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• The Act
  ...nsibility]]''' is complicated in [[psychoanalysis]] by the discovery that, in addition to his [[conscious]] plans, the '''[[subject]]''' also has '''[[un ...oint of view of the [[conscious]] [[intention]], since they are successful in expressing an '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.<ref>[[{{FB}}|Freud, Sigmund
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• Jouissance
  [[Image:Kida_j.gif |right|frame|[[Kid A In Alphabet Land - Jouissance]]]] ...of [[Lacan]].</ref> "[[Enjoyment]]" does convey the [[sense]], contained in ''[[jouissance]]'', of ''enjoyment of rights'', of ''property'', etc., but
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• Letter
  ...graphic one.<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', 1916. Ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, tran When [[Lacan]] takes up [[Saussure]]'s [[work]] in the 1950s, he adapts it freely to his own purposes. He thus conceives of th
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• Thing
  ...h the [[German]] term ''[[Thing|das Ding]]''. There are two main contexts in which this term operates. ...cious]]-[[conscious]] [[system]], whereas in the [[unconscious|unconscious system]] only [[thing-presentations]] are found.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Fre
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• Phallus
  [[Image:Kida_p.gif |right|frame|'''[[Kid_A_In_Alphabet_Land_-_Phallus|Kid A In Alphabet Land Pacifies Another Pernicious Persona - The Phony Phallus!]]''' ...ic phase]]." The [[phallic phase]] denotes a [[stage]] in [[development]] in which the [[child]] ([[boy]] or [[girl]]) [[knows]] only one [[biology|geni
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• Mirror stage
  ...ibliography|work]], and becomes increasingly [[complex]] as it is reworked in various different contexts. ...zee quickly realizes that the [[image]] is [[illusory]] and loses interest in it.
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...Ulyanova]] ([[1835]]&ndash;[[1916]]). Lenin was of mixed ethnic ancestry. In addition to [[being]] Russian, he also had [[Kalmyk]] ancestry through his ..., at that [[time]] Lenin became interested in [[Marxism]], he got involved in student protests and later that year was arrested. He was then expelled fro
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• Demand
  [[Lacan]] begins to use the term "[[demand]]" in 1958. ..."inserted in a [[synchronic]] [[world]] of cries organized in a symbolic [[system]]."<ref>{{S4}} p. 182, 188</ref>
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...century in the context of the study of "[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...e nineteenth century, [[Marx]] borrowed the term to describe the way that, in [[capitalist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[fo
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• Hysteria
  ...as a female disease caused by the womb wandering throughout the [[body]] (in Greek ''hysteron'' means womb). ...ially in the [[work]] of Jean-Martin Charcot, under whom [[Freud]] studied in 1885-6.
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• Id
  ...f Sigmund Freud|The Ego and the Id]]''. 1923b. [[SE]] XIX. p. 23</ref> and used the term ''[[das Es]]'' to denote these forces. ...the early 1920s, in the context of the second [[model]] of the [[psyche]]; in this model, the [[psyche]] is [[divided]] into [[three]] [[agencies]]: the
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• Psychosis
  In his seminar of 1955-56 ([[Seminar III|Seminar III, ''The Psychoses'']]), La ..., but psychoanalytically [[speaking]] one can see [[three]] broad features in psychotic patients:
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• Regression
  ...27c: [[SE]] XXI, 22-4</ref> and described [[The Interpretation of Dreams]] in [[order]] to explain the [[visual]] [[nature]] of [[dreams]]. ...ng [[thoughts]] to travel regressively through these systems towards the [[system]] of [[perception]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'', 1900a:
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• Object
  The term is employed in [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or The [[notion]] of an [[object]] originates in [[Freud]]'s [[discussion]] of the [[drive]]s, where '[[object]]' is defined
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• Neurosis
  ...mes to denote a specific [[class]] of [[treatment|mental disorders]] (i.e. in opposiiton to [[psychosis]]). ...[[symptoms]] are an expression of a [[psychical]] [[conflict]] originating in [[childhood]]. Modern [[psychoanalysis]] describes [[patients]] presenting
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• Identification
  In [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] the term "[[identification]]" d In his [[Works of Sigmund Freud|later work]], as [[Freud]] developed the [[ide
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• Ego
  From [[Works of Jacques Lacan|very early on in his work]], [[Lacan]] plays on the fact that the [[German]] term which [[Fr ...e I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience]]", trans. [[Alan Sheridan]], in {{E}} pp. 1-7].</ref>
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• Language
  ...nglish]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]] languages. ...n]] in English it is therefore essential to be aware of which term is used in the original French; most of the [[time]] the French term will be ''[[langa
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• Master-Signifier
  ...re not [[other]] words. Imagine [[looking]] for a definition of a [[word]] in a [[dictionary]]. When one finds the definition it consists of only other w ...refers to [[value]] as such, and all other commodities are [[thought]] of in terms of how much money one can get for [[them]]. That is, money as a commo
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• Algebra
  In 1955, [[Lacan]] begins to use [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s -- in an attempt to [[formalize]] [[psychoanalysis]]. :Just as [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] uses quasi-[[mathematical]] [[formulae]] in an attempt to set [[anthropology]] on a more [[scientific]] footing, [[Laca
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• Consciousness
  In the so-called "[[topographical model]]", [[Freud]] isolates [[consciousness <blockquote>"The difficulties which this [[system]] of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theoris
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• Development
  ...s]] (the [[development|oral]] and [[development|anal stages]]) to maturity in the [[genital|genital stage]]. ...seems to accept this [[development]]al [[reading]] of [[Freud]], at least in the matter of a [[development|genetic order]] for the [[three]] "[[family]]
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• Fragmented body
  ...[[fragmented body]] is one of the earliest original [[concepts]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], and is closely linked to the [ In the [[mirror stage]] the [[infant]] sees its [[reflection]] in the [[mirror]] as a [[whole]]/[[synthesis]], and this [[perception]] causes
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• Unconscious
  ...]'' designates one of the ''[[psychical]] systems'' described by [[Freud]] in his [[topology|topographical model]] of the [[psyche]], his first [[theory] ...[repression]] and thus cannot enter the [[conscious|conscious-preconscious system]] without [[distortion]].
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• Structure
  In his [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|early work]], [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[s ...profoundly than the [[adult]], and [[introjection|internalizes]] [[them]] in the [[complex]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.89</ref>.
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• Signifier
  ...ied]].<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wad ...of all a [[meaning]]less [[material]] element in a ''closed differential [[system]]''; this "'''signifier without the signified'''" is called by [[Lacan]] th
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• Passage to the Act
  ...ts against anxiety, the subject who [[acts]] something out still remains in the SCENE, whereas a passage to the act involves an exit from In "passage to the act" it is the idea of "passage" that is important, for it
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• Order
  ...n [[concepts]] which, according to [[Lacan]], had previously been confused in [[psychoanalytic theory]]. ...] [[father]]. Thus [[Lacan]] claims that his [[tripartite]] classification system has shed invaluable light on [[Freud]]'s [[work]]:
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• Main Page2
  Welcome to the [[official]] '''TYPO3 [[Content]] Management [[System]]''' [[wiki]]!<br> Currently we have [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles (in different [[languages]]) online. Choose one of the following sections to fi
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• Alain Badiou
  ...ation]] of [[Algeria]]. He wrote his first novel, [[Almagestes]], in 1964. In 1967 he joined a study group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew incr ...ation Politique" which he founded with some comrades from the Maoist UCFML in 1985.
