]. It is never remembered, it has never succeeded in becoming ...eal; the knowledge we have of this phase is a "knowledge in [[The Real|the real]]," i.e., it is an "acephalic," non-subjectivized knowledge. Although (or,
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ..."State" in which the structure of society is re-presented/redoubled.) This symbolic reduplicatio already involves the minimal [[dialectic]] of [[Void]] and [[E ...Event is [[self]]-referential in that it includes its own designation: the symbolic designation "French Revolution" is part of the designated [[content]] itsel
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...d its [[obscene]] hidden [[double]] overlap: instead of the usual public-[[symbolic]] [[power structure]] sustained by the obscene invisible network of apparat <p>Do we not have here, enacted in [[real]] [[life]], the uncanny logic of Josef K.'s first interrogation in The Tria
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
  ...eological]] [[perception]], [[work]] itself (manual labor as opposed to "[[symbolic]]" [[activity]]), not sex, becomes the site of [[obscene]] indecency to be * [[Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3|Welcome to the Desert of the Real]]. ''[[Lacan]].com''. <http://lacan.com/lacinkXVI6.htm>
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...that [[left]] its mark on twentieth-century world [[politics]], for the [[real]] socialist experiment that culminated in an economically inefficient dicta ...ience [[pain]] and [[humiliation]]. Consequently, because [[humans]] are [[symbolic]] animals, the fundamental right is the right to narrate one's experience o
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...misrecognition]]. And if one does effectively break up the chains of the [[symbolic order]], one is expelled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main ...passing that in the [[individual]] which resists [[being]] included in the symbolic space.<ref>Butler demonstrates that the Foucauldian "[[body]]" as the site
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• You May
  ...ve our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big We are dealing with an [[imaginary]] cartography, which projects onto the [[real]] landscape its own shadowy [[ideological]] [[antagonisms]], in the same wa
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...s for his illustrations of a de luxe book. However, although they are the "real thing," their drawings appear a fake, so the painter has to rely more and m ...</a><a href="#8x">8</a> (Is this not Karatani's way to assert the Lacanian Real as a pure antagonism, as an impossible difference which precedes its terms?
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...different formal mode (in the sense in which [[Spinoza]] claims that the [[real]] dog and the [[idea]] of a dog are substantially one and the same [[thing] ..."between the lines," through the [[lacks]] and distortions of the explicit symbolic tradition. Judaism's stubborn attachment to the unacknowledged violent foun
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• With or Without Passion
  ...s non-dupes errent]]</i>: those who do not let themselves be caught in the symbolic [[deception]]/fiction and continue to believe their eyes are the ones who e What a cynic who "believes only his eyes" misses is the efficiency of the symbolic [[fiction]], the way this fiction [[structures]] our [[experience]] of real
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• Move the Underground!
  ...ral]] reasons, cannot be played. Its status is that of an [[impossible]]-[[real]] which can [[exist]] only in the guise of a [[writing]], i.e. [[physical]] ...lic Law, the [[total]] [[Master]] who dares to confront face to face [[the Real]] of terrifying <i>[[jouissance]]</i> - is presented not as a [[remainder]]
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• Opera
  ...ul Master can afford to distribute mercy. What we have here is a kind of [[symbolic]] exchange between the human subject and his divine Master: when the subjec ...between the assertion of subjective [[autonomy]] and the "answer of the [[Real]]," the mercy shown by the [[big Other]]: far from being opposed, they rely
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
  ...t for the [[social]] outbursts like that of the 1968. Instead of the one [[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[coh ...tion]] of "neutral" [[Knowledge]]; it addresses the [[remainder]] of the [[real]] (say, in the [[case]] of pedagogical knowledge, the "raw, uncultivated [[
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...other pulls the strings, the subject doesn't speak, he "is spoken" by the symbolic structure. The paradox, the "infinite judgment" of <i>The Matrix</i> is the ...reality outside the Matrix after the catastrophe while the "desert of the real" refers to the grayness of the purely formal digital universe which generat
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...reason why science is not part of this notion of culture — it is all too real? And is this also not why we dismiss fundamentalist believers as "barbarian ...e the fatal confusion between emotional ups and downs and an unconditional symbolic commitment which is supposed to hold precisely when it is no longer support
