Zizek And The Rhetorical Unconscious

Author : Robert Samuels
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030509095
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zizek and the Rhetorical Unconscious written by Robert Samuels and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds on a critique of Slavoj Zizek’s work to outline a new theory of psychoanalytic rhetoric. It turns to Zizek because not only is he one of the most popular intellectuals in the world, but, this book argues, his discourse is shaped by a set of unconscious rhetorical processes that also determine much of contemporary politics, culture, and subjectivity. Just as Aristotle argued that the three main forms of persuasion are logos (reason), pathos (emotion), and ethos (authority), Samuels describes each one of these aspects of communication as related to a fundamental psychoanalytic concept. He also turns to Aristotle’s work on theater to introduce a fourth form of rhetoric, catharsis, which is the purging of feelings of fear and pity. Adding a strong voice to current psychoanalytic debate, this book will be of value to all scholars and students interested in both the history and modern developments of psychoanalytic theory.

Author : Robert Samuels
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030509109
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zizek and the Rhetorical Unconscious written by Robert Samuels and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds on a critique of Slavoj Zizek’s work to outline a new theory of psychoanalytic rhetoric. It turns to Zizek because not only is he one of the most popular intellectuals in the world, but, this book argues, his discourse is shaped by a set of unconscious rhetorical processes that also determine much of contemporary politics, culture, and subjectivity. Just as Aristotle argued that the three main forms of persuasion are logos (reason), pathos (emotion), and ethos (authority), Samuels describes each one of these aspects of communication as related to a fundamental psychoanalytic concept. He also turns to Aristotle’s work on theater to introduce a fourth form of rhetoric, catharsis, which is the purging of feelings of fear and pity. Adding a strong voice to current psychoanalytic debate, this book will be of value to all scholars and students interested in both the history and modern developments of psychoanalytic theory.

Author : Thomas J. Rickert
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973235
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acts of Enjoyment written by Thomas J. Rickert and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2007-05-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are today's students not realizing their potential as critical thinkers? Although educators have, for two decades, incorporated contemporary cultural studies into the teaching of composition and rhetoric, many students lack the powers of self-expression that are crucial for effecting social change. Acts of Enjoyment presents a critique of current pedagogies and introduces a psychoanalytical approach in teaching composition and rhetoric. Thomas Rickert builds upon the advances of cultural studies and its focus on societal trends and broadens this view by placing attention on the conscious and subconscious thought of the individual. By introducing the cultural theory work of Slavoj Zizek, Rickert seeks to encourage personal and social invention—rather than simply following a course of unity, equity, or consensus that is so prevalent in current writing instruction. He argues that writing should not be treated as a simple skill, as a na•ve self expression, or as a tool for personal advancement, but rather as a reflection of social and psychical forces, such as jouissance (enjoyment/sensual pleasure), desire, and fantasy-creating a more sophisticated, panoptic form. The goal of the psychoanalytical approach is to highlight the best pedagogical aspects of cultural studies to allow for well-rounded individual expression, ultimately providing the tools necessary to address larger issues of politics, popular culture, ideology, and social transformation.

Author : Robert Samuels
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030738957
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viral Rhetoric written by Robert Samuels and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the representation of viruses in rhetoric, politics, and popular culture. In utilizing Jean Baudrillard’s concept of virality, it examines what it means to use viruses as a metaphor. For instance, what is the effect of saying that a video has gone viral? Does this use of biology to explain culture mean that our societies are determined by biological forces? Moreover, does the rhetoric of viral culture display a fundamental insensitivity towards people who are actually suffering from viruses? A key defining aspect of this mode of persuasion is the notion that due to the open nature of our social and cerebral networks, we are prone to being infected by uncontrollable external forces. Drawing from the work of Freud, Lacan, Laclau, Baudrillard, and Zizek, it examines the representation of viruses in politics, psychology, media studies, and medical discourse. The book will help readers understand the potentially destructive nature of how viruses are represented in popular media and politics, how this can contribute to conspiracy theories around COVID-19 and how to combat such misinterpretations.

Author : M. Lane Bruner
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 161117984X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis written by M. Lane Bruner and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies exploring the roots of persuasion and rhetorical unconsciousness Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis investigates unintentional forms of persuasion, their political consequences, and our ethical relation to the same. M. Lane Bruner argues that the unintentional ways we are persuaded are far more important than intentional persuasion; in fact all intentional persuasion is built on the foundations of rhetorical unconsciousness, whether we are persuaded through ignorance (the unsayable), unconscious symbolic processes (the unspoken), or productive repression (the unspeakable). Bruner brings together a wide range of theoretical approaches to unintentional persuasion, establishing the locations of such persuasion and providing examples taken from the Western European transition from feudalism to capitalism. To be more specific, phenomena related to artificial personhood and the commodity self have led to transformations in material culture from architecture to theater, showing how rhetorical unconsciousness works to create symptoms. Bruner then examines ethical considerations, the relationships among language in use, unconsciousness, and the seemingly irrational aspects of cultural and political history.

Author : Clint Burnham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501341316
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? written by Clint Burnham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Žižek and an investigation into how his work can be used to think about the digital present. Clint Burnham uniquely combines the German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist materialism found in Žižek's thought to understand how the Internet, social and new media, and digital cultural forms work in our lives and how their failure to work structures our pathologies and fantasies. He suggests that our failure to properly understand the digital is due to our lack of recognition of its political, aesthetic, and psycho-sexual elements. Mixing autobiographical passages with critical analysis, Burnham situates a Žižekian theory of digital culture in the lived human body.

Author : Kelsey Wood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118269802
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zizek written by Kelsey Wood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought, including all of his published works to date. Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the future Identifies the major currents in Zizek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory necessary to its understanding Explores Zizek's growing popularity through his engagement in current events, politics, and cultural studies Pertains to a variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, esthetics, literary theory, film theory, and theology

Author : Robert Samuels
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031133277
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience written by Robert Samuels and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud’s work but, it is argued, rarely understood—even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and in doing so reveals the extent to which they have been distorted and repressed in these new contexts. Over the course of the book the author demonstrates how Freud’s unpublished Project for a Scientific Psychology can be seen as a complete system of core concepts that both ground psychoanalysis in neurology and also introduce a vital challenge to the brain sciences. This book will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and psychoanalytic theory.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822320975
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cogito and the Unconscious written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEdited volume that discusses the relationship of philosophy and psychoanalysis./div

Author : Robert Samuels
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000880184
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason written by Robert Samuels and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to better understand humanity and explores the question of what makes us human. For thousands of years, thinkers have been trying to define what makes us human. Some of the main questions they have asked is: What is consciousness? Do we have free will? Do animals use language? And what does reason mean? Samuels argues that we need to better understand the psychoanalytic approach to human nature in order to answer these questions, as well as using it to provide a new way of understanding issues such as addiction, political conflict, ideology, and destructive personal relationship. This book will be of vital interest to psychotherapists, as well as students and researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and psychology.