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For authoritarian [[regime]] to exist, however totalitarian it may be, the [[active]] [[participation]] and support of a population is When a subject identifies with a [[leader]]/father figur,e he or she identifies witha position of Oedipal power and a

For authoritarian [[regime]] to [[exist]], however totalitarian it may be, the [[active]] [[participation]] and support of a population is When a [[subject]] [[identifies]] with a [[leader]]/father figur,e he or she identifies witha [[position]] of [[Oedipal]] [[p

For authoritarian [[regime]] to [[exist]], however totalitarian it may be, the [[active]] [[participation]] and support of a population is When a [[subject]] [[identifies]] with a [[leader]]/father figur,e he or she identifies witha [[position]] of [[Oedipal]] [[p

[[Laclau]] condemns Žižek as [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]], or else as confused.<ref>Contingency 289</ref> "Totalitarian" is less a political description than a slogan, a rallying call inviting us

..." of the international workers, that they had such a [[genius]] as their [[leader]], Stalin, Stalin answers: "… I do not agree with him. He even expressed ...majority of his party colleagues. Within the Bolshevik party, no prominent leader supported his call to revolution, and Pravda took the extraordinary step of

...one thing I do agree. I had a public discussion with Zoran Djindjic, the [[leader]] of Serb opposition, who told something else, which is that, in contrast t ...human rights is to denounce every radical political measure as potentially totalitarian.

...uced to any of the leader's actual features-it seems as if the charismatic leader dominates this (x), as if he pulls the strings where the Other of the [[sym ...<ref>It would be productive to elaborate the link between the totalitarian leader and the art of the comic absurd, in which figures of the capricious Master,

...he [[economic]] crisis, and social insecurity; the populist totalitarian [[leader]] is a distorted [[personality]] who, by means of his [[aggressivity]], abr

...y"? These paradoxes cannot be dismissed as the simple machinations of the "totalitarian" power — they harbor a genuine tragic [[dimension]] overlooked by the sta ...most everyday level — what kind of country is this, in which the supreme Leader himself has to dispense advice about how to repair tractors? It is here tha

...jority of his party colleagues. Within the Bolshevik party, no prominent [[leader]] supported his call to revolution, and Pravda took the extraordinary step ...nstrumental reason]] and the [[administered world]] (verwaltete Welt): the totalitarian potential is inscribed in this very form of [[total]] social control.<ref>S

...gift to humanity," this [[apparent]] [[modesty]] nonetheless, in the best totalitarian fashion, conceals its opposite: yes, BUT it is nonetheless the US which per ...heir population, they take recourse to the commonplace wisdom that "a true leader leads, he does not follow" — and this from leaders otherwise obsessed wit

...ts opposite. What reveals it as fake is the link between the figure of the totalitarian Master and the superego's injunction: "Enjoy!" .... Far from imposing on us a firm set of standards to be complied with, the totalitarian master suspends (moral) [[punishment]]. His secret injunction is: "You may.

...n we are rather dealing with a sad, if not outright tragic, spectacle of a Leader deprived of his dignity). How are we to think these two features together? ...href="#18">18</a> In a social link, affects (collective hatred, love of a Leader, panic, and other "passions") thus also cheat - except anxiety which (as Fr

...se deepest strivings only he expresses. The catch is, those who oppose the leader by definition not only oppose him, but they also oppose the deepest and nob

...der [[Stalin]], the ruling [[ideology]] presupposed a space in which the [[leader]] and his [[subject]]s could meet as servants of [[Historical Reason]]. Un ...m]]. Nolte’s idea is that [[Communism]] and [[Nazism]] share the same [[totalitarian]] form, and the difference between them consists only in the difference bet

...agmatic double, has dismissed Havel as a 'socialist'.</p><p>Even the most 'totalitarian' Stalinist ideology is radically ambiguous. While the universe of Stalinist

Such paradoxes also provide the key to the way in which the liberal-totalitarian emergency represented by the 'war on terror' relates to the authentic revol ...ic' leader externally imposed on a people. Whenever Afghanistan's 'interim leader' appears in our media, he wears clothes that cannot but appear as an attrac

...pparent]] [[modesty]] nonetheless concealed, in the best [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]] fashion, its very opposite. ...r deepest strivings. The catch, of course, is that those who oppose the [[leader]] do not only oppose him, but also oppose the deepest and noblest strivings

...did the minority [[disappear]]? Far from betraying some [[perverse]] “[[totalitarian]]” twist, this [[paradox]] is built into the very [[structure]] of [[demo ...ywood happy ending were merely local pockets of [[resistance]] where the [[leader]]s did not yet grasp that their [[time]] was over. In contrast, [[9/11]] s

...ts opposite. What reveals it as fake is the link between the figure of the totalitarian Master and the superego's injunction: "Enjoy!"<br> .... Far from imposing on us a firm set of standards to be complied with, the totalitarian master suspends (moral) [[punishment]]. His secret injunction is: "You may.

