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• Jouissance
  [[Lacan]] makes an important [[distinction]] between ''[[jouissance]]'' and ''[[plaisir]]'' ([[pleasure]]). [[Pleasure ...t]], [[object a]], there is a plus (+), a little [[compensation]] in the [[form]] of what is allowed of ''jouissance'', a compensation for the minus of the
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• Phallus
  Freud ( 1923) makes the same radical [[distinction]] by linking castration to the phallic [[order]] and not to the penis. ...semantic [[slip]]page has led some commentators to argue that the supposed distinction between the [[phallus]] and the [[phallus|penis]] is in fact highly unstabl
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• Transference
  In this [[distinction]] between the [[symbolic]] and [[imaginary]] aspects of [[transference]], [ ...s come to be seen as [[Lacan]]'s most [[complete]] attempt to theorise the matter.
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• Object
  No [[distinction]] is made between persons and inanimate things: individuals, parts of the [ ...s of the object (incorporation, [[introjection]], and beyond this, every [[form]] of [[internalization]] and identification), it transforms the status of t
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• Semiotics
  ...anding|understood]]. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their semioti ...that may be the [[individual]] sounds or letters that [[humans]] use to [[form]] [[words]], the [[body]] movements they make to show attitude or [[emotion
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...]] on his [[neurotic]] [[patients]] for a long period, he abandoned this [[form]] of [[treatment]], in favor of a better treatment, where the [[patient]] t In the early 1890s Freud used a form of treatment based on the one that Breuer had described to him, modified by
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• Deconstruction
  ...nd unspoken and implicit — assumptions, [[ideas]], and frameworks that [[form]] the basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meani ...contrast to [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] demolition), although the form we recognize in [[English]] is an element in a series of translations (from
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...]] and functionsunconsciously, intruding into our symbolic reality in the form of need. The real is a kind of ubiquitous undifferentiated mass from which ...]] or need. The concept continues to retain its [[association]] with brute matter, but its predominant [[meaning]] in Lacan at this time is as that which is
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...] against the conservatives, or should one adopt the stance of "it doesn't matter, we shouldn't get involved in these fights — in a way, it is even better ...ic notion of matter, according to which, since the philosophical notion of matter as [[reality]] existing independently of mind precludes any [[intervention]
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ation, a ([[self]])destructive fury within which the only way to trace the distinction between the [[semblance]] and the Real is, precisely, to STAGE it in a fake ...]], all-present, although with no clear territorial base? Are they not the form in which nationalist and/or [[religious]] "[[fundamentalism]]" accommodated
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...r place within the global order. For that reason, [[Buddha]]'s followers [[form]] a [[community]] of [[people]] who in one way or [[another]] have broken w ...or me. Anything goes basically. The basic wisdom is that differences don't matter, what was up comes down, this eternal [[circulation]] of fortune, and so on
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...elief, embodied in things, displaced onto things, is nothing but a reified form of direct human belief: the task of the [[phenomenological]] reconstitution ...belief embodied in things, displaced onto things, is nothing but a reified form of a direct human belief, in which [[case]] the task of the phenomenologica
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...se the sting of the formulas of sexuation by way of introducing a semantic distinction between the two meanings of the quantifier "all": according to this misread ...és about women, features imposed on women in the patriarchal society? The matter is undecidable, so that the only possible answer is, both at the same time.
