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...nsibility]]''' is complicated in [[psychoanalysis]] by the discovery that, in addition to his [[conscious]] plans, the '''[[subject]]''' also has '''[[un ...oint of view of the [[conscious]] [[intention]], since they are successful in expressing an '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.<ref>[[{{FB}}|Freud, Sigmund

[[Image:Kida_j.gif |right|frame|[[Kid A In Alphabet Land - Jouissance]]]] ...of [[Lacan]].</ref> "[[Enjoyment]]" does convey the [[sense]], contained in ''[[jouissance]]'', of ''enjoyment of rights'', of ''property'', etc., but

...graphic one.<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', 1916. Ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, tran When [[Lacan]] takes up [[Saussure]]'s [[work]] in the 1950s, he adapts it freely to his own purposes. He thus conceives of th

...h the [[German]] term ''[[Thing|das Ding]]''. There are two main contexts in which this term operates. ...cious]]-[[conscious]] [[system]], whereas in the [[unconscious|unconscious system]] only [[thing-presentations]] are found.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Fre

[[Image:Kida_p.gif |right|frame|'''[[Kid_A_In_Alphabet_Land_-_Phallus|Kid A In Alphabet Land Pacifies Another Pernicious Persona - The Phony Phallus!]]''' ...ic phase]]." The [[phallic phase]] denotes a [[stage]] in [[development]] in which the [[child]] ([[boy]] or [[girl]]) [[knows]] only one [[biology|geni

...ibliography|work]], and becomes increasingly [[complex]] as it is reworked in various different contexts. ...zee quickly realizes that the [[image]] is [[illusory]] and loses interest in it.

...Ulyanova]] ([[1835]]&ndash;[[1916]]). Lenin was of mixed ethnic ancestry. In addition to [[being]] Russian, he also had [[Kalmyk]] ancestry through his ..., at that [[time]] Lenin became interested in [[Marxism]], he got involved in student protests and later that year was arrested. He was then expelled fro

[[Lacan]] begins to use the term "[[demand]]" in 1958. ..."inserted in a [[synchronic]] [[world]] of cries organized in a symbolic [[system]]."<ref>{{S4}} p. 182, 188</ref>

...century in the context of the study of "[[religion|primitive religions]]", in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship. ...e nineteenth century, [[Marx]] borrowed the term to describe the way that, in [[capitalist]] societies, [[social]] relations assume the [[illusory]] [[fo

...as a female disease caused by the womb wandering throughout the [[body]] (in Greek ''hysteron'' means womb). ...ially in the [[work]] of Jean-Martin Charcot, under whom [[Freud]] studied in 1885-6.

...f Sigmund Freud|The Ego and the Id]]''. 1923b. [[SE]] XIX. p. 23</ref> and used the term ''[[das Es]]'' to denote these forces. ...the early 1920s, in the context of the second [[model]] of the [[psyche]]; in this model, the [[psyche]] is [[divided]] into [[three]] [[agencies]]: the

In his seminar of 1955-56 ([[Seminar III|Seminar III, ''The Psychoses'']]), La ..., but psychoanalytically [[speaking]] one can see [[three]] broad features in psychotic patients:

...27c: [[SE]] XXI, 22-4</ref> and described [[The Interpretation of Dreams]] in [[order]] to explain the [[visual]] [[nature]] of [[dreams]]. ...ng [[thoughts]] to travel regressively through these systems towards the [[system]] of [[perception]].<ref>{{F}} ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'', 1900a:

The term is employed in [[psychoanalysis]] in the [[sense]] in which one speaks of the [[object]] of someone's ([[Desire]]) (affection or The [[notion]] of an [[object]] originates in [[Freud]]'s [[discussion]] of the [[drive]]s, where '[[object]]' is defined

...mes to denote a specific [[class]] of [[treatment|mental disorders]] (i.e. in opposiiton to [[psychosis]]). ...[[symptoms]] are an expression of a [[psychical]] [[conflict]] originating in [[childhood]]. Modern [[psychoanalysis]] describes [[patients]] presenting

In [[Freud]]'s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] the term "[[identification]]" d In his [[Works of Sigmund Freud|later work]], as [[Freud]] developed the [[ide

From [[Works of Jacques Lacan|very early on in his work]], [[Lacan]] plays on the fact that the [[German]] term which [[Fr ...e I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience]]", trans. [[Alan Sheridan]], in {{E}} pp. 1-7].</ref>

...nglish]], whereas ''[[langage]]'' refers to the [[system]] of [[language]] in general, abstracting from all [[particular]] languages. ...n]] in English it is therefore essential to be aware of which term is used in the original French; most of the [[time]] the French term will be ''[[langa

...re not [[other]] words. Imagine [[looking]] for a definition of a [[word]] in a [[dictionary]]. When one finds the definition it consists of only other w ...refers to [[value]] as such, and all other commodities are [[thought]] of in terms of how much money one can get for [[them]]. That is, money as a commo

In 1955, [[Lacan]] begins to use [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s -- in an attempt to [[formalize]] [[psychoanalysis]]. :Just as [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] uses quasi-[[mathematical]] [[formulae]] in an attempt to set [[anthropology]] on a more [[scientific]] footing, [[Laca

In the so-called "[[topographical model]]", [[Freud]] isolates [[consciousness <blockquote>"The difficulties which this [[system]] of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theoris

...s]] (the [[development|oral]] and [[development|anal stages]]) to maturity in the [[genital|genital stage]]. ...seems to accept this [[development]]al [[reading]] of [[Freud]], at least in the matter of a [[development|genetic order]] for the [[three]] "[[family]]

...[[fragmented body]] is one of the earliest original [[concepts]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], and is closely linked to the [ In the [[mirror stage]] the [[infant]] sees its [[reflection]] in the [[mirror]] as a [[whole]]/[[synthesis]], and this [[perception]] causes

...]'' designates one of the ''[[psychical]] systems'' described by [[Freud]] in his [[topology|topographical model]] of the [[psyche]], his first [[theory] ...[repression]] and thus cannot enter the [[conscious|conscious-preconscious system]] without [[distortion]].

In his [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|early work]], [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[s ...profoundly than the [[adult]], and [[introjection|internalizes]] [[them]] in the [[complex]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.89</ref>.

...ied]].<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wad ...of all a [[meaning]]less [[material]] element in a ''closed differential [[system]]''; this "'''signifier without the signified'''" is called by [[Lacan]] th

...ts against anxiety, the subject who [[acts]] something out still remains in the SCENE, whereas a passage to the act involves an exit from In "passage to the act" it is the idea of "passage" that is important, for it

...n [[concepts]] which, according to [[Lacan]], had previously been confused in [[psychoanalytic theory]]. ...] [[father]]. Thus [[Lacan]] claims that his [[tripartite]] classification system has shed invaluable light on [[Freud]]'s [[work]]:

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...ation]] of [[Algeria]]. He wrote his first novel, [[Almagestes]], in 1964. In 1967 he joined a study group organized by [[Louis Althusser]] and grew incr ...ation Politique" which he founded with some comrades from the Maoist UCFML in 1985.

...ich may be rendered "[[extimacy]] in [[English]], neatly expresses the way in which [[psychoanalysis]] problematizes the opposition between "[[inside]]" ...]]. The [[unconscious]] is not a purely [[inside|interior]] [[psychic]] [[system]] but an [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[structure]] -- "the uncons

forclusion (a term in use in the [[French]] [[legal]] [[system]]; in [[English]], '[[foreclosure]] ) ...In 1954, when Lacan first turns to the Freudian concept of Verwerfung in his

Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. ...minar between [[discourse analysis]] and the [[analysis of the ego]], both in relation to [[psychoanalytical theory]] and [[practice]].

...ier]]. In the [[three]] types of [[identification]] isolated by [[Freud]] in <i>[[Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego]]</i> (1921, S.E. XVIII), # A [[regressive]] [[identification]] in [[love]] relations: the [[object]] refuses itself, therefore the [[subject]

...ing point is the <i>[[fantasme]]</i> elaborated in the [[Graph of Desire]] in <i>[[Les formations de l'inconscient]]</i>: [[Image:lacansem1b1.gif|12px]] ...ems to be the irreducible [[Real]], "a lack which the symbol does not fill in," a "real [[deprivation]]."

...n the surface of the [[Klein]] bottle. These [[figure]] though constructed in a simple and [[combinatory]] way, are nevertheless complicated to comment.< [[Image:Crucial-problems-for-psychoanalysis-lacan-in-ireland.jpg|border|350px|right]]

...be articulated as a [[knowledge]] and taught as such, it has no [[place]] in Academia, where it is only a matter of knowledge." He rejects nonconceptual ...zed]], on the Phallus as a [[symbol]] that is [[lacking]] or [[outside]] [[system]], and the [[repetition]] of the [[Graphs]] of [[Desire]].<br>

...e two is related to the [[horror]] of [[incest]] that Freud [[identified]] in savages by analyzing totemic systems as laws of exogamy. ...e rest of us based on the intensity of [[emotion]], and provides the first in-depth investigation of this conception of emotion.

...this is unlikely, it is not [[impossible]]. The fact that it is grounded in her wishes is what makes it an illusion. ...vitability; and the individuals composing [[them]] support one [[another]] in giving free rein to their indiscipline''." (pg. 7) So destructive is human

...en]], an ancient Egyptian [[monotheism|monotheist]]. The book was written in [[three]] parts, and was a departure from the rest of Freud's [[work]] on [ ...close followers into [[freedom]], and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion either to his strong [[faith]] or to circumcision. Freud explains

...sychanalyse</small>]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar II|The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...tween [[discourse]] [[analysis]] and the [[analysis]] of the [[ego]], both in relation to psychoanalytical theory and practice. He claims that "[[analys

...ouisiana]], [[Guam]] or the military may also prescribe medication.</ref>. In some countries, mental health medication may only be prescribed by medical ...even the strongest measures. The majority of patients will fall somewhere in between.

...udy of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. ...'''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]]&ndash;[[1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the

...erapeutic techniques, especially his [[understanding]] of [[transference]] in the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s a ...o the [[University]] in [[Vienna]] because of the strong [[anti-Semitism]] in [[Austria]] at the [[time]], at which time his grades plummeted.

