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What is Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Ideology (Europische Hochschulschriften about?
This book argues for the significance of ideology critique and moral judgment in the fields of literary, cultural, political and philosophical studies. By drawing on Slavoj Zizek's theory of ideology the author examines postmodern horror films like Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs, multiculturalism, post-September 11 political discourses and the society of enjoyment in terms of paranoia and perversion and reveals patterns of enjoyment structured through ideological fantasy. The Lacanian/Zizekian theory of ideological fantasy and ethics of psychoanalysis is then applied to broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Huang, Han-Yu
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang AG; Peter Lang
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780820489223
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Psychology
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