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	Jacques Lacan - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jacques Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was an influential French psychoanalyst as well as a structuralist who based many of his theories on the work of Sigmund Freud as well as on Ferdinand de Saussure's theories on language.
		Lacan argued that the psychoanalytic movement towards understanding the ego as an active and dominating force in the self misinterpreted its Freudian roots.
		Lacan's notion of the Real is a very difficult concept which he in his later years worked to present in a structured, set-theory fashion, as mathemes.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lacan (1584 words)

	Deconstruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This criticism can be taken as a rejection of the philosophical law of the excluded middle, arguing that the simple oppositions of Aristotelian logic force a false appearance of simplicity onto a recalcitrant world.
		Critics take issue with what they believe is a lack of seriousness and transparency in deconstructive writings, and with what they interpret as a political stance against traditional modernism.
		Critics have also accused deconstruction of being a form of solipsism, arguing that deconstruction implies the futility of seeking or trying to communicate accurate knowledge about the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deconstruct (6862 words)

	School - No Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lacan was particularly keen to avoid the dangers of the hierarchy dominating the institution, which he saw in the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and which he blamed for the theoretical misunderstandings which had come to dominate the IPA; the IPA had become, he argued, a kind of church.
		Many of Lacan's ideas cannot be understood without some understanding of the history of the EFP (1964-80), especially those of Lacan's ideas which relate to the training of analysts.
		Jacques Lacan made use of the concept of the School to found the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP) in 1964, with the aim of providing an organization for those analysts and non-analysts following his orientation in the reconquest of the Freudian Field, a task to which Lacan gave the utmost importance.
	www.nosubject.com /School (1466 words)

	Kleinian psychoanalysis - No Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lacan's criticisms of Klein are therefore important to understanding the originality of his position.
		Lacan criticizes Klein for placing too much emphasis on the mother and neglecting the role of the father.
		For Lacan, all debate on the precise dating of the Oedipus complex is futile, since it is not primarily a stage of development but a permanent structure of subjectivity.
	www.nosubject.com /Kleinian_psychoanalysis (548 words)

	Jacques Lacan - Uncyclopedia
		Lacan took up the study of medicine in the late 1800s, driven by the personal aim of creating a love potion powerful enough to produce consciousness in Christmas decorations.
		Jacques Derrida is known to have publicly refuted this claim at a public execution in France, where he shouted "MIRRORS ONLY EXIST IF WE LOOK AT THEM".
		Other criticisms have come from the radical right, led by Leo Strauss, who claims that psychoanalysis is simply not bullshit enough to satisfy the population.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Lacan (618 words)

	Jacques Derrida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The reception of deconstruction, however, in literary criticism and philosophy is generally conceived to be in sparse agreement with Derrida's work due to the popular (mis-)conceptions of it.
		Many criticisms, are generally aligned with a broader charge that deconstruction, or Derrida's work more generally, is a project of "nihilism".
		Perhaps most persistent among these critics is Richard Wolin, who has argued extensively in support of this thesis (of corrosive nihilism) with regards to Derrida and more or less all of Derrida's major inspirations (Bataille, Blanchot, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and so on).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Derrida (5563 words)

	Jacques Derrida - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop "deconstruction" after it emerged in the work of Martin Heidegger.
		Derrida had a significant impact on continental philosophy and on literary theory, particularly through his long-time association with the literary critic Paul de Man; though the reception of deconstruction in literary criticism is not universally agreed to be consonant with Derrida's work.
		Derrida's much earlier criticism of Foucault in the essay "Cogito and the History of Madness" (from Writing and Difference), first given as a lecture which Foucault attended, caused a rift between the two men that was never fully mended.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Jacques_Derrida (3685 words)

	Continental Feminism
		Vital among such legacies are a critical approach to logic and rationality; an emphasis on understanding the lived experience of the human being; and an abiding interest in the deeply embedded assumptions and structures of social and political life.
		Criticisms of this emphasis on sexual difference are in some ways philosophically predictable, and they emanate not only from feminists not associated with the continental tradition, but also from those who subscribe to it.
		Lacan describes the mirror stage as a turning point in our psychic development because during this phase we come to identify with a stable and coherent image of ourselves—our mirror reflection—that supplants our experience of our body as uncoordinated and fragmented.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/femapproach-continental (14159 words)

	Forced Choice of Enjoyment
		Lacan's primary example of the difference between the pleasure principle and jouissance is a familiar one borrowed from Kant's Critique of Practical Reason.
		For Lacan, the subduing of the "lust" of the Kantian sensualist is effectuated under the aegis of the pleasure principle.
		Or, even better is Lacan's example of the voyeur who fantasizes about a beautiful girl whose shadow he can see moving about on the other side of a drawn curtain.
	www.lacan.com /forced.htm (3443 words)

	jacques derrida - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop "deconstruction".
		In 2003, Derrida was diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer, which reduced his speaking and travelling engagements until his death in a Parisian hospital on the evening of Friday, October 8, 2004 (BBC story).
		Jacques Derrida on Rhetoric and Composition: A Conversation, JAC
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Jacques-Derrida (3398 words)

