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is a concept that exists to mediate between two opposing ideas, as a transition occurs between them. This mediating concept exists just long enough to facilitate such an interaction: at the point where one idea has been replaced by the other, the concept is no longer required and thus vanishes. In
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Applications of this concept exist in various fields, making it a viable framework in cultural studies, literature, and qualitative research among others ("Developing the Vanishing Mediator as Theoretical Framework: Synthesis and Application," ). One application is provided, for instance, by
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the conflict between the theoretical abstraction and its empirical negation (through trial and error) is resolved by a concretion of the two ideas, representing a theoretical abstraction taking into account the previous contradiction, whereupon the mediator vanishes.
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introduced the term in a 1973 essay ("The Vanishing Mediator: Narrative Structure in Max Weber," in New German Critique 1 : 52-89).
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in "For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political factor", where he uses it in a political sense, similar to
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uses a similar, but more explicitly post-structuralist term (″terme évanouissant″ or ″vanishing term″) in
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Hegelian dialectics
psychoanalytic theory
hysteria
political history
Fredric Jameson
Alain Badiou
Žižek
Marx
Balibar


Slavoj Zizek - Key Ideas
"Hysteria and Interpellation"
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"Developing the Vanishing Mediator as Theoretical Framework: Synthesis and Application"
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10.17719/jisr.2019.3368
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