Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out / Edition 2

by Slavoj Zizek

Overview

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 Too Much.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415928120
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/28/2001
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Slavoj Zizek is Research Fellow at the University of Ljubljana. He teaches and lectures frequently in the United States. Among his many books are Looking Awry and The Ticklish Subject.

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?; 2.1Why 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 TwoFathers?; 5.1 At the Origins of Noir: The Humiliated Father; 5.2 Die Versagung; Index

Editorial Reviews

Pop culture critic Zizek (Institute for Social Sciences, U. of Ljubljana, Slovenia) updates his 1992 introduction of the doctrine of Jacques Lacan for Americans, by way of Hollywood and a full array of linguistic gymnastics. The second edition includes a new final chapter "focusing on the fantasmatic support of the notion of reality" and romping through the films of Alfred Hitchcock (with detours through Wagner, Dickens, and others). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Sociology, contemporary cultural theory, linguistics and film meet once again in a text where fluid erudition and the anecdotal remain a characteristic of this compelling writer." — Film Waves
"Kant called example the 'go-cart of judgment.' His description can now be viewed as pre-Zizekian. This freshly expanded version of Enjoy Your Symptom! updates Kant, turning example into a whirling, dizzying, linear-logic defying turbo-jet of judgment. Pay attention to the title's imperative; it is a serious, all-out assault on theory's current obsession with an 'ethics of otherness'." — Joan Copjec, author of Read My Desire

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