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Surplus-Enjoyment

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350226270
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Surplus-Enjoyment written by Slavoj Žižek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount. Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Žižek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?

Surplus-Enjoyment

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350226262
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Surplus-Enjoyment written by Slavoj Žižek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy, what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount. Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Žižek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?

Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis

Author : Justin Clemens
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387603
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis written by Justin Clemens and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan’s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important contribution to social and political issues. Collecting important analyses by many of the major Lacanian theorists and practitioners, this anthology is at once an introduction, critique, and extension of Lacan’s influential ideas. The contributors examine Lacan’s theory of the four discourses, his critique of the Oedipus complex and the superego, the role of primal affects in political life, and his prophetic grasp of twenty-first-century developments. They take up these issues in detail, illuminating the Lacanian concepts with in-depth discussions of shame and guilt, literature and intimacy, femininity, perversion, authority and revolt, and the discourse of marketing and political rhetoric. Topics of more specific psychoanalytic interest include the role of objet a, philosophy and psychoanalysis, the status of knowledge, and the relation between psychoanalytic practices and the modern university. Contributors. Geoff Boucher, Marie-Hélène Brousse, Justin Clemens, Mladen Dolar, Oliver Feltham, Russell Grigg, Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Dominique Hecq, Dominiek Hoens, Éric Laurent, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Jacques-Alain Miller, Ellie Ragland, Matthew Sharpe, Paul Verhaeghe, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupancic

Surplus

Author : A. Kiarina Kordela
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791470206
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Surplus written by A. Kiarina Kordela and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx.

Jacques Lacan

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415278621
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Jacques Lacan written by Slavoj Žižek and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Lacan (1901-1980) is undoubtedly the central figure of psychoanalysis in the second half of the 20th century. The texts selected here present the entire scope of the Lacan debate.

On Zizek's Dialectics

Author : Fabio Vighi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826464432
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book On Zizek's Dialectics written by Fabio Vighi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Žižek's groundbreaking psychoanalytic methodology and its implications within our contemporary capitalist universe.>

Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145294198X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment written by Henri Lefebvre and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He calls for an architecture of jouissance—of pleasure or enjoyment—centered on the body and its rhythms and based on the possibilities of the senses. Examining architectural examples from the Renaissance to the postwar period, Lefebvre investigates the bodily pleasures of moving in and around buildings and monuments, urban spaces, and gardens and landscapes. He argues that areas dedicated to enjoyment, sensuality, and desire are important sites for a society passing beyond industrial modernization. Lefebvre’s theories on space and urbanization fundamentally reshaped the way we understand cities. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment promises a similar impact on how we think about, and live within, architecture.

The Decision of Desire

Author : Silvia Lippi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145296291X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Decision of Desire written by Silvia Lippi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance Of all of Lacan’s reconceptualizations of Freudian psychoanalytic discourse, the most misunderstood are those concerning human beings’ relation to the unconscious play of desire and the neurosis stemming from their attachment to the phallic function. An interpretive tour de force that engages works by surrealists such as André Breton, canonical writers like William Faulkner and James Joyce, and the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, and Baruch Spinoza, The Decision of Desire is groundbreaking in its proposal that each of us can seek out and reimagine our relation to the infinite aporias of desire and thereby detach from its destructive, repetitive forms in favor of joy and affirmation. Providing insight to the lay reader of psychoanalytic theory as much as to practicing psychoanalysts, The Decision of Desire is a bold reengagement with the legacy of the notion of desire within psychoanalysis and the quandary of how to assume responsibility for desires. For if desire is always already that of the Other and the unconscious, and also a decision that escapes our consciousness of ourselves, how can we assume an ethical relation to it that avoids the vicious circle of disappointment, neurosis, and destruction? Such is the decision of desire attempted within Silvia Lippi’s profound development of a contemporary psychoanalytic thought.

Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism

Author : Daniela Garofalo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134778848
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism written by Daniela Garofalo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Daniela Garofalo suggests that representations of erotic love in the period have been largely misunderstood. Commonly understood as a means for transcending political and economic realities, love, for several canonical Romantic writers, offers, instead, a contestation of those realities. Garofalo argues that Romantic writers show that the desire for transcendence through love mimics the desire for commodity consumption and depends on the same dynamic of delayed fulfillment that was advocated by thinkers such as Adam Smith. As writers such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Emily Brontë engaged with the period's concern with political economy and the nature of desire, they challenged stereotypical representations of women either as self-denying consumers or as intemperate participants in the market economy. Instead, their works show the importance of women for understanding modern economics, with women's desire conceived as a force that not only undermines the political economy's emphasis on productivity, growth, and perpetual consumption, but also holds forth the possibility of alternatives to a system of capitalist exchange.

