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  • The Act
    ...act”, by which the subject “[[structures]] his [[perception]] of the [[world]] in advance in a way that opens the [[space]] for his intervention”, and ...lished “the impossible”, for his Act revealed a crack in the Stalinist world [[communist]] movement by [[another]] communist (''E!'': 46). Similarly, Le
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  • Jouissance
    ''Jouissance'' is not a central preoccupation during the first part of ...of the 1960s is not the same as his use of [[the Real]] in the 1980s, the first [[concepts]] emerge in this seminar. Here ''jouissance'' is considered in
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  • Phallus
    Freud had his first intuition of the primacy of the phallus as early as 1905 in "[[Three]] essa ...gan]], although it clearly carries those connotations. The [[phallus]] is first and foremost a [[signifier]] and in [[Lacan]]'s [[system]] a particularly p
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  • Symbolic
    ...[[Claude Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss]] the [[idea]] that the [[social]] [[world]] is [[structured]] by certain [[law]]s which regulate kinship relations an ...c order the [[totality]] is called a universe. The symbolic order from the first takes on its [[universal]] [[character]]. It isn't constituted bit by bit.
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  • Desire
    A first ingredient of the concept of desire in Lacan's work contains a [[Hegelian]] ...much because the other holds the key to the object desired, as because the first [[object of desire]] is to be recognized by the other. (Lacan, 1977 [1959],
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  • Lenin (revolutionary)
    ...olutionary]] of [[Russia]], the [[leader]] of the [[Bolshevik]] party, the first [[Premier of the Soviet Union]], and the main theorist of what has come to ...[Greek language|Greek]]. Two tragedies occurred early in his [[life]]. The first occurred when his [[father]] died of a [[cerebral haemorrhage]] in [[1886]]
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  • Louis Althusser
    ...ižek’s is constructed. In [[order]] to see this relationship, we should first say a bit [[about]] Althusser’s conception of ideology. ...result of the interpellative process, in so far as this is placed on the [[world]] by consciousness-as-interpellated. Althusser misses this, according to Ž
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  • Demand
    ...an [[instinct|instinctual signal]] but is "inserted in a [[synchronic]] [[world]] of cries organized in a symbolic [[system]]."<ref>{{S4}} p. 182, 188</ref
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  • Cathexis
    ...in the [[psychoanalytic]] [[vocabulary]] of the [[English]]-[[speaking]] [[world]].
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  • Psychosis
    ...shes a new, often very intense, relation with the people and things in the world by way of a delusional [[formation]]. ...h concerned a [[psychotic]] [[woman]] whom [[Lacan]] calls [[Aimée]] that first led [[Lacan]] to [[psychoanalytic theory]].<ref>{{1932}}</ref> It is commo
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  • Object
    [[Part-object]]s are essential features of the [[fantasy]] [[world]] constructed by the [[child]], and are endowed with '[[good]]' and '[[bad] ...ove or [[hatred]]. At the very beginning of [[psychic]] life, the external world, the object, and what is hated are identical (the object emerges in hatred)
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  • Melancholia
    ...cterized by profound sadness and [[lack]] of interest in the [[outside]] [[world]]. Melancholia brings [[about]] a [[form]] of [[pessimism]] that sees the [ ...[paranoia]], in which [[libidinal]] [[hatred]], projected onto the outside world, reverts back onto the subject in the form of depressed [[feelings]] of bei
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  • Instinct
    ...ng that this is to suppose a [[harmonious]] relation between man and the [[world]], which does not in fact [[exist]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 88</ref> The concept of
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  • Reality Principle
    According to [[Freud]], the [[psyche]] is at first regulated entirely by the [[pleasure principle]], which seeks to [[experien ...[[form]] a conception of the [[real]] circumstances in the [[external]] [[world]]."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. "Formulations on the Two Principles of [[
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  • Fantasy
    ...hat consumes desire and therefore occupies the fantasy of the subject must first fall prey to the [[illusion]] that it is more than its pragmatic material. ...political [[ideologies]] serve to give subjects a means of envisioning the world in which such a failure emerges as evidence as to how transcendent is their
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  • Adaptation
    ...Innenwelt]]'' (inner [[world]]) and ''[[adaptation|Umwelt]]'' (surrounding world).
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  • Beautiful Soul
    ...gnise his very own raison d'Ítre in the disorder that he denounces in the world' (E, 70). In a more extreme way, the beautiful soul also illustrates the [[ ...reated as an [[object]] of [[exchange]] by the men around her, [[Freud]]'s first [[intervention]] is to confront her with her own complicity in this exchang
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  • Chance
    * ''[[automaton]]'', which refers to chance events in the [[world]] at large, and
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  • Signifying Chain
    ...s relation to not only the mother, but to all [[other]] [[objects]] in the world, naturalising [[alienation]] as an existential condition since all such rel ...one path through the network of signifiers which constitutes the symbolic world of the subject (which Saussure designates 'associative' relationships, and
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  • Phobia
    ...he stresses the [[difference]] between phobia and anxiety: anxiety appears first, and the phobia is a defensive [[formation]] which turns the anxiety into f ...using an [[Imaginary]] object (the horse) to reorganise the [[Symbolic]] [[world]] of Hans and thus [[help]] him to make the passage from the [[Imaginary]]
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  • Passage to the Act
    ...ation, the passage to the act results from an overflowing of the fantasy [[world]] into reality because an element of reality has impinged on the fantasy sc
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  • Scene
    ...out his [[fantasy]], which is built on the edifice of the [[real]] (the [[world]]). ...ene]] of a play is framed by the proscenium arch in a theatre, whereas the world is a [[real]] space which lies beyond the [[frame]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[Seminar
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  • Jacques Lacan:Chronology
    In 1953, [[Lacan]] begins his first [[public]] [[seminar]] in [[Hôpital Sainte-Anne]]. ...Lacan]] is [[born]] in Paris ([[France]]) (95 boulevard Beaumarchais), the first [[child]] (eldest son) of (prosperous, bourgeois [[parents]]) [[Alfred Laca
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  • The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters
    ...with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the ‘beginning of the world,’ of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the unive ...idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporal
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  • The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For
    Saint Paul's militant declaration from Corinthians asserts for the first time in human history the revolutionary logic of a radical break with the p ...2000th anniversary of one who was well aware that to practice love in our world is to bring in the sword and fire.
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  • The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime
    The Art of the Ridiculous [[Sublime]] is first of all the detailed [[reading]] of [[David Lynch]]'s The Lost Highway, base ...s pose tough questions [[about]] the ways in which we [[understand]] our [[world]] and [[culture]]. He offers provocative readings of [[Casablanca]], Schind
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  • The Spectre is Still Roaming Around
    [[world]] of late [[capitalism]] - a world in which the brutal imposition of
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  • The Fright of Real Tears
    ...tianity]], Gothicism and the "progressive digitalisation of our [[life]]-[[world]]."
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  • The Abyss of Freedom
    of the [[World]], Michigan: [[University]] of Michigan Press. Reprising much of the [[material]] from the first part of The Indivisible
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  • The Subject
    ...i’, but as an empty [[space]], what is [[left]] when the rest of the [[world]] is expelled from itself. ...c]] [[order]] is what substitutes for the [[loss]] of the immediacy of the world, and is where the [[void]] of the subject is filled in by [[subjectivizatio
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  • Real2
    ...r forestalled. […] The real is more forcible than anything else in the [[world]], yet it is phantasmal, shallow and fortuitous. […] The real is inward a ...ptions into the other two orders, unsettling their modes of organising the world and insisting on its equal, if rather more obscure, [[place]] in the Borrom
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  • Seminar III
    ...he-Father, that is, the metaphor that puts this Name in the place that was first [[symbolized]] by the operation of the [[mother]]'s [[absence]]." It desig
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  • The reverse of psychoanalysis
    ...Father, a father to whom Lacan opposes both the Father presiding over the first [[idealization]] - the one deserving love - and the Father who enters the [ * all together, four discourse structures; already inscribed in the [[world]], making it appear as it is
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  • Totem and Taboo
    [[Totem and Taboo]] is Sigmund [[Freud]]'s first [[work]] on group [[psychology]]. The analogy unfolds in [[three]] parts, starting in the first essay where the resemblance between the two is related to the [[horror]] of
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  • Future of an Illusion
    At first, Freud begins by explaining religion in a similar term to that of [[totemis ...of the [[father-complex]], and represents man's [[helplessness]] in the [[world]], having to face the ultimate fate of [[death]], the [[struggle]] of civil
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  • Civilization and Its Discontents
    ...[Sigmund Freud]] in the decade preceding his [[death]] in [[1938]]. It was first published in [[German language|German]] in [[1930]] as ''Das Unbehagen in d ...osited in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' and the [[idea]] of a [[death instinct]] first developed in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]''.
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  • Main PageX
    ...dard image editing tool in the industy, used by professionals all over the world. Very expensive.
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  • Psychiatry
    ...been the [[subject]] to extended debate. Do not make changes to it without first obtaining consensus on Talk:Psychiatry. -->Most psychiatric illnesses canno Whatever the circumstance of their patient's referral, a psychiatrist first assesses their patient's mental and somatic (i.e. general medical) conditio
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  • Ego Psychology
    ...es shape as a result of the conflict between the id and the [[external]] [[world]]. The ego, therefore, is inherently a conflicting [[formation]] in the mi
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  • Semiotics
    ...make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their semiotic niche in the [[world]] (see [[Semiosis]]). Semiotics theorises at a general level about ''[[sign ...1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the term "semeiotike" from the Greek [[word]] σημειον or ''se
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  • Object Relations Theory
    ...d]]" in [[children]], has suggested that the [[formation]] of [[mental]] [[world]] is enabled by the [[infant]]-parent interpersonal interaction which was t
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  • Eric Santner
    <blockquote>To use a [[Heideggerian]] locution, our throwness into the [[world]] does not simply mean that we alwasy find ourselves in the midst of a [[so
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  • Publicity's Secret
    ...sphere, in which all [[processes]] are [[transparent]], reduces [[real]]-[[world]] politics to the drama of the secret and its discovery. --This [[text]] re
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  • Zizek's Politics
    ...much needed critical introduction to the political thought of one of the [[world]]'s most widely known and eccentric thinkers.
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  • Sigmund Freud
    ...e him a proper education. As a result, Freud did extremely well during his first 8 years of [[school]], but at the age of 17, he had to move to the [[Unive ...mholtz]], and [[Herbart]].<ref name="Bowlby">{{cite book | last = Bowlby | first = John | title = Attachment and Loss: Vol I, 2nd Ed. | publisher = Basic Bo
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  • Critical theory
    ..." becoming an umbrella term for an array of theories within the academic [[world]] of the United Kingdom and the [[United States]]. This article focuses pr The first [[meaning]] of the term ''critical theory'' was that defined by [[Max Hork
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  • Giorgio Agamben
    ...''zoe'') and was akin to the [[tattooing]] that the [[Nazis]] did during [[World]] War II. ...''State of Exception'' (2005), [[rule by decree]] has became common since World War I in all modern states, and has been since then generalized and abused.
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  • Hannah Arendt
    ...enters on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the [[world]]." ...on of parts of France following the [[French]] declaration of war during [[World War II]], and the deportation of [[Jews]] to concentration camps, Arendt ha
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  • Roland Barthes
    ...dmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[culture]], learning piano from his musically gifted aunt. Wh ...examinations. However, it also kept him out of military service during [[World War II]], and, while [[being]] kept out of the major French universities me
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  • Capitalism
    ...ies, tolerating no rival at its side. Yet at the same time it is also the first mode of economy which is unable to [[exist]] by itself, which [[needs]] oth ...se to a [[situation]] in which “it is easier to imagine the end of the [[world]] than a far more modest [[change]] in the mode of production, as if [[lib
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  • Deconstruction
    ...y resistant to [[formal]] definition. [[Martin Heidegger]] was perhaps the first to use the term (in contrast to [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] demolit ...156.) Thus, viewed in this way, "the term 'deconstruction', refers in the first [[instance]] to the way in which the 'accidental' features of a text can be
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  • Jacques Derrida
    ...ncluded that Derrida eradicates any [[referent]] and, in an auto-created [[world]] of self-referential textuality, celebrates a free play of differences wit ...the other two. To understand Antigone’s act, Žižek explains, one must first note that the monstrous [[Thing]] only becomes a “fellow human like me”
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  • Event
    ...ions]] must be met for us to perceive something as really existing? In a [[world]] that’s constantly changing, is anything new really happening? Drawing o
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  • Frantz Fanon
    ...His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements throughout the world for more than four decades. ...on the communist ticket as a parliamentary delegate from Martinique to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. Fanon stayed long enough to comp
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  • German Idealism
    ...ossible. The mind plays a central [[role]] in influencing the way that the world is experienced. It is this [[notion]] that was taken to heart by Kant's phi ...hing-in-itself that exists outside of the mind. By presenting the external world as an object of faith, Jacobi legitimized belief and its theological [[asso
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  • Alfred Hitchcock
    ...ee and promote his films as artistic masterworks. Hitchcock was one of the first directors to whom they applied their auteur [[theory]], which stresses the ...nting family's upstairs apartment falls under heavy suspicion. This is the first truly "Hitchcockian" film, incorporating such themes as the "wrong man".
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  • Samuel P. Huntington
    ...Huntington believes that this cultural organization better describes the world than the classical [[notion]] of variegated sovereign [[state]]s. ...to legitimize [[aggression]] by the US-led West against [[China]] and the world of Islam. However, Huntington has also argued that this shift in geopolitic
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  • Søren Kierkegaard
    ...anish]] [[philosopher]] and [[theologian]], is generally recognized as the first [[existentialism|existentialist]] philosopher. He bridged the gap that exi ...nd I will be careful to preserve [his [[memory]]] safely hidden from the [[world]]."''<ref name="Dru">Dru, Alexander. ''The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard'
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  • Emmanuel Lévinas
    ...[[Freiburg]], as well as by [[Judaism|Jewish religion]]. He was one of the first intellectuals to introduce to France the [[work]] of [[Heidegger]] and [[Hu ...stance are both strongly felt. Upon the revelation of the face a person's first [[natural]] [[desire]] is to [[murder]] the Other. At the same [[time]], t
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  • Jacques-Alain Miller
    ...hoanalysis vis-à-vis [[government]] [[control]] in [[France]]. He wrote ''First [[Letter]] addressed by Jacques-Alain Miller to An Enlightened Public'', "C ...a and around Columbia University in New York. In 1992 Miller set up the [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]], WAP, in [[order]] to advance Lacan's teach
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  • Orders
    Of these [[three]] [[terms]], the 'imaginary' was the first to appear, well before the Rome Report of 1953. [[The imaginary]] was then the [[world]], the [[register]], the [[dimension]] of [[images]], [[conscious]] or [[un
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  • Jacques Lacan:Sexual Difference
    First, he was concerned to distinguish [[sexual]] [[difference]] on the basis of ...acan's thinking on feminine sexuality is distinguished by two main phases: first, he was concerned to distinguish [[Sexual Difference|sexual difference]] on
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  • Logic of Sexuation
    According to Freud, the first law of society was thus imposed by the sons on themselves as a result of th Women instead not only [[know]] there sis more to the [[world]] than the signifier, but they try, often with the gfreatest determination,
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  • Lacanian Psychoanalysis
    ...hidden [[structure]] which resembles that of language. Knowledge of the [[world]], of [[others]] and of self is determined by language. Language is the pre ...] and therefore of laws, language and organization. Lacan contends that at first the child does not merely desire contact with the mother and her care; it w
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  • Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
    ...cribes the source of this [[complex]] in his Introductory Lectures (Twenty-First Lecture): "You all [[know]] the Greek legend of King [[Oedipus]], who was d The phallus is first and foremost a signifier and in Lacan's [[system]] a particularly privilege
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  • Jacques Lacan:Real
    ...y paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A furthe ...ut it was relatively underdeveloped. Lacan used the term, the real, in his first published papers in the 1930s, but in these early [[texts]] it was essentia
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  • Politics
    ...ch denies the represive force of our subjection to the [[symbolic]] in the first [[place]]: "So the [[paradox]] is that 'liberal' [[subjects]] are in a way ...political [[agent]], however, it expresses a resolve to change hte way the world is, no matter at what personal [[code]].
