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• Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
  ...uired the habit of placing a too hastily drawn [[distinction]] between the objective and the subjective in our little [[thought]]-tank? Isn't the camera a subje ...l relation to anything we deal with in [[analysis]], the so-called real or objective relations, or the imaginary relations. But it allows us to illustrate in a
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• The Topic of the Imaginary
  ...<i>Traumdeutung, </i>in the chapter 'The [[psychology]] of the [[dream]] [[process]]', the famous [[schema]] into which Freud inserts the entire proceedings o ...uired the habit of placing a too hastily drawn [[distinction]] between the objective and the subjective in our little [[thought]]-tank?</u> Isn't the camera a s
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• Developmental psychology
  ...ng the structure of language and that infants acquire language through a [[process]] of [[statistical learning]]. From this perspective, language can be acqui ...y [[need]] to be. A [[model]] must simply account for the means by which a process takes [[place]]. This is sometimes done in reference to changes in the [[br
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• Psychological repression
  ...hese events is remembered, if in a distorted manner. One problem from an [[objective]] research point of view is that a "[[memory]]" is usually defined as what ...ral]] assumption that all things are equal. Primary Repression then is the process of determining what is self, what is other, what is good and what is bad. O
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• Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
  ...ified by the bestsellers of William Craig and Anthony Beever) combines the objective military account with the realistic depiction of the horror of the soldiers ...overlapping, but through a common decay -- civilization in decay is in the process of again being reclaimed (not by idealized harmonious Nature, but) by natur
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• Stalinism
  ...change]] its [[politics]] that the same politics can radically change its "objective" meaning: till the pact [[Hitler]]-Stalin in 1939, [[Fascism]] was the prin ...this position, there is no "true" party line waiting to be discovered, no "objective" criteria to determine it: the Party "makes all possible mistakes," and the
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• Against the Populist Temptation
  ...of [[civil society]] initiatives, to engage them more in a [[political]] [[process]]. However, when people awaken from their [[apolitical]] slumber, it is as ...] of [[particular]] [[contents]], but also the [[contingency|contigent]] [[process]] by means of which one among these contents is "[[transubstantiation|trans
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• A Plea for a Return to Différance
  ...tende auch"). The present moment appears as the lowest point in the long [[process]] of historical decadence (the flight of Gods, [[alienation]], and so on), ...scapes to her father.14 "[[Concrete universality]]" is a [[name]] for this process through which fiction explodes from within documentary, that is, for the wa
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• Overview
  ...t is without fissure". The symbolic introduces "a cut in the real," in the process of signification: "it is the world of words that creates the world of thing ...y of the world and it is where the void of the subject is filled in by the process of subjectivization. The latter is where the subject is given an identity a
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• Sigmund Freud:Theories
  To temper the id's urges, the ego steps in to acknowledge an [[objective]] reality that must be dealt with. Other people, for [[instance]], also hav ...] that were largely unconscious. Freud postulated that the ego aids this [[process]] of repressing the anxiety through use of what he called [[defense mechani
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• Function of Language
  ...auss's ideas, Lacan criticises the claims of structuralism to produce an [[objective]] decoding of [[linguistic]] messages. For Lacan, meaning cannot be objecti ...cept being 'like' another) and its mode is [[metaphoric]]. The combinative process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to anbther) and
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• The Meaning of the Phallus
  ...e the [[signifier]] of [[desire]], whose importance in the [[treatment]] [[process]] we have just seen. Both themes received [[full]] [[discussion]] in the [[ J-b-ese that permit the signifying process, "by means of a [[logic]] anterior to any awakening of the signified" (1977
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• Guide to Slavoj Zizek
  ...ing]]' their positions as 'subjects', 'actors', 'agents' of the historical process. ...ividual that there is little or no subjectivity [[left]]. If everything is objective, if there is no subjective element to my [[character]] at all, I cease to h
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• New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
  ...and he wrote, "I must encourage you to have kindlier [[thoughts]] on the [[objective]] possibility of [[thought]]-[[transference]] and at the same [[time]] of [ ...death]] [[instinct]]' which cannot fail to be [[present]] in every vital [[process]]" (p. 107).
