The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment - Todd McGowan

DescriptionExploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan,...

Reducere. When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I ...

Reducere. This new translation of Jacques Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order offers welcome, readable access to the brillia...

Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques LacanEditor: Jacques-Alain MillerTranslator: Russell GriggTaking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoana...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers.Lacan dedicates this seventh year ...

Reducere. What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly bein...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques LacanEditor: Juliet MitchellEditor: Jacqueline RoseThe question of feminine sexuality has divided the psychoanalyti...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques LacanEditor: Jacques-Alain MillerTranslator: Sylvana TomaselliThis Seminar, together with Seminar I, which was publ...

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders--but not because of what it ...

This volume is based on a year's seminar, which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger, less specialist audience than ever ...

Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popul...

Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political ...

This book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society, and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be the...

Reducere. Editie ingrijita de Jacques-Alain Miller In 1953, ajuns in cea de-a cincea decada a vietii sale, Jacques Lacan incepe un seminar public asezat sub ...

Reducere. This is an extraordinary collection that goes to the heart of Lacan's theory and the controversy that has surrounded it. The main text is a transcr...

The foremost post-Freud psychoanalyst's influential seminar is given here, examining the relationship between men and women. Edited by Jacques-Alai...

This volume provides an excellent introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, covering all of Lacan's major concepts such as the Imaginary, the Symb...

An Anglo-American comedy of manners about identity and class, The Jacques Lacan Foundation reveals-and revels in-the numerous pretentions that surr...

Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence on contemporary thought and culture.

Reducere. Often controversial, always inspired, Jacques Lacan here weighs theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of know...

Reducere. Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick o...

Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity...

Must the tyranny of the group rule us from cradle to grave? Absolutely not, says Todd Rose in a subversive and readable introduction to what has be...

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two va...

Robert Pfaller advances a general theory of interpassivity as the wish for delegated consumption and enjoyment in both art and in everyday life, ta...

Reducere. DescriptionThe experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of "irrational" violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and politica...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Slavoj (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK) ZizekNumber of pages: 400Public...

DescriptionTodd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's tale...

This groundbreaking book examines the most intriguing subject of our time - the end of the age and the coming of the Messiah. Explore history from ...

Jacques Lacan (1910-1981), unul dintre cei mai importanti interpreti ai lui Freud, a marcat istoria psihanalizei, dar si a stiintelor umaniste prin...

Simultaneously an introduction to Hegel and a fundamental reimagining of Hegel's project, this book presents a radical Hegel for the twenty-first c...

A Bible Study book for individuals or groups, which explores how the Bible today can help us better to understand the processes of death and grievi...