The Lacanian Left : : Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics / / Yannis Stavrakakis.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Bibliographical Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Locating the Lacanian Left
- Part I Theory: Dialectics of Disavowal
- 1 Antinomies of Creativity: Lacan and Castoriadis on Social Construction and the Political
- 2 Laclau with Lacan on Jouissance: Negotiating the Affective Limits of Discourse
- 3 Žižekian ‘Perversions’: The Lure of Antigone and the Fetishism of the Act
- Part II Analysis: Dialectics of Enjoyment
- 4 What Sticks? From Symbolic Power to Jouissance
- 5 Enjoying the Nation: A Success Story?
- 6 Lack of Passion: European Identity Revisited
- 7 The Consumerist ‘Politics of Jouissance’ and the Fantasy of Advertising
- 8 Democracy in Post-Democratic Times
- Bibliography
- Index