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...ing an almost intolerable level of [[excitation]]. Due to the specificity of the French term, it is usually [[left]] untranslated. ...', of ''property'', etc., but it [[lacks]] the ''[[sexual]] connotations'' of the [[French]] word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".) -->

...] and [[clinical]] point of reference. Theoretically, Lacan's elaboration of the [[concept]] is supported by, yet goes beyond, its [[Freudian]] origins. <!-- he concept of [[desire]] is the central concern of [[psychoanalytic theory]]. -->

...[[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or attentions). ...nimate things: individuals, parts of the [[body]] and the [[satisfaction]] of [[need]]s can all be [[object]]s.

...n psychomotor [[activity]], sometimes leading to stupor. Classic [[signs]] of the [[illness]] are [[anorexia]] and weight [[loss]], insomnia and disturbe ...itself spontaneously or under the effect of drug treatments, into a state of manic [[excitation]].

...] via a [[hallucinatory]] [[cathexis]] of a [[memory]] of [[time|prior]] [[satisfaction]]. ...orld]]."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. "Formulations on the Two Principles of [[Mental]] Functioning." SE XII. 215. 1911. p.219.</ref>

...an unproblematic given in which there is a single objectively correct way of perceiving, but as something which is itself discursively constructed. ...y discursive and imaginative [[nature]] of [[memory]]; [[memory|memories]] of [[past]] events are continually [[being]] reshaped in accordance with [[unc

...ology]], with the emphasis placed on the [[time|temporal]] [[development]] of the [[child]]'s [[sexuality]]. ...pt this [[development]]al [[reading]] of [[Freud]], at least in the matter of a [[development|genetic order]] for the [[three]] "[[family]] [[complex]]es

...c [[sense]], to refer to a [[sexual]] [[perversion]] in which [[sexual]] [[satisfaction]] is dependent upon inflicting [[pain]] on [[others]] ([[sadism]]) or upon ...ism]], arguing that they are simply the [[active]] and [[passive]] aspects of a single [[perversion]].

...]] [[complex]] Lacan only saves the paternal [[metaphor]] and the [[Name]]-of-the-Father which "is positioned where knowledge [[acts]] as truth. [[Psycho ...herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absent]] from the field of the signifier.

...unnamed [[Oedipal conflict]]. This book is ideal for begginers in the area of psychoanalysis ...126). In general, most psychoanalysts would agree. The immediate influence of the <i>Three Essays</i> was profound, and fostered change in the way that p

...[[construction]]. Eros battles against the destructive [[death]] instinct of [[Thanatos (Freud)|Thanatos]] (death instinct or [[death drive]]). ...ancient Greece]] the word <i>Eros</i> referred to [[love]] and the [[god]] of [[love]].

...enstein]] remarked that Kierkegaard was "by far, the most profound thinker of the nineteenth century" <ref [[name]]="ArisSoc"> ...e=Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein | work=University of Hertfordshire| url=http://www.herts.ac.uk/philosophy/Aris_Soc.html | access

...ntested area of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]] involves the conceptualization of [[feminine]] [[sexuality]]. ...ficant innovation regarding [[Freudian]] thinking. For Freud the question of [[sexual differences]] revolved around the '[[castration]] [[complex]]', th

...[[think]] psychoanalysis without any reference to a [[unified]] conception of [[self]] or ego. liberated interpersonal relationships, and there was an explosion of

...each of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes]]' exquisite final book Camera Lucida. ...the [[mirror]] phase. As 'being-in-itself', the real was beyond the realm of [[appearance]] and [[images]].

...vi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [[matheme]]s are part of [[algebra|Lacanian algebra]]. ...ical sign]]". It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->

...therein resides the lesson painfully learned through the [[experience]] of the XXth century totalitarianisms. ...oint on which one cannot and should not concede: today, the actual freedom of [[thought]] means the freedom to question the predominant liberal-democrati

...ian]] Real — the Thing [[Antigone]] confronts when he violates the order of the City — to the Bataillean [[excess]]. ...ally on intellectuals: their "[[irrational]]" [[cruelty]] served as a kind of [[ontological]] proof, bearing [[witness]] to the fact that we are dealing

Welcome to the Desert of the [[Real]] [2] Slavoj [[Zizek]]. Re:constructions, 09/15/2001. ...peasant barely survive on barren hills, will this not be the ultimate case of the impotent acting out?

