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...<ref>[http://www.humanthermodynamics.com/Freud.html Freud's Psycho Dynamic Theory and Thermodynamics] [1873-1923] - Institute of [[Human]] Thermodynamics</re ...uential in two related but distinct ways. He simultaneously developed a [[theory]] of how the human [[mind]] is organized and operates internally, and how h

...f course, as is common knowledge, he favours [[Lacanian]] psychoanalytic [[theory]] as an indispensable post-[[Hegelian]] resource for this effort to revivif ...k is interested in forging a neither reductive nor eliminative materialist theory of minded [[subjects]], the physics of the extremely small is far from enou

...cal]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theory]]. ...ial [[society]] and of [[democracy]], the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary (especially German) [[politics]].

...alter [[Benjamin]]'s reminder that it is not enough to ask how a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with [[regard]] to [[social]] struggles ...up to a point), but [[conceptual]]: notions of the "European" [[critical theory]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign [[universe]] of the Cultural

SZ: First I must say that I don't have my own positive theory about Japan. What I do have, as every Western intellectual, are the myths o ...ar, pseudo Marxist evolutionary notion that you have to go through certain evolutionary stages. Japan proves that you can make a direct short circuit. You retain c

...atastrophe made possible the key Leninist [[Event]]: the overcoming of the evolutionary [[historicism]] of the Second International. The kernel of the Leninist 'ut ...ipatory potential. The [[true]] difficulty — and the task of authentic [[theory]] — is to link together this explosion and its [[tragic]] outcome.

...lter [[Benjamin]]'s [[claim]] that it is not enough to ask how a certain [[theory]] (or art) declares itself to stay with regard to social struggles. One sho ...cluded, up to a point), but [[conceptual]]: notions of European [[critical theory]] are imperceptibly translated into the benign [[universe]] of cultural stu

...e contrary, the reference to Hegel enable us to discern a flaw in Laclau's theory itself? The philosophical/notional limitation of Laclau's couple of two log ...is why the standard deconstructionist criticism according to which Lacan's theory of sexual difference falls into the trap of "binary logic" totally misses t

...cheating'?</p><p>One [[reason]] Fukuyama moved from his 'end-of-history' [[theory]] to a consideration of the new [[threat]] posed by the brain [[sciences]] Biogenetic (and, more generally, cognitivist-evolutionary) reductionism should be attacked from a different direction. Bo Dahlbom is

...[School]]''' is a school of [[neo-Marxism|neo-Marxist]] [[Sociology|social theory]], [[social research]], and [[philosophy]]. The grouping emerged at the [[I ...] and [[Civilization]]''). Their emphasis on the "critical" component of [[theory]] was derived significantly from their attempt to overcome the limits of [[

Slavoj [[Zizek]]: First I must say that I don't have my own positive [[theory]] [[about]] Japan. What I do have, as every Western [[intellectual]], are t ...ar, pseudo Marxist evolutionary notion that you have to go through certain evolutionary stages. Japan proves that you can make a direct short circuit. You retain c

[[theory]] or politics? What I hate most are the beautiful souls of the left wing potentiality already gives actual satisfaction. In [[psychoanalytic]] theory the

...obably get a common answer; the thing to look for would be rather the <i>[[theory]]</i> about [[sexuality]] at the level of their respective philosophies. Pe ...;<a href="#cfn2">2</a>. Kevin B. MacDonald, <i>The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Politi

'''Jungian [[psychology]]''' is a [[theory]] developed by [[Carl Jung]], and is central to [[Analytical psychology]] ( ...pursued deeply structural views, along the lines of [[systemics|complexity theory]] in [[mathematics]], and some have tried to [[work]] with Jung's ideas in

== Theory == ...tualism]] (and its heir, the Development in Context or Human [[Ecology]] [[theory]] of [[Urie Bronfenbrenner]]), and especially the [[information processing]

...unconscious]], early notions about [[psychopathology]], and evolutionary [[theory]]. Evolutionary theory

...tion from nature to culture is not a story that can be told in terms of an evolutionary [[narrative]], such as that offered by Hegel. Rather, the withdrawal-into-s Žižek's point of reference for this [[theory]] of the genealogy of the subject is the work of the [[German]] philosopher