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...In a properly [[paranoiac]] way, the [[film]] externalizes this virtual [[symbolic order]] in the really-existing Mega-Computer. However, the strength of the ...rsed: so if you are in a VR and killed there, this death affects also your real body... The obvious opposite solution (you only really die when you are kil
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...ught in the [[symbolic]] cobweb, of retaining the "[[freedom]]" from [[the symbolic]] order. ...n a way [[disconnected]] from the [[reality]] of flesh, disgusted at the [[Real]] of life, of its cycle of generation and corruption. Marge, Dickie's girlf
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...n narrative [[symbolic]] [[structures]]: they just relate in a kind of pre-symbolic cross-resonance. They are not [[signifiers]], neither the famous Hitchcocki ...ey are to constitute a couple, both Devlin and Alicia have to undergo the "symbolic death," so that the happy ending emerges from the combination of two unhapp
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ..."between the lines", through the [[lacks]] and distortions of the explicit symbolic tradition.<ref>See Eric Santner, "Traumatic Revelations: Freud's Moses and ...the vaginal juices) reproduces within Judaism the tension between the pure symbolic Law and its superego supplement, the secret initiatic knowledge?<br>
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  One has to be honest here to recognize the selective [[symbolic]] nature of the suffering elevated to the exemplary status: what is the suf ...tinians with no public [[links]] to the PLO / and start talking with our [[real]] partners," the situation changed overnight. Therein resides the effect of
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...a human face," to an authentic alternative to both [[Real]] Socialism and Real Capitalism. That is to say, what would have happened if the Warsaw pact for ...cipated in the event of 1917, but were also simultaneously involved in the real battles of the Civil War that were raging in the nearby vicinity of Petrogr
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...n in advance. (Therein, in this culpabilization, in this imposition of a [[symbolic]] debt, through the very act of exoneration, resides the highest trick of C ...is the obverse structure of feigning a loss. Insofar as the Other of [[the symbolic]] Law prohibits <i>jouissance</i>, the only way for the subject to enjoy is
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...BOTH worse, inclusive of the warning, formulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTIO ..."narrative" genre of [[them]] all, and imbued it with the inertia of the [[real]], the lack of [[resolution]], the dragging-on of the "empty time," which c
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...Journalists in the last weeks compete with each other enumerating these “real reasons”: Israeli occupation for Palestinians, dissatisfaction with the p ...alth, religion…”) is always sustained by a remainder of the contingent Real in the guise of a national Thing (“the /French, American…/ people”)?
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...'[[master]]' whose interventions can decide my destiny). There is always a symbolic price to be paid for such 'unearned' solutions. And, mutatis mutandis, the ...The self-esteem I acquire by winning the competition is still based on a [[real]] [[achievement]]: I performed better than my opponent who had spent night
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• Ethics and the Real
  Ethics and the [[Real]] Now I offer an account of how the real relates to sublimation.
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• Seminar VII
  ...As for disbelief, by rejecting the [[Thing]] it makes it reappear in the [[Real]], which is the [[Lacan]]ian definition of [[psychosis]]. ...]] in the [[symbolic]], whereas ''[[das Ding]]'' is the [[thing]] in the [[real]], which is "the beyond-of-the-signified." Thing-presentations found in the
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• Mother
  ===Socio-Symbolic World=== ...ual relation|relation]]''' with the [[mother]] in [[order]] to enter the [[symbolic|social world]]; failure to do so can result in any one of various peculiari
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• Oedipus complex
  ...tiation of the Oedipal triangle is a precondition for entry into the human symbolic order. ...n men and women. In our [[society]] the primary structure that defines our symbolic and unconscious relations is the Oedipus complex. More precisely the [[Oedi
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• Love
  ===Symbolic=== ...e]] since "it's one's own ego that one loves in love, one's own ego made [[real]] on [[the imaginary]] level."<ref>{{S1}} p. 142</ref> The [[imaginary]] [
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• Dream
  ...the recent past) and physical sensations that occur during sleep. But its "real" content is reactivated infantile memories, especially those of an oedipal ...tions. Freud insisted that any "key to dreams," that is, any [[list]] of [[symbolic]] equivalents of supposedly general [[value]], be excluded. He did, however
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• Castration
  ...to have the phallus in the [[form]] of a [[baby]] along the lines of [[the symbolic]] equation that will make the phallus equal a baby. ...as a [[treatment]] of [[Penis Envy|penis envy]] through [[The Symbolic|the symbolic]] equation of penis equals child.
