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• Unconscious
  ...are not the subject of, that occur in the [[absence]] of, [[consciousness|conscious awareness, thought, attention, perception or control]]. As a ''noun'', the The "'''[[topographical model]]'''" [[divides]] the [[mind]] or [[psyche]] into [[three]] [[separate]] component parts -- or "[[scene|
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• The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis
  ...the ego is recognized as such by the [[subject]], this image becomes self-conscious. ...is simultaneously non-being and insisting to be, that is what Freud has in mind when he talks about the death instinct as being what is most fundamental: a
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• Totem and Taboo
  ...pressed]] to the [[unconscious]] among [[civilized]] peoples are still a [[conscious]] peril to the uncivilized [[people]] in Frazer's studies. ...uation of [[physical]] [[acts]] whereby the [[structural]] conditions of [[mind]] are transposed onto the [[world]]: this overvaluation survives in both pr
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• The Interpretation of Dreams
  ...in the [[preconscious]] will not allow it to [[pass]] unaltered into the [[conscious]]. During dreams, the preconscious is more lax in this [[duty]] than in wak ...analysis are in [[literature]], and the book is itself as much a [[self]]-conscious attempt at [[literary]] analysis as it is a psychological study. Freud here
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• Seminar II
  ...he ego is recognized as such by the subject, this [[image]] becomes [[self-conscious]]. "The [[mirror stage]] is based on the rapport [relationship] between, o ...imultaneously non-being and insisting to be, that is what [[Freud]] has in mind when he talks about the death instinct as being what is most fundamental: a
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• Ego Psychology
  ...Because it is rare that wishes can actually be immediately gratified, the mind develops the capacity to delay gratification or achieve it through detours. ...the [[structural model]] used as the sole [[psychoanalytic theory]] of the mind.
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...[[psychology]]. Freud is best known for his theories of the [[unconscious mind]], especially involving the [[mechanism]] of [[Psychological repression|rep ...ef> This was the starting point for Freud's [[dynamic]] psychology of the mind and its relation to the [[unconscious]].<ref name="Hall" /><ref>[http://www
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• Deconstruction
  ...see a [[paradox]] in advocating a point of Western metaphysics with self-[[conscious]] irony. Derrida stated, "Deconstruction is not an enclosure in nothingness ...ling ruthlessly for tyranny over the quite useless and dispensable human [[mind]].
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• German Idealism
  ...f things-in-themselves cannot be known as being actual, only possible. The mind plays a central [[role]] in influencing the way that the world is experienc ...er [[exists]] other than [[mental]] phenomena, or ideas that appear to the mind, is a [[thing]]-[[in-itself]] and cannot be directly and immediately known.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...with the body prior to its symbolization, but it is important to keep in [[mind]] here that the real is the need that [[drives]] hunger not the object that ...arlier phase of development. A memory, for example, is fixed in a person's mind causing them intense [[mental]] [[disturbance]] and [[suffering]] and no ma
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...ith ideology which SEEMS to dominate. More then ever, one should bear in [[mind]] Walter [[Benjamin]]'s reminder that it is not enough to ask how a certain ...he philosophical notion of matter as [[reality]] existing independently of mind precludes any [[intervention]] of [[philosophy]] into [[sciences]], the ver
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ce of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Mind embodied inthe World Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: d ...t inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison of your mind."
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...eative rewriting of the [[narrative]] of our past. What John Gray has in [[mind]] is not only the standard cognitive [[therapy]] of changing [[negative]] f ...ch is this grounding of feminism in the pre-Cartesian tradition. I have in mind here the claims that the Cartesian modern-age subject is a [[male]] chauvin
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...tivity]] itself: a typical bourgeois [[subject]] is, in [[terms]] of his [[conscious]] attitude, an utilitarian nominalist — it is in his social activity, in ...ess that the Other regulates the process in which I participate, sets my [[mind]] free to roam, since I know I am not involved. The Foucauldian motif of th
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...ard of an ordinary west European civilised country . . . We must bear in [[mind]] the semi-Asiatic [[ignorance]] from which we have not yet extricated ours ...the other ex-Yugoslav nations were too provincial to do so. This brings to mind Engels's dismissal of the small [[Balkan]] nations as reactionary relics.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...wage with inclinations and in which, after some defeats, moral strength of mind may be gradually won, God and eternity in their awful majesty would stand u ...l's starting point is the fact that the fundamental structure of the human mind is self-reflective: a human being does not simply act, it (can) act(s) upon
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• Move the Underground!
