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• Jouissance
  ...[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...ation]] in [[English]] of the word ''[[jouissance]]''.<ref>It is therefore left untranslated in most English editions of [[Lacan]].</ref> "[[Enjoyment]]"
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• Desire
  ...gent]], effect of a fundamental gap in the subject's [[psyche]]; the gap [[left]] by a lost satisfaction (cf. the seventh chapter of The [[Interpretation]] ...pt of [[desire]] with the related concepts of [[demand]] and [[need]]. In opposition to this tendency, [[Lacan]] insists on distinguishing between these three c
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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  [[Image:Lenin-circa-1887.jpg|left|thumb|Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) circa 1887]] ...]] and the [[Zimmerwald Conference]] of [[1915]]. When [[Inessa Armand]] [[left]] Russia and settled in [[Paris]], she met Lenin and [[other]] Bolsheviks [
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• Psychosis
  ...psychotic]] (it is "[[foreclosed]]"), with the result that a [[hole]] is [[left]] in the [[symbolic order]]. To [[speak]] of a [[lack|hole]] in the [[symb ...[structure]], and the [[Name-of-the-Father]] must be "called into symbolic opposition to the subject."<ref>{{E}} p. 217</ref> In the [[absence]] of the first con
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• Drive
  {| align="[[right]]" style="margin-left:10px;line-height:2.0em;text-align:justify;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1 At first this dualism was conceived in [[terms]] of an opposition between the [[drive|sexual drive]]s (''[[drive|Sexualtriebe]]'') on the one
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• Alain Badiou
  ...adiou]] ([[born]] 1937, Rabat, Morocco) is a prominent [[France|French]] [[left-wing]] [[philosopher]] formerly [[chair]] of [[Philosophy]] at the [[École ...[[intellectual]]s, it served to reinforce Badiou's commitment to the [[far left]], and he continued to organize [[communist]] and [[Maoist]] groups such as
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• Seminar III
  ...h:600px; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;" | style="width:100px;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"| 1956 - 1957
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• Seminar XII
  ...h:700px; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:30px;" ...e not the object of immediate [[experience]]. Lacan disagrees with such an opposition as implicit in the structure. He rejects the [[notion]] of observable conti
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• Seminar XVI
  ...h:600px; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;" | style="width:100px;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;" | 1968 - 1969
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• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...27). He replied to Rolland on July 14, 1929, indicating that his remarks [[left]] him little rest. ...]] of culture," the ambivalent relationships we entertain with it, and the opposition between culture and [[sexuality]]. For someone familiar with Freud's work,
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• Seminar XX
  ...h:500px; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;" | style="width:100px;text-align:center; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"| 1972 - 1973
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...ddle class, “a surplus, a [[third]] element that does not ‘fit’ this opposition” emerges, such as the ''[[lumpenproletariat]]'', or the [[immigrant]] [[w ...[symptom]] of his complex relationship both to the contemporary Lacanian [[Left]] and the Marxist [[tradition]].
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• Judith Butler
  ...on ''[[Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left]]''. Butler teaches rhetoric and comparative literature at the University o ...]]'', “Every [[translation]] of sexual difference into a set of symbolic opposition(s) is doomed to fail, and it is this very ‘impossibility’ that opens up
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  The development of cognitivism did not fail to arouse suspicion and opposition on the part of [[psychoanalysts]]. Some of their reservations were based on ...ook ''[[Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left]]'' (co-authored with [[Judith Butler]] and [[Ernesto Laclau]]), Žižek in
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• Deconstruction
  ...political]] [[right]] of just [[about]] any stripe. Its reception on the [[left]] is far more varied, ranging from hostility to co-optation: This deconstruction is effected in [[stages]]. First, Derrida suggests, the opposition must be inverted, and the second, traditionally subordinate term must be pr
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• Georg Lukács
  Lukács returned to Budapest in 1915 and led a predominantly [[left]]-wing [[intellectual]] circle that included eminent [[figures]] such as [[ ...ause of their opposition to the rising [[bourgeoisie]] (albeit reactionary opposition). This view was expressed in his later book ''The Historical Novel''.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...It is the I-Thou [[dialectic]], defining the [[subjects]] by their mutual opposition, which founds [[subjectivity]]. But language is also the vehicle of a socia ...free or voluntary action. In short, the [[character]] of the Master/Slave opposition is the motive principle of the historical process. All of history is nothin
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...e [[being]]' or 'being-[[in-itself]]'. Thus the real was conceptualized in opposition to [[the imaginary]] of the [[mirror]] phase. As 'being-in-itself', the rea ...suffering into language, to [[symbolize]] it, there is always something [[left]] over. In other [[words]], there is always a residue that cannot be transf
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  ...etzsche - if there is a definition that really fits, it is Nietzsche's old opposition between active and passive nihilism. Active nihilism, in the sense of wanti ...td></tr><tr><td class="bodyp">But at the same time I must confess that the left also deeply disappointed me. Falling back into this safe pacifist attitude
