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• Object
  ...her and father clearly play an essential [[role]] in the creation of the [[human]] being's representational [[system]] from the very beginning of life. By c ...convey a censure to the child in a prelude to the fantasmatic life of the human being, in order to protect the child from the desire of and for the father,
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• Future of an Illusion
  ...ly, "''what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from [[human]] wishes''." (pg. 31) He adds, however, that, "Illusions [[need]] not neces ...]] in giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human nature, he claims, that "''it is only through the influence of individuals
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...]] stance concerning the [[traumatic]] Real and the [[complex]] logic of [[human]] appropriation, which, incidentally, finds allegiance, not opposition, in ...]] exemplified by Creon, whose [[refusal]] to contravene the [[letter]] of human law makes of him “a pragmatic [[state]] politician, mercilessly crushing
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...ssing the audience. In fact, shortly before asking this, Thorwald turns to face the camera directly for the first time — at this point, audiences oft ...erally avoided points of view that were physically [[impossible]] from a [[human]] perspective. For example, he would never place the camera [[looking]] out
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...fe's Way]]'' are about [[thoughts]] and [[feelings]] an [[individual]] may face in life, existential choices and its consequences, and whether or not to em ...Kierkegaard or not. Kierkegaard hoped readers would just read the work at face [[value]], without attributing it to some aspect of his life. Kierkegaard
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• Emmanuel Lévinas
  ...] is to [[murder]] the Other. At the same [[time]], the revelation of the face forces the immediate [[recognition]] of one's inability to do so. One must *The [[Face-to-face]] Relation
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...ciety]]. For Lacan there is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is la ...c assumptions. Lacan’s view is that biology is always interpreted by the human subject, refracted through language; that there is no such [[thing]] as...
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  The [[Oedipus complex]] is central to [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] of [[human]] [[development]]. This sense of inadequacy and [[impotence]] in the face of an omnipotent [[maternal]] desire that cannot be placated gives rise to
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...'[[thing]]'; it is not a [[material]] [[object]] in the [[world]] or the [[human]] [[body]] or even '[[reality]]'. For Lacan, our reality consists of [[symb ...]] [[about]] [[traumatic]] events such as train crashes, wars or [[other]] human disasters. The effect of these events on the [[people]] [[present]] or just
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr>< ...udes this aspect, a fear of a too violent, too open encounter with another human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="NetscapeDummy"/></td></tr><tr><
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights — therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[exp ...pic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophe, violations of [[human rights]], sexism, [[homophobia]], antifeminism, the growing [[violence]] no
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...nches of the [[World]] War I, Carl [[Schmitt]] was celebrating the face to face combat as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity res ...o risk his life (recall Colin Powell's notion of a high-tech war with no [[human]] casualties), while the poor Muslim radicals are Masters ready to risk the
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...lism" effectively WAS an attempt to reassert a "Socialism with a [[human]] face," i.e. to reinscribe the [[process]] of industrialization into the constrai ...f a victim of circumstances beyond his control. Every contact with another human being is experienced as a potential [[threat]] - if the other smokes, if he
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...s, the death of Christ is the death of the God in himself, not only of his human embodiment) — which is why, for Lacan, who follows here Hegel, the Thing ...the time reduced to the survival-machines, there is the One who maintained human dignity). In a way homologous to the canned laughter, we have here somethin
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...g to demonstrate how Christianity effectively provides the foundation to [[human rights]] and freedoms. ...ersality]] of [[nirvana]], or the Holy Spirit, or today, of [[Human Rights|human rights]] and freedoms. The idea is that I can participate in this universal
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...s not [[socialism]] with a [[human]] face, but rather fascism with a human face. This is very dangerous. Anti-Semitism arises at such moments. Now they are JA: Fascism generally has a human face.
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...s insiders from its outsiders, between the "developed" — those to whom [[human]] rights, [[social]] security and the like apply — and the [[others]], th ...he current [[ideological]] designation for the capitalist "inside") in the face of oriental barbarism.