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• Surrealism
  ...to paint the '[[reality]]' of their [[dreams]], which they saw as more '[[real]]' than the prosaic reality of our everyday world. ...sed the [[psychoanalytical]] device of [[free association]] to trace the [[symbolic]] [[meaning]] of dream imagery to its source in the unconscious. Dali appli
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• Penis-envy
  ...[[happiness]] is great indeed when this desire for a child one day finds [[real]] fulfilment; but especially is this so if the child is a little boy who br
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• Love beyond Law
  meaning can only take [[place]] within the ([[symbolic]]) Law; the [[moment]] we trespass the we discard the discredited standard [[formulas]] ("reintegration into [[the symbolic]] [[space]]",
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• Two Deaths
  ...se]], we continue to exist in the Symbolic even though we have died in the Real. ...t her brother, who has been refused proper burial rites, will not suffer a Symbolic death himself.
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• No Subject - Articles
  ...Sexuality|Sexuality]] -- [[Seminars|The Seminars]] -- [[:Category:Symbolic|Symbolic]] -- [[:Category:Terms|Terms]] -- [[:Category:Žižek|Žižek]] ...ymbolic]] -- [[Oedipal Complex]] -- [[Castration Complex]] -- [[Law]] -- [[Real]] -- [[Desire]] -- [[:Category:Lacan|More]]
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• Lacan - ÂŽižek
  ==Reality and the Real== ==The Symbolic==
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• Parallax View
  ...ever eludes the [[symbolic]] grasp and thus causes the [[multiplicity]] of symbolic perspectives. The paradox is here a very precise one: it is at the very poi ...ni, op.cit., p. 3.</ref>(Is this not Karatani's way to assert the Lacanian Real as a pure antagonism, as an impossible difference which precedes its terms?
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• Supplement
  ...ould be productive to introduce the [[distinction]] between the [[public]] symbolic Law and its [[obscene]] supplement: the [[notion]] of the obscene [[supereg ...ies on our [[understanding]] the distinction between [[reality]] and the [[Real]].
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• The Desert of the Real
  hero, played by Keanu Reeves, awakens into the “[[real]] reality,” he the ironic greeting: “Welcome to the desert of the real.”</p>
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...the [[subject]] doesn’t [[speak]], the subject “is spoken” by [[the symbolic]] [[structure]]. This big Other is the [[name]] for the social Substance, f ...es. So what about exiting from the Matrix altogether and entering the “[[real]] reality” in which we are miserable [[creatures]] [[living]] on the dest
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• Will You Laugh for Me, Please?
  ...and the “[[Big Other]]” to remain incomplete, we commit ourselves to [[symbolic]] oblivion. ...o [[passive]] [[consumer]]s who just stare numbly at the [[screen]], the [[real]] [[threat]] of new [[media]] is that they deprive us of our [[passivity]],
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  ...fight the [[enemy]] out there. (In today’s '[[war on terror]],' the [[real]] [[danger]] is what this [[war]] is turning us into.) Such inconsistencie ...annot be my disciple." In order for there to be a properly [[unified]] "[[symbolic]]" [[community]] of believers, [[Christ]] had to first come and perform the
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• On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love
  ...aesthetic-ethical-religious is so clearly the Lacanian imaginary-symbolic-real.&nbsp; It fits so perfectly.<br>&nbsp;
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• Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...reason why science is not part of this notion of culture — it is all too real? And is this also not why we dismiss fundamentalist believers as "barbarian ...e the fatal confusion between emotional ups and downs and an unconditional symbolic commitment which is supposed to hold precisely when it is no longer support
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...nd is secretly absolutely afraid for, that shroud to be proven to be the [[real]] [[thing]], the blood of [[Christ]] from that [[time]]. The [[idea]] is th ...p on your suicide bomber reference. In both Welcome to the Desert of [[the Real]] and [[The Puppet and the Dwarf]] you seem to come close to endorsing "[[h
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  One has to be honest here to recognize the selective [[symbolic]] nature of the suffering elevated to the exemplary status: what is the suf ...tinians with no public [[links]] to the PLO / and start talking with our [[real]] partners," the situation changed overnight. Therein resides the effect of
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• Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
  ...t for the [[social]] outbursts like that of the 1968. Instead of the one [[symbolic]] [[Order]] with its set of a priori rules which [[guarantee]] social [[coh ...tion]] of "neutral" [[Knowledge]]; it addresses the [[remainder]] of the [[real]] (say, in the [[case]] of pedagogical knowledge, the "raw, uncultivated [[
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• The Desert and the Real
  ...in is a fake, a [[spectacle]] staged to convince him that he lives in a [[real]] world, while all [[people]] around him are effectively actors and extras ...living an aseptic life in a secluded area longs for the experience of the real world of material decay.