	Feminist Aesthetics
		Criticisms of theories that mandate this sort of distanced enjoyment have given rise to influential feminist theories of the perception and interpretation of art.
		Critics objected that she was both essentializing women and reducing them to their reproductive parts; admirers praised her transgressive boldness.
		Critical consideration of norms of female beauty and the artistic depiction of women influences the ways that feminist artists employ their own bodies in creating art (Brand 2000; Steiner 2001).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/feminism-aesthetics (8057 words)

	Luce Irigaray [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Lacan states that the first of two key moments in subject formation is the projection of an imaginary body.
		Lacan believes that the element of fantasy and imagination involved in the identification with the mirror image marks the image as simultaneously representative and misrepresentative of the infant.
		The concern is that the psychoanalytic discourse that Irigaray relies upon-even though she is critical of it-universalizes and abstracts away from material conditions that are of central concern to feminism.
	www.iep.utm.edu /i/irigaray.htm#Mimesis (7155 words)

	Deconstruction
		Jacques Derrida was the first to use the term, and it has been explored by others, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul de Man, Jonathan Culler, Barbara Johnson, and J.
		These critics suggest that, once one dispenses with the dense and complicated language of deconstructionist theory, there's not a lot of serious or interesting thought going on in deconstruction.
		People making this criticism are often accused of not having understood deconstruction, and of simply assuming that because they can't understand it, it must be wrong.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/d/de/deconstruction.html (4645 words)

	Jacques Lacan : search word
		Jacques Lacan Jacques Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was an influential French psychoanalyst as well as a structuralist who based much of his theories on Ferdinand de Saussure's theories on language.
		167) and further argued: :Lacan is the only heir to Freud who attempted to think the question of a school of psychoanalysis that would be neither a professional corporation, nor a party, nor a sect, nor a bureaucracy.
		Lacan, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Lacan, Jacques af:Jacques Lacan de:Jacques Lacan fr:Jacques Lacan nl:Jacques Lacan ja:ジャック・ラカン pl:Jacques Lacan pt:Jacques Lacan
	www.searchword.org /ja/jacques-lacan.html (2420 words)

	Metapsychology Online Reviews - Psychoanalysis in Focus
		Livingston Smith's criticism of the psychoanalytic doctrine could be seen as his (conscious) attempt to introduce some kind of enlightenment in the context of psychoanalytic education.
		Criticism offered from the outside also have an especially incisive character and are, more often than not, applicable with equal force to the non-psychoanalytic therapies.
		Petar Jevremovic: Clinical psychologist and practicing psychotherapist, author of two books (Psychoanalysis and Ontology, Lacan and Psychoanalysis), translator of Aristotle and Maximus the Confessor, editor of the Serbian editions of selected works of Heintz Kohut, Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein, author of various texts that are concerned with psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature and theology.
	mentalhelp.net /books/books.php?type=de&id=2034 (1470 words)

	Rafael Dueñas - Pablo Neruda and the Question of Writing/Painting the Self
		When one reads the immense body of criticism about his oeuvre, it is not difficult to sense that the poet was harshly and ferociously criticized by his homologous that did not understand the magnitude of his venture.
		But, we have learned from Saussure, Heidegger, Lacan and Kristeva that there is a gap in-between; thus Merleau-Pointy points out, “it is the office of language to cause essences to exist in a state of separation which is merely apparent, since through language they still rest upon the ante-predicative life of consciousness” (Kockelmans, 367).
		This is critical to understand because through its poem, the poet becomes an individual who tries to liberate the subject from the tyranny of his/her culture.
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /publish/hiper/num3/artic/duenas.htm (5453 words)

	Critical Theory Timeline
		Feminist and African American criticism have themselves been changed in response to post-structuralist notions of identity, but also as they have evolved and complicated their earlier assumptions and goals.
		Criticism tends to adhere rigidly to Freudian terms: the character or author as patient.
		French Theorist Jacques Lacan draws on Saussure's work to think about Freud as a theorist of representation, and the ways humans create a sense of themselves by interacting with and within systems of representation.
	www.sou.edu /english/hedges/sodashop/rcenter/theory/Timeline/timeline.htm (899 words)

	Philosophy Courses - 2001-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This course will look first at some of the uses to which thought about the self has been put, and then turn to a survey of some of the more substantial theories about the nature of the self.
		This seminar concentrates on Lacan's theory of technique, his understanding of the concept of transference, and of what is supposed to happen in psychoanalytic treatment.
		Some critics, notably McDowell and Davidson, suggest we have reason for doubting that the semantic naturalist's project—indeed, that any project in the philosophy of mind with comparable reductive ambitions—will be possible to execute.
	www.uchicago.edu /uchi/DEVELOPMENT/philosophy/courses/archive/0102yearfull.shtml (4139 words)

