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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452304603321

Autore

Stavrakakis Yannis

Titolo

The Lacanian left : psychoanalysis, theory, politics / / Yannis Stavrakakis [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-7486-7207-9

1-281-25209-3

9786611252090

0-7486-2907-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.019

Soggetti

Political psychology

Right and left (Political science)

Political science - Philosophy

Psychoanalysis - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COPYRIGHT; 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 Zizekian 'Perversions': The Lure of Antigone and the Fetishism of the Act; Excursus on Badiou; 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 Advertising8 Democracy in Post-Democratic Times; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of a new concept  in critical political theory: the Lacanian Left. This is a field of theoretical and political interventions sharing a common interest in discussing the relevance of Lacanianism and psychoanalysis for contemporary theory.