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...nize the 'democratic' field, i.e. to define the terrain and discipline its real adversary, the radical Left. Therein resides the ultimate rationale of the ...While multicultural tolerance becomes the motto of the new and privileged 'symbolic' classes, the far Right seeks to address and to mobilize whatever remains o
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• Desert of the Real
  ...eological]] [[perception]], [[work]] itself (manual labor as opposed to "[[symbolic]]" [[activity]]), not sex, becomes the site of [[obscene]] indecency to be * [[Desert of the Real]]. ''Lacaniank In''. Volume 16. Spring 2000. pp 64-81. <http://www.lacan.co
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• Laugh Yourself to Death
  ...NOT protect the son from harsh reality of the camp, he just provides [[the symbolic]] fiction that renders this reality bearable. And is this not father's main ...rapist enjoying father of the False Memory Syndrome, far from being the [[Real]] beneath the respectful appearance, is rather himself a [[fantasy]] [[form
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...ch is always organized around the central [[Void]] of the [[impossible]]-[[real]] Thing - a [[statement]] which, perhaps, should be read as a variation on ...ect [[Nothing]]? This [[experience]] of "Something (the [[stain]] of [[the Real]]) instead of Nothing" is perhaps at the root of the metaphysical question
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• You May!
  ...ve our lives in compliance with [[Nature]] or [[Tradition]]; there is no [[symbolic]] [[order]] or [[code]] of accepted fictions (what [[Lacan]] calls the 'Big We are dealing with an [[imaginary]] cartography, which projects onto the [[real]] landscape its own shadowy [[ideological]] [[antagonisms]], in the same wa
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...at if this very alternative is false? What if the virtual character of the symbolic order "as such" is the very condition of historicity?<br><br> ...he "real" reality, with the consequence of undermining the very notion of "real" reality - VR is thus at the same time the most radical assertion of the se
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  ahistorical [[Real]] from its ultimately delusive historicizations, the non-coincidence Real of the ground and the subject's [[freedom]], while, already in his early [[
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ..."State" in which the structure of society is re-presented/redoubled.) This symbolic reduplicatio already involves the minimal [[dialectic]] of [[Void]] and [[E ...Event is [[self]]-referential in that it includes its own designation: the symbolic designation "French Revolution" is part of the designated [[content]] itsel
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...aders to the paternal [[sexual]] harasser. But why? When the "pacifying" [[symbolic authority]] is suspended, the only way to avoid the debilitating deadlock o ...trayal and the ensuing unmasking of his [[impotence]], and deprived of his symbolic title, is reduced to an old, raging, impotent [[fool]]). The heretical lege
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• Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
  ...us of all. But we may say that in a certain [[sense]] it has never had a [[real]] [[existence]]. It is never remembered, it has never succeeded in becoming ...eal; the knowledge we have of this phase is a "knowledge in [[The Real|the real]]," i.e., it is an "acephalic," non-subjectivized knowledge. Although (or,
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...s is true. For me what was partially so attractive, so sympathetic about [[real]] [[socialism]], despite of being a corrupted, cynical [[system]], was the ...which hegemonized in the [[name]] of the national interest. With us it's a real diverse, pluralist [[scene]], open towards foreigners (of course there are
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...me]], the journals mocked him, they made the whole [[list]] of-them. The [[real]] mystery is that not only it did not [[affect]] his popularity adversely, SZ: There still is the [[symbolic]] in play, but again, the basic feature of today's ideology, in corresponde
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  attractive, so sympathetic about [[real]] [[socialism]], despite [[being]] a corrupt, against abortion, [for] [[religious]] education in [[schools]]. A real pressure from
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...ozist: the reduction to a pure bare [[observer]]. This kind of universal [[symbolic]] machine functioning by itself totally relieves you of your [[responsibili ...point isn't even to masturbate, the entire satisfaction is in this purely symbolic exchange and this is an interesting late capitalist tendency.
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...misrecognition]]. And if one does effectively break up the chains of the [[symbolic order]], one is expelled into the [[void]] of [[psychosis]]. Since the main ...passing that in the [[individual]] which resists [[being]] included in the symbolic space.<ref>Butler demonstrates that the Foucauldian "[[body]]" as the site
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...he screen or whatever. The point is we become aware of how there never was real sex. ...I think a certain [[dimension]] of virtuality is co-substantial with the [[symbolic]] order or the order of [[language]] as such.
