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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... thing itself . Through this form of self - presencing , psychoanalysis discovers it- self where the thing is no longer a thing , precisely where a narra- tive trace foregrounds the stand - in logic which substitutes for the lost object ...
... thing itself . Through this form of self - presencing , psychoanalysis discovers it- self where the thing is no longer a thing , precisely where a narra- tive trace foregrounds the stand - in logic which substitutes for the lost object ...
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... Thing . " In her article on Aliens , Lucie Cantin states that the capture of the subject by the jouissance of the Other insists that the subject must comply with its demands . According to this logic , the human being becomes a thing of ...
... Thing . " In her article on Aliens , Lucie Cantin states that the capture of the subject by the jouissance of the Other insists that the subject must comply with its demands . According to this logic , the human being becomes a thing of ...
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... thing must be externalized to create a process of separation ; to de- feat the thing , humans must constitute an objet a , place the thing within limits , and identify its boundaries . But in Aliens , even after the humans are separated ...
... thing must be externalized to create a process of separation ; to de- feat the thing , humans must constitute an objet a , place the thing within limits , and identify its boundaries . But in Aliens , even after the humans are separated ...
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... things human is the constant wound , termed the plague by Freud , that psychoanalysis inflicts upon every science of humanity . Any such problematic in the relationship of humanity to truth subverts the entire field of representation ...
... things human is the constant wound , termed the plague by Freud , that psychoanalysis inflicts upon every science of humanity . Any such problematic in the relationship of humanity to truth subverts the entire field of representation ...
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... 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 Žižek.
... 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 Žižek.
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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