...theory]], and not until 1957 that he begins to engage with [[linguistics]] in any detail. ...[[anthropology|anthropological]] [[work]] of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] who, in the 1940s, had begun to apply the methods of [[structure|structural]] [[lin

In his attempt to theorize the [[category]] of the [[symbolic]], [[Lacan]] ado ...istics]], using a [[Saussure]]an-inspired [[model]] of [[language]] as a [[system]] of [[signifiers]].

...tional de Philosophie]] in [[Paris]] and at the [[University of Macerata]] in Italy, and has held visiting appointments at several American universities. ...without as yet inflecting [[them]] in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the [[Warburg Institute]], where he wrote ''St

...His [[mother]], Henriette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[cu ...s period, [[suffering]] from [[tuberculosis]] that often had to be treated in the [[isolation]] of [[sanatorium|sanatoria]]. His repeated [[physical]] b

...[[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of [[Rhetoric]] and Comparative [[Literature]] at the [[Uni ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek==

...ism, when viewed as a system of power relations, is described as a society in which every kind of transactional relation is fundamentally exploitative. Capitalism is a system that depends on the exploitation of underclass groups for its survival. (h

...rn]] to a scientific approach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...representing [[understanding]] and the processing of information. Included in the term are certain areas of speculative research ([[philosophy]] of [[min

...he basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]] ==The difficulty in defining deconstruction==

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...Žižek this mode of repetition indicates Deleuze’s similarity to Hegel, in that both stress becoming through repetition. By becoming-[[other]] to Hege

...rincipal anchoring -- a [[refusal]] to be anchored! -- until his [[death]] in [[1992]]. ...well as the [[formation]] of Friendly Male Nurses (Amicales d'infirmiers)(in [[1958]]), the studies on architecture and the projects of [[construction]]

...[German]] [[philosopher]], [[political]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theory]]. ...[capitalist]] industrial [[society]] and of [[democracy]], the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary (especially German

...] and [[social]] [[progress]] would bring [[about]] [[stable]] democracies in recently [[Decolonization|decolonized]] countries. ===''Political Order in Changing Societies''===

...s mother, Anne Sørensdatter Lund Kierkegaard, is not directly referred to in his books, although she too affected his later writings. Despite his fathe ...he last sacrifice which he made to his [[love]] for me; ... he died for me in [[order]] that, if possible, I might still turn into something. Of all tha

...[[Marxist theory|theory]], and his [[literary]] criticism was influential in [[thinking]] [[about]] [[realism]] and about the [[novel]] as a [[literary ...an (language)|German]], was '''Georg Bernhard Lukács von Szegedin''', and in [[Hungarian (language)|Hungarian]] was '''Szegedi Lukács György Bernát''

.... It is fascinating to read how Althusser sees Lacan as [[being]] involved in a similar [[project]] to his own. Just as he, Althusser, is trying to rethi interest in [[Lacanian]] psychoanalysis - a movement which seemed to

Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symboli ...cient Greek]] [[tragedy]] ([[myth]]) by [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus Rex]'', in which Oedipus unwittingly kills his [[father]] and [[marries]] his [[mother

...s [[experience]] of rupture, between [[perception]] and [[consciousness]], in that [[time|nontemporal locus]]... [[Freud]] calls [[scene|another scene]]. ...g]]". The [[unconscious]] ''is'' precisely this [[gap]] or [[gap|rupture]] in the [[symbolic]] [[signifyin chain|chain]].

...t a]] and [[jouissance]]. We will look at each of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes] =The real is always in its place=

...ude Lévi-Strauss]] to denote the basic constituents of [[myth]]ological [[system]]s).<ref>[[Claude Lévi-Strauss|Lévi-Strauss, Claude]]. 1955.</ref> The [ ...term is an equivalent to "[[algebra|mathematical sign]]". It is not used in conventional [[mathematics]], but is part of [[Lacan]]'s [[algebra]]. -->

...f nostalgic idolatry, and, furthermore, from the perspective firmly rooted in the democratic [[political]] [[order]], within the horizon of [[human]] rig ...the answer is immediately: "Benevolent as it is, this will necessarily end in a new [[Gulag]]!" The [[ideological]] function of the constant reference to

...mely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my [[right]] was so immersed in the film that he all the [[time]] disturbed [[other]] spectators with loud ...ing our inner life itself, using us as the source of energy; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a

...laim]], an appropriate [[metaphor]] [for] the participation of individuals in our post-modern [[political]] process. We are all the time asked by politic ...d]] [[World]] factories, from Chinese gulags to Indonesian assembly lines. In their invisibility the West can afford itself to babble [[about]] the so-ca

...eality]] that it is distorting, and through this very act dissolve itself. In the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -that developed ...ls which are supposed to hide the naked reality. We can see why [[Lacan]], in his [[Seminar]] on The [[Ethic]] of [[Psychoanalysis]], distances himself f

GL: You have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological culture in this country? ...en the first one. We know that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms.

...le fully to [[enjoy]] all [[women]]. Does, however, the figure of the Lady in courtly love not fully fit these determinations of the primordial father? I ...agency of power which is pre-symbolic, unbridled by the Law of castration; in both cases, the role of this fantasmatic agency is to fill out the vicious

...[[meaning]] to the actual [[signifiers]]. What [[speech]] act is involved in this context? ...values. "Everybody might get rich, including you." Let's take Thatcherism in Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard wo

...social]] [[space]], so that their claims would have a legitimate [[place]] in it. Ranciere's last book, La mesentente,l provides a definite formulation o ...] between police and politics proper is always blurred and contested; say, in the [[Marxist]] [[tradition]], '[[proletariat]]' can be read as the subject

...sis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] t ...l use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.

...ainst the aristocracy and clergy) to the demise of European [[socialism]], in which groups such as the Czech Civic [[Forum]] proclaimed themselves [[repr ...y "scum" of the [[official]] whole of the people, with no [[proper place]] in official [[space]] (or, more precisely, with only titles such as "counterre

...ty to run a country through the "normal" chains of administrative command. In order to properly measure the impact of The Road to Terror, one should star ...[[Seduction]]: "Most people have a dark side… she had [[nothing]] else." In the same way, while most of the political regimes have a dark side of obsce

...the anatomy of man provides the key for the anatomy of the monkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[form ...he guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.

...Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922: ...r views, or, if you insist on expressing your [[political]] views publicly in the [[present]] circumstances, when our position is far more difficult than

What is [[tolerance]] today? The most popular TV show of the fall of 2000 in [[France]], with a viewer rating two [[times]] higher than that of the [[no ...e Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries' critique of Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922:

...Butler]], The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that which is already caught in some kind of pre-[[subjective]] [[psychic apparatus]].</ref> Butler, of cou

...ect?" The answer, of course, is: the object - however, which object? This, in a nutshell (or, rather, as a nut within the shell), is the topic of the pre ...but because it contains a stain, a blind spot, which signals my inclusion in it.<br><br>

...nd all the [[multiplicity]] of the [[world]]. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest [[sense]] of the world, the religion of sublimity."<ref>[[G.W ...since it includes self-differentiation into the One - its lesson is that, in [[order]] to have truly One, you [[need]] THREE.

...hould thus have the [[savoir]]-faire to play the existing, positive, notes in such a way that one would be able to discern the echo of the accompanying n ...nner [[jokes]], obscene practices, etc. The truly radical [[intervention]] in to military homophobia should therefore not focus primarily on the explicit

...Gibson's <i>[[Passion]]</i> seem impeccable: are they not fully justified in their worry that the [[film]], made by a fanatic [[Catholic]] traditionalis ...[[Jesus]]? Or as the typical secular Jew who, although he does not believe in Jehova and [[Moses]] as his prophet, nonetheless thinks that Jews have a di

...ules of the game"? Why should it not, in some circumstances, at least, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure? ...a couple of years ago, and the situation is similar in today's Pakistan.) In such a case, many a democrat would concede that the people was not yet "mat

...(the constructed nature) of reality, and the triumphant return of the body in the sense of the ballet-like quality of fights with slow motions and defian ...universe which generates the false "wealth of experience" of humans caught in the Matrix.)<br><br>

...our [[world]] is just a mirage generated by a [[global]] [[Mind]] embodied in the World Wide Web... ...ure, where each of us is effectively just a foetus-like organism, immersed in the pre-natal fluid...

...of the possible definitions of postmodern art as opposed to modernist art: in [[postmodernism]], the [[transgressive]] [[excess]] loses its shocking [[va ...he burglars and footpads are merely placid old cosmic conservatives, happy in the immemorial respectability of apes and wolves. /The police romance/ is b

...in everyday locution, (what he considers to be) the [[thought]] expressed in Shakespeare's [[metaphoric]] idiom - say, "To be or not to be, that is the ...esitations cannot be purely contingent… This is called [[true]] [[love]] in [[theory]]. So, out of this true love, I [[claim]] that there IS a unique H

...ITICAL [[position]], not just as a pseudo-radical chic allowed and excused in advance to the eccentric [[artist]], and to see if it can be justified on T ...which were going on also in the previous epochs. Recall [[feminism]]: only in the last 200 years was the situation of [[women]] progressively perceived a

...is sad fact that the opposition to the [[system]] cannot articulate itself in the guise of a realistic alternative, or at least a meaningful utopian [[pr ...ormulated by both sides, about the real danger of these outbursts residing in the easily predictable racist REACTION of the French populist crowd to them

...t routine; [[culture]] and [[knowledge]] as against industrial production; in spontaneous interaction and [[autopoiesis]] as against fixed hierarchy. ...ckers dominate the [[scene]], [[working]] long hours, enjoying free drinks in green surroundings. The underlying [[notion]] here is that Gates is a subve

...manity but nature itself. In this sense, Francis [[Fukuyama]] is [[right]] in <i>Our Posthuman [[Future]]</i>: the [[notion]] of humanity relies on the [ ...tion mistake: the stuttering [[repetition]] of the nucleotide sequence CAG in the middle of a particular gene. The age at which the disease will appear d

<i>Vaclav [[Havel]]: A [[Political]] [[Tragedy]] in Six [[Acts]]</i> by John Keane · Bloomsbury, 532 pp, £25.00 ...versal]] is not a betrayal of his original ethical stance, but is inherent in it. The ultimate lesson of Havel's tragedy is thus a cruel, but inexorable

...all. Both have rejected the [[right]] to live in [[order]] to enter the "in-between-two-deaths," - ''entre-deux-morts'' - that is immortality. ...hing]]. As for disbelief, by rejecting the [[Thing]] it makes it reappear in the [[Real]], which is the [[Lacan]]ian definition of [[psychosis]].

