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• Other
  ...ins to use the term, it is not very salient, and refers simply to "other [[people]]." The term seems to be borrowed from [[Hegel]], to whose work [[Lacan]] w ...[little other]] is designated <i>'''a'''</i> (lower case italicized, for [[French]] ''[[Other|autre]]''). [[Lacan]] asserts that an [[awareness]] of this dis
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• Jacques Lacan
  ...cant impact on [[critical theory]], [[literary theory]], twentieth-century French philosophy, [[sociology]], [[feminist]] theory and [[clinical]] psychoanaly [[Category:People|Lacan, Jacques]]
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...need]] for there to be a [[content]] of belief. Th e seventeenth-century [[French]] [[philosopher]] Blaise [[Pascal]] described the [[performative]] element ...now]] that Father Christmas does not [[exist]]. In [[reality]], the only [[people]] who truly believe in Santa Claus are the parents themselves! They pretend
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• Object
  ...emantic richness reflects the complexity of the connections to [[other]] [[people]] in the [[psyche]]; it also can lead to confusion. ...] the relation between the parents, or those who perform this function, as people, as against the father or mother as "objects" used in the [[psychoanalytic]
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• Training
  The English word "[[training]]" is used to translate two [[French]] [[terms]] used by [[Lacan]]: ''[[training|analyse didactique]]'' ("'''[[t ...''[[training|formation des analystes]]'') refers to the process by which [[people]] learn how to conduct [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]], i.e
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• Pass
  ...e pass' and was essentially an institutional framework designed to allow [[people]] to testify to the end of their analysis. The main [[idea]] behind this wa ...oanalytic [[Society]]] and the Société française de [[psychanalyse]] [[[French]] Society of Psychoanalysis]), member [[analysts]] of the school (who were
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• Alain Badiou
  [[Alain Badiou]] ([[born]] 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent [[France|French]] [[left-wing]] [[philosopher]] formerly [[chair]] of [[Philosophy]] at the ...ialist Party (France)|United Socialist Party]] (PSU), an offshoot of the [[French Communist Party]]. The PSU was particularly active in the [[struggle]] for
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...f the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), the first association of [[French]] [[psychoanalysts]]. * 4 November The first French [[Freudian]] society, the Société psychanalytique de Paris, is created. B
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• Hannah Arendt
  ...er, with the German military occupation of parts of France following the [[French]] declaration of war during [[World War II]], and the deportation of [[Jews ...is radical or simply a function of banality -- the tendency of ordinary [[people]] to obey [[orders]] and conform to mass opinion without critically [[think
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• Roland Barthes
  '''Roland Barthes''' (November 12, 1915 &ndash; March 25, 1980) was a [[French]] [[literary critic]], [[literary theory|literary]] and [[social theory|soc ...other]], Henriette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], le
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• Simon Critchley
  ...olitics]]-[[Subjectivity]]: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary [[French]] [[Thought]] (1999) [[Category:People]]
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• Deconstruction
  The term '''''deconstruction''''' was coined by [[French]] [[philosopher]] [[Jacques Derrida]] in the 1960s and is used in contempor ...nor simple difference). Derrida spoke in an interview (first published in French in [[1967]]) about such "concepts," which he called merely "marks" in [[ord
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• Gilles Deleuze
  '''Gilles Deleuze''' ((January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995), [[French]] [[philosopher]] of the late 20th century. [[Category:People|Deleuze, Gilles]]
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...ly 15, 1930 &ndash; October 8, 2004) was an [[Algeria]]n-[[born]] [[France|French]] [[literary critic]] and [[philosopher]] of [[Jew]]ish descent, most often ...bsolute Other by renouncing any determinate [[structure]] involving real [[people]] in real circumstances and embracing a “primordial [[passivity]], sentie
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• Frantz Fanon
  ...born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, then a French colony and now a French département. He was born into a mixed family background of African slaves ...traveled to Dominica to join Free French Forces. He later enlisted in the French army and saw active duty in France, notably in the bloody battles of Alsace
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• Félix Guattari
  ''Pierre-Félix [[Guattari]]''' (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a [[French]] pioneer of institutional [[psychotherapy]], as well as the founder of bot ...f [[psychiatry]]. Due to his frustrations with the theories and methods of French [[psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] -- in relation to whom he was both stud