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  • Liberalism
    But this new [[world]] of freedom described by [[people]] like Ulrich Beck, who say everything i
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  • The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other
    ...ript="urn:my-script-blocks"><i>You also say that the elites in our Western world are losing their nerve. They want to throw out all old concepts like humani ...le simply say: 'What's the problem? Let's throw ourselves into the digital world, into the internet, or whatever….' They really miss what is going on here
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  • The passion of the real
    ...be what defined the twentieth century, which really began with the First [[World]] War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst Jnger, in which he p
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  • Post-Politics
    ...hat [[idea]]. And, paradoxically, only very few are ready to question this world.
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  • Postmodern Racism
    ...e Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre bombings were a [[sign]] that God no longer protects the USA
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  • Clash of Civilizations
    ...e Arabs', though he did retract a couple of days later. Falwell said the [[World]] Trade Centre bombings were a [[sign]] that God no longer protects the USA
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  • Freedom
    But this new [[world]] of freedom described by [[people]] like Ulrich Beck, who say everything i
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  • Violence
    ...isturbingly [[tragic]] in this [[idea]] of the wealthiest country in the [[world]] bombing one of the poorest countries. It reminds me of the well-known [[j ...olence, give peace a [[chance]] — is abstract and doesn't [[work]] here. First, because this is not a [[universal]] rule. I always ask my [[leftist]] frie
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  • War
    ...isturbingly [[tragic]] in this [[idea]] of the wealthiest country in the [[world]] bombing one of the poorest countries. It reminds me of the well-known [[j ...olence, give peace a [[chance]] — is abstract and doesn't [[work]] here. First, because this is not a [[universal]] rule. I always ask my [[leftist]] frie
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  • September 11
    ...rtunity to admit that it is not special, but simply and truly part of this world.' That's the big choice. ...t to do more of the same but to think about what is really changing in our world.
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  • Repeating Lenin (Essay)
    ...r the big catastrophe which [[left]] its mark on the entire XXth century [[world]] [[politics]], for the [[Real]] Socialist experiment which culminated in a ...nstant reference to the [[holocaust]], gulag and the more [[recent]] Third World catastrophes is thus to serve as the support of this Denkverbot by constant
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  • Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
    ...ling off the deceiving layers of reality. Already in the trenches of the [[World]] War I, Carl [[Schmitt]] was celebrating the face to face combat as the au ...and the exceptional "empty" element (the socialist "New Man," which is at first [[nothing]] but an empty [[place]] to be filled up with positive [[content]
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  • Welcome to the Desert of the Real-2
    ...acking Afghanistan cannot but strike the eye: if the greatest power in the world will destroy one of the poorest countries in which peasant barely survive o ...is a fake, a [[spectacle]] staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all [[people]] around him are effectively actors and extras in a gig
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  • Self-Deceptions
    ...cial [[regime]], we still implicitly conceive conflicts in the [[Third]] [[World]] countries as a subspecies of natural catastrophies, as outbursts of quasi
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  • Can Lenin Tell Us About Freedom Today
    There are two features which distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[reg ...is significant that the work in which Lenin's unique [[voice]] was for the first [[time]] clearly heard is What Is To Be Done? - the [[text]] which exhibits
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  • The Matrix, or, Two Sides of Perversion
    ...n how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Mind embodied inthe World Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: does The Matrix not re Reaching the End Of the World
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  • Human Rights and Its Discontents
    ...nates in the millions of anonymous [[workers]] sweating in the [[Third]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian assembly lines. In their inv ...[[left]] to, well, Christians themselves. So what I want to do is, in the first part of my talk, to propose a certain [[reading]] of [[Christianity]], aimi
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  • Cynicism as a Form of Ideology
    ...this concept of ideology as a naive consciousness still apply to today's [[world]]? Is it still operating today? In the Critique of Cynical [[Reason]], a gr ...ign of cynical reason, we find ourselves in the so-called post-ideological world? Even [[Adorno]] came to this conclusion, starting from the premiss that id
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  • Reflections of Media and Politic and Cinema
    ...Western metaphysics of presence. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ...this was of course the other way round. Then there is the Kojevian Japan. First for Kojeve the end of history was Russia and America, the realization of th
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  • Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father
    ...rson criticized by [[Spinoza]]: in their endeavour to [[understand]] the [[world]] around them by way of formulating the network of causal connections betwe The first operation of the critique of ideology is therefore to recognize in the fasc
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  • It Doesn't Have to be a Jew
    ...rds]], in the big [[media]]-constructing the enemy has two objectives. The first is fanatic, [[irrational]] [[fundamentalism]], which is of course why the W ...dea]] was that these movies expressed a kind of [[nostalgia]] for the lost world, where it was still naively possible to believe in devils. This is a more r
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  • Hidden Prohibitions and the Pleasure Principle
    ...was a kind of [[false]] leap, but if your question implies that today's [[world]] is paradoxically closer to the neo-Spinozist universality of the signifie ...niversal, objective, knowledge statement. This is for me today's Spinozist world, especially in the [[United States]]. For example, every can, every package
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  • Ethnic Dance Macabre
    THE [[world]] today is more and more marked by the frontier separating its insiders fro ...the one between [[capitalism]] and [[socialism]], is what defines the "new world [[order]]". The socialist bloc was a desperate attempt at modernisation [[o
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  • For a Leftist Appropriation of the European Legacy
    Let us take an example from the opposite part of the [[world]], from Japan, where the caste of the untouchables is called the burakumin: ...ntion': totalitarianism is an inherent [[perversion]] of democratic logic. First, we have the traditional [[Master]] who grounds his [[authority]] in some t
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  • The Cyberspace Real
    ...er the role of Hitler, develops the atomic bomb in [[time]] and wins the [[World]] War II.) ...[[present]] us with such hypertext / alternate reality experience: in the first version, the boy "freely accept the necessary," subjecting himself to the o
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  • From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power
    ...[[history]] and endeavours to understand what is effectively going on. The first [[thing]] to note about the film is that Gump is ideology at its purest: th ...lectuals who are no longer able to believe in any social [[Cause]] are the first to fall prey to "fanatical" ethnic [[fundamentalism]]. The link between cyn
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  • Desire:Drive = Truth:Knowledge
    ...notion of reinscribing scientific drive into the constraints of the life-[[world]] is fantasy at its purest--perhaps the fundamental fascist fantasy. Any li ...dd that science is perhaps "real" in an even more radical sense: it is the first (and probably unique) case of a discourse that is strictly nonhistorical ev
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  • Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou
    ...s [[structure]] which allows us to "count" it "as One." Here, however, the first cracks in the ontological edifice of Being appear: in order for us to "coun ...lian]] [[distinction]] between bad ("spurious") and [[true]] infinity: the first refers to the commonsense infinite complexity, while the second concerns th
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  • The Lesbian Session
    ..." causing its [[symbolic]] [[death]] and the subsequent rebirth of the New World.
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  • The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around!
    The first, automatic reaction of today's enlightened [[liberal]] reader to The [[Comm ...e is that of "[[globalization]]": the brutal imposition of a [[unified]] [[world]] [[market]] that threatens all local ethnic traditions, including the very
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  • When the Party Commits Suicide
    ...t have here, enacted in [[real]] [[life]], the uncanny logic of Josef K.'s first interrogation in The Trial? -</p> ...d deceive&nbsp; the party one last time before dying, before leaving the [[world]]. That, Comrade Bukharin, is the underlying reason for these last suicides
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  • Welcome to the Desert of the Real-3
    ...ulminates in the millions of anonymous [[workers]] sweating in [[Third]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian or Brazilian assembly lines
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  • Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto For the Twenty-First Century
    ...s catching up I the guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease. ...ts as its [[goal]], [[writing]] the [[Communist]] Manifesto for the twenty-first century. Hardt and Negri describe [[globalization]] as an ambiguous "deterr
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  • Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
    In 1914, an entire [[world]] disappeared, taking with it not only the bourgeois [[faith]] in [[progres ...ky's [[thesis]], formulated in the 1920s, that the [[logical]] form of the first [[stage]] leading from [[capitalism]] to [[socialism]] would be a parliamen
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  • A Plea for Leninist Intolerance
    ...ty]] itself, have to be renegotiated or reinvented.<ref>See Ulrich Beck, [[World]] [[Risk Society]], trans. Mark Ritter (Oxford, 1999).</ref> Perhaps the pr ...ialismus, not more than obvious where the fault of this reasoning resides? First, it reduces a historical constellation to a closed, fully contextualized si
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  • Gerhard Schroeder's Minority Report and Its Consequences
    ...able percentage of American people and congressmen. Schroeder was thus the first to get the [[full]] taste of the Bush doctrine — and, to pursue the homol ...l flaw: what if the attacking side counts on the fact that, even after its first strike, the opponent continues to act as a rational [[agent]]? His choice i
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  • The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
    ...chosen [[instrument]] of distributing this gift to all the nations of the world! ...democracy to Iraq, which will then serve as [[model]] for the entire Arab world, enabling people to get rid of the corrupt regimes, immediately faces an in
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  • From 'Passionate Attachments' to Dis-Identification
    The first [[thing]] to take note of here is that Butler seems to conflate two radical ...figuration of fantasy would be Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry series. In the first [[film]], the masochist fantasy in all its ambiguity is almost directly ack
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  • You May
    ...map of another, imaginary anatomy. Much of this [[projection]] is racist. First, there is the old-fashioned, unabashed [[rejection]] of the Balkan Other (d ...generate new guilts and [[anxieties]], instead of opening up a brave new [[world]] in which we can [[enjoy]] shifting and reshaping our multiple identities?
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  • The Stellar Parallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference
    ...but me, I am also in the picture": <a name="2"></a><a href="#2x">2</a> the first part of this Lacan's statement designates subjectivization, the dependence ...ndings in modern literature). However, for the novel's second edition (the first printing was a failure), Fitzgerald tried to improve it by rearranging the
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  • Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
    ...[[world]]. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest [[sense]] of the world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W.F. Hegel]], <i>[[Philosophy]] of [[M ...k: the triad that offers itself is that of Judaism - Christianity - Islam: first the immediate/abstract monotheism which, as the price to be paid for its im
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  • A Glance into the Archives of Islam
    ...self between the two, preventing the rise of a harmonious hermaphroditic [[world]] [[civilization]] – with its interposition, the West lost its last chanc ...] of the world. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest sense of the world, the religion of sublimity. [[A Glance into the Archives of Islam#Notes|2]]
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  • The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom
    ...als of the [[Enlightenment]] are inherent and crucial, the "[[administered world]]" is the [[truth]] of Enlightenment, the XXth century [[concentration camp ...e very [[moment]] when those who professed to believe in it were for the [[first time]] confronted with people who had indeed lost all other qualities and s
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  • With or Without Passion
    ...pt the [[real]] in its idiocy, to disavow it and to [[search]] for Another World behind it. The big [[Other]] is thus the order of lie, of lying sincerely. ...xplanation of how beliefs emerge, it itself calls for an explanation. The first thing to specify is that Pascal's "Kneel down and you will believe!" has to
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  • Move the Underground!
    ...onscious]] and has to be reconstructed as the [[missing]] link between the first and the last scene). Schumann brings this procedure of absent melody to an ...to his limbs, standing on a [[chair]] in a ridiculous theatrical pose, my first reaction was that this was a shot of some latest performance art show in Lo
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  • Over the Rainbow Coalition!
    ...e]] when somebody unexpectedly declared passionate love to us - is not the first reaction, preceding the possible positive reply, that something [[obscene]] ...Gibson's film makes clear the [[impossibility]] of such a solution. Gibson first wanted to shoot the film in [[Latin]] and Aramaic and to show it without su
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  • Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner
    ...towards unification (not only of Europe, but also of Europe and the Arab [[world]]).<br><br> ...very [[concept]] of Europe is tainted with anti-Semitism, which is why the first [[duty]] of Jews is to "get rid of Europe," not by ignoring it (only US can
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  • Opera
    However, the first problem here is that, even if accurate, such insights do not contribute muc ...tan turns into "Wanderer" - a figure of the Wandering Jew like already the first great Wagnerian hero, the Flying Dutchman, this "Ahasver des Ozeans."<br><b
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  • Homo Sacer as the Object of the Discourse of the University
    ...he [[threat]] of transcendent powers which parasitize on it, end up in a [[world]] in which, on behalf of its very [[official]] [[goal]] — long pleasurabl ...rofiteering: it is OK IF it is counteracted with charitable activities — first you amass billions, then you [[return]] (part of) [[them]] to the needy…
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  • Too Much Democracy?
    ...ould bring democracy to Iraq, but not impose it immediately - there should first be a period of five or so years in which a benevolently-authoritarian US do
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  • Smashing the Neighbor's Face
    ...rimordial fact, and 'I" should never lose my grounding in this irreducibly first-person relationship to the other which should go to extreme, if necessary - ...a usurper? What is [[signified]] by the advent of conscience, and even the first spark of spirit, if not the discovery of corpses beside me and my [[horror]
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  • Reloaded Revolutions
    ...o with the image of the ruins of Chicago, he simply says "This is the real world!", i.e., what remained of our reality outside the Matrix after the catastro ...kening is not the opening into the wide space of the external reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each of us is effectively
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  • Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
    ...ure]] of [[masochist]] [[perversion]]: the succession is inverted, you are first punished and thus gain the right to commit the crime. If the Guantanamo pri ...ms in our own societies not signal how the same distrust towards the Third World countries: not only are they not able to do our torturing for us, they even
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  • Passion In The Era of Decaffeinated Belief
    ...untly, something in Islam resists the acceptance of the liberal-capitalist world order. It is here that a truly radical analysis should break with the stand ...ull passion explains why, today, "culture" is emerging as the central life-world category. Religion is permitted — not as a substantial way of life, but a
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  • The Matrix: The Truth of the Exaggerations
    ...orld]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...s not the opening into the wide [[space]] of the [[external]] reality, but first the horrible realization of this enclosure, where each of us is effectively
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  • When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal
    ...characters who [[people]] his previous films? What if, in our postmodern [[world]] in which the radical ethical commitment is perceived as ridiculously out
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  • Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film?
