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• Gaze
  ...at which permits the [[subject]] to realize that the [[Other]] is also a [[subject]]. ...er-as-subject must be able to be referred back to my permanent possibility of ''[[being]] seen'' by the Other.<ref>[[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre, Jean-Paul]]
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• Jouissance
  ...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->
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• Phallus
  ...anatomical]]) [[body|bodily organ]] and the [[phallus]] as a [[signifier]] of [[sexual difference]]. ...batory jouissance ([[gratification]]). [[Freud]] argues that [[children]] of both [[sexual difference|sexes]] set great [[value]] on the [[phallus|penis
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...italist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]").
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• Psychosis
  ...[[about]] by the [[foreclosure]] of a primordial [[signifier]], the [[Name-of-the-Father]]. ...s]] on the grounds that the peculiarly invasive and devastating [[nature]] of psychotics' delusional systems and hallucinations indicates major [[structu
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• Transference
  ...[[affect]] from one [[idea]] to another.<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]''. 1900a: [[SE]] V, 562</ref> This soon became the central [[meaning]] of the term, and is the [[sense]] in which it is usually [[understood]] in [[p
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• Regression
  ...terpretation of Dreams]] in [[order]] to explain the [[visual]] [[nature]] of [[dreams]]. ...towards the [[system]] of [[perception]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'', 1900a: [[SE]] V, 538-55</ref>
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• Object
  ...[[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or attentions). ...nimate things: individuals, parts of the [[body]] and the [[satisfaction]] of [[need]]s can all be [[object]]s.
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• Neurosis
  ...gmund Freud|his early work]], and sometimes to denote a specific [[class]] of [[treatment|mental disorders]] (i.e. in opposiiton to [[psychosis]]). ...condition such as hysteria in which somatic [[symptoms]] are an expression of a [[psychical]] [[conflict]] originating in [[childhood]]. Modern [[psycho
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• Language
  ...as French or [[English]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]] languages. It is fundamentally the general structure of [[language]] (''[[langage]]''), rather than the differences between particu
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• Anxiety
  ...g been recognised in [[psychiatry]] as one of the most common [[symptom]]s of [[mental]] disorder. [[Psychiatric]] descriptions of [[anxiety]] generally refer to both mental phenomena (apprehension, worry)
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• Being
  =====Metaphysical and Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory===== ...ote to his [[discourse]] that distinguishes it from most other [[school]]s of [[psychoanalytic theory]], which refuse to engage with their metaphysical a
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• Countertransference
  ...ded]] over the [[role]] allotted to [[countertransference]] in discussions of [[technique]]. ...lyst]]s argued that [[countertransference]] manifestations were the result of incompletely analysed elements in the [[analyst]], and that such manifestat
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• Existence
  ...[[discussion]] of the "judgement of existence," by which the [[existence]] of an entity is affirmed prior to attributing any quality to it. ...tegrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] fully "[[exist]]s", since "there is no such thing as a prediscursive [[reality]]."<ref>{{S20}} p. 33</ref>
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• Structure
  ...efer to "[[structure|social structures]]" by which he means a specific set of [[affect]]ive relations between [[family]] members. =====Nature of the Psyche=====
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• Speech
  ''[[Parole]]'' becomes one of the most important [[terms]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] from the early 1950s on. ...en psychanalyse]]," 1953a, in {{E}} p.237-322. ["[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]]," in {{E}}. p. 30-113]</ref>
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• Signifier
  [[Lacan]] takes the term "[[signifier]]" from the [[work]] of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]. ...sign]]'''; not the actual sound itself, but the '''[[mental]] [[image]]''' of such a sound.
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• Signifying Chain
  ...ative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a chain reaction. ...he [[Name]]-of-the-[[Father]] signifiers are substituted for the signifier of the desire for the [[mother]]. From then on, [[conscious]] and unconscious
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• Science
  ...ar]], thus implying that there is a specific [[unified]], homogeneous kind of [[discourse]] that can be called "[[science|scientific]]". ...in the seventeenth century <ref>{{Ec}} p. 857</ref>, with the inauguration of modern physics.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 855</ref>.
