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[[Lacan]] makes an important [[distinction]] between ''[[jouissance]]'' and ''[[plaisir]]'' ([[pleasure]]). [[Pleasure ...t]], [[object a]], there is a plus (+), a little [[compensation]] in the [[form]] of what is allowed of ''jouissance'', a compensation for the minus of the

Freud ( 1923) makes the same radical [[distinction]] by linking castration to the phallic [[order]] and not to the penis. ...semantic [[slip]]page has led some commentators to argue that the supposed distinction between the [[phallus]] and the [[phallus|penis]] is in fact highly unstabl

In this [[distinction]] between the [[symbolic]] and [[imaginary]] aspects of [[transference]], [ ...s come to be seen as [[Lacan]]'s most [[complete]] attempt to theorise the matter.

No [[distinction]] is made between persons and inanimate things: individuals, parts of the [ ...s of the object (incorporation, [[introjection]], and beyond this, every [[form]] of [[internalization]] and identification), it transforms the status of t

...anding|understood]]. Semioticians also sometimes examine how organisms, no matter how big or small, make predictions [[about]] and [[adapt]] to their semioti ...that may be the [[individual]] sounds or letters that [[humans]] use to [[form]] [[words]], the [[body]] movements they make to show attitude or [[emotion

...]] on his [[neurotic]] [[patients]] for a long period, he abandoned this [[form]] of [[treatment]], in favor of a better treatment, where the [[patient]] t In the early 1890s Freud used a form of treatment based on the one that Breuer had described to him, modified by

...nd unspoken and implicit — assumptions, [[ideas]], and frameworks that [[form]] the basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meani ...contrast to [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] demolition), although the form we recognize in [[English]] is an element in a series of translations (from

...]] and functionsunconsciously, intruding into our symbolic reality in the form of need. The real is a kind of ubiquitous undifferentiated mass from which ...]] or need. The concept continues to retain its [[association]] with brute matter, but its predominant [[meaning]] in Lacan at this time is as that which is

...] against the conservatives, or should one adopt the stance of "it doesn't matter, we shouldn't get involved in these fights — in a way, it is even better ...ic notion of matter, according to which, since the philosophical notion of matter as [[reality]] existing independently of mind precludes any [[intervention]

...ation, a ([[self]])destructive fury within which the only way to trace the distinction between the [[semblance]] and the Real is, precisely, to STAGE it in a fake ...]], all-present, although with no clear territorial base? Are they not the form in which nationalist and/or [[religious]] "[[fundamentalism]]" accommodated

...r place within the global order. For that reason, [[Buddha]]'s followers [[form]] a [[community]] of [[people]] who in one way or [[another]] have broken w ...or me. Anything goes basically. The basic wisdom is that differences don't matter, what was up comes down, this eternal [[circulation]] of fortune, and so on

...elief, embodied in things, displaced onto things, is nothing but a reified form of direct human belief: the task of the [[phenomenological]] reconstitution ...belief embodied in things, displaced onto things, is nothing but a reified form of a direct human belief, in which [[case]] the task of the phenomenologica

...se the sting of the formulas of sexuation by way of introducing a semantic distinction between the two meanings of the quantifier "all": according to this misread ...és about women, features imposed on women in the patriarchal society? The matter is undecidable, so that the only possible answer is, both at the same time.

...edge (it is this knowledge which enables meta-politics to draw a line of [[distinction]] between those immersed in politicoideological illusions and the Party whi ...s, equality, freedom and democracy, is just a necessary, but [[illusory]], form of expression of its [[concrete]] social [[content]], the universe of explo

...he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou ...nscends, precisely, the "infinite complexity" of its context. A homologous distinction can be drawn between [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicis

...] against the conservatives, or should one adopt the stance of "It doesn't matter, we shouldn't get involved in these fights-in a way, it is even better if t ...tate, which means the state as such, and to invent a new communal social [[form]] without a standing [[army]], police, or [[bureaucracy]], in which all cou

...lls a transcendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely ...ndefinite judgment opens up a third domain which undermines the underlying distinction: the “undead" are neither alive nor dead, they are precisely the monstrou

...hich have not yet reached the [[full]] actualization of their historical [[form]]. Even in his much-maligned philosophy of [[nature]], he concedes his own ...its "reification" in ritualized practices which are indifferent to this [[distinction]]. It is an interesting fact of historical dialectic that Buddhism which,

...of the [[Freudian]] figure of Moses, [[Eric Santner]] introduces the key [[distinction]] between [[symbolic]] [[history]] (the set of explicit mythical narratives A further key distinction between Judaism (together with its Christian continuation) and Islam is tha

...xplicably withdrew. How often does it happen that, when peace seems just a matter of finding a proper formulation for some minor statements, everything sudde ...agent]] on whom the [[role]] of the modernizer, of moving to a political [[form]] beyond [[ethnic identity]], is imposed: the only true long-term solution

