Amorous Acts Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory

Name: Amorous Acts Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory
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ISBN: 9780804751827

ISBN-10: 080475182X

ISBN-13: 9780804751827

Edition: 2006

Authors: Frances L. Restuccia

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Amorous Actsillustrates the value of psychoanalytic theory for comprehending relationships, experiences, art, politics, and all sorts of human interactions. More specifically, it employs psychoanalysis to show how queer theory is operating to effect a non-heterosexist social order. Although the Lacanian subject in Love can only experience his/her self-shattering, Lacan's concept of Love is seen here as politically useful. This study breaks down Lacanian Love into three different forms and tries to unveil the danger, as well as especially the cultural potential, of the most intense of these variations. To arrive at this position,Amorous Actsfirst works out the meaning of Lacan's “ethics of…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



The Paradox of Lacanian Ethics: Ethical Erogenous Zones



Modernism's Lacanian Ethics: Compensating for the Lack of a Sexual Relation



Impossible Love in Contemporary Film: Mystifying Hysteria



The Taming of the Real: Zizek's Missed Encounter with Kieslowski's Insight



Queer Ascesis: It's a Queer World, After All


Notes


Works Cited


Index