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• Democracy
  ...[[parapolitics]]”, aiming to reinstate by authoritarian means a sense of symbolic, [[cultural]] boundaries. ...ty of political contestation – if not itself an avatar of the [[Lacanian Real]] that always returns to the same place.
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• Anarchy
  ...vene - that of the analyst. According to Lacan, this discourse is the only real counterpoint to that of the master (Grigg, Seminar XVII, Ch 6, p 3) and the ...age à l'[[acte]] - an ethical decision - that transgresses the dominant [[symbolic]] coordinates of society.
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...ht serve as an alibi or a mask, etc., for an intervention experienced as [[real]] by members of your audience then in analysis. I am collecting phenomena e ...is]], the idealist philosophers, I mean), that myth defines [[The Real|the real]] condition of most of those who teach a [[body]] of knowledge to those who
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• Works of Slavoj Zizek
  ..., unless you already [[understand]] the [[Lacanian]] [[concepts]] of the [[Real]] and [[jouissance]] (the two aspects of Lacan's work upon which he concent ...ample, he looks at the [[relationship]] between the [[Symbolic]] and [[the Real]] and explains why the [[big Other]] does not [[exist]].
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...to "the high-minded [[terrorism]] of so much [[French]] theory." But the [[real]] [[significance]] of the Zizek Effect is the way that the astonishing inte ...ves]] that exceeds this [[process]] of inscription, which he called "[[the Real]]", constantly returns to disrupt its fantasmatic [[universe]].
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...canian [[lexicon]] - [[projection]], [[inversion]], the [[Real]] and the [[Symbolic]] - to explore the [[ideological]] contradictions of contemporary life. In ...f strategies for how to block this," he says with a smirk. "[[The Real|The real]] trick, however, is to minimize their access to me and simultaneously appe
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  the faulty [[logic]] behind the hotel's [[symbolic]] [[exclusion]] of the thirteenth the Symbolic and the Real. But some commentators have expressed concern
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...into being as a passage through madness; as an ongoing attempt to impose a symbolic integrity against the ever-present threat of disintegration and negativity ...- and is something that constantly threatens to sabotage or overwhelm the symbolic framework of subjectivity. In Freud the category of death is not simply a c
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ollow Zizek's attempt to combine the different theoretical frameworks, the real stakes of his work are ideological subjectivity, cultural analysis and poli ...'represents an anti-feminist regression that reiterates the whole array of symbolic invisibility and specularity which feminists have been arguing against sinc
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...we are already within one [[ideological]] [[system]] or [[another]]. The [[real]] dispute has already taken [[place]] over what is to count as the facts, w ...society, there is instead an ineradicable 'imbalance', an '[[impossible]]-real kernel' (SO, 4), to which all particular struggles can be seen as a respons
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...and Hate</i>; and philosopher Alenka Zupancic, author of <i>Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan</i>. Zizek in interviews speaks of the various orientations of ...n Spielberg's <i>Empire of the Sun</i> used to speak of the 'answer of the Real' (LA, 29-30), Michael Mann's <i>Manhunter</i> to speak of the perverse 'gaz
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...inuum, 2005). This volume includes the essays "Welcome the Desert of the [[Real]]", "The Prospect of Radical [[Politics]] Today", "Against the [[Double]] [ While Zizek, for his part, in the essay "Welcome to the Desert of [[the Real]]", stated that any immediate reaction would be little more than an impoten
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• Introduction To Jacques Lacan
  * the [[imaginary]] and the [[symbolic]] * the [[real]]
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• Foreclosure
  ...[[symbolic]] [[father]], he specifies that it is the [[absence]] of the [[symbolic]] [[father]] which is linked to [[psychosis]]. ...nism]] of [[psychosis]], in which an element is rejected [[outside]] the [[symbolic order]] just as if it had never [[existence|existed]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 386-7;
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• Simulacrum
  ...atic expositions of his [[theory]] of simulacra are to be found in his ''[[Symbolic]] [[Exchange]] and [[Death]]'' (1976) and ''Simulacra and Simulations'' (19 ...ary [[nature]] - in order to make us believe that the rest of America is [[real]] rather than something belonging to the order of [[simulation]] and [[hype
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...time, although nobody lives in them.) Is this not a pure [[case]] of the [[symbolic]] efficiency of the [[frame]] as such? A barren zone is given a [[fantasmat ...urved space that is bent onto itself; all that has to intervene into [[the Real]] is an empty frame so that the same things we saw "directly" before are no