...which function according to the [[logic]] of the "primordial father" from "totalitarian" [[political]] leaders to the paternal [[sexual]] harasser. But why? When t ...om the paternal figure of the [[leader]] is precisely this gap between the leader in the immediacy of his [[personality]] and the symbolic place he occupies,

Such paradoxes also provide the key to the way in which the liberal-totalitarian emergency represented by the 'war on terror' relates to the authentic revol ...ic' leader externally imposed on a people. Whenever Afghanistan's 'interim leader' appears in our media, he wears clothes that cannot but appear as an attrac

...s nothing higher than the title of member of the Party whose founder and [[leader]] was Comrade Lenin. It is not given to everyone to be a member of such a p ..., Anastas Mikoyan flew to Budapest to inform the Hungarian ultra-Stalinist leader Matyas Rakosi of the Moscow's decision to depose him, he told Rakosi: "The

...spenses us with the boring topic of the alleged "deeper ([[totalitarianism|totalitarian]], of course) [[solidarity]]" between the extreme [[Right]] and the "extrem ...pular movement <i>[[needs]]</i> the identificatory figure of a charismatic leader. The limitation of Chavez lies elsewhere, in the very factor which enables

...and the Analysis of the Ego</i> (1921c), which dismantles the concepts of leader, crowd, and power, can be seen as the foundation of all political psychoana ...drives]] and the [[unconscious]], which various [[ideologies]], especially totalitarian, have been able to exploit.

...he [[Analysis]] of the Ego</i> (1921c), which dismantles the concepts of [[leader]], crowd, and [[power]], can be seen as the foundation of all political psy ...f [[drives]] and the unconscious, which various [[ideologies]], especially totalitarian, have been able to exploit. The triptych of the sexual drive, the [[death]]

...ry & Alain Renault in France) and other defenders of human rights AGAINST (totalitarian, fundamentalist) terror. Or it can retain the conjunction "humanism AND ter ...eread the rhetorical turn often referred to as the proof of Robespierre's "totalitarian" manipulation of his audience.<ref>See the detailed analysis in Claude Lefo

...ectual through democratic political reformer and Muslim fundamentalist war leader up to respected professor of philosophy, his entire career marked by the st ...e chief organizing the search for the anarchist leader and this mysterious leader at the end appear to be one and the same person (God himself, incidentally)

...y the [[ideal]] candidate for hegemonic ideology, since it echoes the anti-totalitarian post-political distrust of large collective acts. This distrust unites reli ...e very attempt by its leading circle to protect the [[ignorance]] of the [[Leader]], to keep his gaze happy.<br /><br /> Is this not what, ultimately, cultur

...t my country die for me." It is significant to note that, in spite of the "totalitarian" [[character]] of the Soviet [[regime]], THIS fear was much more predominan ...riarchal, i.e., that it implies the radical disjunction between Father and Leader:

...en the obligatory applause explodes at the end of the leader's speech, the leader stands up and joins [[others]] in applauding. <ref>The mutual [[fascination ...as well as the notion that the Communist [[project]] is, in its very core, totalitarian. In the [[third]] volume of his supreme biography of Trotsky, [[Isaac]] Deu

...ation to sex. The rest is nothing but archaic abstraction, and very likely totalitarian. What is modern    is the generalisation, as Ego-ideals, of the three re ..., to give disparate sequences a unique name, such as the great proletarian leader or the great founder of artistic modernity, names that in fact are taken fr

...option of intelligent economic policies. Likewise, for Understanding, the "totalitarian" character of the communist regimes of the twentieth century appears as a r ...eans possible, including the physical removal, murder if necessary, of the totalitarian leadership?" "Yes, so you can see how, if the accused were innocent, they d

...his Other to become aware of how he was experiencing another subject as a Leader only because he was treating him as one. – It should be clear, from this ...ntain the gap between S1 and S2: if this gap gets obliterated, we get the 'totalitarian' bureaucracy as S2.

...eel, just go there and behave properly. Do your duty." A modern permissive totalitarian father will tell you something else: "You know how much your grandmother wo ...with the duty to enjoy yourself. Maybe we can in this way distinguish the totalitarian from the liberal-permissive superego. In both cases, the message is "You ma