| Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism Contributor(s): Forter, Greg (Editor), Miller, Paul Allen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 079147299X ISBN-13: 9780791472996 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: Explores psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 2007016659 |
| Series: Suny Psychoanalysis and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What can this desire contribute to a vital cultural criticism? In Desire of the Analysts, these and other questions are addressed by leading contributors from a variety of fields, including Sharon Nell, Deneen Senasi, Kaja Silverman, Henry Sussman, Domietta Torlasco, Pierre Zoberman, and Slavoj Z iz ek. They argue for the urgency of a psychoanalytic criticism that is at once intellectually vibrant, politically engaged, and uniquely able to illuminate the psychic motivations and gratifications underlying a range of contemporary cultural phenomena. These phenomena include nationalistic violence, the formation of normative masculinity, the psychic appeal of domination and submission, and the place of the "queer" desire in counterhegemonic practices. The contributors explore the role of psychoanalysis in shaping the future of cultural criticism; elaborate on innovative ways to approach group dynamics from a psychoanalytic perspective; rethink psychoanalytic understandings of authorship; and offer original interpretations of the intersections between gender, sexuality, and domination. Desire of the Analysts demonstrates that psychoanalysis remains an indispensable resource for critiquing our contemporary condition. |