Looking Awry
Looking Awry
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Looking Awry by Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead--a strategy of looking awry that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan.Zizek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject--at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Zizek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Zizek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.
Slavoj Žižek is a political activist, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Hegelian philosopher. He is the Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University and the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of several publications on dialectical materialism, ideology critique, and art, including Melville House's Event and Trouble In Paradise.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262240314 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262240319 |
| Title | Looking Awry |
| Author | Slavoj Zizek |
| Series | October Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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