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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... words , the visible domain of logi- cally provable experience . To establish this flat perspective , the master must repress unconscious ideation . As Ragland illustrates , the master is a purposely blind master - a cognitive specialist ...
... words , the visible domain of logi- cally provable experience . To establish this flat perspective , the master must repress unconscious ideation . As Ragland illustrates , the master is a purposely blind master - a cognitive specialist ...
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... words , what represents a new , adequate form . The ancients saw the roots of morality and law in that hypothesis of truth where assumed presence bore witness to the preciseness of representa- tion . Until Marx , Freud , and Nietzsche ...
... words , what represents a new , adequate form . The ancients saw the roots of morality and law in that hypothesis of truth where assumed presence bore witness to the preciseness of representa- tion . Until Marx , Freud , and Nietzsche ...
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... word and desire finds that singular matter of identification to his or her own truth . The arti- cles published in this volume are intended as a modest contribu- tion to this emerging undertaking that extends the work of psycho ...
... word and desire finds that singular matter of identification to his or her own truth . The arti- cles published in this volume are intended as a modest contribu- tion to this emerging undertaking that extends the work of psycho ...
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... word . Rest more./ Yours , Lenin . " When , in the fall of 1913 , Lenin hears of Gorki's pulmonary illness , he writes to him immediately : That a Bolshevist , old it is true , treats you by a new method , I must confess that it worries ...
... word . Rest more./ Yours , Lenin . " When , in the fall of 1913 , Lenin hears of Gorki's pulmonary illness , he writes to him immediately : That a Bolshevist , old it is true , treats you by a new method , I must confess that it worries ...
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... words , the spirit of a true Communist cannot deviate , since this spirit is immediately the self - awareness of the historical ne- cessity . Consequently , the only thing that can disturb or introduce disorder and deviation , is his ...
... words , the spirit of a true Communist cannot deviate , since this spirit is immediately the self - awareness of the historical ne- cessity . Consequently , the only thing that can disturb or introduce disorder and deviation , is his ...
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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