  ...s [[being]] beaten," in which the middle [[fantasy]] [[scene]] was never [[conscious]] and has to be reconstructed as the [[missing]] link between the first and ...atrical staging, a kind of tableau vivant, which cannot but bring to our [[mind]] the [[whole]] scope of American performance art and "theatre of [[cruelty
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• Surrealism
  ...As Bice Benvenuto has remarked, surrealism's overturning of the place of [[conscious]] [[reason]], its questioning of the reality of the [[object]], its cultiva ...the liberation, in art and in life, of the resources of the unconscious [[mind]]. The surrealists' spiritual ancestors were de [[Sade]], Baudelaire, Rimba
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• René Descartes
  ...exist, is necessarily true, everytime I express it or conceive of it in my mind. (1968 [1642]: 103) ...ous mind. He famously used the image of an iceberg to illustrate the human mind, in the sense that only a fraction of an iceberg is immediately visible and
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• Ideology Reloaded
  ...w Agers see how our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web. Or the series is a baroque illustration o ...ld. You don’t know what it is. But it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad.” Yet toward the end of the first film, Smith, the [[agen
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...ce of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Mind embodied inthe World Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: d ...t inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison of your mind."<br><br>
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• From Proto-Reality to the Act
  is the spirit [[unconscious]] of itself and spirit nature [[conscious]] of itself. The ultimate motif 'synthetic' [[activity]] of the conscious ego; 'unconscious' in its most radical [[dimension]] is
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• Phenomenology
  ...h the forms of stoicism, skepticism, and finally phrenology, for which the mind's [[being]] in the [[world]] is literally a bone (the phrenologist Franz Jo ...er of his pupils) was, at heart, Kantian and held that the [[contents]] of conscious thought are shaped by rule-governed judgments that engage the subject with
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
  ...<i>the self-destruction of [[reason]]</i>. The only [[thing]] to bear in [[mind]] is that this new barbarism is a strictly [[postmodern]] phenomenon, the o ...on. Hegel's point is <i>not</i> that, in contrast to the vulgar empiricist mind that sees only urination, the proper speculative attitude has to choose ins
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  </p></dd><dd>Is this work a form of [[witness]]? A [[conscious]] or unconscious witness? Don't think in [[terms]] of the [[psychoanalytic] </p></dd><dd>It takes a crude [[mind]] to assume that the treatises are simply there to make the [[erotic]] pass
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• Psychosexual Development
  ...se pregenital erogenous zones remains [[present]] in the body and in the [[mind]] and they tend to be reactivated on the occasion of later sexual experienc ...e attachments of infantile sexuality can, depending on the case, result in conscious formations (daydreaming, for example) or, on the contrary, formations that
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• Return of the Repressed
  ...ess without this necessarily implying that what has been repressed becomes conscious: The repressed returns, but often remains unrecognizable. Such returns of t ...by pathological [[processes]] which overtake the [[other]] part [of the [[mind]]], what we call the ego, or by a different distribution of the cathectic e
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• Jungian psychology
  ...and [[thinking]]. "Symbolic power" transcends and permeates through all [[conscious]] thinking. ...cal life; he characterized it as both the [[totality]] of the personality, conscious and [[unconscious]], and the [[process]] of becoming of the [[whole]] [[per
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• Psychological repression
  ...ciousness]] and attempting to hold or subdue [[them]] in the [[Unconscious mind|subconscious]]. Since the popularization of [[Sigmund Freud]]'s [[work]] in ...or a [[slip]] of the tongue. In this way, although the [[subject]] is not conscious of the desire and so cannot [[speak]] it out loud, the subject's [[body]] c
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• Defense mechanism
  ...is the important motive for this process. On the contrary, there is the [[conscious]] [[secondary process]], to which strong boundaries are set, and in which t ...sychology)|Displacement]]. An unconscious defense mechanism, whereby the [[mind]] redirects [[emotion]] from a ‘dangerous’ object to a ‘safe’ objec
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• Unconscious mind
  ...rather, only what is actively [[psychological repression|repressed]] from conscious [[thought]]. ...es or desires, [[traumatic]] [[memories]], and painful emotions put out of mind by the [[mechanism]] of [[psychological repression]]. However, the [[conten
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• Psychodynamics
  ...dynamics]] is the study of the interrelationship of various parts of the [[mind]], [[personality]], or [[psyche]] as they relate to [[mental]], emotional, ...er remain buried in the mind or find their way to the surface, i.e. the “conscious” level. This, in the former [[case]], results in [[psychological]] state
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• Working-through
  ...er is [[present]] for the time [[being]] on the surface of the patient's [[mind]]" (p. 147)—though this does not prevent him from deploying metaphors of ...rything in the way of pathogenic instincts that is hidden in the patient's mind" (1914g, p. 154), where everything is accessible to the analyst's [[interpr
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• Ego-psychology
  ...d on an elaboration of [[Freud]]'s [[structure|structural model]] of the [[mind]], which focuses almost entirely on the function of the [[ego]] in mediatin ...cused on ways of strengthening the defence mechanisms of the [[conscious]] mind rather than the [[unconscious]] motivation of our actions, as in classical
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• Freud Lives!
