Enjoy Your Symptom!

Enjoy Your Symptom!

Publisher: Routledge

Total Pages: 305

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

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.

Looking Awry

Looking Awry

Publisher: MIT Press

Total Pages: 206

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of ...

Less Than Nothing

Less Than Nothing

Publisher: Verso Books

Total Pages: 1049

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy ...

The Happiness Fantasy

The Happiness Fantasy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Total Pages: 200

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

Enjoy Your Symptom!

Enjoy Your Symptom!

Publisher: Routledge

Total Pages: 260

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

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).

Tarrying with the Negative

Tarrying with the Negative

Publisher: Duke University Press

Total Pages: 308

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

DIVA theoretical analysis of social conflict that uses examples from Kant, Hegel, Lacan, popular culture and contemporary politics to critique nationalism./div "This new Zizek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ...

Organs without Bodies

Organs without Bodies

Publisher: Routledge

Total Pages: 234

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film (Hitchcock, Fight Club ), and ...

On Belief

On Belief

Publisher: Routledge

Total Pages: 177

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan

Publisher: Verso

Total Pages: 292

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

But Hitchcock is here to lure the reader into 'serious' Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning. Timely, provocative and original, this is sure to become a landmark of Hitchcock studies.

Enjoying What We Don't Have

Enjoying What We Don't Have

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Total Pages: 442

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis.

Symptoms of a Heartbreak

Symptoms of a Heartbreak

Publisher: Imprint

Total Pages: 304

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

"Doogie Howser, M.D. meets The Fault in Our Stars in this tender romcom." —Teen Vogue The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds—and falls head over heels—in Sona Charaipotra's contemporary romantic ...

Zizek's Jokes

Zizek's Jokes

Publisher: MIT Press

Total Pages: 162

Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub

Žižek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”—Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but ...