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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Page xiv
... division into signifiers and signifieds ) used to forge a social link and form an attitude of adjustment toward what is irre- ducible to the field of representation . The essays in xiv Introduction I The Discourse of the Master.
... division into signifiers and signifieds ) used to forge a social link and form an attitude of adjustment toward what is irre- ducible to the field of representation . The essays in xiv Introduction I The Discourse of the Master.
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... signifier as it combines with the imaginary to prevent the subversion of the representa- tional field and the cultural matrix placed in relation to it . As the writers in this section demonstrate , there is both an aesthetics and an ...
... signifier as it combines with the imaginary to prevent the subversion of the representa- tional field and the cultural matrix placed in relation to it . As the writers in this section demonstrate , there is both an aesthetics and an ...
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... signifier of perception itself . As a counterpoint to the study of the imaginary , the section on filmic representation examines the psychotic fantasy of being delivered up to an all - powerful Other that requires - no , de- mands ...
... signifier of perception itself . As a counterpoint to the study of the imaginary , the section on filmic representation examines the psychotic fantasy of being delivered up to an all - powerful Other that requires - no , de- mands ...
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... signifier . One side of the " Meaning of the Phallus " was already devel- oped by Saint Augustine . The phallic organ incarnates the revolt of the human body against mastery by man . The phallic organ is the divine punishment for the ...
... signifier . One side of the " Meaning of the Phallus " was already devel- oped by Saint Augustine . The phallic organ incarnates the revolt of the human body against mastery by man . The phallic organ is the divine punishment for the ...
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... signifier - without - signified . Naturally , this is one of the commonplaces of the Lacanian theory . As soon as we try to grasp " all " the signifiers of a structure , as soon as we try to " fill " its universality by its particular ...
... signifier - without - signified . Naturally , this is one of the commonplaces of the Lacanian theory . As soon as we try to grasp " all " the signifiers of a structure , as soon as we try to " fill " its universality by its particular ...
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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