The Lacanian left : psychoanalysis, theory, politics /

In recent years psychoanalysis - especially Lacanian theory - has been gradually acknowledged as a vital resource in the ongoing re-orientation of contemporary political theory and analysis. Of particular note is that the work of Jacques Lacan is increasingly being used by major political philosophe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stavrakakis, Yannis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981.
Political psychology.
Psychoanalysis > Political aspects.
Political science > Philosophy.
Right and left (Political science)
Psychologie politique.
Psychanalyse > Aspect politique.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Locating the Lacanian left
  • Antinomies of creativity : Lacan and Castoriadis on social construction and the political
  • Laclau with Lacan on jouissance : negotiating the affective limits of discourse
  • Zizek's "perversion" : the lure of Antigone and the fetishism of the act
  • Excursus on Badiou
  • What sticks? : from symbolic power to jouissance
  • Enjoying the nation : a success story?
  • Lack of passion : European identity revisited
  • The consumerist "politics of jouissance" and the fantasy of advertising
  • Democracy in post-democratic times.

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