...ion]] is, I [[claim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time a ...d itself to babble [[about]] the so-called disappearing working [[class]]. Of course, it's disappearing from here.

...choanalysis]] (1958-59)1, and then in the [[Écrits]] "[[Kant with Sade]]" of 19632. ...f the "with" is-the [[truth]] of Kant's ethical rigorism is the [[sadism]] of the Law, i.e. the Kantian Law is a [[superego]] [[agency]] that sadisticall

...imilar) a king, but because he occupies the place of a king within the set of socio-[[symbolic]] relations; etc.etc. ...decentered other to whom he imputes this belief. All [[concrete]] versions of this "subject supposed to believe" (from small [[children]] for whose sake

Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema ...tasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms.

...nevertheless how pure desire culminates in the sacrifice of the [[object]] of [[love]]. ...that is not obliged to have recourse to a [[Master signifier]], to a point of order, which is performative.1

...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice. ...lysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.

...eological]] procedure is not to be underestimated: Rand fits into the line of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by the ...ringing which enabled her to formulate directly the [[fantasmatic]] kernel of American [[capitalist]] [[ideology]].

...re the impact of The Road to Terror, one should start with the [[paradox]] of the revolutionary sacrifice.</p> ...se." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obscene secret [[rituals]] and apparatuses, the Khmer Rouge regime had noth

...[[birth]] to [[Leninism]]. Consider [[Lenin]]'s shock when, in the autumn of 1914, every European [[social]] democratic party except the Serbs' followed ...inism (1996), "the [[vocabulary]] and grammar of the Western [[tradition]] of [[politics]] was abruptly dispensed with."

...agance is allowed, solicited even, but with the [[explicit]] [[exclusion]] of the choices that may disturb the [[public]] (say, a person whose choice is ...[[polemics]] against the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:

...tation to ethnic belonging, are more and more often experienced as matters of [[choice]]. Things which once seemed [[self]]-evident - how to feed and edu ...to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will g

...ox is thus that the roles are reversed (with regard to the standard notion of the active subject working on the passive object): the subject is defined b ...m means that the reality I see is never "whole" - not because a large part of it eludes me, but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals

...er offer if Sieglinde cannot join him in Walhalla, preferring the [[love]] of a miserable mortal [[woman]] to Walhall's <i>sproeden Wonnen</i>. The shatt ...of giving up eternity for the sake of love, is the highest [[ethical]] act of [[them]] all? Ernst Bloch was [[right]] to remark that what is [[lacking]]

...en talk on Hitchcock's unique touch, etc., and approach the difficult task of specifying what gives Hitchcock's films their unique flair.<br> ...rely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique Hitchcockian [[dimension

...is [[repressed]] and [[displaced]]. And it seems that the very designation of Hamlet as an [[obsessional]] [[neurotic]] points in this direction: in cont ...dge]] in [[order]] to encode insights into fundamental libidinal deadlocks of the [[human]] [[race]]?<br><br>

...re not from rich neighborhoods, but were part of the hard-won acquisitions of the very strata from which protesters originate. ...nger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them.

...s on the wane. The time has come to look back (as well as into the future, of course) and draw a balance. ...close, this can also give rise to aggressive reaction aimed at getting rid of this disturbing intruder – or, as Peter Sloterdijk put it: “More commun

...nar VII|L'éthique de la psychanalyse]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar VII|The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...ist]], but "there is no [[other]] good than the one that can pay the price of the access to [[desire]]," a [[desire]] that is only valid insofar as it is

The [[dream]] provides disguised [[satisfaction]] for [[wish]]es that are [[repression|repressed]] while we are awake. [[Dream]] [[interpretation]] is the "royal road that leads to [[knowledge]] of the [[unconscious]] in [[psychic]] [[life]]."