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• Extimacy
  ...ich may be rendered "[[extimacy]] in [[English]], neatly expresses the way in which [[psychoanalysis]] problematizes the opposition between "[[inside]]" ...]]. The [[unconscious]] is not a purely [[inside|interior]] [[psychic]] [[system]] but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[structure]] -- "the uncons
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• Forclusion
  forclusion (a term in use in the [[French]] [[legal]] [[system]]; in [[English]], '[[foreclosure]] ) ...In 1954, when Lacan first turns to the Freudian concept of Verwerfung in his
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. ...minar between [[discourse analysis]] and the [[analysis of the ego]], both in relation to [[psychoanalytical theory]] and [[practice]].
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• Seminar IX
  ...ier]]. In the [[three]] types of [[identification]] isolated by [[Freud]] in <i>[[Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego]]</i> (1921, S.E. XVIII), # A [[regressive]] [[identification]] in [[love]] relations: the [[object]] refuses itself, therefore the [[subject]
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• Seminar X
  ...ing point is the <i>[[fantasme]]</i> elaborated in the [[Graph of Desire]] in <i>[[Les formations de l'inconscient]]</i>: [[Image:lacansem1b1.gif|12px]] ...ems to be the irreducible [[Real]], "a lack which the symbol does not fill in," a "real [[deprivation]]."
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• Seminar XII
  ...n the surface of the [[Klein]] bottle. These [[figure]] though constructed in a simple and [[combinatory]] way, are nevertheless complicated to comment.< [[Image:Crucial-problems-for-psychoanalysis-lacan-in-ireland.jpg|border|350px|right]]
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• Seminar XVI
  ...be articulated as a [[knowledge]] and taught as such, it has no [[place]] in Academia, where it is only a matter of knowledge." He rejects nonconceptual ...zed]], on the Phallus as a [[symbol]] that is [[lacking]] or [[outside]] [[system]], and the [[repetition]] of the [[Graphs]] of [[Desire]].<br>
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...e two is related to the [[horror]] of [[incest]] that Freud [[identified]] in savages by analyzing totemic systems as laws of exogamy. ...e rest of us based on the intensity of [[emotion]], and provides the first in-depth investigation of this conception of emotion.
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...this is unlikely, it is not [[impossible]]. The fact that it is grounded in her wishes is what makes it an illusion. ...vitability; and the individuals composing [[them]] support one [[another]] in giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human
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• Moses and Monotheism
  ...en]], an ancient Egyptian [[monotheism|monotheist]]. The book was written in [[three]] parts, and was a departure from the rest of Freud's [[work]] on [ ...close followers into [[freedom]], and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion either to his strong [[faith]] or to circumcision. Freud explains
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• Seminar II
  ...sychanalyse</small>]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar II|The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...tween [[discourse]] [[analysis]] and the [[analysis]] of the [[ego]], both in relation to psychoanalytical theory and practice. He claims that "[[analys
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• Psychiatry
  ...ouisiana]], [[Guam]] or the military may also prescribe medication.</ref>. In some countries, mental health medication may only be prescribed by medical ...even the strongest measures. The majority of patients will fall somewhere in between.
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• Semiotics
  ...udy of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. ...'''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]]&ndash;[[1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...erapeutic techniques, especially his [[understanding]] of [[transference]] in the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s a ...o the [[University]] in [[Vienna]] because of the strong [[anti-Semitism]] in [[Austria]] at the [[time]], at which time his grades plummeted.
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• Linguistics
  ...theory]], and not until 1957 that he begins to engage with [[linguistics]] in any detail. ...[[anthropology|anthropological]] [[work]] of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] who, in the 1940s, had begun to apply the methods of [[structure|structural]] [[lin
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• Mathematics
  In his attempt to theorize the [[category]] of the [[symbolic]], [[Lacan]] ado ...istics]], using a [[Saussure]]an-inspired [[model]] of [[language]] as a [[system]] of [[signifiers]].
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...tional de Philosophie]] in [[Paris]] and at the [[University of Macerata]] in Italy, and has held visiting appointments at several American universities. ...without as yet inflecting [[them]] in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the [[Warburg Institute]], where he wrote ''St
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• Roland Barthes
  ...His [[mother]], Henriette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[cu ...s period, [[suffering]] from [[tuberculosis]] that often had to be treated in the [[isolation]] of [[sanatorium|sanatoria]]. His repeated [[physical]] b
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• Judith Butler
  ...[[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of [[Rhetoric]] and Comparative [[Literature]] at the [[Uni ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek==
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• Capitalism
  ...ism, when viewed as a system of power relations, is described as a society in which every kind of transactional relation is fundamentally exploitative. Capitalism is a system that depends on the exploitation of underclass groups for its survival. (h
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...rn]] to a scientific approach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...representing [[understanding]] and the processing of information. Included in the term are certain areas of speculative research ([[philosophy]] of [[min
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• Deconstruction
  ...he basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]] ==The difficulty in defining deconstruction==
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• Gilles Deleuze
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...Žižek this mode of repetition indicates Deleuze’s similarity to Hegel, in that both stress becoming through repetition. By becoming-[[other]] to Hege
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• Félix Guattari
  ...rincipal anchoring -- a [[refusal]] to be anchored! -- until his [[death]] in [[1992]]. ...well as the [[formation]] of Friendly Male Nurses (Amicales d'infirmiers)(in [[1958]]), the studies on architecture and the projects of [[construction]]
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• Jürgen Habermas
  ...[German]] [[philosopher]], [[political]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theory]]. ...[capitalist]] industrial [[society]] and of [[democracy]], the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary (especially German
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...] and [[social]] [[progress]] would bring [[about]] [[stable]] democracies in recently [[Decolonization|decolonized]] countries. ===''Political Order in Changing Societies''===
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...s mother, Anne Sørensdatter Lund Kierkegaard, is not directly referred to in his books, although she too affected his later writings. Despite his fathe ...he last sacrifice which he made to his [[love]] for me; ... he died for me in [[order]] that, if possible, I might still turn into something. Of all tha
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• Georg Lukács
  ...[[Marxist theory|theory]], and his [[literary]] criticism was influential in [[thinking]] [[about]] [[realism]] and about the [[novel]] as a [[literary ...an (language)|German]], was '''Georg Bernhard Lukács von Szegedin''', and in [[Hungarian (language)|Hungarian]] was '''Szegedi Lukács György Bernát''
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  .... It is fascinating to read how Althusser sees Lacan as [[being]] involved in a similar [[project]] to his own. Just as he, Althusser, is trying to rethi interest in [[Lacanian]] psychoanalysis - a movement which seemed to
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symboli ...cient Greek]] [[tragedy]] ([[myth]]) by [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus Rex]'', in which Oedipus unwittingly kills his [[father]] and [[marries]] his [[mother
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• Jacques Lacan:The Subject of the Unconscious
  ...s [[experience]] of rupture, between [[perception]] and [[consciousness]], in that [[time|nontemporal locus]]... [[Freud]] calls [[scene|another scene]]. ...g]]". The [[unconscious]] ''is'' precisely this [[gap]] or [[gap|rupture]] in the [[symbolic]] [[signifyin chain|chain]].
