Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan In Hollywood And Out
Author(s): Zizek Slavoj (University Of Ljubljana Slovenia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415772594
Pages: 304 Pages, 5 Line Drawings, Black And White; 9 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 9/1/2007
Series: Routledge Classics
Category: Films, Cinema