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• The Act
  ...the space of the gap of the minimal [[difference]] “between the set of [[social]] regulations and the void of their absence”. In other words, Bartleby’ ...lity is incomplete and split from within, that there is another world to [[construct]], even if we cannot grasp it in our present moment. 
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• Semiotics
  ...efficiently and effectively as possible. Hence, communication theorists [[construct]] models based on codes, [[media]], and contexts to explain the [[biology]] ...humans [[understand]] that one can only [[interpret]] ''language'' in a [[social]] context (sometimes termed the [[semiosphere]]). Pure linguistics dismantl
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...tively aware. The dynamic unconscious, a more specific [[social construct|construct]], referred to mental [[processes]] and contents which are defensively remo ===Social psychology===
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• Deconstruction
  ...es Derrida]] in the 1960s and is used in contemporary [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' t ...ch etymologically means "to undo"—a [[virtual]] synonym for "to de-[[construct]]." ... If anything is destroyed in a deconstructive reading, it is not the
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...erence was [[displaced]] through the study of [[gender]] as a [[social]] [[construct]]. It was within this context that Lacan's idiosyncratic formulations of se Second, it would mean that femininity is wholly a discursive construct and that sexual identity is completely socially - symbolically - constructe
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  ...] that organizes our [[social]]-symbolic and [[unconscious]] relations (of social [[meanings]]). ...the prohibition against incest provided the foundation for all subsequent social laws.
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• Jacques Lacan:Real
  ...o a very paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A ...t is through the process of cancelling out, of symbolizing the real, that 'social reality' is created. In short, the real does not exist, as [[existence]] is
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• Racism
  Racism and [[anti-Semitism]] are both [[social]] and [[psychic]] [[structures]]. ...erego, the father and fantasy - is a necessary and constituive part of all social roders and essential to their proper funcitoning.
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• Anti-Semitism
  [[Racism]] and anti-Semitism are both [[social]] and [[psychic]] [[structures]]. ...ego]], the father and fantasy - is a necessary and constituive part of all social roders and essential to their proper funcitoning.
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• Repeating Lenin (Essay)
  ...a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with [[regard]] to [[social]] struggles — one should also ask how it effectively functions IN these v ...ent, all belittling of the role of 'the conscious element,' of the role of Social-Democracy, means, quite independently of whether he who belittles that role
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• The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
  ...trix the extrapolated embodiment of Kulturindustrie, the alienated-reified social Substance (of the Capital) directly taking over, colonizing our inner life ...rtia of materiality — in the late capitalist consummerist society, "real social life" itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neigh
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ...i.e. that, in the [[fetishist]] [[universe]], people (mis)perceive their [[social]] relations in the guise of relations between things? Althusserians are ful ...]]-[[present]] [[living]] [[subjectivity]] to whom the belief embodied in "social things" can be attributed, and who is then dispossesed of it. There are som
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• It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
  ...Spinozist signifier. Even in our everyday political experiences when we [[construct]] the enemy, we depict [[danger]] as the one who overidentifies. This is th ...is contradictory desire. Do we have a [[name]] for the [[system]], for a [[social]] system that tries to accomplish precisely this? Capitalism and organic un
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• The Cyberspace Real
  ...the fantasmatic framework which underlies and sustains our experience of (social) reality. It was often claimed that Lynch throws us, the spectators, open i ...d is not the digital universe of cyberspace the ideal medium in which to [[construct]] such pure semblances which, although they are [[nothing]] "in themselves,
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• When the Party Commits Suicide
  ...tandards of historical research, but also enables us to grasp the unique [[social]] dynamics that culminated in the great purges of the 30s: J. Arch Getty's ...for Lenin: his Lenin was the one who, apropos of the split in the Russian Social [[Democracy]] into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, when the two factions fought
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• The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
  ...ide of traumas and psychic breakdowns beneath the surface of the glamorous social life. At this point, the story moves back into how Dick encountered Nicole, ...lie, an ideological mystification that transposes the external network of social relations into inherent psychological features. One is even tempted to say
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• Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
  ...but in the [[absence]] of any external limitation that would allow us to [[construct]] and/or validate elements with [[regard]] to an external measure. Read in ...hand, he is more consequent in his theological ratiocinations than in his social vision: in his [[theology]], he DOES explicitly posit the [[identity]] betw
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• A Glance into the Archives of Islam
  ...out a proper time to “work through” the [[trauma]] of its impact, to [[construct]] a symbolic-fictional space/screen for it, the only possible reactions to ...him from this unbearable uncertainty, as well as from the [[role]] of a [[social]] outcast, a village idiot, and the first believer in his message, the firs
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• Move the Underground!