...ed elementary [[matrix]] of the "[[dream]] [[work]]," which involves the [[distinction]] between the [[latent]] dream-[[thought]] and the unconscious desire artic ...varice, while the excessive limitless consumption is avarice itself in its form of appearance (oppositional determination).<br><br>

...hile they pursue (what appears to us) evil goals with evil means, the very FORM of their activity meets the highest standard of the Good. The resolution of ...our allegedly permissive society, this asceticism assumes precisely the [[form]] of its opposite, of the GENERALIZED [[superego]] [[injunction]] "[[Enjoy]

...onviction of one’s own superiority. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s well-known distinction between <i>amour-de-soi</i> and <i>amour-propre</i> is more than pertinent ...eliefs: a society immobilized by the concern for not hurting the other, no matter how cruel and superstitious this other is, and in which individuals are eng

...according to which, [[truth]] being accessible to any [[rational]] man, no matter how depraved, everyone must be regarded as responsible for his crimes. But ...]] in [[Auschwitz]] sending [[Hitler]] such a telegram. It is a tasteless distinction, but it supports the contention that under [[Stalin]], the ruling [[ideolog

Lacan’s own account of sublimation is put in [[terms]] of a [[distinction]] between ‘’l’objet’’ (object) and ‘’Chose’’ ([[Thing]]). Because the very [[idea]] of moral goodness implies that morality be a matter of something universally and necessarily [[true]], Kant argues that what ma

...epresented only one small part. They thought of human experiences in the [[form]] of a pyramid, the narrow peak of which is the limited range of the consci ...the first techniques the surrealists used. This process became for them a form of [[self]]-administered psychoanalysis. Automatic writing consisted of wri

...lls a transcendental illusion or what Marx calls the objectively-necessary form of thought. First, the transcendental I, its pure apperception, is a purely ...rns us back to reality, but, rather, to the fact that cutting oneself is a form of making a mark: when I make a cut into my arm, the »zero« of the subjec

...kind of - how should I put it? - disavowed spirituality. It is as if the [[form]] of spirituality, the ultimate, I am almost tempted to say, iconoclastic s ...talism is - to put it in slightly speculative [[Hegelian]] [[terms]] - the form of the [[appearance]] of its opposite. Let's be serious: Nobody will convin

...xplicably withdrew. How often does it happen that, when peace seems just a matter of finding a proper formulation for some minor statements, everything sudde ...agent]] on whom the [[role]] of the modernizer, of moving to a political [[form]] beyond [[ethnic identity]], is imposed: the only true long-term solution

...that of an autonomous agent; and the same goes for woman - the ultimate [[form]] of her servitude is to (mis)perceive herself, when she acts in a "[[femin Is the planet around which the story turns, composed of the mysterious matter which seems to [[think]], i.e. which in a way is the direct materialization

...he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new [[form]] of pseudo-[[thought]], as a contemporary version of sophism. Since Badiou ...nscends, precisely, the "infinite complexity" of its context. A homologous distinction can be drawn between [[historicism]] and [[historicity]] proper: historicis

...[[reversal]] of the Oedipal matrix do we reach the well-known Pascalean [[distinction]] between the God of [[Philosophers]] (God qua the [[universal]] structure ...by the primordial [[Otherness]], the mysterious dark principle of feminine matter. Therein resides the basic paradox of Plato's mysterious "secret teaching":

...[philosophy]],'' and not of his work: ''[[Capital]]'') its ''theoretical [[form]]'', it was then that I saw myself on the threshold of [[understanding]] yo ...Marx. That is what I wanted to [[communicate]], in advance, in abbreviated form, by speaking of Marx's [[revolution]] ([[rejection]] of ''homo economicus''

...realm of [[ideas]] [[looking]] for whatever will prove useful. It doesn't matter if his findings come from different intellectual traditions, if they are, i ..."no [[state]] no [[power]]" in [[order]] to realize their goals usually [[form]] their own [[society]] which obeys the most authoritarian rules. My first

matter of [[duty]] and not of some spontaneous [[feeling]]; but this answer to the Lacanian [[distinction]] between the gaze and the look. Our later

...s being-towards-madness, reality is always reality-towards-the-Real. Every form of (symbolic-imaginary) reality exists as an impossible attempt to escape t ...by presenting its outcomes of winning and losing as if they were simply a matter of chance and sound judgement in a neutral marketplace.<br><br>

...ral truth — that crocodile tears about the "Iraqi people" are the basest form of imperial contempt … Democracy, as usual, has nothing to do with it'.<a ...seen by her as fitting all too neatly into this ideological universe as a form of 'metacynicism', 'a cynicism that protects itself from being known as cyn

