Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jaques Lacan In Hollywood and Out, First Edition Routledge Slavoj Zizek Hardback © 1993 ISBN: 0-415-90481-1 Publication Status: In Print Readership: Psychoanalysis, cinema, popular culture, philosophy In Enjoy Your Symptom! Slavoj Zizek argues for the accessibility and ultimate simplicity of Lacanian theory by linking it with popular Hollywood film. Enjoy Your Symptom! is divided into five chapters, each elucidating some fundamental Lacanian notion or theoretical complex - Iletter, fantasy, woman, repetition, phallus, father - through a reference to Hollywood and the popular culture which forms the background of our common experience. ick up this book and learn WHY DOES A LETTER ALWAYS ARRIVE AT ITS DESTINATION with the help of CITY LIGHTS, NOW VOYAGER and ETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN; learn WHY IS FANTASY THE ULTIMATE SUPPORT OF REALITY with the help of RANCHO NOTORIOUS, SHE and TARZAN; learn WHY IS WOMAN A SYMPTOM OF MAN with the help of Roberto Rossellini and Hitchcock's ROPE; learn WHY IS EVERY ACT A REPETITION with the help of Chandler's PLAYBACK, SOPHIE'S CHOICE and THE DEERHUNTER; learn WHY DOES THE PHALLUS APPEAR with the help of THE HANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE ELEPHANT MAN, and the mother's voice in Hitchcock's films; learn WHY ARE THERE ALWAYS TWO IFATHERS with the help of TWIN PEAKS, as well as Hammett's GLASS KEY and other crucial films noir. And finally, touch on the way numerous actual problems, from ecology and the computer's social impact to the ethnic struggles in post-Communist Eastern Europe are resolved through the popular culture of Hollywood film. IEnjoy Your Symptom! is a book that should be of interest not only to those who are intrigued by Jacques Lacan, but also to those who have a presentiment that today's popular culture is a royal way to the delicacies of `postmodern' theory. Published in English , First Published in the EU March 1993 Size: 256 pages, Dimensions: 216x138mm 5.5x8.5 inches

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