    <font face="courier" size="-1">My first [[thesis]] is that this unique dimension is not to be sought primarily at t ...s abyssal depth repeats itself and resonates at a [[multitude]] of levels: first as a purely [[formal]] motif of the abstract [[form]] emerging out of the c
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  • The Iraqi MacGuffin
    ...ce used for killing leopards in the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' sa ...t I will find [[material]] proofs that will justify my [[punishment]]!" So first you punish, and then you look for proofs of the crime... Not to mention the
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  • Iraq's False Promises
    ...a friend accuses you of returning a borrowed kettle broken, your reply is, first, that you never borrowed the kettle; second, that you returned it unbroken; ...ion's [[public]] justifications for the U.S. attack on Iraq in early 2003. First, the administration claimed that [[Saddam]] Hussein possessed weapons of ma
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  • The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle
    ...two series, this term is given a different ideologico-[[political]] twist: first the "normal" need to maintain international trade, then the ruthless determ ...t I will find [[material]] proofs that will justify my [[punishment]]!" So first you punish, and then you look for proofs of the crime... Not to mention the
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  • What Rumsfeld Doesn't Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib
    ...raib was thus not simply a case of American arrogance toward a [[Third]] [[World]] [[people]]. In [[being]] submitted to the humiliating tortures, the Iraqi
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  • Heiner Mueller Out of Joint
    The first [[thing]] one can reproach him with is that he succumbed to the temptation ...ionable style of the late 30s and 40s, suggests that the [[three]] great [[world]] systems - the emerging New Deal capitalism, [[Fascism]], and Stalinism -
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  • Death's Merciless Love
    ...e knows very well what she is doing, and, nonetheless, he does it." If the first formula covers the traditional hero and the second one the early modern her ...n notion of agape that points towards the way out: "For God so loved the [[world]] that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
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  • Objet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism
    ...ltitude]] in the heart of [[capitalism]] "makes democracy possible for the first [[time]]" <tt><b><a name="3x"></a><a href="#3">3</a></b></tt> Till now, de ...ment of multitudes will be transubstantiated the sudden [[birth]] of a new world: "After this long season of [[violence]] and contradictions, global civil w
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  • Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France
    The first conclusion to be drawn is thus that both conservative and liberal reactions ...the counter-pole to "terrorist" attacks is the US military neo-colonial [[world]]-policing; the counter-pole to Rightist Populist violence is the Welfare S
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  • The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed
    ...ng certain external “mechanical” rules, without sharing their “inner world” – and, perhaps, the lesson to be learned is that, sometimes, a dose of
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  • Nobody Has to Be Vile
    ...evitable fate – that, as the [[official]] slogan puts it, ‘[[another]] world is possible.’ It seems, however, that the Porto Alegre reunions have some 2. You shall [[change]] the world, not just sell things.
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  • The Two Totalitarianisms
    ...Neumann’s <em>Behemoth</em> (1942), which suggested that the three great world-systems – [[New Deal]] [[capitalism]], [[Fascism]] and [[Stalinism]] –
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  • Knee-Deep
    <i>Free [[World]]: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our [[Time]]</i> by ...s of the disintegration of [[Eastern Europe]]an [[Communism]]. In <i>Free World</i> he has taken the same perspicuous and bitterly witty approach to the co
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  • Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism
    ...up serving those who 'realistically' argue that any real change in today's world is impossible. This [[reversal]] is not a betrayal of his original ethical
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  • Are We in a War
    ...[[Torture]]' (5 November 2001), with the ominous subheading: 'It's a new [[world]], and survival may well require old techniques that seemed out of the ques ...ut even as we continue to speak out against human-rights abuses around the world, we need to keep an open mind about certain measures to fight terrorism, li
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  • Ethics and the Real
    ‘’L’objet’’ designates an object in the human [[world]]; as such, the “object” is thoroughly determined by signifying chains In his Critique of [[Practical]] [[Reason]], first published in 1788, [[Kant]] argues that ethical judgment ultimately refers
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  • Seminar VII
    ...who have to recognize it. Who am I? "You are the waste that falls in the world through the devil's anus." However, salvation holds on by a thread: the th
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  • Mother
    ...[Freud]]'s account of the '''[[Oedipus complex]]''', the [[mother]] is the first '''[[love]] [[object]]''' of the [[child]]; it is only the [[intervention]] ...ing, and [[being]] devoured by, the [[mother]]. [[Lacan]] argues that the first of the [[complex|family complex]]es is the [[complex|weaning complex]], in
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  • Master
    In the [[process]] of changing the [[world]] the [[master|slave]] changes himself and becomes the [[author]] of his ow
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  • Nature
    ...ses it to designate one term in the opposition, namely the [[nature|animal world]]. In this sense, [[Lacan]] adopts the traditional [[anthropology|anthropo <blockquote>In the [[human]] [[world]], even "those [[signification]]s that are closest to [[need]], [[significa
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  • The Ambassadors
    ...ly in the use of oil paint, a [[recent]] invention whose [[technique]] was first taken advantage of by Flemish masters. What is most "Flemish" of Holbein's ...the astrolabe and [[other]] objects on the upper shelf), the [[living]] [[world]] (as evidenced by books and a musical [[instrument]] on the lower shelf),
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  • Castration
    [[Freud]] first used the term [[castration complex]] in 1908 in reference to an [[infantile ...iation of the incestuous [[object]] that it is possible to go out into the world and seek a partner other than the incestuous one. The prohibition of the pr
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  • Roger Caillois
    ...France]] in [[1939]] for [[Argentina]], where he stayed until the end of [[World War II|WWII]]. During the war he was [[active]] in fighting the spread of [
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  • Surrealism
    ...]] was a [[literary]] and artistic movement that emerged after the First [[World]] War in [[Paris]], its founding [[figure]] the writer and poet [[André Br ...which they saw as more '[[real]]' than the prosaic reality of our everyday world.
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  • Alexandre Kojève
    ...elm Friedrich Hegel]]'s [[work]], ''[[Phenomenology of Spirit]]''. After [[World War II]], Kojève worked in the [[French]] Ministry of [[Economic]] Affairs ...ense to be a philosopher at the end of history influencing the course of [[world]] events. In any [[case]], Kojève's contribution to international French e
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  • Voyeurism
    In an "omnivisual [[world]]," according to Jacques [[Lacan]]'s expression, the voyeur becomes the one
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  • Ex-sistence
    ...e]]. For [[Heidegger]], therefore, human [[consciousness]] is not an inner world of [[thoughts]] and [[images]] but a constant process of projecting [[outsi
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  • International Psycho-Analytical Association
    ...ieties]] that were springing up around the [[world]] at that [[time]]. The first headquarters were in [[{{G}}|Zurich]], and later moved to [[{{G}}|London]], ...s was the only way of assuring that his theories, misunderstood by all his first followers, would remain intact for someone else ([[Lacan]]) to disinter and
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  • Categorical Imperative
    ...s both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation: ...ind a proof for freedom as evidence for a [[lack]] of it. The observable [[world]] could never contain an example of freedom because it would never show us
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  • Frankfurt School
    ...h [[Hegelianism]] that underlay Marx's thought: [[Marcuse]] was one of the first to articulate the [[theoretical]] [[significance]] of these [[texts]]. ==The First Phase==
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  • Thanks, But We’ll Do It Ourselves
    ...s of the [[outside]] world, when the adolescent Amish are thrown into this world unprepared, they cannot but indulge in extremely [[transgressive]] [[behavi ...one between the [[whole]] of the American global [[Empire]] (and its Third World colonies) and Europe.
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  • Administered World
    ...demption. …Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as
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  • Beloved
    ...e is the [[feminine]] of "[[Seth]]"- the [[Biblical]] '[[father]] of the [[world]]'. This can also be seen within Morrison's other works and has led to her ...herself. There are two potential [[interpretations]] of her character. The first is of her as the [[displaced]] [[child]] [[ghost]] in an [[adult]] [[body]]
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  • Blade Runner
    ...replicants are used for dangerous and degrading [[work]] in Earth's "off-[[world]] colonies." Built to be 'more [[human]] than human', they appear physicall ...became a cult classic. Its popularity as a video rental made it one of the first [[films]] to see a DVD release. Blade Runner has been hailed for its vision
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  • Carl Gustav Jung
    ...t]], [[mythology]], [[world]] religion and [[philosophy]]. Though not the first to analyze dreams, he has become perhaps the most well known pioneer in the ...ce and collaboration lasting more than six years and ending shortly before World War I in May [[1914]], when Jung resigned as the chairman of the Internatio
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  • The Night of the World
    What [[Hegel]] called the "Night of the [[World]]," the abyss of radical negativity. ...inning of Hegel's ''Jenaer Realphilosophie'' [[about]] the "[[night of the world]]"?
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  • Parallax View
    ...Job, in which the two perspective are confronted (the divine order of the world and Job's complaint), and neither is the "truthful" one - the truth resides ...the debate; his solution - the transcendental turn - is unique in that it, first, rejects the ontological closure: it recognizes a certain fundamental and i
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  • Supplement
    We have no access to the [[Real]] because our [[world]] is always mediated by the [[Symbolic]].
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  • Seduction
    ...gins with no [[history]] of [[sexual]] abuse" (1950c, p. 73). This was his first allusion to the role of sexual seduction, still very broad in its applicati In the first [[Freudian]] clinical [[doctrine]], the child at [[birth]] was naïve, inno
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  • René Descartes
    It is the science of the unconscious subject, and this subject first emerged in the seventeenth century with the founder of modern philosophy Re ...have to accept, as Descartes put it, that 'there was nothing at all in the world: no sky, no earth, no minds or bodies' (1968 [1642]: 103).
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  • The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos
    ...not our fate, that, as their [[official]] slogan has it, “[[another]] [[world]] is possible.” Lately, however, the Porto Alegre reunions seem to have l ...rld, to really revolutionize our lives. Didn’t [[Marx]] say that all the world’s political upheavals paled in comparison with the invention of the steam
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  • Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
    ==''In a Mad World, the Logic of MAD Still Works''== ...ation of the [[enemy]] is an unexpected [[reflexive reversal]]. In this [[world]] without a clearly identified enemy, it is the [[United States]], the prot
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  • Thanks, But We'll Do It Ourselves
    ...s of the [[outside]] world, when the adolescent Amish are thrown into this world unprepared, they cannot but indulge in extremely [[transgressive]] [[behavi ...one between the [[whole]] of the American global [[Empire]] (and its Third World colonies) and Europe.
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  • How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
    ...tates]] should bring democracy to Iraq, but not immediately. There should first be a period of five or so years in which a benevolently authoritarian, U.S.
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  • The Desert of the Real
    is any [[symbolism]] in the collapse of the [[World]] Trade Center, it is [[separation]] between the digitized First World and the [[Third]] World’s
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  • Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
    ...]] recently declared: "The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity." Indeed, and the United States just happe ...bout what sort of role the [[United States]] intends to play in the twenty-first century."
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  • Ideology Reloaded
    ...orld]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web. Or the series is a baroque illustration of Plato’s cave, in whi ...Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect [[human]] world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No
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  • Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
    ...n, and strength of will in sport as well as in [[politics]]. Then, after [[World]] War II, in her photo albums, she rediscovered her [[ideal]] of bodily bea
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  • Passion: Regular or Decaf?
    ...fiteering: It is fine IF it is counteracted with charitable activities — first you amass billions, then you [[return]] (part of) them to the needy. The sa ...s [[vision]] makes clear the [[impossibility]] of such a solution. Gibson first wanted to shoot the film in [[Latin]] and Aramaic and show it without subti
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  • What Does Europe Want? (article)
    ...asure of cultural masterpieces that wait to be acknowledged by the wider [[world]]. Maybe, this treasure is too fragile to survive intact the exposure to th However, this simplified picture is not the entire [[truth]]. The first complication: The very ex-Communist countries which are the most ardent sup
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  • The Free World ... of Slums
    ...of post-[[Communist]] [[Eastern Europe]]. In his new book, <i>The Free [[World]]: America, [[Europe]] and the Suprising [[Future]] of the West</i>, [[Ash] [[Hegel]] was among the first to [[interpret]] the geographic [[triad]] of [[Germany]]-[[France]]-[[Engla
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  • The Not-So-Quiet American
    ...mericans are now doing: exporting their [[revolution]] around the entire [[world]]. No wonder they moved from “containing” the [[enemy]] to a more [[ag ...is the almighty [[God]]’s [[gift]] to every [[man]] and [[woman]] in the world,” his [[apparent]] [[modesty]] nonetheless concealed, in the best [[total
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  • Catastrophes Real and Imagined
    ...his disagreement with the way others saw the future—and thus he was the first to get the [[full]] taste of the Bush doctrine.<br><br> ...l flaw: What if the attacking side counts on the fact that, even after its first strike, the opponent continues to act as a rational [[agent]]? His choice i
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  • The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape
    ..., won, that the [[search]] is over, that the advent of a global, liberal [[world]] [[community]] lurks just around the corner, that the obstacles to this ul ...conomy|economic]] [[globalization]]. This new [[racism]] of the developed world is in a way much more brutal than the previous one: Its implicit legitimiza
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  • The Liberal Waterloo
    The first reaction of progressives to [[Bush]]’s second victory was that of despair ...ns]], moves U.N. headquarters to Babylon where he imposes an anti-American world [[government]] that disarms all [[nation-state]]s. This ridiculous plot un
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  • Revenge of Global Finance
    ...se — a universe that includes a [[Reagan]]esque [[vision]] of the Free [[World]] versus the [[Evil Empire]]; the retreat of the [[Nation]] States, which c ...y [[unified]] "[[symbolic]]" [[community]] of believers, [[Christ]] had to first come and perform the [[Holy Spirit]]’s separating "diabolic" founding ges
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  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow
    ...The key question is thus: why is "culture" emerging as our central life-[[world]] [[category]]? We no longer "really believe," we just follow (some of the) ...tion]]" is used in the [[recent]] ideological offensive is exemplary here: first, an abstract opposition is constructed between "modernizers" (those who end
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  • The Constitution is Dead - Long Live Proper Politics
    ...e allowed, solicited even, to go out and experience the ways of the modern world - they drive cars, listen to pop music, watch TV and get involved in drinki ...s of discipline and fantasising about the illicit pleasures of the outside world, the adolescent Amish are thrown into it, of course they cannot help but in
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  • The Politics of Jouissance
    ...fers to an obscure Unnameable. Even [[Nazi]] [[anti-Semitism]] opened up a world: by way of describing the [[present]] critical [[situation]], naming the [[
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  • The Empty Wheelbarrow
    ...n, that the [[search]] is over, that the advent of a [[global]], liberal [[world]] [[community]] lurks just around the corner, that the obstacles to this Ho ...] that is at stake now - the new rules that will regulate it, what the new world [[order]] will be.
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  • Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View
    ...ory's setting - a [[particular]] provincial [[environment]]. In a global [[world]], a detective story can take [[place]] almost literally ANYWHERE: there ar ...d into the [[universe]] of his Wallander novels; this [[big Other]] of the World History has to remain in the background, as the distant [[Absent]] [[Cause]
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  • Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
    ...untly, something in Islam resists the acceptance of the liberal-capitalist world order. It is here that a truly radical analysis should break with the stand ...ull passion explains why, today, "culture" is emerging as the central life-world category. Religion is permitted — not as a substantial way of life, but a
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  • Are We Allowed To Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier?
    scenario is the first act of liberation: by means of it, the servant's masochistic [[libidinal]] the first step towards liberation. <a name="7"></a><a href="#7x">7</a> When we are su
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  • Liberation Hurts
    ...ners] as [[true]] believers, their belief is more complex that it appears. First, there are much more secular motivations at [[work]]. This is our Western [ ...etings are fake, usually, in the [[sense]] that, if we've just met for the first time, and I were to ask "How do you feel? How are you?" and you were to sus
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  • The State of Emergency Called Love
    ...ists choose a creed from all the creeds and a god from all the gods of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterabl
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  • The Iraqui MacGuffin
    ...ce used for killing leopards in the Scottish highlands.' [[Naturally]] the first man says, 'But there are no leopards in the Scottish highlands.' 'Well,' sa ...es on their side, but would stick to air bombing.) Here, then, we have the first [[practical]] demonstration of what does the Bush [[doctrine]] of preventiv
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  • Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse
    ...he [[threat]] of transcendent powers which parasitize on it, end up in a [[world]] in which, on behalf of its very [[official]] [[goal]] — long pleasurabl ...rofiteering: it is OK IF it is counteracted with charitable activities — first you amass billions, then you [[return]] (part of) [[them]] to the needy…
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  • The Desert and the Real
    ...a fake, a [[spectacle]] staged to convince him that he lives in a [[real]] world, while all [[people]] around him are effectively actors and extras in a gig ...ng an aseptic life in a secluded area longs for the experience of the real world of material decay.