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...t a]] and [[jouissance]]. We will look at each of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes] =The real is always in its place=
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• Matheme
  ...ude Lévi-Strauss]] to denote the basic constituents of [[myth]]ological [[system]]s).<ref>[[Claude Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [ ...term is an equivalent to "[[algebra|mathematical sign]]". It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...f nostalgic idolatry, and, furthermore, from the perspective firmly rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rig ...the answer is immediately: "Benevolent as it is, this will necessarily end in a new [[Gulag]]!" The [[ideological]] function of the constant reference to
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...mely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my [[right]] was so immersed in the film that he all the [[time]] disturbed [[other]] spectators with loud ...ing our inner life itself, using us as the source of energy; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...laim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politic ...d]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian assembly lines. In their invisibility the West can afford itself to babble [[about]] the so-ca
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• Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
  ...eality]] that it is distorting, and through this very act dissolve itself. In the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -that developed ...ls which are supposed to hide the naked reality. We can see why [[Lacan]], in his [[Seminar]] on The [[Ethic]] of [[Psychoanalysis]], distances himself f
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? ...en the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...le fully to [[enjoy]] all [[women]]. Does, however, the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? I ...agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castration; in both cases, the role of this fantasmatic agency is to fill out the vicious
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...[[meaning]] to the actual [[signifiers]]. What [[speech]] act is involved in this context? ...values. "Everybody might get rich, including you." Let's take Thatcherism in Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard wo
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...social]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place]] in it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation o ...] between police and politics proper is always blurred and contested; say, in the [[Marxist]] [[tradition]], '[[proletariat]]' can be read as the subject
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...sis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] t ...l use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...ainst the aristocracy and clergy) to the demise of European [[socialism]], in which groups such as the Czech Civic [[Forum]] proclaimed themselves [[repr ...y "scum" of the [[official]] whole of the people, with no [[proper place]] in official [[space]] (or, more precisely, with only titles such as "counterre
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...ty to run a country through the "normal" chains of administrative command. In order to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should star ...[[Seduction]]: "Most people have a dark side… she had [[nothing]] else." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obsce
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...the anatomy of man provides the key for the anatomy of the monkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[form ...he guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ...r views, or, if you insist on expressing your [[political]] views publicly in the [[present]] circumstances, when our position is far more difficult than
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  What is [[tolerance]] today? The most popular TV show of the fall of 2000 in [[France]], with a viewer rating two [[times]] higher than that of the [[no ...e Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...Butler]], The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that which is already caught in some kind of pre-[[subjective]] [[psychic apparatus]].</ref> Butler, of cou
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ect?" The answer, of course, is: the object - however, which object? This, in a nutshell (or, rather, as a nut within the shell), is the topic of the pre ...but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...nd all the [[multiplicity]] of the [[world]]. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest [[sense]] of the world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W ...since it includes self-differentiation into the One - its lesson is that, in [[order]] to have truly One, you [[need]] THREE.
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• Move the Underground!
  ...hould thus have the [[savoir]]-faire to play the existing, positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying n ...nner [[jokes]], obscene practices, etc. The truly radical [[intervention]] in to military homophobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...Gibson's <i>[[Passion]]</i> seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalis ...[[Jesus]]? Or as the typical secular Jew who, although he does not believe in Jehova and [[Moses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a di
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...ules of the game"? Why should it not, in some circumstances, at least, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure? ...a couple of years ago, and the situation is similar in today's Pakistan.) In such a case, many a democrat would concede that the people was not yet "mat
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...(the constructed nature) of reality, and the triumphant return of the body in the sense of the ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defian ...universe which generates the false "wealth of experience" of humans caught in the Matrix.)<br><br>
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• The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
  ...our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...ure, where each of us is effectively just a foetus-like organism, immersed in the pre-natal fluid...
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• When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
  ...of the possible definitions of postmodern art as opposed to modernist art: in [[postmodernism]], the [[transgressive]] [[excess]] loses its shocking [[va ...he burglars and footpads are merely placid old cosmic conservatives, happy in the immemorial respectability of apes and wolves. /The police romance/ is b
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] idiom - say, "To be or not to be, that is the ...esitations cannot be purely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique H
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...ITICAL [[position]], not just as a pseudo-radical chic allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on T ...which were going on also in the previous epochs. Recall [[feminism]]: only in the last 200 years was the situation of [[women]] progressively perceived a
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...is sad fact that the opposition to the [[system]] cannot articulate itself in the guise of a realistic alternative, or at least a meaningful utopian [[pr ...ormulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...t routine; [[culture]] and [[knowledge]] as against industrial production; in spontaneous interaction and [[autopoiesis]] as against fixed hierarchy. ...ckers dominate the [[scene]], [[working]] long hours, enjoying free drinks in green surroundings. The underlying [[notion]] here is that Gates is a subve
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• Bring Me My Philips Mental Jacket
  ...manity but nature itself. In this sense, Francis [[Fukuyama]] is [[right]] in <i>Our Posthuman [[Future]]</i>: the [[notion]] of humanity relies on the [ ...tion mistake: the stuttering [[repetition]] of the nucleotide sequence CAG in the middle of a particular gene. The age at which the disease will appear d
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  <i>Vaclav [[Havel]]: A [[Political]] [[Tragedy]] in Six [[Acts]]</i> by John Keane · Bloomsbury, 532 pp, £25.00 ...versal]] is not a betrayal of his original ethical stance, but is inherent in it. The ultimate lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable
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• Seminar VII
  ...all. Both have rejected the [[right]] to live in [[order]] to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - ''entre-deux-morts'' - that is immortality. ...hing]]. As for disbelief, by rejecting the [[Thing]] it makes it reappear in the [[Real]], which is the [[Lacan]]ian definition of [[psychosis]].
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• Surrealism
  ...te to psychoanalysis and the crucial link to his [[clinical]] [[practice]] in [[psychiatry]]. ...iterary]] and artistic movement that emerged after the First [[World]] War in [[Paris]], its founding [[figure]] the writer and poet [[André Breton]] (1
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• Categorical Imperative
  ...hysic of Morals]]''. It is outlined here according to the arguments found in this [[work]]. ..., and is both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation:
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• Antigone (Lacan)
  ...on the [[logic]] of the [[individual]] [[situation]], Kant merely succeeds in separating pleasurability from the [[notion]] of [[good]]. ...e above [[seminar]] [[Lacan]] comments on the [[tragedy]] of [[Antigone]], in a play which clearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to t
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• Parallax View
  ...therefore minimal difference, a "pure" difference which cannot be grounded in positive substantial properties.<ref><u>[[The Parallax View]].</ref></block ..., and neither is the "truthful" one - the truth resides in their very gap, in the shift of perspective. See René Girard, Job: The Victim and His People,
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• The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
  ...to convince us (and themselves) that globalization is its own best remedy. In the sub-tropical, Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the counter-elite of the ...ronically refers to as “[[liberal]] communists” (that is “liberal” in the pro-[[market]], European [[sense]]) who no longer accept the opposition
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• Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency
  ...U) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. (In season four, they stopped a stolen [[nuclear weapon]] from exploding above ...spectators’, real [[time]] is exactly equivalent to the [[temporal]] gap in the on-screen [[narrative]], as if the events nonetheless <i>go on</i> as w
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...ajority determine [[state]] decisions. Democracy—in the way the term is used today—concerns, above all, ‘’’[[formal]] legalism’’’. Its mi ...mal “rules of the game”? Why should it not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...r you look at it—practically every orientation seems to recognize itself in it.<br><br> ...ch the shadowy performance of (what they falsely consider to be) reality—in short, the [[position]] of the [[cinema]] spectators themselves.<br><br>
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• Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
  ...p sea diving and started shooting documentaries [[about]] the strange life in the dark depths of the sea.<br><br> ...prowess at climbing a deadly mountain. Is it not possible to read the film in exactly the opposite way as it usually is [[interpreted]]? Is Junta, the lo
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• What Is To Be Done (With Lenin)?
