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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... realities it espouses without deforming and losing some part of them ? Both the loss and deformation sustain the dimension of deceit embodied in politics , and what the media imagines and constantly searches for , without ever realizing ...
... realities it espouses without deforming and losing some part of them ? Both the loss and deformation sustain the dimension of deceit embodied in politics , and what the media imagines and constantly searches for , without ever realizing ...
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... reality is predicated on fan- tasy , and thus the irrational dimension is paradoxically taken on by any economic consideration from the standpoint of the poten- tial voter for whom the politician's message is directed . The point of ...
... reality is predicated on fan- tasy , and thus the irrational dimension is paradoxically taken on by any economic consideration from the standpoint of the poten- tial voter for whom the politician's message is directed . The point of ...
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... singu- larity , the generality of " all , " that is to say , as a " singular reality , that includes in itself all the really existing species of the same thing " : It is as if , next to and other than 3 The Fetish of the Party Slavoj ...
... singu- larity , the generality of " all , " that is to say , as a " singular reality , that includes in itself all the really existing species of the same thing " : It is as if , next to and other than 3 The Fetish of the Party Slavoj ...
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... reality " of the scene . The comical effect comes from the position of the impossible knowledge of the protagonist . He be- haves as if he is in a position from where he could hear at the same time what is in the realm of ...
... reality " of the scene . The comical effect comes from the position of the impossible knowledge of the protagonist . He be- haves as if he is in a position from where he could hear at the same time what is in the realm of ...
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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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