[[Freud]] described Ferenczi's <i>Thalassa. A [[Theory]] of Genitality</i> as "the boldest application of [[psycho]]-[[analysis]] ...d in a synoptic table of presumed parallels (p. 69) and based on Lamarck's evolutionary theories and on Haeckel's [[fundamental rule]] of recapitulation, which it

[[Freud]] described Ferenczi's <i>Thalassa. A [[Theory]] of Genitality</i> as "the boldest application of [[psycho]]-[[analysis]] ...d in a synoptic table of presumed parallels (p. 69) and based on Lamarck's evolutionary theories and on Haeckel's [[fundamental rule]] of recapitulation, which it

...ediate causes, its adaptive benefits (its function), and its origin in the evolutionary [[development]] of the [[species]] and the [[biological]] development of th ...ian]] perspective. Strongly influenced by Konrad Lorenz and the then-new [[theory]] of cybernetics, he observed and manipulated the "eyes-nose-mouth" stimulu

...in the [[drives]] and [[libidinal]] [[development]], Freud introduced the evolutionary views of Charles [[Darwin]], Ernst Haeckel, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, Fritz .... This is not a [[biological]] [[theory]], but rather a [[psychoanalytic]] theory of the history of the facts and [[acts]] that constitute the biological.

...ields as diverse as [[film]] studies, [[literary]] criticism, [[feminist]] theory and [[philosophy]]. Yet his writings are [[notorious]] for their complexity ...illusioned with [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]], and turned into a disciple of evolutionary [[psychology]]. On this, he has written in an essay published under the tit

...century had mapped out relationships between [[languages]] by locating the evolutionary principles governing the sound systems of Indo-European languages (see Robi ...porary criticism. Sometimes critics have borrowed a linguistic or language theory’s [[terms]] and tools, often a general paradigm, an interpretive [[practi

Anthropological [[Theory]] and Criticism ...sm in multiple ways through the twentieth century. The rise of comparative evolutionary anthropology in the final [[third]] of the nineteenth century, initiated wi

...nd "[[thing]] representations" in the [[unconscious]]. The first anxiety [[theory]] postulates the accumulation of somatic sexual excitation. Among the psych ...ork of his theory of [[individual]] evolution, which refers to the counter-evolutionary movement caused by the precedence of the death [[drive]] over the [[life]]

=====Theory of the Mirror Phase===== [[Lacan]]'s answer is in the [[theory]] of the [[mirror phase]]. He draws our attention, in later texts, to an [[

...istory of Marxism: was it already the late Engels with his more positivist-evolutionary understanding of historical materialism? Was it the revisionism AND the ort ...stand Marx's dialectics, the "bad" Lenin who didn't get the core of Marx's theory, the "bad" Stalin who spoils the noble plans of the "good" Lenin, etc.).

...This passage is not direct, one cannot account for it within a continuous evolutionary [[narrative]]: something has to intervene between the two, a kind of "[[Van ...of itself, sure that it cannot be mad. This change does not concern only [[theory]], but social practice itself: from the Classical Age, madmen were interned

...sure of itself, sure that it cannot be mad. This change concerns not only theory, but social practice itself: from the Classical Age on, madmen were interne ...This passage is not direct, one cannot account for it within a continuous evolutionary narrative: something has to intervene between the two, a kind of "vanishing

This aspect of Hegel's theory of action is crucial: there is no tension between the acting agent and the ...n describes the tension between forces and relations of production in this evolutionary terms, but he also asserts the primacy of formal subsumption of the forces

...ernal material apparatuses and practices that sustain that experience. The theory distinguishes two levels of the ideological process: external (following th ...y assume my knowledge. It is this ''immanent'' gap that eludes Althusser's theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs). According to Althusser, what d

...alist anti-reductionism'': human Reason cannot be reduced to the result of evolutionary adaptation; art is not just a heightened procedure of providing sensual ple ...ychoanalysis|"The Seminar of Jacques Lacan'', book 2: ''The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954–1955"], trans. Sylvana Tomase