Lacan, Politics, AestheticsWilly Apollon, Richard Feldstein In this volume, psychoanalysts, cultural theorists, and literary critics demonstrate the relevance of the unconscious economy to the field of cultural studies, applying psychoanalytic criticism to political and aesthetic issues related to the legal and ideological superstructure of contemporary society.These writers have adopted a variety of rhetorical positions when engaging cultural issues that deal with representation, ideology, class, and gender. Contributors include Willy Apollon, Richard Feldstein, Slavoj Zizek, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Judith Roof, Ellie Ragland, Elizabeth J. Bellamy, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, Elizabeth Bronfen, Hanjo Berressem, Peter Widmer, Danielle Bergeron, Lucie Cantin, and Catherine Portuges. |
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... language . Apollon also questions the foundation of politicized laws that legitimize authority while repressing any in- vestigation of " the foundation of the Law as legitimate to authorize political discourse . " From this perspective ...
... language . Apollon also questions the foundation of politicized laws that legitimize authority while repressing any in- vestigation of " the foundation of the Law as legitimate to authorize political discourse . " From this perspective ...
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... language and is experienced as affect , jouis- sance , and the death drive . Interacting structurally with the real is the representational ground of language , which includes signs ( and their further division into signifiers and ...
... language and is experienced as affect , jouis- sance , and the death drive . Interacting structurally with the real is the representational ground of language , which includes signs ( and their further division into signifiers and ...
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... language , but any musical trance must eventu- ally be broken because it cannot entirely shake off its linguistic di- mension . Because of this inevitability , Widmer concludes , music cannot help us " attain its lost immediacy , a ...
... language , but any musical trance must eventu- ally be broken because it cannot entirely shake off its linguistic di- mension . Because of this inevitability , Widmer concludes , music cannot help us " attain its lost immediacy , a ...
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... , it becomes a manifestation of form itself , of the structural attempt to negotiate lack and the surplus jouissance that issues from it . Willy Apollon INTRODUCTION II Psychoanalysis is possible only if language xviii Introduction I.
... , it becomes a manifestation of form itself , of the structural attempt to negotiate lack and the surplus jouissance that issues from it . Willy Apollon INTRODUCTION II Psychoanalysis is possible only if language xviii Introduction I.
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... language thus becomes its founda- tion , what guarantees the representation of representing , or , in other words ... language ex- cludes from representation . The real , excluded from language but returning in representation as an ...
... language thus becomes its founda- tion , what guarantees the representation of representing , or , in other words ... language ex- cludes from representation . The real , excluded from language but returning in representation as an ...
Contents
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A Lasting Heresy the Failure of Political Desire | 31 |
Subject of the Gaze for Another Gaze | 45 |
A Feminine Politics of Jouissance | 65 |
Ellie Ragland | 127 |
Reading Hamlet with Lacan | 181 |
Drive Desire and Oneiric Narration | 199 |
Gendering Representations of Death | 237 |
Painting the Imaginary Landscapes | 263 |
Muses of Music | 297 |
Aliens and the Psychotic Experience | 305 |
Aliens or Staging the Trauma | 315 |
Durass Minimalist Cinema of Remembrance | 327 |
Index | 337 |
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