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... show how the unflinchingly detailed depictions of mutilated bodies that feature in the novel's re-creation of the German Blitzkrieg go some way toward evoking a traumatic encounter with the realm of pure, volatile materiality that Jacques Lacan terms the “real.” I note, though, that for Lacan and other...

... Lacan’s psychoanalytic notion of dehiscence provides a way in which the student can experience studying as a dereified expression of educational life. The result will be a theory of study that is capable of undermining educational investments made by and through neoliberalism into learnification...

... at the prestigious École normale supérieure (Jacques-Alain Miller, François Régnault, Alain Grosrichard and Jean-Claude Milner), with the participation of Alain Badiou in its later stages, the journal accorded great importance to Jacques Lacan and to psychoanalysis in general. But it also played a role...

... antagonist of contemporary film studies. Žižek is an unapologetic advocate of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Not only does Žižek's work with film appear to have little to do with “film theory,” he shamelessly promotes the teachings of the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, a figure who has generated...

... nonhierarchical, spiritual values and connected via a logic of affinity. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 postanarchism Jacques Lacan Meister Eckhart the Symbolic mysticism The process of disenchantment Max Weber ( 2002 ) describes as being crucial...

.... ed. London : Paladin . Lacan Jacques . 1982 . Feminine Sexuality . Edited by Mitchell Juliet and Rose Jacqueline . London : MacMillan . Mao Zedong . 2017 . “ On Contradiction .” In On Practice and Contradiction , edited by Žižek Slavoj , 67 – 102...

... at the German department in Freiburg in the shape of Klaus Theweleit and Friedrich Kittler. That is abysmally wrong! CW: You mean, the notion that you both imported (post)structuralism, that is, Jacques Lacan, Foucault, and Jacques Derrida? FK: Yes, the two of us. It's idiotic. First of all...

... not to what people know, but to the belief underlying and animating people’s actions, Žižek concerns himself with the ways that ideological formations work as economies of jouissance (enjoyment). 4 Drawing from Jacques Lacan, Žižek views jouissance as an excessive, intense pleasure-pain...

... of neoconservatism. After a brief qualification of how Lacan, and hence Žižek, understands desire, the argument turns to the way in which the MIME-net is intersected by, but also locked into a self-reinforcing conflict of fantasies. Here, countermimetic strategies clash with each other, but also reproduce...

... material but lacks the metabolic functions that would lead to the easy association with life), leads easily to comparison with Schopenhauer's ( 2014 ) idea of the will or Freud's ( 2003 ) own concept of drive, which, as Lacan ( 1991 ) showed in his seminar on the ego, concerns what happens when we occupy...

... the ease with which digital technologies perform what no alphabet ever achieved, there is an underlying dynamic that reduces the differences between symbolic mediation, analogue reproduction, and digital processing. The operative word is symbolic . It must be read and used with Jacques Lacan in mind...

... and the possibility of revolutionary change ( Benjamin 1931/1999 ). Given this thesis, I believe that we miss the point when we see Benjamin as a thinker of promise, rather than a subject for realization ( Richter 2000 ). Like Lacan, he was aware that the only successful act is the one that fails. Following Rosa...

...). Unlike other theorists in the French “poststructuralist” tradition to which he is linked historically if not philosophically, Baudrillard appeared largely uninterested in the detective story. Besides Derrida and Lacan, who famously debated Poe's “The Purloined Letter,” Foucault and Barthes were...

..., event and encyclopaedia, positive political change and infinite encyclopaedic repetition is aligned via Kant and Heidegger to that of thought and cognition, and via Lacan to that of “the living word” and “the dead letter” (Badiou 2004a: 123, 119) . Such opposition, as Lyotard indicates in “ Domus...

... and The Last Man . London : Hamish Hamilton . Lacan Jacques . 1979 . The Four Fundamental Concepts of PsychoAnalysis , ed. Miller Jacques-Alain , trans. Sheridan Alan . Harmonds-worth : Penguin . Myers Tony . 2003 . Slavoj Žižek . London : Routledge . Parker Ian...

... : DuMont Heidegger Martin . 1951 . Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung (Elucidations of Hölderlin's Poetry) . Tübingen : Klostermann Kittler Friedrich . 1977 . “ Das Phantom unsres Ichs und die Literaturpsychologie: Hoffmann—Freud—Lacan” (“The Phantom of Our Ego and Literary...

...: Archaeological and Musicological Analysis of a Middle Paleolithic Bone ‘Flute.’  ” In The Origins of Music , edited by L. Wallin Nils , Merker Bjorn , and Brown Steven , 235 – 68 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Lacan Jacques . 1978 . The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho...

... of the Commission regulatrice automobile (CRA), which relegates all pedestrians, cyclists, and horse carts to rural dirt roads and reserves the RN 109 for the exclusive use of trucks. Europe’s ambiguous traffic comes to an end. [Jacques] Lacan explained what he called the urinal segregation of Occidental man...

... tell me more about those? LJD: I have always tried to write in a way that any educated member of the public could read my work and understand it. That Lacan essay was probably my most theoretical essay, but I've always tried to write fairly directly. The person that influenced me the most...

... Althusser, Lacan, and Mao Tse-tung. It is in these chapters that Bosteels lays out the nature of Badiou's vision of dialectics. Then Bosteels shifts into discussing the more familiar Badiou of Being and Event and beyond, in chapters called “The Ontological Impasse,” “Forcing the Truth,” and “Logics...