Lacan and the Political
Routledge (1999)
| Abstract | Yannis Stavrakakis moves beyond the standard discussion of the Lacanian concept of the subject in a socio-political context, toward an analysis of the objective side of human experience. In the first part of Lacan and the Political, the author highlights Lacan's innovative understanding of the sociopolitical field and offers a straightforward and systematic assessment of the importance of Lanca's categories and theoretical construction for concrete political analysis. The second half of he book applies Lacanian theory to specific examples of widely discussed political issues, such as Green ideology, the question of democracy and the hegemony of advertising in contemporary culture. Lacan and the Political demonstrates the immense potential of Lacanian thought to invigorate our consideration of the political and will be of interest to all who seek to further their understanding of modern ideological discourse in politics. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Psychoanalysis Political aspects Psychoanalysis Social aspects | |||||||||
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| Call number | BF175.4.S65.S73 1999 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0415171865 9780415171861 0415171873 | |||||||||
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