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• Interview with Jacques Lacan
  ...]] until he came along, but he even showed that in [[action]] there is a [[process]] of reasoning going on; I mean, something that is reasoning and functionin ...me that no director of conscience would be alarmed by a technique whose [[objective]] is to reveal the truth. I've seen how worthy members of religious communi
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• No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
  ...hildren]], the [[political]] [[agent]] which effectively set in motion the process is renegated into the role of its main obstacle, of the waverers or outrigh ...ecision, our consciousness seems just to [[register]] an anterior chemical process... The [[psychoanalytic]]-Schellingian answer to it is to locate [[freedom]
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• Symptom-formation
  ...achieved instinctual [[gratification]]; they are, that is, a result of a [[process]] of repression.<ref>{{PoA}} Ch. 2</ref></blockquote> Symptom-formation is the process leading to the production of a symptom—the production, that is to say, of
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• Anthropological Theory and Criticism
  ...ed a [[need]] for criticism to move beyond the restrained and relatively [[objective]] explication of single [[texts]] to the sustained and even passionate medi ...lective [[frenzy]], Thomson notes the "subversive" side of the cathartic [[process]], asserting that "the artist leads his fellow men into a world of [[fantas
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• Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
  ...of the ruling ideology) as “minor” measures will not set in motion a [[process]] that will lead to the radical (evental) transformation of the [[whole]] f ...inor improvements that would make the system more efficient, triggered the process of its [[total]] disintegration? These, then, are the two extremes between
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• Economics
  ...l [[fantasy]] occupy in the social [[construction]] of capitalism’s “[[objective]] laws” of economics. ...nds Žižek’s [[model]] of capitalism as a [[self]]-generated economic [[process]] that simply unfolds the [[logical]] consequences deriving from an “elem
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• Resistance in analysis
  ...ient]] when we try to make him [[conscious]] of his [[unconscious]]. The [[objective]] indication of resistance is that his [[associations]] stop short or wande ...It may weIl be imagined that difficulties arise when an [[instinctual]] [[process]], which has followed a certain path perhaps for decades, is suddenly requi
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• Knights of the Living Dead
  ...cience]]. It thrives only if it is sustained by what [[Hegel]] called “[[objective]] spirit,” the set of unwritten rules that [[form]] the background of eve ...tive [[identity]] has been irretrievably lost. We are in the middle of a [[process]] of moral corruption: those in power are literally trying to break a part
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• Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
  ...tion without revolution" to divert the radicalization of the revolutionary process. His stance is thus the exact opposite of those who need war to militarize ...n will be used against him? In short, how can Robespierre be sure that the process he unleashed will not swallow him? It is here that his position assumes the
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• Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
  ...ty is always retroactive, it emerges out of the radical contingency of the process and signal the moment of the contingency's self-<i>Aufhebung</i>. One shoul ..., of course, the point is not that we are dealing here the pseudo-Hegelian process of "alienation" and "des-alienation," of how the original theory is "aliena
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• Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
  ...so that, ironically, it is only today that we can say that the historical process should effectively be conceived "not only as Substance, but also as [[Subje ...fe... almost only that. That is to say, with the depoliticized, socially [[objective]], expert administration and coordination of interests as the zero-level of
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• On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
  ...ich signals the exhaustion of the party/Statist logic of the revolutionary process. However, what if one should make here a step further and conceive both pol - the open political process of social cooperation in which decisions are neither made by the supreme au
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• Gorgias, Not Plato Was the Archi-Stalinist
  ...ics, dialectics does not regard the [[process]] of development as a simple process of growth, where quantitative changes do not lead to qualitative changes, b ...and that which is developing, constitutes the internal [[content]] of the process of development, the internal content of the transformation of quantitative
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• Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
  ...]], [[satisfying]] life than the stressful dynamics of [[capitalism]]. The process of the creation of new [[Nation]]-States out of the disintegration of Commu ...a bottle of beer. What modern art and [[writing]] oppose to this is not [[objective]] [[reality]] but the "objectively subjective" underlying fantasy which the
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• Only a Suffering God Can Save Us
  ...tient can for a brief moment see (parts of) himself from outside, from an "objective" viewpoint, as a strange object, the way he "really is" as an object in the ...how Hegel is fully aware that "it is in the finite consciousness that the process of knowing spirit’s essence takes place and that the divine self-consciou
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• Madness and Habit in German Idealism
  ...rom nature to spirit: "not as a [[sublation]], but as a reduplication, a [[process]] through which spirit constitutes itself in and as a second nature." The [ ...(70) accounts for the well-known [[paradox]] of subjectively choosing an [[objective]] [[necessity]], of willing what unavoidably will occur: through its elevat
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• The Liberal Utopia II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils
  ...structural reasons that this "fight against discrimination" is an endless process endlessly postponing its final point, a society freed of all moral prejudic ...rational subjects, but such subjects are the result of a complex previous process which concerns symbolic debt, authority, and, above all, trust (into the bi
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• Against The Double Blackmail (article)
  ...concealing the true privacy: what this display conceals is the [[Objective|OBJECTIVE]] socio-political and ideological [[dimension]] of the decisions, so the mo ...immediacy - but, as [[Hegel]] would have put it, as the result of a long [[process]] of mediation - say, the stupid skinhead who beats up [[foreigners]] just
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• Ecology
  ...le]] may choose to believe or not. With no fate to [[guide]] ecology’s [[process]] and outcomes, a [[theology]] takes over the burden of direction. But, as
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• Universal/Particular
  ...uld be posed (CHU: 316).1 Here universality is caught up in its very own [[process]] of trying to encompass the particular: “Since each particularity involv ...rule relies on a constitutive exception that functions: (a) to assert an [[objective]] point from which to view, delimit and police its borders (this is the so-
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/Seven Variations On The Century
  ...an other'. Here, it is once again impossible to think the individual as an objective nature. ...e. My comrade is one who, like myself, is only a subject by belonging to a process of truth that authorises him or her to say 'we'.