...ses Antigone's case, from this other side we can see and live life 'in the form of something already lost' (S7, 280). And perhaps even beyond Antigone - wh ...od as saying that its subjects know nothing of it - they do - but that the form of their behaviour escapes them (SO, 15). They are 'decentred' not because

...nternet around the world. And yet at the same time what they advise is a [[form]] of inaction, a pause, a time for [[reflection]]. This would, however, not ...plit]] between form and [[content]], might we not say that on the level of form Zizek wants to see himself as an "engaged" [[intellectual]], but on the lev

But I shall not make of this distinction either a point or a point of departure, leaving to its own obscurity the qu ...tributed to Ferdinand de Saussure although it is not found in exactly this form in any of the numerous schemas, which none the less express it, to be found

...lations to his [[image]], in so far as it is the <i>Urbild </i>[original [[form]]] of the ego. Now, this mirror-stage, which no one can deny, has an [[opti ...it rather that we have acquired the habit of placing a too hastily drawn [[distinction]] between the objective and the subjective in our little [[thought]]-tank?

...r attracted anyone's attention, even though it was used again in another [[form]] in Freud's quasi last [[work]], the <i>[[Outline]] of [[Psycho]]-analysis ...[[apparatus]] with which we are here concerned is also known to us in the form of an [[anatomical]] preparation, and I shall carefully avoid the temptatio

speaks. So we have the distinction between <i>la langue</i> and <i> la presented in succession; they form a chain. This feature becomes<br>

...ely what is endangered by the [[encounter]] with the object. The love/hate distinction that forms in the genital stage allows them to be linked together, bringing

The expression '[[anaclitic]] oject-[[choice]]' refers to a [[form]] of object-choice in which the [[love]]-object is selected because it in s ...problematical, and since Freud did not set an example by [[thinking]] the matter through, things were simply [[left]] fallow.

...of [[fantasy]], and the introduction of the [[concept]] of change in the [[form]] of [[libidinal]] development. Here we have an indication of the importanc ...iate the resistances of [[The Id|the id]], the ego, and the superego—a [[distinction]] made possible by the new [[structural]] model but also strengthened the c

...idealism, and Zizek wishes to make "actual" one of those possibilities in distinction to the way it is currently realized. ...t works its way out to the latter and throws off its husk, revealing a new form in ots stead. Commenting Fredric Jameson's "Syntax of Theory" (The Ideologi

...A final chapter sharpens the [[distinction]] between ego and ego ideal, a distinction that provides an opening for psychoanalytic investigation of the [[narcissi ...dividual]] psychology in which the ego ideal does not appear in weakened [[form]] is that of the poet telling the totemic clan the lie that explains their

...t to [[remember]] that they are not entities. They are [[categories]] of [[distinction]], not bags to put things in. They neither describe an isolable thing; they ...my is slightly [[metaphorical]] and any metaphor has a metonymic tint. The distinction has great relevance in [[aesthetics]]. It enabled Jakobson, for [[instance]

...rms of the mother's presumably having been deprived of the phallusfor that matter, the [[whole]] raison d'etre of the "[[phallic]] [[stage]]" in the sexual d ...ost significant aspect of Freud's "discovery." This implies not only the [[distinction]] between signifier and [[signified]] but the conception "that the signifie

...argues that he could not be [[deceived]] if he did not [[exist]] in some [[form]]. Given that his [[body]] may be an illusion, Descartes concludes that at ...to) the dominant [[ideologies]] and histories of the day. In its bleakest form, therefore, the decentred subject is little more than a puppet of overwhelm

speaks. So we have the [[distinction]] between <i>la [[langue]]</i> and <i> la presented in succession; they [[form]] a [[chain]]. This feature becomes<br>

But I shall not make of this [[distinction]] either a point or a point of de-<br> is not found in exactly this [[form]] in any of the numerous schemas, which<br>

Her [[desire]] for the [[phallus]] remains [[unsatisfied]], not matter how many [[children]] she has. ...]] leads to the return of [[castration]] in the [[real]], such as in the [[form]] of [[hallucinations]] of dismemberment or even self-mutilation of the rea

...sibilities of the altered or introduced element. Further, the [[material]] form of a language could stabilize while distinctions expressed with those forms ...e language. To cite another of Saussure’s binary oppositions, there is a distinction to be made between [[langue]], speakers’ shared knowledge of the language

...er widely separated [[categories]] of the [[psychological]] [[system]]. No matter how concealed, the dream is still a [[wish]], while wit is a developed play ...eason, and which must be overcome in each individual case. But a radical [[distinction]] between wit and dreams is shown in the manner in which the witwork solves

...]] and functionsunconsciously, intruding into our symbolic reality in the form of need. The real is a kind of ubiquitous undifferentiated mass from which ...]] or need. The concept continues to retain its [[association]] with brute matter, but its predominant [[meaning]] in Lacan at this time is as that which is

