Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which Lacanian concept describes the infant's identification with its reflected image as a unified whole?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The mirror stage describes the infant's identification with an apparently unified image of the body.
• The reflected image offers a sense of coherence that contrasts with the infant's experienced bodily dependence and fragmentation.
• This identification contributes to the formation of the ego.
• Lacan emphasizes that the ego is therefore founded upon an image and a form of misrecognition.
• The reflected image offers a sense of coherence that contrasts with the infant's experienced bodily dependence and fragmentation.
• This identification contributes to the formation of the ego.
• Lacan emphasizes that the ego is therefore founded upon an image and a form of misrecognition.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In Lacanian theory, which order is primarily associated with images, identification, rivalry and the ego?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Imaginary is associated with images, resemblance, identification and relations of rivalry.
• The ego is formed through identification with an image during the mirror stage.
• The Symbolic concerns language, law and social structures.
• The Real refers to what resists complete symbolization.
• The ego is formed through identification with an image during the mirror stage.
• The Symbolic concerns language, law and social structures.
• The Real refers to what resists complete symbolization.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which Lacanian order is governed by language, law, social conventions and systems of difference?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Symbolic is the order of language, law, kinship and socially organized differences.
• Entry into the Symbolic gives the subject a position within cultural and linguistic structures.
• Meaning is produced through relations among signifiers rather than through isolated images.
• The Imaginary is more closely associated with identification and apparent wholeness.
• Entry into the Symbolic gives the subject a position within cultural and linguistic structures.
• Meaning is produced through relations among signifiers rather than through isolated images.
• The Imaginary is more closely associated with identification and apparent wholeness.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which description best defines the Real in Lacanian psychoanalysis?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Real is not simply external reality or the physical world.
• It designates what cannot be fully represented, integrated or mastered by the Symbolic and Imaginary orders.
• Encounters with the Real may appear as rupture, trauma or an interruption of meaning.
• The Real can be approached indirectly but cannot be completely captured in language.
• It designates what cannot be fully represented, integrated or mastered by the Symbolic and Imaginary orders.
• Encounters with the Real may appear as rupture, trauma or an interruption of meaning.
• The Real can be approached indirectly but cannot be completely captured in language.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
In Lacanian theory, the big Other most accurately refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The big Other refers to the Symbolic order as the field of language, law, conventions and social authority.
• Speech depends upon this already existing system of signifiers.
• The Other is not reducible to one individual person, although persons may represent its authority.
• It provides the symbolic positions through which subjects speak and understand themselves.
• Speech depends upon this already existing system of signifiers.
• The Other is not reducible to one individual person, although persons may represent its authority.
• It provides the symbolic positions through which subjects speak and understand themselves.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which statement best represents the Lacanian relation between desire and lack?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lacanian desire emerges from a constitutive lack within the subject.
• Particular objects may temporarily attract desire but cannot provide final completion.
• Desire therefore continues by shifting from one object or signifier to another.
• Lacan distinguishes desire from biological need and from a demand addressed to another person.
• Particular objects may temporarily attract desire but cannot provide final completion.
• Desire therefore continues by shifting from one object or signifier to another.
• Lacan distinguishes desire from biological need and from a demand addressed to another person.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
What does Lacan mean when he states that the unconscious is structured like a language?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lacan argues that unconscious processes operate through signifiers, substitutions and chains of difference.
• Dreams, slips and symptoms may be analysed as effects of linguistic structure.
• The statement does not mean that the unconscious contains ordinary grammatical sentences only.
• It reformulates Freudian psychoanalysis through structural linguistics.
• Dreams, slips and symptoms may be analysed as effects of linguistic structure.
• The statement does not mean that the unconscious contains ordinary grammatical sentences only.
• It reformulates Freudian psychoanalysis through structural linguistics.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Lacan most closely associates metaphor with which Freudian mechanism of dream work?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lacan relates metaphor to Freud's concept of condensation.
• In both processes, one element substitutes for or gathers several meanings and associations.
• A new signifying effect arises through substitution within the chain of signifiers.
• Metonymy is more closely associated with displacement.
• In both processes, one element substitutes for or gathers several meanings and associations.
