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Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (Routledge Classics) (edition 2007)

by Slavoj Zizek

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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 andnbsp;psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory in thenbsp;twenty-firstnbsp;century.… (more)
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Title:Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (Routledge Classics)
Authors:Slavoj Zizek
Info:Routledge (2007), Edition: Routledge Classics Ed, Paperback, 280 pages
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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 andnbsp;psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory in thenbsp;twenty-firstnbsp;century.

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