...tion]] retains its [[place]] as a necessary element in the [[structuring]] of [[sexuality]] for the [[speaking]] [[being]]. ===The notion of castration in Freud's work===

...[[words]], we are driven by an inherent [[dissatisfaction]] and [[sense]] of insufficiency. ...have the sense that it is there, and we [[want]] it. This is the [[form]] of jouissance that Lacan [[identifies]] as [[phallus|phallic]] [[jouissance]].

...f, the highest act of [[freedom]] is the display of ''amor fati'', the act of freely assuming what is otherwise necessary. ...at its most radical that which objects, that which disturbs the smooth run of things.

=Is this the end of fantasy?= expression to the unreality of American daily [[life]], exemplified in

...possible to produce different kinds of laughter. First used for episodes of <i>The Jack Benny Show</i> and <i>I [[Love]] Lucy,</i> today its modernized ...ly” pray through it, while my [[mind]] can be occupied with the dirtiest of [[sexual]] [[thoughts]].

...[[another]] [[human]] [[being]], but even by a machine, as in the [[case]] of the famous Tibetan "prayer wheels": I put a written prayer into a wheel and ...less usually a brief period of uneasiness: the first reaction to it is one of a shock, since it is difficult to accept that the machine out there can "la

overheard a young man asking one of the staff: 'I just finished <i>Mrs de Winter</i>. Is it [[true]] illiteracy of the younger generation-how can anyone not [[know]] [[about]] <i>Rebecca</i>

...s, in its very hyper-[[reality]], in a way IRREAL, substanceless, deprived of the [[material]] inertia. ...aseptic life in a secluded area longs for the experience of the real world of material decay.

...alyze the way the motif of the Thing appears within the diegetic [[space]] of cinematic [[narrative]] - in short, to [[speak]] about [[films]] whose narr ...s at the root of the metaphysical question "Why is there something instead of nothing?"

...tation to ethnic belonging, are more and more often experienced as matters of [[choice]]. Things which once seemed [[self]]-evident - how to feed and edu ...to be cracked is of course much the same as believing in the [[existence]] of some Big Other: in every [[case]] what is wanted is an [[agent]] who will g

The [[Case]] of [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] ...harmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] theoretic edifice.

...ic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms. ...covered that all those moments the Western critics perceived as remainders of this imperial and sacrificing Japan, were indeed edited by Brecht. What the

[[social]] movements of Eastern and Central [[Europe]], is a researcher at the Institute ...at the [[University]] of [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]]. He is the [[author]] of

...nevertheless how pure desire culminates in the sacrifice of the [[object]] of [[love]]. ...that is not obliged to have recourse to a [[Master signifier]], to a point of order, which is performative.1

...lludere) by the [[nature]] of evidence or the [[seductive]] [[appearance]] of something that deceives. ...e senses), or even an [[ontological]] [[structure]] (the Platonic [[myth]] of the cave).

<b>The constitutive madness of being</b><br><br> ...lf" and the "night of the world" respectively. The point is that, in each of these cases, there is an increasing emphasis on negativity as the fundament

...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in ...errida]]'s untimely [[death]], without the letters written turning red out of [[shame]]:

'''Of Children in Swaddling Clothes'''<BR> ...e; and you will only be able to give vent to your griefs and sense of loss of liberty by making tearful complaints, and sighs, and lamentations one to an

That the work of Sade anticipates Freud, be it in respect of the catalogue of perversions, is a stupid thing to say, which gets repeated endlessly among ...ath to be passable. Count sixty more for someone to say the reason for all of that.

...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>

</p><h3 align="center">The topic of the [[imaginary]]</h3><br> INTRODUCTION OF THE INVERTED BOUQUET<br>

The <i>[[jouissance]] </i>of [[transgression]]</font><br> </i>THE RESPECT OF THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER<br>

...term "[[frustration]]" came into increasing prominence in certain branches of [[psychoanalytic theory]] in the 1950s, together with a shift in emphasis f ...was [[thought]] by some [[analyst]]s to be a major factor in the aetiology of [[neurosis]].

...filled in [[imagination]] in a more or less disguised way. From this point of view, the fulfillment in question is neither [[total]] nor definitive, but ...as in the hospital so as not to have to wake up in the morning ([[Letter]] of March 4, 1895, p. 114).

...ity]]-testing is a [[defence]] against [[hallucination]] and the confusion of what is actually perceived and what is imagined. Reality-testing is one of the major functions of the ego.

