{"product_id":"looking-awry-isbn-9780262740159","title":"Looking Awry","description":"Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e to Stephen King's \u003ci\u003ePet Sematary\u003c\/i\u003e, from McCullough's \u003ci\u003eAn Indecent Obsession\u003c\/i\u003e to Romero's \u003ci\u003eReturn of the Living Dead\u003c\/i\u003e—a strategy of \"looking awry\" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan.\u003cp\u003eŽižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary\/Symbolic\/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.\u003c\/p\u003eŽižek is a one-person culture mulcher. Flinging out readings of film noir or Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eThe Birds, \u003c\/i\u003edrawing maps of the unconscious, analyzing the commodity form, Stephen King, or Hegel's \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit, \u003c\/i\u003ebe plays the philosopher as standup comic...The elusive Lacan, who cultivated an aura of indecipherability with the care of a diva becomes a field guide to life in an age of media.—\u003cb\u003eEdward Ball\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e—Slavoj Žižek, a philosopher and cultural critic, is Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. He is the author of more than thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eLooking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Parallax View\u003c\/i\u003e, T\u003ci\u003ehe Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic \u003c\/i\u003e(with John Milbank), and \u003ci\u003eŽižek's Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?)\u003c\/i\u003e, these five published by the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302113497317,"sku":"NP9780262740159","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262740159.jpg?v=1767731730","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/looking-awry-isbn-9780262740159","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}