Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (Routledge Classics)

Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (Routledge Classics)

Slavoj Zizek
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Publication Date: September 1st, 2007
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN:
9780415772594
Pages:
304
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Description

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.

About the Author

Slavoj Zizek (1949-) is one of the most prolific and charismatic cultural theorists working today. The author of such books as The Ticklish Subject and maker of documentaries such as The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, he is currently Senior Researcher at the Insititute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

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