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  • The One Measure of True Love is "You Can Insult the Other"
    ...September thrown new light on your diagnosis of what is happening to the [[world]]? ...y be what defined the twentieth century, which really began with the First World War. We all [[remember]] the war reports by Ernst J?nger, in which he prais
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  • Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today
    There are two features which distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[reg ...is significant that the work in which Lenin's unique [[voice]] was for the first [[time]] clearly heard is What Is To Be Done? - the [[text]] which exhibits
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  • Why We All Love to Hate Heider
    ...tire spectrum of the 'legitimate' democratic political bloc in the Western world. From the social democratic Third Way to the Christian conservatives, from ...rd Way. My first reaction to the charge is: why not? If we look around the world today, we soon see how handy a dose of this out-of-date way of thinking can
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  • Desert of the Real
    ...ulminates in the millions of anonymous [[workers]] sweating in [[Third]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian or Brazilian assembly lines
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  • Laugh Yourself to Death
    ...ve]] political [[agent]]? Second, it disqualifies forms of the [[Third]] [[World]] violations of [[human rights]] for which Western states are (co)[[respons ...lezze</i>, Lina Wertmueller's attempt at the holocaust comedy in 1975. The first [[thing]] to take note is AT WHAT does one laugh here: there are obviously
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  • The Thing from Inner Space
    ...from Inner Space than the very first [[scene]] of <i>[[Star Wars]]</i>? At first, all we see is the void - the infinite dark sky, the ominously silent abyss ...ne of the movie takes place when the [[spectral]] Harey reawakens from her first failed suicide attempt on Solaris: after ingesting liquid oxygen, she lies
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  • You May!
    ...map of another, imaginary anatomy. Much of this [[projection]] is racist. First, there is the old-fashioned, unabashed [[rejection]] of the Balkan Other (d ...generate new guilts and [[anxieties]], instead of opening up a brave new [[world]] in which we can [[enjoy]] shifting and reshaping our multiple identities?
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  • The Matrix, or, the Two Sides of Perversion
    ...n how our world is just a mirage generated by a global Mind embodied inthe World Wide Web. This series goes back to Plato's Republic: does <i>The Matrix</i> Reaching the End Of the World<br><br>
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  • NATO, the Left Hand of God? (Essay)
    ...nal law." This "higher law" has its "deepest roots outside the perceptible world." "While the state is the work of man, man is the work of God." In other wo ...e Serbs were at that time the only state-building nation. After the Second World War, Tito wanted to replace this Serb-dominated Yugoslavia with a federal o
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  • Against The Double Blackmail
    ...to disintegrate when the Slovene "secession" triggered the domino-effect (first Croatia, then Bosnia, Macedonia...); it was already at the [[moment]] of Mi ...], [[Kurds]] in [[Turkey]], etc.etc? Here, of course, we enter the shady [[world]] of international [[capital]] and its strategic interests.
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  • From Proto-Reality to the Act
    human passions), while the Jewish [[religion]], with its iconoclasm, was the first to prohibit? It is the Jewish God who is the first fully personified God, a God who says 'I
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  • Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism
    ...s [[structure]] which allows us to "count" it "as One." Here, however, the first cracks in the ontological edifice of Being appear: in order for us to "coun ...lian]] [[distinction]] between bad ("spurious") and [[true]] infinity: the first refers to the commonsense infinite complexity, while the second concerns th
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  • Desire: Drive = Truth: Knowledge
    ...notion of reinscribing scientific drive into the constraints of the life-[[world]] is fantasy at its purest - perhaps the fundamental fascist fantasy. Any l ...dd that science is perhaps "real" in an even more radical sense: it is the first (and probably unique) case of a discourse that is strictly "nonhistorical"
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  • Reflections of Media, Politics and Cinema
    ...[[metaphysics]] of [[presence]]. It's a no less phantasmic Japan then the first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japa ...s was of course the [[other]] way round. Then there is the Kojevian Japan. First for [[Kojeve]] the end of [[history]] was [[Russia]] and America, the reali
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  • It Doesn't Have to Be a Jew
    ...rds]], in the big [[media]]-constructing the enemy has two objectives. The first is fanatic, [[irrational]] [[fundamentalism]], which is of course why the W ...dea]] was that these movies expressed a kind of [[nostalgia]] for the lost world, where it was still naively possible to believe in devils. This is a more r
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  • Human Rights and its Discontents
    ...w." This "higher law" has its "deepest roots [[outside]] the perceptible [[world]]." "While the state is the [[work]] of man, man is the work of God." In [[ ...e Serbs were at that time the only state-building nation. After the Second World War, Tito wanted to replace this Serb-dominated Yugoslavia with a federal o
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  • The Spectre Is Still Roaming Around
    The first, automatic reaction of today's enlightened [[liberal]] reader to The [[Comm ...e is that of "[[globalization]]": the brutal imposition of a [[unified]] [[world]] [[market]] that threatens all local ethnic traditions, including the very
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  • Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality
    crises coming: the ecological, the developed against the underdeveloped [[world]] </p><p><b>Zizek:</b> First I must say that I don't have my own positive theory about
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  • Hidden Prohibitions And The Pleasure Principle
    ...was a kind of [[false]] leap, but if your question implies that today's [[world]] is paradoxically closer to the neo-Spinozist universality of the signifie ...niversal, objective, knowledge statement. This is for me today's Spinozist world, especially in the [[United States]]. For example, every can, every package
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  • From "Passionate Attachments" to Dis-identification
    The first [[thing]] to take note of here is that Butler seems to conflate two radical ...figuration of fantasy would be Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry series. In the first [[film]], the masochist fantasy in all its ambiguity is almost directly ack
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  • Are We in a War? Do We Have an Enemy?
    ...[[Torture]]' (5 November 2001), with the ominous subheading: 'It's a new [[world]], and survival may well require old techniques that seemed out of the ques ...ven as we continue to [[speak]] out against human-rights abuses around the world, we [[need]] to keep an open [[mind]] about certain measures to fight [[ter
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  • Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today?
    There are two features which distinguish his [[intervention]]. First, one cannot emphasize enough the fact of Lenin's [[externality]] with [[reg ...is significant that the work in which Lenin's unique [[voice]] was for the first [[time]] clearly heard is What Is To Be Done? - the [[text]] which exhibits
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  • Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the XXI Century?
    ...s catching up I the guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease. ...ts as its [[goal]], [[writing]] the [[Communist]] Manifesto for the twenty-first century. Hardt and Negri describe [[globalization]] as an ambiguous "deterr
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  • Hysteria and Cyberspace
    ...s predominant use of [[conspiracy theories]] to [[interpret]] the modern [[world]]... ...]]-entity correctly, then it's a version of cyberspace I didn't mention. I first of all mentioned the deconstructionist version of cyberspace which is this
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  • Democracy
    ...growing consumerism of Western [[liberal]] democracies after the [[Second World War]] – as against its political institutions – represents a fairly pur
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  • The Future of an Illusion
    At first, Freud begins by explaining religion in a similar term to that of [[totemis ...of the [[father-complex]], and represents man's [[helplessness]] in the [[world]], having to face the ultimate fate of [[death]], the [[struggle]] of civil
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  • Illusion
    This [[pessimism]], or realism, is first associated with the illusion that lasting [[sexual]] [[satisfaction]] is po To the first [[category]] belongs art, which is said to evolve from [[magic]] and which,
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  • Self
    ...[word]] self in the general [[sense]] of [[representation]] of the inner [[world]]. We can...
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  • Historicism
    ...attributes the [[change]] to the "modern" [[need]] to interact with the [[world]], where as ancient [[philosophers]] were self-contained, and medieval phil ...dominion, and yet at the same time can [[construct]] for itself an inward world." {{fact}}
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  • Correspondence with Jacques Lacan (1963 - 1969)
    ...which plunged him into great turmoil, evidence of which can be seen in his first letters. ...ake his entry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure on January 15, 1964, with a first lecture on "[[excommunication]]."''<ref>Cf. Jacques Lacan, ''Séminaire XI:
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  • Works of Slavoj Zizek
    This is [[Zizek]]'s first major [[work]] in [[English]] and it remains one of his most accessible boo ...ed. If, on the [[other]] hand, you read The [[Sublime Object of Ideology]] first, you will be better able to grasp the subtleties of his arguments concernin
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  • The Sublime Object of Ideology
    ...takes a look at the question of [[human]] [[agency]] in a [[postmodern]] [[world]]. From the sinking of the ''Titanic'' to Hitchcock’s ''[[Rear Window]]''
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  • Slavoj Žižek - Bibliography
    * [[Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[First As Tragedy, Then As Farce]]'''''. ...[The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World|The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)]]'''''. Ann Arbor:
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  • The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World
    ...an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft'' ...ith a commentary of the second draft of Schelling's work ''The Ages of the World'', written in 1813.
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  • Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917
    ...or the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century world political scene?
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  • Interrogating the Real
    ...of the collected writings of [[Slavoj Žižek]] - undoubtedly one of the [[world]]'s leading contemporary [[cultural]] commentators, and one of the most ins ...and a helpful [[glossary]] for those coming to Žižek’s work for the [[first time]].
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  • The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology
    ...ppress a [[feeling]] of surprise and bewilderment." After the horrors of [[World]] War II, the [[Holocaust]], [[Stalinism]], and [[Yugoslavia]], Leviticus 1
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  • Never Mind the Bollocks
    Recently, a different man broke the [[world]] endurance record of 1000 hours spent on the Big Dipper roller coaster rid ...that sustains our daily [[activity]]," and dissolves the parameters of the world in which it occurs. This exhilarating ride from the [[present]] into [[futu
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  • Enjoy your Zizek
    ...hich would later become <i>The [[Sublime Object]] of Ideology</i>. But his first [[marriage]], to a fellow Slovenian philosophy graduate student, had just e ...intend to publish his thesis in book form. The following night he had his first panic attack, which had all the symptoms of a heart attack. Eventually, he
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  • I am a fighting atheist
    ...taneously light-hearted and deep, invoked the [[dream]] of a post-Cold War world in which free [[thinking]] would transcend all borders.</p> ...ion between them reflects Zizek's [[real]] [[purpose]]: to make us see the world with fresh eyes. Unlike the vast majority of academic thinkers, Zizek is no
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  • Psychoanalysis and the Post-Political
    Antiquity." That is to say, why the laughter? The first possible during the 1980s, when you were first formulating your [[project]]?</i>
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  • Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
    ...or Schelling and Hegel it is the "right of the self" and the "night of the world" respectively. The point is that, in each of these cases, there is an incr ...n - the excess that engulfs symbolic coherence in an entropic night of the world - and the very drive towards subjectivation as a way of escaping such a con
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  • Slavoj Zizek: An Introduction
    ...cal Introduction</i> published by Pluto Press in London in March 2004. The first four chapters deal in detail with the formation and decomposition of Yugosl ...m scratch, now from the position of those who are encountering him for the first time. <br><br>
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  • Slavoj Žižek: What is a Master-Signifier
    ...ts there, it is their book <i>[[Hegemony]] and Socialist Strategy</i> that first oriented him in the use of the '[[Lacanian]] [[conceptual]] [[apparatus]] a ...ing reality - in that there is no single struggle that automatically comes first. As Zizek writes: 'Any of the [[antagonisms]], which in the light of Marxis
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  • Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
    ...psychoanalytic concept of the phallus: 'What is the lightest object in the world? The penis, because it is the only one that can be raised by a mere thought ...vatory, the hole down which the shit disappears is up front, so that it is first laid out for us to inspect; in the traditional French lavatory, it is in th
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  • Slavoj Žižek's Third Way
    ...o authors were, of course, already well-known for their interventions in [[world]] [[political]] events, often [[writing]] responses in newspapers or on the ...us [[thesis]] 11 ("[[Philosophers]] have hitherto only [[interpreted]] the world; the point is to [[change]] it"):
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  • Literature
    ...uno Bettelheim's classic The Uses of Enchantment similarly exploited the [[world]] of fairy tales to illuminate [[child]] psychology, and vice versa. More r Between the world wars in the twentieth century, the politico-artistic school of [[surrealism
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  • Phenomenology
    ...kepticism, and finally phrenology, for which the mind's [[being]] in the [[world]] is literally a bone (the phrenologist Franz Joseph Gall claimed that bump ...n bracketed, in [[order]] to describe how the transcendent elements of the world, including [[other]] selves and [[cultural]] beings, appear in perception,
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  • Wilhelm Reich
    ...d [[free love]], Reich realized he was in [[danger]] and [[left]] Germany, first settling in [[Scandinavia]], then in 1939 in the [[United States]], where h ...ink, a fellow [[analyst]]-in-[[training]]. They [[married]], and had their first daughter, Eva, in 1924 and a second daughter in 1928, but Reich was unable
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  • Paul Ricoeur
    Ricœur's early years were marked by two main facts. First, he was [[born]] to a devout [[Protestant]] [[family]], making him a member [[World War II|WWII]] interrupted Ricœur's career, and he was drafted to serve in
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  • Erich Fromm
    ...s most popular book was ''The Art of Loving'', an international bestseller first published in [[1956]], which recapitulated and complemented the [[theoretic Central to Fromm's [[world view]] was his [[interpretation]] of the [[Talmud]], which he began studyin
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  • Hegemony
    ...mination by local [[power (international)|powers]], or domination of the [[world]] by a [[global]] power. China's position of dominance in [[East Asia]] for ...e|client]]s) battling to dominate the [[arms race]] and become the supreme world superpower. The details of the ideologies do come into play to the extent
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  • Defenders of the Faith
    ...igion is emerging as the wellspring of murderous [[violence]] around the [[world]], assurances that [[Christian]] or Muslim or Hindu fundamentalists are onl ...legacy, that of atheism? What makes modern Europe unique is that it is the first and only [[civilization]] in which atheism is a fully legitimate option, no
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  • A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua)
    ...arguably been the most ethnocentric group among all the cultures of the [[world]]" (<a href="#fn2" name="cfn2"><i>CC</i></a><i>,</i> p. 232). We should hav ...his line of argumentation is a simple empirical lie if there ever was one. First, I do not claim that the U.S. got what it deserved, but what it "fantasized
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  • The Last Hegelian: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek
    ...). Zizek ran as pro-reform candidate for the presidency of Slovenia in the first democratic election in 1990 and served as the Republic's ambassador of [[sc ...e to meet you." It's fake in the [[sense]] that, if we've just met for the first time, you would have the [[right]] to say, "Sorry, it's none of your busine
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  • Kant with Sade
    ...in the restitution of a deposit:<ref>Cf. the Remark to Theorem III of the first chapter of the Analytic of Pure Practical Reason, Barni, p. 163; Vorländer But this distance only exists at first sight, for the moral imperative does no less in a latent fashion, since it
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  • Lacan's Metaphor of the Mirror Stage
    ...ows on from the strict intrication of the imaginary [[world]] and the real world in the [[psychic]] [[economy]] - now you are going to see how.<p> ...constituted by a [[splitting]], by a differentiation from the [[external]] world - what is included inside is differentiated from what is rejected by the [[
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  • From The Function of the Veil
    ...one of the most fundamental [[images]] of the [[human]] relation to the [[world]], the [[veil]], the curtain.<br><br> ...sary? We will come back to it. As always one goes too fast. If one goes first to the why one enters immediately into a chaos and pandemonium of all the [
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  • Tuché and Automaton
    I wish to stress here that, at first sight, psychoanalysis seems to lead in the direction of idealism. God kno We have only to consider the course of this experience from its first steps to see, on the contrary, that it in no way allows us to accept some s
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  • The Topic of the Imaginary
    ...it to one's [[image]] of oneself, one's capacities, [[position]] in the [[world]]. [[Lacan]] distinguishes between the subject and the ego. The ego is th ...ion]], its net over experience, over the relationship between language and world, is much broader.]</b><br>
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  • Desire, Life and Death
    ...roundabout circuits by what Freud calls the elements of the [[external]] [[world]].<br> ...him out of this for him to find the rhythm by which we get attuned to the world. If the nameless desire can appear at the level of the desire to sleep, whi
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  • The Jouissance of Transgression
    ...al]] with his atheistic profession of [[faith]], but the Freud who was the first to acknowledge the [[value]] and relevance of a [[myth]] that constituted f ...d raising it up in the very movement that abolishes it - thus offering the first weighty historical example of the [[German]] [[notion]] of <i>[[Aufhebung]]
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  • Antigone Between Two Deaths
    ...life and death. Although she is not yet dead, she is eliminated from the [[world]] of the [[living]]</u>. And it is from that moment on that her complaint b [If she is eliminated from the world of the living, I.e. Is already dead, her [[action]] however is taken to pre
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  • The Anamorphosis
    ...before taking things up again at the point we left them last time, I must first clear up a misunderstanding that appears to have arisen in the minds of cer ...hat it is on the objects that it apprehends. And yet I apprehend the world in a perception that seems to concern the immanence of the <i>I see myself
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  • Infans
    ..., by verbalizing them and giving them [[meaning]]; and second, between the world and the infant, since for the baby she serves as the [[representative]] of <p>On this point, which is crucial for [[thinking]] the relationship with the world, and which marks the way in which that relationship depends on the relation
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  • École de la Cause freudienne
    ...of other [[schools]] through the Association mondial de la psychanalyse ([[World]] Association of Psychoanalysis), founded in Paris in 1992.
