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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... phallic implementation of political power is accomplished in part by the phallus's presumption of privilege xii Introduction I.
... phallic implementation of political power is accomplished in part by the phallus's presumption of privilege xii Introduction I.
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Willy Apollon, Richard Feldstein. is accomplished in part by the phallus's presumption of privilege in marking itself as ... phallic jouis- sance , which escapes the parameters of masculine representation . MacCannell's essay is concerned ...
Willy Apollon, Richard Feldstein. is accomplished in part by the phallus's presumption of privilege in marking itself as ... phallic jouis- sance , which escapes the parameters of masculine representation . MacCannell's essay is concerned ...
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... phallus : it is a question of repudiation of castration . Thus , we should approach fetishism from the phallic signifier . One side of the " Meaning of the Phallus " was already devel- oped by Saint Augustine . The phallic organ ...
... phallus : it is a question of repudiation of castration . Thus , we should approach fetishism from the phallic signifier . One side of the " Meaning of the Phallus " was already devel- oped by Saint Augustine . The phallic organ ...
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... phallic experi- ence : " I can nothing ( the Augustinian moment ) although every- thing depends on me ( the moment of the above mentioned witti- cism ) . The " Meaning of the Phallus " is the very pulsation between the EVERYTHING and ...
... phallic experi- ence : " I can nothing ( the Augustinian moment ) although every- thing depends on me ( the moment of the above mentioned witti- cism ) . The " Meaning of the Phallus " is the very pulsation between the EVERYTHING and ...
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... phallic ele- ment is repudiated with the fetish , the " nothing " that necessarily accompanies its " all , " the radical heterogeneity of this element relative to the universality that it is meant to incarnate ( the fact that the phallic ...
... phallic ele- ment is repudiated with the fetish , the " nothing " that necessarily accompanies its " all , " the radical heterogeneity of this element relative to the universality that it is meant to incarnate ( the fact that the phallic ...
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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