Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-08-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135300005 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135300003 |
Rating | : 4/5 (003 Downloads) |
Download or read book Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus Christ. Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.