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...so, 2001); On [[Belief]] (Routledge, 2001); Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] (Wooster P, 2001); The [[Puppet and the Dwarf]]: The [[Perverse]] Core of ...the [[Church]] really does not [[want]] that shroud to be proven to be the real [[thing]], the blood of [[Christ]] from that [[time]]. The [[idea]] is that
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• The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
  ...he three interacting orders, the [[Symbolic]], the [[Imaginary]] and the [[Real]], first appears in detail in this paper. These orders can be conceived as =====Symbolic=====
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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...d occasion to make much of- the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]], and the [[real]].<p> ...hich are real images. In such an [[instance]], the [[object]] which is the real image quite rightly has the name of virtual object.<p>
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• From The Function of the Veil
  ...t]] of perversions and [[neuroses]], precisely because of the electively [[symbolic]] [[character]] of the crucial fantasm.<br><br> ...e relation to a beyond, which is fundamental in every institution of [[the symbolic]] relation. It is a matter here of the incursion upon [[the imaginary]] pl
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  SYMBOLIC: THE POSITIONS OF THE SUB1ECT<br> ...since several questions concerning the [[place]] of the imaginary in the [[symbolic]] [[structure]] crop up while following the thread of our [[discourse]], to
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...ce]] for the [[other]]. Or is it the [[Other, the]] [[dead]] God of the [[symbolic]] [[order]] [[speaking]] through those priests who [[speak]] as if the old ...s attributes are those of a [[thought]] which regulates the order of the [[real]]. It is Akhenaton's God, the God of the secret message that the [[Jewish]]
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...passe. Can't one nevertheless say that Sade teaches us, in the order of [[symbolic]] play, how to attempt to go beyond the limit, and how to discover the laws </p></dd><dd>That's a mistake. The [[real]] problem is something else. It is nothing else but the response of a being
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  irnportance, and their symbolic origin is in part open to dispute.</font></p><p><font size="+1"><br> is not even worth asking; the only real object of linguistics is the<br>
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• The Anamorphosis
  ...separation, from some self-mutilation induced by the very approach of the real, whose name, in our algebra, is the <i>objet a.<br> ...ay be used to establish their relation, whether their image is virtual, or real, the point-bypoint correspondence is essential. That which is of the mode
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• Jacques Lacan:Bibliography
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• Automaton
  ...being). 46 It is at this point that the [[real]] ex-sists, [[The Real|the real]] in the [[sense]] of what cannot be assimilated by the chain of signifiers ...ce. Underlying this chain, we find a more fundamental lack, concerning the real beyond any signifier ( Freud: the primal repressed). This is the level of t
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• Frustration
  ...]. This is not to say that [[frustration]] has [[nothing]] to do with a [[real]] [[object]] capable of [[satisfying]] a [[need]] (e.g. a [[breast]], or a ==Symbolic Function==
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• Infans
  ...stage thus seems to me to [[manifest]] in an exemplary [[situation]] the [[symbolic]] [[matrix]] in which the <i>I</i> is precipitated in a primordial [[form]] ...libidinal]] meaning. In Aulagnier's words: "[F]or the senselessness of a [[real]] that could have no status in the [[psyche]], it substitutes a [[reality]]
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• Death Instinct
  ...concept of the "[[Real]]," in connection with the [[Imaginary]] and the [[Symbolic]]. He [[links]] to this the lethal [[dimension]] inherent in [[desire]] and
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• Female Sexuality
  ...(fantasized in an oscillation between [[power]] and [[impotence]]), and [[symbolic]] ([[thought]]-[[cathexis]])—was centered on the clitoris. Even though th ...ortant, the idea of phallic primacy must be understood as the primacy of a symbolic [[dimension]], not an [[organic]] one. In his<i>[[Écrits]]</i> (1966), Jac
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• Law of the Father
  ...to differentiate the [[real]] Father, the [[imaginary]] Father, and the [[symbolic]] Father. ...* [[Foreclosure]] * [[Myth of origins]] * [[Name-of-the-Father]] * [[Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary father]] * [[Sexuation, formulas of]]
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• Knot
  ...[Jacques Lacan]] to define the [[relationship]] of the [[symbolic]], the [[real]], and the [[imaginary]]. ...ribe the relations between the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]], and the [[real]].
