Enjoy Your Symptom!

Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

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by Slavoj Zizek

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

psychoanalysis

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Classics

1st publishing

2007

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 304 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-138-12788-3

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Book Presentation:
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.

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.

Press Reviews:
'The thrill of reading Zizek ... arises in part from the collision between the insanity he finds everywhere in our psychic and social lives and the rigorous clarity with which he anatomizes its workings.' - Lingua Franca

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