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The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy)

by Martin Heidegger

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“The Other – the set of rules and hypotheses into which the individual is born and which includes and is contained within language – creates the Subject and its ego; as language, it is the raw material from which the signifying chain was produced; its first embodiment – the mother – is the object of primary identification of the child.”
― Lionel Bailly, Lacan: A Beginner's Guide

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“There is unique gravity to an actual prison sentence, the violence of locking a human being in a cage. Yet the system is broader than the buildings called "prisons." Manipulation, confinement, punishment, and deprivation can take other forms - forms that may be less easily recognized as the violence they are.”
― Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

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“The knowledge the patient seeks is already known to him/her: it exists in his/her unconscious, in the signifying chain containing the master signifiers. This is the ‘knowledge’ that slips out in dreams, slips of the tongue, self-defeating acts – and, of course, the symptoms that might have prompted the Subject to come to the couch in the first place.”
― Lionel Bailly, Lacan: A Beginner's Guide

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“Hinduism” is more appropriately thought of as a family name that encompasses an astounding variety of theological doctrines and practice.”
― Anantanand Rambachan, A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One

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“In a sense the dramatic dialogue is both the fullest symbol and the final justification of the city's life. For the same reason, the most revealing symbol of the city's failure, of its very non-existence as a social personality, is the absence of dialogue-not necessarily a silence, but equally the loud sound of a chorus uttering the same words in cowed if complacent conformity. The silence of a dead city has more dignity than the vocalisms of a community that knows neither detachment nor dialectic opposition, neither ironic comment nor stimulating disparity, neither an intelligent conflict nor an active moral resolution. Such a drama is bound to have a fatal last act.”
― Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

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