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...hus [[split]] into actual individuals (prone to treason and all kinds of [[human]] weaknesses) and the People embodied in the Master. Perhaps, then, these [ ...scernible as a momentary, fleeting appearance, a 'grimace', of an ordinary face. It is this dimension of 'appearance' which transubstantiates a piece of re
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...ddenly see that we are watching a snuff, that the actor engaged in face-to-face combat is effectively cutting the throat of his "[[enemy]]"…). Against th ...f the [[signifier]]'s game running its course, unencumbered by the Real of human [[finitude]]. So, again, does not our experience of cyberspace perfectly fi
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• From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
  ...erts his hold upon us in the unconscious. On the other hand, insofar as "[[human]] being" implies the infinite freedom of [[subjectivity]], an element of fa ...t an erection, so that we can check it!" Deeply embarrassed and red in the face, the soldier began to masturbate in front of all of us but, of course, fail
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• Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
  ...vices has run ahead of our faculty to lead a meaningful existence, to make human use of this immense power." Thus, the properly modern [[ethics]] of "follow
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...divine grace is truly universal (i.e., nonexclusionary), available to all human beings regardless of race, sex, or social status. ...the simple, innocent prelapsarian life once and forever lost to us mortal human beings. The universe in which we live, our "way of the flesh," is one in wh
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• The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
  ...ts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his [[real]] conditions of [[life]], and his relations w ...of this self-engendering monster that pursues its path disregarding any [[human]] or environmental concern is an [[ideological]] abstraction, and that one
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...” effectively WAS an attempt to reassert a “Socialism with a [[human]] face,” i.e. to reinscribe the [[process]] of industrialization within the cons ...f a victim of circumstances beyond his control? Every contact with another human being is experienced as a potential [[threat]] — if the other smokes, if
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...ling the trenches of the first world war, Ernst Jünger celebrated face-to-face combat as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity res ...lts from the predominance of material production and [[technology]] over [[human]] relations and [[culture]]. What if the exact opposite is the case? What i
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...rmly rooted in the democratic political [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rights. Therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the experien ...pic: the prospects of a [[global]] ecological catastrophy, violations of [[human rights]], sexism, [[homophobia]], antifeminism, growing [[violence]] not on
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...er from the early 1990s dozens of Western Leftists who proudly threw in my face how for them, [[Yugoslavia]] still [[exists]], and reproached me for betray ...orward in humanity's slow march toward [[civilization]]." However, while [[human rights]] groups have hailed the court's creation as the biggest milestone f
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...l gestures and innuendoes he or she is witnessing. Crucial for "becoming-[[human]]" is the overlapping of the two levels, the implicit "sexualization" of th ...ever buy anything [[sight]] unseen," she says, and later rejects any "warm human contact" with him.<ref>I rely here on Kate Stables, British Film Institute,
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...s neither from his own viewpoint, nor from the viewpoint of others, but to face the reality that is exposed through difference (parallax)." <a name="8"></a ...nizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation ("finitude") of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and pas
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...ving one and a destructive one - we are talking [[about]] one and the same face. But, yet again, this does not mean that "the difference is only in us, not ...d]] - what is unthinkable within this space is Heidegger's notion of the [[human]] being as <i>Da-[[Sein]]</i>, as the "being-there" of the Being itself, as
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• Move the Underground!
  ...ugs and then compelled to perform an [[aggressive]] gesture ("Spit into my face, boy!"; "Say I am a shit!"...), which is supposed to justify the ensuing be ...to no symbolic Law, the [[total]] [[Master]] who dares to confront face to face [[the Real]] of terrifying <i>[[jouissance]]</i> - is presented not as a [[
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• Opera
  <font face="BOOKMAN" size="3">Perhaps the most [[touching]] [[scene]] of the entire <i <font face="BOOKMAN" size="3"><i>So wenig achtest du ewige Wonne?<br>
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ..../ deceit and veracity already presuppose the absolute authenticity of the face."<ref>[[Levinas]], Emmanuel, ''[[Totality]] and Infinity'', The [[Hague]]: ...not the hostage who took the place of all of us and as such exemplarily [[human]] ("ecce homo")?
