Lacan at the Scene
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2012
Summary
A Lacanian approach to murder scene investigation.
What if Jacques Lacan—the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst—had worked as a police detective, applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat, but in Lacan at the Scene, Henry Bond makes a serious and provocative claim: that apparently impenetrable events of violent death can be more effectively unraveled with Lacan’s theory of psychoana…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518086 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518082 |
| Author: | Henry Bond, Slavoj Žižek |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 617g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 178mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Short Circuits |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Lacan at the Scene is a brilliant, ground-breaking work that will appeal to cultural practitioners and theorists, and to everybody interested in the dialogue between psychoanalysis and visual studies.
– Viola Brisolin * European Legacy *Henry Bond
Henry Bond is a writer and photographer living in London. 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 Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, The Parallax View, T he Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (with John Milbank), and Žižek’s Jokes (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), these five published by the MIT Press.
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