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...asy]], and are known for their droll humour. They often portray innocent [[people]] caught up in circumstances beyond their control or [[understanding]]. Thi ...cially the [[elite]] British and American critics. In the late 1950s the [[French]] New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, [[Claude Chabrol]], and Franç
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• Emmanuel Lévinas
  ...by the enigmatic "[[Monsieur Chouchani]]". Levinas became a naturalized [[French]] [[citizen]] in [[1930]]. [[Category:People]]
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• Georg Lukács
  ...)|subject]]-[[object (philosophy)|object]] of history" (1960 Postface to [[French]] [[translation]]), but he wrote a [[defence]] of [[them]] as late as [[192 [[Category:People]]
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• Jacques-Alain Miller
  '''Jacques-[[Alain]] Miller''' - the son-in-law of [[France|French]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] (in 1967 he [[married] ...of Jacques Lacan's seminars, having so far published half of [[them]] in [[French]]. He also supervised the [[English]] translations of Lacan's work: "[[Éc
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...l [[autonomy]] and rational choice. At the time of the May ‚68 events [[people]] were very concerned with questions of self-expression, [[desire]] and [[s ...ogy]] and structuralism. His early [[work]] coincided with the growth of [[French]] phenomenology and he was influenced by the thought of [[Hegel]] and [[Hei
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...es, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just watching [[them]] is said to be traumatic and psychol ...[patients]] appear to [[enjoy]] their own [[illness]] or [[symptom]]. In [[French]] the [[word]] also has sexual connotations and is associated with sexual p
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...ation or digitalisation of our environment. We know that 60 percent of the people on this Earth have not even made a phone call in their life. But still, 30 ...It is a deeply conservative gesture. The true conservatives today are the people of new paradigms. They try desperately to avoid confronting what is really
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...f sarcastic [[laughter]]: [[Marx]] is OK, even on Wall Street, there are [[people]] who [[love]] him today — Marx the poet of commodities, who provided per ...deological coordinates: those who "really want to do something to [[help]] people" get involved in (undoubtedly honorable) exploits like Medecins sans fronti
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...e see — no dismembered bodies, no blood, no desperate faces of the dying people… in clear contrast to the reporting from the [[Third]] World catastrophie ...ion]] in New York rapist gangs and a dozen or so snipers blindly targeting people who walk along the streets, one gets an [[idea]] about what Sarajevo was a
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...spectatle staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all people around him are effectively actors and extras in a gigantic show? The most r ...s people from their bodies — but it also frees the machines from "their" people…
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...der. For that reason, [[Buddha]]'s followers [[form]] a [[community]] of [[people]] who in one way or [[another]] have broken with the hierarchy of the socia ...Lacanian]] movement. The IPA is the psychoanalytic church, excommunicating people from its ranks only when it feels effectively threatened, prone to endless
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...r Kojeve the end of history was Russia and America, the realization of the French Revolution. Then he noticed that someting was missing. He found the answer ...ning', based on Stephen King's novel? This is America at it's worst. Three people, a family, in a big hotel and still the space is too small for them and the
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...this stance, which allows theoreticians to `[[speak]] for' the masses of [[people]], to [[know]] the [[truth]] [[about]] [[them]], Ranciere endeavours again ...[[politicization]], discernible in all great democratic events, from the [[French]] [[Revolution]] (in which le troisieme etat proclaimed itself identical to
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...ou calls a "situation" is any [[particular]] consistent multitude (e.g., [[French]] society, modern art): a situation is structured, and it is its [[structur ...ves its own series of determinations: the Event itself; its denomination ("French Revolution" not being an objective-categorizing designation but part of the
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...[[politicization]], discernable in all great democratic events, from the [[French]] [[Revolution]] (in which the [[Third]] Estate proclaimed itself identical ...l." However, a couple of days later, the slogan changed into "We are a/one people!" (Wir sind ein Volk!"), clearly signalling the closure of the momentary au
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...e set in motion a state [[apparatus]] consisting of 10 if not 20 million [[people]]." What we should recognise is the '[[madness]]' (in the Kierkegaardian se This gap — which recalls the interval between 1789 and 1793 in the [[French]] Revolution — is the [[space]] of Lenin's unique intervention. The funda
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...y to the US, but also to its neighbors, and we should liberate the Iraqi [[people]]; (3) the [[change]] of regime in Iraq will create the [[conditions]] for ...but appear deeply hypocritical — do they really care about how the Iraqi people feel?