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• Jacques Lacan:Chronology
  ...[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of [[psychoanalysis]]. In 1936, [[Lacan]] presents his paper on the [[mirror stage]] at a conference of the '''[[International Psychoanalytical Association]]''' ([[IPA]]) in [[Mar
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• The Subject
  What is the [[subject]] and why is it so important? ...cious]] ‘i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expelled from itself.
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• Real2
  ...). Approachable only asymptotically, the real is most often defined by way of paradoxes; it ...o [[madness]]. In all its modes, it successfully resists the intercessions of [[language]]. (Bowie 110)
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• Metonymy
  ...rally refer to, but with which it is closely linked. This link may be one of [[physical]] contiguity, but not necessarily. ...[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. "Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disturbances," ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''[[Word]] and Langu
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• Seminar III
  ...losure]]'''. By way of [[foreclosure]] of the [[signifier]] of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] it is possible to [[understand]] [[psychosis]] and distinguish ...paternal function]]: the [[paternal function]] is reduced to the [[image]] of the [[father]] (the [[symbolic]] reduced to the [[imaginary]]).
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...126). In general, most psychoanalysts would agree. The immediate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that p
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• Psychiatry
  ...arious forms) and [[treatment]] of mental [[illness]]. Given the advantage of the preliminary medical [[training]] as well as further specialist training ==[[Practice]] of psychiatry==
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• Semiotics
  ...a general level about ''[[signs]]'', while the study of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. The [[subject]] was originally spelled '''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]
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• Eros
  ...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). ...ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...eutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the [[father]] of psychoanalysis" and his [[work]] has been highly influential — popularizi
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• Roland Barthes
  ...riette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], learning p ...l for teaching positions, Barthes later professed an intentional avoidance of major degree-awarding universities throughout his career.
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...proach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...ld of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example).
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• Deconstruction
  ...ught]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]], difficult to defi ===The problems of definition===
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• German Idealism
  ...losely linked both with [[romanticism]] and the revolutionary [[politics]] of the [[Enlightenment]]. The most well-known thinkers in the movement were [[ == Meaning of "Idealism" ==
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• Alfred Hitchcock
  ...s of all [[time]], famous for his expert and largely unrivaled [[control]] of pace and suspense throughout his movies. ...tibility of men and [[women]]; Hitchcock's films often take a cynical view of traditional romance.
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is a major [[concept]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
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• The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
  The One Measure of True Love is: You Can Insult the Other ...pact of cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.<br class="NetscapeDummy"/><br class="Net
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing
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• Self-Deceptions
  ...proclaimed ideals, when you [[encounter]] a person who claims he is cured of any beliefs, accepting [[social]] [[reality]] the way it really is, you sho ...fer to the inherited ethnic belonging, i.e. there was always in it an echo of "Which side did you choose?" (say, the movie director Emir Kusturica, comin
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...ion]] is, I [[claim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time a ...d itself to babble [[about]] the so-called disappearing working [[class]]. Of course, it's disappearing from here.
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? Is she not also a capricious [[Master]] who wants it ...oman (or of the primordial father) provides is the mythical starting point of unbridled fullness whose "primordial repression" constitutes the symbolic o
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• For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
  ...it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation of this endeavour. ..., simultaneously, as the operator which will bring about the establishment of a post-political rational society.3
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...re we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the [[other]] two dimensions of the [[Lacanian]] [[triad]] ISR, [[the Symbolic]] and [[the Real]]? ...les" precisely the effort to establish clearly the contours of a new space of symbolic fictions in which we fully participate in the mode [[disavowal]],
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• Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
  ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth
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• Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
  ...onkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[formation]], one must start with its most developed form. ...ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.
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• A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
  ...agance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is ...[[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:
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• From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
  ...r (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...ous "passionate attachments," attachments publicly non-acknowledged by the subject:
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined by a fundamental passivity, and it is the object from which move ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals
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