...nscious." [[Parapraxes]], [[bungled]] or symptomatic actions, are examples of such derivatives. ...[[memories]] of events during the first years of [[life]], this is because of the repression that affects [[them]]. In a [[sense]], all memories may be s

...r Vicissitudes" (1915c) in [[order]] to emphasize that the four components of the drive—pressure, [[object]], aim, and source—are not [[natural]] phe ...n [[erogenous zone]], and then makes a circuit around the object [[cause]] of [[desire]], the [[object a]]. Thus Lacan saw drives as distinct from vital

...th the ability to represent an [[absent]] object and a [[subject]] capable of [[knowing]] that the symbol is not the [[symbolized]] object. ...e [[depression]] associated with object [[loss]] and to [[limit]] the flow of affects.

...her]], [[total]]/partial, [[satisfying]] [[needs]] (mixed with the quality of care dispensed and the sensations procured), [[internal]]/external, protect ...o thus develops and becomes [[autonomous]] through the [[internalization]] of maternal functions (1905d).

...consciousness]] against their will, and which momentarily deprive [[them]] of the ability to [[think]] and sometimes even to act. The term is derived fro ...elusion) and Jean-Pierre Falret (the madness of [[doubt]] and the delusion of touch) who described a [[clinical]] picture that was closest to what would

...conventions of not having sex with unknown persons), then the [[feelings]] of anxiety come to the surface. To reduce these [[negative]] feelings, defense ...tion of our lives. Those two impulse [[drives]] are the motivating factors of our actions.

...e intimate." These [[ideas]] formed the springboard for a radical critique of [[introspection]], self-knowledge, and inner [[life]]. ...All conduct symbolizes and conceals, in various ways, the basic [[choice]] of every [[individual]] subject. Each person must be unveiled and revealed, as

...d]] and his followers. In this way, at least, the profound [[solidarity]] of [[Marxism]] and psychoanalysis is now there for all to see. ...tonomy]] merely a 'user’s [[illusion]]'. In comparison, the conclusions of psychoanalysis seem rather [[conservative]].

...e [[libido]] and eroticism. Freud's investigation led him to the discovery of the [[unconscious]] link with defecation and its relation to treasure hunti ...titude is an expression of [[narcissism]] and is characterized by its view of [[analysis]] as something governed by the [[pleasure]] [[principle]].

A [[wish]] is a mental impulse or desire to obtain satisfaction. ...nition of the wish, which became highly influential in the [[development]] of [[psychoanalytic]] [[theory]].

...promiscuity and bohemian poverty: "Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in Copyright [[University]] of Chicago, acting through its Press Winter 2006

...alectical type of thought or methodology that he uses. (In Zizek's reading of Hegel, the dialectic is never finally resolved.) ...ute to the Marxist tradition of thought, specifically that of a [[critique of ideology]].

...re listed alphabetically within each [[category]] or subcategory. For ease of reference, one entry may be listed under several categories. [[Abstinence]]/rule of abstinence

.... In [[psychoanalysis]], [[mental]] work is taken to mean any [[activity]] of the [[psychical]] [[apparatus]] that is designed to deal with [[instinctual ...ideas—which Freud would later call [[repressed]] ideas—into the realm of [[consciousness]].

...[[present]] all the characteristics of [[reality]]. This is hallucinatory satisfaction. ...ioning in certain neurotics, or certain [[psychoses]], called, as a matter of fact, delusional.

...painful emotional tone and thereby offers to the triumphant ego that yield of [[pleasure]] which enables it to demonstrate its invulnerable [[narcissism] ...id not elucidate it in metapsychological [[terms]] until the brief article of 1927 (1927d).

The functions of [[language]] ...hip]] betweeh language and [[human]] [[subjectivity]], and the [[meaning]] of '[[full]]' and 'empty' [[speech]].

The [[Signification]] of the [[Phallus]] ...ve with that fact, settling for what provisional [[sense]] we can make out of what he actually says.