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• Optical Schema
  ...[schema]] from [[physics]]. He used it to illustrate the [[role]] of the [[real]] [[Other]] in constructing both the [[body]] and the [[specular]] [[image] ...o illustrate the reciprocal play of the real, the [[imaginary]], and the [[symbolic]] in Melanie [[Klein]]'s [[case]] of "Little Dick."
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• Lack of Being
  ...he [[object a]], which is the [[real]] insofar as it is articulated in the symbolic and which is also a gap that the ego as image occupies. The image of the [[ See also: [[Subject's castration]]; [[Symbolic, the (Lacan)]].
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• Maternal
  ...y, fantasy of; [[Primary love]]; Primary need; Primary object; [[Real]], [[Symbolic]], and Imaginary father; Reverie; [[Signal]] anxiety; [[Social]] feeling ([
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• Wolf Man
  ...] of the [[Real]]. It re-arose in the course of his [[progress]] in his [[symbolic]] [[world]], thanks to "the advance of his [[intellectual]] development."<r
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• Taboo
  ...tions; in the [[case]] of the young [[girl]] to be deflowered, it is the [[real]] danger she represents ([[penis]] [[envy]], revenge) that makes her taboo ...ic]] system of classification, organization, and [[interpretation]] of the real, independently of any possibility for dynamic change—a [[claim]] taken up
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• Defense mechanism
  ...], as their repeated use can [[cause]] [[people]] to lose touch with the [[real]] world and their surroundings and consequently isolate themselves from it ...lic]] and are on the side of the [[object]], defences are more permanent [[symbolic]] [[structures]] of [[subjectivity]] (which Lacan usually calls [[fant
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• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  thing one encounters in the [[real]], inaccessible. It is indicated by what doesn't I won't have the opportunity to examine [[symbolic]] values in any depth for you, but I would like to conclude with what that
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...battle for Stalingrad, this battle is invested with so many fantasies and symbolic meanings -- when the German troops reached the Western bank of Volga, the " ...Harlan.) The path is thus clear: in order to be fully integrated into the symbolic space of mature relations, the girl has to endorse publicly the lie on whic
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• Metalanguage
  ...does not deny that there is a beyond of [[language]] (this beyond is the [[real]]), but he does argue that this beyond is not of a kind that could finally * [[Real]]
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• Freud Lives!
  ...from one [[excess]] to [[another]]. Only a firm boundary set up by some [[symbolic]] [[authority]] can [[guarantee]] [[stability]] and [[satisfaction]] – th ...could continue to [[sleep]] and dream (i.e. to avoid engagement with the [[real]] of [[social antagonism]]). In the first stanza of [[Primo Levi]]’s [[p
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• Stalinism
  ...re here reaching the limits of the Social, the level at which the social-[[symbolic]] link itself is approaching its self-destructive dissolution, this [[exces Do we not have here, enacted in [[real]] life, the uncanny logic of Josef K.'s first interrogation in <i>The Trial
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• Borromean knot
  ...heorize the interrelation of the [[Symbolic]], the [[Imaginary]] and the [[Real]] in [[terms]] of the [[topology]] of [[borromean knot|knots]]. ...e [[symbolic order]] and its interactions with the [[imaginary]] and the [[real]]; rather than simply representing [[structure]], [[topology]] is that [[st
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• Symbol
  ...f symbolic substitution between a nonsensical literal interpretation and a symbolic interpretation that supports a [[surplus]] of meaning because of the very [ ..., a [[work]] of transindividual [[culture]] that clarifies meaning, as in "symbolic [[dream]]-[[interpreting]]" (1900a, p. 97). On the [[subject]] of the dream
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• Passage to the act
  ===Exit from the Symbolic Order=== ...l]]. The [[passage to the act]] is thus an exit from the [[symbolic order|symbolic nework]], a [[dissolution]] of the [[social]] bond. Although the [[passage
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• Concepts
  =The Symbolic Order= ===The structure: the symbolic, the imaginary, the real===
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• Trompe l'oeil
  ...'œil tricks the viewer into perceiving painted [[objects]] or spaces as [[real]]. In psychoanalytic discourse, particularly within the theories developed Jacques Lacan's concept of the [[Imaginary]], the pre-[[symbolic]] [[stage]] where the [[infant]] experiences itself as a [[unified]] [[whol
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• Glossary2
  | [[real]] || ''[[réel]]'' || | [[symbolic]] || ''[[symbolique]]'' ||
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• Index:Parallax View
  * [[Real]] 25-26, 64-65,155,311 * [[Symbolic]] 83, 347
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• Biopolitics
  ...], as well as in the Lacanian dichotomy between the [[Symbolic]] and the [[Real]]. ...ng]] negativity, etc.) ''qua'' empty place of the inscription of a given [[symbolic order]] of [[meaning]].