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...edge (it is this knowledge which enables meta-politics to draw a line of [[distinction]] between those immersed in politicoideological illusions and the Party whi ...s, equality, freedom and democracy, is just a necessary, but [[illusory]], form of expression of its [[concrete]] social [[content]], the universe of explo
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou ...nscends, precisely, the "infinite complexity" of its context. A homologous distinction can be drawn between [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicis
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...] against the conservatives, or should one adopt the stance of "It doesn't matter, we shouldn't get involved in these fights-in a way, it is even better if t ...tate, which means the state as such, and to invent a new communal social [[form]] without a standing [[army]], police, or [[bureaucracy]], in which all cou
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...lls a transcendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely ...ndefinite judgment opens up a third domain which undermines the underlying distinction: the “undead" are neither alive nor dead, they are precisely the monstrou
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...hich have not yet reached the [[full]] actualization of their historical [[form]]. Even in his much-maligned philosophy of [[nature]], he concedes his own ...its "reification" in ritualized practices which are indifferent to this [[distinction]]. It is an interesting fact of historical dialectic that Buddhism which,
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...of the [[Freudian]] figure of Moses, [[Eric Santner]] introduces the key [[distinction]] between [[symbolic]] [[history]] (the set of explicit mythical narratives A further key distinction between Judaism (together with its Christian continuation) and Islam is tha
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...xplicably withdrew. How often does it happen that, when peace seems just a matter of finding a proper formulation for some minor statements, everything sudde ...agent]] on whom the [[role]] of the modernizer, of moving to a political [[form]] beyond [[ethnic identity]], is imposed: the only true long-term solution
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...ed elementary [[matrix]] of the "[[dream]] [[work]]," which involves the [[distinction]] between the [[latent]] dream-[[thought]] and the unconscious desire artic ...varice, while the excessive limitless consumption is avarice itself in its form of appearance (oppositional determination).<br><br>
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...hile they pursue (what appears to us) evil goals with evil means, the very FORM of their activity meets the highest standard of the Good. The resolution of ...our allegedly permissive society, this asceticism assumes precisely the [[form]] of its opposite, of the GENERALIZED [[superego]] [[injunction]] "[[Enjoy]
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...onviction of one’s own superiority. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s well-known distinction between <i>amour-de-soi</i> and <i>amour-propre</i> is more than pertinent ...eliefs: a society immobilized by the concern for not hurting the other, no matter how cruel and superstitious this other is, and in which individuals are eng
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...according to which, [[truth]] being accessible to any [[rational]] man, no matter how depraved, everyone must be regarded as responsible for his crimes. But ...]] in [[Auschwitz]] sending [[Hitler]] such a telegram. It is a tasteless distinction, but it supports the contention that under [[Stalin]], the ruling [[ideolog
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• Ethics and the Real
  Lacan’s own account of sublimation is put in [[terms]] of a [[distinction]] between ‘’l’objet’’ (object) and ‘’Chose’’ ([[Thing]]). Because the very [[idea]] of moral goodness implies that morality be a matter of something universally and necessarily [[true]], Kant argues that what ma
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• Surrealism
  ...epresented only one small part. They thought of human experiences in the [[form]] of a pyramid, the narrow peak of which is the limited range of the consci ...the first techniques the surrealists used. This process became for them a form of [[self]]-administered psychoanalysis. Automatic writing consisted of wri
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• Parallax View
  ...lls a transcendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely ...rns us back to reality, but, rather, to the fact that cutting oneself is a form of making a mark: when I make a cut into my arm, the »zero« of the subjec
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• Liberation Hurts
  ...kind of - how should I put it? - disavowed spirituality. It is as if the [[form]] of spirituality, the ultimate, I am almost tempted to say, iconoclastic s ...talism is - to put it in slightly speculative [[Hegelian]] [[terms]] - the form of the [[appearance]] of its opposite. Let's be serious: Nobody will convin
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...xplicably withdrew. How often does it happen that, when peace seems just a matter of finding a proper formulation for some minor statements, everything sudde ...agent]] on whom the [[role]] of the modernizer, of moving to a political [[form]] beyond [[ethnic identity]], is imposed: the only true long-term solution
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• The Thing from Inner Space
  ...that of an autonomous agent; and the same goes for woman - the ultimate [[form]] of her servitude is to (mis)perceive herself, when she acts in a "[[femin Is the planet around which the story turns, composed of the mysterious matter which seems to [[think]], i.e. which in a way is the direct materialization
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• Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
  ...he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou ...nscends, precisely, the "infinite complexity" of its context. A homologous distinction can be drawn between [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicis
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• The Big Other Doesn't Exist
