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Lacan replaced Freud's postulated oral, anal and genital stages of child development with his own pre-mirror, mirror and post-mirror stages. During its first six months of existence, the child gradually fills the gap between bodily sensations and its perceptions of the outside world with symbols: fantasies with which its consciousness is merged. Then, over the next year or so, the child begins to recognize the outside as an extension or mirror of its own bodily image, absorbing at the same time an awareness of outside language: the meaning of the other. But in the next, post-mirror stage, when the child begins to speak for itself, these traces of meaning are repressed because they represent something from which the child has separated. But desire remains, hedged about by prohibitions and compromises, into adulthood, and provides the Id with its own logic, language and intentionality. From this early stage too comes any neurosis or psychosis that the adult may subsequently suffer from,these resulting from imbalances between the Imaginary, Symbolic and the Real.
Dreams (and by extension the matters that control art and our emotional processes) form a system of signs which we can read as any other text. We analyze them in Saussure's manner with signified and signifier. We use Jacobson's system of metaphor to understand the frequent combination of dream images, and metonymy to characterize displacement, the process by which images shift laterally in their significance. But whereas for Saussure the sign was culturally fixed, bonding signified and signifier, for Lacan the language of the unconscious (dreams, verbal plays and art) lacked any such stability. Language does not mimic the psychic processes of the unconscious, any reference it makes being entirely arbitrary. Language does not represent the exterior world, moreover, though of course we pretend otherwise. Words as patients use them in Freudian analysis take on multiple meanings, reach back to a plurality of determining factors, and are available permanently for new uses. So is language our everyday social language. We cannot understand it from the outside, in terms other than language. And we cannot insulate it from the discourse of the unconscious. By very nature, language forms a web of ever - elusive meaning, a free creation which provides no stability, ground or ultimate truth, even for itself.
But that is not unexpected, thought Lacan. We can hear the polyphony of contexts when we listen to poetry, a discourse where the words or signifiers align vertically and horizontally as musical notes along a score. The overlapping and knotting together of its signifiers. provides the reader of that text with an enactment of the unconscious. We cannot ultimately separate them, but poetry and the unconscious do support each other. Lacan had many contacts with Surrealism, and perhaps the exhibitionism, circularity and even charlatanry of his writings witness more truth to the unconscious than are to be found in the sober reflections of his contemporaries.
Q1.
According to the passage, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT
a. The unconscious functions in ways similar to language
b. The unconscious looks like a continually circulating chain of signifiers with no anchor that can ultimately give meaning or stability to the whole system.
c. Desires are symbolic symbols that are combined from concepts that have been suppressed by the conscious mind
d. The unconscious belongs to the individual and is not an effect of signification on the subject.
Q2
Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?
a. The structuring of the unconscious and tying it to language can be seen as an attempt at simplification and subversion
b. Linguistically structured unconscious is the first step in subject construction
c. The consequence of entering language, according to Lacan is the formation and evolution of ego.
d. Lacan considers that identity is structured by language and in language.
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Study plan for VA RC section - 100 days
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Inference based question for VA. CL Unproctored VA Mock-7
A global climate agreement has been finalised in Paris. The deal unites all the world's nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change for the first time in history. Coming to a consensus among nearly 200 countries on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions is regarded by many observers as an achievement in itself and is being hailed as "historic". The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 set emission cutting targets for a handful of developed countries, but the US pulled out and others failed to comply.
However, scientists point out that the Paris accord must be stepped up if it is to have any chance of curbing dangerous climate change. Pledges thus far could see global temperatures rise by as much as 2.7°C, but the agreement lays out a roadmap for speeding up progress: To keep global temperatures "well below" 2.0°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial times and "endeavour to limit" them even more, to 1.5°C, to limit the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity to the same levels that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally, beginning at some point between 2050 and 2100, to review each country's contribution to cutting emissions every five years so they scale up to the challenge, and for rich countries to help poorer nations by providing "climate finance" to adapt to climate change and switch to renewable energy.
The goal of preventing what scientists regard as dangerous and irreversible levels of climate change - judged to be reached at around 2°C of warming above pre-industrial times - is central to the agreement. The world is already nearly halfway there at almost 1°C and many countries argued for a tougher target of 1.5°C - including leaders of low-lying countries that face unsustainable sea levels rises in a warming world. The desire for a more ambitious goal has been kept in the agreement - with the promise to "endeavour to limit" global temperatures even more, to 1.5°C.
Dr Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics, says the objective is "remarkable".
"It is a victory for the most vulnerable countries, the small islands, the least developed countries and all those with the most to lose, who came to Paris and said they didn't want sympathy, they wanted action." Meanwhile, for the first time, the accord lays out a longer-term plan for reaching a peak in greenhouse emissions "as soon as possible" and achieving a balance between output of man-made greenhouse gases and absorption - by forests or the oceans - "by the second half of this century". "If agreed and implemented, this means bringing down greenhouse-gas emissions to net zero within a few decades. It is in line with the scientific evidence we presented," says John Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Some have described the deal as "woolly" because some of the targets were scaled down during the negotiations. "The Paris Agreement is only one step on a long road, and there are parts of it that frustrate and disappoint me, but it is progress," says Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo. "This deal alone won't dig us out the hole we're in, but it makes the sides less steep."
Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?
a Forest, soil and oceans help absorb greenhouse gases naturally.
b India will have to contribute to the climate finance as per the Global Climate Agreement finalised in Paris.
c The Paris agreement is the solution to all greenhouse problems, and will sort out the climate issue all by itself.
d None of the above.
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PJ: Where to place (1)...???
(1) A successful captain is often a successful man in life.
(2) Games hold a promising career for really good players.
(3) They have bright prospects of foreign travel and international contact.
(4) Games provide good training in discipline and organisation.
(5) Good players can represent their country at international meets.
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Is "both" and " as well as" construction correct ? Eg. Source CL. The populace was stricken both by war as well as by feminine.
Incorrect Usage
PURE
- These days a lot of spas recommend pure oxygen treatment.
- A memory without a blot or contamination is a source of pure tonic.
- We felt pure and sweet as a new baby.
- He has descended from pure genetics.
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____________ and ecstasy are two sides of a puzzle called life.
- Agony
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Leo experienced great ______ when his pet dog died.
- losses
- pain
- anguish
- mourning
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