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...im]] that there IS a unique Hitchcockian [[dimension]].</font></p><p><font face="courier" size="-1"> <font face="courier" size="-1">My first [[thesis]] is that this unique dimension is no
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• The Act and Its Vicissitudes
  ...it]] the scope of [[knowledge]] of Christ's [[mind]] to that of a common [[human]] [[consciousness]], so that Christ effectively [[thought]] he was dying ab ...erhaps the first exemplary [[case]] of the critique of [[ideology]] in the human [[history]], laying bare the basic discursive strategies of legitimizing su
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...e simply have much higher standards of what constitutes the violation of [[human rights]], etc. The fact that the situation appears catastrophic is thus in ...]] from the early 1990s dozens of Western Leftists who proudly threw in my face how, for them, [[Yugoslavia]] still [[exists]], and reproached me for betra
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...glish]], a wealthy and popular car dealership owner, throws a drink in the face of Harry Reilly, the richest man in town. Because of this, he becomes embro ...the [[idea]], developed most systematically by [[Donald Davidson]], that [[human]] [[acts]] are rationally-intentional, accountable in the [[terms]] of beli
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ...no one in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] who advocated ‘[[Nazism]] with a [[human face]]’. Herein lies the flaw (and the bias) of all attempts, such as that of
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• Knee-Deep
  ...[[moralistic]] platitude? 'If we want to be able to look ourselves in the face every morning, anyone who earns more than the average [[wage]] in a rich co ...t the [[dialectical]] [[totality]] of the situation.' The singularity of [[human]] [[suffering]] may reach a level at which the easy reference to totality t
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...y brings us back to the first and only way. Global capitalism with a human face.</p><p>This, then, is Havel's tragedy: his authentic ethical stance has bec
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• Are We in a War
  ...nitarian refugee camps are, paradoxically, the two faces, 'inhuman' and '[[human]]', of one sociological [[matrix]]. Asked [[about]] the [[German]] concentr ...ethnic-[[religious]] conflicts' which violate the rules of [[universal]] [[human rights]], do not count as wars proper, and call for a 'humanitarian pacifis
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• Oedipus complex
  ...hough the [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central to Freud's theory of [[human]] development, no one paper is devoted to it. --> ...l negotiation of the Oedipal triangle is a precondition for entry into the human symbolic order.
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• Surrealism
  ...ical]] and [[external]], the other exploring the deepest recesses of the [[human]] mind and unfolding its truths in the work of art. ...which the conscious mind represented only one small part. They thought of human experiences in the [[form]] of a pyramid, the narrow peak of which is the l
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• Frankfurt School
  ...r contributions in two areas relating to the possibility of [[rational]] [[human]] [[subject]]s, i.e. individuals who could act rationally to take charge of ...he [[epistemological]] [[discussion]] to a new level in his "Knowledge and Human Interests" ([[1968]]), by [[identifying]] critical knowledge as based on pr
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• Administered World
  ...uffering]]. "The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would [[present
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• Parallax View
  ...s neither from his own viewpoint, nor from the viewpoint of others, but to face the reality that is exposed through difference (parallax)."<ref>Karatani, o ...nizes a certain fundamental and irreducible limitation ("finitude") of the human condition, which is why the two poles, rational and sensual, active and pas
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• Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
  ...of course, are what pose the <i>[[true]]</i> threat to [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] (e.g., the [[London]] police’s [[recent]] execution of the innoc ...turn into a [[singular]] [[antagonism]]? Or, as we so often hear, "In the face of the terrorist threat, we must all come together and forget our petty dif
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• The Desert of the Real
  tells us that the “[[human]] rights record” (to use an anachronistic the left’s political and [[ethical]] defeat in the face of acts of quite
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• What Does Europe Want? (article)
  ...ex-[[Yugoslavia]], it is Ika Saric, a modest judge in Croatia who, in the face of threats to her [[life]] and without any [[visible]] [[public]] support, ...much that they are ready to legalize torture—the ultimate degradation of human dignity—to [[defend]] it. And, along the same lines, we may lose “Europ
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• The Free World ... of Slums
  ...d to this platitude: “If we [[want]] to be able to look ourselves in the face every morning, anyone who earns more than the average wage in a rich countr ...s [[role]] as exporters of [[democracy]] and guardians of [[universal]] [[human rights]].
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