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• Melancholia
  ...turbed [[sleep]] patterns, and an improvement in [[clinical]] [[symptoms]] in the evening. An episode of melancholic [[depression]] can be unique or recurrent, in which [[case]] it becomes part of the framework of a [[manic-depressive]] i
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• Seminar V
  ...]], "an item of waste sent like a ball between [[code]] and [[message]]." In this [[lack]] [[substitute]] [[word]]s appear and function like "the [[meto ...t [[subject]] is not substance, "it has not substantial positive [[being]] in itself, being caught between 'not yet' and 'no longer'. The [[subject]] ne
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• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
  ...and the yet-unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...ate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that people thought, behaved, and learned about sexuality; this inf
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...erapeutic techniques, especially his [[understanding]] of [[transference]] in the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s a ...o the [[University]] in [[Vienna]] because of the strong [[anti-Semitism]] in [[Austria]] at the [[time]], at which time his grades plummeted.
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• Roland Barthes
  ...His [[mother]], Henriette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[cu ...s period, [[suffering]] from [[tuberculosis]] that often had to be treated in the [[isolation]] of [[sanatorium|sanatoria]]. His repeated [[physical]] b
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  Lacan's [[thinking]] on [[feminine sexuality]] is distinguished by two main phases. ...allus and here Lacan makes a significant innovation regarding [[Freudian]] thinking. For Freud the question of [[sexual differences]] revolved around the '[[c
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  .... It is fascinating to read how Althusser sees Lacan as [[being]] involved in a similar [[project]] to his own. Just as he, Althusser, is trying to rethi interest in [[Lacanian]] psychoanalysis - a movement which seemed to
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...t a]] and [[jouissance]]. We will look at each of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes] =The real is always in its place=
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• Politics
  ...]", liberals wring their hands over the current [[state]] of affairs while in fact benefiting under it and passively promoting it. In [[practice]], liberals are not different from conservatives.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...f nostalgic idolatry, and, furthermore, from the perspective firmly rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rig ...the answer is immediately: "Benevolent as it is, this will necessarily end in a new [[Gulag]]!" The [[ideological]] function of the constant reference to
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...t as the authentic [[intersubjective]] [[encounter]]: authenticity resides in the act of violent [[transgression]], from the [[Lacanian]] Real — the Th ...e the [[cause]] of the [[Communist]]'s attachment to the Party. Say, when, in 1939-1941 pro-Soviet Communists twice had to [[change]] their Party line ov
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• Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
  ...on Eastern Europeans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? SZ: I don't believe in local regional cultures.
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ect?" The answer, of course, is: the object - however, which object? This, in a nutshell (or, rather, as a nut within the shell), is the topic of the pre ...but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>
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• Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
  ...in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] idiom - say, "To be or not to be, that is the ...esitations cannot be purely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique H
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...is sad fact that the opposition to the [[system]] cannot articulate itself in the guise of a realistic alternative, or at least a meaningful utopian [[pr ...ormulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them
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• Dream
  ...on]] is the "royal road that leads to [[knowledge]] of the [[unconscious]] in [[psychic]] [[life]]." Such, in highly condensed [[form]], is [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] as set forth in the founding [[work]] of [[psychoanalysis]], ''[[The Interpretation of Drea
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• Masculinity
  ...''[[jouissance]]'' - our [[pleasure]] or [[enjoyment]] - is never enough. In other [[words]], we are driven by an inherent [[dissatisfaction]] and [[sen ...in [[mind]] here, though, that [[phallic]] [[jouissance]] is not [[male]] in the sense that only [[men]] can experience it; it is experienced by both [[
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• Seduction
  ...ene]] of seduction" connotes attempts at seduction, [[real]] or fantasied, in the [[form]] of advances, incitations, manipulations, or suggestions that a ...the [[repression]] of [[infantile]] [[sexuality]]. On September 21, 1897, in a well-known [[letter]] to Wilhelm [[Fliess]], he laid out his reasons for
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• Liberation Hurts
  appeared originally in <i>electronic book review</i><br><br> ...[[taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? Under the [[
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• Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
  ...on Eastern Europeans are going to arrive in Western [[Europe]] and the USA in no [[time]]. What do you [[think]] may happen to local regional cultures? SZ: I don't believe in local regional cultures.