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  • List of schools of psychoanalysis
    * [[World]] Assosiation of Psychoanalysis. http://www.wapol.org/
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  • Deprivation
    ...eality]] and its traumas compared to the reality of the representational [[world]] forms the basis of the differences among [[psychoanalytic]] theories. For
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  • Death Instinct
    ...d by the [[libido]] to some extent and thus deflected to the [[outside]] [[world]] through the musculature in the drive for [[destruction]] and [[mastery]] ...<i>[[reality]]</i> principle, represents the influence of the [[external]] world" (1924c, p. 160). Although Freud recognized the speculative [[nature]] of h
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  • Collective Unconscious
    ...ious, the [[other]] parts [[being]] [[consciousness]] of the perceptible [[world]] and consciousness itself. The [[collective unconscious]] is different fro The term collective unconscious was first...
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  • Helplessness
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  • Latent
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  • Libidinal Development
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  • Word-Presentation
    ...alytic [[work]], in [[particular]], in On [[Aphasia]] (1891b), where Freud first presented the antithesis between thing- and word-presentations, [[the thing ...[categories]] of [[space]], time, [[causality]], and permanence during the first two years of [[life]], categories that supply the foundation for the [[deve
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  • Weltanschauung
    The term <i>Weltanschauung</i>, literally, "view of the [[world]]," had a very specific [[meaning]] for [[Freud]], who defined it in the Ne ...]] [[need]] for protection. To emphasize how risky a religious view of the world is to [[thought]], which it limits through its interdictions, he also revis
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  • Marxism and Psychoanalysis
    ...sis and Marxism. Nevertheless, Freudian Marxist research continued after [[World]] War II in [[Germany]], with Alexander Mitscherlich ([[author]] of <i>The ...on old stereotypes. Much of the work is [[being]] done in the early twenty-first century on [[belief]] systems, social representations, the [[ideal]], or th
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  • Mastery
    The term mastery has several [[meanings]] in [[psychoanalysis]]. The first relates to the [[anal]] [[stage]] in [[infantile]] [[sexual]] [[development The assurance of mastery involves the ego itself in its relation to the [[world]]: Integrating the requirements of the ego [[ideal]], it makes the ego's [[
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  • Oceanic Feeling
    In the first chapter of [[Civilization]] and Its Discontents (1930a [1929]) Freud locate ...se to Rolland, "one of the twelve men upon whom rests the destiny of the [[world]]," he gave free rein to his [[fantasy]] of [[being]] the [[Moses]] of [[ps
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  • Omnipotence of Thoughts
    ...It consists in the belief that one can transform or influence the external world through one's thoughts alone.
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  • Narcissistic Defenses
    ...ect, [[paranoid]] [[projection]], counter investment in the [[external]] [[world]], the...
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  • Mourning
    ...cerned with [[death]] and mourning at the time—the middle of the First [[World]] War, when everyone in [[Europe]] was dealing with such losses—for these ...so absorbing that it means confining all [[cathexis]] to the [[internal]] world. There are in fact few tasks more engrossing than taking stock of what will
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  • Primal Scene
    The term appeared for the [[first time]] in [[Freud]]'s [[work]] apropos of the "[[Wolf Man]]" [[case]] (1918 ...ous and contradictory way the emergence of the unknown within a familiar [[world]], to which they are bound by vital [[needs]], by expectations of [[pleasur
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  • Primitive Horde
    ...[Secret]] of the Totem (1905), also acknowledged Darwin's [[theory]]: "The first [[practice]] was that of the jealous [[Father]]: 'no male can touch the fem ...] law. The [[world]] of relations of force gives way to the emergence of a world of alliances and solidarity. In [[Moses and Monotheism]] Freud returns to t
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  • Psychotic Defenses
    ...ribe conflicts encountered in his [[relationship]] with the [[external]] [[world]].
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  • Reality Testing
    ...he]] gauges the [[difference]] between the [[internal]] and [[external]] [[world]]s.
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  • Symbolization
    ...the object in the act of projection, which, although it dehumanizes the [[world]] by transforming it into abstract entities, nevertheless maintains a link ...xcessively and prevents himself from learning through [[knowledge]] of the world.
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  • Unconscious Fantasy
    ...priority to the [[internal]] [[world]]. His paradigm of the psychological world was the unconscious [[fantasy]] of the [[three]]-person constellation that
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  • Secondary Narcissism
    ...characteristic manifestations: [[lack]] of interest in the [[external]] [[world]] and [[delusions]] of grandeur.
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  • Maternal
    ...ly initially known with [[certainty]] by the pleasure ego. In the infant's first [[memories]], [[perception]] of this object is associated with cessation of ...[Klein]] presents the bisexual maternal as the foundation of the psychic [[world]], which contains both [[good]] and bad [[objects]]. For Donald [[Winnicott
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  • Identity
    ...ychology that would include the ego's relationships with the surrounding [[world]] and [[guide]] research on [[child]] [[development]]. The second sought to
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  • Rat Man
    ...llow-up of this case was not possible, because the patient was killed in [[World]] War I.
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  • Wolf Man
    ...al]]. It re-arose in the course of his [[progress]] in his [[symbolic]] [[world]], thanks to "the advance of his [[intellectual]] development."<ref>SE 17 p
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  • Sergei Pankejeff
    ...ng depression. He also felt like there was a veil cutting him off from the world. Initially, according to Freud, Pankejeff resisted opening up to full analy Freud's first publication on the "Wolf Man" was "From the History of an Infantile Neurosi
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  • Obsession
    ...hobias. A [[phobia]] is the [[fear]] of an [[object]] in the [[outside]] [[world]] whose [[absence]] or avoidance is sufficient, in principle, to avoid [[an
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  • Catharsis
    '''Catharsis''' is a [[form]] of [[emotion]]al cleansing first defined by the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[philosopher]] [[Aristotle]]. ...tion would require the audience to take political action in the [[real]] [[world]] in [[order]] to fill the emotional gap they [[experience]].
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  • Psychological Trauma
    ...e is frequently a violation of the person's familiar ideas [[about]] the [[world]], putting the person in a [[state]] of extreme confusion and insecurity. T
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  • Developmental psychology
    Generally regarded as one of the [[world]]'s leading scholars in the field of [[developmental psychology]], Bronfenb ...espond closely with [[Piaget]]'s later-described stages of childhood, were first presented in Steiner's [[1911]] essay ''The Education of the Child''; his d
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  • Defense mechanism
    In the ego, there are two [[processes]] going on. First, there is the unconscious primary [[process]], where the [[thoughts]] are n ...ocused on the [[satisfaction]], they must respect the [[reality]] of the [[world]] and the superego. The superego represents the learned (in the process of
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  • Unconscious mind
    ...[[exist]] at all), whereas [[outside]] [[formal]] psychology a [[whole]] [[world]] of pop-[[psychological]] [[speculation]] has grown up in which the uncons ...many. [[Consciousness]], in Freud's [[topographical]] view (which was his first of several psychological models of the [[mind]]) was a relatively thin [[pe
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  • Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
    mity with the first formulations Freud gave concerning anxiety as a direct that. It was in order to make you feel this that the first steps of my teaching trod
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  • Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema
    There is, first, the standard German narrative: the tragedy of the hundreds of thousands of ...he standard Hollywood ideology. Two features of the film are crucial here: first, its ultimate reduction of the gigantic battle to the conflict of two indiv
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  • Ego-psychology
    ...ology]] developed in the United States in the years following the Second [[World]] War and focused on ways of strengthening the defence mechanisms of the [[ ...Is the [[goal]] of [[psychoanalysis]] to bring the [[patient]] to see the world as the [[analyst]] sees it? [[Lacan]] traces most of [[ego-psychology]]'s
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  • Schools
    *[http://www.wapol.org WAP - World Association of Psychoanalysis]
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  • Activity
    ...al]] [[life]] as a [[whole]]" (p. 133), along with the pairs ego/outside [[world]] and [[pleasure]]/unpleasure. But even in 1896 Freud had already evoked th
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre
    ...nsciousness: it is [[outside]], in the [[world]]. It is a [[being]] of the world, like the ego of [[another]]." The [[subject]] does not possess himself and ...s topic. The eyes, as one of the modes of access for libido to explore the world, become the [[instrument]] of the '[[scopic]] [[drive]]'. A drive, we must
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  • Donald Winnicott
    ...e completed his medical studies in 1920, and in 1923, the same year as his first [[marriage]] (to Alice Taylor), he got a post as physician at the Paddingto ...lled [[Sigmund Freud]]'s [[true]] [[intellectual]] heirs. By the end of [[World]] War Two, a compromise established [[three]] more or less amicable groups
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  • Heraclitus
    ...on."[1] Heraclitus is the first person in the [[history]] of the western [[world]] to have put forward a robust [[philosophical]] [[system]]. His writings h
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  • Freud Lives!
    ...s one of what he described as the [[three]] '[[narcissistic illnesses]]'. First, [[Copernicus]] demonstrated that the [[Earth]] moves around the [[Sun]], t ...the second dream has the same function as the sudden change of tone in the first, so our ordinary [[reality]] enables us to evade an encounter with true [[t
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  • Germany
    The first contacts between [[psychoanalysis]] and Germany occurred during the discuss ...]] [[women]], Tatiana Rosenthal, Karen Horney, and Margarete Stegmann, the first women [[analysts]]. In June 1912 two [[other]] nonphysician women were admi
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  • Existentialism
    ...t]] and the organism; and (ii) the significances attached to the brain—[[world]] interaction, then, the contents of the psyche may [[change]] over [[time] ...integrates important moments of the ongoing encounter between subject and world. If we import associationist holism into this, then we see that the content
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  • Feminist theory
    those whose [[position]] in the [[world]] it strengthens (and theories, as we [[know]], don’t have to be [[true]] in [[order]] to be used to strengthen people’s positions in the world).” (Lugones and Spelman, “Have We Got a Theory for You!”)
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  • Beautiful soul
    ...[1807].</ref> The [[beautiful soul]] projects its own disorder onto the [[world]] and attempts to [[cure]] this disorder by imposing "the law of the heart" ...e his very own ''raison d'être'' in the disorder that he denounces in the world."<ref>{{E}} p. 70</ref></blockquote>
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  • Gift
    ...at of 'gift' rather than 'gold' or 'money.' . . . Since his faeces are his first gift, the child easily transfers his interest from that substance to the ne ...e]] for her. Defecation and its relation to the [[object]] thus become the first opportunity for the infant to choose between [[bodily]] pleasure (narcissis
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  • Trompe l'oeil
    ...of depth on a flat surface, suggesting that our [[understanding]] of the [[world]] is shaped by perception and misperception. Sigmund [[Freud]], the founder
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  • Autism
    ...delusions]], which prevents the person from investing in the [[outside]] [[world]]. The second refers to an [[absence]] of [[development]] of [[communicatio ...nia is a shutting-in of the [[subject]] in an impenetrable, incommunicable world, closed in on itself, made up of unorganized delusional elements to which a
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  • Depression
    Karl [[Abraham]] (1912/1989) was one of the first [[psychoanalytical]] authors to concern himself with depressed [[patients]] ...lost object]] so as to recathect it onto [[objects]] in the [[external]] [[world]]. However, the major problem raised by Freud's descriptions of the dynamic
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  • Hatred
    ...t is the source of stimuli: "At the very beginning, it seems, the external world, [[objects]], and what is hated are identical" (p. 136). The determining fa ...hatred is not exclusively destructive toward the [[object]]: Acting as the first differentiating boundary between [[inside]] and [[outside]], it ensures the
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  • Neutrality
    ...[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]] in 1937, and the term met with much success after [[World]] War II. Most American [[psychoanalysts]] [[naturally]] followed his examp
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  • Parapraxis
    ...hrough the fact that, in the [[case]] of [[chance]] [[event]]s in a real [[world]], "slips" involve the most insignificant [[psychic]] [[event]]s.