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• Revenge of Global Finance
  In a 2002 <i>[[Time]]</i> magazine interview, George Lucas explained the perso ...hrough the very way we, the 'good guys,' fight the [[enemy]] out there. (In today’s '[[war on terror]],' the [[real]] [[danger]] is what this [[war]]
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• Liberation Hurts
  appeared originally in <i>electronic book review</i><br><br> ...[[taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? Under the [[
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...ror from the entire spectrum of the 'legitimate' democratic political bloc in the Western world. From the social democratic Third Way to the Christian co ...governmental office), furnish the proof of the benevolence of the official system. Their existence displaces the focus of political struggle - whose true obj
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...- namely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my right was so immersed in the film that he all the time disturbed other spectators with loud exclamat ...ing our inner life itself, using us as the source of energy; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...e overall [[idea]] is that Serbia, the island of peace, the only [[place]] in ex-[[Yugoslavia]] that was not touched by the war raging all around it, is ...that it has no ground under its feet... From Milosevic's seizure of power in Serbia onwards, the only actual [[chance]] for Yugoslavia to survive was to
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...sis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] t ...l use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...[myth]] with the [[mythical]] [[narrative]] of the "primordial [[father]]" in [[Totem]] and [[Taboo]] (T&T)? The lesson of this second myth is the exact ...at least let him know his wish between the lines...) is thus well-founded: in this necessity of the Betrayal of the Great Man, which can only assure his
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• Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
  ...u have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country? ...he first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms.
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...[[meaning]] to the actual [[signifiers]]. What [[speech]] act is involved in this context? </i><br><br> ...values. "Everybody might get rich, including you." Let's take Thatcherism in Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard wo
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• Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
  </p><p><i><b>Editors' Note: Slavoj</b> [[Zizek]], a leading [[intellectual]] in the new presidency of the republic of Slovenia, then part of [[Yugoslavia]], in 1990.</i>
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• From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
  ...Butler]], The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that which is already caught in some kind of pre-[[subjective]] [[psychic apparatus]].</ref> Butler, of cou
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
  ...the anatomy of man provides the key for the anatomy of the monkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[form ...he guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• Hysteria and Cyberspace
  ...onnected to the '[[virtual]] worlds' Zizek comes to the conclusion, that - in contrast to the popular, exoticising readings of the net - the predominant ...f cyberspace that was popularized for example via the [[idea]] of The Borg in Star Trek. The Borg seems to be something like a cybernetic insect [[state]
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• Anarchy
  ...[[discourses]], in [[order]] to rethink the anti-authoritarian [[project]] in non-[[utopian]] and non-essentialist [[terms]]. It concludes by calling for ...r, it is to examine the implications and relevance of Lacanian [[ideas]] - in particular, his theory of the [[four discourses]] - to radical political th
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• Illusion
  It is this last formulation that is embodied in the [[Freudian]] approach to illusion, defined as a belief primarily motiva To that extent the illusion has much in common with [[dreams]] and dreaming, where the [[philosophers]] of antiquit
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• Historicism
  # that local [[conditions]] and peculiarities influence the results in a decisive way ...losopher]] in [[Nineteenth Century | 19th-century]] [[Europe]], as well as in those of a [[philosopher]] he is said to have influenced heavily, [[Karl Ma
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ''This [[exchange]] of letters begins at a crucial [[moment]] in the [[life]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]: he had just been stricken from the [[lis </ref> which plunged him into great turmoil, evidence of which can be seen in his first letters.
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary Kay's stance in today's [[politics]]." ...alinist", which draws gleeful [[laughter]] from an audience who are mostly in their twenties.
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• Enjoy your Zizek
  ...n, agitated entrance of the Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Zizek]], who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British [[Film]] Institute.<br> ...tically precise [[English]] tea,"Zizek insists, gesticulating dramatically in the style of a European dictator. "Everything must be exactly the way the E
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  Even Lacanians might find it in their hearts to forgive Chomsky As if to condense the aura of contrariness and enigma he cultivated in
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...f the self" and the "night of the world" respectively. The point is that, in each of these cases, there is an increasing emphasis on negativity as the f ...n" self and the symbolic universe of "civilized" human subjectivity (where in the Enlightenment tradition the latter is identified with the Light of Reas
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...of reference, the only conclusion will be that Western academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Laca ...cused on the particular versions of those theoretical frameworks currently in circulation. A good way of starting this assessment of Zizek is to go back
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...onary narrative not because it was better able to account for the 'crisis' in [[liberal]]-bourgeois ideology, but because it was able to impose the [[ide ...he exploitation of [[nature]] is seen as [[masculine]]; socialist ecology, in which the exploitation of nature is seen as the product of [[capitalism]];
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...the only one that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, would observe:</font>< ...a kind of synthesis, with the basin full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible but not to be inspected? (PF, 4)</font></p>
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• Literature
  ...[[true]] [[enjoyment]] of literature proceeds from the release of tensions in our minds.<ref>{{RPDD}}</ref></blockquote> ...to recognize its importance when their "[[whole]] [[experience]] must find in [[speech]] alone its [[instrument]], its [[content]], its [[material]], and
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• Foreclosure
  ...that of [[identifying]] a specific [[psychical]] cause for [[psychosis]]. In the course of addressing this problem, two themes are constant. ...[mother]]-[[child]] [[dual|relation]]s.<ref>{{1938}} p. 49</ref> Later on in his [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], when [[Lacan]] distinguishes between t
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• Synchrony
  ...n [[stage]] of its [[evolution]] and facilitates the [[analysis]] of the [[system]] of [[internal]] relations that constitutes it as a [[language]]. ...uage]] through [[time]] by recording the changes that have taken [[place]] in it.
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• Diachrony
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• Phenomenology
  ...y]]' has been used in [[philosophy]] since the late eighteenth century and in [[psychiatry]] since the beginning of the twentieth. It is worth [[looking]] at its use in these two spheres before examining its [[relationship]] to [[psychoanalytic
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• Wilhelm Reich
  ...trist]], [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]], and [[author]], who was trained in [[Vienna]] by [[Sigmund Freud]]. ...oped instruments to detect and harness this energy, which he said could be used to treat illnesses like [[cancer]] or [[control]] the weather. His views w
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• Hegemony
  ...nant group. Hegemony controls the ways that [[ideas]] become "naturalized" in a [[process]] that informs notions of [[common sense]]. ...any arena has rarely achieved a perfect [[balance]], but hegemony results in the [[empowerment]] of certain [[cultural]] [[belief]]s, [[Value (personal
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• Luce Irigaray
  ...sistant at the ''[[Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique]]'' (CNRS) in [[Paris]]. ...f the ''[[Ecole Freudienne de Paris]]'' (EFP), a school directed by Lacan. In [[1969]] she analysed [[Antoinette Fouque]], a [[feminist]] [[leader]] of t
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in The Authoritarian Personality, including idealizing rebellion against [[par ...al, ex-minister of culture and ex-ambassador of [[Slovenia]] in [[France]] in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]]
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...can]] Through Popular Culture and [[Enjoy]] the [[Symptom]]! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. Additionally, among his later books that dealt more with ...ic election in 1990 and served as the Republic's ambassador of [[science]] in 1991 following Slovenia's declaration of independence. Since 1979, he has b
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  '''Of Children in Swaddling Clothes'''<BR> ''O cities of the sea, I behold in you your citizens, women as well as men tightly bound with stout bonds arou
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• Kant with Sade
  That the work of Sade anticipates Freud, be it in respect of the catalogue of perversions, is a stupid thing to say, which ge ...ere, the way for science is prepared by rectifying the position of ethics. In this, yes, a ground-clearing occurs which will have to make its way through
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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...to a [[case]] whose [[particular]] [[significance]] resides in its showing in miniature the reciprocal interplay of those [[three]] grand [[terms]] we ha ..., because it reveals some of the [[subject]]'s relations to his [[image]], in so far as it is the <i>Urbild </i>[original [[form]]] of the ego. Now, this
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• From The Function of the Veil
  [[Analysis]] tells us that the [[fetish]] is a [[symbol]]. In this [[regard]], it is almost immediately set on the same footing as every ...confirm it within the [[structure]], from the [[analytic]] point of view. In [[truth]], many authors here show some [[hesitation]], and go to the point
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• Tuché and Automaton
  ...ation]] - God is un</i><i>[[conscious]] - The </i>[[objet]] [[petit a]] <i>in the </i>[[fort-da]]<p> ...enough for this-it reduces the experience, some say, that urges us to find in the hard supports of conflict, struggle, even of the exploitation of man by
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  FUNCTION OF THE MYTH OF OEDIPUS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS<br> ...ing, but since several questions concerning the [[place]] of the imaginary in the [[symbolic]] [[structure]] crop up while following the thread of our [[
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...recursor, who supposedly opened up some [[impasse]], aberration or aporia, in that [[domain]] of [[ethics]] we have chosen to explore this year, and that ...ng, which is related to a [[number]] of [[others]] I am struggling against in [[order]] to make some [[progress]] here before you.<p>
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  the synchronic dimension in the study of language. The the SYSTEM of language given by a number of laws of equilibrium
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• Italian Note
  This principle is as follows, which I said in these terms. ...the A.M.E. It is not with that that it operates. The Italian group is not in a position to provide this guarantee.