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• Transgression
  ...]] drew inspiration. Its definition was to some extent a [[negative]] one, in opposition to taboo (a term that was itself borrowed from the Polynesian [[ ...[explicit]] or implicit rules, both in the course of the [[treatment]] and in conflictual [[unconscious]] functioning, not to mention within the [[psycho
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• Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
  ''This [[exchange]] of letters begins at a crucial [[moment]] in the [[life]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]: he had just been stricken from the [[lis </ref> which plunged him into great turmoil, evidence of which can be seen in his first letters.
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• Never Mind the Bollocks
  ...its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary Kay's stance in today's [[politics]]." ...alinist", which draws gleeful [[laughter]] from an audience who are mostly in their twenties.
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• Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
  ...of reference, the only conclusion will be that Western academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Laca ...cused on the particular versions of those theoretical frameworks currently in circulation. A good way of starting this assessment of Zizek is to go back
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• The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
  ...can]] Through Popular Culture and [[Enjoy]] the [[Symptom]]! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. Additionally, among his later books that dealt more with ...ic election in 1990 and served as the Republic's ambassador of [[science]] in 1991 following Slovenia's declaration of independence. Since 1979, he has b
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• Kant with Sade
  That the work of Sade anticipates Freud, be it in respect of the catalogue of perversions, is a stupid thing to say, which ge ...ere, the way for science is prepared by rectifying the position of ethics. In this, yes, a ground-clearing occurs which will have to make its way through
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  FUNCTION OF THE MYTH OF OEDIPUS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS<br> ...ing, but since several questions concerning the [[place]] of the imaginary in the [[symbolic]] [[structure]] crop up while following the thread of our [[
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• Love of One's Neighbor
  ...that was an easy way out. I didn't merely serve up again what I had to say in Brussels; I didn't tell [[them]] half of what I told you.<br> ...t is to say, in the commandment which is expressed in our [[civilization]] in the [[form]] of the love of one's neighbor.<br><br>
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• The Jouissance of Transgression
  ...recursor, who supposedly opened up some [[impasse]], aberration or aporia, in that [[domain]] of [[ethics]] we have chosen to explore this year, and that ...ng, which is related to a [[number]] of [[others]] I am struggling against in [[order]] to make some [[progress]] here before you.<p>
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• Action
  ...] concerning [[them]], in spite of the rather fragmentary references found in [[Freud]] and subsequent attempts to give these [[concepts]] a [[theoretica ...of these [[ideas]] is found in the following comment by Freud that appears in the "Project": "The initial [[helplessness]] of [[human]] beings is the [[p
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• Death Instinct
  ...nt and thus deflected to the [[outside]] [[world]] through the musculature in the drive for [[destruction]] and [[mastery]] or the will to [[power]]: thi ...] introduced the [[concept]] of the [[death drive]] as a [[negative]] term in opposition to the [[life]] drive: "The opposition between the ego or death
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• Jokes
  ...ding to [[Freud]], "the most [[social]] of activities, designed to provide pleasure through the simple and disinterested [[activity]] of the psychic [[apparatu ...ds]], dreams in folklore, [[language]], and [[schizophrenia]]), though not in respect to work on [[literature]] or the [[development]] of [[civilization]
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• Word-Presentation
  ...nscious]]-[[conscious]], he assigned a special [[role]] to verbal language in the [[mechanism]] whereby unconscious [[processes]] became conscious. ...anings]] that lie not in things prior to the advent of language but rather in thought before the advent of [[words]].
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• Mastery
  ...tents]] and finds [[pleasure]] in the actions of retention and defecation. In "'[[Civilized]]' Sexual [[Morality]] and Modern Nervous [[Illness]]" (1908d ...to see, throughout this [[chain]], the importance of phenomena of mastery in gifts, indebtedness, and exchanges.