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  • Primal scene
    The term appeared for the [[first time]] in Freud's [[work]] apropos of the "Wolf Man" case (1918b [1914]), b ...ous and contradictory way the emergence of the unknown within a familiar [[world]], to which they are bound by vital [[needs]], by expectations of [[pleasur
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  • Schizophrenia
    ...ho often were associated with hospitals for the insane. Karl [[Abraham]]'s first letters to Freud concerned [[psychosis]]; like Carl [[Jung]], he worked at ...owth of psychoanalysis as a medical specialty in the United States after [[World]] War II affected the way that schizophrenia was perceived, understood, and
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  • Index:Parallax View
    * [[world]] 317-318
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  • Biopolitics
    ...logy]], of instrumental [[reason]], of biopolitics, as the “administered world”, and the capitalist [[matrix]] characterized by the incessant production ...io-politics includes the brutal forms of regimentation that exist in our [[world]] as well as the [[desire]] to prevent human [[suffering]]. The old leftist
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  • Bureaucracy
    ...y. Th is [[relationship]] can be described in a [[number]] of ways. In the first, Žižek distinguishes between the “performative” [[role]] of the monar ...elf” (''SO'': 33). He clarifies this passage by stating that Kafka’s [[world]] is not a “fantasy [[image]] of [[social]] reality”; rather, it is an
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  • Jean-Claude Milner
    With its first publications Milner of one was the earliest französischern Sprachwisenscha ...s opinion most most culture and intelligence-most hostile country in the [[world]] (Existe t IL une vie intellectuelle EN France? , Verdier, 2002). In its b
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  • Abu Ghraib
    ...was not simply a [[case]] of American arrogance toward a [[Third|THird]] [[World]] [[people]]: in [[being]] submitted to humiliating tortures, the IRaqi pri
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  • United States
    [[Psychoanalysis]] came to North America in two major waves, the first one following [[Freud]]'s visit in 1909, and the second one following the [ ...yer (1866-1950), and James Jackson Putnam. Freud's lectures, which for the first [[time]] synthesized his discoveries, turned out to be tailor-made for this
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  • Guarantee
    -The first kind of guarantee is the one demanded by the passand, which is given as a r How then today, in a [[world]] of increasing deregulation, to consider a [[politics]] of the guarantee i
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  • Against the Populist Temptation
    ...y [[true]] change, the [[refusal]] of the uncertainties of the [[Brave New World]] of [[global]]ist [[modernization]].<ref>Many pro-European commentators fa ...nceptual stringency, one should note a couple of problematic features; the first one concerns his very definition of populism: the series of formal [[condit
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  • Greece
    First, there is the history of events—that is, the [[diachronic]] line of event ...for [[analytic]] [[work]]. Colleagues from abroad—Serge Lebovici was the first—were prepared to offer assistance, beginning in 1957. Three Greek analyst
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  • A Plea for a Return to Différance
    ...arguably been the most ethnocentric group among all the cultures of the [[world]]" (CC, p. 232). We should have no illusions here. Measured by the standard ...his line of argumentation is a simple empirical lie if there ever was one. First, I do not [[claim]] that the U.S. got what it deserved, but what it "fantas
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  • Creativity
    ...tasy ([[Anna O]]'s private theater) can take the [[place]] of the [[real]] world, and this includes the researcher captivated by his [[subject]]. In discuss ...ized creative work. He contrasted creativity and submission to the outside world but, unlike Freud, emphasized the fact that fantasy [[life]] could diverge
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  • Overview
    ...n the process of signification: "it is the world of words that creates the world of things." Thus the real emerges as that which is outside language: "it is ...he Symbolic Order is what substitutes for the loss of the immediacy of the world and it is where the void of the subject is filled in by the process of subj
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  • Outline
    Congrès international de l'hypnotisme expérimental et scientifique, First First [[World]] War
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  • Weaning
    ...the first that unquestionably has a [[dialectical]] [[structure]]. For the first [[time]], a vital tension is expressed in [[terms]] of a [[mental]] [[inten ...es possible a liberation of [[narcissism]] with the aim of accepting the [[world]] as it is. [[Paul]]-Claude Racamier more specifically described weaning fr
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  • Ethics and Psychoanalysis
    ...eals. The adjective "[[ethical]]," ethisch in [[German]], appeared for the first [[time]] in 1898 in "[[Sexuality]] in the Aetiology of the [[Neuroses]]." I ...to produce the [[economy]] of pleasure and to introduce desire into the [[world]] of [[symbolic]] mediation.
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  • Humor
    [[Freud]]'s first insight into the mechanism of this phenomenon, which was entrenched in the ...s off the ego and displaces it onto his [[superego]]: "Look! here is the [[world]], which seems so dangerous! It is nothing but a [[game]] for children—ju
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  • Symbolism
    ...ols create a [[concrete]] bridge between the body and the primary object [[world]]. In a "symbolic equation" (Segal, 1978), the person cannot distinguish be
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  • Myths
    ...ent]] [[world]] is established. They tell the story of the [[origin of the world]], of [[human]] beings and [[animal]] [[species]], of [[death]], and of the .... . . that Freud rediscovered by analyzing the dreams and fantasies of his first [[patients]], as well as by analyzing his own dreams and fantasies" (Valabr
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  • Sigmund Freud:Biography
    ...dynamics of his extended family [[left]] their impression on Freud in his first years of [[life]]. In 1860 the family settled in [[Vienna]] where Sigmund, Sigmund was the first [[child]] of Jacob and Amalie Freud. [[About]] a year and a half after Sigm
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  • Sigmund Freud:Theories
    ..."I") is the personality [[structure]] that develops to deal with the real world and solve the problems of life. It acts as the "executive" branch of the pe ...If [[left]] to its own appetite, the id would be unable to function in the world.
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  • Sigmund Freud:Historical Context
    ...'s leading cities and showcased its latest innovations during the Vienna [[World]]'s Fair in 1873, which Freud eagerly attended. World War I, 1914–1918
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  • Sigmund Freud:Critical Response
    ...years, these differences became increasingly [[apparent]] and problematic. First, ...e was practicing [[psychiatry]] and teaching at Zurich University. At that first meeting in Freud's home, the two men talked "virtually without a pause for
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  • Sigmund Freud:Theories In Action
    ...already have been extensively tested. Proponents cite two important facts. First, they claim that a large body of experimental evidence already exists on ps 1896: Freud for the first time uses the term "psychoanalysis." Death of Jacob Freud.
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  • Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse
    ...hanalyse]] ('''SPP'''), founded in 1926, was [[active]] until the Second [[World]] War. After losing many members in the [[conflict]] it resumed its activi
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  • Function of Language
    In the first [[three]] preparatory chapters, on [[Freudian]] [[psychoanalysis]], [[surre ...]], is already there in the [[world]] before he is born. He is born into a world of language. It is often said that the conversation between his [[parents]]
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  • Books/Peter Mathews/Lacan the Charlatan
    ...ust-read for anyone interested in the future of our praxis."|Russell Grigg|World Association of Psychoanalysis|}}
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  • The Sublime Theorist of Slovenia
    ...ssing its limits. But whenever the sublime Thing comes for real into the [[world]], it appears necessarily in error and goes against the rules, for with it, ...nical irony the [[statement]] implies--the most progressive country in the world. We are your future. People laugh at us, but look at what's happening in Ge
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  • Guide to Slavoj Zizek
    ...able of shaking it, I judged that I could accept it without scruple as the first [[principle]] of the philosophy I was seeking. This phrase and first principle-'I think, therefore I am' or 'cogito, ergo sum'-is what the term
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  • Jean Delay
    ...iscovery of Largactil, used in psycho-pharmacology. In 1960 he chaired the first Congrès de médicine psychosomatique (Congress of [[Psychosomatic]] Medici Édouard Pichon introduced him to [[psychoanalysis]] before the Second [[World]] War during a brief training [[analysis]]. Delay retained a nuanced, nondo
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  • Splits in psychoanalysis
    ...p]] with Wilhelm [[Fliess]] could be called, albeit a bit arbitrarily, the first psychoanalytic "[[split]]." The way they split seems almost paradigmatic: t The first [[true]] psychoanalytic split was that of Otto Rank in the aftermath of the
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  • Ernest Jones
    ...on how to translate and propagate Freud's [[work]] in the Anglo-American [[world]]. In a paper written in the same year and given at the International [[Psy ...tant followers favored Carl Gustav [[Jung]]. During the years of the First World War, Jones continued practicing as a private [[analyst]] in London and also
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  • Kurt Robert Eissler
    ...d the diploma of the American Board of [[Psychiatry]]. During the Second [[World]] War, in 1943, he became a captain in the US [[Army]] Medical [[Corps]], s ...just set up. He strongly supported the [[work]] of what quickly became the world's leading center for child [[analytic]] training and for child analytic res
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  • Literary and artistic creation
    ...is [[work]] (the works of [[Goethe]] and [[Sophocles]] [[being]] among the first), as in the work of his disciples (Nunberg and Federn, 1962-1975). ...tion with the hero, and pleasure in not being threatened in the [[real]] [[world]].
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  • Internal/external reality
    ...as "[[psychical]] reality." It thus contains the representations of the [[world]] that the [[subject]] has formed, [[fantasies]] stemming from unconscious ...ding external reality. The actual term "psychical reality" appears for the first [[time]] in 1909 in an addendum to the second edition of <i>The [[Interpret
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  • Psychoses, chronic and delusional
    ...hat was felt to be irrelevant to the science of language, according to the first article of the bylaws of the Société [[linguistique]] de [[Paris]], compo ...] of differentiation, that organizes the first [[representation]] of the [[world]] by and for the [[speaking]] [[subject]]. At the beginning of the twentiet
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  • Ethology and psychoanalysis
    After [[World]] War II, René Spitz, faced with the behavioral [[pathology]] of abandoned ...bservation added [[nothing]] to clear pictures of [[subject]]'s [[mental]] world that could be obtained from a historical approach.
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  • Childhood
    ...[reversal]], moreover, led him to theorize childhood [[sexuality]] for the first [[time]]. ...ion of the <i>[[Three]] Essays on the Theory of Sexuality</i> (1905d), the first generation of [[analysts]]
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  • Infant observation (direct)
    ...t he called "omnipotence." In some cases, this [[phase]] can lead to the [[world]] of make-believe and shared play; and (c) the game of [[appearance]]/disap
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  • Word-presentation
    ...[[work]], in [[particular]], in <i>On [[Aphasia]]</i> (1891b), where Freud first presented the antithesis between thing- and word-presentations, [[the thing ...[categories]] of [[space]], time, [[causality]], and permanence during the first two years of [[life]], categories that supply the foundation for the [[deve
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  • Surrealism and psychoanalysis
    ..., decals, experimental [[photography]] and theater. The publication of the first <i>Surrealist Manifesto</i> (Breton, 1924) ushered in Surrealism's formativ ...<i>Revue française de [[psychanalyse]]</i>. The review also published the first [[texts]] by Salvador [[Dali]], where he developed the [[idea]] of "critica
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  • Philosophy and psychoanalysis
    ...e the [[impossibility]] of any pure [[transparent]] [[knowledge]] of the [[world]] and of [[thought]] to itself. Less negatively, on the [[interpretation]] ...world; finally, metapsychology translates this supersensible metaphysical world into a psychology that takes unconscious processes into account (Assoun, 19
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  • New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
    ...2 the financial [[situation]] of the [[world]], shaken by the aftermath of World War I and the [[economic]] crisis that had struck the [[United States]], th The thirty-first lecture, "Dissection of the [[Psychical]] [[Personality]]," emphasizes [[su
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  • Science and psychoanalysis
    Freud's [[belief]] in a "scientific conception of the [[world]]," his fidelity to the positivist ideals of his masters (especially Ernst ...]] that we [[renounce]] beliefs like [[magic]], globalizing visions of the world, and [[absolute knowledge]] of [[metaphysics]] and [[religion]]. The work o
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  • Linguistics and psychoanalysis
    ...hat was felt to be irrelevant to the science of language, according to the first article of the bylaws of the Société [[linguistique]] de [[Paris]], compo ...] of differentiation, that organizes the first [[representation]] of the [[world]] by and for the [[speaking]] [[subject]]. At the beginning of the twentiet
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  • Sociology and Psychoanalysis
    ...Mendel, among others). It seems that the Englishman Eliott Jaques was the first to use the [[English]] term "socio-[[analysis]]," in 1947, in his [[work]] ...unconscious processes at work in groups, organizations, and institutions. First British authors (Wilfred R. Bion, Eliott Jaques), then French authors (Max
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  • Rite
    ...nal [[patients]] and the religious observances of believers all over the [[world]]. Some cases of obsessional neurosis actually behave like a caricature of ..., the fundamental theme of any ritual having to do with "touching" is the "first aim of object-[[cathexis]], whether aggressive or tender," wrote Freud in <
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  • Suffering
    ...m which our suffering comes" are "our own [[body]]. . . the [[external]] [[world]]. . . and our relations to [[other]] men" (pp. 86, 87), he could not make ...s [[state]] of affairs for long and would be liable to disintegrate at the first jolt" (1983).
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  • Narcissistic elation
    ...in absolute [[withdrawal]] from the [[object]] and from the [[outside]] [[world]]. Narcissistic elation is at once the [[memory]] of this unique and privil
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  • Feminism and psychoanalysis
    ...tributes for men and women and are less concentrated on the [[internal]] [[world]] of unconscious phantasies and internal object relationships. ...d back to Freud's [[thinking]] about [[hysteria]]. The [[symptoms]] of the first [[patient]] of psychoanalysis, [[Anna O]]., included mutism, [[paralysis]],
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  • Self-Consciousness
    ...the human [[mind]] in its [[relationship]] to itself and the [[outside]] [[world]]. ...tive unit that is the mental locus of the relationship between subject and world, a pro-nominal [[form]] in which the subject, through [[discourse]], [[iden
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  • Self-representation
    ...less delusional new self representationis reconstituted as savior of the [[world]], self-procreator of all [[human]] lineages, of other such variant. Other ...s has the merit of showing the correlation between the self and the object world, between identity and the feeling of identity within a framework that combi
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  • Framework of the psychoanalytic treatment
    ...tion are more [[recent]], dating from the Second [[World]] War. One of the first to investigate this frame was José Bleger in an article entitled "Psychoan
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  • Modesty
    ...[[ethic]] of the relation to [[self]], [[others]], and the [[external]] [[world]]. It is in this sense that modesty generates a whole series of [[instinct]
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  • Turning around
    ..."purified pleasure-ego" (1915c, p. 136). As a result, "the [[external]] [[world]], [[objects]] and what is hated are identical" (p. 136); the object is [[b ..."[[On Narcissism]]: An Introduction" (1914c), is within the context of the first [[theory]] of the instincts (opposition between the [[sexual]] instincts an
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  • Partial drive
    ...to a [[partial]] drive. The first definition of this term is found in the first of the <i>[[Three]] Essays on the [[Theory]] of Sexuality</i> at the openin ...d functions, the points on the body that interface with the [[external]] [[world]] each creating their own organ [[pleasure]]. Thus the partial drives find
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  • Primary love
    ...[[love]] is the term proposed by Michael [[Balint]] to designate the very first [[phase]] of [[mental]] [[development]], characterized by a "[[harmonious]] ...solve the [[theoretical]] polemic between [[Vienna]] and [[London]] on the first [[stages]] of [[psychic]] [[life]] (primary [[narcissism]] or [[sadism]]),
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  • Primitive horde
    ...ret]] of the Totem</i> (1905), also acknowledged Darwin's [[theory]]: "The first [[practice]] was that of the jealous [[Father]]: 'no male can touch the fem ...] law. The [[world]] of relations of force gives way to the emergence of a world of alliances and solidarity. In <i>[[Moses and Monotheism]]</i> Freud retur
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  • Dead mother complex
    ...[[transference]], so it is often not [[identifiable]] when [[analysis]] is first requested. It is manifested especially by a "transference [[depression]]," ...the [[child]] is unable to [[understand]] and that turns his [[psychic]] [[world]] upside down. After vain attempts at reparation, [[feelings]] of [[impoten
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  • German Romanticism
    ...incts]], Freud can be seen as returning to the "primal antithesis of the [[world]]" of <i>Naturphilosophie</i>, and he later took part in an essential [[dis
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  • Cinema
    ...e relation into sharper focus, I will not consider films that depict the [[world]] of psychiatry, such as <i>Shock Corridor</i> (Sam Fuller, 1963), <i>Lilit ...1895, the Lumière brothers, inventors of the cinematograph, organized the first paid movie in [[Paris]]. The show, twenty minutes long, contained the famou
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  • Certainty
    ...d with a primal inability to differentiate between the ego and the outside world.