...te to psychoanalysis and the crucial link to his [[clinical]] [[practice]] in [[psychiatry]]. ...iterary]] and artistic movement that emerged after the First [[World]] War in [[Paris]], its founding [[figure]] the writer and poet [[André Breton]] (1

...hysic of Morals]]''. It is outlined here according to the arguments found in this [[work]]. ..., and is both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation:

...on the [[logic]] of the [[individual]] [[situation]], Kant merely succeeds in separating pleasurability from the [[notion]] of [[good]]. ...e above [[seminar]] [[Lacan]] comments on the [[tragedy]] of [[Antigone]], in a play which clearly expresses [[human]] [[being]]'s relation and debt to t

...therefore minimal difference, a "pure" difference which cannot be grounded in positive substantial properties.<ref><u>[[The Parallax View]].</ref></block ..., and neither is the "truthful" one - the truth resides in their very gap, in the shift of perspective. See René Girard, Job: The Victim and His People,

...to convince us (and themselves) that globalization is its own best remedy. In the sub-tropical, Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the counter-elite of the ...ronically refers to as “[[liberal]] communists” (that is “liberal” in the pro-[[market]], European [[sense]]) who no longer accept the opposition

...U) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack. (In season four, they stopped a stolen [[nuclear weapon]] from exploding above ...spectators’, real [[time]] is exactly equivalent to the [[temporal]] gap in the on-screen [[narrative]], as if the events nonetheless <i>go on</i> as w

...ajority determine [[state]] decisions. Democracy—in the way the term is used today—concerns, above all, ‘’’[[formal]] legalism’’’. Its mi ...mal “rules of the game”? Why should it not, in some circumstances, put in question the legitimacy of the outcome of a formal democratic procedure?’

...r you look at it—practically every orientation seems to recognize itself in it.<br><br> ...ch the shadowy performance of (what they falsely consider to be) reality—in short, the [[position]] of the [[cinema]] spectators themselves.<br><br>

...p sea diving and started shooting documentaries [[about]] the strange life in the dark depths of the sea.<br><br> ...prowess at climbing a deadly mountain. Is it not possible to read the film in exactly the opposite way as it usually is [[interpreted]]? Is Junta, the lo

...hevik and Socialist-Revolutionaries’ critique of the Bolshevik [[power]] in 1922? ...r views, or, if you insist on expressing your [[political]] views publicly in the [[present]] circumstances, when our [[position]] is far more difficult

In a 2002 <i>[[Time]]</i> magazine interview, George Lucas explained the perso ...hrough the very way we, the 'good guys,' fight the [[enemy]] out there. (In today’s '[[war on terror]],' the [[real]] [[danger]] is what this [[war]]

appeared originally in <i>electronic book review</i><br><br> ...[[taboo]] in [[public]] [[discourse]], at least in the [[United States]]? In fact, aren't we witnessing a resurgence of [[fundamentalism]]? Under the [[

...ror from the entire spectrum of the 'legitimate' democratic political bloc in the Western world. From the social democratic Third Way to the Christian co ...governmental office), furnish the proof of the benevolence of the official system. Their existence displaces the focus of political struggle - whose true obj

...- namely, to an idiot. A man in the late 20ies at my right was so immersed in the film that he all the time disturbed other spectators with loud exclamat ...ing our inner life itself, using us as the source of energy; New Agers see in the source of speculations on how our world is just a mirage generated by a

...e overall [[idea]] is that Serbia, the island of peace, the only [[place]] in ex-[[Yugoslavia]] that was not touched by the war raging all around it, is ...that it has no ground under its feet... From Milosevic's seizure of power in Serbia onwards, the only actual [[chance]] for Yugoslavia to survive was to

...sis functioned as an ambiguous (necessary but dangerous) pharmakon invoked in [[order]] to [[supplement]] the inherent insufficiency of the [[Marxist]] t ...l use of psychoanalysis has always wound up in a justification of failure, in an explanation of why things had to go wrong.

...[myth]] with the [[mythical]] [[narrative]] of the "primordial [[father]]" in [[Totem]] and [[Taboo]] (T&T)? The lesson of this second myth is the exact ...at least let him know his wish between the lines...) is thus well-founded: in this necessity of the Betrayal of the Great Man, which can only assure his

...u have been to Japan. What's your opinion on the technological [[culture]] in this country? ...he first one. We [[know]] that Eisenschtein for his montage of attractions used Japanese ideograms.

...[[meaning]] to the actual [[signifiers]]. What [[speech]] act is involved in this context? </i><br><br> ...values. "Everybody might get rich, including you." Let's take Thatcherism in Great [[Britain]]: what is the Thatcherist [[dream]]? It is that by hard wo

</p><p><i><b>Editors' Note: Slavoj</b> [[Zizek]], a leading [[intellectual]] in the new presidency of the republic of Slovenia, then part of [[Yugoslavia]], in 1990.</i>

...Butler]], The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Numbers in parentheses refer to the pages of this book.</ref> ...is not simply the [[biological]] body, but is that which is already caught in some kind of pre-[[subjective]] [[psychic apparatus]].</ref> Butler, of cou

...the anatomy of man provides the key for the anatomy of the monkey-that is, in [[order]] to deploy the inherent, notional [[structure]] of a social [[form ...he guise of ecological catastrophes, poverty, [[Third]] [[World]] diseases in collapse of social life, mad cow disease.

...onnected to the '[[virtual]] worlds' Zizek comes to the conclusion, that - in contrast to the popular, exoticising readings of the net - the predominant ...f cyberspace that was popularized for example via the [[idea]] of The Borg in Star Trek. The Borg seems to be something like a cybernetic insect [[state]

...[[discourses]], in [[order]] to rethink the anti-authoritarian [[project]] in non-[[utopian]] and non-essentialist [[terms]]. It concludes by calling for ...r, it is to examine the implications and relevance of Lacanian [[ideas]] - in particular, his theory of the [[four discourses]] - to radical political th

It is this last formulation that is embodied in the [[Freudian]] approach to illusion, defined as a belief primarily motiva To that extent the illusion has much in common with [[dreams]] and dreaming, where the [[philosophers]] of antiquit

# that local [[conditions]] and peculiarities influence the results in a decisive way ...losopher]] in [[Nineteenth Century | 19th-century]] [[Europe]], as well as in those of a [[philosopher]] he is said to have influenced heavily, [[Karl Ma

''This [[exchange]] of letters begins at a crucial [[moment]] in the [[life]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]: he had just been stricken from the [[lis </ref> which plunged him into great turmoil, evidence of which can be seen in his first letters.

...its conclusion saying "we [[need]] more [[people]] with Mary Kay's stance in today's [[politics]]." ...alinist", which draws gleeful [[laughter]] from an audience who are mostly in their twenties.

...n, agitated entrance of the Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Zizek]], who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British [[Film]] Institute.<br> ...tically precise [[English]] tea,"Zizek insists, gesticulating dramatically in the style of a European dictator. "Everything must be exactly the way the E

Even Lacanians might find it in their hearts to forgive Chomsky As if to condense the aura of contrariness and enigma he cultivated in

...f the self" and the "night of the world" respectively. The point is that, in each of these cases, there is an increasing emphasis on negativity as the f ...n" self and the symbolic universe of "civilized" human subjectivity (where in the Enlightenment tradition the latter is identified with the Light of Reas

...of reference, the only conclusion will be that Western academia is caught in an obscure desire to self-destruct.' (Yannis Stavrakakis, author of <i>Laca ...cused on the particular versions of those theoretical frameworks currently in circulation. A good way of starting this assessment of Zizek is to go back

...onary narrative not because it was better able to account for the 'crisis' in [[liberal]]-bourgeois ideology, but because it was able to impose the [[ide ...he exploitation of [[nature]] is seen as [[masculine]]; socialist ecology, in which the exploitation of nature is seen as the product of [[capitalism]];

...the only one that can be raised by a mere thought' (TS, 382-3)? Who else, in a parody of the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, would observe:</font>< ...a kind of synthesis, with the basin full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible but not to be inspected? (PF, 4)</font></p>

...[[true]] [[enjoyment]] of literature proceeds from the release of tensions in our minds.<ref>{{RPDD}}</ref></blockquote> ...to recognize its importance when their "[[whole]] [[experience]] must find in [[speech]] alone its [[instrument]], its [[content]], its [[material]], and

...that of [[identifying]] a specific [[psychical]] cause for [[psychosis]]. In the course of addressing this problem, two themes are constant. ...[mother]]-[[child]] [[dual|relation]]s.<ref>{{1938}} p. 49</ref> Later on in his [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], when [[Lacan]] distinguishes between t

...n [[stage]] of its [[evolution]] and facilitates the [[analysis]] of the [[system]] of [[internal]] relations that constitutes it as a [[language]]. ...uage]] through [[time]] by recording the changes that have taken [[place]] in it.

...given [[stage]] of its evolution and facilitates the [[analysis]] of the [[system]] of [[internal]] relations that constitutes it as a [[language]]. ...uage]] through [[time]] by recording the changes that have taken [[place]] in it.