[[Slavoj Žižek]] fully endorses the [[model]] of the [[Cartesian subject]]. ...assertion that 'a [[spectre]] is haunting Western academia…, the spectre of the [[Cartesian]] subject' (TTS: 1). The Cartesian subject, or cogito as it

...Sigmund [[Freud]] heard his grandson Ernst utter while playing. This pair of words—[[meaning]] "Gone!" and "There!"—has become shorthand for [[repet ...e." Freud stresses the fact that the <i>fort</i> part of the game was much of the time sufficient unto itself, and was "repeated untiringly" by the child

...r Vicissitudes" (1915c) in [[order]] to emphasize that the four components of the drive—pressure, [[object]], aim, and source—are not [[natural]] phe ...n [[erogenous zone]], and then makes a circuit around the object [[cause]] of [[desire]], the object <i>a</i>. Thus Lacan saw drives as distinct from vit

...ation]], of which the [[manifest]] [[object]] is the [[analyst]]; the task of the analyst in this circumstance is to trace the relationship back, without ...ng, eventually frees love from [[repression]]: The truly intermediary role of transference love thus makes love possible.

...Psychoanalysis]]</i> (1916-1917a [1915-1917]), Freud, referring to the use of these terms in popular [[speech]], indicated that "anxiety is related to a ...d on the [[association]] of anxiety with a state of expectancy and the use of the term <i>fear</i>—"in keeping with current usage"—to [[represent]] t

...fers to the [[totality]] of representations produced at the very beginning of [[mental]] [[life]] before there is any differentiation between [[internal] ...ctioning can only be inferred, notably in the [[processes]] characteristic of [[psychosis]] (although psychosis is not reducible to these).

...manipulate you as he wishes, that he knows more than you about the motives of your actions. ...feeling]] of having lost that privilege; that the analyst could be capable of [[seeing]] something quite [[secret]] in what appears to you to be quite cl

[[Freud]]'s Story of the [[Child]]'s [[Game]] of <i>'Fort'-'Da'</i></font><br><br> of the [[traumatic]] [[neurosis]] and [[pass]] on to examine the method<br>

[ ] [[Work]] on [[The Agency of the Letter]] The [[Agency]] of the [[Letter]] in the [[Unconscious]] or [[Reason]] Since [[Freud]]

...dealism]] - The [[real]] as [[trauma]] - Theog of the</i> <i>[[dream]] and of waking - [[Consciousness]] and [[representation]] - God is un</i><i>[[consc ...ept]] ofrepetition, as it is presented by [[Freud]] and the [[experience]] of [[psychoanalysis]].<p>

...f for the academic [[machine]]. Can the upper level of Lacan's [[formula]] of the university discourse - S2 directed toward a - not also be read as stand ...ld no longer be needed. [[Psychoanalytic theory]] is ultimately the theory of why its clinical [[practice]] is doomed to fail.

...line]] of maternal [[psychopathology]] is given, and here the difficulties of breastfeeding are treated by [[hypnosis]]. ...and the [[penis]], between milk and sperm, one of which nourishes and one of which fecundates, and at the same [[time]] an incompatibility because sperm

...formalize]] his [[sexual difference|theory of sexual difference]] by means of [[mathemes|formulae]] derived from [[symbolic]] [[logic]]. These reappear in the [[formulae of sexuation|diagram of sexual difference]] which [[Lacan]] presents in the 1972-3 [[seminar]].<ref

...at Little Hans is primarily concerned with the idea of [[lack]] or absence of the "objet petit autre." ==Analysis of little Hans==

...ncept]] of [[desire]] by drawing on the [[master]]/[[slave]] [[dialectic]] of [[Hegel|G.W.F. Hegel]] (as explicated by [[Alandre Kojève]]). Lacan draws almost exclusively on the [[work]] of Hegel as it was popularised through Kojève’s lectures in [[Paris]] in th

...r]], [[perception]] either of the urge of [[unsatisfied]] [[instincts]] or of something in the [[external]] [[world]] which may be painful in itself or m ...[[cathexis]], which may be termed [[narcissistic]], of the painful region of the [[body]] - a cathexis which increases progressively and which acts upon

...f the [[Oedipus complex]], the [[mother]] is the first [[love]] [[object]] of the [[child]]. THE INTERVENTION OF THE FATHER

