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Title: Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books) by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0-262-74015-X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is great; those below who don't like it are clowns
Comment: Jacques Lacan's theories are completely, utterly undecipherable. The only way to begin to understand the fundamentals of psychoanalytic theory is to read somebody else writing on Lacan. And thank God Zizek does that for us. To understand Lacan, I've always had to turn to film theory critism--Laura Mulvey--but none of that ever goes beyond theories of the gaze, neglecting to dispell the mystery around some of the most basic concepts of Lacan. Zizek rolls through these various terms and ideas, always providing an exemplification of the idea in popular culture, usually in Hitchcock or within Sci-Fi genres, and then a clear-to-understand definition. So if you're confused as to what desire, drive, lack, objet a, other, Other, the Real, or the Thing are in terms of Lacanian jargon, this might be your book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Freud's a better introduction to Lacan
Comment: Zizek's often great fun - and this book is no exception - but he's not where anyone would want to start his or her exposure to Lacan. For starters, Zizek assumes an a priori familiarity with at the very least the language of Lacanian theory. Yet anyone who's remotely proficient with Lacan will find this book a mess of rambling nonsense. Zizek's pop-culture analyses are entertaining and sometimes ingenius, but his application of Lacanian theory is loose, wild, and sometimes incomprehensible. He's one of the least rigorous Lacanians out there and should only be read by those who know enough about Lacan to recognize where and how Zizek goes wrong. With Zizek, even his errors are sometimes illuminating, but this book is sheer nonsense.
Rating: 4
Summary: Titling awry
Comment: This book is very interesting but I think it would have been better to call it "An Introduction to Popular Culture trhough Jaques Lacan". This would be a proper title because Zizek dedicates more space to tell us what some products of popular culture are about (i.e. Stephen King's novel "Pet Sematary"; Robert Sheckley's short story "The Store of the Worlds") than to explain, or even outline, the theories of Jaques Lacan. This in itself is not a critique, I just want to say that the title can be misleading. You will not find here an explanation or an introduction to Lacan, but rather a Lacanian reading or interpretation of some products of popular culture (novels, short stories and films.) If you are looking for an easy or brief rendering of Lacan, this book will not be of much help. Moreover, I would say that the readers who will profit the most are those who are already familiar with, or at least know something about, Lacanian thought. This said, I think that Zizek's Lacanian reading of popular works is very good in some cases, and somewhat poor in others. For example, he recalls the novel "Pet Sematary" but he explains almost nothing about it. The good cases, however, make it worth the effort to read the book (Zizek's writing is complicated, but so is Lacan's), and even if you do not agree with some of his points, they are still useful to encourage thought and discussion. If you are interested in the study of popular culture, the interpretation of film and literature, or in the application of Lacanian theory to social analysis, this book will certainly be of use.
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Title: The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0860919714 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Enjoy Your Symptom! : Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 0415928125 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 1859842917 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Zizek Reader (Blackwell Readers) by Slavoj Zizek, Elizabeth Wright, Edmund Wright, Edmond Wright ISBN: 0631212019 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War) by Slavoj Zizek ISBN: 1859841937 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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