...y]]' has been used in [[philosophy]] since the late eighteenth century and in [[psychiatry]] since the beginning of the twentieth. It is worth [[looking]] at its use in these two spheres before examining its [[relationship]] to [[psychoanalytic

...trist]], [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]], and [[author]], who was trained in [[Vienna]] by [[Sigmund Freud]]. ...oped instruments to detect and harness this energy, which he said could be used to treat illnesses like [[cancer]] or [[control]] the weather. His views w

...nant group. Hegemony controls the ways that [[ideas]] become "naturalized" in a [[process]] that informs notions of [[common sense]]. ...any arena has rarely achieved a perfect [[balance]], but hegemony results in the [[empowerment]] of certain [[cultural]] [[belief]]s, [[Value (personal

...sistant at the ''[[Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique]]'' (CNRS) in [[Paris]]. ...f the ''[[Ecole Freudienne de Paris]]'' (EFP), a school directed by Lacan. In [[1969]] she analysed [[Antoinette Fouque]], a [[feminist]] [[leader]] of t

...of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in The Authoritarian Personality, including idealizing rebellion against [[par ...al, ex-minister of culture and ex-ambassador of [[Slovenia]] in [[France]] in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]]

...can]] Through Popular Culture and [[Enjoy]] the [[Symptom]]! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out. Additionally, among his later books that dealt more with ...ic election in 1990 and served as the Republic's ambassador of [[science]] in 1991 following Slovenia's declaration of independence. Since 1979, he has b

'''Of Children in Swaddling Clothes'''<BR> ''O cities of the sea, I behold in you your citizens, women as well as men tightly bound with stout bonds arou

That the work of Sade anticipates Freud, be it in respect of the catalogue of perversions, is a stupid thing to say, which ge ...ere, the way for science is prepared by rectifying the position of ethics. In this, yes, a ground-clearing occurs which will have to make its way through

...to a [[case]] whose [[particular]] [[significance]] resides in its showing in miniature the reciprocal interplay of those [[three]] grand [[terms]] we ha ..., because it reveals some of the [[subject]]'s relations to his [[image]], in so far as it is the <i>Urbild </i>[original [[form]]] of the ego. Now, this

[[Analysis]] tells us that the [[fetish]] is a [[symbol]]. In this [[regard]], it is almost immediately set on the same footing as every ...confirm it within the [[structure]], from the [[analytic]] point of view. In [[truth]], many authors here show some [[hesitation]], and go to the point

...ation]] - God is un</i><i>[[conscious]] - The </i>[[objet]] [[petit a]] <i>in the </i>[[fort-da]]<p> ...enough for this-it reduces the experience, some say, that urges us to find in the hard supports of conflict, struggle, even of the exploitation of man by

FUNCTION OF THE MYTH OF OEDIPUS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS<br> ...ing, but since several questions concerning the [[place]] of the imaginary in the [[symbolic]] [[structure]] crop up while following the thread of our [[

...recursor, who supposedly opened up some [[impasse]], aberration or aporia, in that [[domain]] of [[ethics]] we have chosen to explore this year, and that ...ng, which is related to a [[number]] of [[others]] I am struggling against in [[order]] to make some [[progress]] here before you.<p>

the synchronic dimension in the study of language. The the SYSTEM of language given by a number of laws of equilibrium

This principle is as follows, which I said in these terms. ...the A.M.E. It is not with that that it operates. The Italian group is not in a position to provide this guarantee.

...consciousness, while the first refers to the make-up of the unconscious [[system]] and especially the fact that it ignores [[time]] and its passage, and mor ...representations of death. Among the typical [[dream]] types Freud mentions in The [[Interpretation]] of Dreams (1900a) is the dream of the death of loved

...nt and thus deflected to the [[outside]] [[world]] through the musculature in the drive for [[destruction]] and [[mastery]] or the will to [[power]]: thi ...] introduced the [[concept]] of the [[death drive]] as a [[negative]] term in opposition to the [[life]] drive: "The opposition between the ego or death

...]], [[verbal]] commands, etc.). The [[English]] physician [[James]] Braid, in his Neurhypnology (1843), popularized, or may even have coined, the [[word] ...ces with a [[scientific]] conception of a "peculiar state of the nervous [[system]] induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the [[mental]] and [[visua

The [[role]] of the [[analyst]] in the [[treatment]] is twofold. ...g of [[interpretation]]s which plays the most crucial and distinctive role in the [[treatment]].

...lorized activities, together with the [[formation]] of an [[ideal]], while in [[object]] relations [[feelings]] of tenderness (aim-[[inhibition]]) take p ...fantile experiences, the notion of deferred [[action]] and discontinuities in the evolution of sexuality. He also developed the notion of infantile amnes

...nt]]) are the [[meanings]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[interpretation]] discovers in the [[manifest]] dream (the [[narrative]] the dreamer constructs of his dre [[Freud]] introduced the contrast between manifest and latent in The Interpretation of [[Dreams]] (1900a), and he never abandoned this [[dis

The [[knot]] is a [[topology|topological]] [[structure]] used by [[Jacques Lacan]] to define the [[relationship]] of the [[symbolic]], th ...can]] refers to the [[topology|topological]] [[structure]] of the [[knot]] in [[order]] to describe the relations between the [[imaginary]], the [[symbo

...nscious]]-[[conscious]], he assigned a special [[role]] to verbal language in the [[mechanism]] whereby unconscious [[processes]] became conscious. ...anings]] that lie not in things prior to the advent of language but rather in thought before the advent of [[words]].

...ompulsion]]" embodied in the Greek legend: we were all, "once, in germ and in [[phantasy]], just such an Oedipus" (1950a [1892-1899], p. 265). [[Analysts ...father and so made an end of the patriarchal horde" (1912-1913a, p. 141). In a single [[sentence]] Freud thus summed up the "memorable and criminal deed

...cesses: the [[intellectual]] [[activity]] and beliefs of [[human]] beings. In <i>New Introductory Lectures on [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]]</i> (1933), Sigmund In the second generation of [[psychoanalysts]], some authors, positioning them

...leasure bonus provided alongside the accomplishment of the function would, in a second [[stage]], be sought for its own sake. Freud thus considered [[ana ...nital]] and highlighting the autoeroticism that is linked to them: sucking in relation to oral [[activity]], retention/expulsion for anal erotism.

...story]], was [[born]] on July 15, 1842, in Leipzig, and died in April 1911 in the [[state]] [[mental]] asylum at Leipzig-Dösen. ...al breakdown. Thereafter he spent [[about]] thirteen years of his [[life]] in mental institutions, and while at the Sonnenstein Asylum he composed his on

In this [[sense]] it promotes the ability to fantasize and the organization of ...alytic [[situation]] thereby appears as both [[symbolic]] and symbolizing, in that its mode of operation is based on a [[structure]] with [[three]] point

...eeper the [[theoretical]] assumptions on which a [[psycho]]-[[analytic]] [[system]] could be founded" ([[Freud]], 1917d, p. 222 n.).

'''Wolf Man''' was a pseudonym used for one of [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ...g at the age of four, and which marked the beginning of his [[neurosis]]. In it, he dreamt of several wolves staring at him, withtheir ears pricked up,

...which the Polynesians express through their word taboo and what many races in America, Africa (Madagascar), North and Central Asia express through analog ...[concept]] of reserve inheres in taboo; taboo expresses itself essentially in prohibitions and restrictions. Our combination of "holy dread" would often

...]]. It is said to be the female [[counterpart]] to the [[Oedipus complex]] in males. Its [[name]] comes from the [[Greek mythology|Greek myth]] of [[Elec ...for [[Sigmund Freud]]'s concept of the "[[feminine]] [[Oedipus]] attitude" in young girls. According to Sigmund [[Freud]], the [[girl]] is originally att

...fic]] study of progressive [[psychology|psychological]] changes that occur in [[human]] beings as they age. Originally concerned with [[infants]] and [[c ...Developmental psychology complements several other basic research fields in [[psychology]] including [[social psychology]], [[cognitive psychology]], a

The '''[[genital]] [[stage]]''' in [[psychology]] is the term used by [[Sigmund Freud]] to describe the final stage of [[human]] [[psychosexua ...[[about]] the fifth year) to the definitive [[form]] taken by [sexuality] in the adult" (1923e, p. 141).

In [[psychoanalysis]], '''anticathexis''' is the [[energy]] derived from the ...d, ensures its [[being]] established and continued by means of which the [[system]] Pcs guards itself against the intrusion of the [[unconscious]] [[idea]].<

...ynamics attempts to explain or [[interpret]] [[behavior]] or mental states in [[terms]] of innate emotional forces or processes. ...ce, i.e. the “conscious” level. This, in the former [[case]], results in [[psychological]] states as [[neurosis]] and [[psychosis]].

I don't intend to engage in anything in the [[order]] of a theatrical ploy. I ...ber 19, 1963, Serge Leclaire informed Lacan that the [[S.F.P]]. had voted, in a complicated procedure, to refuse not to ratify the motion striking Lacan'

...every psychoanalyst must undergo with a certified [[analyst]] prior to, or in parallel with, his or her [[theoretical]] training, and before beginning to ...hey have laid increased emphasis on this requirement, and have embodied it in the [[demand]] that everyone who wishes to carry out [[analyses]] on [[othe

...1933-34. He was awarded, but declined, the Nobel Prize for [[literature]] in 1964. ...des no privileged [[self]]-[[knowledge]] because, as Sartre writes, "My I, in effect, is no more certain for consciousness than the I of [[other]] men. I

...of the western [[world]] to have put forward a robust [[philosophical]] [[system]]. His writings have later influences upon [[Socrates]] and [[Plato]]. 19th

...oewenstein was [[born]] in Lodz, [[Poland]], on January 17, 1898, and died in New York on April 14, 1976. ...dmitted as a member of the [[German]] Psychoanalytic [[Society]] (DPG) and in 1925 became an assistant at the outpatient [[clinic]], where he gained [[re

...nthal, Karen Horney, and Margarete Stegmann, the first women [[analysts]]. In June 1912 two [[other]] nonphysician women were admitted as members at larg ...ve up the presidency of the [[International Psychoanalytical Association]] in 1913 and was supported by the Munich group.

...the manifestation of a multiply interconnected multileveled associationist system) then those changes could be quite profound. The possibility (downplayed by ...Freudian unconscious is a [[myth]]. Indeed, the holism of a connectionist system yields a very plausible [[reading]] of this [[claim]].

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...niversity of [[London]], in 2009, and a second conference in New York City in 2012.

It would be revealing to engage in a detailed account of how the Bolshevik movement related to [[medicine]], t ...ses him to go to Switzerland and get there the best medical [[treatment]]. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky's [[id

...itself plays no part at all in his [[psychical]] [[life]]. The symbol has in this case taken the place of [[the thing]] entirely" (1950c, p. 349). ...cluding the pure and simple assimilation of the two [[terms]] in question. In the case of the hysterical symbol, it is the [[impossibility]] of invoking

...ized into a signifying [[system]].<ref>{{S1}} p. 244-5; {{E}} p. 160</ref> In the same way, the [[signifier]] persists as a [[meaning]]less [[letter]] wh

...g at an object, verbal commands, etc.). The English physician James Braid, in his Neurhypnology (1843), popularized, or may even have coined, the word "h ...self on Braid's and especially Carpenter's neurological approach. In 1882, in an article that was noted by the Académie des [[Sciences]], he [[identifie

==In the work of Slavoj Žižek== ...and [[literature]]. The [[idea]] of bureaucracy is most frequently engaged in Žižek’s [[writing]] with [[regard]] to Hegel’s [[defence]] of a monar

...omplex]] (in which the [[penis]] is imagined as a separable [[organ]]) and in his discussion of [[fetishism]]. The concept of the [[part-object]] plays an important part in [[Lacan]]'s work from early on.

