Enjoy your symptom! : Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out / Slavoj Žižek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Žižek, Slavoj.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis and motion pictures.

Popular culture--Psychological aspects.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

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). His inimitable blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous humor are here made to show how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis-and vice versa. Why does the phallus appear? Why is woman a symptom of man? Why are there always two fathers? These typical Zizek questions are explained by means of such films as "Marnie" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415928125

OCLC:

44026499