Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2008
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 280
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 25762
- ISBN 13 : 9780415772594
- ISBN 10 : 0415772591
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The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus Christ. Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century. This revised second edition includes a new preface by the author.
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Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art.
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