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  • Ideational representation
    ...on the elements of both its own [[internal]] reality and the [[outside]] [[world]] in [[order]] to make [[them]] conform and cohere with the [[logic]] of th ...ate of the omnipotence of the [[desire]] of the [[Other]]. There is thus a first step in the infant's [[psychic]] [[activity]] during language acquisition,
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  • Primal
    ...[schema]] in which the [[representative]] is reflected as identical to the world. This implies an extension of the Freudian notion of primary [[narcissism]]
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  • Oceanic feeling
    In the first chapter of [[Civilization]] and Its Discontents (1930a [1929]) Freud locate ...se to Rolland, "one of the twelve men upon whom rests the destiny of the [[world]]," he gave free rein to his [[fantasy]] of [[being]] the [[Moses]] of [[ps
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  • Nirvana
    The term "Nirvana," first suggested by Barbara Low and acknowledged and used by [[Freud]], is intimat ...le, the reality principle, represented the influence of the [[external]] [[world]].
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  • Zen
    ...Eastern religion were undertaken between 1936 and 1944. In 1936, when his first works on Buddhism appeared, Jung was already a mature sixty-one years old. ...ts distrust of inner life, its loss of connection with the anima mundi, or world soul: "The seemingly universal and metaphysical scope of the mind has thus
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  • Interview with Jacques Lacan
    ...re is [[another]] [[subject]] within you, the [[Unconscious]]. It was, at first, not well-accepted news. The so-called irrationalism which has been used In other words, the man who is [[born]] into [[existence]] deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his [[birth]
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  • Notes on Metaphor and Metonymy
    ...otionally toned no [[doubt]], for exhibiting preexisting facts about the [[world]]. Still, a metaphor does appear to involve comparison in some way. If o ...f seeing parts and whole differently related that a figure/subject that is first [[identified]] with a duck comes to be identifed with a rabbit. Take what
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  • The Function of the Veil
    ...h is truly one of the most fundamental images of the human relation to the world, the veil, the curtain.<br><br> ...sary? We will come back to it. As always one goes too fast. If one goes first to the why one enters immediately into a chaos and pandemonium of all the d
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  • Oedipus at Colonus
    ...roundabout circuits by what Freud calls the elements of the [[external]] [[world]].<br> ...him out of this for him to find the rhythm by which we get attuned to the world. If the nameless desire can appear at the level of the desire to sleep, whi
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  • Anamorphosis: The Stain of the Real
    ...before taking things up again at the point we left them last time, I must first clear up a misunderstanding that appears to have arisen in the minds of cer ...hat it is on the objects that it apprehends. And yet I apprehend the world in a perception that seems to concern the immanence of the <i>I see myself
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  • The Death Drive and the Missed Encounter
    I wish to stress here that, at first sight, psychoanalysis seems to lead in the direction of idealism. God kno We have only to consider the course of this experience from its first steps to see, on the contrary, that it in no way allows us to accept some s
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  • No Sex, Please, We're Post-Human!
    ...eacts is a [[real]] one: in our [[postmodern]] "disenchanted" permissive [[world]], the unconstrained sexuality is reduced to an apathetic [[participation]] ...that machines can think. - What is a little bit less known is that in its first formulation, the issue was not to distinguish human from the machine, but m
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  • Jacques Lacan's Four Discourses
    ...[[relationship]] between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[cultural]] studies. The first fact to note here is that what is [[missing]] in cultural studies is precis ...discourse cannot tolerate an engaged [[subjective]] stance. Should not our first gesture be, as Lacanians, to heroically assume this designation of being "s
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  • Sigmund Freud:Quotes
    ** ''The First [[Dream]]'' Fragment of an Analysis of a [[Case]] of [[Hysteria]] (1905) ...ly reported to us through the data of [[consciousness]] as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.''
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  • Slavoj Zizek:Quotes
    ...s at an everyday level. It is not that you withdraw from daily life into a world of philosophical contemplation. On the contrary, you cannot find your way a
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  • Spectre
    We have no access to the [[Real]] because our [[world]] is always mediated by the [[Symbolic]].
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  • Signifying chain
    ...from the mid-1950s on, always in references to the [[symbolic order]]. At first, in 1956, he speaks not of the [[signifying chain]] but of the ''[[symbolic ...through the network of [[signifiers]] which constitutes the [[symbolic]] [[world]] of the [[subject]] -- which [[Saussure]] calls "associative" relationship
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  • Formulae of sexuation
    ...t any jouissance that is not phallic jouissance, the emphasis going on the first 'is.' All the jouissance that do [[exist]] are phallic (in [[order]] to exi The first half of the graph is thus saying that there is no jouissance, for [[speakin
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  • An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
    ...is often forgotten in the English-speaking [[world]] that Lacan's work is first and foremost aimed at providing analysts with [[help]] in conducting [[anal
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  • The Founding Act
    ...ed under the [[name]] of psychoanalysis back to the [[duty]] that in our [[world]] is incumbent upon it; which, through a sustained critique, denounces the This section will first take responsibility for reporting on and critically assessing everything th
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  • Paris Pact
    ...ed by Samuel Basz, Vice-President, and Jorge Chamorro, Director; and the [[World]] [[Association]] of Psychoanalysis, created and registered in Paris ( Fran ...eld, the School of the Lacanian Orientation in the Freudian Field, and the World Association of Psychoanalysis agree to the following:
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  • World Association of Psychoanalysis
    In 1992 [[Miller]] set up the [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]], [[WAP]], in [[order]] to advance [[Lacan]] The aim of the [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]] is to promote the [[practice]] and the stud
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  • Letter of Dissolution
    ...name]] of [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[duty]] which returns to him in our [[world]] - which, by an assiduous criticism, denounces the deviations there and co ...the 10 days, to cross short to ambient debility, I will publish adhesions first which I will have approved, like engagements of “assiduous criticism” o
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  • Jacques Lacan:Imaginary
    [[Lacan]]'s first important innovation in the field of [[psychoanalysis]] took [[place]] in 1 ...of Psycho-[[Analysis]]. Thirteen years had elapsed, therefore, between the first formulation of Lacan's [[idea]] and the paper that we now read - 13 years i
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  • Jacques Lacan:The Symbolic
    If 'The [[Mirror]] [[Stage]]' represented [[Lacan]]'s first innovation within the field of [[psychoanalysis]], it was one that remained Structuralism was first and foremost a method of analysis that dominated [[French]] [[intellectual]
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  • Chora
    ...t distinguish your own [[self]] from that of your [[mother]] or even the [[world]] around you.
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  • Baudrillard
    In this [[world]], the [[masquerade]] of [[sexuality]] described by Joan Riviere is the [[r
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  • Master/Slave Dialectic
    ...n as a [[threat]] to its [[position]] of uniqueness and supremacy in the [[world]] (its [[identity]]). In the first and more sterile possibility, neither individual cedes his [[claim]] to sup
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  • Pain
    ...rge of [[unsatisfied]] [[instincts]] or of something in the [[external]] [[world]] which may be painful in itself or may arouse painful anticipations in the
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  • Working
    In [[Freud]]'s account of the [[Oedipus complex]], the [[mother]] is the first [[love]] [[object]] of the [[child]]. ...[[imaginary]] relation with the [[mother]] in order to enter the [[social world]].
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  • Terms
    ...ity]] [[principle]]," (deal with reality) mediating between the [[real]] [[world]] and the desires of the id. :The first stage in Freud's developmental theory, in which the focus of pleasure is th
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  • Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy
    This important publication of 1909 was the first [[case]] study in which [[clinical]] [[material]], derived directly from th ...eurotic]] conflicts from which the [[phobic]] [[symptom]] originated. This first "[[Child Analysis|child analysis]]" was conducted, with "supervision" from
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  • A Project for a Scientific Psychology
    ...]] [[Psychology]]"—a title provided by the editors upon the manuscript's first publication in 1950—is part of [[Freud]]'s correspondence with Wilhelm [[ Freud's "Project" was first conceived in late March, 1895. In September, returning from a visit to Flie
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  • Primary process/secondary process
    ...d system became necessary . . ." (p. 598-599). Whereas the activity of the first system, that of the primary processes, is "directed towards securing the fr ...ct: the primary processes are [[present]] in the mental apparatus from the first, while it is only during the course of life that the secondary processes un
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  • Commodity fetishism
    ...o grasp the [[logic]] of this passage from feudalism to capitalism we have first to elucidate its [[theoretical]] background, the Marxian notion of [[commod In a first approach, [[Commodity Fetishism|commodity fetishism]] is 'a definite [[soci
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  • Cynicism
    ...this concept of ideology as a naive consciousness still apply to today's [[world]]? Is it still operating today? In the Critique of Cynical [[Reason]], a gr ...ign of cynical reason, we find ourselves in the so-called post-ideological world? Even [[Adorno]] came to this conclusion, starting from the premiss that id
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  • WAP
    #redirect [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]]
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  • Lacan and the Pre-Socratics
    ...ides]]. The invocation is itself caught up in four principal problems. The first can be formulated as follows: to what originary impulse of thought is [[psy ...e have this attempt, grandiose in its innocence -this hope residing in the first [[philosophers]], called physicists - of finding an ultimate grasp on the [
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  • Post-Lacanians
    This new [[thinking]], characteristic of post–[[World]] War II anti-[[Hegelianism]] among [[French]] intellectuals, also engender ...to advance the war causes of the [[German]] and American military during [[World War II]]. Todd Dufresne takes a similarly historical approach in reevaluati
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  • Traditional Freudian Criticism
    ...gins of the British psychoanalytic establishment. He was the author of the first full biography of Freud (1957), the standard account until later biographie ...nce Olivier consulted him for the 1950 film version), another of Freud’s first-generation followers covered more literary and theoretical ground. Otto Ran
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  • Film Theory and Criticism
    ...privileged object in film studies. In a highly influential essay published first in 1970 in Cinéthique, "Effets idéologiques de l’appareil de base" (tra ...eory through the 1970s was the [[concept]] of [[suture]]. From an [[idea]] first introduced by Jacques-[[Alain]] [[Miller]] in 1966 and then reconsidered an
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  • Reconceptualizing Freud
    ...r "[[position]]" in her terminology) in which children [[introject]] their first [[object]], the [[breast]], [[splitting]] it into [[ideal]] and persecutory ...Klein’s heritage makes possible a mature acceptance of the [[arbitrary]] first experienced in the "depressive" position. On the [[other]] hand, [[feminist
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  • Linguistics and Language
    ...] history, variation, and discourse. Responding to Saussure, they objected first to his too rigid distinction between [[synchrony]] and [[diachrony]]. As Ja ...full]]-fledged semantics must account for "everything in the speaker’s [[world]]" (139).
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  • Anthropological Theory and Criticism
    ...versions from 1890 through 1922, provided [[literary criticism]] with its first strong anthropological impact. ...rn literatures. Murray’s 1914 lecture "[[Hamlet]] and Orestes" marks the first application of the ritualist approach to nonclassical [[material]] through
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  • The Mirror Phase
    The first [[text]] in the [[English]] edition of [[Ecrits]] is called 'The mirror [[s ...count - as it has been discussed in Chapter 5 I will be concise - with the first months of the [[infant]]'s [[life]]. The infant is relatively unco-ordinate
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  • The Freudian terrain
    ...[[practice]]. This account is inevitably selective (I do not deal with the first [[phase]] when Freud was [[working]] with [[patients]] [[suffering]] from [ ...the [[perception]] [[system]], the sensing and ordering of the external [[world]]; the preconscious covers those elements of [[experience]] which can be ca
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  • Master-Slave
    ...n be traced back to these lectures. Kojeve's lectures describe a violent [[world]]-view and focus upon moments of rupture and [[struggle]] rather than [[syn ...lly different from animals. Man becomes conscious of himself when, for the first [[time]], he says '1'.3
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  • La Langue Versus Parole
    ...n important [[supplement]] to the [[links]] between the [[sign]] and the [[world]]. These [[structural]] connections reveal (to quote Wittgenstein) "the pos Different uses of signs in the [[public]] world are correctable or explicable so that, even if different individuals have d
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  • Depersonalization
    ..., from the fleeting feeling of [[estrangement]] to the impression that the world has become unrecognizable, [[dead]], or uninhabited. Moments of depersonali ...ses it is through feelings affecting the [[perception]] of the [[outside]] world that the topic is * Stewart, Walter A. (1964). Depersonalization. Journal
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  • Dependence
    ...[[pleasure principle]] and neglected the [[reality]] of the [[external]] [[world]] could not maintain itself alive for the shortest [[time]], so that it cou
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  • Dualism
    ...fers to the eighteenth-century doctrines that see God and the devil as two first principles, irreducible and coeternal. [[Christian]] Wolff (1734/1968) clas ...n interplay of the forces of the elementary [[instincts]]" (1923a). In the first topographic subsystem, these forces arise from the [[sexual]] instincts in
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  • Hermeneutics
    ...ds]] and things, an interpretation of the [[constitution]] of a possible [[world]] by each and for all, or even a fundamental process of "leveling" the [[la
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  • Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
    ...issy—are heroes of [[scientific]] research, men who have "troubled the [[world]]'s [[sleep]]" (Friedrich Hebbel). The first of the book's six chapters discusses the passion for investigation, its [[i
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  • Literary and Artistic Creation
    ...is [[work]] (the works of [[Goethe]] and [[Sophocles]] [[being]] among the first), as in the work of his disciples (Nunberg and Federn, 1962-1975). ...tion with the hero, and pleasure in not being threatened in the [[real]] [[world]].
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  • Group Psychotherapies
    ...or Trigant Burrow (1914). On the eve and at the beginning of the Second [[World]] War, Kurt Lewin and his collaborators developed the basics of group dynam
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  • Great Britain
    ...éjerine, Hippolyte Bernheim. In 1913 the Brunswick Square [[Clinic]], the first to offer [[psychotherapy]], based its treatments on the theories of Janet. ...through the rise of [[scientific]] [[materialism]] and [[positivism]]. The first contacts with [[Freud]]'s writings were through articles by Frederick W.H.
