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The project of autonomy,
the radical imaginary underlying social institutions, radical imagination, the social imaginary, social imaginary significations, proto-representation (Ur-Vorstellung), the monadic core of the psyche, "the unconscious exists only as an indissociably representative/affective/intentional flux", rejecting the reduction of representation to perception (perceptual nonconceptualism), "the first delegation of the drive in the psyche is the affect", the psyche and the anonymous collective are irreducible to each other, sublimation as the process by means of which the psyche is forced to replace its private objects of cathexis with objects that have value through their social institution, triadic schema (the subject, the object and the other) social fabrication of the individual, social constructionism, lability of investments (labilité des investissements), identifying representational activity as prior to reflection, being-for-itself as creative of its own proper world, physis as being-towards (à-être) idiogenesis/koinogenesis, the world as a product of Chaos, the identitary-ensemblist logic (logique ensembliste-identitaire) vs. the logic of (ontological) magmas, criticism of the philosophical determinacy found in inherited Western philosophical thought, the Cantorian definition of set implying the schema of separation, proto-institutions of legein and teukhein, Wo Ich bin, soll Es auftauchen ("Where Ego is, Id must spring forth"), conflict of desires, the Social-Historical, the methodology of elucidation (élucidation), circle of creation, the paradox of history, society's leaning on the first natural stratum (the biological and pre-symbolic aspects of human existence), "creation is ex nihilo [from nothing], but it is neither in nihilo [in nothing] nor cum nihilo [with nothing]", vis formandi, radical alterity (altérité radicale), time as creation/destruction of forms, societas instituans / societas instituta, abolition of the wage system, administration of justice by popular tribunals, plan factory, criticism of orthodox Marxism, the antinomy of Marxism (the Marxist deterministic schema as precluding the possibility of the creative mass action of the proletariat), criticism of Marxist economic determinism and historical materialism, replacement of the classical dichotomy between owners and workers with the dichotomy between directors (order-givers) and executants (order-takers), representative democracies functioning as "liberal oligarchies", democratic planning, fragmented bureaucratic capitalism vs. totalitarian bureaucratic capitalism, the "final contradiction" of capitalism, relatively autonomous evolution of technique, the capitalist imaginary of unlimited expansion of rational mastery, the nomos–physis distinction, three spheres of social action (oikos, the private/private or domestic sphere; agora, the public/private or implicitly political sphere; ekklesia, the public/public or explicitly political sphere), ecological self-limitation (degrowth), Gödelian argument, heteronomy of insignificance (the loss of meaning and direction in society), the Greco-Occidental particuliarity, democracy as procedure (formalist) vs. democracy as regime (substantivist), criticism of French structuralism (as a form of logicism) and structural functionalism (as a form of physicalism), criticism of spiritualist/Hegelian dialectic and materialist dialectic, criticism of Marxian economics, capital as power, criticism of Marx's theory of history, criticism of Lacanianism, criticism of the poststructuralist theory of the subject, criticism of philosophical universalism, criticism of the New Philosophers
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