Surplus-Enjoyment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surplus-Enjoyment write by Slavoj Žižek. This book was released on 2022-08-11. Surplus-Enjoyment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis write by Justin Clemens. This book was released on 2006-05-23. Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Surplus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surplus write by A. Kiarina Kordela. This book was released on 2008-01-03. Surplus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx.
Less Than Nothing
Less Than Nothing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Less Than Nothing write by Slavoj Zizek. This book was released on 2012-05-22. Less Than Nothing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.
Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment
Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment write by Everest Media,. This book was released on 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z. Summary of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
