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• The Act
  ...ch Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling]] to conceive of the Act within a formal [[structure]] of [[paradox]]. “An act accomplishes what, within the given symbolic [[ ...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’
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• Father
  ...on'' and the ''prohibitive function''. He also points to the contemporary social decline in the [[paternal metaphor|paternal]] [[imago]] as the [[cause]] of ...es for for the [[mother]]'s [[love]]; he is the [[representative]] of the social order as such, and only by [[identifying]] with the [[father]] in the [[Oed
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• Jouissance
  ...1977). In these early years ''[[jouissance]]'' is not elaborated in any [[structure|structural sense]], the reference being mainly to [[Hegel]] and the [[maste ...ubject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]' that a [[structure|structural]] account of ''jouissance'' is first given in connection with th
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• Symbolic
  ...psychoanalysis]], the "[[symbolic]]" is one of [[three]] [[order]]s that [[structure]] [[human]] [[existence]], the [[others]] [[being]] the [[imaginary]] and t ...analyzed]] as exchanges of [[signifier]]s. The emergence of [[symbolic]] [[structure]]s is an essential feature of the human transition from [[nature]] to [[cul
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• Desire
  ...its unconscious determinants in the dreaming subject, Freud unveiled the [[structure]] of both the dream and [[The Subject|the subject]]. Beyond the [[preconsci =====Social Product=====
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• Louis Althusser
  ...away, much like the [[Lacanian]] [[concept]] of the “symbolic”, the [[structure]] of ideology is an ever-[[present]] feature of [[conscious]] [[life]]. His ...cher, or an administrator, etc.); and so on. By engaging in any material [[social]] [[practice]] or with any material institution, we admit ([[unconsciously]
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• Four Discourses
  In this fourfold [[structure]], manipulating the minimal signifying [[chain]], S1fiS2, is both necessary These four different [[social]] bonds constitute what Lacan claims is an essential support for [[communic
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• Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal
  ...borrowed the term to describe the way that, in [[capitalist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[form]] of relations between things (" Like all [[perversion]]s, [[fetishism]] is rooted in the [[preoedipal]] [[structure|triangle]] of [[mother]]-[[child]]-[[phallus]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 84-5, 194</re
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• Hysteria
  ...an "[[imaginary]] [[autonomy]]" which bears no relation to the [[real]] [[structure]] of the nervous [[system]]<ref>{{L}} 1951b. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some ...f> he comes to define [[hysteria]] not as a set of [[symptom]]s but as a [[structure]].
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• Perversion
  ...version]] not as a form of ''[[behaviour]]'' but as a [[structure|clinical structure]]. ...ctive]] finality of the [[sexual]] union. It is something else in its very structure."<ref>{{S1}} p. 221</ref></blockquote>
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• Sublimation
  ...d to be sublimated.<ref>{{S7}} p. 144</ref> It is this dimension of shared social values which allows [[Lacan]] to tie in the concept of [[sublimation]] with ...ly a brute [[natural]] means of discharging the [[libido]], but a highly [[structure]]d relation to the [[drive]]s which are already, in themselves, [[linguisti
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• Repetition
  ...ition]] or [[repetition|reproduction]] of an [[complex|internalized social structure]] which the [[subject]] '''repeatedly''' and '''compulsively''' re-enacts.'
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• Language
  It is fundamentally the general structure of [[language]] (''[[langage]]''), rather than the differences between part [[Language]] is thus seen as [[structure|structuring]] the [[law|social laws of exchange]], as a symbolic pact, etc.
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• Fantasy
  ===Defence and Clinical Structure=== ...st [[castration]], against the [[lack]] in the [[Other]]. Each [[clinical structure]] may thus be distinguished by the [[particular]] way in which it uses a [[
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• Delusion
  ...ent with the information available with the beliefs of the [[subject]]'s [[social]] group. [[Delusion]]s are the central [[clinical]] feature of [[paranoia] ...[delusion]]al phenomena are "clarified in reference to the functions and [[structure]] of [[speech]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 310</ref>
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• Discourse
  =====Social Bond===== ...[[Lacan]] begins to use the term "[[discourse]]" to denote a "[[discourse|social bond]], founded in [[language]]."
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• Structure
  {{Top}}structures|structure{{Bottom}} =====Social Structure=====
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• Suggestion
  ...o any conception of [[psychoanalysis]] as a [[normative]] [[process]] of [[social]] influence. ...] recognizes that a certain residue of [[resistance]] is inherent in the [[structure]] of the [[treatment]].
