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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826634803321

Autore

Nusselder Andre

Titolo

The surface effect : the screen of fantasy in psychoanalysis / / Andre Nusselder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove, East Sussex : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-23532-9

1-283-64237-9

0-203-10148-0

1-136-23533-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

154.3

Soggetti

Fantasy

Subconsciousness

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. The philosophical context -- pt. II. Lacan's theory of fantasy -- pt. III. Lacan and philosophy.

Sommario/riassunto

Even before we think, we use fantasy. Is fantasy the 'mother of all media'? Does fantasy save me from myself? Are there fictions that are real? In The Surface Effect AndreĢ Nusselder examines the space of fantasy between individual 'inner life' and social 'outer life'. Where we assume that fantasy only operates where we float off in imaginary realms, this book shows that we are in it from the beginning. Based on the work of Jacques Lacan, Nusselder elaborates Lacan's theory, showing how the effects of unconscious proce