  ...[[reversal]] of the Oedipal matrix do we reach the well-known Pascalean [[distinction]] between the God of [[Philosophers]] (God qua the [[universal]] structure ...by the primordial [[Otherness]], the mysterious dark principle of feminine matter. Therein resides the basic paradox of Plato's mysterious "secret teaching":
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ...[philosophy]],'' and not of his work: ''[[Capital]]'') its ''theoretical [[form]]'', it was then that I saw myself on the threshold of [[understanding]] yo ...Marx. That is what I wanted to [[communicate]], in advance, in abbreviated form, by speaking of Marx's [[revolution]] ([[rejection]] of ''homo economicus''
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...realm of [[ideas]] [[looking]] for whatever will prove useful. It doesn't matter if his findings come from different intellectual traditions, if they are, i ..."no [[state]] no [[power]]" in [[order]] to realize their goals usually [[form]] their own [[society]] which obeys the most authoritarian rules. My first
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  matter of [[duty]] and not of some spontaneous [[feeling]]; but this answer to the Lacanian [[distinction]] between the gaze and the look. Our later
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...s being-towards-madness, reality is always reality-towards-the-Real. Every form of (symbolic-imaginary) reality exists as an impossible attempt to escape t ...by presenting its outcomes of winning and losing as if they were simply a matter of chance and sound judgement in a neutral marketplace.<br><br>
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...ral truth — that crocodile tears about the "Iraqi people" are the basest form of imperial contempt … Democracy, as usual, has nothing to do with it'.<a ...seen by her as fitting all too neatly into this ideological universe as a form of 'metacynicism', 'a cynicism that protects itself from being known as cyn
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...ses Antigone's case, from this other side we can see and live life 'in the form of something already lost' (S7, 280). And perhaps even beyond Antigone - wh ...od as saying that its subjects know nothing of it - they do - but that the form of their behaviour escapes them (SO, 15). They are 'decentred' not because
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• Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
  ...nternet around the world. And yet at the same time what they advise is a [[form]] of inaction, a pause, a time for [[reflection]]. This would, however, not ...plit]] between form and [[content]], might we not say that on the level of form Zizek wants to see himself as an "engaged" [[intellectual]], but on the lev
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• The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
  But I shall not make of this distinction either a point or a point of departure, leaving to its own obscurity the qu ...tributed to Ferdinand de Saussure although it is not found in exactly this form in any of the numerous schemas, which none the less express it, to be found
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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...lations to his [[image]], in so far as it is the <i>Urbild </i>[original [[form]]] of the ego. Now, this mirror-stage, which no one can deny, has an [[opti ...it rather that we have acquired the habit of placing a too hastily drawn [[distinction]] between the objective and the subjective in our little [[thought]]-tank?
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...r attracted anyone's attention, even though it was used again in another [[form]] in Freud's quasi last [[work]], the <i>[[Outline]] of [[Psycho]]-analysis ...[[apparatus]] with which we are here concerned is also known to us in the form of an [[anatomical]] preparation, and I shall carefully avoid the temptatio
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• Nature of the Linguistic Sign
  speaks. So we have the distinction between <i>la langue</i> and <i> la presented in succession; they form a chain. This feature becomes<br>
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• Hatred
  ...ely what is endangered by the [[encounter]] with the object. The love/hate distinction that forms in the genital stage allows them to be linked together, bringing
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• Anaclisis
  The expression '[[anaclitic]] oject-[[choice]]' refers to a [[form]] of object-choice in which the [[love]]-object is selected because it in s ...problematical, and since Freud did not set an example by [[thinking]] the matter through, things were simply [[left]] fallow.
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• Change
  ...of [[fantasy]], and the introduction of the [[concept]] of change in the [[form]] of [[libidinal]] development. Here we have an indication of the importanc ...iate the resistances of [[The Id|the id]], the ego, and the superego—a [[distinction]] made possible by the new [[structural]] model but also strengthened the c
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• Overview
  ...idealism, and Zizek wishes to make "actual" one of those possibilities in distinction to the way it is currently realized. ...t works its way out to the latter and throws off its husk, revealing a new form in ots stead. Commenting Fredric Jameson's "Syntax of Theory" (The Ideologi
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• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
  ...A final chapter sharpens the [[distinction]] between ego and ego ideal, a distinction that provides an opening for psychoanalytic investigation of the [[narcissi ...dividual]] psychology in which the ego ideal does not appear in weakened [[form]] is that of the poet telling the totemic clan the lie that explains their
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• Function of Language
  ...t to [[remember]] that they are not entities. They are [[categories]] of [[distinction]], not bags to put things in. They neither describe an isolable thing; they ...my is slightly [[metaphorical]] and any metaphor has a metonymic tint. The distinction has great relevance in [[aesthetics]]. It enabled Jakobson, for [[instance]
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...rms of the mother's presumably having been deprived of the phallusfor that matter, the [[whole]] raison d'etre of the "[[phallic]] [[stage]]" in the sexual d ...ost significant aspect of Freud's "discovery." This implies not only the [[distinction]] between signifier and [[signified]] but the conception "that the signifie
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