  ...der]] to account for their interconnection, one is thus compelled to (re)[[construct]] a third, "[[virtual]]" intermediate level (melodic line) which, for [[str ...e, sexual depravity, commercialization, [[class]] [[struggle]] and other [[social]] [[antagonisms]] ... ); as such, the figure of the Jew has to be sustained
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• Reloaded Revolutions
  ...very inconsistencies point towards the antagonisms of our ideological and social predicament. What, then, is the Matrix? Simply what Lacan called the "big o ...film's moment of truth they signal the antagonisms of our late-capitalist social experience, antagonisms concerning basic ontological couples like reality a
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• Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
  ...a "normal" Western capitalist society (maybe with a stronger Scandinavian social-democratic flavor).<br><br> ...ng called the "[[Cultural]] Revolution" as the condition of the successful social revolution. What, exactly, does this mean? The problem with hitherto revolu
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• Death's Merciless Love
  ...thrift at the opposite extreme from prodigality, and then, of course, to [[construct]] some middle term - say, prudence, the art of moderate expenditure, avoidi ...s epochs, the consumption of drugs was simply one among the half-concealed social practices, practiced by real (de Quincey, Baudelaire) and fictional (Sherlo
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• Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
  ...e depriving the younger generation of immigrants of any clear economic and social prospect, thus leaving them violent outbursts as they only way to articulat ...id not do it because Harry is the richest man in town, nor because he is a social climber, and certainly not because he is [[Catholic]] - and yet all these r
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• The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
  ...rent way of life (or, rather, way of <i>jouissance</i> materialized in its social practices and rituals) disturb us, throw off the rails the balance of our w
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• Are We in a War
  ...ch is why the big problem and task of the political struggle is to provide/construct a recognisable image of the enemy. ([[Jews]] are the enemy par excellence n ...' is thus elevated to become the hidden point of equivalence between all [[social evils]]. How, then, are we to break out of this predicament?
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• Parallax View
  ...our passive sensible perceptions) AND the purely intelligible content-less construct of an X without any support in our senses.</ref> ..."real" is here not the actual arrangement, but the traumatic core of some social antagonism which distorts the tribe members' view of the actual arrangement
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...the 'legitimate' democratic political bloc in the Western world. From the social democratic Third Way to the Christian conservatives, from Chirac to Clinton ...Left. Therein resides the ultimate rationale of the Third Way: that is, a social democracy purged of its minimal subversive sting, extinguishing even the fa
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• The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
  ...trix the extrapolated embodiment of Kulturindustrie, the alienated-reified social Substance (of the Capital) directly taking over, colonizing our inner life ...nertia of materiality - in the late capitalist consummerist society, "real social life" itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neigh
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• Against The Double Blackmail
  ...l respect a certain minimum of [[ethical]] (and, hopefully, also health, [[social]], ecological) standards? However, the situation is more [[complex]], and t ...dment will be a recourse to a collective Bakhtinian carnivalization of the social [[life]]... And the Western counterpoint to this [[obscenity]] is the more
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• It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
  ...Spinozist signifier. Even in our everyday political experiences when we [[construct]] the enemy, we depict [[danger]] as the one who overidentifies. This is th ...is contradictory desire. Do we have a [[name]] for the [[system]], for a [[social]] system that tries to accomplish precisely this? Capitalism and organic un
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• Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
  ...ch is why the big problem and task of the political struggle is to provide/construct a recognisable image of the enemy. ([[Jews]] are the enemy par excellence n ...' is thus elevated to become the hidden point of equivalence between all [[social evils]]. How, then, are we to break out of this predicament?
