Enjoy your symptom! : Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out

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Enjoy your symptom! : Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out

Slavoj Žižek

Routledge, 2001

Rev. ed

  • : pbk

Available at  / 14 libraries

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Includes bibliographical notes and index

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Description

Slavoj Zizek, dubbed by the Village Voice "the giant of Ljubljana," is back with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on film, psychoanalysis (and life). His inimitable blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous humor are made to show how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis-and vice versa using films such as Marnie and The Man Who Knew TooMuch.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination:
  • 1.1 Death and Sublimation: The Final Scene of City Lights 1.2 Imaginary, Symbolic, Real 2. Why is Woman a Symptom of a Man?
  • 2.1 Why is Suicide the Only Successful Act?
  • 2.2 The Night of the World
  • 3. Why Is Every Act a Repetition?
  • 3.1 Beyond Distributive Justice
  • 3.2 Idenitity and Authority
  • 4. Why Does the Phallus Appear?
  • 4.1 Grimaces of the Real
  • 4.2 Phallophany of the Anal Father
  • 5. Why are there Always Two Fathers?
  • 5.1 At the Origins of Noir: The Humiliated Father
  • 5.2 Die Versagung
  • Index

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