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.
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.27w x 0.86d
ISBN13: 9780415772594
ISBN10: 0415772591
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Media Studies
About the Author
Slavoj Zizek (1949-) is one of the most prolific and charismatic cultural theorists working today. The author of such books as The Ticklish Subject and maker of documentaries such as The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, he is currently Senior Researcher at the Insititute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
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