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...LURE to put [[Marxism]] into [[practice]], for the big catastrophe which [[left]] its mark on the entire XXth century [[world]] [[politics]], for the [[Rea ...r, the hegemonic liberal democracy is using this fact to [[blackmail]] the Left radicals: "we shouldn't play with fire: against the new Rightist onslaught,
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...al gangs? One cannot resist the temptation to recall here the [[Freudian]] opposition of the public Law and its [[obscene]] [[superego]] [[double]]: are, along t ...[sign]] of things returning to normal.) Furthermore, if one perceives this opposition through the lenses of the Hegelian struggle between Master and Servant, one
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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...]] largely rests upon their [[rejection]] of the standard Marxist-Leninist opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom: as even Leftist liberals like Claude ...gh [[Clinton]]'s presidency epitomizes the Third Way of the today's (ex-)[[Left]] succumbing to the Rightist ideological [[blackmail]], his healthcare refo
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...the Sun, the supreme Good, but the desolate "desert of the real." The key opposition is here the one between Frankfurt School and Lacan: should we historicize t ...same logic, suffice it to recall the splitting of our political space into Left and Right: a Leftist and a Rightist behave exactly like members of the oppo
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...ony intended. I think the [[Christian]] legacy is all too precious to be [[left]] to, well, Christians themselves. So what I want to do is, in the first pa ...udes discernible in the [[history]] of [[religions]] along the axis of the opposition between the [[global]] and the [[universal]]: On the one hand, there is the
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• Ethnic Dance Macabre
  ...st, even if it means the neglect of elementary democratic principles. This opposition, not the one between [[capitalism]] and [[socialism]], is what defines the ...his background, a [[multitude]] of myths flourished. For the "democratic [[left]]", Tito's Yugoslavia was the mirage of the third way of self-management, b
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...] society and relations of production in [[Marxism]]) suspends the classic opposition of [[Sein]] and Sollen, of [[Being]] and Ought, of that which Is and the [[ ...de, narrates the story of his being hired to find a man who had suddenly [[left]] his settled job and [[family]] and vanished. Spade is unable to track him
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...stages]] of the generation-corruption cycle, or with the standard Platonic opposition of Soul and Body. For Paul, "Life" and "Death," Spirit and Flesh, designate ...ent. The interesting thing to note here is how Badiou inverts the standard opposition of universal Law and accidental Grace (or charisma), that is, the idea that
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• A Leftist Plea for 'Eurocentrism'
  ...]], or, The [[Cultural]] [[Logic]] of Multinational [[Capitalism]]," New [[Left]] Review 225 (Sept.-Oct. 1997): 28-51.</ref> It is a phenomenon that appear ...Forum of the East German Neues Forum, the body that coordinated democratic opposition, a de facto representative of [[civil society]]. Four items made up the pro
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...se-[[value]] and [[exchange]] value: in capitalism, the potentials of this opposition are fully realized, the [[domain]] of exchange-value acquires [[autonomy]], ...mit]] the destructive powers of globalization and to rescue (what there is left to rescue) the [[welfare]] state. This standard [[leftist]] view is imbued
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• The Leninist Freedom
  ...argely rests upon their [[rejection]] of the standard [[Marxist]]-Leninist opposition of “formal” and “actual” freedom: as even [[Leftist]] liberals like ...gh Clinton’s presidency epitomizes the [[Third]] Way of today’s (ex-)[[Left]] succumbing to the Rightist [[ideological]] [[blackmail]], his health-care
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  The [[left]] is undergoing a shattering [[experience]]: the progressive movement is [[ ...erence towards mass [[suffering]], but discussing the fate of the Worker's Opposition in 1921, she does note that "this was [[another]] example of Lenin's [[sing
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...na like these make it all the more necessary today to reassert [[Lenin]]'s opposition of "[[formal]]" and "actual" freedom. Let us then fearlessly evoke Lenin at ...ilure to put [[Marxism]] into [[practice]], for the big catastrophe that [[left]] its mark on twentieth-century world [[politics]], for the [[real]] social
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...[[future]] secretary of [[NATO]], after George Robertson), while the main opposition to the [[participation]] of Poland in the anti-Iraq coalition comes from th
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...the transcendental subject is a pure formal-structural function beyond the opposition of the noumenal and the phenomenal.<br><br> ...reliance. What we need to do is to make a step further from this external opposition (or mutual reliance) into the direct internalized overlapping, which means:
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...when, in the course of the Crusades, the West let itself be caught in the opposition to it and thus started to resemble it, instead of delivering itself – in ...phallus]], the [[organ]] of paternal insemination, in order to explain the opposition of the two possible readings of the proposition "the [[Spirit is a Bone|Spi
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• The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
  ...to, since we cannot do it otherwise. Which is why today's worry of the [[Left]]ists that revolution will not occur, that [[global]] capitalism will just ...mitment of [[France]] to the [[Rights of Man]] in the end, and to mimic an opposition to Greater Serbian fascism, all in giving it free rein. <ref> Rony Bauman,
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• Over the Rainbow Coalition!