...nd clemency - the just and severe punishment of the enemies IS the highest form of clemency, so that, in it, rigor and charity coincide: ...lence is ''fiat iustitia, pereat mundus'': it is JUSTICE, the point of non-distinction between justice and vengeance, in which "people" (the anonymous part of no-

...ging to the sphere of the "Asiatic mode of production," seeing it as a new form of "Oriental despotism" - the irony being that, for traditional Russians, t ...ronts its central antagonism ("contradiction") at its purest, in its naked form? And is it enough to add the "subjective" aspect and to emphasize that the

...alization and its agents," the [[enemy]] is externalized (usually in the [[form]] of vulgar anti-Americanism). From this perspective, where the main task t ...m]] of the so-called new (digital) industries is thus: how to maintain the form of (private) property, within which only the logic of profit can be maintai

...eir actions, not an anonymous "system." However, if one may apply here the distinction between goal and aim, if not goal, it should be its ultimate aim, the horiz ...essarily missed the first time, that true fidelity is only possibly in the form of resurrection, as a defence against "revisionism": Freud didn't know the

...radition, within which [[truth]] is accessible to any [[rational]] man, no matter how depraved he is, which is why he is subjectively responsible for his cri ...ram for his birthday... Crazy and tasteless as this may sound, this last [[distinction]] bears [[witness]] to the fact that the opposition between Stalinism and N

...ram for his birthday... Crazy and tasteless as this may sound, this last [[distinction]] bears [[witness]] to the fact that the opposition between Stalinism and N ...y getting back from the victimized Third World its own message in its true form. And the moment Human Rights are thus depoliticized, the discourse dealing

...od’s omnipotence (how could He have allowed it to happen?), opt for some form of divine limitation: (1) first, God is directly posited as finite or, at l ...nfathomable divine caprice. Do the three main versions of Christianity not form a kind of Hegelian triad? In the succession of Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and

<blockquote>The [[form]] of habit applies to spirit in all its degrees and varieties. Of all these ...t, indifferent to it; /…/ our Self just as much appropriates the subject-matter as, on the contrary, it draws away from it; /…/ the soul, on the one hand

...ical]], and it reads: given the [[ontological]] chasm between [[mind]] and matter, how can we have certain [[knowledge]] of the [[material]] [[existence]] of ...ites that the main point of Lacan’s [[reading]] of Kant is that “the [[distinction]] between phenomena and the Thing can be sustained only within the [[space]

...This can also be said: the experience of the loving subject, which is the matter of love, does not constitute any knowledge [savoir] of love. This is even ...an encounter. Properly understood, this event-encounter occurs only in the form of its disappearance or eclipse. It is fixed only by a nomination, and this

...-jectivity, of that which stands against the (finite) subject, the minimal form of resistance that is not yet any positive determinate object that the subj ...ess series as closed, and positing outside of it an empty object, the very form of object, that frames the series.[#_edn4 [4]] It is also easy to discern t

...s'ecrire, ceases not writing itself). It is crucial to note here the clear distinction between possibility and contingency: while possibility is the opposite of n ...she! … SHE! … (Pause) … what she was trying … what to try … no matter … keep on … (Curtain starts down) … hit on it in the end … then bac

...resses the artistic endeavour at its most elementary, reduced to the stark distinction between the Void (the white background/surface) and the element (the 'heavy By means of a form of sublimation specific to art, poetic creation consists in positioning an

...ch the present itself is seen from a minimal distance, in its accomplished form: ...son; if anything, it involves a trust in un-Reason, the certainty that, no matter how well-planned things are, somehow they will go wrong. This is what Lacan

...interaction within civil society …" "But civil-society interaction is a matter of constant strife, the very mechanism of disintegration, of ruthless compe ...t its purest, much more radical than in Marx's time? In short, the highest form of ideology does not involve getting caught in ideological spectrality, for

="Pathological Narcissus" as a Socially Mandatory Form of Subjectivity by Slavoj Žižek | 1986= ...st terminology is called "socially mandatory character" has received a new form. That is to say, after the "autonomous" individual of Protestant ethics and

...egram for his birthday… Crazy and tasteless as this may sound, this last distinction bears witness to the fact that the opposition between Stalinism and Nazism ...y getting back from the victimized Third World its own message in its true form. And the moment Human Rights are thus depoliticized, the discourse dealing

...; the ugly is the force of life against the death imposed by the aesthetic form. ...such, it provides enjoyment. In short, what Kant already elaborated in the distinction between pleasure (''Lust, ''regulated by the pleasure principle, which make

...vicious cycle…. What lurks in the background, of course, is the Kantian distinction between the constitutive and the regulative aspect: the Thing (freedom, for ...rst approach, this reading of Lacan cannot but appear convincing, almost a matter of course – yet it is the very ease of this translation of Lacanian conce