Opera's Second Death
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2001
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 256
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 16040
- ISBN 13 : 9780415930178
- ISBN 10 : 0415930170
Also by Slavoj Zizek
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This work explores the relationship between opera and psychoanalysis. Ziezek and Dolar consider, for example, death in opera and orgasm (the little death for which opera may be imagined to be a substitution), as well as the heralded "death of opera" and its cultural function.
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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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