  ...ce|scientific]] breakthroughs seem to bring further [[humiliation]]: the [[mind]] is merely a [[machine]] for data-processing, our [[sense]] of [[freedom]] ...ism|cognitivist]]-[[neurobiology|neurobiologist]] model of the [[human]] [[mind]] has superseded the [[Freudian]] [[model]]; it is outdated in the [[psychi
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• Existentialism
  ...hat the articulation of psychic or [[mental]] [[content]] implicates the [[conscious]] subject and that the deterministic or [[biologically]] driven Freudian un ...port associationist holism into this, then we see that the contents of the mind are radically subject to revision as long as they can be accessed in a suff
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• Psyche
  In [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]'s [[theory]] of the [[mind]], the [[mind|psychical apparatus]] was differentiated into a [[number]] of systems of "[ ...phy]]" - distinguishes between the [[unconscious]], [[preconscious]] and [[conscious]], while the "[[second topography]]", dating from [[{{Y}}|1923]], different
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...ists": the self-destruction of [[reason]]. The only [[thing]] to bear in [[mind]] is that this new barbarism is a strictly [[postmodern]] phenomenon, the o ...urination. Hegel's point is not that, in contrast to the vulgar empiricist mind that sees only urination, the proper speculative attitude has to choose ins
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• Working-Through
  ...er is [[present]] for the time [[being]] on the surface of the patient's [[mind]]" (p. 147)—though this does not prevent him from deploying metaphors of ...rything in the way of pathogenic instincts that is hidden in the patient's mind" (1914g, p. 154), where everything is accessible to the analyst's [[interpr
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• Symbolism
  ...[[society]] in which they are used. They are not disguised, and they serve conscious [[communication]]. ...sed by and from the [[individual]] who uses [[them]] and may not serve any conscious or intended [[internal]] or [[external]] communication. The [[meanings]] of
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories
  ...ences, and [[feelings]] that can't or won't easily move into the conscious mind. Items may come to this repository because of [[trauma]] or for any number ...inaccessible. Though small in comparison to the unconscious, the conscious mind is still essential and important for adaptive functioning.
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• Sigmund Freud:Historical Context
  ...iceberg to visualize the contrast between the conscious and unconscious [[mind]].
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories In Action
  ...hts, wishes, fantasies, conflicts, and motivations held in the unconscious mind can flow into consciousness without censorship. Free association often lead ...to internal conflicts such as this case also led him to determine that the mind was divided into three conflicting, now known as id, ego, and superego. So,
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• Function of Language
  ...he [[idea]] that communication is a transferral of [[concepts]] from one [[mind]] to another, an [[exchange]] of tokens which already have their meaning cl ...influence of the pleasure [[principle]], to make false connections.4 The (conscious) ego is associated with distortion and gloss ('to extenuate, to give a favo
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• The Subversion of the Subject
  ..."Copernican [[revolution]]" that still left man conceiving of himself as a conscious subject, i.e., in the [[sense]] of the [[Cartesian]] [[cogito]]. ...nd insists on interfering in the breaks offered it by the effective [i.e., conscious] [[discourse]] and the cogitation that it informs" (1977, p. 297/799). Here
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  [[conscious]] in the subject's speech is to gain some appreciation of the fundamental [ ground chains of signifiers that operate on the level of conscious
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• The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
  ...ruled by [[knowledge]] and [[perversion]], its petty heart and massive "[[mind]]" (sublime [[memory]]), is occupied by a [[subject]]-[[essence]], [[objet] ...of this that the communist regime was so vulnerable. I'm even changing my mind [[retroactively]] and beginning, in a way, to appreciate this obsession wit
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  With this in [[mind]], it is perhaps less surprising that Žižek expends most of his labour on ...In other words, as Žižek deftly phrases it: 'God himself was "out of his mind"' (TAOF: 11). He has to risk madness before He can exist. It is this lunacy
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• Literary and artistic creation
  ...ts and lends [[them]] artistic expression instead of suppressing them by [[conscious]] criticism. Thus he experiences from himself what we [[[psychoanalysts]]]
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• Self-Consciousness
  ...ed gradually, being linked with the general [[development]] of the human [[mind]] in its [[relationship]] to itself and the [[outside]] [[world]]. ...[Descartes]]'s [[insistence]] on the primacy of consciousness in the human mind. In the nineteenth century, after Georg Wilhelm Friedrich [[Hegel]]'s [[wor
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