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• Death and Psychoanalysis
  ...consciousness, while the first refers to the make-up of the unconscious [[system]] and especially the fact that it ignores [[time]] and its passage, and mor ...representations of death. Among the typical [[dream]] types Freud mentions in The [[Interpretation]] of Dreams (1900a) is the dream of the death of loved
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• Death Instinct
  ...nt and thus deflected to the [[outside]] [[world]] through the musculature in the drive for [[destruction]] and [[mastery]] or the will to [[power]]: thi ...] introduced the [[concept]] of the [[death drive]] as a [[negative]] term in opposition to the [[life]] drive: "The opposition between the ego or death
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• Hyponosis
  ...]], [[verbal]] commands, etc.). The [[English]] physician [[James]] Braid, in his Neurhypnology (1843), popularized, or may even have coined, the [[word] ...ces with a [[scientific]] conception of a "peculiar state of the nervous [[system]] induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the [[mental]] and [[visua
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• Interpretation
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• Latency Period
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• Latent
  ...nt]]) are the [[meanings]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[interpretation]] discovers in the [[manifest]] dream (the [[narrative]] the dreamer constructs of his dre [[Freud]] introduced the contrast between manifest and latent in The Interpretation of [[Dreams]] (1900a), and he never abandoned this [[dis
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• Knot
  The [[knot]] is a [[topology|topological]] [[structure]] used by [[Jacques Lacan]] to define the [[relationship]] of the [[symbolic]], th ...can]] refers to the [[topology|topological]] [[structure]] of the [[knot]] in [[order]] to describe the relations between the [[imaginary]], the [[symbo
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• Word-Presentation
  ...nscious]]-[[conscious]], he assigned a special [[role]] to verbal language in the [[mechanism]] whereby unconscious [[processes]] became conscious. ...anings]] that lie not in things prior to the advent of language but rather in thought before the advent of [[words]].
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• Parricide
  ...ompulsion]]" embodied in the Greek legend: we were all, "once, in germ and in [[phantasy]], just such an Oedipus" (1950a [1892-1899], p. 265). [[Analysts ...father and so made an end of the patriarchal horde" (1912-1913a, p. 141). In a single [[sentence]] Freud thus summed up the "memorable and criminal deed
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• Marxism and Psychoanalysis
  ...cesses: the [[intellectual]] [[activity]] and beliefs of [[human]] beings. In <i>New Introductory Lectures on [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]]</i> (1933), Sigmund In the second generation of [[psychoanalysts]], some authors, positioning them
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• Psychosexual Development
  ...leasure bonus provided alongside the accomplishment of the function would, in a second [[stage]], be sought for its own sake. Freud thus considered [[ana ...nital]] and highlighting the autoeroticism that is linked to them: sucking in relation to oral [[activity]], retention/expulsion for anal erotism.
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• Daniel Paul Schreber
  ...story]], was [[born]] on July 15, 1842, in Leipzig, and died in April 1911 in the [[state]] [[mental]] asylum at Leipzig-Dösen. ...al breakdown. Thereafter he spent [[about]] thirteen years of his [[life]] in mental institutions, and while at the Sonnenstein Asylum he composed his on
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• Symbolization
  In this [[sense]] it promotes the ability to fantasize and the organization of ...alytic [[situation]] thereby appears as both [[symbolic]] and symbolizing, in that its mode of operation is based on a [[structure]] with [[three]] point
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• Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
  ...eeper the [[theoretical]] assumptions on which a [[psycho]]-[[analytic]] [[system]] could be founded" ([[Freud]], 1917d, p. 222 n.).
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• Wolf Man
  '''Wolf Man''' was a pseudonym used for one of [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ...g at the age of four, and which marked the beginning of his [[neurosis]]. In it, he dreamt of several wolves staring at him, withtheir ears pricked up,
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• Taboo
  ...which the Polynesians express through their word taboo and what many races in America, Africa (Madagascar), North and Central Asia express through analog ...[concept]] of reserve inheres in taboo; taboo expresses itself essentially in prohibitions and restrictions. Our combination of "holy dread" would often
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• Electra complex
  ...]]. It is said to be the female [[counterpart]] to the [[Oedipus complex]] in males. Its [[name]] comes from the [[Greek mythology|Greek myth]] of [[Elec ...for [[Sigmund Freud]]'s concept of the "[[feminine]] [[Oedipus]] attitude" in young girls. According to Sigmund [[Freud]], the [[girl]] is originally att
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• Developmental psychology
  ...fic]] study of progressive [[psychology|psychological]] changes that occur in [[human]] beings as they age. Originally concerned with [[infants]] and [[c ...Developmental psychology complements several other basic research fields in [[psychology]] including [[social psychology]], [[cognitive psychology]], a
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• Genital stage
  The '''[[genital]] [[stage]]''' in [[psychology]] is the term used by [[Sigmund Freud]] to describe the final stage of [[human]] [[psychosexua ...[[about]] the fifth year) to the definitive [[form]] taken by [sexuality] in the adult" (1923e, p. 141).
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• Anticathexis
  In [[psychoanalysis]], '''anticathexis''' is the [[energy]] derived from the ...d, ensures its [[being]] established and continued by means of which the [[system]] Pcs guards itself against the intrusion of the [[unconscious]] [[idea]].<
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• Psychodynamics
  ...ynamics attempts to explain or [[interpret]] [[behavior]] or mental states in [[terms]] of innate emotional forces or processes. ...ce, i.e. the “conscious” level. This, in the former [[case]], results in [[psychological]] states as [[neurosis]] and [[psychosis]].
