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Amara
Amara , town (1987 pop. 208,797), SE Iraq, on the Tigris River. It is a river port and a marketplace for rice, dates, grains, produce, wool, hides, and livestock.... Read more |
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quassia
quassia , name for several tropical trees and for a bitter extract from their bark. The extract containing complex terpenoid compounds called quassinoids is used medicinally as a bitter tonic and a pinworm remedy; it is also used in insecticides, e.g., in flypaper and against aphids. Surinam quassia... Read more |
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Amhara
Amhara ETHNONYM: Amara Orientation Identification. The term "Amhara" is derived from amari, meaning "one who is pleasing, agreeable, beautiful, and gracious." Amhara culture is often identified with Abyssinian culture, which is regarded as the heir to the cultural blending of ancient... Read more |
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Paul Creston
Paul Creston 1906-85, American composer, b. New York City as Guiseppe Guttoveggio. Creston was largely self-taught in composition. His music is generally tonal and conservative. Among Creston's many works are six symphonies (1940-81), Two Choric Dances (1938) for orchestra, two violin concertos... Read more |
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Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan , 1901-81, French psychoanalyst. After receiving a medical degree, he became a psychoanalyst in Paris. Lacan was infamous for his unorthodox methods of treatment, such as the truncated therapy session, which often lasted only several minutes. A staunch critic of modern (particularly... Read more |
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Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Levi Ginzburg Italian novelist, essayist, playwright, and translator, Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi; 1916-1991) was famous for her portraits of family life and for her spare style. Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo in 1916, the daughter of Guiseppe Levi, a prominent anatomy... Read more |
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DEMAND
DEMAND The concept of demand is not Freudian. It was developed by Jacques Lacan, who linked it with need and desire (Lacan, 1966, 1991). Demand is identifiable by the five clinical traits that constitute it, by the status that it gives the object, by its function in relation to the Other, and... Read more |
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Scilicet
SCILICET The first issue of the review Scilicet, under the direction of Jacques Lacan, appeared in May, 1968 from Seuil, the same publisher that two years earlier had brought out his Ecrits. Just seven issues would appear in all, counting two double numbers (2/3 and 6/7), over the next eight... Read more |
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Knot
KNOT Jacques Lacan used a topological structure of the knot to define the relationship of the symbolic, the real, and the imaginary. In particular, he referred to the structure of rings on the coat of arms of the Borromei family. After introducing this notion on February 9, 1972, in his seminar ".... Read more |
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The Lost Weekend
THE LOST WEEKEND USA, 1945 Director:Billy Wilder Production:Paramount; black and white; running time: 99 minutes; length: 8,912 feet. Released August 1945. Producer:Charles Brackett; screenplay:Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, from the novel by ... Read more |
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