...]]). His two aims in this piece were to arrive at "a sort of [[economics]] of nerve forces" and "to peel off from [[psychopathology]] a gain for normal p ...delusional" and feeling that it was an excellent start on "the elucidation of the [[neuroses]]"; and if the "quantitative conception" would in fact never

...jokes and [[symptoms]] all provided [[material]] for [[Freud]]'s [[model]] of the [[mind]]. It was on this seemingly trivial foundation - that the [[unco ...e [[interpreted]]: for Freud they are essentially [[symbolic]] fulfilments of unconscious wishes. They are cast in symbolic forms because if this materia

...was speculating [[about]] [[society]] and human [[culture]]).1 At the end of the chapter I will focus on [[Lacan]]'s main interests and the way he has r ...ations,' revolutionised the [[thought]], the lives and the [[imagination]] of an age.2

...ge]] both her [[erotogenic]] zone and her object, while the boy keeps both of [[them]] unchanged.<ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 5</ref></blockquote> ...] of [[being]] eaten by the father belongs to the typical [[primal]] stock of childhood [[ideas]]; analogies from mythology (Kronos) and from [[animal]]

...each of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes]]' exquisite final book Camera Lucida. ...the [[mirror]] phase. As 'being-in-itself', the real was beyond the realm of [[appearance]] and [[images]].

[[The imaginary]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[theory]] immediately invokes a set of characteristic [[terms]], most of which are already [[present]] in his article on

...ast [[threat]] that linked it to civilization. This is why the biggest war of the XXth century, the [[World]] War II, was the war in which Stalinist [[Co ...is bringing-together accounts for the "innocent" tautological [[formulas]] of today's neoracists: [[le Pen]]'s entire program can be summed up in "[[Fran

="Antinomies of Pure Sexuation" by Slavoj Žižek= ...antinomies, but only at the epistemological level, no as immanent features of the unreachable Thing-in-itself, while Hegel transposes epistemological ant

...he mysterious and elusive X we are all after in our compulsive consumption of mercandise. ...f caffeine-free diet Coke, we almost literally 'drink nothing in the guise of something'?

...the ''Écrits'' "[[Books/Jacques_Lacan/Kant_With_Sade/ Kant with Sade]" of 1963. [2] ...point of the "with" is the truth of Kant's ethical rigorism is the sadism of the Law, i.e. the Kantian Law is a superego agency that sadistically enjoys

='Lacan as a Reader of Hegel' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ecause it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge.<u>1</u>

='Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx' by Slavoj Žižek= ...ium for expressing such a "prosaic" disenchanted reality, reality deprived of all mystery and transcendence.<u>2</u>

="Pathological Narcissus" as a Socially Mandatory Form of Subjectivity by Slavoj Žižek | 1986= ...stand it as a concealed re-affirmation of patriarchy, and by a broad range of the liberal New Left.

='Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event' by Slavoj Žižek= [[Image:three-philosophers-of-the-event-slavoj-zizek-theoryleaks-1024x770.jpg|400|right]]

...he last threat that linked it to civilization. This is why the biggest war of the XXth century, the World War II, was the war in which Stalinist Communis ...; this bringing-together accounts for the "innocent" tautological formulas of today's neoracists: le Pen's entire program can be summed up in "France to

='The Structure of Domination Today: A Lacanian View' by Slavoj Žižek= ...the Oprah Winfrey shows, Gray di­rectly enacted this 'rewriting-the-past experience' with a woman who, at the end, gratefully embraced him, crying with joy tha

...ve X we are all after in our compulsive consumption. The unexpected result of this is not that, since Coke doesn't satisfy any concrete need we drink it ...affeine-free diet Coke that we almost literally drink nothing in the guise of something?<span id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-105" class="ezoic-adpicker-ad"

='Ugly, Creepy, Disgusting, and Other Modes of Abjection' by Jela Krečič &amp; Slavoj Žižek= ...the beautiful. Ugliness for the sake of itself is a pathological enjoyment of art.

...is embedded). However, the subject is fully responsible for the little bit of enjoyment he finds in his aggressive racist outburst. ...has to accept that the traumatic encounters which traced out the itinerary of his life were utterly contingent and indifferent, that they bear no "deeper