Lacan, politics, aesthetics

Author(s)

• Apollon, Willy
• Feldstein, Richard

Bibliographic Information

Lacan, politics, aesthetics

Willy Apollon and Richard Feldstein, editors

（SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture）

State University of New York Press, c1996

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction I Richard Feldstein Introduction II Willy Apollon the politics of desire The Fetish of the Party Slavoj Zizek A Lasting Heresy, the Failure of Political Desire Willy Apollon Subject of the Gaze for Another Gaze Richard Feldstein jouissance, desire, and the law Facing Fascism: A Feminine Politics of Jouissance Juliet Flower MacCannell A Verdict on the Paternal Function: Law, the Paternal Metaphor, and Paternity Law Judith Roof the politics of mastery The Discourse of the Master Ellie Ragland literary representation Othello's Lost Handkerchief: Where Psychoanalysis Finds Itself Elizabeth J. Bellamy Reading Hamlet with Lacan Bruce Fink Kundera and Lacan: Drive, Desire, and Oneiric Narration Maire Jaanus Fatal Conjunctions: Gendering Representations of Death Elisabeth Bronfen graphic representation Dali and Lacan: Painting the Imaginary Landscapes Hanjo Berressem musical representation Orpheus and Eurydice: Muses of Music Peter Widmer filmic representation Aliens and the Psychotic Experience Danielle Bergeron Aliens or Staging the Trauma Lucie Cantin cross-genre representation Lost Objects: Duras's Minimalist Cinema of Remembrance Catherine Portuges Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA27233965
• ISBN:
  • 0791423719
  • 0791423727
• LCCN: 94010967
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 341 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 146.1
  • NDC8 : 146.1
  • LCC : BF175.4.C84
  • DC20 : 150.19/5/092
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Psychoanalysis and culture
  • LCSH : Psycholinguistics -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Political psychology
  • LCSH : Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects
  • LCSH : Lacan, Jacques, 1901-
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA20915876