  ...s]] versus lawyers, bankers, large companies) is transposed/coded into the opposition of honest hard-[[working]] Christian [[true]] Americans versus the decadent ...] which are operative in today's social [[processes]]. The failure of this opposition to function as the key to social [[totality]] does not only mean that it sh
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• Smashing the Neighbor's Face
  ...[[content]] in which the universal consists is asserted, all others are [[left]] to be in their particular ways of life. However, this stance nonetheless ...rld, my assertion of the wider reality within which I can only thrive. The opposition of egotism and altruism is thus overcome: I fully am not as an isolated Sel
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...of [[Shakespeare]]'s plays, with the original archaic [[English]] on the [[left]] page and the [[translation]] into common contemporary English on the [[ri ...sture as in Wagner's last operas, the gesture of threateningly raising the left hand:
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...this very military _triumphÆ not the ultimate proof of the fact that the opposition to war was JUSTIFIED, that Iraq was NOT a threat to the US? Saddam's regime ...litary tribunal in Nuremberg after [[World War II]], the court faces stiff opposition from the [[United States]], [[Russia]], and China. The United States says t
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...pring of '68, i.e. the [[utopian]] notion that, if the Czechs were to be [[left]] alone, they would effectively give [[birth]] to a "socialism with a human ...[[baby]] with the dirty water; in the eyes of the dissidents, the Western Left played patronizing [[games]] with them, disavowing the true harshness of th
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...re then act and knowledge related in a [[tragic]] constellation? The basic opposition is that between Oedipus and Hamlet: Oedipus accomplishes [[The Act|the act] ...!", we get "If someone slaps your [[right]] cheek, turn to him also your [[left]] cheek!" The point here is not stupid [[masochism]], humble acceptance of
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• Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
  ...reality]] of material labor, this standard bete noire of the traditional [[Left]], is celebrated as the germ of the [[future]], capitalism's most [[dynamic ...ont size="4">Their fate is for Agamben the model of redemption: they "have left the world of [[guilt]] and justice behind them: the light that rains down o
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...deological]] era" has any [[sense]], it is here. Is this sad fact that the opposition to the [[system]] cannot articulate itself in the guise of a realistic alte ...ng fact about the "terrorist" attacks is that they do not fit our standard opposition of [[Evil]] as egotism, as disregard for the common Good, and Good as the s
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...with a dish full of fire in her right hand and a bowl full of water in her left hand. Asked why she is doing it, she answered that with the fire she would ...they explained it: the owner wanted to appear patriotic apropos the French opposition to the US attack on Iraq, so he followed the US Congress and renamed French
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• Nobody Has to Be Vile
  ...to themselves as ‘[[liberal]] communists’ and who no longer accept the opposition between Davos and Porto Alegre: their [[claim]] is that we can have the glo ...] in [[authority]], [[order]] and parochial patriotism, but also the old [[left]], with its war against [[capitalism]]: both fight their shadow-theatre bat
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• The Two Totalitarianisms
  ..., [[Nazi]] [[police]] investigators looked for proofs and traces of active opposition to the regime, whereas Stalin’s investigators were happy to fabricate evi ...e has to make a [[choice]]. The ‘pure’ [[liberal]] attitude towards [[Left]]ist and [[Right]]ist ‘[[totalitarianism]]’ – that they are both bad,
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• Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
  ...ld be measured.</p><p>Havel seems now to be blind to the fact that his own opposition to Communism was rendered possible by the utopian [[dimension]] generated a
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• Are We in a War
  ...[[guarantee]] the safe delivery of humanitarian aid. We no longer have an opposition between war and humanitarian aid: the same intervention can function at bot ...d [[Social]] [[Democrats]] ('Social Fascists') are 'twin brothers', the '[[left]] and right hand of monopoly capital'. Thus [[Nazism]] constructed the 'plu
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• Seminar VII
  ...h:600px; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;" | style="width:100px;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"| 1959 - 1960
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