• A new signifying effect arises through substitution within the chain of signifiers.
• Metonymy is more closely associated with displacement.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Lacan connects metonymy most directly with which Freudian process?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lacan links metonymy with displacement because both involve movement along a chain of associations.
• Psychic emphasis shifts from one element to another without reaching final satisfaction.
• This movement also helps explain the continuing structure of desire.
• Metaphor, by contrast, is associated with condensation and substitution.
• Psychic emphasis shifts from one element to another without reaching final satisfaction.
• This movement also helps explain the continuing structure of desire.
• Metaphor, by contrast, is associated with condensation and substitution.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
In Lacanian theory, the gaze is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The gaze is not simply the subject's act of looking.
• It marks the point at which the subject becomes aware of being implicated in a visual field that cannot be fully controlled.
• The gaze disturbs the fantasy of the viewer as an all-seeing and autonomous observer.
• Lacanian criticism uses this concept in analyses of visuality, spectatorship and representation.
• It marks the point at which the subject becomes aware of being implicated in a visual field that cannot be fully controlled.
• The gaze disturbs the fantasy of the viewer as an all-seeing and autonomous observer.
• Lacanian criticism uses this concept in analyses of visuality, spectatorship and representation.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Why is the Lacanian subject often described as divided or split?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Lacanian subject is divided between conscious self-representation and unconscious signifying processes.
• Language enables the subject to speak but also prevents complete self-presence.
• What the subject says may reveal meanings and desires not consciously intended.
• The subject is therefore neither unified nor fully transparent to itself.
• Language enables the subject to speak but also prevents complete self-presence.
• What the subject says may reveal meanings and desires not consciously intended.
• The subject is therefore neither unified nor fully transparent to itself.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which description best captures the role of misrecognition in the mirror stage?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The mirror image presents an organized and unified body.
• The infant identifies with this external image despite experiencing dependence and limited bodily coordination.
• Lacan calls this identification a misrecognition because the ego mistakes an image for an essential unified self.
• The ego is thus formed through alienation in an external representation.
• The infant identifies with this external image despite experiencing dependence and limited bodily coordination.
• Lacan calls this identification a misrecognition because the ego mistakes an image for an essential unified self.
• The ego is thus formed through alienation in an external representation.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Consider the following statements.
Statement I: The Imaginary is associated with identification and images of wholeness.
Statement II: The Symbolic is associated with language, law and systems of difference.
Statement I: The Imaginary is associated with identification and images of wholeness.
Statement II: The Symbolic is associated with language, law and systems of difference.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because the Imaginary is organized through images, identifications and apparent unity.
• Statement II is correct because the Symbolic consists of language, law, kinship and differential relations.
• The two orders interact in the formation of subjectivity.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
• Statement II is correct because the Symbolic consists of language, law, kinship and differential relations.
• The two orders interact in the formation of subjectivity.
• Therefore, both statements are correct.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: Entry into language produces both subjectivity and alienation.
Reason: The subject gains a social identity through signifiers but can never express the self with complete transparency.
Reason: The subject gains a social identity through signifiers but can never express the self with complete transparency.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because entry into the Symbolic enables a person to become a speaking social subject.
• The Reason is correct because language supplies identity positions while also separating the subject from complete self-presence.
• Signifiers never communicate an entirely unified inner essence.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains both the formation and alienation of the subject.
• The Reason is correct because language supplies identity positions while also separating the subject from complete self-presence.
• Signifiers never communicate an entirely unified inner essence.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains both the formation and alienation of the subject.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Imaginary
2. Symbolic
3. Real
4. Gaze
List II
I. Language, law and social difference
II. What resists complete symbolization
III. Identification and specular images
IV. Disruption of the viewer's sense of visual mastery
List I
1. Imaginary
2. Symbolic
3. Real
4. Gaze
List II
I. Language, law and social difference
II. What resists complete symbolization
III. Identification and specular images
IV. Disruption of the viewer's sense of visual mastery
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Imaginary matches III because it concerns identification and specular images.
• The Symbolic matches I because it is the order of language, law and social difference.
• The Real matches II because it resists complete representation and symbolization.
