Looking Awry An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
by Zizek, SlavojEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1992-09-08
Publisher(s): The MIT Press
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Summary
Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements in Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films. Slavoj Zizek is a Researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He ran as a proreform candidate for the presidency of the republic of Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia, in 1990.
Author Biography
Slavoj Žižek, a philosopher and cultural critic, is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, The Parallax View, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and Žižek's Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press.
Table of Contents
| Preface | vii | ||||
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||||
| I How Real Is Reality? | 1 | (66) | |||
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3 | (18) | |||
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3 | (5) | |||
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8 | (13) | |||
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21 | (27) | |||
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39 | (9) | |||
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48 | (19) | |||
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48 | (12) | |||
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60 | (7) | |||
| II One Can Never Know Too Much about Hitchcock | 67 | (56) | |||
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69 | (19) | |||
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69 | (10) | |||
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79 | (9) | |||
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88 | (19) | |||
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88 | (9) | |||
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97 | (10) | |||
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107 | (16) | |||
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107 | (9) | |||
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116 | (7) | |||
| III Fantasy, Bureaucracy, Democracy | 123 | (48) | |||
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125 | (16) | |||
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125 | (5) | |||
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130 | (11) | |||
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154 | (17) | |||
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162 | (9) | |||
| Notes | 171 | (14) | |||
| Index of Works Cited | 185 |
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