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How is the recording process in Deleuzes Anti-Oedipus to be understood? [closed]
Deleuze writes:
For the real truth of the matter-the glaring, sober truth that resides in delirium - is that there is no such thing as relatively independent spheres or circuits: production is ...
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In psychoanlaysis should the id-ego-superego 'configuration' be understood in terms of a historical dialectic?
I've edited this question after Dr Sisters comments on my mis-use of Freudian terminology.
My initial understanding of the mature Id-Ego-SuperEgo configuration is to see them as static. But according ...
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Why do Deleuze and Guattari turn the Id into an It?
In the opening chapter "Desiring Machines" of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (the first volume of Capitalism & Schizophrenia) the authors write:
It is at work everywhere, functioning ...
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Spirit vs. big Other in Zizek's philosophy
What is the relationship between the Hegelian Spirit and Lacan's big Other in the view of Slavoj Zizek?
Are there passages where both are present? or where Spirit is used in a more explicitly ...
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What is Suicide to the Unconscious?
Sigmeund Freud beckoned the importance of the civilized man's unconscious incapability of acknowledging death.
We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we
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what's object petit a in zizek view
what's the concept of object petite a in zizekian view?
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what's difference between zizekian view and lacanian view about this term, are the same or not?
I think this term is very vague and I ...
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How does Foucault argue that 'scientia sexualis' is utilised to support state racism?
In his History of Sexuality, Part III: Scientia Sexualis Foucault explores the development of the scientific study of sex, the attempt to unearth the "truth" of sex, a phenomenon which he argues is ...
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Is schizophrenia evidence for doxastic involuntarism? [closed]
doxastic involantarism, states we are not free to chose our beliefs; schizophenics often talk of thoughts being forced upon them, they often have beliefs that are not normative in his society. And ...
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Does the freudian subconcious have roots in Plato?
I read somewhere, I think it may even be in a dialogue of Plato, rather than a commentary, but I've forgotten altogether that Plato had a notion of the subconcious. Is there a reference for this ...
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Is there any connection between the catholic conception of confession and psychotherapy?
Confession is healing of the soul by repentence to God mediated by a priest, psychoanalysis indulges in a confession of the secrets of the soul in order to heal. Is there any connection here or am I ...
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Zizek vs mainstream Lacan interpretation
I find it somehow confusing - after all, most of Lacanian interpretation known to mass public have been Zizek's. But many resources report that Zizek's interpretation clashed with well-known Lacanian ...
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Colonization of the imaginary - is this even possible?
Nowhere is this fetishist logic more evident than apropos of Tibet, one of the central references of the post-Christian "spiritual" imaginary. Today, Tibet more and more plays the role of such a ...
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Psychoanalysis and the ontologization of the self
I'm very interested in psychoanalysis ontologization of the "self"-concept meaning: The idea that there is a self - a continuous entity with some inner dynamic, that we must fight (defense mechanism) ...
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Slavoj Zizek and jouissance [closed]
Can anyone explain to me what jouissance mean in Slavoj Zizek's philosophy? I understand Lacan's term, but I am having a hard time understanding Slavoj Zizek's jouissance.
More specifically, how does ...
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How does Lacan's notion of the Mirror Stage apply to children that are congenitally blind?
Lacan's notion of the mirror stage seems to rely directly on the ability of the child to see. Some are born blind, so they do not have the opportunity to "see" their self-image in a mirror.
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'Daemons' vis-a-vis transcendental personification of self-will
Greek mythology, classical philosophy and early theology is teeming with things referred to as 'daemons'. Many, such as those of Plato's Socrates, hint at an externalised transcendental corollary of ...