• The gaze matches IV because it disrupts the viewer's belief in complete visual mastery.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-I, 3-II, 4-IV.
• The Symbolic matches I because it is the order of language, law and social difference.
• The Real matches II because it resists complete representation and symbolization.
• The gaze matches IV because it disrupts the viewer's belief in complete visual mastery.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-III, 2-I, 3-II, 4-IV.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Real is not complete linguistic representation; it is what resists full symbolization.
• The mirror stage is correctly linked with ego formation through identification.
• Lacan connects metaphor with condensation.
• He connects metonymy with displacement and the continuing movement of desire.
• The mirror stage is correctly linked with ego formation through identification.
• Lacan connects metaphor with condensation.
• He connects metonymy with displacement and the continuing movement of desire.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Desire is sustained by lack.
2. The big Other refers only to another individual person.
3. The unconscious operates through signifying relations.
4. The gaze can unsettle the viewing subject's sense of control.
1. Desire is sustained by lack.
2. The big Other refers only to another individual person.
3. The unconscious operates through signifying relations.
4. The gaze can unsettle the viewing subject's sense of control.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because lack sustains the movement of desire.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because the big Other refers primarily to the Symbolic field of language and social authority.
• Statement 3 is correct because Lacan describes the unconscious as structured like a language.
• Statement 4 is correct because the gaze disrupts the fantasy of visual mastery.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
• Statement 2 is incorrect because the big Other refers primarily to the Symbolic field of language and social authority.
• Statement 3 is correct because Lacan describes the unconscious as structured like a language.
• Statement 4 is correct because the gaze disrupts the fantasy of visual mastery.
• Therefore, statements 1, 3 and 4 only are correct.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
A character becomes obsessed with an idealized portrait that appears more coherent and complete than the character's lived identity. Which Lacanian concept is most directly applicable?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The idealized portrait functions like a specular image that promises unity and coherence.
• Identification with that image resembles the structure of the mirror stage.
• The resulting ego ideal belongs primarily to the Imaginary order.
• The example also reveals alienation because the character seeks identity in an external image.
• Identification with that image resembles the structure of the mirror stage.
• The resulting ego ideal belongs primarily to the Imaginary order.
• The example also reveals alienation because the character seeks identity in an external image.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
A protagonist assumes a social identity only after accepting a family name, legal position and inherited system of obligations. Which Lacanian order is most relevant?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Names, laws, kinship positions and obligations belong to the Symbolic order.
• The protagonist receives an identity through a pre-existing network of social signifiers.
• The Symbolic positions the subject within language and cultural rules.
• Imaginary identification may accompany this process, but it does not primarily explain the legal and linguistic structure.
• The protagonist receives an identity through a pre-existing network of social signifiers.
• The Symbolic positions the subject within language and cultural rules.
• Imaginary identification may accompany this process, but it does not primarily explain the legal and linguistic structure.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
A narrative reaches a traumatic event that repeatedly interrupts language and cannot be fully explained by the narrator. Which Lacanian concept best describes this limit?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The traumatic event functions as an encounter with the Real because it resists complete narration and symbolization.
• The narrator may circle around it through repetition, silence or fragmented language.
• The Real appears as a limit or rupture within the Symbolic order.
• It is not equivalent to ordinary factual reality or a stable signified.
• The narrator may circle around it through repetition, silence or fragmented language.
• The Real appears as a limit or rupture within the Symbolic order.
• It is not equivalent to ordinary factual reality or a stable signified.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
In Lacanian theory, why is desire often described as the desire of the Other?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The subject learns desire through the field of the Other, including language, recognition and social demands.
• The phrase may indicate desire for the Other, desire to be desired by the Other or desire structured by what the Other appears to want.
• Desire is therefore relational rather than purely private or biological.
• It remains entangled with signifiers received from the Symbolic order.
• The phrase may indicate desire for the Other, desire to be desired by the Other or desire structured by what the Other appears to want.
• Desire is therefore relational rather than purely private or biological.
• It remains entangled with signifiers received from the Symbolic order.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
Which claim best explains the metonymic movement of desire?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Metonymy involves movement along a chain of associated signifiers.
