7 definitions
Brain damage (n.) cannot be anticipated or fantasized: unlike castration, there is no scene for it — one cannot even dream about it.
The Enemy (n.) of today is hermeneutic: traumatic violence erases its own intention and takes on the meaninglessness of chance accidents.
Fantasy (n.) is the stitch between outside and inside: an external shock arouses me only when it touches my pre-existing fantasy.
Neurology (n.) in its humanist form, Luria and Sacks, moves too quickly from the lesion to the patient's coping, skipping the subjective form of the devastation itself.
Politics (n.) in global capitalism cancels itself and takes on the appearance of nature, while nature puts on the mask of politics.
Trauma (n.) is the Freudian name for the unknown unknowns: the violent intrusion of something the subject was not ready for and cannot integrate.
The Unconscious (n.) is structured like a language only to the extent that the brain does not talk.