...reud]]'s visit in 1909, and the second one following the [[Nazi]] takeover in [[Germany]] and [[Austria]]. Each wave stimulated the exploration of psycho American physicians had been seeking to [[cure]] neurasthenia, which, already in 1869, George M. Beard (1840-1883) had called "the American disease" arising

...which the [[defense]] of [[workers]]' [[rights]] coexists with [[racism]], in which the blind reaction to a perceived [[threat]] and [[fear]] of [[change ...] [[liberals]] now wonder whether the hitherto "apathy" was not a blessing in disguise.

...of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in The Authoritarian Personality, including idealizing rebellion against [[par ...al, ex-minister of culture and ex-ambassador of [[Slovenia]] in [[France]]-in short, an ethically corrupted nobody posing as a high Christian [[ethical]]

[[Acting out]]/acting in Censoring the lover in her

...take [[place]] in hysteria, leading to stasis of the [[traumatic]] effect in a [[separate]] psychic group, with no possibility of liquidation. ...is even more clear cut in the actual [[neuroses]], properly [[speaking]]. In the essay "On the Grounds for Detaching a [[Particular]] Syndrome from Neur

...y]] by a [[system]] or organism that produces an effect or transformation. In [[psychoanalysis]], [[mental]] work is taken to mean any [[activity]] of th ...patient]]'s more [[passive]] [[role]] in [[treatment]] using [[hypnosis]]. In his earliest [[psychoanalytical]] writings, it was a cognitive kind of work

...[hallucinatory]] [[satisfaction]] of a [[wish]] is one of the key elements in the [[Freudian]] conception of [[psychic]] functioning. It postulates that, ...che]] of the newborn [[baby]], [[dreams]], problems in psychic functioning in certain neurotics, or certain [[psychoses]], called, as a matter of fact, d

...more specifically, rules of [[behavior]] and their justifications. This [[system]] of rules attributes values to behaviors by judging [[them]] to be [[good] In [[Civilization]] and Its Discontents (1930a [1929]), Freud noted, "The [[cu

...Little did he [[know]] that this education would eventually serve him well in developing his theories and conveying [[them]] to a wide audience. ...have proposed that Freud's early jealously of Julius played significantly in the [[development]] of his later theories on sibling [[rivalry]]. Tragicall

[[Freud]]'s [[psychoanalytic]] [[system]] evolved over nearly 60 years of professional [[work]]. He himself was con ...]; the rest is buried in the unconscious and is inaccessible. Though small in comparison to the unconscious, the conscious mind is still essential and im

.... Gustav Theodore Fechner, who preceded [[Freud]] but had contact with him in the later part of the nineteenth century, also speculated about the unconsc ...other]] books published in [[Germany]] included the [[word]] "unconscious" in their titles.

...lternatives were offered by a [[number]] of [[other]] theorists, resulting in a splintering of [[psychological]] [[thought]]. ...ine one's behavior later in [[life]]. This deterministic presupposition is in large part what made Freud's theory so intriguing and controversial.

...is]], [[surrealism]] and [[philosophy]], I have often alluded to language. In this chapter I [[want]] to focus on [[Lacan]]'s constantly changing (and [[ In his attempt to define a new way of studying human phenomena Lacan was deepl

...[Unconscious]]," and the essays crystallize the results of that effort. As in the previous essay, so here, the available [[text]] cries for glosses that ...nalytic]] [[theory]], both in [[terms]] of eventual~ tom [[formation]] and in terms of the unconscious dimenSiOn of [[sexual]] [[identification]]. For ho

...87, 113, 114, 199, 226, 262, 270, 283, 295, 308, 326; see also [[Dream(s), in Freud Code(s), 86, 128, 201-203, 226, 239, distortion in, 16, 166, 177, 187,325 in Freud, of botanical monograph, 14, 16, 17; of butcher's wife, 279, 322, 323

...a wink, we resign ourselves to taking advantage of whatever trust remains in [[human]] [[nature]]. ...ntian fetishists: I [[know]] very well there is no social Harmony prepared in heaven, but that is why we must [[work]] it here on earth. But Zizek unveil

...Descartes argues that he could not be [[deceived]] if he did not [[exist]] in some [[form]]. Given that his [[body]] may be an illusion, Descartes conclu ...to think of ourselves as individuals because we feel we are [[complete]], in charge of ourselves and not subject to the whims of [[outside]] forces. Whe

...al but soon discovered that he had little interest in surgery and enrolled in the [[university]]'s [[literature]] department. Georges Dumas, who held the ...the Nuremberg trials, where he examined Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher. In 1946, when he was only 38 years old, Delay was appointed to the chair of [[

...cle of the bylaws of the Société [[linguistique]] de [[Paris]], composed in 1866. ...rsus language as system—used by de Saussure in his classes and published in the <i>Course on General Linguistics</i> after his [[death]] (1916), was no

...features as mere "effects." [Ed: [[Quotes]] indicate [[jargon]] [[terms]] in structuralism.] ...e Prague and Moscow [[schools]], structuralism counts many representatives in various fields. There are the [[linguist]] Roman [[Jakobson]], the socioeth

...[construction]] of their own [[individual]] and [[social]] identities, and in their respect for the law. Father-hood is the basis of all [[thought]]. Discovering in his [[self]]-[[analysis]], through his [[dreams]], that fatherhood [[satisf

...nscious]]-[[conscious]], he assigned a special [[role]] to verbal language in the [[mechanism]] whereby unconscious [[processes]] <i>became</i> conscious ...anings]] that lie not in things prior to the advent of language but rather in thought before the advent of [[words]].

Bullitt, Freud put his [[name]] to a book of political [[psychoanalysis]] in the strict [[sense]], <i>Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-Eighth President of ...the foundation of a [[religion]], a [[culture]], and a people—the Jews—in <i>[[Moses]] and [[Monotheism]]</i> (1939a).

..., and died April 2, 1953, in San Francisco. Bernfeld distinguished himself in the extent of his [[knowledge]], the originality of his [[ideas]], and his ...nasium and entered the [[University]] of Vienna, where he obtained a Ph.D. in [[philosophy]], while also studying [[psychoanalysis]], [[sociology]], educ

...ere used to develop an original [[theory]] of language and [[creativity]]. In later years it adopted [[Hegelian]] dialectics and [[Marxist]]-Leninist his The movement was founded in [[Paris]] in 1924 by [[French]] poet [[André Breton]], with the support of a group of p

...s assuming a [[psychoanalytic]] viewpoint persistently situated themselves in relation to philosophy, making use of it and explaining psychoanalytic [[te ...ossible]] to grasp, so that its relation to the [[psyche]] remained buried in obscurity (Eduard von [[Hartmann]] and the Romantics), or the psyche was [[

...and a people—the Jews—in <i>[[Moses]] and [[Monotheism]]</i> (1939a). In 1908 he strongly criticized "[[civilized]] [[sexual]] [[morality]]" (1908d) ...[[master]] in its own house and humanity must therefore [[drive]] it out. In the [[agency]] of the [[superego]], Freud ascribed values, ideals, and impe

...of the [[word]] "science" to a narrowly defined "phenomeno-[[technique]]" (in the coinage of Gaston Bachelard). ..., would lead Freud to abandon the neurophysiological representations found in the "Project" without renouncing his [[ideal]] of science.

...cle of the bylaws of the Société [[linguistique]] de [[Paris]], composed in 1866. ...rsus language as system—used by de Saussure in his classes and published in the <i>Course on General Linguistics</i> after his [[death]] (1916), was no

...istry]]. At the laboratory of Brücke (1876-1882) he acquired an expertise in chemistry and [[physics]], including thermodynamics (Helmholtz). As to [[ep ...of us, believers and unbelievers, employ in [[looking]] after our affairs in ordinary [[life]]" (1933a, p. 170).

...the psychic and the social. In this respect, sociopsychoanalysis continues in the [[tradition]] of [[Freud]]'s sociological and anthropological efforts. The term "sociology" was created by [[Auguste Comte]], who used it in volume 4 of his <i>Cours de [[philosophie]] positive</i> (1847). It replace

...egate of excitations and their limits, in accordance with neurophysiology, in the emergence and [[overdetermination]] of [[symptoms]]; and (4) the [[idea ...n stimulation by 'abreacting' it, we have the possibility of the [[event]] in question remaining a psychical [[trauma]]" (pp. 36, 37).

...scious]] representations of the corporeal and [[mental]] self within the [[system]] of the ego, representations that are invested with both [[libidinal]] and ...tously from insufficiency to anticipation—and, for the subject caught up in the [[lure]] of spatial [[identification]], turns out [[fantasies]] that ex

...the [[interpretation]] of the free [[associations]] of a [[patient]], who in becoming aware of [[feelings]] and forgotten [[memories]], can thus resolve ...in vogue at the [[time]]. Sessions in which the patient relaxed on a couch in an atmosphere of calm and comparative sensory [[deprivation]] resulted from

...[[statement]] whose [[truth]] function has only one [[value]]: [[false]]. In philosophy it is the relation that [[exists]] between the [[affirmation]] a ...he [[subject]] decided to forget [[about]] it because he had no confidence in his [[power]] to resolve the contradiction between that incompatible idea a

...on [[Jews]] and [[women]] and the fact that he extended the metaphysical [[system]]. ...l [[experience]]: "They were even expressed in my own [[terms]]," he said. In a footnote to Herbert Graf's ("Little [[Hans]]") [[analysis]], Freud wrote

...relating to the father and [[mother]] seem normally to find their outcome in an identification of this kind, and would thus reinforce the primary one (< ...etween the [[sexes]], the [[lack]] of a [[penis]], it does not distinguish in [[value]] between its father and its mother" (Freud, 1923b, p. 31n).

...the [[interpretation]] of the free [[associations]] of a [[patient]], who in becoming aware of [[feelings]] and forgotten [[memories]], can thus resolve ...in vogue at the [[time]]. Sessions in which the patient relaxed on a couch in an atmosphere of calm and comparative sensory [[deprivation]] resulted from

...lements of both its own [[internal]] reality and the [[outside]] [[world]] in [[order]] to make [[them]] conform and cohere with the [[logic]] of the [[d ...at this meaning is not unconnected to the offer or [[refusal]] [[present]] in the psyche's response" (p. 65).