• Lacanian desire similarly shifts from one object to another without achieving final satisfaction.
• Each object appears to promise completion but leaves the underlying lack unresolved.
• This movement distinguishes desire from a biological need that can be temporarily satisfied.
• Lacanian desire similarly shifts from one object to another without achieving final satisfaction.
• Each object appears to promise completion but leaves the underlying lack unresolved.
• This movement distinguishes desire from a biological need that can be temporarily satisfied.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
Which statement best expresses the Lacanian account of subject formation?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Imaginary identification during the mirror stage contributes to the formation of the ego.
• Entry into the Symbolic positions the subject within language, law and social relations.
• The resulting subject remains divided and marked by lack.
• Lacanian subject formation therefore rejects the idea of a completely autonomous and unified self.
• Entry into the Symbolic positions the subject within language, law and social relations.
• The resulting subject remains divided and marked by lack.
• Lacanian subject formation therefore rejects the idea of a completely autonomous and unified self.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
In a film, a character believes that the world is fully available to the character's controlling vision, but an unexpected object seems to return the look and disturb that confidence. Which concept is illustrated?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The scene illustrates the gaze because the visual field ceases to appear fully controlled by the viewing subject.
• The object seems to expose the character's own position as visible and vulnerable.
• This reverses the fantasy of an autonomous observer mastering a passive world.
• Lacanian film and literary criticism often use the gaze to analyse such disturbances of spectatorship.
• The object seems to expose the character's own position as visible and vulnerable.
• This reverses the fantasy of an autonomous observer mastering a passive world.
• Lacanian film and literary criticism often use the gaze to analyse such disturbances of spectatorship.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Assertion: A Lacanian literary interpretation may examine slips, repetitions and metaphoric substitutions in a text.
Reason: Such textual features can reveal unconscious signifying processes beyond a character's or narrator's conscious intention.
Reason: Such textual features can reveal unconscious signifying processes beyond a character's or narrator's conscious intention.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Lacanian criticism attends closely to repetitions, substitutions, gaps and linguistic disruptions.
• The Reason is correct because these features may disclose unconscious relations among signifiers.
• Meaning can exceed what a narrator, character or author consciously intends.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the interpretive practice described in the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because these features may disclose unconscious relations among signifiers.
• Meaning can exceed what a narrator, character or author consciously intends.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the interpretive practice described in the Assertion.
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Question 26
ప్రశ్న 26
Which statement best summarizes Lacanian literary interpretation?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lacanian criticism studies how subjects are constituted and divided through language.
• It analyses desire, lack, identification, the Other and interactions among the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real.
• It may attend to metaphor, metonymy, repetition, silence and disruptions of narrative coherence.
• The method does not reduce literature to clinical diagnosis or conscious authorial intention.
• It analyses desire, lack, identification, the Other and interactions among the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real.
• It may attend to metaphor, metonymy, repetition, silence and disruptions of narrative coherence.
• The method does not reduce literature to clinical diagnosis or conscious authorial intention.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Mirror stage సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. The Imaginary సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. The Symbolic సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. That which resists complete representation and symbolization సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. The symbolic field of language, law and social authority సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Desire arises from a constitutive lack that no particular object can finally remove సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Unconscious formations operate through signifiers and linguistic relations సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Condensation సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Displacement సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. The unsettling awareness that the visual field exceeds the viewer's mastery సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. The speaking subject cannot fully coincide with the unconscious processes expressed through language సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. The infant identifies with an external image of unity that conceals experienced fragmentation సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: B. 1-III, 2-I, 3-II, 4-IV సమాధానం: B.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. The Real — complete linguistic representation సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: C. 1, 3 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: A. The mirror stage and Imaginary identification సమాధానం: A.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. The Symbolic సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. The Real సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Desire is shaped by the Other's language, recognition and presumed desire సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Desire moves from one object or signifier to another because no object fully resolves lack సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. The subject emerges through Imaginary identification and entry into the Symbolic order సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. The gaze సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 26 ప్రశ్న 26Answer: C. It examines how language, desire, lack and the three orders shape divided subjects and narratives సమాధానం: C.