Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books)
"Looking Awryis a wonderful introduction to dialectical psychoanalysis; to a fresh approach to the subjectivities of mass culture, and to an extraordinary new voice we will hear often in the coming years."Fredric R. Jameson, Duke University"A Hegelian and a Lacanian Hitchcock has my vote!Looking Awryis a wonderful introduction to dialectical psychoanalysis; to a fresh approach to the subjectivities of mass culture; and to an extraordinary new voice we will hear often in the coming years."Fredric R. Jameson"Žižek is a one-person culture mulcher. Flinging out readings of film noir or Hitchcock"sThe Birds,drawing maps of the unconscious, analyzing the commodity form, Stephen King, or Hegel"sPhenomenology of Spirit,be 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."Edward Ball, Voice Literary Supplement