...y observable, the primal and its functioning can only be inferred, notably in the [[processes]] characteristic of [[psychosis]] (although psychosis is no ...the fact that what is at bottom inherited is nevertheless freshly acquired in the [[development]] of the individual, probably because the same [[conditio

...tapsychology]], particularly the [[economic]] dimensions of that approach. In this usage, the [[word]] carries with it the connotations of the Latin exci ...t "during certain [[psychical]] [[processes]] the systems may be traversed in a [[temporal]] sequence determined by excitation"

In Sigmund [[Freud]]'s [[work]], the term "[[psychic]] [[causality]]" designat ...[[infantile]] [[nature]] are at work" (1896c). In 1898, in "[[Sexuality]] in the Etiology of the Neuroses" (1898a), he referred to "unconscious psychic

...This is accomplished through a [[discharge]] of the [[energy]] [[present]] in the apparatus or by avoiding its augmentation. In 1892, [[Freud]] submitted a manuscript and [[letter]] to [[Breuer]] articul

...ents of Eastern religiosity summoned at these moments? How are they placed in the text? What meaning is, or can be, given to them? ...f his encounter with some Tibetan Lamas who were staying in the same hotel in Moscow. (2) It marked a significant surreal moment for him, evoking an exot

''[[Mythème]]'', a term in [[French]] coined by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] (1908- ) on ''mythe'' (v. art ..., his [[structuralism|structural analysis]] of [[wp:myth|myths]].<ref>(cf. in [[particular]] «The [[Structural]] Study of Myth» (1955); Tristes tropiqu

An important [[distinction]] in [[Saussure]]'s [[linguistics]] which poses considerable [[translation]] pro ...ms]] that can both mean 'language': ''[[langage]]'' and ''[[langue]]'', as in ''la langue franCaise'' ('the [[French language]]').

...that the analyst could be capable of [[seeing]] something quite [[secret]] in what appears to you to be quite clear. There you lie naked, uncovered, unde ...[knowledge]] of the subject. All of this, viewed classically, as [[being]] in the field of the [[irrational]]; let's call it the field of [[passion]].

...the center of the solar [[system]] and thus destroys the earlier Ptolemais system, which assumed that the heavenly bodies rotated around the earth. ...epistemological break]]), and analogies with it play an important [[role]] in attempts to demonstrate or assert the scientific [[nature]] of emergent the

...determine the [[state]] of the body. A crucial [[difference]], as we see in the [[Seminar]] on "the Purloined [[Letter]]", is that these structures mus ...d to more [[symbolically]] defined aspects. Thus, one may perceive desire in what might be called certain quasi-musical features of speech, pace, tone,

the [[synchronic]] [[dimension]] in the study of [[language]]. The the SYSTEM of language given by a [[number]] of laws of equilibrium

of [[working]] employed by the [[mental]] [[apparatus]] in one of its<br> earliest normal activities‹I mean in [[children]]'s play.<br><br>

<h3 align="center"> From The Function of the [[Veil]] (IX in [[Seminar]] 4, The [[Object]] Relation)</h3><p> Analysis tells us that the fetish is a symbol. In this regard, it is almost immediately set on the same footing as every othe

The [[Agency]] of the [[Letter]] in the [[Unconscious]] or [[Reason]] Since [[Freud]] <b>The agency of the letter in the unconscious</b></font></h3>

...ation]] - God is un</i><i>[[conscious]] - The </i>[[objet]] [[petit a]] <i>in the </i>[[fort-da]]<p> ...enough for this-it reduces the experience, some say, that urges us to find in the hard supports of conflict, struggle, even of the exploitation of man by

...vely decides to replace itself with genetically modified asexual humanoids in [[order]] to avoid the deadlock of sexuality - these humanoids [[experience ...is reduced to an apathetic [[participation]] in collective orgies depicted in Les particules - the constitutive [[impasse]] of the sexual [[relationship]

..., it does not respect the [[physiological]] [[structure]] of the nervous [[system]], but instead reflects the way the [[body]] is [[divided]] up by an '[[ima ...nes of fragilization that define the anatomy of [[phantasy]], as exhibited in the schizoid and spasmodic [[symptoms]] of hysteria."<ref>E, 5</ref>

...in "The [[subversion]] of the [[subject]] and the [[dialectic]] of desire in the [[Freudian]] [[unconscious]]" (<i>[[Écrits]]: A Selection</i>) as the ..."[[The Subject|the subject]] becomes [[The Cut|the cut]] that makes shine in its inexpressible oscillation".<br>

...r [[Benjamin]], all [[three]] great antiuniversitarians whose [[presence]] in the academy is today all-pervasive-demonstrate that the "excluded" or "damn ...ion of psychoanalysis. [[Freud]] already wrote that, in the [[conditions]] in which it would finally be possible, psychoanalysis would no longer be neede

...as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.]] ...ntle [[girl]] who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has [[cocaine]] in his [[body]].

In the [[seminars|seminar]] of [[chronology|1970-1]] [[Jacques Lacan]] attempt ...mulae of sexuation|diagram of sexual difference]] which [[Lacan]] presents in the 1972-3 [[seminar]].<ref>{{S20}} p.73</ref>

...e ways in which the State can [[control]] a population by force. As we saw in the last chapter, for Žižek it is by means of the Repressive State Appara ...n [[system]], the [[family]] unit, the [[legal]] system, the [[political]] system, trade unions, the communications [[media]] and [[culture]]. All of these i

...least two motiv­ations, one of which springs from the assumptions of the system and is therefore eventually delusional-and a hidden one which, however, we

...onary]] of [[Lacanian]] Psychoanalysis" will be invaluable for [[reading]] in every [[discipline]] where his influence is felt. ...nd to Lacanian ideas. Each major [[concept]] is traced back to its origins in the work of Freud, [[Saussure]], Hege and otbers.

...of a mythology that has grown around this paper that has been influential in constructing an [[image]] of Lacan as an outcast - a heroic [[figure]] batt ...formulation of Lacan's [[idea]] and the paper that we now read - 13 years in which Lacan had continued to develop and modify his ideas.

...seen as the founding document of the new [[school]] and of a new direction in psychoanalysis. ...will help you understand Lacan's conception of the subject as constituted in and through language. The chapter concludes with Lacan's [[analysis]] of [[

...er of [[German]], [[Baudrillard]] established himself as a [[sociologist]] in the late 1960s and is widely regarded as one of the most significant commen ...ed [[fascination]] with the shallowness of a [[postmodern]]ist [[society]] in which the [[sign]] has become a [[simulacrum]] that signifies [[nothing]].

A [[social]] [[system]] characterized by [[male]] domination and [[female]] subordination. (Abra ...patriarchy as a set of social relations which has a [[material]] base and in which

...of [[sign]] and [[symbol]] have [[meanings]] different from their meanings in [[psychoanalytic]] usage. For Jung, a sign is a token of meaning that stand ...[Dreams]] in 1900 as a student at the Burgholzi [[Psychiatric]] [[Clinic]] in Zurich, reviewing it for his fellow psychiatric students (Jung, 1907). He b

...itoning in the case of actual neuroses (pp. 275-76) and [[psychoanalysis]] in that of the defense neuroses. ...n between the somatic sexual [[excitation]] and [[object]] representations in the [[unconscious]]. This failure of somatopsychic [[communication]] was ca

...defense. Conversion was later placed in the [[category]] of [[symptoms]]. In his early writings on hysteria, Freud spoke of "[[abreaction]]," a kind of ...pression as the major mechanism of [[obsessional]] [[neurosis]]. Freud saw in the [[obsessional neurosis]] a [[separation]] of representation ([[image]],

...r the [[three]] kinds of neurones described in the [[text]]). His two aims in this piece were to arrive at "a sort of [[economics]] of nerve forces" and ...n" would in fact never [[disappear]] from his work, it would always remain in the background.

...es of processes, which varies between [[subjects]] and at different points in [[time]]. ...sh is therefore [[hallucinatory]] and "requires a criterion from elsewhere in [[order]] to distinguish between perception and [[idea]]." This mode of fun

...eality]] that it is distorting, and through this very act dissolve itself. In the more sophisticated versions of the critics of ideology -- that develope We find, then, the [[paradox]] of a [[being]] which can reproduce itself only in so far as it is misrecognized and overlooked: the [[moment]] we see it 'as

The undead-indestructible object, [[Life]] deprived of support in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. ...ion]] that stands for and fills the [[ontological]] [[Void]], the [[hole]] in the [[texture]] of [[reality]] opened up by the fact that reality is transc

...than themselves. There is, moreover, the risk of losing one's [[thought]] in a [[latent]] confrontation between Lacan and [[Heidegger]], which has all t ...[place]] of psychoanalysis in the strictly Western [[history]] of thought, in which psychoanalysis marks a rupture, and which is not at all constituted b

...y of "latent content." The best examples of this style of criticism (still in practice) refuse to subordinate art to neurosis and deploy the tools of psy ...ity, Ireland, chess, ice-skating, and the common cold. He was instrumental in introducing Freud to the English-speaking world and presided over the origi

...cism that took [[place]] as a result of [[structuralist]]/semiotic debates in the late 1950s and 1960s. ...e displayed by the much-cited Cahiers article on Young Mr. Lincoln (1969). In these essays and elsewhere on the pages of Cahiers, Althusserian [[Marxism]

...rn [[linguistic]] study with [[synchronic]] linguistics, inaugurated early in the twentieth century by ferdinand de [[saussure]], himself a comparative p ...tions are sometimes controversial, but attempts to bridge disciplines have in fact characterized much of contemporary criticism. Sometimes critics have b

...1 and culminating with [[James]] G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough, published in various versions from 1890 through 1922, provided [[literary criticism]] wi ...agon that gave [[birth]] to the chants and gestures that later developed, in evolutionary fashion, into [[poetry]] and drama.

...contributed to the [[whole]] [[cultural]] milieu of the twentieth century in that he has given us a way of [[seeing]] things. He fashioned a new [[image From the 'economic' point of view pleasure results from a decrease in the degree to which the body is disturbed by any stimulus.