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• Primal Scene
  ...ung man who dreamed of watching his parents copulating during his [[life]] in the womb (1900a [addition of 1909], pp. 399-400). ...ate. In the case of "Little [[Hans]]," however, the violence was explained in [[terms]] of a [[prohibition]]: Hans deemed it analogous to "smashing a win
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• Maternal
  ...(1950c [1895]), the ambiguity of the maternal for the infant was inherent in its ambiguous [[nature]]: [[breast]]-[[object]] or person-[[mother]], [[tot ...by [[fantasy]] [[activity]], which then replaces this self-production of [[pleasure]]. The ego thus develops and becomes [[autonomous]] through the [[internali
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• Obsession
  ...ess]]) all distinguished this [[pathology]] from [[mental]] [[alienation]] in the strict [[sense]]. But it was Bénédict-Augustin Morel (emotional delus ...es addressed by the subject to himself because of anticipated [[sexual]] [[pleasure]], but these reproaches are disfigured by an [[unconscious]] [[psychic]] [[
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  [[Hallucination]] As [[Ideology]] in [[Cinema]] I. Schubert in Stalingrad
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• Jean-Paul Sartre
  ...1933-34. He was awarded, but declined, the Nobel Prize for [[literature]] in 1964. ...des no privileged [[self]]-[[knowledge]] because, as Sartre writes, "My I, in effect, is no more certain for consciousness than the I of [[other]] men. I
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• Primal scene
  ...]] the combined parent [[figure]], and torment and destroy one [[another]] in the act of copulation. ...ung man who dreamed of watching his parents copulating during his [[life]] in the womb (1900a [addition of 1909], pp. 399-400).
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• Anaclisis
  ...ent]] in the [[oral]] [[activity]] of a [[child]] at the [[breast]]; the [[pleasure]] associated with sucking is associated with the [[need]] for nourishment, ...orm]] of object-choice in which the [[love]]-object is selected because it in some way resembles the parental [[figure]] that once provided the child wit
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• Outline
  [[Acting out]]/acting in Censoring the lover in her
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• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
  ...ry]] of the [[life]] and [[death]] [[instincts]], advanced in Beyond the [[Pleasure Principle]] (1920g)—and the possibility of re-conceptualizing group psych ...William McDougall to describe the prevalence of the primary [[processes]] in ephemeral groups.
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• Sigmund Freud:Biography
  ...Little did he [[know]] that this education would eventually serve him well in developing his theories and conveying [[them]] to a wide audience. ...have proposed that Freud's early jealously of Julius played significantly in the [[development]] of his later theories on sibling [[rivalry]]. Tragicall
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• Function of Language
  ...is]], [[surrealism]] and [[philosophy]], I have often alluded to language. In this chapter I [[want]] to focus on [[Lacan]]'s constantly changing (and [[ In his attempt to define a new way of studying human phenomena Lacan was deepl
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• Lacan and Language
  ...87, 113, 114, 199, 226, 262, 270, 283, 295, 308, 326; see also [[Dream(s), in Freud Code(s), 86, 128, 201-203, 226, 239, distortion in, 16, 166, 177, 187,325 in Freud, of botanical monograph, 14, 16, 17; of butcher's wife, 279, 322, 323
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• Schema R
  ...on of the [[work]] (Buda-pest, 1929) bore a different title: "Catastrophes in the [[Development]] of the [[Genital]] Function: A [[Psychoanalytic]] Study ...[[Abraham]] (1962) [[notes]], this "cosmogonic epic seeks its [[meaning]] in the automatism of [[repetition]] itself."</p>
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• Thalassa. A Theory of Genitality
  ...on of the [[work]] (Buda-pest, 1929) bore a different title: "Catastrophes in the [[Development]] of the [[Genital]] Function: A [[Psychoanalytic]] Study ...[[Abraham]] (1962) [[notes]], this "cosmogonic epic seeks its [[meaning]] in the automatism of [[repetition]] itself."</p>
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• Fort-Da
  ...[[meaning]] "Gone!" and "There!"—has become shorthand for [[repetition]] in early childhood, and for the primary [[processes]] that such [[behavior]] m ...n]]. His mother and the writer of the [[present]] account were agreed in [[thinking]] that this was not a mere interjection but represented the [[German]] [[wo
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• Identificatory project
  ...in the identificatory project) is the basis for the I's ability to respond in its own [[name]] to the unavoidable questions that sum up the identificatio ...ntity whose [[presence]] brings pleasure to the mother and in turn derives pleasure from the valorization of this image that he [[knows]] to be his own. Hence
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