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• Historicism
  ...d heavily, [[Karl Marx]]. The term is also associated with the empirical [[social]] [[sciences]] and the [[work]] of [[Franz Boas]]. ...hip]] between individuals and societies as organic, not atomic: even their social [[discourse]] is mediated by [[philosophy of language|language]], and [[lan
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• I am a fighting atheist
  ...t-[[World War II]] ideological consensus around anti-[[fascism]], with a [[social]] [[solidarity]] built around the [[welfare]] state. It's an open question ...ith him recently told me that Chomsky announced that he'd concluded that [[social theory]] and [[economic]] theory are of no use — that things are simply e
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• Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
  [[structure]] . . . [[social]] phenomena . . . ?" larger problem: What kinds of [[political]] [[ontology]]--what manner of social
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• Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
  ...d so on. For example, in 1930s [[Germany]] the [[Nazi]] [[narrative]] of [[social]] reality won out over the socialist-revolutionary narrative not because it ...applies not only to reality but to those ideological systems by which we [[construct]] reality. That is, again following the analogy of Saussure's conception of
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• Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
  ...smelling one's sweat or picking one's nose (AF, 80), but the slightly more social ones of watching pornography (PF, 177-80), engaging in cybersex (IR, 191-3) ...essarily fails, because no one signifier can speak for the entirety of the social; but each group looks for an explanation of this failure to some external a
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• Stalinism
  ...carnival proper and the Stalinist purges? In the first case, the entire [[social]] hierarchy is momentarily suspended, those who were up are down and vice v ...is [[excess]] itself was nonetheless generated by a precise dynamic of the social struggle, by a series of shifting alignments and realignments between the v
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• History
  ...endency of some authors to overlook factors ([[cultural]], [[economic]], [[social]], etc.) operating [[outside]] of individual [[psychic]] functioning. ...both, the [[temporal]] [[dimension]] is essential. Both admit that they [[construct]] their [[object]] of study through the combined use of techniques for gath
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• Overview
  ...is the resulting desintegration of the big Other, the communal network of social institutions, customs and laws. For Zizek, the big Other was always dead, i ...correlative to the demise of the big Other. Its disappearance causes us to construct an Other of the Other in order to escape the unbearable freedom its loss en
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories
  ...nvestigations into internal conflicts such as this led him to eventually [[construct]] the divisions of the mind now known as id, ego, and superego. ...student a release for the unconscious aggression, but it may also provide social approval for reinforcing the aggressive behavior in that context.
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• Function of Language
  ...s out of a [[body]]-based, [[maternal]] relationship into one created by [[social]] exchange, [[culture]] and taboos. These are the concerns of [[Levi-Straus ethics of social relations. I
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...es possible, and indeed necessary (if we are to escape from madness), to [[construct]] a symbolic [[universe]] or a universe of culture. Descartes's withdrawal- ...anized. In other words, we have to 'get rid' of [[the Real]] before we can construct a [[substitute]] for it in the form of the Symbolic Order. Žižek reads th
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• The Family Complexes
  ...tional praise of the "paternalist" family, his vibrant regrets over "the [[social]] decline of the paternal [[image]]" (indeed its "decadence") and over the
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• Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
  ...lf they must first distinguish themselves from [[others]] and from their [[social]] environment. A key process in this emergent sense of self, argued Wallon, ...e, begins a [[dialectical process]] that [[links]] the ego to more complex social situations' (1986:58). To exist one has to be recognized by an-other. But t
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• Post-Lacanians
  ...]] has followed in Žižek’s path, combining psychoanalytic theory and [[social]] philosophy by [[interpreting]] Kant through Lacan, and vice versa, in [[E ...me a negative function, one that would reject whole structures and explode social [[codes]].
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• Film Theory and Criticism
  ...sy]]. Silverman shifts feminist film theory toward a psychoanalysis of the social, thereby expanding the theoretical reach of previous work. ...who uses mental [[schemata]] to [[process]] audiovisual data in order to [[construct]] narrative [[meaning]]. Edward Branigan employs a cognitivist approach beg
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• Reconceptualizing Freud
  ...e on contemporary [[intellectual]] life cite her greater emphasis on the [[social]] and [[ethical]] implications of a [[self]] originally grounded in [[depen ...ity as theme and variation is viewed less epistemologically, more as the [[construct]] of an interpreter and an interpretee.
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• Anthropological Theory and Criticism
  ...]. Finally, the very rhetorical [[authority]] of the modern literary and [[social]] critic was significantly augmented by the breadth of the comparative anth ...nature" (39), appeals to literary criticism’s inexorable urge toward the social and pragmatic in the broadest sense and certainly has generally influenced
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• Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest
  ...]] other [[people]] into [[neurosis]] and have encouraged [[society]] to [[construct]] its institutions. Whence it is that the [[artist]] derives his creative c The erotism underlying [[social]] relations and the [[repression]] required by the cohabitation of [[human]
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• Introduction: Real
  ...o a very paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A ...t is through the process of cancelling out, of symbolizing the real, that 'social reality' is created. In short, the real does not exist, as [[existence]] is
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