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The Big Other Operating at a Symbolic Level
(Reading: Slavoj Zizek’s How to Read Lacan; http://www.lacan.com/zizhowto.html)
At the very moment when others see the death of psychoanalysis, Zizek witnesses instead the return of it. Thus the aim of this book (How to Read Lacan) is, according to him, “to demonstrate that it is only today that the time of psychoanalysis has come”(2). Zizek wants… »
Melancholy as a Condition of Being Human
In the Middle Ages, it was believed that melancholy was caused by an excess of black bile and related with Saturn. People’s interests in melancholy have persisted and amplified to the extent that it has been regarded as a virtue for the cultivated. Furthermore, it has been exalted as a sort of cultural symbol in… »
Alain Badiou - “Sex in Crisis” in The Century
Against Subjectivation and Signification: Alain Badiou’s “Sex in Crisis”
In the book, The Century, in which this article “Sex in Crisis” is included, Alain Badiou analyzes the twentieth century by asking whether the past century has reached to the historical stage where our essential values and ideas such as humanity and freedom are fully developed and… »
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