	Freud
		Critics will point out that in the last thirty years, Freud's theories have been shown to be pseudo‑scientific, or basically mistaken, or at the very least largely unproven.
		As someone who has published a book skeptical about Freud's ideas (Erwin, 1996) but who has also spent much of the last nine years, together with his co‑editors, putting together this encyclopedia, I would answer that despite the critiques, there are still very good reasons to care about Freud and what he created.
		Some scholars argue that Freud's critics presuppose such high evidential standards that almost all psychological theories, including those we take for granted in our commonsense theorizing about human behavior, would fail to meet their requirements.
	www.wordtrade.com /science/psychology/freud.htm (1261 words)

	Help.com - consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As a major characteristic of the definition of the subject, the criticisms of consciousness necessarily led to a criticism of the notion of an individual subject and its correlating free will.
		Marx considered that social relations ontologically preceded individual consciousness, and criticized the conception of a conscious subject as an ideological conception on which liberalism political thought was founded.
		Marx in particular criticized the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, considering that the so-called individual natural rights were ideological fictions camouflaging social inequality in the attribution of those rights.
	help.com /wiki/Consciousness (6069 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For example, Margaret Mahler's account of the early interactions between mother and infant is presented schematically and as a counterpoint to Freud's "masculine bias." Remaining unexplored, therefore, is the extent to which modern psychoanalytic theories preserve, rather than destroy or overturn, the core of Freud's views on women in the light of feminist criticism.
		Thus the cultural terrain that Buhle investigates is populated by literary critics, artists and filmmakers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists--and the resulting psychoanalysis is not so much a strictly therapeutic theory as an immensely popular form of public discourse.
		She charts the history of feminism from the first wave in the 1910s to the second in the 1960s and into a variety of recent expressions.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0674004035/reviews (1278 words)

	White Oak Books
		In Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, she drew upon Freud, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan to explore the connections between sex, politics, and identity, and The Psychic Life of Power continues her inquiry into these ideas.
		Discussing such topics as drag, gays-in-the-military, and AIDS to illustrate her ideas, Butler manages to locate her philosophical theories in a concrete world, and although her earlier work could sometimes be as dense as it was rewarding, The Psychic Life of Power is lucid and highly readable.
		Her main argument is that the emergence of the subject depends on subjection to power and yet the subject that is inaugurated exceeds this power, because subjection can never fully totalize the subject.
	www.whiteoakbooks.com /productdetail_new_books.asp?asin=0804728127 (613 words)

	Slavoj Zizek-Bibliography/The Marx Brother/Lacan Dot Com
		Such a thing would be impossible, since one of the characteristics of Zizek's work is that he applies his critical methodology even to the results of his own critical inquiry, which is another way of saying that he contradicts himself all the time.
		As an undergraduate at the University of Ljubljana, he came across the newly emerging works of the French structuralists, who were naturally absent from the Marxist curriculum, and wrote for his master's thesis a survey of the work of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, and other Continental philosophers who have since become canonical.
		Zizek also went into psychoanalysis with Miller, after a traumatic love affair (The woman in question was the wife of a former colleague; to prove his devotion to her, he embedded romantic acrostics in the books he was publishing at the time.) Zizek considers his therapy unfinished.
	lacan.com /ziny.htm (4475 words)

	Amazon.com: Wittgenstein Reads Freud: Books: Jacques Bouveresse,Vincent Descombes,Carol Cosman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jacques Bouveresse, a professor at the College de France, utilizes the work of the British Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to examine Sigmund Freud, the 20th century psychiatrist whose theories have guided modern-day psychoanalysis, but who some believe was nothing but an egomaniac and a fraud.
		A debate continues to rage in French academic circles as to psychoanalysis being a proper science of mind or merely a theoretical construct, a philosophical theory, simply another approach to viewing and interpreting the mind.
		Jacques Lacan, for example, has exalted psychoanalysis to the status of a "meta-science" affecting all of the humanities, and claims that philosophy is in current need of psychoanalytic "science" in order to legitimize it as a relevant subject of the humanities.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691029040?v=glance (1305 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 48, No.1 - April 1991 - BOOK NOTES - What Is Neostructuralism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He is the author of some sixteen books in hermeneutics, linguistics, and literary theory, as well as being an expert on Schelling and Schleiermacher.
		This book offers a lengthy description and evaluation of deconstructionism from a hermencutical point of view, covering five contemporary French representatives of deconstructionism: Jacques Lacan, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
		The term "neostructuralism" was coined by Frank to describe a structuralism that has been reformulated in light of the criticisms and insights of deconstructionism.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /apr1991/v48-1-booknotes14.htm (283 words)

	Rhetoric Department
		A reading intensive seminar on select interpretations, criticisms and elaborations of the critiques of philosophy, political economy and the state developed by Karl Marx in his mature work, in particular the three volumes of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy.
		The following topics will be among those discussed: the relationship between German Idealism and critical theory; science and scientism; the theory of capital accumulation and crisis; the relationship between capital and the nation state; homology between the commodity form and the juridical subject.
		John Forrester; Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, trans.
	rhetoric.berkeley.edu /graduate_coursesf04.html (2082 words)

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