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• Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
  I don't intend to engage in anything in the [[order]] of a theatrical ploy. I ...ber 19, 1963, Serge Leclaire informed Lacan that the [[S.F.P]]. had voted, in a complicated procedure, to refuse not to ratify the motion striking Lacan'
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• Training analysis
  ...every psychoanalyst must undergo with a certified [[analyst]] prior to, or in parallel with, his or her [[theoretical]] training, and before beginning to ...hey have laid increased emphasis on this requirement, and have embodied it in the [[demand]] that everyone who wishes to carry out [[analyses]] on [[othe
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• Jean-Paul Sartre
  ...1933-34. He was awarded, but declined, the Nobel Prize for [[literature]] in 1964. ...des no privileged [[self]]-[[knowledge]] because, as Sartre writes, "My I, in effect, is no more certain for consciousness than the I of [[other]] men. I
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• Heraclitus
  ...of the western [[world]] to have put forward a robust [[philosophical]] [[system]]. His writings have later influences upon [[Socrates]] and [[Plato]]. 19th
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• Rudolf Loewenstein
  ...oewenstein was [[born]] in Lodz, [[Poland]], on January 17, 1898, and died in New York on April 14, 1976. ...dmitted as a member of the [[German]] Psychoanalytic [[Society]] (DPG) and in 1925 became an assistant at the outpatient [[clinic]], where he gained [[re
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• Germany
  ...nthal, Karen Horney, and Margarete Stegmann, the first women [[analysts]]. In June 1912 two [[other]] nonphysician women were admitted as members at larg ...ve up the presidency of the [[International Psychoanalytical Association]] in 1913 and was supported by the Munich group.
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• Existentialism
  ...the manifestation of a multiply interconnected multileveled associationist system) then those changes could be quite profound. The possibility (downplayed by ...Freudian unconscious is a [[myth]]. Indeed, the holism of a connectionist system yields a very plausible [[reading]] of this [[claim]].
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• Communism
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...niversity of [[London]], in 2009, and a second conference in New York City in 2012.
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• Stalinism
  It would be revealing to engage in a detailed account of how the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], t ...ses him to go to Switzerland and get there the best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[id
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• Symbol
  ...itself plays no part at all in his [[psychical]] [[life]]. The symbol has in this case taken the place of [[the thing]] entirely" (1950c, p. 349). ...cluding the pure and simple assimilation of the two [[terms]] in question. In the case of the hysterical symbol, it is the [[impossibility]] of invoking
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• Hieroglyphics
  ...ized into a signifying [[system]].<ref>{{S1}} p. 244-5; {{E}} p. 160</ref> In the same way, the [[signifier]] persists as a [[meaning]]less [[letter]] wh
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• Hypnosis
  ...g at an object, verbal commands, etc.). The English physician James Braid, in his Neurhypnology (1843), popularized, or may even have coined, the word "h ...self on Braid's and especially Carpenter's neurological approach. In 1882, in an article that was noted by the Académie des [[Sciences]], he [[identifie
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• Bureaucracy
  ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek== ...and [[literature]]. The [[idea]] of bureaucracy is most frequently engaged in Žižek’s [[writing]] with [[regard]] to Hegel’s [[defence]] of a monar
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• Partial object
  ...omplex]] (in which the [[penis]] is imagined as a separable [[organ]]) and in his discussion of [[fetishism]]. The concept of the [[part-object]] plays an important part in [[Lacan]]'s work from early on.
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• United States
  ...reud]]'s visit in 1909, and the second one following the [[Nazi]] takeover in [[Germany]] and [[Austria]]. Each wave stimulated the exploration of psycho American physicians had been seeking to [[cure]] neurasthenia, which, already in 1869, George M. Beard (1840-1883) had called "the American disease" arising
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...which the [[defense]] of [[workers]]' [[rights]] coexists with [[racism]], in which the blind reaction to a perceived [[threat]] and [[fear]] of [[change ...] [[liberals]] now wonder whether the hitherto "apathy" was not a blessing in disguise.
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in The Authoritarian Personality, including idealizing rebellion against [[par ...al, ex-minister of culture and ex-ambassador of [[Slovenia]] in [[France]]-in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]]
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• Outline
  [[Acting out]]/acting in Censoring the lover in her
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• Working Over
  ...take [[place]] in hysteria, leading to stasis of the [[traumatic]] effect in a [[separate]] psychic group, with no possibility of liquidation. ...is even more clear cut in the actual [[neuroses]], properly [[speaking]]. In the essay "On the Grounds for Detaching a [[Particular]] Syndrome from Neur
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• Work
  ...y]] by a [[system]] or organism that produces an effect or transformation. In [[psychoanalysis]], [[mental]] work is taken to mean any [[activity]] of th ...patient]]'s more [[passive]] [[role]] in [[treatment]] using [[hypnosis]]. In his earliest [[psychoanalytical]] writings, it was a cognitive kind of work
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• Hallucinatory Satisfaction of a Wish
  ...[hallucinatory]] [[satisfaction]] of a [[wish]] is one of the key elements in the [[Freudian]] conception of [[psychic]] functioning. It postulates that, ...che]] of the newborn [[baby]], [[dreams]], problems in psychic functioning in certain neurotics, or certain [[psychoses]], called, as a matter of fact, d
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• Ethics and Psychoanalysis
  ...more specifically, rules of [[behavior]] and their justifications. This [[system]] of rules attributes values to behaviors by judging [[them]] to be [[good] In [[Civilization]] and Its Discontents (1930a [1929]), Freud noted, "The [[cu
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• Sigmund Freud:Biography
  ...Little did he [[know]] that this education would eventually serve him well in developing his theories and conveying [[them]] to a wide audience. ...have proposed that Freud's early jealously of Julius played significantly in the [[development]] of his later theories on sibling [[rivalry]]. Tragicall
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories
  [[Freud]]'s [[psychoanalytic]] [[system]] evolved over nearly 60 years of professional [[work]]. He himself was con ...]; the rest is buried in the unconscious and is inaccessible. Though small in comparison to the unconscious, the conscious mind is still essential and im
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• Sigmund Freud:Historical Context
  .... Gustav Theodore Fechner, who preceded [[Freud]] but had contact with him in the later part of the nineteenth century, also speculated about the unconsc ...other]] books published in [[Germany]] included the [[word]] "unconscious" in their titles.
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• Sigmund Freud:Critical Response
  ...lternatives were offered by a [[number]] of [[other]] theorists, resulting in a splintering of [[psychological]] [[thought]]. ...ine one's behavior later in [[life]]. This deterministic presupposition is in large part what made Freud's theory so intriguing and controversial.
