Looking Awry An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

by Zizek, Slavoj

• ISBN13: 9780262740159
• ISBN10: 026274015X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-09-08
• Publisher: The MIT Press

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)
From Reality to the Real	3	(18)
The Paradoxes of Object Petit a	3	(5)
A Black Hole in Reality	8	(13)
The Real and Its Vicissitudes	21	(27)
How the Real Returns and Answers	21	(18)
How the Real Is Rendered and Knows	39	(9)
Two Ways to Avoid the Real of Desire	48	(19)
The Sherlock Holmes Way	48	(12)
The Philip Marlowe Way	60	(7)
II One Can Never Know Too Much about Hitchcock	67	(56)
How the Non-duped Err	69	(19)
``The Unconscious Is Outside''	69	(10)
Ladies Who Vanish	79	(9)
The Hitchcockian Blot	88	(19)
The Phallic Anamorphosis	88	(9)
The Maternal Superego	97	(10)
Pornography, Nostalgia, Montage: A Triad of the Gaze	107	(16)
The Perverse Short Circuit	107	(9)
The Hitchcockian Cut	116	(7)
III Fantasy, Bureaucracy, Democracy	123	(48)
The Ideological Sinthome	125	(16)
Gaze and Voice as Objects	125	(5)
``Love Thy Sinthome as Thyself''	130	(11)
The Obscene Object of Postmodernity	141	(13)
The Postmodernist Break	141	(6)
Bureaucracy and Enjoyment	147	(7)
Formal Democracy and Its Discontents	154	(17)
Toward an Ethic of Fantasy	154	(8)
The Nation-Thing	162	(9)
Notes	171	(14)
Index of Works Cited	185