...sociates, the [[three]] [[agencies]], id, ego and superego, can be defined in [[terms]] of their functions: id functions are centred upon basic [[needs]] ...nate in the id, and the demands of reality. The ego [[acts]] like a filter in both directions, from the id to reality and from reality to the id. As alre

...e [[baby]]'s [[Hilflosigkeit]], or [[helplessness]] (détresse or désaide in [[French]]). ...in attitudes and behaviors of independence and rebellion. Franz Alexander used this [[idea]] to describe ulcerous [[subjects]] who indicate their conditio

...ces, and monistic systems, both groups [[being]] distinct from skepticism. In [[anthropology]], [[epistemology]], and [[ethics]], a [[theory]] is dualist ...flict with the ego libido, as well as from the pressure of the [[drives]]. In the second topographic subsystem (after 1920), they arise from the [[life]]

...he description of the [[economy]] of [[consciousness]], but it also served in connection with the regulation of the flow of [[psychic]] energy and the [[ ...tation]], during perception, of [[particular]] neurones belonging to the [[system]] W. Attention first addressed the indications of quality transmitted by th

...al discussions of concepts. However, the most important [[work]] presented in this book is its analysis of the tools of [[psychoanalytic]] [[thinking]]: ...]] came to naught, but Lagache, aware of Laplanche and Pontalis's interest in psychoanalysis, proposed that they write what became the Vocabulaire de la

...ifier]] ([[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]]) in the creation of [[meaning]] and in the production of [[dreams]], where the letter designates one of the [[term ...he Wolfman, Freud (1918b) returns to the letter and its workings. In 1927, in his article on [[fetishism]] (1927e), he shows how a [[patient]]'s [[erotic

...nd credentialing institute for [[analysts]] who then created organizations in [[other]] cities, including Topeka, Los Angeles, and Detroit. Although ulti ...n, the society's first president, was considered the first trained analyst in Chicago and a charming teacher who lacked administrative interests or skill

...the factors that determined the [[clinical]] [[form]] the neurosis assumed in [[particular]] cases had to be specified. The study of the [[choice]] of ne ...tablished the unified theory of neurosis. These two constructions differed in their conceptualization of the mechanisms and causes of neurosis, and the t

The [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s used by [[Lacan]], which appear principally in the [[matheme]]s, [[schema l]] and the [[graph of desire]], are listed belo ...efer to the same [[concept]] throughout [[Lacan]]'s [[work]], but are used in different ways as his work develops.

...]] du <i>je</i>', etc. '<i>Ego</i>' translates 'le <i>moi</i>' and is used in the normal [[sense]] of [[psychoanalytic]] [[literature]]. On '<i>je</i>', ...such his own [[image]] in a mirror. This [[recognition]] manifests itself in the illuminatory [[mimicry]] of the ''AhaErlebnis'', which Köhler sees as

...lains to Neo the lot of ordinary [[people]] totally caught (“plugged”) in [[the Matrix]], he says: “Everyone who is not unplugged is a potential [[ ...is immediately linked to what (once) one called “[[class]] [[struggle]] in [[philosophy]],” the orientation most [[identified]] by the names of [[Le

...he said in [[Ecrits]]. Indeed, using an investigation conducted by Glover in England (1934), he violently de�nounced those who were "screens of nullit ...dy an indication of the famous expression, "there is no [[metalanguage]]," in the

* <blockquote>The [[symptom]] is solved entire in an [[analysis]] of [[language]], because it itself is [[structured]] like a ...>$ A$ indicate a place essential with the structure of [[the symbolic]] [[system]].</blockquote>

* <blockquote>In the [[psychosis]], all the thickness of the [[real]] creature interposes fo ...y of such effect where its research stumbles, is to turn the [[moral]] law in dislike and contempt.</blockquote>

...d Trade Center. Both adopt a terse, realistic depiction of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. There is undoubtedly a touch of authenticity t ...icemen in WTC grasp the full picture. All of a sudden they find themselves in a terrifying situation and have to make the best out of it.

...ET J. LACAN) (THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FUNCTIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CRIMINOLOGY) (M. CENAC AND J. LACAN) ...rence des Psychanalystes de [[Langue]] Fran~aise was deliberately situated in this post-war context.

...[[moral]] of the fable "that a leiter always arrives at its destination." in spite of its adventures. "The invention of the poet and the rigor of the ma ...ns a leiter held up in the course of delivery: ell .wlIffrallce also means in a [[state]] of [[suffering]].

...w.wapol.org/en/Template.asp World Association of Psychoanalysis] - Founded in 1992, the [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]] unites the different Laca ...eudienne.net Ecole de la Cause Freudienne] - [[Paris]]-based School formed in 1981

...nimism. The [[name]] animism, formerly applied to a definite philosophic [[system]], seems to have acquired its [[present]] [[meaning]] through E. B. Taylor.

...nimism. The [[name]] animism, formerly applied to a definite philosophic [[system]], seems to have acquired its [[present]] [[meaning]] through E. B. Taylor.

...ected on to the [[external]] [[world]], it mediates perceptions of it, and in it is generated, while it is functioning, the phenomenon of [[consciousness

...al [[system]]; indeed it can hardly be doubted that the mode in which this system works is the source of the [[idea]] of time.<ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 3</ref></bloc

...sychic determination permitting or favoring wit-making must be presupposed in all witmakers.<ref>{{WRU}} Ch. V </ref></blockquote> ...hic [[work]] with slight expenditure. It is the state of our [[childhood]] in which we did not know the comic, were incapable of wit, and did not [[need]

...seen as the founding document of the new [[school]] and of a new direction in psychoanalysis. ...will help you understand Lacan's conception of the subject as constituted in and through language. The chapter concludes with Lacan's [[analysis]] of [[

...t a]] and [[jouissance]]. We will look at each of these important concepts in turn before illustrating the function of the real through Roland [[Barthes] =The real is always in its place=

...represents [[them]] by three rounds of string tied borroméennement, i.e. in a manner such as, if one demolishes one of the rounds, the two [[others]] a

...f a large provincial firm. The family lived in comfortable [[conditions]] in the Boulevard du Beaumarchais before moving to the Montparnasse area where ...him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]].

...rred at exactly the right moment: it marked the end of the era which began in 1789, the final failure of the statist-revolutionary model which first ente ...ical description of the Terror, see David Andress, ''The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution'', London: Little, Brown 2005.</ref>

...tumn, and one of the [[world]]'s leading [[public]] intellectuals, dressed in a mod jacket and sandals and swigging from a can of Diet Coke, is giving me ...ere is little to see apart from a statue of Gandhi - Lenin no longer packs in the tourists, and there is no record of him having stayed here - and so he

...y to see Lenin and Stalin as 'Oriental' despots. The great Russian tyrants in the eighteenth and the twentieth century were Westernizers." (Lesley Chambe ...ly, such a search for the intruder who infected the original model and set in motionm its degeneration cannot but reproduce the logic of anti-Semitism.)

...ans la technique de la psychanalyse]]''<BR>[[The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]] ...nar]] between [[discourse]] [[analysis]] and the analysis of the ego, both in relation to [[psychoanalytical]] [[theory]] and [[practice]]. He claims tha

...] of repression and the [[return]] of the [[repressed]] are [[linguistic]] in [[nature]]. That the unconscious is [[structured]] like a [[language]] impl ...eturns from [[outside]] the subject, as emanating from his [[environment]] in one form or [[another]] – a phenomenon not to be confused with [[projecti

...one opposes concrete political agents and their actions, not an anonymous "system." However, if one may apply here the distinction between goal and aim, if n ...the Hero, there is no Event." One can easily translate this obscure wisdom in Marxist terms: "The general outlines of each revolutionary event can be for

...p, of the millions who, first, heroically overthrew the ancient [[regime]] in the [[revolution]], and, then, enslaved to the new rules, are [[forced]] to ...at Saddam is a brutal dictator sounds like Stalin’s surprised discovery, in the late 1930, that Yezhov, the head of NKVD who organized the [[terror]],

...elf-enslavement and self-domination, that the Kantian "[[spontaneity]]" is in actu its opposite, utter self-[[control]], thwarting of all spontaneous imp ...of another or as a [[separate]], marginal topic of Kant's dotage. This is, in effect, the [[antinomy]] contained within the bourgeois notions of individu

...s embattled, there is a counter-force or principle of demoniac Evil active in the world (the dualistic solution).<br /> ...uffering of God" <ref>David Tracy, "Religious Values after the Holocaust," in <em>A Holocaust Reader</em>, p. 237.</ref> quite literally: the very excess

...rnment]] every couple of decades). This [[eventuality]] reaches its apogee in [[Christ]], who is "the [[figure]] of a pure [[event]], the exact opposite ...o us – wife, son, [[father]] – is an alien, was colonized by an alien, in the case of a zombie, the shock is that this foreign creep is someone close

...th Lacanian theory, develops a harsh critique of my work - no wonder that, in a blurb on the cover, Dany Nobus wrote: "Zizek is dead!" The basic reproach ...aneous recognition and denial of something - in the clinic, of castration. In fact, Zizek's response seems to come under this description. (130)

...antagonisms, the consumerist utopia of today's capitalism), is not utopia in the more radical sense of enacting what, within the framework of the existi ...ructive economic crises. In short, what Marx overlooked is that, to put it in the standard Derridean terms, this inherent obstacle/antagonism as the "con

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...lization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing [[world]] poverty and environmental crisis? ...two punch of [[history]]: the jab of tragedy, the [[right]] hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, [[liberalism]] dies twice

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...e overall [[idea]] is that Serbia, the island of peace, the only [[place]] in ex-[[Yugoslavia]] that was not touched by the war raging all around it, is ...that it has no ground under its feet... From Milosevic's seizure of power in Serbia onwards, the only actual [[chance]] for Yugoslavia to survive was to

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...t and [[participation]] in opening up and disclosing the matter of enquiry in [[order]] to bring them to completion (Dahlstrom 1994).

...promoting an ‘intelligence of change’. Badiou’s [[philosophical]] [[system]] makes our capacity for [[revolution]] and novelty central to who we are, ...role]] of [[set theory]], [[Marxism]], and [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis]] in Badiou’s philosophy is also given close attention.

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...dicated to Badiou’s [[work]], bringing together over 35 leading scholars in the field. ...utors. They also reflect the crucial divergences in [[Badiou]] scholarship in a productive and enlightening way.

