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The [[symbolic order]] is characterized by a binary opposition between [[absence]] and [[absence|presence]].<ref>{{S4}} p.67-8<

For example instead of the traditional binary opposition between what is [[real]] and what is [[imaginary]], [[Lacan]] pr

As with many other binary oppositions, the model [[Lacan]] prefers is that of the [[moebius strip]];

...ing between the mother’s presence and absence, the infant thus creates a binary of primal [[symbolisation]] that instantaneously removes the immediately ex

...e [[whole]] strip. The figure illustrates how psychoanalysis problematizes binary oppositions ([[love]]/hate, [[inside]]/out, signifier/signified, [[truth]]/

...' are clearly distinct - although they form together a [[Wiktionary:binary|binary]] [[system]]" {{ref|Agamben}}. He [[quotes]] [[Theodor Mommsen|Mommsen]], w

Nonetheless, the notion of class antagonism as a [[binary opposition]] that informs this pivotal example still falls short of capturi

==Logocentrism and the critique of binary oppositions== One typical form of deconstructive reading is the critique of binary oppositions, or the criticism of [[dichotomy|dichotomous]] thought. A centr

...tari’s parsing of the disparity between production and reproduction, a [[binary]] that defines their stake in [[dialectical materialism]]. Deleuze’s dial

...ts that viable ethical practice cannot depend on either/or choices between binary opposites. On the [[impotence]] of binary thinking, Žižek and Derrideans concur. Žižek claims, however, that Derr

...again. This is so because our [[understanding]] of ideology is based on a binary [[structure]], which contrasts reality with ideology. To solve this problem

...ipus complex]] represents a [[triangular]] [[structure]], which breaks the binary [[relationship]] between the [[mother]] and [[child]] in the [[imaginary]].

...at you have a field of [[knowledge]] in the [[Lacanian]] [[sense]], as the binary signifier without the [[Master]] signifier — in [[speech]]-act [[theory]]

...ed," i.e. the series of signifiers which fills in the gap of the repressed binary signifier "Dostoyevski."<br><br> ...ltiple emerges as the series of attempts to fill in the gap of the missing binary signifier. The difference between S1 and S2 is thus not the difference of t

...figure to render [[visible]] the invisible Enemy. Far from suspending the binary logic Friend/Enemy, the fact that the Enemy is defined as the fundamentalis

...the [[Oedipus complex]] represents a triangular structure that breaks the binary relationship established between the [[mother]] and [[child]] in [[the imag

...her. This is horrible. If you will say, ok, but even here no let's go over binary logic. Do you ultimately use Hegel to reactualize Lacan, or the other way a

...urse, goes for the standard postmodern critique of sexual difference as a 'binary opposition' to be deconstructed: 'there are not two sexes but a multitude o

...at you have a field of [[knowledge]] in the [[Lacanian]] [[sense]], as the binary signifier without the [[Master]] signifier — in [[speech]]-act [[theory]]

...figure to render [[visible]] the invisible Enemy. Far from suspending the binary logic Friend/Enemy, the fact that the Enemy is defined as the fundamentalis

.../a> The juggling of Hitchcock’s films into different categories to trace binary oppositions and transformations of themes being one example, and the analys

...r into the [[subject]] as the laws of speech reign," the laws that are the binary laws of cybernetics ([[presence]]-[[absence]]) as well as the laws of kinsh

===Binary Oppositions=== The figure illustrates the way that [[psychoanalysis]] problematizes various binary oppositions, such as [[inside]]/[[outside]], [[love]]/[[hate]], [[signifier

...n this basis Freud constructed a [[third]] model, which he formulated in a binary manner: "Where id was, there ego shall be," he wrote in "New [[Introductory

...logy again. This is so because our understanding of ideology is based on a binary structure, which contrasts reality with ideology. To solve this problem, Zi

...ry trait" to emphasize its [[mathematical]] [[sense]], comparing it with a binary [[number]].

Contradiction intersects with negation and with the formal referential binary true/false. But Freud was especially interested in dynamic processes that a

...clusion/implication, or of [[exclusion]] between the two [[terms]]. It's a binary [[system]] where the verb as such [[disappears]] to leave room for the [[al

...mes to [[control]] the master and each moves beyond his designation in the binary master/slave.

...rast." First used in a [[letter]], it gained some currency and in 1880 its binary opposite—"heterosexuality"—appeared in a book by Kertbeny's friend and

...of the rules and elements of the language. To cite another of Saussure’s binary oppositions, there is a distinction to be made between [[langue]], speakers

...ent at which the complexity of a [[situation]] is “filtered” through a binary disposition and thus reduced to a simple [[choice]]: all things considered,

...id that he "had substituted the simplest succession to the randomness of a binary alternation." Depending on the perspective, the letter is the [[message]],

...sexuality, as promoted by gender studies, with its obsessive rejection of "binary logic": this world is a nuanced, ramified world of multiple sexual practice ...the moment at which the complexity of a situation is "filtered" through a binary disposition and thus reduced to a simple choice: all things considered, are

...ut not the Real of the dif­fer­ence itself. Sexual dif­fer­ence is not binary/differential, it is an ant­ag­on­ism that bin­ary sym­bolic dif­fer­

...l forms of sexuality. When gender theorists render problematic the "gender binary" and emphasize the fluidity and multiplicity of sexual identities, they the ...xuation, then sexual difference is sustained precisely by the lack of the "binary" signifier in the unconscious, by the lack of a clear symbolic opposition o

...ion of "binary logic", Jameson calls for "a generalized celebration of the binary opposition", (Jameson 2010: 48) which, brought to self-referentiality, is t

...ltiple emerges as the series of attempts to fill in the gap of the missing binary signifier. ...d we not oscillate between two opposed versions: in the first version, the binary signifier, the symmetric counterpart of S₁, is 'primordially rep