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...h appears as a stand-in for the Universal, destabilizing the '[[natural]]' functional order of relations in the social [[body]]. The political [[conflict]] resid ...arance of Another Dimension, which interrupts the standard normal order of phenomena.

...cannot but recall a [[whole]] series of real life, [[media]] and cultural phenomena. The first [[association]], of course, is that of the TV reports from [[Thi ...aris: Editions Galilée, 1997.</ref> proposed the notion of excessive, non-functional [[cruelty]] as a feature of contemporary life: a cruelty whose [[figures]]

* [[Functional phenomena]]

Functional phenomenon Transitional phenomena

<blockquote>All phenomena of symptom-formation can be fairly described as "the [[return]] of the [[re ...tom—the production, that is to say, of a "[[sign]]" or "indication" of a functional [[disturbance]].

...nology, especially in the United States, but (Western European) structural-functional syntactic studies, known to literary critics in the United States as "text ...so Jakobson, "Closing" 353–57). For Jakobson, such (system-[[internal]]) functional needs motivate linguistic evolution, [[external]] in origin for Saussure (J

...ted into the forebear's genotype. Such modifications may be morphological, functional, or even behavioral (acquired through learning). This [[idea]], which was c ...urse to the [[notion]] of degeneration as an explanation of [[hysterical]] phenomena, and restated the complementary [[nature]] of constitutional and accidental

...ion" within a personal mental sphere of [[illusion]] where [[objects]] and phenomena in the [[external]] [[world]] are transformed in accordance with the [[subj ...een mother and infant was occupied by "transitional phenomena"—groups of functional experiences, as for example thumb-sucking, the holding and sucking of the e

...eeds to develop and study the system rather than the history of linguistic phenomena. ...eeds to develop and study the system rather than the history of linguistic phenomena. (This focus on the "system" of language is analogous to the general questi

...vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose [[particularity]] in our [[work]] would remain the essential [[thing] ...to the extinction of the fires of [[love]]'s feasts. The signifier is not functional. And the mobilization of the elegant [[society]] whose frolics we are follo

...ary criticism. Structuralism was seen to be applicable to all human social phenomena. The disparate collection of thinkers who are now placed, frequently incorr ...hardly find a more appropriate designation than structuralism. Any set of phenomena examined by contemporary science is treated not as a mechanical agglomerati

...along with its correlate "pathological narcissism"; exceptional borderline phenomena were given an independent theoretical consistency which, at the diagnostic ...tter which) scientifically legitimate procedures. In connection with these phenomena, we usually speak of a void, and of the loneliness, alienation and artifici