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The Lacanian Left : Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics / Yannis Stavrakakis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748619801
  • 9780748629077
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.019
LOC classification:
  • JC261.L32 JC261.L32S73 2007
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 philosophers associated with the Left. This indicates the dynamic emergence of a new theoretico-political horizon: that of the 'Lacanian Left'. However, this has yet to be properly conceived and structured as a field. The Lacanian Left is the first book to bring it into academic consciousness and to draw its implications for concrete political analysis in a systematic way. It offers:An accessible mapping of its main contours.A detailed examination of the points of convergence and divergence between the major figures active or at the periphery of this terrain, including Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou and Cornelius Castoriadis.A critical evaluation of their respective arguments on social construction and the political, affectivity and discourse, ethics and social change, negativity and positivity. Engaging with the role of affect and emotion in political life through the central Lacanian notion of 'enjoyment', The Lacanian Left puts forward innovative analyses of political power and authority, nationalism, European identity, consumerism and advertising culture, de-democratisation and post-democracy. It will be of value to everyone interested in exploring the potential of psychoanalysis to reinvigorate political theory, critical political analysis and democratic politics.
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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

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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 philosophers associated with the Left. This indicates the dynamic emergence of a new theoretico-political horizon: that of the 'Lacanian Left'. However, this has yet to be properly conceived and structured as a field. The Lacanian Left is the first book to bring it into academic consciousness and to draw its implications for concrete political analysis in a systematic way. It offers:An accessible mapping of its main contours.A detailed examination of the points of convergence and divergence between the major figures active or at the periphery of this terrain, including Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou and Cornelius Castoriadis.A critical evaluation of their respective arguments on social construction and the political, affectivity and discourse, ethics and social change, negativity and positivity. Engaging with the role of affect and emotion in political life through the central Lacanian notion of 'enjoyment', The Lacanian Left puts forward innovative analyses of political power and authority, nationalism, European identity, consumerism and advertising culture, de-democratisation and post-democracy. It will be of value to everyone interested in exploring the potential of psychoanalysis to reinvigorate political theory, critical political analysis and democratic politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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