The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality
by Slavoj Žižek
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The recent experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of irrational violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context of this book, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the basis for a renewal of the Marxist theory of ideology. The author's analysis leads into a study of the figure of woman in modern art and ideology, including studies of The Crying Game and the films of David Lynch, and the links between violence and power/gender relations.Tags
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If you're looking for Žižek, you've found him. The book itself is very well-published. Main critique is over Žižek's innate confirmation and selection biases.
Fair note: to understand this book, it may be necessary to brush up on your Freud and Lacan, as well as certain filmography. This book contains six essays by Žižek describing sexuality through film rather than directly discuss sexuality openly.
Fair note: to understand this book, it may be necessary to brush up on your Freud and Lacan, as well as certain filmography. This book contains six essays by Žižek describing sexuality through film rather than directly discuss sexuality openly.
La guerra en la ex Yogoslavia y el surgimiento de una violencia > en el capitalismo tardío constituyen el contexto político y teórico del nuevo libro de Slavoj Zižek, quien desde la perspectiva del psicoanálisis lacaniano propone una renovación de la teoría marxista de la ideología.
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Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. He is the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, as well as critique of ideology and art, including show more Event, and Trouble in Paradise, both published by Melville House. show less
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Radical Thinkers (12 - Set 1(12))
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- The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality
- Original publication date
- 1994
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- Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Literature Studies and Criticism, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 320 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Types of Government
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- B105 .V5 .Z58 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General)
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