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...om [[Poland]] who lower the [[wage]]s of the French workers, etc.etc. The real [[struggle]] is going on now: the struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of th ...g." The struggle is thus reduced to "mere rhetorics": the ideas (and the "real" politics) remain the same as they were, it is only a question of how to pa
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• Class struggle
  ...ižek]], the ]][[class]] [[struggle]]]] belongs to the [[Order]] of the [[Real]]. As the [[class struggle]] is [[Real]], it forms a blockage in the [[Symbolic]] which manifests itself in different attempts to [[Symbolize]] it, to recu
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...time, although nobody lives in them.) Is this not a pure [[case]] of the [[symbolic]] efficiency of the [[frame]] as such? A barren zone is given a [[fantasmat ...urved space that is bent onto itself; all that has to intervene into [[the Real]] is an empty frame so that the same things we saw "directly" before are no
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• Le Cas Aimée
  ...sequent arrest and confinement, she found the [[punishment]] which was a [[real]] source of the [[act]] itself. She [[understood]], at a certain level, th ...uld extend beyond the limits of the [[body]] and be constituted within a [[symbolic|complex social network]]. The actress represented a part of [[Aimée]] her
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• Overview
  ...e Lacan's three registers of the [[Imaginary]], the [[Symbolic]] and the [[Real]]. ...ified" and "signification" belong to the imaginary. Thus language has both symbolic and imaginary aspects. Based on the specular image, the imaginary is rooted
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• Subject of the Enunciation
  ...lic]] subject) whereas the "I am" is the subject of the enunciation ([[the Real]] subject). What Lacan aims to disclose by rewriting the [[Cartesian]] [[co
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• Subject of the Enunciated
  ...[[the thing]]". The subject can only enter [[language]] by negating the [[Real]], murdering or substituting the blood-and-sinew reality of [[self]] for th ...] subject) whereas the "I am" is the subject of the [[enunciation]] ([[the Real]] subject).
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• Outline
  [[Imaginary]] identification/symbolic identification [[Real]], the (Lacan)
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• Want of Being
  ...he [[object a]], which is the [[real]] insofar as it is articulated in the symbolic and which is also a gap that the ego as image occupies. The image of the [[ See also: [[Subject's castration]]; [[Symbolic, the (Lacan)]].
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• Schema
  ...[dual]] relation, between the [[imaginary]] (which is dualistic) and the [[symbolic]], (which adds a [[third]] element). [[Human]] beings are at first [[captured]] in [[the symbolic]] [[order]] before they are aware of it. They enter into it, through the pa
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories In Action
  ...are so unacceptable to the person that they are expressed in disguised or symbolic form through dreams rather than being directly revealed in some other way. ...t: latent content and manifest content. Latent content consists of hidden, symbolic, and unconscious motives, wishes, and fears. But latent content, if reveale
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• Function of Language
  ...ation, but instead as sources of meaning. The facts of [[desire]] are as [[real]] to the [[subject]] as the facts of [[nature]] viewed by positive [[scienc ...t is on the basis of this argument that Lacan elaborates his theory of the Symbolic, the [[dimension]] of culture into which the child must be introduced. Thro
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ...onnage) of meaning, not to an object but rather by 'reference back' to a [[symbolic]] function" (Wilden, [[1968]], p. 273). ...f contextualized meaning that is made possible by the [[synchrony]] of the symbolic order.
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• Books/Peter Mathews/Lacan the Charlatan
  ** From the Symbolic to the Real
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...e [[role]] of fantasy, to take sufficient account of the function of the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. It was Freud's grasp of the functioning of [[the symbolic]] order (despite the [[absence]] of adequate [[concepts]] of [[linguistics]
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• Lacan and Language
  ..., 250, 251, 284, 316, 326, 327, 333, 340, 348, 373, 374, 390, 393, 412-414 symbolic, 22, 128, 210, 231, 234, 248, 250, 252, 310, 312, 321, 325, 333, 352, 370, real, 212, 259
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...self to transgressing its limits. But whenever the sublime Thing comes for real into the [[world]], it appears necessarily in error and goes against the ru ...bversive in this Kundera-like private space, but that the ideal subject of real [[socialism]] was precisely the one who did not believe in the system, who
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ===The [[Symbolic]]=== ===The [[Real]]===
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