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• Function of Language
  ...is]], [[surrealism]] and [[philosophy]], I have often alluded to language. In this chapter I [[want]] to focus on [[Lacan]]'s constantly changing (and [[ In his attempt to define a new way of studying human phenomena Lacan was deepl
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...[Unconscious]]," and the essays crystallize the results of that effort. As in the previous essay, so here, the available [[text]] cries for glosses that ...nalytic]] [[theory]], both in [[terms]] of eventual~ tom [[formation]] and in terms of the unconscious dimenSiOn of [[sexual]] [[identification]]. For ho
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• Lacan and Language
  ...87, 113, 114, 199, 226, 262, 270, 283, 295, 308, 326; see also [[Dream(s), in Freud Code(s), 86, 128, 201-203, 226, 239, distortion in, 16, 166, 177, 187,325 in Freud, of botanical monograph, 14, 16, 17; of butcher's wife, 279, 322, 323
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...a wink, we resign ourselves to taking advantage of whatever trust remains in [[human]] [[nature]]. ...ntian fetishists: I [[know]] very well there is no social Harmony prepared in heaven, but that is why we must [[work]] it here on earth. But Zizek unveil
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...Descartes argues that he could not be [[deceived]] if he did not [[exist]] in some [[form]]. Given that his [[body]] may be an illusion, Descartes conclu ...to think of ourselves as individuals because we feel we are [[complete]], in charge of ourselves and not subject to the whims of [[outside]] forces. Whe
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• Jean Delay
  ...al but soon discovered that he had little interest in surgery and enrolled in the [[university]]'s [[literature]] department. Georges Dumas, who held the ...the Nuremberg trials, where he examined Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher. In 1946, when he was only 38 years old, Delay was appointed to the chair of [[
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• Psychoses, chronic and delusional
  ...cle of the bylaws of the Société [[linguistique]] de [[Paris]], composed in 1866. ...rsus language as system—used by de Saussure in his classes and published in the <i>Course on General Linguistics</i> after his [[death]] (1916), was no
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• Structuralism and psychoanalysis
  ...features as mere "effects." [Ed: [[Quotes]] indicate [[jargon]] [[terms]] in structuralism.] ...e Prague and Moscow [[schools]], structuralism counts many representatives in various fields. There are the [[linguist]] Roman [[Jakobson]], the socioeth
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• Fatherhood
  ...[construction]] of their own [[individual]] and [[social]] identities, and in their respect for the law. Father-hood is the basis of all [[thought]]. Discovering in his [[self]]-[[analysis]], through his [[dreams]], that fatherhood [[satisf
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• Word-presentation
  ...nscious]]-[[conscious]], he assigned a special [[role]] to verbal language in the [[mechanism]] whereby unconscious [[processes]] <i>became</i> conscious ...anings]] that lie not in things prior to the advent of language but rather in thought before the advent of [[words]].
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• Politics and Psychoanalysis
  Bullitt, Freud put his [[name]] to a book of political [[psychoanalysis]] in the strict [[sense]], <i>Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-Eighth President of ...the foundation of a [[religion]], a [[culture]], and a people—the Jews—in <i>[[Moses]] and [[Monotheism]]</i> (1939a).
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• Siegfried Bernfeld
  ..., and died April 2, 1953, in San Francisco. Bernfeld distinguished himself in the extent of his [[knowledge]], the originality of his [[ideas]], and his ...nasium and entered the [[University]] of Vienna, where he obtained a Ph.D. in [[philosophy]], while also studying [[psychoanalysis]], [[sociology]], educ
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• Surrealism and psychoanalysis
  ...ere used to develop an original [[theory]] of language and [[creativity]]. In later years it adopted [[Hegelian]] dialectics and [[Marxist]]-Leninist his The movement was founded in [[Paris]] in 1924 by [[French]] poet [[André Breton]], with the support of a group of p
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• Philosophy and psychoanalysis
  ...s assuming a [[psychoanalytic]] viewpoint persistently situated themselves in relation to philosophy, making use of it and explaining psychoanalytic [[te ...ossible]] to grasp, so that its relation to the [[psyche]] remained buried in obscurity (Eduard von [[Hartmann]] and the Romantics), or the psyche was [[
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• Politics and psychoanalysis
  ...and a people—the Jews—in <i>[[Moses]] and [[Monotheism]]</i> (1939a). In 1908 he strongly criticized "[[civilized]] [[sexual]] [[morality]]" (1908d) ...[[master]] in its own house and humanity must therefore [[drive]] it out. In the [[agency]] of the [[superego]], Freud ascribed values, ideals, and impe
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• Science and psychoanalysis
  ...of the [[word]] "science" to a narrowly defined "phenomeno-[[technique]]" (in the coinage of Gaston Bachelard). ..., would lead Freud to abandon the neurophysiological representations found in the "Project" without renouncing his [[ideal]] of science.
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• Linguistics and psychoanalysis
  ...cle of the bylaws of the Société [[linguistique]] de [[Paris]], composed in 1866. ...rsus language as system—used by de Saussure in his classes and published in the <i>Course on General Linguistics</i> after his [[death]] (1916), was no
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• Hard Science and Psychoanalysis
  ...istry]]. At the laboratory of Brücke (1876-1882) he acquired an expertise in chemistry and [[physics]], including thermodynamics (Helmholtz). As to [[ep ...of us, believers and unbelievers, employ in [[looking]] after our affairs in ordinary [[life]]" (1933a, p. 170).
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• Sociology and Psychoanalysis
  ...the psychic and the social. In this respect, sociopsychoanalysis continues in the [[tradition]] of [[Freud]]'s sociological and anthropological efforts. The term "sociology" was created by [[Auguste Comte]], who used it in volume 4 of his <i>Cours de [[philosophie]] positive</i> (1847). It replace
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• Sum of excitation
  ...egate of excitations and their limits, in accordance with neurophysiology, in the emergence and [[overdetermination]] of [[symptoms]]; and (4) the [[idea ...n stimulation by 'abreacting' it, we have the possibility of the [[event]] in question remaining a psychical [[trauma]]" (pp. 36, 37).
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• Self-representation
  ...scious]] representations of the corporeal and [[mental]] self within the [[system]] of the ego, representations that are invested with both [[libidinal]] and ...tously from insufficiency to anticipation—and, for the subject caught up in the [[lure]] of spatial [[identification]], turns out [[fantasies]] that ex
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• Psychoanalytic Treatment
  ...the [[interpretation]] of the free [[associations]] of a [[patient]], who in becoming aware of [[feelings]] and forgotten [[memories]], can thus resolve ...in vogue at the [[time]]. Sessions in which the patient relaxed on a couch in an atmosphere of calm and comparative sensory [[deprivation]] resulted from
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• Contradiction
  ...[[statement]] whose [[truth]] function has only one [[value]]: [[false]]. In philosophy it is the relation that [[exists]] between the [[affirmation]] a ...he [[subject]] decided to forget [[about]] it because he had no confidence in his [[power]] to resolve the contradiction between that incompatible idea a
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• Sex and Character
  ...on [[Jews]] and [[women]] and the fact that he extended the metaphysical [[system]]. ...l [[experience]]: "They were even expressed in my own [[terms]]," he said. In a footnote to Herbert Graf's ("Little [[Hans]]") [[analysis]], Freud wrote
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• Primary identification
  ...relating to the father and [[mother]] seem normally to find their outcome in an identification of this kind, and would thus reinforce the primary one (< ...etween the [[sexes]], the [[lack]] of a [[penis]], it does not distinguish in [[value]] between its father and its mother" (Freud, 1923b, p. 31n).
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• Psychoanalytic treatment
  ...the [[interpretation]] of the free [[associations]] of a [[patient]], who in becoming aware of [[feelings]] and forgotten [[memories]], can thus resolve ...in vogue at the [[time]]. Sessions in which the patient relaxed on a couch in an atmosphere of calm and comparative sensory [[deprivation]] resulted from
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• Ideational representation
  ...lements of both its own [[internal]] reality and the [[outside]] [[world]] in [[order]] to make [[them]] conform and cohere with the [[logic]] of the [[d ...at this meaning is not unconnected to the offer or [[refusal]] [[present]] in the psyche's response" (p. 65).