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• Law
  ===Social Relations=== ...e]] possible, ''the [[structure]]s that govern all forms of [[anthropology|social exchange]]'', whether [[anthropology|gift-giving]], [[anthropology|kinship
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• The reverse of psychoanalysis
  [[Lacan]] [[identifies]] four viables types of [[social]] bond which regulate [[intersubjective]] relations. Articulations of the [ ...il. This discourse masks the division of the subject, it illustrates the [[structure]] of the [[dialectic]] of the master and the slave. The master, S1, is the
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• Civilization and Its Discontents
  ...ilt]] disrupt the framework of this essay . . . This may have spoilt the [[structure]] of my paper; but it corresponds faithfully to my intention to [[represent ...ontogenesis of the moral conscience and superego from the [[primitive]] [[social]] [[anxiety]] of the child—loss of the [[parents]]' love—to the erectio
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• Semiotics
  ...humans [[understand]] that one can only [[interpret]] ''language'' in a [[social]] context (sometimes termed the [[semiosphere]]). Pure linguistics dismantl ...ual]] media, but this narrow focus can inhibit a more general study of the social and [[political]] forces shaping how different media are used and their [[d
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...le are not subjectively aware. The dynamic unconscious, a more specific [[social construct|construct]], referred to mental [[processes]] and contents which ===Social psychology===
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• Linguistics
  ...ude Lévi-Strauss]] who, in the 1940s, had begun to apply the methods of [[structure|structural]] [[linguistics]] to non-linguistic [[cultural]] data ([[myth]], ...tics]] would provide a paradigm of [[science|scientificity]] for all the [[social]] [[sciences]]:
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• Critical theory
  ...nt [[meanings]] with different origins and histories, one originating in [[social theory]] and the [[other]] in [[literary criticism]]. Though until recentl ==Critical theory (social theory)==
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• Complex
  ...s the [[internalization]] of the [[subject]]'s earliest [[structure|social structure]]s (i.e. the relationships between the various actors in his [[family]] [[e ...crisis, without [[doubt]] the first whose solution has a [[dialectic]]al [[structure]]."<ref>{{1938}} p.27</ref></blockquote>
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• Political
  ## Alienation in the [[symbolic]]: "the subject takes a [[structure]] from the [[signifier]]" # The Lacanian [[Object]]: Dialectics of [[social]] impossibility
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...ar as a public thinker in Foucauldian [[tradition]] who is interested in [[social]] conflicts on a [[global]] scale. ...ally existed since the beginnings of sovereignty in the West, since this [[structure]] of ''ex-ception'' is essential to the core concept of sovereignty.
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• Class/Antagonism
  ...nism”, which refers to the impossibility of achieving a [[harmonious]] [[social]] organization of class relations through a [[translation]] of Lacan’s we ...arbours an essentialist [[ontology]] as it subordinates the effects of all social [[antagonisms]] to the mediating determination of class antagonism. At the
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• Roland Barthes
  ...ch]] [[literary critic]], [[literary theory|literary]] and [[social theory|social theorist]], [[philosopher]], and [[Semiotics|semiotician]]. ...nd the same time as his debates with Picard, making the investigation of [[structure]] one intended to reveal the importance of language in writing he felt was
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• Capitalism
  ...consistency”, provides the systematic background against which shared [[social]] life operates. ...ofitability with blessed indifference to how its movements will [[affect]] social [[reality]]. Therein lies the fundamental systematic [[violence]] of capita
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...ciplines do not fall entirely within the field of cognitive [[science]] ([[social]] psychology or the [[neurobiology]] of development, for example). ...g before [[Miller]], Galanter, and Pribram's seminal work, Plans and the [[Structure]] of [[Behavior]] (1960). The term "artificial intelligence" was coined dur
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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 ...ation that for all the perdurability of the text, [[experience]] of this [[structure]] is impossible and inconceivable outside of the realm of the unique instan
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...Fearing the [[terror]] of singular totalitarianism, which threatens the [[social]] edifice, one might institute a shared, regulatory legal [[economy]] that ...t respect the purity of the absolute Other by renouncing any determinate [[structure]] involving real [[people]] in real circumstances and embracing a “primor
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...e conventional view of [[modernization]] theorists that [[economic]] and [[social]] [[progress]] would bring [[about]] [[stable]] democracies in recently [[D ...lam. However, Huntington has also argued that this shift in geopolitical [[structure]] requires the West to strengthen itself internally, abandoning democratic
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• Ideology
  ...(the Symbolic) to account fully for the Real. While this [[model]] of the structure of reality does not allow us a position from which to assume an [[objective
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• Georg Lukács
  ...ands upon Marxist theories such as [[ideology#Ideology as an instrument of social reproduction|ideology]], [[false consciousness]], [[reification]] and [[cla ...also writes: "It is only when the core of [[being]] has showed itself as [[social]] becoming, that the being itself can appear as a product, so far [[unconsc
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• Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
  ...to one's [[biology]], but what now determines a [[masculine]] and feminine structure si the type of ''jouissance'' one is able to attain - what LAcan called [[p ...related to one's biology, but what now determines a masculine and feminine structure is the type of jouissance one is able to attain - what Lacan called [[phall
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  ...[[knowledge]]. They both defined a new way of [[knowing]] [[about]] the [[social]], but, not surprisingly, they were weighed down by the [[cultural]] baggag ...ere is no [[separation]] between self and society. [[Human]] beings become social with the appropriation of [[language]]; and it is language that constitutes
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  [[Jacques Lacan]] reformulated the [[Oedipus complex]] as a [[symbolic]] [[structure]]. ...] that organizes our [[social]]-symbolic and [[unconscious]] relations (of social [[meanings]]).
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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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• Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
  ...[relationship]] towards Leninist Communists: liberal Leftists reject the [[Social]] Democratic "compromise," they [[want]] a true [[revolution]], yet they sh ...the reasons for obedience into the subject's [[internal]] psychological [[structure]]. So the paradox is that "liberal" [[subjects]] are in a way those least f
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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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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...n he or she [[acts]] in accordance with his/her special place within the [[social edifice]], when he respects [[nature]] which provides food and shelter, whe ...jealous god. [[Family]] relations stand here metaphorically for the entire social network, for any particular ethnic substance that determines my place in th
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• The Interpassive Subject
  ==Fetish between structure and humanism== ...ney, but results from the structural place of money within the [[complex]] structure of socio-[[economic]] relations; we do not relate to a certain person as to
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• Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
  ...combine the dynamic of capitalism, while maintaining some firm traditional structure of authority. And again, it can work both ways. What I like about fantasies ...c party did was a miracle. Five years ago we were the remainder of the new social movements, like feminist and ecological groups. At that time everybody thou
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• Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
  ...recognize in the fascinating presence of God the filler of the gaps in the structure of our knowledge, i.e., the element in the guise of which the lack in our p ...the old orthodox Marxist claim: the working class is, as to its objective social position, progressive. So that when workers engage in the anti-Semitic, rig
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