...the US, while developing and propagating a communist political [[vision]] in its international politics. ...ugoslavia was not nearly as harsh as that of Stalin’s USSR. Nonetheless, in the period of Tito’s [[split]] with [[Stalin]] ([[1948]]) and immediately

== In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...t of the universal simply to harbour various particulars within itself, as in the standard charting of genus to [[species]].

...hip are not mutually exclusive as is often suggested. Quite the opposite—in the present, truth can be articulated only from a thoroughly partisan [[pos

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...le for both clinicians eager to [[figure]] out Lacan's theory and scholars in the various [[human]] [[sciences]], upon which Lacan's work draws. The book ...onymy]], the [[phallus]], the [[foreclosure]] of the subject-are developed in depth-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School

...stions both about Žižek’s theoretical system and to the wider new Left in today’s world.</div>

...rst as Tragedy, Then as Farce'' is a call for the left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, mora

...he revolutionary project for the present. Such a project would be Leninist in its commitment to action based on truth and its acceptance of the consequen ...hip are not mutually exclusive as is often suggested. Quite the opposite—in the present, truth can be articulated only from a thoroughly partisan posit

...syncratic and often heterogeneous ideas simply resist synthesis—but even in their [[repetition]] of Žižek, they create something new and vital.Contri

...ress such topics as the role of beating in sexual fantasies and jouissance in feminine jealousy.''Contributors''. Alain Badiou, Elizabeth Bronfen, Darian

...eory'' presents a snapshot of the Žižek system ideal for undergraduates in social and cultural theory and philosophy.</div>

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...[[about]] Žižek’s theoretical [[system]] and to the wider new [[Left]] in today’s [[world]].

...man by promoting an ‘intelligence of change’. Badiou’s philosophical system makes our capacity for revolution and novelty central to who we are, and de ...of truths’. The role of set theory, Marxism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in Badiou’s philosophy is also given close attention.

=Philosophy and the Idea of Communism: Alain Badiou in conversation with Peter Engelmann= ...communist-hypothesis/ ‘''The Communist Hypothesis''’], first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the id

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...Republican Party who, at the same time, represents something outside the system. The progressive political challenge now is to create something new that o ...rump should be read by everyone who wants to understand what is happening in our world today.

...t important questions in Hegelian scholarship are illuminated by examining in their respective contexts works such as the [http://theory.local/text/books ...linked to systematic and logical ones. He then examines the Phenomenology in detail, including its treatment of scepticism, the problem of immediacy, th

...s ‘transcendental’ logic. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Hegel’s philosophy and its influence on contemporary philosophical discus

This book presents the radically new [[theory]] of [[subjectivity]] found in the [[work]] of Jacques [[Lacan]]. Against the tide of post-[[structuralist ...mericans to have undergone [[full]] [[training]] with Lacan’s [[school]] in [[Paris]].

...e course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings. ...exibility. Consciously or unconsciously, science cannot but echo the world in which it takes place.

In this major study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson off ...onships, in terms with are never allowed to freeze over and become reified in purely philosophical named concepts. The ending, on the aftermath of the Fr

...l, who dominated nineteenth-century thought, it was a metaphysical system. In the works of Marx, the dialectic became a tool for materialist historical a ...in the history of this philosophical tradition, contextualizing the debate in terms of commodification and globalization, and with reference to thinkers

=‘Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in The Science of Logic’ by Robert B. Pippin= [[Image:robert-b-pippin-hegels-realm-of-shadows-logic-as-metaphysics-in-the-science-of-logic-theoryleaks-682x1024.jpg]]<BR>

...dmirers and detractors alike as being the absolute foundation of Hegel’s system.

...portant and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late an ...y. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle’s notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the histo

...the productiveness of concepts of the negative, nothingness, and death, or in a way that is inspired by Spinoza they abolish the concepts of the subject ...rsuasively demonstrates that the best way to read Hegel and Spinoza is not in opposition or contrast but together: as Hegel ''and'' Spinoza.

...tese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet'', and ''The Woman in the Window'', prompted the naming and theorization of a new phenomenon: '' ...etus for this shift in perspective comes from the films themselves, viewed in the light of contemporary social and political concerns, and from new theor

...ian democracy, with its echoes of imperialism, slavery, and exclusion, but in the openness of isonomia. ...viously, he was a professor at Hosei University in Tokyo, Kinki University in Osaka, and Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, includi

...tability to the region and establishing a socialist economic and political system. ...ook firmly within the framework of his family background and private life. In addition, the book’s images, which are taken from contemporary photograph

...nary weapon.” Attesting to the unique place which Althusser has occupied in modern intellectual history – between a tradition of Marxism which he sou

...tencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.

...gel: how to think that which remains outside of or other to the totalizing system of dialectics. ...es the idea that there is no place for difference, otherness or resistance in Hegel, both by refusing to reduce Hegel’s complex philosophy to a straigh

...rances. Reading Hegel without presupposition, without eliminating anything in advance or making any decision about what is essential and what is inessent ...nd prolongs. It generates nonsequiturs and produces explanations. It leads in all directions: continuation, deviation, meaningless termination. This chal

...was thus able to demonstrate the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at ...footnotes by the editors. This editorial material has later been included in the German-language ''Studienausgabe'' edition of Freud.

...ing new commodities, work, children, and lifestyles by imagining ourselves in relation to these desirable objects. What is the relationship between lack ...inancial crisis we have witnessed a certain return to Marx, we are equally in need of a return to psychoanalysis, a discourse uniquely suited to analyzin

...osophers of Marxism, including those at the forefront of a popular revival in Marxist and communist ideas. The film also includes interviews with skeptic

Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, ''This Changes Everyth ...the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.'''

...hilosophy: “In my view, which must be justified by the exposition of the system itself, everything hangs on apprehending and expressing the truth not merel ...l notion of substance. One will have to investigate the particular new way in which Hegel conceived the notion of subject, going against the grain of wha

...g what seems to be most trivial: the truth of the absolute is grasped only in the minutiae of its most mundane appearances. What if everything turns out ...k University, University of Michigan). He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Par

...tart?: Robert Pippin, Slavoj Žižek, and the True Beginning(s) of Hegel's System' by Adrian Johnston= ...here-to-start-robert-pippin-slavoj-zizek-and-the-true-beginnings-of-hegels-system-theoryleaks-720x1024.jpg|400|right]]

...ad animal that is the human will soon lead to the end of the living world. In the direction of the technological surge, we are promised, pell-mell, the r ..., namely the impasse into which globalized capitalism is leading us. It is in reality this social form, and it alone, which authorizes the destructive ex

...t it nevertheless claimed to establish for the subject a certain anchoring in being. ...But this identity can only be grasped by attempting to think the subject ''in its own place''. That which localizes the subject is at the same time the p

...n this sense, the movement that leads to Descartes is anticipated starting in the Middle Ages with the attempt at a synthesis between Greek rationalism a ...rstand, such as complex mathematical texts that were not fully assimilated in the West until the sixteenth, even the seventeenth, century.

Democracy thus inscribing itself in polls and consensus necessarily arouses the philosopher's critical suspicio ...as already employed against Bolsheviks well before the October Revolution. In fact, the critique addressed to Lenin – his political postulate viewed as

...eneralisation, as Ego-ideals, of the three relations. Behold! … not what in fact ''is'', but what, with a sort of vengeful obstinacy, they are attempti ...easured by its historicity. In other words, it is a subject who resonates, in its composition, with the power of an event. This is one of the forms of wh

...d "nothing" are elements of the logical space, established ''in concreto'' in a social situation of (at least) two subjects one of whom poses an affirmat

...he epistemological level, no as immanent features of the unreachable Thing-in-itself, while Hegel transposes epistemological antinomies into ontological ...y gap that seems to separate us forever from the In-itself is a feature of In-itself, it cannot be reduced to something immanent to the sphere of phenome

='''Cogito'' in the History of Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...s ''cogito'' in the early Foucault, sovereignty versus Hegelian domination in Bataille), they remain within the field they try to leave behind. No wonde

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

...in June 2012 after he was accused of rape and sexual assault against women in Sweden. We all remember President Obama's smiling face, full of hope and trust, in his first campaign: "Yes, we can!" – we can get rid of the cynicism of t

='In Defense of Hegel's Madness' by Slavoj Žižek= ...el's speculative concepts: self-relating, determinate negation, mediation, In-itself, action, knowledge, Spirit, reconciliation, history. On the basis of

...century, the psychoanalyst's is perhaps the loftiest, because it mediates in our time between the care-ridden man and the subject of absolute knowledge. ...this very gap which renders every empirical object unsatisfactory? Indeed, in the following paragraphs of the ''Rapport de Rome'' itself, Lacan already o

...heroically responsible for much of anything (and so could not be beautiful in action)."<u>1</u> Hegel's full endorsement of the prose of modern life, hi ...but appears as the living unity of "customs," of a collective ethical life in which individuals are "at home," recognizing it as their own substance. Fro

...in the surpassing of the family as a mediator of patriarchal authority and in the re-affirmation of Narcissus, blended with the world. It is easy to imag ...Kernberg's standard work Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism in particular. For this reason, we must start with a summary of Kernberg's bas

...have ''gone beyond ''Descartes. We go beyond everything and always end up in the same place. ...stern philosophy can be defined as the history of rejections of Platonism: in a homologous way, the entire modern philosophy can be conceived as the hist

...indly smiling at you and telling you ''You're OK! I trust you fully!''… (In one of the Oprah Winfrey shows, Gray di­rectly enacted this 'rewriting-the ...'hard facts' but the Real of a traumatic encounter whose structuring role in the subject's psychic economy forever resists its symbolic rewriting.

...get thirsty. So, when the slogan for Coke was "Coke is it!", we should see in it some ambiguity — it's "it" precisely insofar as it's ''never'' IT, p ...the case of caffeine-free diet Coke that we almost literally drink nothing in the guise of something?<span id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-105" class="ezoic

...n a healthy and a pathological mode of enjoying the ugly in a work of art; in order to be aesthetically enjoyable and, as such, edifying and permissible, ...is third term not also be conceived of as the sublime, insofar as the ugly in its chaotic and over­whelming monstrosity that threatens to destroy the su

...anac of the dissolution, Paris, Navarin publisher, 1986. It is referred to in these publications under the title: "The seminar of Caracas".''</small> ...you my pupils? It’s not something I can judge beforehand, because I’m used to raising them myself.