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  • Karl Kraus
    ...stav Klimt) and attacked his friend [[Hugo]] von Hofmannsthal. In 1910 the first [[reading]] of Kraus's [[work]] was held in Berlin. This was followed by ap ...]] of the [[Jewish]] [[self]]. His pacifism, before and during the First [[World]] War, resulted in various forms of [[censorship]]. His "[[faith]] in [[lan
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  • Cathartic Method
    ...history]] of [[Anna O.]], one sees that the method developed gradually. At first, Breuer limited himself to making use of the patient's [[self]]-induced hyp ...is]] of the [[psyche]]" which prefigured "[[psychoanalysis]]," a term that first appeared in print in 1896. The technique would be developed progressively o
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  • Character
    ...ng [[about]] an ever more extensive [[alienation]] from the [[external]] [[world]] and a permanent weakening of the ego, pave the way for, and encourage, th
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  • Character Formation
    ...aracter type is to [[defend]] against stimulations from the [[external]] [[world]] and against [[repressed]] [[internal]] instincts. The character analysis
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  • Child Analysis
    ...his account of the treatment of Little Arpad, and Alfred Adler, one of the first practitioners of child analysis in [[Vienna]]. Hermine von Hug-Hellmuth was one of the first child [[psychoanalysts]] to use play techniques, but it was only with Klein
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  • Children's play
    ...d in accordance with the [[subject]]'s wishes, so serving the [[internal]] world and augmenting [[pleasure]]. ...]," created internally though found in the [[outside]] world, would be the first tangible [[sign]] of the [[existence]] of this intermediate zone where the
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  • Cinema Criticism
    ...cal]] Study, in which he suggested that film transforms the [[external]] [[world]] into the mechanisms of the [[mind]], including [[memory]], [[imagination] ...926 classic, Secrets of a Soul. This [[German]] expressionist film was the first serious [[treatment]] of psychoanalysis in film [[history]], [[complete]] w
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  • Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest
    ...]] Interest was first published in the Italian review Scientia. It was the first of [[Freud]]'s [[texts]] to be translated into [[French]], and this [[trans ...to the next issue, dated November 1, 1913. For unknown reasons, although [[World]] War I no [[doubt]] had a large [[role]] to play, it remained totally unkn
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  • Claustrophobia
    ...of his theories of [[anxiety]] and the [[construction]] of phobias. Freud first considered it as one of the chronic [[symptoms]] of neurasthenia (Manuscrip ...in the hand enables one to avoid the anxiety, thus escaping the enclosed [[world]] of the mother and making access to the father possible. Some authors expl
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  • Character Analysis
    ...o the repetitions or defenses that they give rise to: "Character is in the first [[place]] a [[mechanism]] of [[narcissistic]] protection." ...and also by modes of relation to the [[self]], to [[others]], and to the [[world]], founded on a [[rational]] approach that respects the [[reality]] [[princ
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  • On Freud's "Trieb" and the Psychoanalyst's Desire
    This might mean that Venus is proscribed from our world, implying theological decline.
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  • Structural model
    ...instincts]] which originate from the somatic organization and which find a first [[psychical]] expression here in forms unknown to us. (SE, XXIII.145)</bloc ...tion]], since it first develops as a result of stimuli from the external [[world]] impinging upon the senses.
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  • Existential psychoanalysis
    ...ecause it signals the [[choice]] of a [[world]] and a mode of being in the world. ...the-world; what is lost in illness is Dasein's [[freedom]] to organize the world, and the [[goal]] of [[therapy]] is to restore that freedom.
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  • Jacques Lacan:Related
    ...| Returning to Freud: Clinical Psychoanalysis in the [[School]] of Lacan [First Edition] ...ir="ltr" | psychoanalysis and culture - Lacan in the German-[[speaking]] [[world]]
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  • Hugo Chávez
    ...of [[economic]] [[development]], and has advocated cooperation among the [[world]]'s poor nations, especially those in [[Latin]] America.
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  • The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I
    ...ed problematic, as well as an [[ontological]] [[structure]] of the human [[world]] which accords with our reflections on [[paranoiac]] [[knowledge]]. ...or finally, with the [[automaton]] in which, in an ambiguous relation, the world of his fabrication tends to find completion.
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  • Badiou: Notes From an Ongoing Debate
    ...o which we are “thrown” insofar as we are immersed into our [[life]]-[[world]], and the reflective attitude of [[thought]] proper which enables us to su ...aristocratic reaction to Athenian [[democracy]], but the Plato who was the first to clearly assert the field of [[rationality]] freed from inherited beliefs
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  • The Neurotic's Individual Myth
    ...ther the [[male]] [[subject]] manages to be recognized in the [[social]] [[world]], and the [[sexual]] [[object]] is then [[split]] in two (this is deadly [
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  • Remarque sur la rapport de Daniel Lagache 'Psychanalyse et structure de la personalité'
    ...e Imaginary. It is only defined as exchanges with _~ the surrounding human world, a play of interactions, a mere "For-the-Other" IPollr-Autruil. One must re ...rimary signifying operation. The definition remains enigmatic, but for the first time he appealed to mathcmatical thcories of topology. The sentence we just
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  • Merleau-Ponty: In Memoriam
    ...and a research grounded in the body and in a con�crete relation to the [[world]] on the [[other]] hand would be even more so. Further�more, Lacan refuse
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  • Le savoir du psychanalyste
    ...nce the 1963 breakup. The seven discussions that he led there reminded him first of all of his own beginnings as an intern at the Asiles, of his friends of ...[woman]]; between man and woman, there is a [[world]]; between man and the world, there is a wall," in order to conclude that "what is at stake in a serious
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  • Jacques Lacan:Biography
    : [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] was [[born]] in [[Paris]], the first [[child]] of prosperous, bourgeois [[parents]], [[Alfred Lacan]] and [[Emil ...an|Lacan]] was born in [[Paris]] (France) (95 boulevard Beaumarchais), the first child (eldest son) of (prosperous, bourgeois parents) Alfred Lacan (1873–
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  • Daniel Lagache
    ...he psychoanalysis contemporary Frenchwomen, especially in the university [[world]].
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  • Du 'Trieb' de Freud et du désir du psychanalyste
    ...scape the sexual service of the [[mother]]; Venus is proscribed from our [[world]]; [[theology]] has de�cayed before a prevailing [[monotheism]]; [[castra
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  • Alboroto
    ...lk into the bathroom and look: it's filthy. After you wash your hands the first [[time]] -- <i>and employees must wash their hands</i> -- it is always nece [[Image:WORLD.gif|thumb|right|''[[L'Origine du Monde]]'']]
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  • Film theory
    ...[[subject]] comes to [[identify]] themselves as an 'I' in the [[social]] [[world]] was seen as a useful way of [[understanding]] how [[cinema]] spectators i
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  • Fascism and Stalinism
    ...e [[knowledge|know]] to produce our [[sense]] of who we are and what the [[world]] is for us.
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  • Economics
    As “essentialist” as these aforementioned claims appear at first glance, there [[exists]] a [[whole]] “other scene” in Žižek’s work, ...nomism. How so? How can the economy not have a positive existence in the [[world]], especially when [[global]] markets, commodities-exchanges and the indust
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  • On 9/11, New Yorkers faced the fire in the minds of men
    ...k 9/11's fifth anniversary: Paul Greengrass's United 93 and Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. Both adopt a terse, realistic depiction of ordinary people in
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  • Jacques Lacan:Links
    ...[School]] was founded by Jacques-[[Alain]] [[Miller]] and is part of the [[World]] [[Association]] of [[Psychoanalysis]] ...Template.asp World Association of Psychoanalysis] - Founded in 1992, the [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]] unites the different Lacanian [[Schools]] o
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  • Affectivity
    ...ation of the [[subject]]'s own [[body]] without refer­ence to the outer [[world]]. <ref>{{Ucs}}</ref></blockquote>
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  • Analytic situation
    ...ego of the [[patient]], basing themselves upon the [[real]] [[external]] [[world]], are to combine against the enemies, the instinc­tual [[demands]] of [[T
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  • Perceptual-conscious system
    <blockquote>This [[system]] is directed on to the [[external]] [[world]], it mediates perceptions of it, and in it is generated, while it is funct
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  • Renunciation
    ...ndividual]] [[development]] a part of the inhibiting forces in the outer [[world]] becomes internalized; a standard is created in the Ego which opposes the
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  • Sleep
    ...state of sleep represents a turning away from the [[real]] [[external]] [[world]], and thus provides a necessary condition for the [[development]] of a [[p
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  • Superstition
    ...dern [[religions]], ''is nothing but [[psychology]] projected to the outer world''.<ref>{{PEL}} Ch. 10</ref></blockquote>
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  • Wit
    ...It thus secondarily reaches to important functions relative to the outer [[world]]. The dream serves preponderantly to guard against [[pain]], while wit ser ...ess to the censorship, which then looks like a most remote allusion to the first; they also include substitution through [[symbols]], comparisons, or trifie
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  • Intoxication
    ...h one owes to them, but also a measure of that independence of the outer [[world]] which is so sorely craved.<ref>{{C&D}} Ch. 2</ref></blockquote>
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  • Introduction: Symbolic
    If 'The [[Mirror]] [[Stage]]' represented [[Lacan]]'s first innovation within the field of [[psychoanalysis]], it was one that remained Structuralism was first and foremost a method of analysis that dominated [[French]] [[intellectual]
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  • Introduction: Imaginary
    [[Lacan]]'s [[concept]] of the [[Imaginary]] first appeared in his [[{{Y}}|1936]] [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|paper]] "[[The ...[[adult]] [[individual]]'s experience of others and of the [[external]] [[world]].
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  • Introduction: Real
    ...y paradoxical [[concept]]; it supports our [[social reality]] - the social world cannot [[exist]] without it - but it also undermines that reality. A furthe ...ut it was relatively underdeveloped. Lacan used the term, the real, in his first published papers in the 1930s, but in these early [[texts]] it was essentia
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  • Fondation du Champ Freudien
    ...s of the Freudian Field came to support this great movement throughout the world, since 1990, giving impulse to the debate and assuring the [[circulation]]
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  • Slavoj Zizek:Links
    ...l Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century?] *[http://lacan.com/zizek-welcome.htm Welcome to the Desert of the Real (first version)]
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  • Introducing Lacan
    Born on [[{{Y}}|13 April 1901]], [[Jacques Marie Émile Lacan]] was the first child of [[Charles Marie Alfred Lacan]] and [[Émilie Philippine Marie Baud ...}}|1926]]. During this period, he was [[active]] in the busy [[Paris]]ian world of the writers, artists and intellectuals who made up the [[surrealism|surr
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  • Denying the Facts, Finding the Truth
    ...ccount the effects of the very military intervention against him. Yes, the world is better without Saddam Hussein — but is it better if we include into th ...[responsibility]] and [[guilt]] with respect to the impoverished [[third]] world — we are the victims now!
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  • Knights of the Living Dead
    ...less to do with the confessions themselves than with the fact that for the first [[time]] in a great many years, [[torture]] was normalized — presented as ...m even as it would the hardest criminal — in the [[civilized]] Western [[world]], even the most depraved [[child]] murderer gets judged and punished. But
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  • Articles by Slavoj Zizek
    * [https://www.rt.com/op-ed/420444-sex-modern-world-yes-no/ Sex in the modern world: Can even a 'yes, yes, yes' actually mean 'no?'] ....co.uk/voices/putin-nuclear-war-north-korea-kim-jong-un-donald-trump-crazy-world-status-quo-a8240756.html As Putin has proven, political madness is the new
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  • The True Hollywood Left
    There are two points to be made; the first concerns the story itself - it is the story a small and poor country ([[Gre ...rld of a "cyborg" mixture of real [[people]] integrated into an artificial world. It is only with 300 that the combination of "real" actors and objects and
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  • In Defense of Lost Causes
    ...niversal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the [[postmodern]] [[world]], [[ideologies]] of all kinds have been cast in [[doubt]]. In this combati
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  • Virtue and Terror (Revolution!)
    ...itical]] [[violence]] ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a [[world]] obsessed with [[terrorism]] and appalled by the [[language]] of its propo
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  • Robespierre or the "Divine Violence" of Terror
    ...began in 1789, the final failure of the statist-revolutionary model which first entered the scene with the Jacobins. ...to the legacy of the radical Left do with all these? Two things, at least. First, the terrorist past has to be accepted as OURS, even - or precisely because
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  • Doug Henwood Interviews Slavoj Zizek
    Needless to say, with this on page one, a sensible reader would take the first exit off this highway and put the book in the trashcan. ...- twist it into a confused mass. Two stories occupy each half of the film. First there's Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) having trouble with his wife, Renee (Pa
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  • Joker Apart
    It is a sparkling Sunday morning in early autumn, and one of the [[world]]'s leading [[public]] intellectuals, dressed in a mod jacket and sandals a ...itively fizzes with enthusiasm for anything that might be hoisted into the world of [[ideas]], so much so that it is sometimes difficult to get him to shut
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  • 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' - Slavoj Zizek interview
    ‘In [[order]] to [[understand]] today’s [[world]], we [[need]] [[cinema]]; literally. It’s only in cinema that we get tha ...cinema (‘Wait for the DVD, ten hours of deleted scenes!’), but is the first to note that he has an ambivalent [[relationship]] to film.
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  • Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule
    ...pecially if - one submits the Marxist past to a ruthless critique, one has first to acknowledge it as "one's own", taking full responsibility for it, not to ...tor, replacing him!), Marx needed Lenin's "betrayal" in order to enact the first Marxist revolution: it is an inner necessity of the "original" teaching to
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  • Repeating Lenin
    ...rogram to "new [[conditions]]," but at [[repeating]], in the [[present]] [[world]]-wide conditions, the Leninist gesture of reinventing the revolutionary [[
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  • Book Covers
    Image:AbyssofFreedom-large.jpg|[[The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World]] <small>[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0472096524/nosubject-20]</
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  • Slavoj Zizek:Covers of Books
    | [[The Abyss Of Freedom - Ages Of The World]] <small>[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0472096524/nosubject-20]</
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  • Jacques Lacan - Télévision (Video) - Lacan on the unconscious
    ...osite of thought and soul emerges from efforts to conform thought to the [[world]], for which, under the sway of the aforementioned [[social]] bonds, the so
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  • Imaginary (Compendium)
    [[orders]]) of the [[subject]], the imaginary is the first to enter on stage ...damentally different. This is linked to the fact that man comes into the [[world]] in a structurally premature [[state]], which
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  • The Reality of the Virtual - Part One
    ...d "lost causes") in order to expose how the political contingencies of our world are nowadays veiled by a palliative language that uses the alibi of conting
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  • Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses
    ...em]] said yes and the [[other]] said no. "A guy named Arkhipov saved the [[world]]," was a bitter comment of a historian on this accident. ...]], won, that the [[search]] is over, that the advent of a global, liberal world [[community]] lurks just around the corner, that the obstacles to this ultr
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  • On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
    ...This brings us to a further hypothesis: an Event is necessarily missed the first time, that true fidelity is only possibly in the form of resurrection, as a ...hat is a Master-Signifier? In the very last pages of his monumental Second World War, Winston Churchill ponders on the enigma of a political decision: after
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  • Gorgias, Not Plato Was the Archi-Stalinist
    First, nature is not a conglomerate of dispersed phenomena, but a connected whole ..., so that things "become clear" retroactively: it was not that Trotsky was first fighting for the [[revolution]] with [[Lenin]] and Stalin and then, at a ce
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  • Shostakovich in Casablanca
    ...ningrad)? It has to be that the inexorable brutal marching progress in the first movement does not "really" render the German conquest of Russia in 1941, bu The publicity text for the new recording of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto by Leila Josefowicz says that she "pays homage to the strug
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  • A Letter Which Did Not Reach its Destination (and thereby saved the world)
    ...t never allow the circumstances in which the imperialists could launch the first nuclear strike against it. / I tell you this because I believe that the imp ...say even in general [[terms]] what this would have meant for them. In the first [[place]], Cuba would have been burned in the fire of war. There's no [[dou
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  • Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question
    ...e entire [[people]] under the Stalinist dictatorship, of the millions who, first, heroically overthrew the ancient [[regime]] in the [[revolution]], and, th ...[tragic]] is a kind of convoluted, second level, "reflexive" [[betrayal]]: first you sacrifice everything for the (Communist) [[cause]], then you are reject
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