Lacan, Politics, AestheticsIn this volume, psychoanalysts, cultural theorists, and literary critics demonstrate the relevance of the unconscious economy to the field of cultural studies, applying psychoanalytic criticism to political and aesthetic issues related to the legal and ideological superstructure of contemporary society.These writers have adopted a variety of rhetorical positions when engaging cultural issues that deal with representation, ideology, class, and gender. Contributors include Willy Apollon, Richard Feldstein, Slavoj Zizek, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Judith Roof, Ellie Ragland, Elizabeth J. Bellamy, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, Elizabeth Bronfen, Hanjo Berressem, Peter Widmer, Danielle Bergeron, Lucie Cantin, and Catherine Portuges. |
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Contents
The Fetish of the Party | 3 |
A Lasting Heresy the Failure of Political Desire | 31 |
Subject of the Gaze for Another Gaze | 45 |
A Feminine Politics of Jouissance | 65 |
Law the Paternal Metaphor and Paternity Law | 101 |
The Discourse of the Master | 127 |
Where Psychoanalysis Finds Itself | 151 |
Reading Hamlet with Lacan | 181 |
Drive Desire and Oneiric Narration | 199 |
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| Title | Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture |
| Editors | Willy Apollon, Richard Feldstein |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0791423727, 9780791423721 |
| Length | 341 pages |
| Subjects | › › Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis |
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