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Enjoy Your Symptom!

Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
By Slavoj Zizek
Series: Routledge Classics
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Enjoy Your Symptom! offers a unique exploration of Hollywood through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Slavoj Žižek masterfully introduces the complex ideas of Jacques Lacan by analysing over a century of American cinema, from Charlie Chaplin's silent films to modern classics like The Matrix. Along the way, Žižek draws on a rich tapestry of cultural and philosophical figures, including Lenin, Hegel, Michel Foucault, and Jesus Christ, to illuminate the intersections of film, culture, and the unconscious.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in film theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. It suits scholars and enthusiasts who appreciate deep, intellectually stimulating interpretations of cinema and enjoy engaging with complex philosophical ideas presented through accessible cultural examples.

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The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch - a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from the last giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.

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The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch.

Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus Christ.

Enjoy Your Symptom! is a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from a thinker who is perhaps the last standing giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.

Series: Routledge Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138127883

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 September 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 5 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Slavoj Zizek (1949-) is one of the most prolific and charismatic cultural theorists working today. The author of such books as The Ticklish Subject and maker of documentaries such as The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, he is currently Senior Researcher at the Insititute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

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