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    Critiques of psychoanalysis

    Hi I found these works especially illuminating for me - Questions to Freud, by Nicholas Rand & Maria Torok; 'Psychoanalysis as Anti-Hermeneutic', by Jean Laplanche; and I think J-A Miller has an essay on Lacanian Ink.com titled something like 'Pure Psychoanalysis, Applied Psychoanalysis, and...
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    Badiou.

    sorry, borderpolice (not patrol)... :) i might've been trying to ventriloquize somewhat. in any case, i still argue that, antithetic to the content of badiou's philosophy, his philosophy itself forecloses emergence, including its own, and what we're dealing with here is a clockwork of excesses...
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    Badiou and "Logics of Worlds"

    if i may jump in... it seems to me julia kristeva already explored the synthesis of vréel as interminable psychosis, which is not universal; in this light badiou's account of language is limiting and merely repeats degraded (mythic) narrative ad infinitum (reduced to a kind of beckettian...
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    Badiou.

    thank you foremost for responding. if you'll forgive my little rambling here, badiou, in a marie-antoinettean fashion, is trying to have the cake and eat it himself, too. his 'philosophy' is a unilateral deferral to set mathematics (yes, i'm aware) in the philosophiarchal 'foundational...
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    Badiou.

    thank you for pointing out what nonsense the book on paul was. (for a much more interesting, intelligent and elegant treatment of paul, read agamben.) many people seem to be completely enthralled or overexcited by badiou, for reasons that elude me. in the end he's still only hypocritically...
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    Badiou.

    this is both somewhat a polemic & hope someone can clarify this for me. after reading through some shifts in badiou's works, the idea of extension i believe is still most central to his philosophy. being is an extension of appearance; appearance belongs to being. universality is an extension of...
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