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The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jacques Lacan: Add a description of this character.
- Hitchcock
- Rossellini
- Chaplin
- Edmund
- Fredric Jameson
- Norman
- Hammett
- Alicia
- Kant
- Rawls
- Karin
- Marx
- Sophie
- Devlin
- Richard Wagner
- Raymond Chandler
- Sebastian
- Marion
- Heidegger
- Ingrid Bergman
- Kaspar Hauser
- Master
- Hopper
- Irma
- Henrich
- Cary Grant
- Jacques-alain Miller
- Hitler
- Philip Marlowe
- Irene
- Poe
- Claude Levi-strauss
- Della Rovere
- Ned
- Caddell
- Freud
- Versagung
- Gilles Deleuze
- Tito
First Sentence edit
It may seem peculiar, even absurd, to set Chaplin under the sign of "death and sublimation": is not the universe of Chaplin's films, a universe bursting with nonsublime vitality, vulgarity even, the very opposite of a damp romantic obsession with death and sublimation?
Authors & Contributors edit
- Slavoj Žižek (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 150.195
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