Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and OutSlavoj 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 made to show how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis-and vice versa using films such as Marnie and The Man Who Knew TooMuch. |
Contents
Why Does a Letter Always Arrive at Its Destination? | 1 |
12 Imaginary Symbolic Real | 9 |
Why Is Woman a Symptom of Man? | 31 |
22 The Night Of The World | 46 |
Why Is Every Act a Repetition? | 69 |
32 Identity and Authority The exception reconciled in the universal | 83 |
Why Does the Phallus Appear? | 113 |
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