Enjoy Your Symptom!

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415928120
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Enjoy Your Symptom! written by Slavoj Žižek and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Incontinence of the Void

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262036819
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Incontinence of the Void written by Slavoj Zizek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis. If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Žižek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late masterpiece Ill Seen Ill Said), Žižek explores the empty spaces between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy. He proceeds from the universal dimension of philosophy to the particular dimension of sexuality to the singular dimension of the critique of political economy. The passage from one dimension to another is immanent: the ontological void is accessible only through the impasses of sexuation and the ongoing prospect of the abolition of sexuality, which is itself opened up by the technoscientific progress of global capitalism, in turn leading to the critique of political economy. Responding to his colleague and fellow Short Circuits author Alenka Zupančič's What Is Sex?, Žižek examines the notion of an excessive element in ontology that gives body to radical negativity, which becomes the antagonism of sexual difference. From the economico-philosophical perspective, Žižek extrapolates from ontological excess to Marxian surplus value to Lacan's surplus enjoyment. In true Žižekian fashion, Incontinence of the Void focuses on eternal topics while detouring freely into contemporary issuesfrom the Internet of Things to Danish TV series.

The End of Dissatisfaction?

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485714
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The End of Dissatisfaction? written by Todd McGowan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JAC Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zðizûek, Joan Copjec, and Theresa Brennan to argue that we are in the midst of a large-scale transformation—a shift from a society oriented around prohibition (i.e., the notion that one cannot just do as one pleases) to one oriented around enjoyment. McGowan identifies many of the social ills of American culture today as symptoms of this transformation: the sense of disconnection, the increase in aggression and violence, widespread cynicism, political apathy, incivility, and loss of meaning. Discussing these various symptoms, he examines various texts from film, literature, popular culture, and everyday life, including Toni Morrison's Paradise, Tony Kushner's Angels in America, and such films as Dead Poets Society and Trigger Effect. Paradoxically, The End of Dissatisfaction? shows how the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

Enjoying What We Don't Have

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803245114
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Enjoying What We Don't Have written by Todd McGowan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis

Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The world is sick, says the poet Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 3 -> The world is sick, according to the poet Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is sustained by the paradoxes of surplus-enjoyment, which sustain the topsy-turviness of our time.

In Defense of Lost Causes

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 1844674290
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Lost Causes written by Slavoj Žižek and published by Verso. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Lacan and Marx

Author : Pierre Bruno
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000186466
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Lacan and Marx written by Pierre Bruno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan’s reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers. Unlike previous books, Bruno provides a detailed history of Lacan’s reading of Marx and surveys his references to Marx in both his writings and seminars. Examining Lacan’s key argument that Marx "invented the symptom", Bruno shows how Lacan went on to criticize Marx and contrasts Marx’s concept of surplus-value with Lacan’s surplus-enjoyment. Exploring the division between Marxist and psychoanalytic perspectives on social and psychological need and Lacan’s formalisation of the capitalist discourse, the book compares the positions of Althusser, Deleuze and Guattari, and Žižek on the relations between Lacan, Marx and capitalism, using a wide range of cultural examples, from Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Brecht’s Joan Dark and Pierpont Mauler. Through these readings, Bruno also elaborates an extended commentary on Lacan’s central idea of the division of the subject. His focus is not only on showing how we can exit from capitalism but also, and just as importantly, on showing how we can make capitalism exit from us. This book will be of great interest to scholars and readers of Lacan and Marx from across the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy and political economy, and will also appeal to Lacanian psychoanalysts in clinical practice.

Arts of Possession

Author : D. Vance Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816639519
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Arts of Possession written by D. Vance Smith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative work of both economic anthropology and literary history, Arts of Possession draws on philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and archival sources and insights to situate the household at the center of the social and cultural imagination of fourteenth-century England. D. Vance Smith argues that in a period commonly represented as precapitalist there actually existed a sophisticated economic discourse -- and that discourse underlies common forms of representation and the writing of literary texts. His work provides a new historiography of capital and of the development of the relation between economic sophistication and cultural practices. Smith reads well-known and less-appreciated works -- such as Winner and Waster, Sir Launfal, The Canterbury Tales, and Piers Plowman -- for what they can tell us about the surpluses and economies that drew the medieval imagination, and about the complex ethics of possession at the heart of the fourteenth-century household. In bringing this to light, Smith's book itself becomes an eloquent meditation on the poetics and ethics of possession.