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• Primal
  ...y observable, the primal and its functioning can only be inferred, notably in the [[processes]] characteristic of [[psychosis]] (although psychosis is no ...the fact that what is at bottom inherited is nevertheless freshly acquired in the [[development]] of the individual, probably because the same [[conditio
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• Excitation
  ...tapsychology]], particularly the [[economic]] dimensions of that approach. In this usage, the [[word]] carries with it the connotations of the Latin exci ...t "during certain [[psychical]] [[processes]] the systems may be traversed in a [[temporal]] sequence determined by excitation"
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• Psychic Causality
  In Sigmund [[Freud]]'s [[work]], the term "[[psychic]] [[causality]]" designat ...[[infantile]] [[nature]] are at work" (1896c). In 1898, in "[[Sexuality]] in the Etiology of the Neuroses" (1898a), he referred to "unconscious psychic
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• Principle of Constancy
  ...This is accomplished through a [[discharge]] of the [[energy]] [[present]] in the apparatus or by avoiding its augmentation. In 1892, [[Freud]] submitted a manuscript and [[letter]] to [[Breuer]] articul
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• Zen
  ...ents of Eastern religiosity summoned at these moments? How are they placed in the text? What meaning is, or can be, given to them? ...f his encounter with some Tibetan Lamas who were staying in the same hotel in Moscow. (2) It marked a significant surreal moment for him, evoking an exot
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• Mythème
  ''[[Mythème]]'', a term in [[French]] coined by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] (1908- ) on ''mythe'' (v. art ..., his [[structuralism|structural analysis]] of [[wp:myth|myths]].<ref>(cf. in [[particular]] «The [[Structural]] Study of Myth» (1955); Tristes tropiqu
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• Langue/Parole
  An important [[distinction]] in [[Saussure]]'s [[linguistics]] which poses considerable [[translation]] pro ...ms]] that can both mean 'language': ''[[langage]]'' and ''[[langue]]'', as in ''la langue franCaise'' ('the [[French language]]').
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• Interview with Jacques Lacan
  ...that the analyst could be capable of [[seeing]] something quite [[secret]] in what appears to you to be quite clear. There you lie naked, uncovered, unde ...[knowledge]] of the subject. All of this, viewed classically, as [[being]] in the field of the [[irrational]]; let's call it the field of [[passion]].
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• Copernican revolution
  ...the center of the solar [[system]] and thus destroys the earlier Ptolemais system, which assumed that the heavenly bodies rotated around the earth. ...epistemological break]]), and analogies with it play an important [[role]] in attempts to demonstrate or assert the scientific [[nature]] of emergent the
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• The Symbolic, Imaginary and Real
  ...determine the [[state]] of the body. A crucial [[difference]], as we see in the [[Seminar]] on "the Purloined [[Letter]]", is that these structures mus ...d to more [[symbolically]] defined aspects. Thus, one may perceive desire in what might be called certain quasi-musical features of speech, pace, tone,
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• Saussure's Concept of the Sign
  the [[synchronic]] [[dimension]] in the study of [[language]]. The the SYSTEM of language given by a [[number]] of laws of equilibrium
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• The Game of Fort-Da
  of [[working]] employed by the [[mental]] [[apparatus]] in one of its<br> earliest normal activities‹I mean in [[children]]'s play.<br><br>
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• The Function of the Veil
  <h3 align="center"> From The Function of the [[Veil]] (IX in [[Seminar]] 4, The [[Object]] Relation)</h3><p> Analysis tells us that the fetish is a symbol. In this regard, it is almost immediately set on the same footing as every othe
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• The Agency of the Letter
  The [[Agency]] of the [[Letter]] in the [[Unconscious]] or [[Reason]] Since [[Freud]] <b>The agency of the letter in the unconscious</b></font></h3>
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• The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
  ...ation]] - God is un</i><i>[[conscious]] - The </i>[[objet]] [[petit a]] <i>in the </i>[[fort-da]]<p> ...enough for this-it reduces the experience, some say, that urges us to find in the hard supports of conflict, struggle, even of the exploitation of man by
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...vely decides to replace itself with genetically modified asexual humanoids in [[order]] to avoid the deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience ...is reduced to an apathetic [[participation]] in collective orgies depicted in Les particules - the constitutive [[impasse]] of the sexual [[relationship]
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• Paralysis
  ..., it does not respect the [[physiological]] [[structure]] of the nervous [[system]], but instead reflects the way the [[body]] is [[divided]] up by an '[[ima ...nes of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as exhibited in the schizoid and spasmodic [[symptoms]] of hysteria."<ref>E, 5</ref>
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• Seminar XIV
  ...in "The [[subversion]] of the [[subject]] and the [[dialectic]] of desire in the [[Freudian]] [[unconscious]]" (<i>[[Écrits]]: A Selection</i>) as the ..."[[The Subject|the subject]] becomes [[The Cut|the cut]] that makes shine in its inexpressible oscillation".<br>
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• Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses
  ...r [[Benjamin]], all [[three]] great antiuniversitarians whose [[presence]] in the academy is today all-pervasive-demonstrate that the "excluded" or "damn ...ion of psychoanalysis. [[Freud]] already wrote that, in the [[conditions]] in which it would finally be possible, psychoanalysis would no longer be neede
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• Sigmund Freud:Quotes
  ...as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.]] ...ntle [[girl]] who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has [[cocaine]] in his [[body]].
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• Formulae of sexuation
  In the [[seminars|seminar]] of [[chronology|1970-1]] [[Jacques Lacan]] attempt ...mulae of sexuation|diagram of sexual difference]] which [[Lacan]] presents in the 1972-3 [[seminar]].<ref>{{S20}} p.73</ref>
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• Ideological State Apparatus
  ...e ways in which the State can [[control]] a population by force. As we saw in the last chapter, for Žižek it is by means of the Repressive State Appara ...n [[system]], the [[family]] unit, the [[legal]] system, the [[political]] system, trade unions, the communications [[media]] and [[culture]]. All of these i
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• System
  ...least two motiv­ations, one of which springs from the assumptions of the system and is therefore eventually delusional-and a hidden one which, however, we
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• An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...onary]] of [[Lacanian]] Psychoanalysis" will be invaluable for [[reading]] in every [[discipline]] where his influence is felt. ...nd to Lacanian ideas. Each major [[concept]] is traced back to its origins in the work of Freud, [[Saussure]], Hege and otbers.
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...of a mythology that has grown around this paper that has been influential in constructing an [[image]] of Lacan as an outcast - a heroic [[figure]] batt ...formulation of Lacan's [[idea]] and the paper that we now read - 13 years in which Lacan had continued to develop and modify his ideas.
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• Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
  ...seen as the founding document of the new [[school]] and of a new direction in psychoanalysis. ...will help you understand Lacan's conception of the subject as constituted in and through language. The chapter concludes with Lacan's [[analysis]] of [[
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• Baudrillard
  ...er of [[German]], [[Baudrillard]] established himself as a [[sociologist]] in the late 1960s and is widely regarded as one of the most significant commen ...ed [[fascination]] with the shallowness of a [[postmodern]]ist [[society]] in which the [[sign]] has become a [[simulacrum]] that signifies [[nothing]].
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• Patriarchy
  A [[social]] [[system]] characterized by [[male]] domination and [[female]] subordination. (Abra ...patriarchy as a set of social relations which has a [[material]] base and in which
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• Interpretation of dreams
  ...of [[sign]] and [[symbol]] have [[meanings]] different from their meanings in [[psychoanalytic]] usage. For Jung, a sign is a token of meaning that stand ...[Dreams]] in 1900 as a student at the Burgholzi [[Psychiatric]] [[Clinic]] in Zurich, reviewing it for his fellow psychiatric students (Jung, 1907). He b
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• Actual neurosis/defense neurosis
  ...itoning in the case of actual neuroses (pp. 275-76) and [[psychoanalysis]] in that of the defense neuroses. ...n between the somatic sexual [[excitation]] and [[object]] representations in the [[unconscious]]. This failure of somatopsychic [[communication]] was ca
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