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• Articles/Alain Badiou/What Is Love
  Let us say that love is a process which arranges such immediate experiences, without the law which arranges t ...manity" signify in a non-humanist sense? The term cannot be founded by any objective predicative feature, which would be idealist or biologist (and, in any case
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• Articles/Jean-Luc Nancy/Clear Confusion
  ...ed to remain between the two parties and the university, which handled the process. But the plaintiff feels wronged by this verdict, considering it too light, ...etter expressing their sense that the extent and intensity of the judicial process (which took several months to arrive at rather ambiguous results) was compl
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/antinomies-of-pure-sexuation.html
  ...in which the thing ultimately always eludes us, and then imagine that this process of approaching a thing is immanent to this thing itself, so that this thing ...ubjective reversal that characterizes the final moment of a psychoanalytic process.
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/beckett-with-lacan.html
  ...ject without subjectivity – a subject which is no longer a person, whose objective correlative is no longer a body (organism), but only a partial object (orga ...ens and who then tries to narrativize it, to come to terms with it, in the process of mourning. In the case of the Beckettian narrator, on the contrary,
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/cogito-in-the-history-of-madness.html
  ...h "there is nothing outside the text," so that we are caught in an endless process of interpretation. Foucault, on the contrary, does not practice textual ana ...etaphor for the participation of individuals in our "postmodern" political process. And it represents occasionalism at its purest: from Malebranche's perspect
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/in-defense-of-hegels-madness.html
  ...this mediation, on account of its simple nature, is just immediacy in the process of becoming, and is the immediate itself." (Hegel 1977: 11, § 21) Brandom ...f determinate content. Incompatibility is significant only for and in this process. (Brandom, internet)
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/kant-avec-althusser.html
  ...in that experience. The theory distinguishes two levels of the ideological process: external (following the ritual, ideology as material practice) and interna ...ted ideal mirror of reality) is grounded in the extra-ideological material process of social (re)production ("being determines consciousness"); what they igno
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/lacan-as-a-reader-of-hegel.html
  ..., but the future anterior as what I will have been, given what I am in the process of becoming."<u>4</u> But the same goes for Hegel―when he adopts the pos ...patient's talk, the meaning supposed to be contained in the big Other. The process ends when the patient can himself assume the meaning of his speech. The ana
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/marx-as-a-reader-of-hegel-hegel-as-a-reader-of-marx.html
  ...l substance does not yet stand opposed to individuals as a cold, abstract, objective legality imposed from outside, but appears as the living unity of "customs, ...ation between subjectivity persisting in its abstract individuality and an objective social order opposing it as an external necessity limiting its freedom, the
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/plato-descartes-hegel-three-philosophers-of-event.html
  ...historical process of the "forgetting of Being," the starting point of the process which culminates in today's technological nihilism ("from Plato to NATO... ...''[''Lebensphilosophie"]" claim that the life of the Hegelian dialectical process is not the actual organic life, but an artificial shadowy realm of arbitrar
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• Articles/Slavoj Zizek/the-structure-of-domination-today-a-lacanian-view.html
  ...redoubling, the gap between the element and the place, which then sets the process in motion: a master hystericizes himself by starting to question what effec ...t, rather, the cut within this field – the cut at the level at which the process occurs – inherent to one term. Topologically, we get the same term at two
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