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• You May
  ...chmen associate [[Germany]] with Eastern Balkan brutality - it [[lacks]] [[French]] finesse. Finally, to some British opponents of the [[European Union]], Co ...nsitivity to [[reflection]] - a [[neo-Nazi]] skinhead who beats up black [[people]] [[knows]] what he's doing, but does it anyway.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...he first edition, the novel begins years later at the Divers' villa on the French Riviera where the couple lives a glamorous life; the story is told from the ...lashback after the first part sticks out: while the jump from the present (French Riviera in 1929) to the past (Zurich in 1919) is convincing, the return to
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...l be the fall of both houses that posed a menace to the [[unity]] of the [[French]] [[state]]. But this ingenious plan to play off her enemies against each ...of breaking the siege of Sarajevo, of imposing a corridor through which [[people]] and provisions could circulate freely? It would have cost nothing: with
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...t passion is aggressive secularism of the kind displayed recently by the [[French]] [[state]] where the [[government]] prohibited wearing all too conspicuous ...be deprived of it? So the [[idea]] was formulated that, in the same way [[people]] [[sign]] permission for their organs to be use for medical purposes in th
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...ists: [[le Pen]]'s entire program can be summed up in "[[France]] to the [[French]]!" (and this allows us to generate further formulas: "[[Germany]] to Germa ...eged position of a singularity with a direct access to the universal - all people participate in the universality, but Jews are "more universal than others":
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• Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
  ...ist passion is aggressive secularism of the kind displayed recently by the French state where the government prohibited wearing all too conspicuous religious ...y and the entire humanity. Instead of believing through the other like all people of culture, they really believed in their own religion and thus had no grea
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...tatorship was a [[threat]] to its neighbors and a catastrophe to its own [[people]], and these facts were [[reason]] enough to topple it. [[True]], but why t ...humanity's true [[desire]], then all that Americans need to do is to give people a [[chance]], liberate them from their imposed constraints, and they will e
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them. ...and cruel [[master]] of the city who violates every law, simply shooting [[people]] who do not pay him; the hero's father crime should thus be a law-founding
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...now emphasizes that no milk of Danish cows is used in their products. The French supermarket chain Carrefour in Egypt informs their “dear clients” that ...and school-books in Muslim countries? Where is here the respect for other people and their religion, that they demand from the West? Some Muslim groups repl
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• Lenin Shot at Finland Station
  ...tantism]] function as the [[ideology]] of early [[capitalism]]? Why did [[people]]’s [[belief]] that their redemption had been decided in advance not only ...algia]] for the [[Communist]] past) among many intellectuals (and ordinary people) from the defunct [[German Democratic Republic]] also a longing not so much
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...lnuit recently drew up the liberal communist’s ten commandments in the [[French]] magazine <em>Technikart</em>: ...ld get together and work out the best way of solving the problem, engage [[people]], governments and business in a common enterprise, start moving things ins
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• Knee-Deep
  ..., this is it. The fate of this revolutionary was surely the fate of the [[people]] as a [[whole]] under [[Stalinist]] [[dictatorship]]: the millions who ove ...man toilets are really the key to the horrors of the [[Third]] [[Reich]]. People who can build toilets like this are capable of anything.' It is clear that
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• Seminar VII
  ...a safe, ordered [[existence]] before questions of [[desire]] by telling [[people]] to make their [[desire]]s wait. [[Lacan]] forces the [[subject]] to conf [[French]]: French: (texte établi par Jacques-Alain [[Miller]]), [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1986.<br>
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• Roger Caillois
  ...He was also instrumental in introducing [[Latin]] American authors to the French [[public]]. ...cing authors such as [[Borges|J.L. Borges]] or [[Alejo Carpentier]] to the French-[[speaking]] public.
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• André Breton
  André Breton (February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a [[French]] writer, poet, and [[surrealist]] theorist. His writings include the Surre [[Category:People]]
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• Georges Bataille
  Georges Bataille (September 16, 1897 – July 9, 1962) was a [[French]] writer, anthropologist and [[philosopher]], though he avoided this last t [[Category:People]]
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• Alexandre Kojève
  ...enomenology of Spirit]]''. After [[World War II]], Kojève worked in the [[French]] Ministry of [[Economic]] Affairs as one of the chief planners of the [[Eu ...'s views on this were reprinted in the Spring 1980 (Vol. 9) edition of the French journal ''Commentaire'' in an article entitled 'Capitalisme et socialisme:
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