Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know About Lacan... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock: Second Edition
Book Details
- Publisher : Verso
- Published : 2010
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 304
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 2370
- ISBN 13 : 9781844676217
- ISBN 10 : 1844676218
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Slavoj Zizek, dubbed by the Village Voice "the giant of Ljubljana", is back with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on film, psychoanalysis, and life. His inimitable blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous humour are here made to show how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis - and vice versa. Typical Zizek questions are:
* Why does the phallus appear?
* Why is woman a symptom of man?
* Why are there always two fathers?
These are explained by means of such films as Marnie and The Man Who Knew Too Much.